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Giving Computer Time Can Fight AIDS

If you have a personal computer and an Internet connection, you might want to consider helping find a cure for AIDS.

Yesterday, IBM and the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla announced a new venture that enlists people from around the world to donate time on their personal computers to assist with AIDS studies.

Called FightAIDS@Home, the initiative invites people to join the World Community Grid, a community of more than 100,000 computer users from 160 countries linked by the Internet.

Having more computer power at hand allows scientists to attack many of their questions more aggressively and quickly.

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  • Date 11/22/2005 11:04:46 PM
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bukkake : LVL 21: VP 3: said:

bukkake

0 votes NegativePositive

1462 days 22 hours ago...

i need porn tho =/ sry AIDS

aztecx : LVL 21: VP 3: said:

aztecx

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1462 days 12 hours ago...

wtf is it? how would a computer help tackle aids?

Arthur (2 sheds) Jackson : LVL 43: VP 5: said:

Arthur (2 sheds) Jackson

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1462 days 10 hours ago...

They mean as in sharing information about their own research with other scientists over the web so as they can try and advance it. Someone might see something everyone else missed and a breakthrough made. You can also see how different approaches complement each other and so on.

In other words it's an ideas forum. Quite a good approach I think, would certainly speed up research.

ankaloin : LVL 31: VP 4: said:

ankaloin

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1462 days 10 hours ago...

you will unite or you will fall

Nereth : LVL 22: VP 3.1: said:

Nereth

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1462 days 9 hours ago...

Err... im pretty sure, arthur, that you missed the point. Ive seen a few things like this before.

"Having more computer power at hand allows scientists to attack many of their questions more aggressively and quickly. "

All of the computers wasted processor time is put into the network, allowing the calculations for the cure to aids to be caried out faster... remember, supercomputers are made with many normal computers... the same can be done over the internet, and it has happened before, eg when searching for some specail type of prime number, they did this. Your computer would start idling, and then send a request for instructions from the servers, and then it would begin calculationg the prime numbers

hugoboss : LVL 26: VP 3.5: said:

hugoboss

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1462 days 8 hours ago...

I reckon Nereth has hit the nail into the koala. It's not unlike the SETI project that has computers donating their power online while in idle or screensaver mode to process satellite data to determine if anything received may be flagged as "life".

Gabz : LVL 32: VP 4.1: said:

Gabz

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1462 days 7 hours ago...

I participated in a similar project some time ago, but I quit because my processor almost overheated.

EDIT: I'm not saying you shouldn't do it

Gisa : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

Gisa

0 votes NegativePositive

1462 days 3 hours ago...

:| Don't want my baby to fry...but yeah, for a chance to help beat AIDS...it's definitely worth it!

Nirah : LVL 25: VP 3.4: said:

Nirah

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1461 days 23 hours ago...

Ill tell you how they can use your computer to fight AIDS... for one... they can do very advanced calculations split up it small parts devided on alot of computers...

Share information faster...

and btw sharing your computer when your not using it for a good cause is always a good thing! for scientific use! of cause (look into the project google is running about scientific calculations)

eyespy : LVL 19: VP 2.8: said:

eyespy

0 votes NegativePositive

1461 days 22 hours ago...

yay SETI@home! i used to do that. fun.

LightYear : LVL 15: VP 2.4: said:

LightYear

0 votes NegativePositive

1461 days 15 hours ago...

It is time to find a cure for that damn thing.
for every Disease there's a cure, thats what i believe.just like we found a cure for syphilis,rabies,and small pox......
besides check the story about the guy from the britain who healed himself from Hiv,i dont know if is true.:/
but Come on world! lets destroy that thing.it is gone too far,it kills someone every 10 secs!!!:(
the cure is out there!

Peace.

AzIanGirL : LVL 7: VP 1.6: said:

AzIanGirL

0 votes NegativePositive

1459 days 14 hours ago...

Arthur is such a douche that has no idea what hes talking about. It is nothing like a forum, it is exactly what Nereth Said.

Batman2324 : LVL 35: VP 4.3: said:

Batman2324

0 votes NegativePositive

1458 days 23 hours ago...

LOL@ the first guy.

Mr.Clean : LVL 20: VP 2.9: said:

Mr.Clean

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1458 days 19 hours ago...

batman stfu fag

ukwonderboy : LVL 10: VP 1.9: said:

ukwonderboy

0 votes NegativePositive

1458 days 8 hours ago...

Could just were a rubber...that'dd eventually cure aids ;) and is a lot easier...

SAFETY IN NUMBERS!

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