Find-a-Drug is a not for profit distributed computing project which was set up by Treweren Consultants, the company who developed the THINK software for virtual screening. Find-a-Drug aims to run a series of projects in parallel addressing a number of diseases which have a major impact on health. Members may elect to opt in and out of projects at any time using the Find-a-Drug control panel. The progress of each project as well as contributions of members are provided on the
Web Site
The current Projects that are running or will be run in the near future include, Bio-terrorism, Cancer, HIV, Respitory disease (Sars), Multiple Sclerosis , Pesticide/Herbicide and others are on their way.
Team Stats
To join the FaD team,
1: Download the
Client
2: Install the client
3: Configure the client by Entering your selected Username (this will be what will appear on the stats)
4: Set up using your Email Address (You can install multiple clients on multiple PC's and all clients with this Email will be merged)
5: select Advanced, configure CPU speed, Select which projects you would like to run, and enter team
2037 in the team field.
6: select Register.
Your PC is now utilizing your spare CPU time to participate in finding the cure for the selected projects.
Any questions or difficulties please feel free to post them
Here. Please remember to mark the thread with [FaD] at the beginning.