Link of the Day: FightAIDS@Home

In keeping with yesterday’s link to Distributed Computing, the FightAIDS@Home project is an extremely simple way to join the fight against a deadly disease. In fact, once you’ve signed up and installed their program on your machine, you can sit back and let it do all the work.

“FightAIDS@Home captures the otherwise wasted cycles of your computer and applies them to model the evolution of drug resistance and to design drugs necessary to fight AIDS. When your computer has finished a FightAIDS@Home computation, the FightAIDS@Home results are packed up and sent back to the Scripps Research Institute, ready for Scripps researchers to collect and analyze them. Then when you are using your computer and it needs cycles, FightAIDS@Home instantly and automatically turns those resources back over to the program you are using.”

FightAIDS@Home is one of five such projects that you can choose to participate in through World Community Grid once you’ve signed up.

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