TY - GEN
T1 - Distributed and grid computing projects with research focus in human health
AU - Diomidous, Marianna
AU - Zikos, Dimitrios
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Distributed systems and grid computing systems are used to connect several computers to obtain a higher level of performance, in order to solve a problem. During the last decade, projects use the World Wide Web to aggregate individuals' CPU power for research purposes. This paper presents the existing active large scale distributed and grid computing projects with research focus in human health. There have been found and presented 11 active projects with more than 2000 Processing Units (PUs) each. The research focus for most of them is molecular biology and, specifically on understanding or predicting protein structure through simulation, comparing proteins, genomic analysis for disease provoking genes and drug design. Though not in all cases explicitly stated, common target diseases include research to find cure against HIV, dengue, Duchene dystrophy, Parkinson's disease, various types of cancer and influenza. Other diseases include malaria, anthrax, Alzheimer's disease. The need for national initiatives and European Collaboration for larger scale projects is stressed, to raise the awareness of citizens to participate in order to create a culture of internet volunteering altruism.
AB - Distributed systems and grid computing systems are used to connect several computers to obtain a higher level of performance, in order to solve a problem. During the last decade, projects use the World Wide Web to aggregate individuals' CPU power for research purposes. This paper presents the existing active large scale distributed and grid computing projects with research focus in human health. There have been found and presented 11 active projects with more than 2000 Processing Units (PUs) each. The research focus for most of them is molecular biology and, specifically on understanding or predicting protein structure through simulation, comparing proteins, genomic analysis for disease provoking genes and drug design. Though not in all cases explicitly stated, common target diseases include research to find cure against HIV, dengue, Duchene dystrophy, Parkinson's disease, various types of cancer and influenza. Other diseases include malaria, anthrax, Alzheimer's disease. The need for national initiatives and European Collaboration for larger scale projects is stressed, to raise the awareness of citizens to participate in order to create a culture of internet volunteering altruism.
KW - Distributed computing
KW - Grid computing
KW - Molecular biology
KW - Research
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84864517515&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3233/978-1-61499-052-9-116
DO - 10.3233/978-1-61499-052-9-116
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 22491123
AN - SCOPUS:84864517515
SN - 9781614990512
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 116
EP - 120
BT - Large Scale Projects in eHealth
PB - IOS Press
T2 - European Federation for Medical Informatics Special Topic Conference, EFMI STC 2012
Y2 - 18 April 2012 through 20 April 2012
ER -
