Last week IBM launched the World Community Grid in a global humanitarian effort to apply unused computer power to help researchers unlock genetic codes that underlie diseases like AIDS, Alzheimer's and cancer.
Each computer requires software that can be downloaded at www.worldcommunitygrid.org and installed like any other program. It quietly runs in the background when you are using your PC but it can also chug away on computational tasks sent in via the Internet.
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