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来源：http://www.distributedcomputing.info/news.html
原载：http://www.kxan.com/Global/story.asp?S=8414449
标题：Computers crunch possible cures for cancer，计算机筛选能治疗癌症的药物
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日期：2008年6月3日
概要：介绍了 Austin Community College(奥斯汀联合大学)学生计算机实验室加入 WCG 项目的情况。
正文翻译：
AUSTIN, Texas (KXAN) -- Finding a cure for cancer could be as close as your own computer.
奥斯汀(得克萨斯州) - 您自己的计算机也能用来寻找治疗癌症的药物了。
The World Community Grid uses idle computers to help treat, cure and diagnose diseases.
WCG 利用闲置的计算机来帮助治疗、治愈和诊断疾病。
Students in a lab at Austin Community College are putting the school's computers to work, but when the typing stops, the machines become "superhero computers," so to speak, quietly calculating possible cures for cancer and drug treatments for malaria and AIDS.
奥斯汀联合大学某实验室的学生们将学校里的计算机参与到 WCG 的工作中来， 当他们停止使用计算机时，这台计算机就成了一台“超人计算机”，进一步说，计算机开始安静的寻找可能可以治疗癌症、疟疾和艾滋病的有效药物。
"If you were to ask, most of our students and faculty members, they don't even know it's on there," said Herb Coleman, instructional computing director of Austin Community College.
“如果你问起我们这里大部分学生和教职员工，他们可能根本就不知道计算机上在运行什么”，奥斯汀联合大学计算机系的指导员 Herb Coleman 说。
"You know, the world has hundreds of millions of PCs sitting around," said Victors Berstis, chief scientist of the World Community Grid. "A lot of them are just wasting electricity, so it's a good environmental thing."
“您知道的，这个世界上有上亿台计算机”，WCG 的首席科学家 Victors Berstis 说，“相当多的计算机长期处于空耗电力的状态，分布式计算对他们进行利用对环境保护来说有一定的益处。”
The high-tech idea started in Austin four years ago and has a network of 1 million machines from all around the world.
这个高科技的想法几年前诞生于奥斯汀，随后全世界一百万台计算机参与进来构成了一个计算网络。
Through the high-speed project, researchers have learned how to detect breast cancer earlier and with twice as much accuracy.
通过这个高速的项目，研究人员能学习到如何尽早地发现乳腺癌，而且精准度更高。
"We always ask them, given the resources and supercomputers they have, how long would it have taken them to do this job, and they say sometimes 120 years, or they wouldn't even have considered doing it," Berstis said.
“我们一直询问他们，把他们拥有的资源和超级计算机都利用起来，要多长时间才能完成这项工作，他们说可能要 120 年之久吧，否则他们也不会考虑使用分布式计算”，Berstis 说。
So while participants in the program do absolutely nothing, their computers are hard at work, saving lives one calculation at a time.
当参与者停止使用计算机的时候，其实计算机正在努力的工作，在任何一个时刻都在积极地计算着。
"It will be really great to know that if they do some breakthrough that it was some of our computers to help crunch the numbers to get them there," Coleman said.
“这么多计算机在帮助处理来自 WCG 的数据，如果能取得突破性的进展，那真是令人激动的消息啊”，Coleman 说。 |
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