Dick Sblog

Starting on World AIDS Day on 1 December, the World Community Grid will sponsor a month-long challenge via its FightAIDS@home project, with the goal of increasing the number of computers and computer cycles available to researchers conducting HIV/AIDS research. At the laboratory of Arthur Olson in the molecular biology department at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, computational methods are used to identify new candidates for drugs with the right shape and chemical characteristics to block HIV.

With help from the World Community Grid, a philanthropic public computing grid organization started by computer giant IBM in 2004, hundreds of thousands of volunteers have so far donated over 84,000 years of unused computer time to researchers worldwide. If you want to assist, go here and click ‘join now’.
This will start a process by which the project will send data to your computer. When you’re not using your computer its processing capacity will crunch their data and send the results back to the project. It’s safe and it provides a means for all of us to contribute to solving this hideous global health problem.

And tell your friends…