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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hi all,
We all contribute for charity, for humanity right? once a break through Drug found, All pharmacy companies like Roche, Pfiser, Novartis ..etc will rush in for the paper, to be able to produce a drug and make billions of dollars out of it. Nobody objects that since humanity will be offered a choice to stand against these terrible diseases. Based on this idea I have a claim; These pharma companies have thousands of computers with lots of spare cycles. They should be forced to support by creating their own team and contribute with every PC they have. Secondly they should be buying new servers just for supporting and bring the research process to finish in a shorter time. They will be able to cut down on millions of dollars from the reseach phase of the drug for them and WCG will be making good profit by accesing more free servers and clients. Of course this profit is not in cash but what will you do with the cash when you have it in the first place? Buy new servers.. that's a win- win for all isn't it? |
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Sekerob
Ace Cruncher Joined: Jul 24, 2005 Post Count: 20043 Status: Offline |
Actually, the pharma's are running their own grids already based on commercial software like e.g. made by the same who provided the UD agent to WCG!
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Former Member
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Well anyway, they will be the one's who will benefit most from our efforts so why not support us with a server farm or donation in cash?
IBM does it, So can the pharmas.. Several hundred thosuand buck will help a lot to WCG, compared to billions of $ potantial, this won't set them back a lot, it's also tax dudectable.. All we have to do is to ask for it, even if one out of the says "Ok" that's a gain.. Too much wishfull thinking may be... |
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Sekerob
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The non-profit, public result access image is extremely important. Each would have to decide for him/herself if it fits with what the member wants to contribute to.
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twilyth
Master Cruncher US Joined: Mar 30, 2007 Post Count: 2130 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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If you want to be paid for your crunching, check out Gridfinity. I have only done preliminary research on this but from what I have been able to gather, they will pay up to 25 (or more) cents per hour for the privilege of running apps on your computer. The pay out depends on the speed of your machine so it is a sliding rate structure but the minimum seems to be around 10 cents per hour. Plus the software runs in a virtual machine provided by the VM Player software so it should be much better behaved than either boinc or ud - although it is based on the boinc client. However the addition of a virtual machine layer seems like a great idea.
----------------------------------------I have downloaded the software and will do more research. If it looks promising I'll start a new thread. Personally I've had it with the attitude of the people here. If my efforts aren't going to be appreciated, I'd rather get paid. In the meantime, the more people who check this out, the more info we'll be able to get.   |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
is there a way to know
if a cure is found for one or another project, if the people behind projects will release as free for all countries arround earth or take the license for them? |
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Former Member
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....Personally I've had it with the attitude of the people here. If my efforts aren't going to be appreciated, I'd rather get paid..... In that case why not just leave and go elsewhere.....instead of just moaning about it.... |
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Former Member
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Hello otij,
if the people behind projects will release as free for all countries arround earth The knowledge is free. We put our results in the public domain (which means free for all). But anybody who designs and tests a drug will need lots of money just to pay for the drug trials.Lawrence |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Gridfinity don't have any work yet. It's an entirely untested, pie in the sky concept.
And, looking at other commercial public grids, they don't have a very good history. After all, would you want to dump all your proprietary information and code onto a completely public grid? Using a VM has problems of its own. They add considerable bloat, and make memory management and CPU scheduling very difficult. I anticipate that a VM will have considerably more impact on a computer than a single process running at minimum priority. Besides, money isn't the point. We are here for a humanitarian goal. |
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twilyth
Master Cruncher US Joined: Mar 30, 2007 Post Count: 2130 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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....Personally I've had it with the attitude of the people here. If my efforts aren't going to be appreciated, I'd rather get paid..... In that case why not just leave and go elsewhere.....instead of just moaning about it.... Why don't you? dufus |
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