Title :
Grid Added Value to Address Malaria
Author :
Breton, V. ; Jacq, N. ; Hofmann, M.
Author_Institution :
Lab. de Phys. Corpusculaire, Univ. Blaise Pascal, Clermont Ferrand
Abstract :
Through this paper, we call for a distributed, Internet-based collaboration to address one of the worst plagues of our present world, malaria. The spirit is a non-proprietary peer-production of information-embedding goods. And we propose to use the grid technology to enable such a world wide "open source" like collaboration. The first step towards this vision has been achieved during the summer on the EGEE grid infrastructure where 46 million ligands were docked for a total amount of 80 CPU years in 6 weeks in the quest for new drugs
Keywords :
Internet; diseases; grid computing; groupware; medical computing; EGEE grid infrastructure; distributed Internet-based collaboration; grid technology; information-embedding goods; ligands; malaria; nonproprietary peer-production; Africa; Bioinformatics; Collaboration; Diseases; Drugs; Genomics; Grid computing; Immune system; Testing; Vaccines;
Conference_Titel :
Cluster Computing and the Grid, 2006. CCGRID 06. Sixth IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Singapore
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2585-7
DOI :
10.1109/CCGRID.2006.1630933
