Grid Added Value to Address Malaria

Vincent Breton (1) , N. Jacq (1, 2) , M. Hofmann (3)

1 LPC - Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire - Clermont-Ferrand
2 C-S - Communication & Systèmes [Toulouse]
3 Fraunhofer SCAI - Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing

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 information-embedding 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.

Mots clés: grid; malaria

Domaines: Bio-informatique [q-bio.QM]; Calcul parallèle, distribué et partagé [cs.DC]

Vincent Breton, N. Jacq, M. Hofmann. Grid Added Value to Address Malaria. 6th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, CCGrid06, May 2006, Singapore, Singapore. pp.173-181, ⟨10.1109/TITB.2007.895930⟩. ⟨in2p3-00114048⟩