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uses your computer while you are not using it in a process known as "distributed computing" joining our computers in a massive network, issuing small bits to solve - sidestepping the use of expensive and scarce supercomputers. If we haven't been able to rid ourselves of it, let's Grid it!
World Community Grid runs on software called
BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing, developed at University of California, Berkeley, USA with funding from NSF (National Science Foundation).
The FlyerTalk team has twenty-four members currently (founded in 2007,
Kremmen is our Team Captain,) and is in need of members to donate their "dead" computer time. (My quad processor computer works on four different problems simultaneously while I am away, but it all politely goes to sleep while I am calling on my computer's power.)
Go to the World Community Grid and use the following link to register and automatically join the FlyerTalk team, and put your computer to work solving some of the most tenacious global problems. Don't forget to download the safe app, install it to fully join the Flyertalk team. Become part of the solution - donating your unused computer capacity and time!
From the World Community Grid:
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Can one person make a difference?
Why not donate your unused computer time to World Community Grid and the finding cure for one of the most neglected tropical diseases in the world that is infecting more than two million children and adults in 97 countries each year."
How Grid Computing Works
"Grid Computing: The Basics
Grid computing joins together many individual computers, creating a large system with massive computational power that far surpasses the power of a handful of supercomputers. Because the work is split into small pieces that can be processed simultaneously, research time is reduced from years to months. The technology is also more cost-effective, enabling better use of critical funds.
Changing Our World Now
Grid computing is not a futuristic technology. World Community Grid is at work right now applying this technology to exciting research projects that can benefit us all.
Our first project, Human Proteome Folding, is identifying the proteins produced by human genes. With this information, scientists can understand how defects in proteins can cause disease, making it easier to find cures.
In 2003, with grid computing, in less than three months scientists identified 44 potential treatments to fight the deadly smallpox disease. Without the grid, the work would have taken more than one year to complete."
In one year, we have nearly doubled our contributed runtime!
For a tiny team of 24, we have had amazing impact!^
Totals (29 Sep 2012 2359 hrs): - Current Members 24 (#1,201)
- Total Run Time (y:d:h:m:s) (Rank) 27:103:02:46:38 (#1,507)
- Points Generated (Rank) 16,823,707 (#1,782)
- Results Returned (Rank) 37,199 (#1,625)
- Current Members 9 (#2,904)
- Total Run Time 14:289:16:38:24 (y:d:h:m:s) (Rank #2,005)
N.B. I haven't been able to figure how we can gain miles or points from this, but... sometimes, other things actually do take priority! (I know, heresy from a FlyerTalker!)