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Tuesday, April 3, 2001

CPU Cycles Vs. Cancer -- 8:42 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

According to this Register article, the University of Oxford in conjunction with several American companies and charities is starting a SETI@home-like project. This project will use your computer's idle CPU power to help test new anti-cancer drugs. Check out their website for more details. I'd rather use my CPU to fight cancer than to get E.T. to phone home any day.

As a matter of fact, I'm downloading the program right now. Two people close to me passed away from leukemia within the past couple of weeks. Maybe my computer can help extend somebody else's life.

The Master comments: The first truly useful globally run background processing application. I'll have to pull that one down tonight myself.

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