Being a fan of all things science and computers, as well as a fan of research that helps fight things such as cancer, I’m glad to see that Canada is taking some serious action in the fight to cure / prevent cancer. A research team at the Ontario Cancer Institute have decided to utilize the power of IBM’s World Community Grid to analyze research data that resulted from experiments. Analysis will be performed on proteins that were collected from the tests. It was estimated the research would have taken nearly 162 years to completed if the analysis were done on standard computers. But with the combine power of the PCs on the IBM World Community Grid, they have estimated that the completion time will be about two years.

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