Hot off the grid(dle)
Today the World Community Grid opened to the public. Basically IBM has developed a distributed computing system (think SETI@Home) for tackling major problems in science and health, all with a humanitarian bent. Coverage in the Times and the Trib.
Rejoice, for now you can satisfy your hitherto unmet desire to crunch human proteome data with your computer's free processing cycles.
Posted on November 16, 2004 to the category called Work .
