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Silas Notes

Benefit Humanity Without Really Doing Anything

Posted by David on December 22, 2006
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You can take a part in the fight against muscular distrophy, cancer, and AIDS with the help of the World Community Grid. Well, more accurately, your computer can take part in the fight. World Community Grid allows you to volunteer your computer’s down time, when it’s just sitting there idle, to compute data for the cause of your choice. Each computation that your computer performs provides scientists with critical information that accelerates the pace of research.

It’s really very simple. You just download the software, choose a project, and then do nothing! The available projects are: Help Defeat Cancer, FightAIDS@Home, Human Proteome Folding - Phase 2, Genome Comparison, Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy.

  1. Dave,

    This is really interesting. Once I registered there was a great amount of information available to me in the area that I registered for (AIDS). Thanks for posting this!

    Fedor

    Posted by Fedor Dec 28

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