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Fight against cancer

Mike

18-11-2003 23:03:53

http://www.grid.org/download/

http://www.grid.org/services/teams/team ... 71847A2263

Not sure too much what this is all about but it seems to be a genuine cause and theres a team section :wink:

Jimmy

18-11-2003 23:38:59

explain more please

Mike

19-11-2003 09:25:46

How it works
The Grid MP Global @ grid.org is a virtual supercomputer that can be harnessed to power computational research and analysis projects on a massive scale. By combining millions of online CPUs worldwide to work on extremely large computational projects, problems can be solved more quickly and less expensively than by conventional methods. Now any networked computer can help fuel research and projects that previously may have required a bank of supercomputers or a hundred years to complete.

Its like the seti project

Matt

19-11-2003 10:36:34

My department works on the grid and in my third year I get the option to program for it...

It sucks. They've made tonnes of mistakes on it and no one will ever use it...

--Matt

Matt

19-11-2003 10:38:55

Wait, I was getting it confused with something else

--Matt

Matt

19-11-2003 13:16:30

I've entered my humble server farm in to your league... prepare for a jolly good thrashing!

(I'm doing cancer research, as I don't wanna send smallpox info to the US military...)

--Matt

Mike

19-11-2003 15:32:53

Thanks :-D

Matt

19-11-2003 20:06:59

No problem, you can delete "Fiddian" from your memberlist. It's one of our computers, I set it up an account, but then realised it could use my account details instead (so mattsday is two machines running this 24/7, both of them are above the target machine's specs)

--Matt

Matt

20-11-2003 09:29:25

Just a thought: disable the smallpox one. It's research on smallpox for the US government. I read the license agreement and it appears they have no intention of sharing it with anyone else. It's also being used by the department of defense. The cancer one, however, does take longer to process :(

--Matt

Mike

20-11-2003 09:40:42

I dont think you can disable it but you can choose which you want to be working one

Matt

20-11-2003 12:43:30

Click the device bit and it goes to the web

Then uncheck "Patriot Grid" and next time you download some stuff it'll be cancer :-D

Also, I'm top of the league :-D

--Matt

Mike

20-11-2003 14:10:15

ok disabled smallpox
as for you being first what did you expect? I cant shovel coal 24/7 like you. Some of us have a degree to fail!

Matt

20-11-2003 16:27:30

Fleh...

I'm failing just as well as anyone else!

--Matt

Mike

21-11-2003 13:35:29

I love the way everyone pulls together for the cause :?

Matt

25-11-2003 14:01:12

Have you given up on this already Mike?

You've only returned one set of results :?:

--Matt

Mike

25-11-2003 14:33:16

Nope im still with it but NTL have cut us off again so i cant upload my results. should be fixed today sometime....

~join the cause~

Bob

25-11-2003 14:39:14

I still dont know what the hell is going on

Matt

25-11-2003 15:29:33

How come you're posting here then??

--Mat

Bob

25-11-2003 15:46:38

Because i read every single post thats posted on this bored - thats what the little yellow things are for! And i like to understand whats happening. This thread has got quite big now so i was wondering why. Thats all

Matt

25-11-2003 16:01:43

Nah, I meant that for Mike, who's Internet connection doesn't work...

If he has no net, how can he post here?

--Matt

Alex D

25-11-2003 16:33:31

mike IS the internet....thats how hes posting

Mike

26-11-2003 09:09:20

Yeah what alex said

--Neo

Matt

26-11-2003 09:14:23

I don't like the idea of 'connecting' to :mike:...

I'm put off now :(

--Matt

Mike

26-11-2003 10:45:36

But i especially enjoy your connection :wink:

Bob

26-11-2003 11:38:43

Is that supposed to be some geeky internet sexual inudendo?

Mike

26-11-2003 16:52:44

Yeah, you jealous?
i can talk dirty binary if you like :wink:

Alex D

26-11-2003 17:30:50

connecting to :shock: too often makes you go blind!

apparently

Alex B

07-12-2003 13:39:34

Idiots Explanation please?
:?

Matt

07-12-2003 15:52:57

You REALLY don't want to kniow...

Mike

07-12-2003 17:20:36

Take the red pill!!

Alex B

07-12-2003 19:26:00

I did.
They made me spend a night in the cells.

Mike

07-12-2003 20:11:11

we are all cells in the real world

Alex B

08-12-2003 01:13:49

So I here. I intend to steer well clear of the place.
Incidently, I've been declared a fictional character.

Matt

08-12-2003 16:44:53

Pardon?

Mike

08-12-2003 17:13:34

SHE HAS BEEN DECLARED A FICTIONAL CHARACTER

Sam

08-12-2003 21:44:36

I've joined Mike's team.

No really sure what it's doing, but it doesn't seem to be offending me and I'm told it's for a good cause.

Hope we win the league 8)

Sam