Africa@home

Introduction
The goal of Africa@home is to use volunteer distributed computing to provide supercomputing resources to African universities and institutions. The first such project is MalariaControl.net, a project to determine optimal strategies for controlling the spread of Malaria.

Computer models of the transmission dynamics and health effects of the disease can be used to improve planning for delivery of mosquito netting, medicines, and other resources. But such models would literally take forty years to run on the computers available to the scientists who developed them; with the help of volunteers like yourself we hope get the first results in a few months.

Contents

1 Videos 2 Science 3 Results 4 Links of Interest 5 Africa@home In the Classroom

Videos

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Science

[The Science section might (or might not) be divided into two parts: {1} general discussion of the field, and then {2} a discussion of the project's specific endeavor. For instance, in LHC@home, we might have {1} "Science of the Large Hardon Collider" and then {2} "Science of LHC@home"

The above is desirable, because in most cases, the field of research is really fascinating, and presenting this in broad terms-- outlining the big questions-- can make it easier to understand the particulars of the project and why it is important.]

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Results

1. Penny MA, Maire N, Studer A, Schapira A, Smith TA . What Should Vaccine Developers Ask? Simulation of the Effectiveness of Malaria Vaccines. PLoS ONE 3(9): e3193. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003193 (2008)
2. Ross A, Penny M, Maire N, Studer A, Carneiro I, Schellenberg D, Greenwood B, Tanner M, Smith T. 2008. Modelling the Epidemiological Impact of Intermittent Preventive Treatment against Malaria in Infants. PLoS ONE 3(7): e2661 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002661. (2008)

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Links of Interest

[Why recreate the wheel; there are lots of great sources out there.; a good list of sources can be really useful to the reader.]

• Africa@home Homepage

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Africa@home In the Classroom

[For each project, please add a "[Projectname] in the Classroom" section-- with a link to Volunteer Computing In the Classroom and an article named "[Projectname] in the Classroom". (Then please add "[Projectname] in the Classroom" to the list on the main Education page.)]