Grid Computing Saves Cancer Researchers Decades

Stony Stevenson writes "Canadian researchers have promised to squeeze "decades" of cancer research into just two years by harnessing the power of a global PC grid. The scientists are the first from Canada to use IBM's World Community Grid network of PCs and laptops with the power equivalent to one of the globe's top five fastest supercomputers. The team will use the grid to analyze the results of experiments on proteins using data collected by scientists at the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute in Buffalo, New York. The researchers estimate that this analysis would take conventional computer systems 162 years to complete."

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Re:I used to run Folding@...

[Turn-X Alphonse]

If you run it on a low level you can only increase your usage by about 1-2 and still help the project, there is no logical reason to run the client at 100% if it's going to cost you a bomb, where as at 1-2% you won't win any contests, but you will be helping the project and paying at most a buck or two extra on electric a month.