The article is quite light on details. The version from Microsoft Research is somewhat more informative: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/stori

The article is quite light on details. The version from Microsoft Research is somewhat more informative: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/stories/hiv_research_za.aspx http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/stories/hi... My take is that MR is contributing compute resources as much as they are contributing algos. It's too bad that neither article really describes the problem domain nor the solution space. If this were a genetic study of HIV resistance to ARVs (and it seems like it is but again, few details), one could at least imagine having to look for 3-way interaction terms across the HIV genome, a large search space. Would be interesting to know if this is the problem they are tackling, and if MR's major contribution is algorithms or compute.