# P2P project to fight AIDS

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2001/05/29/p2p-project-fight-aids/
- Published: 2001-05-29T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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.

Find out more from Fight AIDs @ Home.

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