This appears to be very similar to the Fold It Program that does a similar thing with computer resources. The program runs in the background on individual computers and allows the project to perform virtual experiments and study processes that are not too costly or difficult to study. The screensaver is at no cost and is completely passive and you can set the time to run or after your computer has been idle for a certain length of time. The program has yielded enough information for 2 reports so far and is only 2 months old. Copy and paste this url into the blank project site and off it goes. http://cels-at-home-dev.dyndns.org/cels/
You can also close it down from the tray..nice way to use extra computer resources in the battle to combat cancer. What used to take months can be done in days or weeks…BD
A biomedical engineering professor at The University of Texas at Austin is using a concept called "grid computing" to allow the average person to donate idle computer time in a global effort to fight cancer. Muhammad Zaman, assistant professor in biomedical engineering, recently introduced Cellular Environment in Living Systems @Home or CELS@Home for short (http://cels-at-home-dev.dyndns.org/cels/). The program already has more than 1,000 computer users worldwide contributing to the project. And the numbers keep growing.
“Cels@Home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in cell adhesion. One of the many applications of this is in cancer research, as the point at which cancerous cells quit staying in place, and instead break free to move throughout the body, is a critical event that makes the disease much harder to treat. You can participate by downloading and running a free program on your computer.”
Idle computers offer hope to solve cancer's mysteries through grid computing project
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