Welcome to PoppaGeek's 

On November 16, 2004 I joined the World Community Grid, a distributed computing  project sponsored and hosted by I.B.M. The goal, to find cures for diseases like Cancer, AIDS, Dengue Fever, MS and to improve rice crop yields. Since then I have also joined the GPUGrid and Stanford University's F@H projects.

This web site will hopefully help people interested in distributed computing or who want to help researchers make this a better world, learn how to get involved, get setup and see how they are doing. 

How IBM's World Community Grid Is Helping Cure AIDs, Cancer, and World Hunger

By: Chuck SalterMay 1, 2010 FastCompany.com

IBM's virtual supercomputer is tapping the unused processors of half a million people to speed up critical scientific research. 

 Moran is a new breed of innovator: a citizen researcher on IBM's World Community Grid (WCG), an unprecedented effort to deploy ordinary people's idle computers to create a free, open-source lab for researchers around the globe. Massive computational research is broken down into discrete problems and distributed across a vast network. Since the tech giant launched the nearly $2-million-a-year project in November 2004, more than half a million people in 218 countries have volunteered some 1.5 million laptops and desktops. In raw computing power, the grid is comparable to a top-10 supercomputer. The average PC would take more than 328,000 years to complete the grid's calculations so far.

Latest News:

NEW PROJECT at WCG:

Computing for Clean Water

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New I.B.M. World Community Grid Video

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Two Compounds Discovered that Pave the Way for New Class of AIDS Drug

IBM World Community Grid’s Computing Strength Powers Breakthrough Research that will Guide their Development

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