IBM Sponsors Humanitarian Grid Computing Project

BrianWCarver writes "Reuters reports that IBM and top scientific research organizations are joining forces in a humanitarian effort to tap the unused power of millions of computers and help solve complex social problems. Following the example of SETI@home, the project, dubbed The World Community Grid, will seek to tap the vast underutilized power of computers belonging to individuals and businesses worldwide and channel it into selected medical and environmental research programs. The first project to benefit will be Human Proteome Folding, an effort to identify the genetic structure of proteins that can cause diseases. The client is currently available for Windows XP, 2000, ME, and 98."

Comments

Trying to find diseases by using WinXX computers?

[Anonymous Coward]

I bet they find a lot caused by viruses.

Re:seriously

[prowley]

would you seriously consider running a closed-source application, that is a) cosuming your entire cpu resources b) recieves instructions from the internet c) sends back information gathered at your computer d) has not provided any scientific value (a la seti@home)

Please, lets have less of this Microsoft Windows bashing and get back to the subject at hand.