Anyone else out there curing cancer?

[ManDownUnder]

A friend's dad died of cancer recently, and I'm sure we all know of someone that's been affected at some point.

There is a distributed computing "grid" doing a lot of number crunching to narrow down anything that might help cure cancer (through physical chemistry from what little - VERY little - I understand)

See http://www.grid.org/projects/cancer/

You download a piece of SW oto your PC and it sits there buzzing away solving life's mysteries, using up the "slack time" of your PC. If you have a 2GHz machine and are only running winds and email the chances are you'll have grunt to spare... help solve the problems!

There are a number of projects out there (mapping the human genome, cancer cures etc) and they're similar in function to the much better know SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence). In my humble opinion this is a lot less fanciful... and a lot more use.

Results of the research remain in the public domain, and are reported back to Oxford University...

What more can I say? I have two machines here running it night and day (or as much as they can between reboots - they are windows after all...)

MDU

[bugjuice]

Really sorry to hear that. I too had a friend of a family I know recently pass to cancer late last week.

I run Folding@Home - http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/
at work and at home. This one is 2 fold - helps find cures etc, and you also obtain points. If anyone wants to do this, then fold for fold for me, and help me get points! I've been doing this a while now, and so far, I might have found a cure on one of my computers, hoping anyway..

This is a good idea, and makes for the worlds biggest super computer, and doesn't wreck your PC either.

I was thinking about posting this question actually, you beat me to it!

[Biff]

All of my PC's are hooked up to the grid. Albeit they're working on proteom folding at the moment. This helps scientists to determine how proteins coded with human genes fold, so I guess it has a wider benefit to mankind in that it may, one day, answer a whole host of questions relating to illnesses, including cancer.

[ManDownUnder]

All of my PC's are hooked up to the grid. Albeit they're working on proteom folding at the moment. This helps scientists to determine how proteins coded with human genes fold, so I guess it has a wider benefit to mankind in that it may, one day, answer a whole host of questions relating to illnesses, including cancer.

Gees guys... you're starting to go up in my opinions... stop it or I'll have to start issuing compliments, and not the fun, snide, backhanded ones either...