Grid Added Value to Address Malaria

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.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: CCGRID
• Authors: Vincent Breton, Nicolas Jacq, Martin Hofmann 0009
• Keywords: CCGRID 2006, Cluster Computing, EGEE Grid Infrastructure, Internet-based Collaboration, Worst Plagues