Cancer project launched on IBM's World Community Grid  

NEW DELHI: Researchers at the University of Medicine

and Dentistry of New Jersey and The Cancer Institute of New Jersey collaborated

with IBM to launch a project aimed at advancing cancer research using the

massive computational power of World Community Grid.






'Help Defeat Cancer' is the third project to use the enormous computational
power offered by World Community Grid, which is the world's largest humanitarian

grid housing a 'virtual supercomputer.'






The project is expected to help researchers better understand the underlying
mechanisms of cancer in order to improve treatment and therapy planning for

cancer patients.






It is expected that the 'Help Defeat Cancer' project, which is being powered by IBM's
World Community Grid, will take approximately three months to complete.






Through World Community Grid anyone can donate the idle and unused time on their
computer by downloading World Community Grid's free software.






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