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An IBM project called World Community Grid will apply the untapped
computing power of millions of personal computers to the study
of AIDS, Alzheimer's, malaria, cancer and other diseases. Dr.
Eric Jakobsson of
the National Institutes of Health says, "This program is
both a sizable commitment of computing resources and an encouraging
sign of progress in moving toward a community model for biomedical
computing." The new networks's first mission will be the
Human Proteome Folding Project of the Institute for Systems
Biology, which seeks to identify all the proteins in the human
body and their functions.
People who want to
join these grid projects and donate computer time will be able
to download software from the following Web site:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/intro.php
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