JOHN COLLINSThe screensaver cuts the time it takes to download data from 100 years to just one year

YOUR COMPUTER’S screensaver can now help find a cure for childhood cancer thanks to IBM and Japanese researchers.

Researchers at the Chiba Cancer Center Research Institute and Chiba University have signed up to be part of IBM’s World Community Grid in an effort to try to find a possible drug treatment for neuroblastoma, one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths in children.

When computer owners install the World Community Grid screensaver, it downloads data from the internet while the computer is idle. It then carries out calculations on the data and uploads the results to the central server.

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