"Scientists believe that the grid of client computers around the world will
complete the Help Conquer Cancer project image analysis that would otherwise
take up to 162 years in roughly two years."
- TGdaily.com
Your friend Nambale would like you to read this important message:
For those with free CPU time that may want to contribute.
I know you care and you can help the planet by doing almost nothing. It's free
and easy. Our planet's getting smaller, flatter and smarter every day, and it's
no wonder with initiatives like World Community Grid. Please <a
href="http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/reg/viewRegister.do";>join me and over
400,000 people who support World Community Grid. It's a ground breaking
initiative that helps accelerate research into vital humanitarian projects.
Here are some ways World Community Grid has made a difference:
World Community Grid provided the 'Help Defeat Cancer' project with more than
2,900 years of computational power. This has enabled researchers to diagnose
and analyse tumours with much greater accuracy.
In June 2008, the africanclim...@home project used World Community Grid to
improve the models used to alleviate the adverse effects of climate change.
Researchers for the fighta...@home project have completed 5 years of research
in just 6 months. They worked with chemists to design advanced inhibitors to
treat the devastating disease.
World Community Grid is essentially a huge network of many individual computers
all around the globe. By working together, these computers provide massive
computational power that is equivalent to being in the world's 10 largest
supercomputers.
When I joined, all I had to do was download a simple and secure program. The
program can detect when my computer has unused computer cycles and during these
times, my computer requests work from World Community Grid's server, performs
computations on this data and sends the results back. I don't have to do
anything at all and it's completely safe! Also, the progams settings may easily
be changed to suit your need.
Because the work is split into small pieces that are processed simultaneously,
research time is cut from years to months, or even days. It is also very
cost-effective, enabling better use of critical funds.
"World Community Grid made it possible for us to analyze in one day the number
of specimens that would take approximately 130 years to complete using a
traditional computer."
- Dr. David J. Foran, professor and lead researcher at The Cancer Institute of
New Jersey, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
I'm proud to support World Community Grid. To find out how you too can make a
difference, go to the website at www.worldcommunitygrid.org and register today.
* You can easily change the settings of the program to suit your needs.
Thank you and see you on World Community Grid!,
Nambale
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