Help Conquer Cancer by participating in the World Community Grid

[piccolomondo]

Help Conquer Cancer is a new research project that will analyze human proteins in the fight against cancer using the power of more than 795,000 computers around the globe on the World Community Grid, a technology created and maintained by IBM.

Volunteers around the world are donating idle time on their computers (processing time when the computer is on but not in use) to allow cancer researchers to drastically shorten the amount of time it would take to analyze 90 million images of crystallized proteins, from 162 years using existing computing systems to between one to two years using the combined computing power of the grid.

The World Community Grid was created by IBM about three years ago as a way to harness unused global computing power to help solve a variety of health and scientific issues. Eight other projects have been run so far on the World Community Grid, including protein folding and FightAIDS@Home, which completed five years of HIV/AIDS research in six months.

"Cancer research gets boost from World Community Grid project"
[via computerworld.com]

Information about this project is provided by the project scientists on the Help Conquer Cancer website.

To learn more, go to World Community Grid's web site at http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org
and the Help Conquer Cancer forum.

[Bent_Bladi]

so leaving the computer on will find the cure for cancer... ... wow

[piccolomondo]

so leaving the computer on will find the cure for cancer... ... wow

Ya trollita BB,
leaving the computer on per se will only waste energy or increase the global warming (or the global warming hoax).