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Use your computer's spare power to help search for a cancer cure

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Bill Velek - 05 Sep 2006 22:26 GMT
You can personally help find a cure for cancer without spending much
more than a few minutes of your time to set up your computer to donate
its spare power (like when a screen saver would start) to do medical
research for a non-profit organization.  This has been set up by IBM,
which is a significant participant, as well.  There is never any money
involved, and no viruses, spyware, adware, etc.; I'll vouch for that,
and I'm using my real name and personal website, below; please visit it
for more details.  Thanks.

Bill Velek
http://home.alltel.net/billvelek/world-community-page.html
NICK - 14 Sep 2006 05:46 GMT
> You can personally help find a cure for cancer without spending much
> more than a few minutes of your time to set up your computer to donate
> its spare power

Didn't Juno attempt this 5 or 6 years ago and fall flat on its face?

Juno wanted to access a million computers while the owners
slept and create a humongous super-computer with unlimited
speed, storage, power, and every other adjective used to
describe computers.

Didn't work then, won't work today.  Universities, governments,
research organizations have a billion times the power you would
every harness using your scheme.
Alex - 14 Sep 2006 07:49 GMT
>> You can personally help find a cure for cancer without spending much
>> more than a few minutes of your time to set up your computer to donate
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> research organizations have a billion times the power you would
> every harness using your scheme.

I think you mean the SETI project. http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/. It uses
cycles of idling comuters in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
Supercomputers could do what Web-linked distributed computing does, but
someone would have to cover the cost. Donated computer time circumvents that
issue, at no real cost to participants.

Alex
 
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