Donate Your Idle Time to Save the World

May 23rd, 2008 | By Wise Snob | Category: Sustainable Living

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Donate Your Idle Time Admit it. There are times when you just let your computer just sit there, idly passing time, until the owner returns to browse the web. Not only are you using up energy, but you are also not aware of what that extra time can do for the world.

Enter World Community Grid. It is the world’s largest public computing grid that helps solve problems for projects that help all of humanity. Teaming with IBM Corporation, they have developed a program you can download and install in less than five minutes that securely uses your computer’s idle time to compute problems and send the data back to the server.

World Community Grid allow public and not-for-profit organizations perform humanitarian research, such as discovering nutritious rice for the starving, cancer research, and curing muscular dystrophy. The research usually requires a computer infrastructure that is expensive, and few nonprofits are able to afford it. Through the World Community Grid, the organizations can utilize the public computing programs to do the research for them in less time and money.

Here is how it works. When your computer goes idle, it will request data on a specific project and perform the computations on the data given. The results are then sent back, and it will receive a new piece of work. Every computation your computer does will provide scientists and researchers critical information that helps accelerate the speed of research.

Help save the world and download the program now. It works for both Macs and PCs.

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