From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V11 #91 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Sender: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. basia-digest Friday, August 25 2006 Volume 11 : Number 091 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Fighting cancer [Paxety Pages ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 06:50:55 -0400 From: Paxety Pages Subject: Re: Fighting cancer I, too, was very sad to hear of Tom's passing. He was a good guy and a good friend of this list. I think Brian's idea is a good one - to use distributed computing. I have the worldcommunitygrid running on my computers, and I can say that it works and doesn't slow down fast computers much. I don't run it on my Digital Audio Workstation, and wouldn't run it on a video production computer, but on one used for word processing, web browsing and the like, you won't notice the program running. un abrazo, juan Brian Lochlaer wrote: > Hey, everyone. I post here very occasionally, and I probably don't feel as close to Tom as many of you do. However, I was also stunned by what seemed to be the sudden onset of his disease and the end of his life. A friend's father recently succumbed to a particularly aggressive cancer. The time from his diagnosis to his last day was measured not in months, but in weeks. As you probably already know, one of the reasons that cancer is so hard to beat is that it is not a single disease. It has many causes and takes many forms. > > I think the donations to ACS are a great idea, but I have another idea that could help us beat Tom's killer. And considering that ours is an online community, I think it would be great if we could do this. > > Many of you may know about distributed computing because of the very popular SETI@Home project (http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/). For those who don't, the basic idea is this: Say that a scientist has a problem to solve. It requires processing a tremendous amount of raw data. He needs a supercomputer, but can't get access to one for his project. So instead of a single supercomputer, he uses hundreds of desktop computers, each crunching a small packet of data, then sending it back to the scientist's computer. He solves his problem and the world becomes a better place for it. > > There are many projects using distributed computing. For detailed info about DC and some of the projects, check out these links: > http://www.hyper.net/dc-howto.html > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_projects > http://distributedcomputing.info/projects.html > > Here's where we come in. Some of these projects are involved in cancer research. wouldn't it be great if we could all contribute some of our spare computing power to help science defeat cancer? We can even form a team, call it "Basiaweb's Friends of Tom Neill" or "Tom@basiaweb.com" or something. All of our individual contributions would be added together. It would be cool to see how our combined computing power contributes to the end of this epidemic. ...I'm starting to ramble. > > Anyway, we can all discuss which project(s) we want to support. I think we should pick projects that are compatible with Windows, Mac, and Linux so that no one is left out. These look especially good: > Folding@Home: http://folding.stanford.edu/ > Help Defeat Cancer: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/projects_showcase/viewHdcResearch.do > Rosetta@Home: http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/ > > Personally, I also think that we should choose a project that runs on a BOINC client (see the links a few paragraphs above). That would enable us to run two or more projects on each machine. (Good for those of us who also want to support malaria research or some other cause). > > What do you think? > > Cheers, > -Brian* > > Bev Okin-Larkin wrote: > Folks, > > Well I completed mine. The card is generic, but at the bottom with my > name, I added "from BasiaWeb". > > Here is the link: > > https://www.cancer.org/docroot/DON/DON_1_Donate_Online_Now.asp > > For the address, I chose > > Kelly Neill c/o > Roper and Sons Funeral and Memorial Services > Lincoln, NE 68510 > 800.643.5582 > > Let's make it happen in Tom's name, > > -- Bev > > > > --------------------------------- > Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2"/min or less. ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V11 #91 ***************************