From Wikipedia (as @ 13 Sept 2009):
"World Community Grid (WCG) is an effort to create the world's largest public computing grid to tackle scientific research projects that benefit humanity.[3] Launched November 16, 2004, it is funded and operated by IBM with client software currently available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and FreeBSD operating systems.[4][5]
Using the idle time of computers around the world, World Community Grid's research projects have analyzed aspects of the human genome, HIV, dengue, muscular dystrophy, cancer, influenza, rice crop yields and clean energy. The organization has so far partnered with over 400 other companies and organizations to assist in the work and has over 475,000 registered user accounts."
I thought I could do something to help scientists in their research for cures and clean energy by letting the programe run on my computer. Especially when I was away for lunch or in the middle of lab work and my computer was left idle doing nothing. So I downloaded and installed it into my computer.
Initially, I was worried it might slow down the other programs that I am using, but it did not. You are also able to set the maximum % use of memory and harddisk space usage.
So, if members here are up for it, maybe we can create a "IFSQN" Team and start crunching for a better future.
You can find more info here:
http://www.worldcomm...index.jsp<br />
Thoughts, anyone?
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