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I am helping to find a cure. How about you?
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| Bill Velek 2006-03-29, 4:52 pm |
| In a program designed by IBM, I am donating the spare, unused power of
my HOME computer for medical research -- power that would just be WASTED
if it wasn't donated. Even while I write this message, my computer is
helping find a cure for all sorts of diseases such as Alzheimer's, AIDS,
cancer, diabetes, lyme disease, malaria, multiple sclerosis, muscular
dystrophy, Parkinson's Disease, SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome)
and many others. It just takes a few minutes of time to sign up. It's
very safe and reliable, and it won't slow down your computer, either.
The life that YOUR computer can help save ... just might be the life of
someone you love! Please join us so we can all help one another make
this a healthier world. After you see how wonderful this works, please
pass this message on to your friends, too. For more info, please visit
http://home.alltel.net/billvelek/wo...unity-page.html -- my
personal webpage summarizing grid computing in general and promoting the
World Community Grid in particular.
Thanks.
Bill Velek
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| Dennis R 2006-03-29, 11:52 pm |
| Bill Velek wrote:
> In a program designed by IBM, I am donating the spare, unused power of
> my HOME computer for medical research -- power that would just be WASTED
> if it wasn't donated. Even while I write this message, my computer is
> helping find a cure for all sorts of diseases such as Alzheimer's, AIDS,
> cancer, diabetes, lyme disease, malaria, multiple sclerosis, muscular
> dystrophy, Parkinson's Disease, SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome)
> and many others. It just takes a few minutes of time to sign up. It's
> very safe and reliable, and it won't slow down your computer, either.
>
> The life that YOUR computer can help save ... just might be the life of
> someone you love! Please join us so we can all help one another make
> this a healthier world. After you see how wonderful this works, please
> pass this message on to your friends, too. For more info, please visit
> http://home.alltel.net/billvelek/wo...unity-page.html -- my
> personal webpage summarizing grid computing in general and promoting the
> World Community Grid in particular.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Bill Velek
World Community Grid is supported by BOINC, a platform designed at the
University of California at Berkeley for these types of projects. One of
the earliest ones was one of the more popularized one in magazines and
even movies: SETI@home, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence in
observed radio signals.
There are literally dozens of projects for scientific or medical
research to choose from. If you have your computer on a lot of the time,
you can pick a project and platform. For example, the BOINC platform
allows you to work on more than one project, and to designate the amount
of computer power and even the time of day to work on projects.
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/
Dennis (type 2)
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