Join us to fight cancer! - Club CDFreaks

**Dee-ehn** · 13-06-2002

As some of you might know, CD Freaks participates in the Think-project. This project is about fighting cancer, with making use of distributed computing.

If you want to fight cancer (for free ofcourse), we'd like you to join our team "Power of United Burners Against Cancer".

To join our team, please visit this page, download the client and subscribe!

What the client does? Well, it's very simple: the client uses all your non-used CPU capacity for this research. Since it's got the lowest CPU-priority as possible, you won't notice any change of speed on your system.

If you got any questions, feel free to post 'em here!

and now, please download&subscribe!

**Da_Taxman** · 13-06-2002

It is similar to RC5 projects, only with this you don't do it for yourself (you have nothing to gain personally), but you do it for a good cause, the fight against cancer.

*Totibbs* · 13-06-2002

well, not much people are interesting... myself included...

**Dee-ehn** · 13-06-2002

Quote:

Originally posted by Totibbs
well, not much people are interesting... myself included...

Why, if I may ask?

Number_17 · 19-06-2002

i participate in seti@home rather then anything else that uses Distrubuted computing.

Sure you can beat cancer, but in doing so there will be a disease to take its place, worse then cancer mostlikely.

While Finding life will have a more profound impact on our society not just affecting people with cancer, but the whole world.

Besides what if we do make contact with aliens ?
i`m sure we`d make more advances with their aid in all feilds of medicine and science rather then just being so narrow like "just" cancer.

*Mr. Belvedere* · 19-06-2002

Quote:

Originally posted by Number_17
i participate in seti@home rather then anything else that uses Distrubuted computing.

Sure you can beat cancer, but in doing so there will be a disease to take its place, worse then cancer mostlikely.

While Finding life will have a more profound impact on our society not just affecting people with cancer, but the whole world.

Besides what if we do make contact with aliens ?
i`m sure we`d make more advances with their aid in all feilds of medicine and science rather then just being so narrow like "just" cancer.

and what if those aliens are bad guys or bring even more diseases.. us humans are kinda good too bringing diseases to others as well

*SirDavidGuy* · 21-06-2002

And what makes you so sure that the aliens will be smarter than us? Or will have medicines which treat our ails? Or will ever be found?

RangerDulann · 22-07-2002

Spyware

Trondos · 07-08-2002

I have been running this software for over a year now. Unfortunately I already have a team......

BadASCII · 19-09-2002

I wish AIDS research funds could be sent to that for Cancer. AIDS is avoidable, and (i'm sure people will be mad at me saying this) AIDS is a self-inflicted death sentence that because of their behavior, it's victims are fully responsible. Cancer is unlike that.

There is some kind of "oh lets help the AIDS project" attitude like it's some nobel quest. This is not. Cancer needs to be defeated...All funds should go to cancer research and not but a token amount to AIDS research.

Yes, my views are probably controversial....but I stick by them. I do feel sad for the few innocent victims that are exposed through the reckless behavior of loved ones or accidentally through blood contact or transfusion....but this is the minority of the bunch.

BadASCII

Goodluck.

aznsniper · 24-09-2002

this looks very similar to http://folding.stanford.edu which uses your spare CPU cycle to fold protiens...

AZN

grymreape · 27-09-2002

Well I Guess the people who answered that they didn't care are I think people who are unware that cancer don't only happen to people who smoke!!!

Well though my mom use to smoke when she was younger, she was an active woman, who like to garden and get some fresh air, who ate fruits vegetables and other so called healthy food!

Anyway, still she died of a cancer and I have to admit that it is pretty hard for me to see people who are completly uninterested in that disease or any other disease!You know why because this disease could happen to any of us even those who never smoked and always had an healthy life, I am sure that day those people will change their mind but unfortunately it might too late!

Sorry my english but I am really "pissed"(well not really) but I am really sad and I just hope people would care a little be more about others because someday they'll need to people to care about them

Anyway, I wish peace to all human beings

grymreape

el_walto · 29-09-2002

I'd just like to say why the hell not use this program. It is pretty cool. O wait actually it looks like its using 16mb of ram. Not a problem for my 384 but i dont think i'll be giving it to my friends that only have 64mb of ram shared with a video card.

