FRANCE GRID COMPUTER POWER TROPICAL DISEASES CURE – MALARIA, DENGUE FEVER
January 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FRENCH National Centre for Scientific Research is using a European Union (EU) research project on combining computer power through grids of interlinked hard-drives to find a cure for malaria and dengue fever. Dr Vincent Breton, of the centre's Corpuscular Physics Laboratory, has used FlexX software developed by Germany's Fraunhofer Institute, to link computers involved in the EU-funded Enabling Grids for E-sciencE project and told them to focus on these diseases. Regarding malaria, the computer grid was asked to match the 3-dimensional ...
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