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February 14, 2006

World Community Grid

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Computers Rise Up

"AUSTIN — People donating their spare computing power to the World Community Grid are helping to find solutions to some of the world's most vexing problems, such as discovering new drugs to combat AIDS. More than a quarter of a million PCs worldwide have joined the nonprofit network, letting researchers crunch data faster and more cheaply. "The World Community Grid takes research projects that were unimaginable by researchers before and makes them possible," said Viktors Berstis, 57, a master inventor at IBM who has led development of the philanthropic project, which his company sponsors.

The grid encourages people, businesses and other organizations around the world with PCs to download software enabling them to donate computer downtime to researchers to solve problems that require supercomputing power. Organizations partnering with the World Community Grid in donating their idle computing time include Coastal Federal Credit Union, based in Raleigh, N.C., the United Way, the Semiconductor Industry Association and the University of Kentucky..." From Computer downtime rising up to work on world's problems by L.A. Lorek.

Posted by jo at February 14, 2006 07:42 AM

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