#computeforcancer

We harness unused computing power and dedicate it to researchers working towards a cure for cancer. Much of the current research views cancer treatment as an engineering problem. But there are two major barriers to this work: The first, of course, is finding a potential cure that can be boiled down into numbers. This problem is currently being addressed in research labs around the world, and there are already some promising results. The second barrier is the lack of basic computing power available to carry out the mathematical calculations needed to convert the numbers into real world treatments or even cures. Our organization is working to solve the second problem. We plan to use the vast amount of unused computing power harnessed from data centers, tablets, phones, PC’s, IoT, and Cloud servers to carry out this task, using Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing to access this idle power. There are approximately 2 billion active global Android devices. With only 1 million active users, BOINC’s available computing power will increase tenfold & provide equal the power of the fastest conventional supercomputer.