fightaids@home

You might have noticed that yesterday dec 1st was another world aids day held and i came upon a really interesting link about a biomedical distributed computing project called Fightaids@home , you can somewhat compare it with the Seti@home project (which uses your pc to scan the universe) The fight aids software downloads small pieces of data and performs calculations that model how drugs interact with various HIV virus mutations. After your computer processes the information, the results are sent back to The Scripps Research Institute where they are analyzed by the Scripps research team. The process takes an enormous amount of computing time and this is where you come in. They need YOUR computer! so do something good while sitting there on your arse and install their software, you won't notice it running anyway and even if you did, there's always the option to only let it run when your screensaver pops up.