GRID 4 humanity

February 3, 2008

While doing a project for school I had to investigate GRID systems. Going over all the technical details I browsed in to find out what GRID systems exist out there. I was expecting to find big companies doing data mining, lots of professional corporate GRID’s with the purpose of making money. Instead I found out GRID’s that are specialized in helping humanity.

That concept of helping humanity seems to have been forgotten by the web community. The GRID system I found (I liked this one the best: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org ) has made a purpose from it. It’s pretty simple. You share your PC’s computing power to a noble cause (curing AIDS, curing Cancer, discovering new technologies etc.)

Enjoy it!

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