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Anthrax Cure - OT
Here's another way to soak up all those unused CPU cycles. Visit www.intel.com/cure/download.htm and you can find information on downloading a screen saver that tries to fit various small molecules to the anthrax protein, with the notion of being able to disable it. To find these molecules requires sifting through an enormous number of candidates for possible fits. When you run the program, it downloads 100 molecules to fit. When it's done with that, it gets another 100, etc.
The idea is similar to the SETI at home project that Mr. Pockets has mentioned before. By farming little pieces of a very big task out to a couple of million people, it can get done in some kind of reasonable time frame. I heard about this on today's All Things Considered broadcast (www.npr.org). Anyway, it seems a good thing to me.
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bill Green 95 SVX - Cleo Green 97 Outback - Maxine Red F-150 Extended Cab Long Bed - Big Boy Even the best monkey sometimes drops his banana. Last edited by svxter; 01-23-2002 at 11:42 AM. |
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