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IBM world community grid squeezes decades of cancer research into 2 years

11-06-2007 · EurekAlert!

Canadian researchers will accelerate the war on cancer using a global network of volunteered computer time to tackle some of the world's most complex problems. The team led by Dr. Igor Jurisica, Ontario Cancer Institute, and scientists at Princess Margaret Hospital and University Health Network, are the first Canadians to use the World Community Grid, which has power equivalent to one of the globe’s top five fastest supercomputers to analyze data from scientists at Hauptman-Woodward in Buffalo, N.Y.

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