Post by Sean S. on Mar 4, 2010 16:47:01 GMT -5
Copied from: southpoleofthemoon.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&p=24491#p24491
It's now 147 members and almost 8 years! (7y 334d 18h 31m 58s)
www.worldcommunitygrid.org/
About: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U1TAXSHwes
Many of you have probably heard of the SETI@HOME project where SETI records data, and sends it to several volunteers over the internet to have other computers analyze the data. While cool, I don't see how it'll do very much good for helping the world. Luckily there are many other projects and researchers using distributed computing.
The World Community Grid is one. It has projects you can contribute to like a cure for AIDS, Cancer, Muscular Dystophy and several others. They send you their questions, your computer calculates the answers, and then it sends the answers back to them.
All you have to do is:
• Go here (this link automatically puts you on the Down with Worldsuck! team when you register)
• Sign up.
• Download the program.
• Pick the projects you want.
• Let it run.
I've started a team so we can collectively track how many hours we've contributed and there's even a point system. I think we can change the name later if we decide to go with something else. It's really easy and I don't see why everyone couldn't do it. You can even edit the settings to control when it runs and how much of your processor it uses.
Here's an iframe widget that shows our total computing time donated:(too bad iframes don't work on here or I'd put it in my sig.)
It's now 147 members and almost 8 years! (7y 334d 18h 31m 58s)
www.worldcommunitygrid.org/
About: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U1TAXSHwes
Many of you have probably heard of the SETI@HOME project where SETI records data, and sends it to several volunteers over the internet to have other computers analyze the data. While cool, I don't see how it'll do very much good for helping the world. Luckily there are many other projects and researchers using distributed computing.
The World Community Grid is one. It has projects you can contribute to like a cure for AIDS, Cancer, Muscular Dystophy and several others. They send you their questions, your computer calculates the answers, and then it sends the answers back to them.
All you have to do is:
• Go here (this link automatically puts you on the Down with Worldsuck! team when you register)
• Sign up.
• Download the program.
• Pick the projects you want.
• Let it run.
I've started a team so we can collectively track how many hours we've contributed and there's even a point system. I think we can change the name later if we decide to go with something else. It's really easy and I don't see why everyone couldn't do it. You can even edit the settings to control when it runs and how much of your processor it uses.
Here's an iframe widget that shows our total computing time donated:(too bad iframes don't work on here or I'd put it in my sig.)
<iframe src="http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/getDynamicImage.do?teamId=523BW1NTW1&mnOn=true&stat=3&imageNum=1&rankOn=true&projectsOn=true&special=false" frameborder="0" name="di" scrolling="no" width="405px" height="190px"></iframe>