THERE’s never been a better reason to ditch the flying windows or gyrating
text drifting across your screen. Cancer researchers are offering a new computer
screen saver that will use spare processor time on your computer to look for
drugs to fight the disease.
Pinching the idea from the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI),
the researchers hope that drafting in PC users across the globe will speed up
drugs discovery. “We’re going to need perhaps 3 or 4 million hours of computing
time,” says Graham Richards of Oxford University. “Using our own computers, we’d
be dead before we finished.”
To…
