SECUR> Smallpox Researchers Seek Help From Millions of Computer Users
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- Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 08:04:57 -0600
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Smallpox Researchers Seek Help From Millions of Computer Users
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/05/health/05SMAL.html?ex=1045436465&ei=1&en=23671d04a7b28e03>
February 5, 2003
By STEVE LOHR
Responding to worries that smallpox could become a weapon
of bioterrorism, a group of research universities and
corporations and the Defense Department are announcing
today a networked computer project intended to accelerate
the search for a cure for smallpox.
The project is to use computing power contributed by a few
million personal computer owners linked to the Internet
worldwide to try to winnow the number of chemical compounds
that might show promise in combating smallpox.
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To succeed, the project will need help from a few million
people willing to contribute the unused computing power of
their home or office personal computers. Their spare
computer cycles will be the source of the computing
firepower - more, collectively, than the world's largest
supercomputer - to search for smallpox-fighting compounds.
The smallpox computing project will work similarly. A
person clicks to register and download a screen saver
program from a Web site, www.grid.org. When the machine is
turned on but not in use, the program uses it as part of
the computing grid.
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