New York Habitat Blog

Since May, 2001, New York Habitat has donated “computer time” to a collaborative grid computer cancer research project involving Oxford University, The National Foundation for Cancer Research, and United Devices.

Our specialty in renting apartments online requires a lot of computers and servers. As we grew and expended our activities to France (Paris and the South of France), then to London, we realized that all these computers and notebooks would be a great asset for this worthy philanthropic project.

Initially, our company contributed cpu time of two office computers.  We now share use of all our office computers and generate more than 283 processor-hours per day. Our contribution places us in 180th position among 1.3 million members in this project.

In just 5 years, 534,500 hours of total cpu (processor) time has been donated to cancer research–equivalent to 1 computer running 24/7 for over 61years!

An automated investigative process called “LigandFit” examines the binding characteristics of ligands to protein molecules. ( a ligand is a small molecule that binds to a particular larger molecule. ) This is useful to identify potential cancer drug therapies.

In the next couple of months, as soon as new computers becomes available, we will also contribute to a new project for research against AIDS.

If you would like to participate in this project using your computer at home or at work, we invite you to join New York Habitat’s Team.

You can obtain more information and download the software to join cancer research here http://www.grid.org/download and then ask to join our team (New York Habitat).

Or you can directly join our team here http://www.grid.org/services/teams/team.htm?id=50A4AE79-EFB6-41DC-B70F-996E04FC7C58)

cancer research

A great way to share information with our customers and owners on various topics using “a casual style.”

For several months we have been thinking about a place or page on our website to post topics about almost everything related to apartment rental. With our new blog, we will include your input, as well as what’s new at New York Habitat and on our website. We’ll also look at events in New York, Paris, London and the South of France, neighborhoods, and even technology. Most importantly, your feedback will guide the content of our blog.

We hope that the simple design of this blog will help you navigate with ease. You can find some links on the right side of this page that lead directly to sections of our website (like the apartments search page), links to RSS feeds, and “categories” — Each post will be attached to a category for better referencing and easy retrieval.

Hope you find this blog informative. As usual we welcome your comments and suggestions (send an email to: blog@nyhabitat.com).

Happy reading!

The New York Habitat Blog Team