Few days ago, i had read a news article from sin chew jit poh, cyberworld section (Date: 11June08). It is about a joint efforts between IBM and several established research institutes--World Community Grid
i find that by joining this project, we can help to change the world. Even though, we are not scientists who are doing research in these projects, but we can contribute by make use of the computer we have and the availability of internet access.
Basically, by joining this project, we donate idle time on computer to nonprofit research projects. Today, hundreds of thousand of volunteers around the globe are donating processing time when their computers are on but not in use. World
Community Grid is using this computing power to conduct research on promising humanitarian projects, reducing research time from years to months. As more and more individuals donate the unused capacity of their computers, World Community Grid will be able to complete more critical research.
the ongoing projects are:
Nutritious Rice for the World
Help Conquer Cancer
AfricanClimate@Home
Discovering Dengue Drugs – Together
Human Proteome Folding - Phase 2 Project
FightAIDS@Home Project
You can be part of this exciting work!
For more info, please visit the following url:-
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org
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