World Community Grid

The World Community Grid is an IBM sponsored public computing grid that assists in humanitarian research to help in such areas as:

• Muscular Dystrophy
• Cancer
• AIDS
• Fiocruz Genome Comparison
• Human Proteome Folding

The World Community Grid was created to utilise unused personal computer time around the world. This was necessary to help speed up scientific research as the cost of computing infrastructure is significantly high.

You can help!
You can help by "donating" your unused computer time to assist with this scientific research, and it's easy! Basic Steps:

1. Register
2. Download the free software
3. Install

How it works
When idle, your computer will request data on a specific project from World Community Grid's server. It will then perform computations on this data, send the results back to the server, and ask the server for a new piece of work. Each computation that your computer performs provides scientists with critical information that accelerates the pace of research! For more details, please visit http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/