Now a contributor to the Human Proteome Project
It has been about 2 weeks since I joined the World Community Grid program and have been contributing over 15 hours of my computing resources a day to help the Human Proteome Project.
World Community Grid’s mission is to create the world’s largest public computing grid to tackle projects that benefit humanity.
When idle, your computer will request data on a specific project from World Community Grid’s server. It will then perform computations on this data, send the results back to the server, and ask the server for a new piece of work. Each computation that your computer performs provides scientists with critical information that accelerates the pace of research!
So why did I decide to participate? Well I realized that my dual Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHZ workstation isn’t always being utilized to its maximum potential. I ran a program that evaluates the capbility of your computer (from the aspect of computing horsepower, disk space, memory, etc) to benchmarks. Apparently mine rated 183 as compared to 100 (which is a high-end workstation).
The thing is that as you volunteer your computing resources you get points for every protien that you process. I have collected over 12K points.
I suggest that if you have unused computing power, please lend it to the greater good of mankind! To start, you download and install a small program or “agent” onto your computer.
