[LibWhacker]

Apologies if I shouldn't be posting this here. It just seemed like a worthy project that might help beat a vicious killer.

[neverdem]

FReepmail me if you want on or off my health and science ping list.

[ghost of nixon]

the only downside I see is that Al Gore will take credit for this if it is successful

[dead]

I didn't even know computers had pancreases.

[righttackle44]

"Computers fight pancreatic cancer"

I hope the computers win. Way too many
tears have been shed because of this disease.

[liberty2004]

I hope the computers win. Way too many tears have been shed because of this disease. this is such a worthwhile use of your computer's idle time. Between friends and family and business associate we have donated over 6 years of CPU time on about 40 installations. I really recommend telling friends and family about this.

[Rocko]

Bump.

[Genesis defender]

I first learned about United Devices through a Reader's Digest article. UD is a fantastic program that runs in the background and takes up very little memory. I've had it for three years now.

[Yo-Yo]

This interested me because my Mother is in the final stages of pancreatic cancer.

I loaded the program but the current project is about the human genome and the proteins each gene expresses.

I uninstalled the program.

[Constitution Day]

BTTT. Thanks for posting this.

Since late 2003, two people I know - an old friend from work, and my electrician - have died from this disease.

I was shocked by how quickly they died.

[martin_fierro]

Hey, I use that! It runs on two of my PCs while they're idle.

[Procyon]

There's another project out of Stanford University called f@h (folding proteins). I've had their process running in background for several months now. See: http://folding.stanford.edu/

These research projects don't need high speed bandwidth but prefer a 7x24 or at least daily internet connection, 256MB RAM and a high speed processor.

[Redcloak]

There are teams on the site that one can join. And there is a FreeRepublic team!

[wideminded]

An old friend told me that he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. The good news was that his doctors were going to try some promising new drugs. I tend to be an optimist. I called back in a couple of weeks and he was already dead. Ever since then I have wished that I had just dropped everything and travelled to visit him.