*LIGHTNING UK!* · 30-09-2002

Well I've just joined up. There is no telling when or where cancer will strike. The way I look at it, anyone of us could get it at any time. I know if I was diagnosed, I'd want there to be a cure ready and waiting!

The actual util is pretty cool too!

Sveetsnelda · 30-09-2002

I'll bet that a lot of these people would have different opinions if they suddenly found out they have cancer..

Anyways... I have no idea what random calculations a computer can do to help find a cure for this, but count me in. I'll put it on my 5 computers at home if it proves to not tear my performance down.

~Snelda

*LIGHTNING UK!* · 30-09-2002

Hey, if nothing else, its a good burn in util for my new p4 2.53

*dansmug* · 30-09-2002

Have put it back on my computer, didn't like the fact that it causes too much buffer underruns, lucky I have BURN-Proof. Count me back in.

*BadReligionPR* · 01-10-2002

I'll run this, but it will get far from full potential. If they really wanted to get the work done, they would release clients for more than just Win32/intel. Dnet had a multitude of clients for various operating systems and platforms, which let it be run on nearly anything, even DOS and 68k Macs. I have a quad Xeon 500 that could do this pretty fast, but it's got Linux (cheaper than 4 CPU Windows, or any Windows for that matter). Currently my Linux machines are still doing Dnet, but I changed the preferences so they do work on all the projects. If CDFreaks has a group for a distributed computing project which has a Linux client, please speak up.

*Stoner* · 14-11-2002

Who gives a @#$%.

*Stoner* · 14-11-2002

Actually work is done in the lab, not on geeks' computers, wasting energy resources away.

I Have Piles · 28-11-2002

I run the UD program for another forum (sorry chaps)( i am on NT_0.1.5(2814) if you need to know i am on the current WU) i have done for ages and its a worth while project. It doesnt slow my PC, i cant find any spyware and i dont fucking smoke!

I see people bragging at the power of there PC in there sigs and yet it sits idle in between games. The UD agent backs off if you fire a game up FFS run it now, it might save your life one day.

nEXusJ · 03-12-2002

I think it's cool, and there's no slow-down on my comp.

(but it could be mondo-trouble for others)

It's a great cause. People should care.

I have Acute Ulcerative Colitis, a form of IBD, and it could develop into colon cancer one day. This could help millions of people who may have cancer, or (like me) are at risk.

greetz.

NHJ BV · 10-12-2002

I'm downloading the software now.

**Dee-ehn** · 10-12-2002

More computers will be added to the project! Cut and paste from CNET:

Quote:

Rather than continue to let the thousands of PCs in its stores sit largely unused, Gateway plans to announce Tuesday a project that will let companies tap into those PCs for large computing projects.
The PC maker is teaming with distributed-computing start-up United Devices to sell the combined computing power of its PCs to companies on a per-hour basis. Gateway plans to charge 15 cents per PC per hour to companies that want to marshal the computational resources of the latest Gateway desktops.

The move is designed, in part, to address critics who have charged that the company is not getting enough return on the high cost of running more than 270 stores nationwide. Gateway is not forecasting how much revenue it might see from the new project.

"It's anybody's guess," said Premal Kazi, a senior product manager at Gateway. "We will have an education phase because it is a new market."

Such distributed-computing efforts, by their nature, are limited to projects that have many tasks that can be performed in parallel without depending on the results of other calculations. However, Gateway said there are a number of projects in the life sciences, financial services and other industries that can tap such PC clusters for their computing needs.

Although rivals have announced larger-scale projects that aim to popularize a computer-as-utility business model, analysts say Gateway's is one of the first to actually be available, said Ahmar Abbas, managing director at Grid Technology Partners, a San Jose, Calif.-based consulting and market research firm.

"Somebody has actually done something instead of just talking about it," Abbas said.

IBM, for example, announced plans in October to invest $10 billion in on-demand computing.

