Project Update: More than half-way there, with more than a quadrillion energy evaluations!

Go to battle against AIDS with your computer!
"What is FightAIDS@Home?" FightAIDS@Home is the first biomedical distributed computing project ever launched. It is run by the Olson Laboratory at The Scripps Research Institute, and uses your computer to assist fundamental research to discover new drugs, using our growing knowledge of the structural biology of AIDS.

FightAIDS@Home joins World Community Grid
November 2005


Phase 1a: 88% Completed

For current FightAIDS@Home members who are running the original Entropia client, please go to the migration instructions.

New members, please go here to join the fight.

FightAIDS@Home, which has been run independently by the Olson Laboratory for the past two and a half years, is joining World Community Grid, a public computing grid with the mission of running projects that will benefit humanity. The current FightAIDS@Home client that was inherited from Entropia has not been ideal for both the FightAIDS@Home members and the Olson Laboratory. Several features of the Entropia environment have not been functional since the we took over the project, and newer versions of the AutoDock code could not be implemented in the system.
The transition to World Community Grid will improve FightAIDS@Home in important ways.

it will provide FightAIDS@Home Members with information about their contribution to the project, including the number of job credits you've computed, overall project statistics.
it will provide 3D graphical output showing computational progress.
it will provide a forum for FightAIDS@Home discussion and updates.
it will provide a maintainable and updateable environment for AutoDock and the science run on FightAIDS@Home.
it will help increase awareness of the FightAIDS@Home project, enabling us to run more advanced computations.
it will support FightAIDS@Home on Linux based systems in the future.

World Community Grid is making technology available only to public and not-for-profit organizations to use in humanitarian research that might otherwise not be completed due to the high cost of the computer infrastructure required in the absence of a public grid. IBM Corporation has donated the hardware, software, technical services and expertise to build the infrastructure for World Community Grid and provides free hosting, maintenance and support. We are grateful that World Community Grid has invited FightAIDS@Home to join their effort.

To start running FightAIDS@Home on World Community Grid, please go to the updated how to join page, or go directly to the World Community Grid Website.
Note that there is more than one humanitarian project running on the World Community Grid. The default setting for a new member on World Community Grid is to contribute computing power to all of the projects. You may select to contribute only to FightAIDS@Home by editing your profile by going to My Grid on the website for World Community Grid. The My Projects page will allow you to opt-in and out of projects ( by default, you are opted-in to all current projects). For more details information about the process see the how to join page.
Changes to your project selections will take place the next time your computer finishes its current piece of work and returns the result to World Community Grid.