Return-Path: <sentto-279987-4360-1011714068-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 [204.181.12.215] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.7.4) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Tue, 22 Jan 2002 07:43:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 10110 invoked by uid 510); 22 Jan 2002 15:41:06 -0000 Received: from n35.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.85) by all.net with SMTP; 22 Jan 2002 15:41:06 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-4360-1011714068-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [216.115.97.190] by n35.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 22 Jan 2002 15:41:08 -0000 X-Sender: fc@red.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_3); 22 Jan 2002 15:41:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 6222 invoked from network); 22 Jan 2002 15:41:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.171) by m4.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 22 Jan 2002 15:41:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO red.all.net) (12.232.72.98) by mta3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 22 Jan 2002 15:41:08 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by red.all.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id g0MFfY029537 for iwar@onelist.com; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 07:41:34 -0800 Message-Id: <200201221541.g0MFfY029537@red.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> X-Yahoo-Profile: fcallnet Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 07:41:34 -0800 (PST) Subject: [iwar] [fc:Researchers.Recruit.PC.Users.for.Anthrax.Project] Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Researchers Recruit PC Users for Anthrax Project Reuters, 1/22/02 A group of scientists and major technology corporations asked people around the world on Tuesday to use their personal computers to help develop a treatment for anthrax. Members of the Anthrax Research Project, including chip maker Intel Corp. (Nasdaq:INTC - news), software giant Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news), computing services provider United Devices Inc., the National Foundation for Cancer Research and Oxford University, announced the effort in a press release. Individuals can participate in the project by downloading a screen saver at www.intel.com/cure and donating their personal computer's spare resources to build a virtual supercomputer capable of analyzing billions of molecules in a fraction of the time it would take in a laboratory, the group said. The screen saver runs whenever computation resources are available. Once processing is complete, the program sends the results back to the United Devices' data center and requests a new packet of data the next time the user connects to the Internet. The United Devices program incorporates a comprehensive system of security and privacy technologies to protect user privacy, the group said. Anthrax was used in tainted letters through the U.S. mail in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States, killing five people and infecting 13 others since early October. The initiative is modeled on the Intel-United Devices Cancer Research Project, which utilized the computing power of 1.3 million personal computers around the world to provide scientists access to a virtual supercomputer more powerful than the world's 10 largest supercomputers combined, the group said. The anthrax project will draw upon the same distributed computing technology to help scientists screen 3.5 billion molecular compounds against the fatal anthrax toxin protein. Results of the project will be made available to the United States, Great Britain and other governments for further development and research. ``Without this technology and support of the coalition, there would be no other way to tackle such a tremendous task.'' Graham Richards, scientific director of the project at Oxford, said in the press release. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Sponsored by VeriSign - The Value of Trust Do you need to encrypt all your online transactions? Find the perfect solution in this FREE Guide from VeriSign. http://us.click.yahoo.com/vCuuSA/UdiDAA/yigFAA/kgFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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