Promote Volunteer Computing
- Mission:
- To encourage active participation in volunteer computing projects.
- Founder:
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Brian C.
, Denver, CO
- Description:
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Volunteer computing is a type of distributed computing in which computer owners donate their computing resources (such as processing power and storage) to one or more projects.
Through volunteer computing, individuals, businesses, and organizations can donate the time computers are turned on, but idle, to projects that benefit humanity.
A few examples of the many volunteer computing projects include the Folding @ Home, Rosetta @ Home, and the World Community Grid. The WCG alone has registered over 300,000 users and accumulated over 110,000 years of donated computing time since November, 2004. - Impact:
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8 Members
$20 Raised
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Nutritious Rice for the World
via www.t4tcolorado.org
posted by
Kelda C.
May 14
On May 12, volunteers on the World Community Grid started crunching the numbers on a new project. Nutritious Rice for the World is an ambitious and long-term project to help farmers breed better rice st...
Researchers Launch Online Protein Folding Game
via www.hhmi.org
posted by
Brian C.
May 13
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers at the University of Washington are bringing the arcane world of protein folding to the online gaming arena with the launch of “Foldit,” a free game in which players around the world compete to design proteins...
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