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Supercomputer Grid Battles AIDS

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in News, Science, Technology

Can a group of superfast computers find new medications to fight the scourge?

The World Community Grid, counted among the top 10 supercomputers in the world, will work with the La Jolla, Calif.-based Scripps Research Institute in designing new therapeutic tools to counter HIV, the fast-mutating virus that causes AIDS, IBM said Monday.

The initiative, dubbed FightAIDS@Home, will draw idle computing power from more than 170,000 computers.

“The computational challenges in approaching this problem are the vast number of possible mutations that may occur, and the huge number of possible chemical compounds that might be tested against them,” Dr. Arthur J. Olson, Anderson Research Chair Professor of the Scripps Department of Molecular Biology said in a statement. “The new World Community Grid project will run millions upon millions of docking computations to evaluate potential interactions between compounds and mutant viral proteins.”

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3 Responses to “Supercomputer Grid Battles AIDS”

Michael Russo Says:
November 23rd, 2005 at 1:57 am
After the supercomputers find a cure for AIDS, maybe I can get them to pay my bills…
Justin Gardner Says:
November 23rd, 2005 at 2:39 am
Hey, that’s a good idea.

But until then, try some of those 0% credit card deals… ;-)
Bit Design Says:
March 17th, 2006 at 5:10 am
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