gilchristfan
November 18th, 2004, 3:55:22 PM
Good Project. The idea worked incredibly well for Seti @ home (Seti@ home)
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,118631,00.asp
Donate Your PC's Spare Time to Help the World
Grid computing project seeks to harness unused PC power.
Todd R. Weiss, Computerworld
Wednesday, November 17, 2004
IBM and officials from some of the world's leading science, education, and philanthropic organizations Tuesday launched a global grid computing project aimed at harnessing unused global computing power to help solve a variety of health issues and other scientific problems.
In an announcement, IBM said the World Community Grid (http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/) project calls on home and corporate PC users to install a 1.5MB software program that allows their unused computer cycles to work on critical scientific research. The software is available from the project's Web site and works on computers running Windows 98, ME, 2000, and XP.
The new grid will be used for medical research to help unlock genetic codes that could help find cures for AIDS/HIV, Alzheimer's disease, and cancer, according to the group. It will also be used to conduct research to improve the forecasting of natural disasters and find new ways to protect the world's food and water supplies.
The idea is not new. It's been used in the past for other cancer research (http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,46143,00.asp) and is similar to the SETI@home project (http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,5198,00.asp)--or the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, which lets participants download a program that allows their PCs to look for radio signals in outer space in a quest to find intelligent life in other parts of the galaxy.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,118631,00.asp
Donate Your PC's Spare Time to Help the World
Grid computing project seeks to harness unused PC power.
Todd R. Weiss, Computerworld
Wednesday, November 17, 2004
IBM and officials from some of the world's leading science, education, and philanthropic organizations Tuesday launched a global grid computing project aimed at harnessing unused global computing power to help solve a variety of health issues and other scientific problems.
In an announcement, IBM said the World Community Grid (http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/) project calls on home and corporate PC users to install a 1.5MB software program that allows their unused computer cycles to work on critical scientific research. The software is available from the project's Web site and works on computers running Windows 98, ME, 2000, and XP.
The new grid will be used for medical research to help unlock genetic codes that could help find cures for AIDS/HIV, Alzheimer's disease, and cancer, according to the group. It will also be used to conduct research to improve the forecasting of natural disasters and find new ways to protect the world's food and water supplies.
The idea is not new. It's been used in the past for other cancer research (http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,46143,00.asp) and is similar to the SETI@home project (http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,5198,00.asp)--or the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, which lets participants download a program that allows their PCs to look for radio signals in outer space in a quest to find intelligent life in other parts of the galaxy.