Computer Technology

Peer-to-Peer Computing Can Help Speed Pace of AIDS Drug Research

Published in AIDS Weekly, October 16th, 2000

To accelerate the discovery of drugs to fight HIV and AIDS, Entropia, Inc., the company creating the world's largest Internet- and Enterprise-distributed computing service, and the Olson laboratory at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), the largest private, non-profit biomedical research organization in the U.S., have joined to offer millions of people an effortless way to join the fight.

Through Entropia's FightAIDS@Home project (www.fightaidsathome.org) and their donation of massive computing power, TSRI scientists and researchers in the Olson laboratory will have the ideal computational system to model the evolution of drug resistance and design the drugs...

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