Make A Dif­fer­ence - By Do­nat­ing Idle Com­puter Time

How would you like be­ing able to make a dif­fer­ence - with a one-time in­vest­ment of 10 minutes?

No money asked, ever! Just 10 min­utes of your time, once.

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.
• Or find­ing new ma­te­ri­als for the next gen­er­a­tion of so­lar cells.
• Or de­vel­op­ing low-cost wa­ter fil­ters for 1.2 bil­lion peo­ple lack­ing ac­cess to safe drink­ing wa­ter.

In fact, your com­puter can do the cal­cu­la­tions while you’re ac­tu­ally us­ing it for some­thing else. Sim­ple tasks like brows­ing the in­ter­net, or writ­ing emails, leave 80% of your computer’s pro­cess­ing power un­used. You can do­nate your un­used com­puter power to speed up sci­en­tific research.

How does it work?

This is not some ”pie in the sky’ project. It’s called World Com­mu­nity Grid , and is spon­sored by and runs on servers of IBM. WCG sup­ports projects by rep­utable sci­en­tists in the area of health or en­vi­ron­men­tal sus­tain­abil­ity.

1. You sign up to the World Com­mu­nity Grid (WCG). The WCG is the world’s largest com­puter net­work to tackle sci­ence projects that ben­e­fit humanity.
2. Af­ter sign­ing up you down­load se­cure, free soft­ware from their web site.
3. You in­stall it on your PC.
4. You start the soft­ware and en­ter your lo­gin info from the World Com­mu­nity Grid.

From that mo­ment on, your com­puter will use idle time to process sci­en­tific re­search. With­out you hav­ing to do any­thing else.

The video shows how to sign up

Make a dif­fer­ence now, sign up here.

Make a dif­fer­ence now, sign up to World Com­mu­nity Grid.