February 24, 2007

Too much stuff going on. None of it is good at the moment. I will write more about it as time goes by. 

In the meantime, I urge everyone to participate in cancer research. It is no harder than loading a program on your computer and leaving your computer on 24/7 so that it can do it's job. 

The easiest way to do this is to head over to the  World Community Grid and grab a copy of the program. They are doing some really important work over there - Help Conquer Cancer is a great one, along with Fight Aids @ Home, Human Proteome Folding, and many other things. 

But, it does not just stop there. The piece of software you download is called BOINC, which is written by the wonderful folks at Berkeley. With BOINC  they made this super easy to use platform so you can add all the projects you wish to the work you do. Currently I am crunching numbers for the following:

I have 5 computers with a total of 7 processors all running this stuff. They weight in from my lowly 1.25GHz iMac up to my 2.2 GHz MacBook, and yes, there are two PCs in the mix as well. They are all really cruching out some heavy duty numbers for these projects. 

You can also join teams of your choosing. I picked the Ham Radio Operators team to belong to. There are all sorts of teams to choose from, so I bet there is something right up your alley. If not, create your own team!

As a side note, you can also set up BOINC to do other things, such as SETI@home, climate prediction, and all that other stuff as well, however I chose to just aim all my CPU guns at cancer. 

I urge you all to do the same. 

The faster we cure this shit, the better.