Saturday, November 20, 2010

2 years since joining world community grid

It's been 2 years since I first join world community grid. Its a cloud computation by donating your free processor time to do analysis for projects that are good for environment and also human being. Now, there are currently 8 projects active, they are: Computing for Clean Water ,  The Clean Energy Project - Phase 2 , Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy - Phase 2 , Help Fight Childhood Cancer , Help Conquer Cancer , Human Proteome Folding - Phase 2 , and FightAIDS@Home


At first when I joining this is because I saw some article about it. At the beginning I also think that its waste of my time but after one month of doing it, I found out that there is a new drug that is effective in curing cancer and AIDS, inside that news article, they mention that most contributors are from members of world community grid. Last year, the major new disease is Influenza virus, luckily got this kind of computation programme, the vaccine can be done so fast, if not, it may takes more than 1 years in order to produce the vaccine. At that time, I think that I am doing the right thing and won't think that it is waste of my time.

Until now, I have conduct quite a number of analysis of those project. Below is my statistics showing me how much work I have help them.


However, I find out that most of my friends doesn't want to do so when I tell them about this. Anyway, I hope there will be more people can contribute into this programme.

For more information, you can go to its website: World Community Grid

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