Help use your ThinkPad to solve for disease cures! Join the ThinkPad team!

If you are unaware a program known as "World Community Grid" is using the power of cloud computing to help search for the cure for various diseases. You can donate your computer's CPU power to help the scientific community and humanity.

To help simply download the World Community Grid application which runs in the background. It uses idle CPU cycles, so the application does not slow down your PC. In addition the program only runs when the machine is plugged in, so you won't be killing your battery life.

If you have any interest (hopefully you do!) you can visit this site below:

Create an account and download the application

Help fight against childhood cancer and AIDS. Help research for clean energy and a way to produce clearner water.

Once joined make sure you join the ThinkPad team!

Join The ThinkPad Team

If you have any questions let me know. Please consider and join this project.

 

pretty similar to folding@home. I guess a useful thing to contribute if you are not doing much with the computer while downloading torrents, etc or contributing to SETI or Folding@home. Many of these stuffs are just structural biology and figuring out how protein folds or interacts with other proteins or running climate change models.

 

Very similar. In fact World Community Grid allows your computer to work on a few differant projects at once (vs just installing the folding@home application). To see the projects World Community Grid is currently working on visit the website and click the "Research" tab.

 

yes that is charm of this system, since participants can provide computing power to many different scientific causes that may attract a different range of demographics and psychographic group. As not everyone understands the significance of the Folding@home project nor are everyone interested in them.

This is like computing power charity, with a range of subjects or causes to target range of interest groups.