142 million computer hours donated to cancer research
Howard Lake | 14 June 2001 | News
United Devices reports that since 3 April 2001 over 435,904 members signed up to donate their PCs’ spare processing capacity to the Intel-United Devices Cancer Research Project.
United Devices reports that since 3 April 2001 over 435,904 members signed up to donate their PCs’ spare processing capacity to the Intel-United Devices Cancer Research Project. Over 665,757 computers are now helping the project avoid spending money on expensive super-computer access. This donated processing capacity has generated over 140,092,201 computer-processing hours.
Find out more about this peer-to-peer (P2P) initiative from United Devices and Oxford University and the Intel Philanthropic P2P program.
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