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SPARE CYCLES AGAINST MALARIA.

The article discusses Africa@home, a project that utilizes idle computer cycles to research malaria, which kills one million people a year in sub-Saharan Africa and is the biggest single cause of death in children under five. The project was begun by researchers at the University of Geneva, who deve...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 49; no. 9; p. 9
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Sep2006
Subjects:
Distributed computing
Malaria
Computer systems
Computer simulation
Child mortality
Cooperative processing
Computer networks
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