I'm sure many of you have heard about SETI, and the software that they
developed to use ones computer to go through all the data in search of life
elsewhere in the universe.

Well, I've learned of another such software, but this time it's to help find
a cure for cancer. Go to:

http://members.ud.com/vypc/cancer/

I've pasted an intro into this project below...worthwhile I think.

-Steve Gregory-

One in four of us will at some time suffer from cancer. The high mortality
rate, the suffering experienced by patients from the side effects of existing
treatments, and the high costs of treatment all contribute to making cancer a
priority for drug research.

A New Way to Help

A landmark research project has begun that allows people to make a real
difference in the fight against cancer. This is no regular donation request:
a participant is never asked to open a checkbook or volunteer time.

The Intel-United Devices Cancer Research Project is asking you to volunteer
your PC to help process molecular research being conducted by the Department
of Chemistry at the University of Oxford in England and the National
Foundation for Cancer Research. To participate, you simply download a very
small, no cost, non-invasive software program that works like a screensaver:
it runs when your computer isn't being used, and processes research until you
need your machine. Your computer never leaves your desk, and the project
never interrupts your usual PC use.

It's Easy and Safe

There is no cost to participate and no impact on your computer use. The
project software cannot detect or transfer anything on your machine but
project-specific information. It just allows your computer to screen
molecules that may be developed into drugs to fight cancer. Each individual
computer analyzes a few molecules and then sends the results back over the
Internet for further research. The goal is to enlist enough volunteers to
contribute 24 million hours of computational time. This project is
anticipated to be the largest computational chemistry project ever undertaken
and represents a genuine hope to find a better way to fight cancer.

The computational power to perform research of this scale is only available
through the generosity of individuals like you.

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