Simply join IBM’s World Community Grid’s “Help Defeat Cancer” project by donating your computer’s idle processing power and time. Your unused computing power will join 360,000 computers worldwide to form the ultimate virtual supercomputer.
The project will allow researchers to simultaneously analyze high numbers of cancer tissue microarrays (which present tens of thousands of tissue or molecular samples on glass slides or beads). They believe the World Community Grid could enable them to detect and track subtle changes in measurements to uncover prognosis clues.
“World Community Grid makes it possible to analyze in one day the number of specimens that would take approximately 130 years to complete using a traditional computer,” said Dr. David J. Foran, lead researcher, professor and director of the Centre for Biomedical Imaging at the at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
According to the World Health Organization, more than 11 million people are diagnosed with cancer each year. WHO estimates that seven million people die of the disease annually and, by 2020, there will be 16 million new cases each year.
Donate your PC’s unused computing power to help fight cancer at World Community Grid!
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