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Biology

May 16, 2008

IBM World Community Grid "Supercomputer" to Tackle Rice Crisis

“The issue is that there are between 30,000 and 60,000 different protein structures to study”

With the processing power of 167 teraflops, equivalent to the world's Top 3 supercomputer, IBM's World Community Grid will harness the unused and donated power from nearly one million individual PCs in a new ... via CSRwire.com

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