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Give Your Unused Cycles to Science Say so long to screen savers and use your CPU's idle power for some worthwhile work...   |
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IBM and Idle PCs Help Find Anti-Cancer Drugs Distributed computing can break up a massive task into manageable chunks in certain situations. Is it right for your company? |
Popular Mechanics
August 2007
Joel Johnson |
How to Donate Your PC's Downtime to Scientific Research Your computer rarely employs 100 percent of its processing capability, and it uses very little while sitting idle. Distributed computing combines the unused processing-power of multiple Internet-connected computers for scientific number crunching. |
PC Magazine
January 18, 2005
Sebastian Rupley |
The Biggest Grid Yet The World Community Grid seeks to link 10 million or more volunteer computers together through freely downloadable peer-to-peer networking software. |
Fast Company
May 2010
Chuck Salter |
How IBM's World Community Grid Is Helping Cure AIDs, Cancer, and World Hunger IBM's virtual supercomputer is tapping the unused processors of half a million people to speed up critical scientific research. |
Chemistry World
February 2011 |
Idle cures Taking a coffee break could help find cures for cancer or Aids. Katrina Megget looks at the future of research that harnesses the computing power of the World Community Grid |
CIO
June 15, 2002
Lafe Low |
United We Crunch Statistics on the distributed computer power used during the anthrax research crunch. |
Bio-IT World
December 10, 2002
Kevin Davies |
Do Try This @ Home In the most impressive sign of distributed computing's awesome potential in biology thus far -- at least in peer-review literature -- researchers have simulated the folding of a mini-protein on a microsecond timescale. |
InternetNews
November 16, 2004
Paul Shread |
IBM Launches Public Grid Computing Project IBM hopes to give a boost to large-scale public computing projects - and its own commercial grid vision - with the launch of the new 'World Community Grid.' |
InternetNews
March 16, 2007
David Needle |
Stanford Disease Research Effort Calls On PS3 Users Distributed computing makes the PS3's Cell processor a valuable commodity. The aim is to help support Folding@Home, a research effort trying to unlock the the causes of Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, cystic fibrosis and many cancers. |
Wired
August 2000
Howard Rheingold |
You Got the Power Next comes the payoff. A wave of startups is poised to harvest the network's most wasted resource: your idle CPU cycles. |
Salon.com
July 17, 2001
Janelle Brown |
Distributed.outrage How could installing a screensaver be a crime against the state? |
Scientific American
May 6, 2005
Charles Q. Choi |
Processing for Science Save for computationally intense tasks, typical modern PCs almost never employ their full power. Distributed computing takes advantage of this spare capacity, dividing large tasks over the Internet for idle computers to work on. |
Salon.com
October 12, 2000
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Your computer can fight AIDS A PC can do more in its spare time than look for aliens. It can also save lives. Even while you're reading this Web page, you could be researching new AIDS treatments, or rather, your computer could... |
InternetNews
December 7, 2006
Andy Patrizio |
Got Some Spare CPU Cycles? Sell Them New distributed computing project lets you put your idle PC to work. It just needs customers. |
Wired
August 2003
Jennifer Kahn |
The End of Cancer (As we Know it) Diagnosis. Chemotherapy. Radiation. Slow painful death. No more. A new era of cancer treatment is dawning. Meet three scientists who are using the revelations of the Human Genome Project to reshape medicine. |
PC Magazine
May 17, 2006
Sebastian Rupley |
Light Up The Sky, ET The search for other Earth-like planets, and extraterrestrial life, is heading in new directions... A small way to detect cancer... |
Bio-IT World
December 10, 2002
Mark Hall |
Grids: When Concepts Collide Within just a few years, grid computing has gone from being a subject discussed by only experts in the fields of high-performance computing (HPC) and networking to one that has captured the imagination of an increasingly large percentage of the computing public. |
Chemistry World
July 2010
Hayley Birch |
Special Report: Health breakthroughs of the decade New discoveries have been made with cancer vaccines, genomics, statin drugs, allosteric modulators, and RNA interference during the last decade. |
Chemistry World
November 22, 2013
Emily James |
100 million for cancer research centers Cancer Research UK has invested 100 million pounds in 15 innovative research centers, acquiring high level expertise to solve the latest challenges in cancer. |
CFO
November 17, 2003
Peter Krass |
Grid Computing The same technology being used to search of life in outer space could soon help your company save serious time and money. |
Bio-IT World
July 11, 2002
Salvatore Salamone |
P2P's Powerful Promise Systems management remains difficult, but the payoff is getting teraflop computing from a sea of commodity PCs. Just ask Entelos and Novartis. |
Chemistry World
January 21, 2011
Jennifer Newton |
Early lung cancer diagnosis Patients with lung cancer have elevated levels of a specific protein in their blood that could be used as a biomarker for the disease, say scientists from South Korea. |
American Family Physician
May 15, 2005 |
Early Prostate Cancer: What You Should Know A patient hand-out on the disease, who is at risk, diagnosis and treatment options. |
Wired
Thomas Goetz |
Why Early Detection Is the Best Way to Beat Cancer By getting regular blood tests, doctors may be able to diagnose cancer early, giving the patient a 90 percent chance of survival. |
InternetNews
June 12, 2007
Paul Shread |
UD Sees Bright Future for Grid Vendors Far from being left behind by virtualization, United Devices sees grid computing companies as uniquely positioned to help data centers make the most of virtualization. |
PC World
December 2004
Lincoln Spector |
What's Pushing My CPU Into the Danger Zone? Find the cause of a CPU slowdown via Windows' Task Manager... Can't Change IE Settings... Check Those Floppies... |
AskMen.com
Jacob Franek |
Testicular Cancer Myths While sometimes deciphering the truth is not simple, we dispel five of the most common myths surrounding testicular cancer. |
Fast Company
July 1, 2007 |
Going on the Gold Standard What it takes for your company to join the cancer fight. |
The Motley Fool
May 31, 2011
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Profit From This Growing Drug Trend Cancer drugs press on. |
BusinessWeek
May 23, 2005
Catherine Arnst |
If It Works for Breast Cancer... Studies are under way to see if promising strategies used against breast cancer can be used to fight other killers, such as lung, colon, and prostate cancer. |
AskMen.com
Harold Russell |
The Truth About Lung Cancer Read this article to find out about the causes, symptoms, treatments, and preventive measures of lung cancer. |
Information Today
January 2001
Shirl Kennedy |
Internet Waves: A Trendmeister's Technology Forecast It's your amateur trendmeister here. Although there are no mega-corporations lining up to pay me Big Bucks for my prognostications, the good folks at Information Today are willing to compensate me to fill this space with my amateur technology forecast... |
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Good Health Care News New advice from the American Cancer Society puts a sharper focus on the risks of prostate cancer screening, emphasizing that annual testing can lead to unnecessary biopsies and treatments that do more harm than good. |
BusinessWeek
August 26, 2010
Tom Randall |
Cocktails Are Next For Cancer-Drug Makers Taking a cue from the cocktails of drugs that have made AIDS survivable, drugmakers are pursuing combination therapies against cancer. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
February 1, 2013
William Looney |
In Cancer, Process Drives Progress Today's most important public health story is the advance in our understanding of the biology of cancer. |
