http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=1S1LDTRDX1
Team Page & Statistics
Ever wanted to do something good for the world, but would rather sit on your computer chair all day than go out and volunteer or donate money to charities (who end up taking large percentages anyways)? Well, now you can: With the BOINC Manager and the World Community Grid, you can download and install the program, and (at a low priority) it will utilize unused CPU cycles to perform processing and calculations that assist scientists in doing their work to cure diseases such as muscular dystrophy, cancer, and AIDS.
Large distributed network grids such as these are more effective and less costly than using large super computers, by spreading out the processing to be done among thousands, or millions, of computers.
I've been using it so far, and it's pretty good. Since it runs at a low priority, it doesn't hamper any of my activities (though if I needed to, I could suspend processing, or change max CPU usage while the computer is in use or idle).
More info here and in the menus: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/viewAboutUs.do
Wiki article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Community_Grid
The World Community Grid keeps track of how much processing you've done, and allows for "teams". As such, I've created a team for SMWC, and you can join and register here:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/reg/viewRegister.do?teamID=1S1LDTRDX1
Note that registration requires e-mail.
Team Page & Statistics
Ever wanted to do something good for the world, but would rather sit on your computer chair all day than go out and volunteer or donate money to charities (who end up taking large percentages anyways)? Well, now you can: With the BOINC Manager and the World Community Grid, you can download and install the program, and (at a low priority) it will utilize unused CPU cycles to perform processing and calculations that assist scientists in doing their work to cure diseases such as muscular dystrophy, cancer, and AIDS.
Large distributed network grids such as these are more effective and less costly than using large super computers, by spreading out the processing to be done among thousands, or millions, of computers.
I've been using it so far, and it's pretty good. Since it runs at a low priority, it doesn't hamper any of my activities (though if I needed to, I could suspend processing, or change max CPU usage while the computer is in use or idle).
More info here and in the menus: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/viewAboutUs.do
Wiki article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Community_Grid
The World Community Grid keeps track of how much processing you've done, and allows for "teams". As such, I've created a team for SMWC, and you can join and register here:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/reg/viewRegister.do?teamID=1S1LDTRDX1
Note that registration requires e-mail.
| Date (23:59:59 UTC) | Total Run Time (y:d:h:m:s) | Milestone | Rank |
| 7/9/10 | 0:010:02:38:07 | 10 days | (#20,089) |
| 7/23/10 | 0:025:15:21:55 | 25 days | (#18,275) |
| 8/1/10 | 0:052:01:04:46 | 50 days | (#16,450) |
| 8/10/10 | 0:075:21:13:42 | 75 days | (#15,369) |
| 8/23/10 | 0:100:19:43:44 | 100 days | (#14,420) |
| 9/10/10 | 0:150:09:23:34 | 150 days | (#13,012) |
| 10/4/10 | 0:200:06:37:29 | 200 days | (#11,965) |
| 10/28/10 | 0:252:07:54:20 | 250 days | (#11,170) |
| 11/22/10 | 0:304:13:00:01 | 300 days | (#10,511) |
| 12/20/10 | 1:003:11:19:05 | 1 year | (#9,861) |
| 5/28/11 | 2:000:03:41:14 | 2 years | (#7,589) |
| 11/8/11 | 3:002:04:05:04 | 3 years | (#6,400) |
| 8/15/12 | 4:000:01:27:39 | 4 years | (#5,965) |
| 3/12/13 | 5:061:14:50:51 | 5 years | (#5,448) |
| 4/15/13 | 6:003:03:40:49 | 6 years | (#4,985) |
| 5/21/13 | 7:016:00:59:42 | 7 years | (#4,566) |
