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The World Community Grid is an IBM sponsored public computing grid that
assists in humanitarian research to help in such areas as:
- Muscular Dystrophy
- Cancer
- AIDS
- Fiocruz Genome Comparison
- Human Proteome Folding
The World Community Grid was created to utilise unused personal computer
time around the world. This was necessary to help speed up scientific
research as the cost of computing infrastructure is significantly high.
You can help!
You can help by "donating" your unused computer time to assist with this
scientific research, and it's easy!
Basic Steps:
- Register
- Download the free software
- Install
How it works
When idle, your computer will request data on a specific project from World
Community Grid's server. It will then perform computations on this data,
send the results back to the server, and ask the server for a new piece of
work. Each computation that your computer performs provides scientists with
critical information that accelerates the pace of research! (Exert from http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/viewAboutUs.do )
More details
For more details, please visit the World Community Grid web site.
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