[BiO BB] [Fwd: Junior Essay]
J.W. Bizzaro
jeff at bioinformatics.org
Sat Apr 21 23:04:10 EDT 2001
I would suggest taking a look at the THINK screensaver as well, a "fight
cancer at home" project:
http://members.ud.com/vypc/cancer/think.htm
It too is "Internet distributed computing" and not quite traditional
supercomputing.
Jeff B.
Jeff Ames wrote:
>
> Have you looked at the Fight AIDS at Home project? It uses distributed
> computing, similar to the rc5 / distributed.net projects. People
> contribute CPU cycles to protein modelling, supposedly to help researchers
> develop new drugs to fight AIDS/HIV. I don't know of any published
> results yet, though.
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