make a difference, the modern, easy way!

[scottobear]

Millions of people worldwide are affected by cancer, diabetes and other diseases. You don't have to be a scientist to help find a cure.

The Intel Philanthropic Peer-to-Peer Program combats life-threatening illnesses by linking millions of PCs like yours into one of the most powerful computing resources in the world. This "virtual supercomputer" uses peer-to-peer technology to make unprecedented amounts of processing power available to medical researchers, thus accelerating the development of treatments and drugs with the potential to cure diseases.

You can take part in this ground-breaking Internet-based project by lending your PC's unused resources to the greater good. There's no cost to download and run the program, and no noticeable impact on your computer's performance, because the medical research programs take advantage only of processing power you're not using.

Comments

[lonita.livejournal.com]

I signed up for the cancer one... since I smoke.

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I'm doing cancer right now too... when I get to work tomorrow, there's going to be 15 machines all running it.

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

and thank you! :)

[lonita.livejournal.com]

I had to shut it down, it was driving my cpu temp past the 'danger' point. ;/

SETI@home sometimes does that too... it's a bit of a bitch.

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

are you overclocked? ah well... thanks for trying it...

[lonita.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I haven't a clue. If I figure out what's going on with that, I'll try again. I need to find a way to allocate system tasks so that things like this and SETI don't suck up so much cpu.

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I think that's the nature of the beast... it uses all the left over bits you're not using.

is your alarm norton?

[lonita.livejournal.com]

No, Asus Probe, it goes with my motherboard.

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

hmm... drat. I'm not familiar with that one.

[bram.livejournal.com]

Where's the Linux version?

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

a mighty fine question.

I consulted the faq - http://members.ud.com/support/faq_about_agent.htm

Will you support versions for UNIX, Linux, or the Macintosh OS?
Plans for a release on other operating systems have been postponed to concentrate on our Windows release. This will be revisited based on customer and member demand.