P2P project to fight AIDS
Howard Lake | 29 May 2001 | News
Entropia is running a peer-to-peer project to harness donated computer processing power for AIDS medical research.
Entropia is running a peer-to-peer project to harness donated computer processing power for AIDS medical research. So far 17,000 people have donated their PC’s spare processing capacity to the Fight AIDS @ Home project.
Journalists at .net magazine, who have donated 35,000 hours of computer time, have calculated that the total capacity donated to the project is the equivalent of a PC with 3,000Gb of memory, 34,000Gb of disk space, and a capacity of 8,000 billion calculations per second.
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Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.