Gateway's network of 8,000 PCs can deliver 14 teraflops (trillions of calculations per second) of power, very little of which is being used for in-store demos. That makes Gateway's available computing resources equivalent, at least in raw computing power, to some of the largest supercomputers.

The direct PC seller began working with United Devices in February and has tested the service on both internal projects and with Inpharmatica, a company that works to discover new drugs.

"This is actually pretty unique in that it offers the power of all the computers to anybody," Abbas said. "You could be a three-person research-and-development shop in the middle of nowhere."

The distributed-computing industry is in the midst of trying to move from philanthropic efforts, such as the alien searching SETI@home, to paid projects. So far, a number of start-ups that aimed to capitalize on the distributed-computing trend have failed.

However, Kazi said Gateway has a far better cost structure than competitors, which must absorb the cost of building such a PC network. Gateway, on the other hand, has already accounted for the cost of the PCs as part of its store operation.

Plus, because Gateway is always introducing faster models, its network is constantly growing more capable.

Gateway's effort to rent out the computing power of its in-store PCs is the first project to come to market from a new ventures group within Gateway that was set up earlier this year and reports to Chief Technology Officer Bob Burnett.

NHJ BV · 10-12-2002

That's quite clever from Gateway, as most computers in store are doing next to nothing but are on all day.

13-06-2002	#1 (permalink)
Dee-ehn Administrator Join Date: Feb 2000 Location: On my chair Posts: 14,987	Join us to fight cancer! <a href='http://adstats.cdfreaks.com/www/delivery/ck.php?n=a13febf7&cb=INSERT_RANDOM_NUMBER_HERE' target='_blank'><img src='http://adstats.cdfreaks.com/www/delivery/avw.php?zoneid=30&cb=INSERT_RANDOM_NUMBER_HERE&n=a13febf7' border='0' alt='' /></a> As some of you might know, CD Freaks participates in the Think-project. This project is about fighting cancer, with making use of distributed computing. If you want to fight cancer (for free ofcourse), we'd like you to join our team "Power of United Burners Against Cancer". To join our team, please visit this page, download the client and subscribe! What the client does? Well, it's very simple: the client uses all your non-used CPU capacity for this research. Since it's got the lowest CPU-priority as possible, you won't notice any change of speed on your system. If you got any questions, feel free to post 'em here! and now, please download&subscribe! __________________ Every answer is just a question away... My other hobby is photography. Come take a look at what I do! Help us fighting cancer! Hardware tools: Prime95, Sandra, MemtestX86, MBM, DFT CD/DVD: Smartripper, DVD Decrypter, DVD Shrink, ForceAspi Check your CPU wattage online! Linux: be root \|\| Windows: reboot

13-06-2002	#2 (permalink)
Da_Taxman Senior (non-technical) Admin Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Eindhoven, The Netherlands Posts: 13,434	It is similar to RC5 projects, only with this you don't do it for yourself (you have nothing to gain personally), but you do it for a good cause, the fight against cancer. __________________ By registering to our forum you accepted our rules and policies (Dutch), so respect CD Freaks by respecting these rules and policies; Please read these helpful tips and links for all (newbies and oldtimers) Please describe your problem as clear as possible in your topic title, so that others can see what it is about and are more inclined to help if it is something they know something about; I do not provide technical support over E-mail or Private Message (emails with such requests will be bounced); Please post your questions as clear as possible, so others can help you get a correct answer sooner; Please use our search, you might get an answer to your question sooner that way; For any forum related issues you can contact me through PM; I don't dislike newbies, just lazy people who expect others to do their work for them.

