World Community Grid

World Community Grid

Millions of personal computers sit idly on desks and in homes worldwide, waiting, running screen savers. What if each of the world's billion PCs could be linked to focus on humanity's most pressing issues?

Crunching the Numbers on Clean Drinking Water

The World Community Grid has a new project for you all. Time to get working on cutting-edge research on fluid dynamics over carbon nanotubes! Why? Because much of the world's population is still struggling for access to drinking water that won't poison them.

It's a big problem, and one that a lot of groups are working on in their own ways.

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