Ok! P4A is coming up. Here's a link to the draft video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pnk-d2_gacWhat we need: Volunteers!
You endorsing WCG for 5-10 seconds if you use it.
Someone or multiple people to read the script.
And here's the script for it:
(don't read what is in parenthesis. If possible try to read it while watching the video to get things timed right. This isn't critical though, because the video or audio can always be edited.)
If anyone has any criticisms, please don't be shy!
World Community Grid
Down With Worldsuck
Project for Awesome 2010
No matter who you are, one form of worldsuck that we can all unite against is disease.
(animation showing protein models)
The key to defeating disease is research. Specifically in discovering new treatments and vaccines.
Biological systems are extremely complex, and it takes researchers a long time just to make any progress in calculating models and simulations.
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With an application called World Community Grid, we can all donate our unused computing power toward researching cures and solutions.
World Community Grid is a program that you can install on your computer to help process research data.
It works like this:
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The problem is first broken up into pieces.
Then the pieces are sent to everyone in the program over the internet.
Each computer computes the answer to it's piece of the problem.
Finally, each computer sends its part of the answer back over the internet.
The parts are then combined to create a solution to the problem.
All these average computers create a supercomputer when used together. And if enough people are participating, a problem that takes years to solve on one computer can be solved in days or less.
With World Community Grid, you can use your computer to contribute to these causes:
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Fight Muscular Dystrophy
Fight AIDS
Conquer Cancer
Fight Childhood Cancer
and more, such as:
Computing for Clean Water
and Clean Energy.
We've started a team called “Down with Worldsuck” for people to join so we can see how much good we're actually doing.
This is a free and easy way to help fight disease directly. The program can be set to run in the background, only function as a screen saver, or both. Advanced users can customize hard drive space and processor/memory usage as well. If you're watching this video, you can download the program today. Click the link in the doobly-do to get started. This will automatically put you on the team when you sign up.
(video of a few user endorsements of it)