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[G8_Summit]

How is a pc gonna find a cure for cancer FFS ???

[DimPrawn]

Where you been, Mars? Duh.

http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/curecancer.html

http://www.grid.org/projects/cancer/

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/pr..._showcase.html

http://www.overclockercafe.com/cancer_research.htm

http://www.help2go.com/article57.html

http://www.nfcr.org/Default.aspx?tabid=405

Distributed Computing. Look it up.

[PRC1964]

To be fair, have any of those actually delivered anything other than publicity?

[DimPrawn]

Yes.

http://folding.stanford.edu/results.html

Lots of drugs that have been modelled and are now undergoing trials around the world. Will take years to know if they are going to work, but how do you think drugs are modelled and designed? Using supercomputers. What do you get if you run 10,000,000 PC's in parallel on a task. An effing BIG supercomputer that also keeps the owners warm in the winter.

[xoggoth]

Wouldn't it cut out a lot of unecessary effort if we skipped the curing ill people bit and just kept ourselves warm by putting them on the fire instead?

[DimPrawn]

Good suggestion. Asylum seekers into pies. Muslim extremists into soap. Recycling everywhere.