---
title: "Fight Ebola By Donating Computer Power"
description: "IBM has engineered a way for everyone to join the fight against Ebola by donating processing time on their personal computers, phones, or tablets to researchers"
date: "2014-12-03"
modified: "2015-08-13"
authors:
  - name: "StefanCretu"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/stefancretu"
url: "https://futurism.com/fight-ebola-donating-computer-power"
categories:
  - "Science & Energy"
tags:
  - "computing"
---

# Fight Ebola By Donating Computer Power

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/ibm_logo_colorado_reuters.jpg>)

- IBM has teamed with scientists at Scripps Research Institute in southern California on a project that will combine the power of thousands of small computers, to each attack tiny pieces of a larger medical puzzle that might otherwise require a supercomputer to solve
- The project will allow scientists do in months what it would otherwise take years to complete
- The grid computing program breaks down large computing problems into thousands of smaller tasks, assigns them to individual devices and then compiles the results