World Aids Day-Fight AIDS at home

Regardless of a person's educational level or resources, he or she can fight AIDS at home, using nothing more then a personal computer.
Earlier this week, Scripps Research Institute and IBM announced a new grid-computing project, that will allow PC users to donate their computer’s idle time to help search for new HIV/AIDS drugs. Grid-computing distributes small research tasks among thousands of unused connected computers to work together on a single project. In this particular case it will be the analysis of thousands of chemical compounds and their reactions to a protein found in HIV.
According to Stanley Lito, president of the IBM international Foundation, nearly 100,000 computer users from 160 countries have signed into the World Community grid, which is capable of accommodation up to 10 million computers. « The more people we have, the more power we have, and the more projects the grid can handle « . Without this ‘super computer’ the task would take approximately 100 years to finish.

Users interested in participating can access World Community to download no-cost software.