Released: 10th April 2006
theopenworld.com 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?
To make this vision a reality, theopenworld.com has become a
partner of World Community Grid, joining the IBM Corporation and
a group of more than 150 companies, associations, foundations
and academic institutions. theopenworld.com is encouraging its
employees and business associates to contribute their idle PC
time to assist humanitarian research by joining World Community
Grid at
www.worldcommunitygrid.org.
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.
 To
join, employees and business associates should go to
www.worldcommunitygrid.org and simply download and install a
free, small software program on their computers. When idle, your
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.
“World Community Grid provides our busy employees, site
visitors, and customers with an efficient and effective way to
make a difference on problems that plague humanity,” said Daniel
Bartosik, the owner of theopenworld.com. “We are asking our
employees to join World Community Grid as part of our overall
efforts to enrich the lives of our communities. 40 million
people have HIV, along with their friends and family. People
living with HIV everyday can be as vital and productive as any
other human being. We are all human and we all walk the same
path, life and death, but our journeys are all unique and
different. What theopenworld.com is doing will hopefully make
not only the world a different place for those with HIV, but the
families and friends who suffer from the repercussions of such a
terrible disease.”
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.
On November 21, World Community Grid launched FightAIDS@Home.
FightAIDS@Home, which is sponsored by The Scripps Research
Institute, is using computational methods to identify new
candidate drugs to block HIV protease, a key molecular structure
that when blocked, stops the virus from maturing and thus is a
way of avoiding the onset of AIDS and prolonging life. 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.
 theopenworld.com
is asking that employees and business associates who join World
Community Grid become a member of the Theopenworld.com team. As
part of the team, employees will earn points as part of the
company and as an individual. Please join today by going to
www.worldcommunitygrid.org
Join World Community Grid as part of the
Theopenworld.com team today! To join us see
below.
Once you have installed the software, all you need to do is
follow this link to join our team:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=3TGKJVF3Q1
Once you're on the team's page
(signed in) look for the green button which say's "join this
team". |
