World Community Grid uses grid technology to network computers and uses their idle time to help tackle vital projects on human health and welfare globally. It is the world’s largest public computing grid benefiting humanity.
Members download and install a small program onto their computers. Those computers, when idel, will request data from the server of World Community Grid, then do some computations on this data, and then send the computation results back to the server. They will ask the server for a new set of data to perform another cycle of work.
As of 3 October 2005, there are 92,928 members around the world that contributed 149,689 computing devices. That scale of contributions is equivalent to around 17,234 years of computation if performed by a single computing machine. There are 194 members from Hong Kong that contributes 381 devices. According to this press release:
World Community Grid Gains Momentum in Hong Kong (20 Sep 2005)
The University of Hong Kong is the first Asia-Pacific academic institution to join World Community Grid.
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[…] Scientific research projects that seek volunteered computing resources from participants include those that study climate change, search for gravitational signals emitted by pulsars, look for radio evidence of extraterrestrial life, and help researchers investigate and develop cures for human diseases. IBM’s World Community Grid launched a BOINC-based project in November 2005. (I mentioned World Community Grid in this post.) […]
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