Austin American-Statesman, May 29, 2008 The World Community Grid, which harnesses the power of idle desktop computers to solve a variety of problems, was developed four years ago by IBM Corp. Now, the grid has more than 1 million registered computers worldwide, and it supports a half-dozen promising research efforts that could make the world a better place by, for example, finding treatments for diseases. The article quotes Stanley Watowich of UTMB, who leads a team that is examining about 1 million drugs to see which have promise for being effective against dengue fever, a mosquito-borne tropical disease that kills more than 25,000 people a year.