Grid searches for avian flu cure
A cure for bird flu is being sought by computers that usually search for the fundamental elements of matter.
In April, the UK grid of computers that crunches data from particle physics experiments was used by scientists to study the avian H5N1 virus.
The grid simulated the reactions of 300,000 chemical compounds to find which ones might combat the bug.
The project aims to make grids available to scientists that need to call on lots of computer power.
Drug trials
Computer grids tie together ranks of low-powered machines to create a virtual supercomputer.
For this project, computers at 11 British universities and research labs were used to search through candidate compounds that might help combat H5N1.
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