13-06-2002	#3 (permalink)
Totibbs CDFreaks Resident Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: melraaH Posts: 2,137	well, not much people are interesting... myself included... __________________ Computer upgrades: €hmm.- Internet connection: €50.- p/m Account by CD-F: "free" Knowledge: Priceless

19-06-2002	#5 (permalink)
Number_17 CD Freaks Rookie Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 48	i participate in seti@home rather then anything else that uses Distrubuted computing. Sure you can beat cancer, but in doing so there will be a disease to take its place, worse then cancer mostlikely. While Finding life will have a more profound impact on our society not just affecting people with cancer, but the whole world. Besides what if we do make contact with aliens ? i`m sure we`d make more advances with their aid in all feilds of medicine and science rather then just being so narrow like "just" cancer. __________________ Do you want some information on propane? Or maybe propane appliances? -Firebat "Your face, your ass... What's the difference" - Duke Nukem

19-09-2002	#10 (permalink)
BadASCII CD Freaks Member Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Kenosha, WI Posts: 195	I wish AIDS research funds could be sent to that for Cancer. AIDS is avoidable, and (i'm sure people will be mad at me saying this) AIDS is a self-inflicted death sentence that because of their behavior, it's victims are fully responsible. Cancer is unlike that. There is some kind of "oh lets help the AIDS project" attitude like it's some nobel quest. This is not. Cancer needs to be defeated...All funds should go to cancer research and not but a token amount to AIDS research. Yes, my views are probably controversial....but I stick by them. I do feel sad for the few innocent victims that are exposed through the reckless behavior of loved ones or accidentally through blood contact or transfusion....but this is the minority of the bunch. BadASCII Goodluck. __________________ BadASCII: Hero to Gods, King of all Mankind, and the Greatest Being of all time and space.

21-06-2002	#7 (permalink)
SirDavidGuy CDFreaks Resident Join Date: Nov 2001 Posts: 1,467	And what makes you so sure that the aliens will be smarter than us? Or will have medicines which treat our ails? Or will ever be found?

22-07-2002	#8 (permalink)
RangerDulann CD Freaks Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Texas Posts: 53	Spyware

07-08-2002	#9 (permalink)
Trondos CD Freaks Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Norway Posts: 222	I have been running this software for over a year now. Unfortunately I already have a team......

24-09-2002	#11 (permalink)
aznsniper New on Forum Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 22	this looks very similar to http://folding.stanford.edu which uses your spare CPU cycle to fold protiens... AZN __________________ 2.26b @ 2.64ghz 155fsb 1.5v TH7II, stock HSF 2 x 256MB Samsung RDRAM PC800 @ 930mhz @ 3x MSI TI4400@ 300c/600m, SB Audigy, 120gig WD ViewSonic VG175 Flatpanel, blah blah blah... Personal Best 3Dmark 13295 xp1600@1596mhz @152fsb for now, unitll i find the right BIOS for the iwill KA266plus or another MB Heatware (aznsniper) "The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all, is the person who argues with him." Stanislaw Jerszy Lec

27-09-2002	#12 (permalink)
grymreape New on Forum Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 8	I am sad! Well I Guess the people who answered that they didn't care are I think people who are unware that cancer don't only happen to people who smoke!!! Well though my mom use to smoke when she was younger, she was an active woman, who like to garden and get some fresh air, who ate fruits vegetables and other so called healthy food! Anyway, still she died of a cancer and I have to admit that it is pretty hard for me to see people who are completly uninterested in that disease or any other disease!You know why because this disease could happen to any of us even those who never smoked and always had an healthy life, I am sure that day those people will change their mind but unfortunately it might too late! Sorry my english but I am really "pissed"(well not really) but I am really sad and I just hope people would care a little be more about others because someday they'll need to people to care about them Anyway, I wish peace to all human beings grymreape

29-09-2002	#13 (permalink)
el_walto CD Freaks Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 87	I'd just like to say why the hell not use this program. It is pretty cool. O wait actually it looks like its using 16mb of ram. Not a problem for my 384 but i dont think i'll be giving it to my friends that only have 64mb of ram shared with a video card.

30-09-2002	#14 (permalink)
LIGHTNING UK! Author of DVD Decrypter & ImgBurn Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: UK Posts: 610	Well I've just joined up. There is no telling when or where cancer will strike. The way I look at it, anyone of us could get it at any time. I know if I was diagnosed, I'd want there to be a cure ready and waiting! The actual util is pretty cool too!

