Whee! New stuff in my blog. I'm actually getting to like tinkering with the site code which I wouldn't really give a damn before. Thanks to Blogger/BlogSpot or whatever other aliases there are for the cool new NavBar. I see that it actually replaces the banner ads. As a token of good faith, I placed some Google AdSense ads in the sidebar. After all Blogger is a free service.
Hmmm? Ads?
Now what to do with them? How about clicking them for fun.
Y'know *wink*wink*.
After all by cliking the ads, You might just actually be happy where they take you. For sure you'll be making Blogger and Google happy. You'll also be making me happy *wink*
Last addition, if you look below the Mosquito Eradication Updates Box. There's this little Google search bar for when anybody might need to search something : ) (FYI this is just for the people who are still stuck on using microsoft IE *har*har*)
Once again thanks to Blogger for their great service in giving people the power to blog!
Tuesday, August 31, 2004
Friday, August 27, 2004
^ ^ Sharing Your Idle Processor Time ^ ^
Is your PC running 24/7 and sometimes just doing nothing like when you are sleeping? Did you know that there's a way to let your PC do scientific research in its idle time. How would you like your PC to search for a cure for cancer or even find out if there aliens sending a message to us? Your idle computer/s can do this and more. All you gotta do is install a nearly unobtrusive program that will do these things.
Now, by itself the process of searching for a cancer cure is no easy task. Otherwise we would already have the cure. The work is a humongous matching of possible drug molecules and testing for favorable reactions. Here is where your idle PC comes in. You are given a certain molecule to test, afterwards the results are sent back to a central server and you get a new molecule to test and so on. The technology behind this is called distributed computing or grid computing wherein there is an infinitely huge amount of work that is chopped into itty-bitty pieces that can be distributed to available machines the does the work. In reality this means that a certain work that would have taken 1 super-computer 10 years to finish can be finished much more quickly when the work is distributed between 1000 small PC's like the one you are using right now.
The program I'm running right now is the one for the United Devices grid. Currently, I'm testing for drug candidates for a cancer cure but you can choose which type of work your computer will do. You can find more information on United Devices grid here: United Devices Website
If looking for E.T. is your cup of tea, you can instead install the SETI@Home client that analyzes radio signals from space for possible Extra-Terrestrial messages. Go here: Seti@Home Website
There are lots of other distributed computing programs out there. Go google them sometime : )
Now, by itself the process of searching for a cancer cure is no easy task. Otherwise we would already have the cure. The work is a humongous matching of possible drug molecules and testing for favorable reactions. Here is where your idle PC comes in. You are given a certain molecule to test, afterwards the results are sent back to a central server and you get a new molecule to test and so on. The technology behind this is called distributed computing or grid computing wherein there is an infinitely huge amount of work that is chopped into itty-bitty pieces that can be distributed to available machines the does the work. In reality this means that a certain work that would have taken 1 super-computer 10 years to finish can be finished much more quickly when the work is distributed between 1000 small PC's like the one you are using right now.
The program I'm running right now is the one for the United Devices grid. Currently, I'm testing for drug candidates for a cancer cure but you can choose which type of work your computer will do. You can find more information on United Devices grid here: United Devices Website
If looking for E.T. is your cup of tea, you can instead install the SETI@Home client that analyzes radio signals from space for possible Extra-Terrestrial messages. Go here: Seti@Home Website
There are lots of other distributed computing programs out there. Go google them sometime : )
Wednesday, August 04, 2004
Who wants GMail? Me wants Gmail !!!
This is post goes to all those people who have this particular problem:
Too many GMail invites to give out and not enough people to give them to. (as it this is possible :P)
Nevertheless, if ever you have this problem, feel free to send one( or more if you want) to me at XXXwilbcATyahooDOTcomXXXX (sans the X's and replace AT and DOT)
I shall be very happy to alleviate said problem from your backs. Believe me when I say that handing me a spare GMail invite could be one of the best things you would ever have done o.O
Now the possibility of anyone actually giving me an invite because of this is close to nil but what the heck :P
Warning: This selfish Ad is paid for by the people of Blogger who are also the people of Google who are also the people of GMail which doesn't really have a connection to me or to anything I said which doesn't really make a that much of a sense and is really close to the delusional ramblings of a man who has been deprived of Gmail so give me one please : )
Too many GMail invites to give out and not enough people to give them to. (as it this is possible :P)
Nevertheless, if ever you have this problem, feel free to send one( or more if you want) to me at XXXwilbcATyahooDOTcomXXXX (sans the X's and replace AT and DOT)
I shall be very happy to alleviate said problem from your backs. Believe me when I say that handing me a spare GMail invite could be one of the best things you would ever have done o.O
Now the possibility of anyone actually giving me an invite because of this is close to nil but what the heck :P
Warning: This selfish Ad is paid for by the people of Blogger who are also the people of Google who are also the people of GMail which doesn't really have a connection to me or to anything I said which doesn't really make a that much of a sense and is really close to the delusional ramblings of a man who has been deprived of Gmail so give me one please : )
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