Grid-based computing to fight neurological disease
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 - 23:30
in Mathematics & Economics
Grid computing, long used by physicists and astronomers to crunch masses of data quickly and efficiently, is making the leap into the world of biomedicine. Researchers have networked hundreds of computers to help find treatments for neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's. They are calling their system the 'Google for brain imaging.'