World Community Grid
Teaming for Technology Colorado Joins 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?
To help make this vision a reality, Teaming for Technology Colorado (T4T) has partnered with World Community Grid, joining the IBM Corporation and a group of more than 365 companies, associations, foundations, nonprofits, government agencies and academic institutions. T4T is encouraging members of the community to contribute their idle PC time to assist humanitarian research by joining World Community Grid and becoming a member of the T4T team.
World Community Grid uses grid technology to establish a permanent, flexible infrastructure that provides researchers with a readily available pool of computational power that can be used to solve problems plaguing humanity. Grid technology joins together many individual computers, creating a large system with massive computational power that far exceeds the power of a few supercomputers. Importantly, World Community Grid is easy and safe to use.
To join, individuals should visit World Community Grid and simply download and install a free, small software program on their computers. Periodically, these computers request data from World Community Grid's server. Computers then spend their idle time performing computations using this data, send the results back to the server, and prompt it for a new piece of work.
"At first I was hesitant to install the World Community Grid on my computer. I thought it might slow it down, introduce viruses, or otherwise get in the way of my daily work," said Emily Bosland, Director of Teaming for Technology Colorado. "However, after having been a member of the World Community Grid for over four months now, I can confidently say that my computer runs just as well as it did before and without any work on my part, I've helped fight AIDS, examine climate change in Africa, and discover potentially lifesaving drugs."
Today, hundreds of thousands of volunteers around the globe are donating some of the time when their computers are on but not in use, and World Community Grid is harnessing this power to help advance promising humanitarian research projects. Results on critical health issues have already been achieved.
You can start making a difference today. Please visit World Community Grid and become a member today and then join our team.