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BOINC 7.0.25

BOINC 7.0.25

...computer time to science projects like SETI@home, Climateprediction.net, Rosetta@home, World Community Grid, and many others. After installing BOINC on your computer, you... Read more

5 April, 2012

Photos: The IT giants with big plans for green tech

...in collaboration with Harvard University, is the Clean Energy Project of the World Community Grid. In this work, computing power from around the world is... Read more

21 December, 2010 by Martin LaMonica

IBM Grid to 'help defeat cancer'

IBM is to devote the computational power of its World Community Grid to a project that will help scientists who are working... Read more

21 July, 2006 by Graeme Wearden
IBM, Harvard tap grid computing for solar-cell study

IBM, Harvard tap grid computing for solar-cell study

...computers. The initiative, announced on Monday, is part of the IBM-sponsored World Community Grid, which seeks to speed up research on humanitarian challenges with... Read more

8 December, 2008 by Martin LaMonica

Grid computing to tackle climate change

...building models to analyse existing weather patterns in the region, using the World Community Grid to crunch the numbers. The data will be used to... Read more

4 September, 2007 by Tom Espiner

AIDS research grid project gathers support

...machines' idle time between processing tasks. It is based within IBM's World Community Grid. The team behind FightAIDS@Home announced on Monday that the... Read more

5 December, 2005 by Graeme Wearden

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...IBM and others are getting together to do AIDS research on its World Community grid, run on much the same lines. All this is fine... Read more

25 November, 2005

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...IBM and others are getting together to do AIDS research on its World Community grid, run on much the same lines. All this is fine... Read more

25 November, 2005 by Rupert Goodwins

Grid computing founders form start-up

...heavyweights with colossal marketing budgets. Among grid marketing approaches: IBM announced a "World Community Grid" in November that harvests unused processing cycles from anyone with... Read more

13 December, 2004 by Stephen Shankland

What the hell are Grids anyway?

...reality of its actual deployment. IBM recently announced plans to create The World Community Grid for various medical and environmental research programmes but projects of... Read more

10 December, 2004 by Andrew Donoghue
How grid computing is speeding up the race for cures

How grid computing is speeding up the race for cures

...without the expense of testing. This article shows how doctors use the World Community Grid to harness the power of thousands of computers to produce... Read more

1 May, 2008

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