FightAIDS@Home is the first biomedical distributed computing project ever launched. It is run by the Olson Laboratory at The Scripps Research Institute, and uses your computer to assist fundamental research to discover new drugs, using their growing knowledge of the structural biology of AIDS by sending out individual calculations to thousands or hundreds of thousands of individual computers. The results of such computations should not only identify the best candidate drugs to keep the AIDS virus at bay, they will also give scientists greater insights more generally into the nature of drug resistance.

FightAIDS@Home, which has been run independently by the Olson Laboratory for the past two and a half years, joined World Community Grid on November 21, 2005. World Community Grid is a public computing grid with the mission of running projects that will benefit humanity.

World Community Grid is making technology available only to public and not-for-profit organizations to use in humanitarian research that might otherwise not be completed due to the high cost of the computer infrastructure required in the absence of a public grid. IBM Corporation has donated the hardware, software, technical services and expertise to build the infrastructure for World Community Grid and provides free hosting, maintenance and support.

Yeah it's a common thing (i used to do one that was towards cancer)
this one you're talking about is genuine
http://fightaidsathome.scripps.edu/
For more info on the subject here is the wikipedia link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Community_Grid
hope this helps

Yeah it's a common thing (i used to do one that was towards cancer)
this one you're talking about is genuine
http://fightaidsathome.scripps.edu/
For more info on the subject here is the wikipedia link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Community_Grid
hope this helps