Re: FN-FORUM [OT] Freelancers.Net Cancer Research Team

date posted 1st November 2002 09:33

yeah I'll go for it, can you tellme what I add as the login and password?
Shaf
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From: "Ryan Kirkaldy" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 5:04 AM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM [OT] Freelancers.Net Cancer Research Team


> Good project, got it up and running now, have it running 24/7 =)
>
> Joined the freelancers team also =)
> Scary numbers, 1in4 will contact cancer. Hope everyone else is running
> this?.
>
> Regards,
> Ryan Kirkaldy
> Tourism SouthWest - Web Design Specialists
> www.tourismsw.co.uk
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> [EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of Andy Hutchinson
> Sent: 31 October 2002 17:44
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> Subject: FN-FORUM [OT] Freelancers.Net Cancer Research Team
>
> I've just set up a freelancers.net team for the Cancer Research project.
> It's a neat thing whereby your computer uses spare processing power to
> chug its way through some pretty intense chemical work (the software
> downloads a chunk of data and runs as a screensaver). Extract from the
> site page below. The software's presently only available for Windows
> (sorry *nix and Mac peeps) - if that's you, just download the software,
> create a login, and head over to the team page at the address below and
> join us. I think it's a pretty cool way for all of us to contribute to a
> very important project,
>
> Hutch
> Project page: http://members.ud.com/projects/cancer/
> Freelancers.net team:
> http://members.ud.com/services/teams/team.htm?id=7F54BF42-5A2E-490B-81DB
> -16A7F5807108
>
> The United Devices Cancer Research Project is asking you to
> volunteer your PC to help process molecular research being conducted by
> the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford in England and
> the National Foundation for Cancer Research. To participate, you simply
> download a very small, no cost, non-invasive software program that works
> like a screensaver: it runs when your computer isn't being used, and
> processes research until you need your machine. Your computer never
> leaves your desk, and the project never interrupts your usual PC use.
> There is no cost to participate and no impact on your computer use. The
> project software cannot detect or transfer anything on your machine but
> project-specific information. It just allows your computer to screen
> molecules that may be developed into drugs to fight cancer. Each
> individual computer analyzes a few molecules and then sends the results
> back over the Internet for further research. This project is anticipated
> to be the largest computational chemistry project ever undertaken and
> represents a genuine hope to find a better way to fight cancer.
>
>
>
>
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