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IBM supports developing the cure of swine flu (World Community Grid)
18 July 2009
New York, 
Spotted by Kubra
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IBM’s super virtual computer will be used for developing the cure of swine flu. In order to determine medicine that cures the swine flu virus H1N1, IBM and University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) started a new project that allows laboratory tests to begin in a month, by using IBM’s World Community Grid “virtual super computer”.
The system is simple and everyone who has a computer can join… You just go to www.worldcommunitygrid.org, subscribe for free and donate your computer’s processing power in order to be used in researches.
World Community Grid application ascertains the times which people do not use their computer or use less, such as lunch times or meetings, and steps in. Then it uses the computer’s processing power for researches. The screensavers of the computers that are subscribed to the system show that the computers are being used at the time and also inform about the situation of the projects.
