Katie Cordrey
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World Community Grid, a volunteer computing grid benefiting humanity, allows people from around the world to donate their idle computer time. The non-profit provides software that allows a participant to donate the power of a powered-up, idle computer to projects that benefit humanity. Because the participants volunteer the use of their computers, funds can be used for other purposes. The powerful grid of individual computers very literally depends upon a world community whose donated computer time helps researchers reduce the time to solve problems from years to months.  The next time you step away from your desk for a quick latte at your local coffee bar, your computer can get to work… doing calculations for AIDS research. Or genome comparisons for drug development. Or sample analyses for better cancer treatments. In fact, your computer can do the calculations while you’re actually using it for something else.
It’s possible when you volunteer your PC or laptop’s unused time to World Community Grid, created by IBM.
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