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Which DC program will benefit us in the near future?

AgaBoogaBoo

AgaBoogaBoo

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Looking for a life sciences project that will benefit us in the near future. Once SETI is over, I'd rather do something that will help us fight some disease, cure problems, etc.
 
Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy
F@H?

FaD?
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^-- two good suggestions (I participate in the former). :thumbsup:

DPAD may be another choice if you're more into number crunching. I seem to recall that unlike RC5, OGR actually had some practical use for science. If you want something sort of exotic, that might be one to check into (if I'm remembering right about what it does). UD is another worthwhile effort which you may want to check out.
 
I believe FaD to have the best client right now for Life Sciences. The smallest memory footprint, the lightest touch on the CPU when other tasks need it, the smallest disk usage ... It supports multiple processors, Windows, Linux, and can be run very easily in a network environment.

It is also not commercial ...

I run it and have been very pleased with how it does not interfere with users ... I cannot say the same for F&H.

mondo
 
Every question lately seems to be answered with a chorus of "Find a Drug"! 🙂 And with good reason, as Mondobyte described very well.

As for your question, I think this thread just about says it all. I can't recall any other project, except maybe DPAD, that's produced useful results like this.
 
Find a drug so I can help cure cancer before I get it.
After all
The life you save could be your own.
 
FaD might have the best chance of "benefiting in the near future", it looks for drugs that treat a disease, a chemical that inhibits a disease.

F@H might have the best chance of "benefiting in the near future", it looks for the cause of the disease. Research usually opens more doors. Look here for papers published in scientific journals. Four this year already.

FaD client has THINK Server which is very nice if you have a network without an always on connection to the internet.

F@H cannot cache the regular WUs because further WUs are created from returned WUs. So if you don't have regular internet access for a large number of computers FaD would be best for them. The client can even create new work without internet access!

But I believe F@H to be the best DC project right now for Life Sciences. It is not only non-commercial, it is non-profit (Stanford is a 5013c non-profit entity). It is run by the scientists doing the research.

Being a member of TAS, I have run many clients. Even though the F@H client taxes the CPU more than some other projects, it gives up cycles to the user as fast or faster than other DC clients. TAS is currently doing FaD this month and I must say that FaD client is just as quick to give way as F@H client ... I cannot say the same for F&H 😉 but then nobody can. 😀

Here is a recent quote from the F@H forums by Prof. Vijay Pande in response to a question about F@H and diabetes.
"Type II diabetes is due to protein misfolding and is something I've thought about. We have WUs for Alzheimer's Disease, Huntington's Disease, and certain cancers right now, but we don't have any short term plans for diabetes. That may change in the future, though."

[in a small voice]
The F@H servers check if you have already sent in a WU so will not give credit twice and I haven't heard of other ways to cheat.
F@H does not allow moving points from TeAm to team or from team to TeAm.

[hidden from some eyes]
so if I want to help someone reach a milestone or have a better showing in a race 😉 I don't have to worry about them leaving and giving points to another team. (I went through that in S@H and didn't like it.)
 
To counter something posted earlier, F@H has never given me any trouble. I don't deny that a few people have had unresolvable problems with it, but that doesn't mean that you have any great chance of encountering such a problem on your own systems.

F@H can be as small or as large as you want it to be - the Big WUs (up to or over 256MB of RAM) are only an option, as they also can result in the sending of up to 8MB of data over the network upon completion, but you do get a significant points bonus for crunching them. It's possible to set the client to take timeless WUs (no deadlines) so you can crunch on an old 300MHz system if you feel like wasting the electricity. 😉

F@H now has a built-in service install in the CLI, so it is not necessary to use an external program like FireDaemon any more to run the client totally hidden and protected from regular users on a Windows NT, 2000 Pro, XP, or 2003 system.

</end F@H promo>

Thanks for listening... now just pick whatever you're comfortable with, and what fits the capabilities of your systems (F@H can't be sneakernetted like SETI, RC5, and DPAD). 🙂
 
Fad has the advantage in that the administer of the program spends 7 days a week watching over it. On line support is tremendous.

http://www.find-a-drug.org.uk/phpbb/
Find-a-Drug :: Index

Look around in the FAD forum, Look for the name tag Think, the difference in the care the head man and others spend on the program is amazing. In the set up program you can select which disease you would want to concentrate on.
 
Both FaD and F@H support cancer research. F@H may be doing research on cancer but FaD is actually finding drugs that prevent, treat, or cure cancer along with other diseases. Some of the reasearch at FaD is geared towards Vaccines or preventative measures for diseases and cancer as well as finding treatments or cures. FaD is also supported by the University of Oxford!

mondo

 
Check out United Devices. I am helping with the ligandfit cancer research project.

Let me know if you have any questions or just drop in on our post!
 
United Devices (now Grid.Org) is commercial ... when it went commercial, I quit the project. I won't crunch for a publicly proclaimed commercial project unless I am paid for the effort.

I did crunch an immense amount for UD before it went commercial but ligand-pitch-a-fit is so inefficient compared to the FaD THINK client that it wasn't much of a decision anyway.

My 2 cents worth ...

mondo

 
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