May 02, 2005
Recently, World Community
Grid enlisted its 100,000th computer and its first university partner,
Marist College, in the humanitarian effort to find answers to the
world's most daunting scientific problems through unparalleled
computational research provided by IBM.
World Community Grid (www.worldcommunitygrid.org/) is harnessing the unused computer power of the world's computers and directing it to humanitarian efforts. In less than
five months, more than 64,000 individuals have signed up their personal and business computers and have donated more than
8,250 years of run time.
The Human Proteome Folding Project, World Community Grid's first
project, is identifying the proteins that make up the Human Proteome so
that scientists can better identify causes and potential cures for
diseases like malaria and tuberculosis. In this project, World
Community Grid has completed more than 6 million work units in five
months, which might have taken a large supercomputer five years to
accomplish.
"World Community Grid has tremendous appeal and in a few months
already has enabled individuals concerned about important causes like
fighting cancer to get involved in the solution," said Stanley Litow,
vice president of IBM corporate community relations, and president of
the IBM International Foundation. "We are very excited to welcome
Marist College as World Community Grid's first university partner. We
applaud Marist's leadership as the first of many universities we expect
to join this effort."
Marist College, a liberal arts college located in
Poughkeepsie, N.Y., is noted for its leadership in the use of
technology to enhance the teaching and learning process. By joining
World Community Grid, Marist has the potential to contribute more than
7,000 PCs and laptops to this humanitarian effort.
"Joining World Community Grid was a natural for us," said Marist
College president Dennis J. Murray. "With our emphasis on technology
and our commitment to serving others, we saw this opportunity as a
great way to get our students directly involved in a very innovative
project first hand. By joining World Community Grid, they are learning
about the power of Grid computing while at the same time giving back to
society, which is in keeping with the Marist mission."
Grid computing is a rapidly emerging technology that can bring
together the collective power of thousands or millions of individual
computers to create a giant "virtual" system with massive computational
strength. With more than 650 million PCs in use around the world, World
Community Grid is working to create the world's largest Grid solely for
humanitarian purposes -- in essence a virtual supercomputer for good
works.
World Community Grid has the capacity to run five to six projects a year for public and not-for-profit organizations. Research
results will be made available to the world research community. Projects in the following disciplines will be considered:
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