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ablib,
The sure fire thing is that we are going to find
out.
What we are doing is saving time and money in the
pursuit of a cure for cancer.
It might be possible to duplicate our efforts with a
bunch of supercomputers. The problem is that no one can afford to pay the
money that these machines would cost to use. By donating our computers, we
are cutting way down on costs and making this research affordable.
What we are doing is Cancer research, but not in the
ordinary definition of the term. We are not going through the Scientific
method of forming Hypotheses, designing experiments to test the hypotheses,
carrying out the experiments and then interpreting the results of the
experiment.
What we are involved in is a winnowing process that
is preliminary to the actual experimentation that will be carried out
later. Our processing determines which molecules out of millions will
interact {the more hits the better the interaction} best with a series of
cancer proteins.
Once we determine the most likely molecules, further
experimentation will be done with them that involves actual tests, not
computer modeling like we are doing.
I have seen estimates that the work we are doing
will accelerate this Cancer research by 5 to 8 years. What the results will
be no one can say for sure.
But, how can you not try?
If we don't try, we will never know.
How can you not do the most you can to advance
Cancer research?
Win or lose, cure or not, we are providing
information quickly that would have taken years, if ever, to obtain any
other way.
UD is easy to do, it's free, and it doesn't
interfere with your normal computing.
Besides that, it's fun to associate with all these
fine UD/PC911 people: Chatting with , competing with, and learning from.
My computer is is faster and more reliable than it
ever has been from maxing it out for UD.
My friend, I think the most important thing this UD
project provides is Hope. Without Hope we are lost. UD provides us with
Hope for a future without Cancer. That great Hope is what drives hundreds
of thousands of people with a million+ computers to participate in this
great undertaking.
I've said it before. We are making history. We will
be included in any history of computing as being among the first to use
distributed computing to do medical research that otherwise could not be
done or at least not be done without great difficulty.
How can you resist the siren call of directly
participating in Cancer research?
I can't.
My father's death was accelerated by lung cancer two
years ago. UD won't bring that fine man back.
I participate in UD, like many others, in the Hope
of saving at least one person from the pain and suffering that our loved
ones have gone through.
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