How IBM's World Community Grid Is Helping Cure AIDs, Cancer, and World Hunger

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VOLUNTEERING: When Lauren Moran isn't typing on her laptop, it's busy with heavy-duty computations for medical research projects. | Photograph by Joao Canziani

IBM's virtual supercomputer is tapping the unused processors of half a million people to speed up critical scientific research.

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AT GRID HQ: "We're opening up the field of bioinformatics," says IBM VP Robin Willner. Photograph by Reed Young

For the past four years, Lauren Moran has devoted herself to groundbreaking cancer research...