New Distributed Computing Project On Scene For Cancer

[WC Annihilus]

"A new F@H-like project has been started in order to help cancer research"

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[PP Mguire]

I thought F@H was going after Cancer too, just like the many others....??

 

[WC Annihilus]

F@H deals with protein folding. Cels@Home deals with cell adhesion. Two different types of research that can affect the same thing. Probably didn't word things too well >.>

 

[JN]

Be nice if we could just have something like Research@Home where all you do is install one application, have a tickbox for what causes you want to help, select the % of CPU idle cycles you want to assign to each one and then just leave it at that.

 

[mrapoc]

Cancer imo is one of the main killers and if it proves more productive than F@H - perhaps we could setup a team if not move to it?

mind u i doubt they have gpu client, ps3 etc.

 

[Rastalovich]

Be nice if we could just have something like Research@Home where all you do is install one application, have a tickbox for what causes you want to help, select the % of CPU idle cycles you want to assign to each one and then just leave it at that.

Maybe with the popularity of these things, we could one day end up with a package that they could all agree on. Even Seti, F@H, C@H, and the other ones out there, where u could do exactly that. Have a ratio thing going on or a % assignment, and u could work on 1 or all of them with ur cpu/gpu cycles.

I`d prefer that tbh. Other wize we have people thinking which one is the only one I`ll adopt.

 

[Bungral]

Be nice if we could just have something like Research@Home where all you do is install one application, have a tickbox for what causes you want to help, select the % of CPU idle cycles you want to assign to each one and then just leave it at that.

Ha god that would be nice.

You in dream land today though? As what you've said there is like in an ideal world. We never get stuff that simple!

Man... Tickboxes FTW!!

But back on the C@H... I think I would use that. I don't use F@H at the minute and was gonna dedicate some GPU time to it but if they can get GPU working on C@H that would be my preference I reckon.

 

[PP Mguire]

I say its all rubbish.

 

[Bungral]

Ya reckon there is some dude just sat somewhere sucking up everyones CPU power rendering images and transcoding / encoding files for his own use. Everyones leccy bills peaking just so a little scrote can get his porn on his in nanoseconds.

 

[Toxcity]

Im sticking with F@H, they have more companies backing them up and its from Stanford Uni.

 

[Bungral]

Im sticking with F@H, they have more companies backing them up and its from Stanford Uni.

See for me it's what it's doing rather than who it's doing it for.

Cancer is a bit closer to home for me than stuff like Alzheimers. Still as important but it hasn't affected anyone close to me.

 

[PP Mguire]

ANybody seen anything REAL produced from this? Any REAL cures? Nope. Only "its getting closer".

 

[Pseudonym]

Actually Bungral, proteins control pretty much everything in your body. An incorrectly folded one can cause cancer very easily. Say the protein that tells a cell to stop dividing is folded wrong, it won't be able to link to it's ligand, or it will link to the wrong ligand. The cell keeps dividing. It's daughters keep dividing. Everything's gone binary and you have a tumor.

F@H is helping us understand how each protein folds, how it can fold incorrectly and how we can help stop it.

I agree, a single program to decide who gets your cycles would be great. Especially if it could help balance it out depending on a work:workers ratio.

 

[JN]

I agree, a single program to decide who gets your cycles would be great. Especially if it could help balance it out depending on a work:workers ratio.

Someone REALLY should look into it. It would be cool to have a kind of interface application that is able to address all types of hardware: GPU, CPU, SLI...etc and then F@H, SETI@ and all the rest of them could just develop a plugin to this interface app that allows them to use the full power of the platform it is installed on, but without the hassle of writing it all themselves.

Each plugin could be enabled/disabled or given priority depending on either something the user sets, or where the processing power is required the most at that time.

 

[PP Mguire]

If you have a new Nehalem based proccy (Or 2 quads) you can set each one to fold on its own core lol. Nifty.

 

[mrapoc]

that doesnt sound too hard in theory to program

i mean just make interface, check what to run - auto download and install then keep the program behind the scenes

maybe nt doable in vb tho