World Community Grid

Oh I forgot about this.

World Community Grid's mission is to create the world's largest public computing grid to tackle projects that benefit humanity.Our work has developed the technical infrastructure that serves as the grid's foundation for scientific research. Our success depends upon individuals collectively contributing their unused computer time to change the world for the better.World Community Grid is making technology available only to public and not-for-profit organizations to use in humanitarian research that might otherwise not be completed due to the high cost of the computer infrastructure required in the absence of a public grid. As part of our commitment to advancing human welfare, all results will be in the public domain and made public to the global research community.


I joined up for this several years ago but stopped it for awhile (since Sept) when I was having problems with my home computer. So I just got a reminder email today telling me that my computer had logged up to 265 days of run time and 738 results and I should get it going again! Absolutely.

Anyway I used to work for Accelrys and learned a lot about how molecular modeling "accelerates" drug discovery research. Distributed computing was still in its infancy back in 2000. Anyway I used to visit Scripps when I lived in SD and know of the work that is going on in Art Olson's - - no relation -- lab (among many others). So its just one more thing that ANYONE can do with a resource they don't even know they have available that anyone else might need - free computing time for a worthy cause.