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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.
Distributed Computing Teams
XtremeSystems.org
Many people who participate in distributed computing projects join a team. The people at XS are known for Xtreme systems and numbers of points.
WCG - Go here.F@H - Team #36362
GPUGrid - Use XtremeSystems for team.
The home of GPU-Z and other great utilities it is also home to another great WCG Team. Helpful and friendly they have shown how a little dedication accomplishes a lot.
TechReaction.net
A newer smaller team, somewhere you can make a real impact.World News WCG Info, News, Wiki, Videos
World News has a WCG section with News, Wik, Info and pics.
"I Dedicate" WCG member made video
"In October 2008, we asked members to send in their personal video dedications. There were many great submissions, and while we couldn't include all of them (even though we wanted to), we hope that you will enjoy this mash-up that we've put together.
And tell everyone about the new video! We share the same passion about making the world a better place, so let's show more folks how simple it is to make a real difference!"Wikipedia Links
Statistic web sites.
Web sites that show your points, number of work units and rank for team and project wide.
http://www.codisha.com/
Theories of Everything - World Community Grid
A Conversation with Dr Mike Nelson- Director Internet Technology and Strategy at IBM, on the World Community Grid - IBM's global Internet grid project, applied to help solve major health, humanitarian and scientific problems across the world, including determining the form and function of human protein structures. Video
WCG - Social network links
F@H Official Blog
F@H on Youtube Pande Group Offical Channel
Dotsch_UX
A Ubuntu based Linux distro made specifically for running Boinc. Has setup for installing and running from a hard disk, USB stick or diskless client and boot server. Link.
Search Engines for medical research papers and publications
Google News Archive of Projects in the Press
Bit-Tech.net F@H articles
Ultimate Folding Farm guide
Distributed Computing Information In Chinese
Japanese WCG Wikipedia web site
Charts and stats on WCG Projects
This collection displays 20 global and research related charts with varying overviews of the volunteer contributions to WCG. Presented here in a light-on-bandwidth thumbnail list, click on the adjacent links to see the full size images ** .
More project specific performance charts can be found hereWCG PPD web based predictor.
A web based WCG PPD predictor for most Intel and AMD CPUS.
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