World AIDS Day Brings Two New Partners, 20K PC’s to IBM’s World Community Grid Research Effort

World AIDS Day Brings Two New Partners, 20K PC’s to IBM’s World Community Grid Research Effort

IBM today announced that two national advocacy groups, The Human Rights Campaign, and Gay Men’s Health Crisis, are now part of its new research effort to help battle AIDS using the massive computational power of World Community Grid.

Nearly 20,000 new computer users have joined the new global philanthropic technology endeavor which now has 120,000 members donating unused time on their personal computers since the Nov. 21 announcement of the AIDS initiative with the Scripps Research Institute. It marked the largest one week jump of membership for the year-old IBM humanitarian public grid, the first virtual supercomputer devoted specifically to AIDS research, equivalent in raw processing power to one of the world’s top 10 supercomputers.

Other leading AIDS advocacy organizations who have joined this humanitarian technology initiative while encouraging their members to download the World Community Grid software package are: the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care; the National Minority AIDS Council; Hope House; AIDS Foundation of Chicago; Midwest Aids Prevention Project; Toronto AIDS Committee; Pacific AIDS Network; Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network; AIDS Related Community Services (ARCS); and the Gay & Lesbian Association of Denmark.

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