V. Breton, Universit? Blaise Pascal/IN2P3, France
N. Jacq, Communication & Systèmes, CS-SI, France
M. Hofmann, Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing (SCAI), Germany
Through this paper, we call for a distributed, internet-based collaboration to address one of the worst plagues of our present world, malaria. The spirit is a non-proprietary peer-production of informationembedding goods. And we propose to use the grid technology to enable such a world wide "open source" like collaboration. The first step towards this vision has been achieved during the summer on the EGEE grid infrastructure where 46 million ligands were docked for a total amount of 80 CPU years in 6 weeks in the quest for new drugs.
Citation:
V. Breton, N. Jacq, M. Hofmann, "Grid Added Value to Address Malaria," ccgrid, vol. 2, pp.40, Sixth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid Workshops (CCGRIDW'06), 2006