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.

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)

 

Seems like a good idea. I'm not an outspoken human rights activist, however I would honestly like to see an end of these diseases that plague our world. Cancer being one of them.

*Signs up, and joins team.*

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Hate to seem negative, but I installed the BOINC download manager on our family computer about a year ago, and it fried it. I can't bring myself to trust it on my own computer.

Yay! Science!

What the hell, I'll sign up.

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Other Submissions of mine:
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I'm a little skeptical--not about the motive, but about the product. I might try it on this computer, though, since it's old and is only used for essays and gaming.

I might try this.

It won't work I get an error. I really wanna sign up!

EDIT: NVM I got it.

EDIT2: Im running it on a laptop so it doesn't get much time out of it. Until I can use my home computer I'm dropping out.

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Not that, it was a brand new PC with significant processor. It just broke down and had to be replaced entirely.

But eh, it's just my distrust, it shouldn't stop everyone else.

Most fast PCs have loud fans and their CPUs get hot: I wouldn't recommend running it on them.

My PC is loud, and my other PCs are either too old to run this or too slow.

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