IBM's World Community Grid Targets AIDS in Giant Research Effort

IBM launched a new research effort to help battle AIDS using the massive computational power of World Community Grid, a global community of computer users who have joined the philanthropic technology initiative by donating unused time on their personal computers. Already among the top 10 supercomputers in the world, World Community Grid will be the first virtual supercomputer devoted specifically to AIDS research.

Working with the renowned Scripps Research Institute, a nonprofit research organization based in San Diego, World Community Grid will host its second major project: the Internet-based FightAIDS@Home, an evolutionary research project dedicated to finding new AIDS thearapies. The new initiative will deploy massive computer power to develop novel chemical strategies effective in the treatment of HIV-infected individuals in the face of evolving drug resistance to the virus.

Individuals and businesses, foundations, associations, universities, and not-for-profit organizations will have the opportunity to donate unused time on a computer by downloading World Community Grid's free software and registering at www.worldcommunitygrid.org. Fast, easy, safe and secure, more than 100,000 individuals are now volunteering power from 170,000 computers to help find a cure for AIDS through World Community Grid.

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