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Junior Achievement of Dallas Joins
World Community Grid
Change the World . . .
with Your Computer
Junior Achievement of Dallas Joins
World Community Grid
Millions of personal
computers sit idly on desks and in homes worldwide. During this idle
time, the mysteries of science and space continue to elude us. What
if each of the world’s estimated 650 million PCs could be linked to
focus on humanity’s most pressing issues?
Junior Achievement of Dallas Joins
World Community Grid
To make this vision
a reality, Junior Achievement of Dallas has become a partner of
World Community Grid, joining the IBM Corporation and a group of
more than 160 companies, associations, foundations and academic
institutions. Junior Achievement of Dallas is encouraging its
members and supporters to contribute their idle PC time to assist
humanitarian research by joining World Community Grid at
www.worldcommunitygrid.org.
Junior Achievement of Dallas Joins
World Community Grid
World Community Grid
uses grid technology to establish a permanent, flexible
infrastructure that provides researchers with a readily available
pool of computational power that can be used to solve problems
plaguing humanity. Grid technology joins together many individual
computers, creating a large system with massive computational power
that far exceeds the power of a few supercomputers. Importantly,
World Community Grid is easy and safe to use.
Junior Achievement of Dallas Joins
World Community Grid
To join, anyone can
visit
www.worldcommunitygrid.org and simply download and
install a free, small software program that resides on the computer.
When idle, the computers request data from World Community Grid’s
server. Computers then perform computations using this data, send
the results back to the server and prompt it for a new piece of
work.
Junior Achievement of Dallas Joins
World Community Grid
“World Community
Grid provides our busy partners with an efficient and effective way
to make a difference on problems that plague humanity,” said Linda
Schoelkopf, President, Junior Achievement of Dallas, Inc. “We are
hoping our consultants and teachers will join the World Community
Grid as part of our overall efforts to enrich the lives of our
communities.”
Junior Achievement of Dallas Joins
World Community Grid
In its first year,
World Community Grid ran the Human Proteome Folding Project, which
provided scientists with data on how individual proteins within the
human body affect human health, enabling them to develop new cures
for diseases like lyme disease, malaria and tuberculosis. Scientists
now have descriptions of 120,000 protein domains that are critical
to human well-being; without the benefit of this free grid
technology, it would have taken 5 years to get these results,
compared with just 12 months on World Community Grid.
Junior Achievement of Dallas Joins
World Community Grid
Possible future
projects will address global humanitarian issues, such as new and
existing infectious disease research; genomic and disease research;
and natural disasters and hunger.
Junior Achievement of Dallas Joins
World Community Grid
Junior Achievement
of Dallas is asking that volunteers, teachers and supporters who
join World Community Grid become a member of the Junior Achievement
of Dallas team. Please go to
www.worldcommunitygrid.org and become a member today and
then join our team:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/view/TeamInfo.do?teamId=00KT7SHFQ1
Junior Achievement of Dallas Joins
World Community Grid
Join World Community Grid as part
of the
Junior Achievement of Dallas team today!
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