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First, thank you for your interest in TSC. The program has now ended.


INTRODUCTION

Initially, our team, TEAM DISCOVERY was formed to participate in only one project: United Devices/THINK, which was engaged in a research effort to help find a cure for cancer.

After some time, United Devices began to indicate that the THINK project would soon end.

With that in mind, in an effort to have a realistic worthwhile project in hand worthy of the efforts of our team, it was decided after some of our own research that the Tuberous Sclerosis Complex project, or TSC (a similar effort but one which deals with childhood diseases), would be the successor to United Devices. In the process of arriving at this decision, several members of Team Discovery began to devote some of their processing power to this new project in order to test its stability.

However, in spite of persistent rumors to the contrary, United Devices continued its research. Instead of ending as rumored, it kept chugging right along, which eventually led to some confusion and disagreement over which direction our team should take. In the end, Team Discovery voted to be a two-project team, running both UD and TSC. The choice of projects and the wider scope make for a stronger, more diverse team.

TSC is a genetic disorder that leads to benign tumors in multiple organs, including the brain, kidneys, heart, eyes, lungs and other organs. During the first few years, the severity of TSC can range from mild skin abnormalities to, in severe cases, seizures, mental retardation or renal failure.

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING is a process by which your computer can join millions of other PCs across the world, each working on a small part of a large project simultaneously. Most computers aren't using all their computing power at a given time. Whether you're participating in a game, working on graphics, or just surfing the web, you are only using a fraction of the available computing power of your machine. This distributed computing project, known as TSC, is a small, secure software agent which you download and run on your machine that puts this wasted power to use for an extremely good purpose. The research program operates in the background, so you shouldn't notice it's running during computer use. It's designed to run only when computing resources are unused. As soon as you run an application that needs computing power, the research program will back down, and your computing performance will not be noticeably affected.



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