30-09-2002	#15 (permalink)
Sveetsnelda New on Forum Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Idaho Posts: 1	hmmm I'll bet that a lot of these people would have different opinions if they suddenly found out they have cancer.. Anyways... I have no idea what random calculations a computer can do to help find a cure for this, but count me in. I'll put it on my 5 computers at home if it proves to not tear my performance down. ~Snelda

30-09-2002	#16 (permalink)
LIGHTNING UK! Author of DVD Decrypter & ImgBurn Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: UK Posts: 610	Hey, if nothing else, its a good burn in util for my new p4 2.53

30-09-2002	#17 (permalink)
dansmug Lord of the Strings Join Date: Jul 1999 Location: België Posts: 2,267	Have put it back on my computer, didn't like the fact that it causes too much buffer underruns, lucky I have BURN-Proof. Count me back in. __________________ The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of a passionate intensity. http://www.mandrivaclub.nl Chat with fellow freakers (and meet the famous Ruff-Next): IRCnet > #cdfreaks (Dutch) & #cdfreaks-int

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14-11-2002	#19 (permalink)
Stoner CD Freaks Troll Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 2,358	Who gives a @#$%. Last edited by Stoner; 06-04-2003 at 06:59.

01-10-2002	#18 (permalink)
BadReligionPR Retired Moderator Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: CT USA Posts: 1,186	I'll run this, but it will get far from full potential. If they really wanted to get the work done, they would release clients for more than just Win32/intel. Dnet had a multitude of clients for various operating systems and platforms, which let it be run on nearly anything, even DOS and 68k Macs. I have a quad Xeon 500 that could do this pretty fast, but it's got Linux (cheaper than 4 CPU Windows, or any Windows for that matter). Currently my Linux machines are still doing Dnet, but I changed the preferences so they do work on all the projects. If CDFreaks has a group for a distributed computing project which has a Linux client, please speak up. __________________ BRPR Pumping Iron & Sweating Steel (for 30 years) - Joe Grushecky And The Iron City Houserockers - "Labels come and go. The music remains. Music companies are generally the enemy of the musician." Junior's Bar where the band is playing, just for me. They play real loud, they move the crowd, It's a poor boy's symphony. Junior's Bar, until they kill the neon lights, I hope I don't go home alone tonight. Iron City Sampler Free Peltier

14-11-2002	#20 (permalink)
Stoner CD Freaks Troll Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 2,358	Actually work is done in the lab, not on geeks' computers, wasting energy resources away. Last edited by Stoner; 06-04-2003 at 07:00.

28-11-2002	#21 (permalink)
I Have Piles CD Freaks Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 411	I run the UD program for another forum (sorry chaps)( i am on NT_0.1.5(2814) if you need to know i am on the current WU) i have done for ages and its a worth while project. It doesnt slow my PC, i cant find any spyware and i dont fucking smoke! I see people bragging at the power of there PC in there sigs and yet it sits idle in between games. The UD agent backs off if you fire a game up FFS run it now, it might save your life one day.

03-12-2002	#22 (permalink)
nEXusJ Loves Smartypants Join Date: May 2002 Location: Cambridge, Ontario, Canada Posts: 325	I think it's cool, and there's no slow-down on my comp. (but it could be mondo-trouble for others) It's a great cause. People should care. I have Acute Ulcerative Colitis, a form of IBD, and it could develop into colon cancer one day. This could help millions of people who may have cancer, or (like me) are at risk. greetz. __________________ _______________________ My Photography \| My Design Usernames are impersonal. I'm James. _______________________ __________________

10-12-2002	#23 (permalink)
NHJ BV New on Forum Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Wildervank, Holland Posts: 23	I'm downloading the software now. __________________ http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi/target=display_nation/nation=the_brotherhood_of_nod It's time you saw the future, while you still have human eyes! - Kane

10-12-2002	#25 (permalink)
NHJ BV New on Forum Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Wildervank, Holland Posts: 23	That's quite clever from Gateway, as most computers in store are doing next to nothing but are on all day. __________________ http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi/target=display_nation/nation=the_brotherhood_of_nod It's time you saw the future, while you still have human eyes! - Kane

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