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Pledge “gridgirl”

"I will join www.worldcommunitygrid.org and donate my unused computer processing time to do research on philanthropic causes but only if 20 other people anywhere will do the same."

— Lynne Beaman (contact)

Deadline to sign up by: 15^th October 2005
24 people signed up (4 over target)

More details
www.worldcommunitygrid.org is a site that uses your computer -- when you're away or not using it -- to research tiny packets of information for scientists working on any number of philanthropic causes. Right now it's working on the human proteome -- proteins in human DNA. Unraveling these may bear out the clues to solving cancer, AIDS and any number of problems. Other future grid projects will be tsunami prediction, crop yield studies (for hunger stricken countries), etc. Please join. It doesn't interfere with anything on your system and is maintained by IBM, so it is very secure. I work on a wireless computer and it doesn't even slow that down.

Comments on this pledge

• There is no linux/mac version, is there?
  
  Perhaps you could choose a distrubuted computing program which is open source and runs on many OSes.
  Miles Wu, 5 years ago. Abusive? Report it!
• Hi Miles...
  Thanks for asking! It's coming! We're working on it. We love Mac guys too. I think it's slated to be out this fall.
  Thanks..
  Lynne
  Lynne Beaman, 5 years ago. Abusive? Report it!
• This is going to benefit all of us, including your grandchildren!
  Please pledge!
  Paul O, 4 years ago. Abusive? Report it!
• Runs great on my wireless laptop, and gives a realtime visual on folding process!
  Paul O, 4 years ago. Abusive? Report it!
• Thanks Paul O. for your comments! This is such a worthy program and I hope everyone gets on board. Free, easy philathropy -- that's a pretty great thing! Please tell your friends!
  Lynne Beaman, 4 years ago. Abusive? Report it!
• No problem, thanks for starting it Lynne! Just one more! It is worthy, and I thank you for bringing it to light!
  Paul O, 4 years ago. Abusive? Report it!
• Personally I would stay away from grid computing. The US military are using it to research biological and chemical weapons, you could be unaware that it is your computer helping to bring suffering to people's lives.
  
  Also these systems are a very similar concept to the 'zombie botnets' that send spam emails from hijacked computers, only you are inviting them to do so.
  Mike, 4 years ago. Abusive? Report it!
• Hi Mike...
  Some people might use their grids for bad purposes (just like a person might use anything -- their car -- for bad or for good).
  
  This grid is all above board, I can assure you. I'm on the IBM team that works with it and we're getting ready to wrap up the Human Proteome research and start cancer research. Nothing worrisome there....except the cancer itself.
  
  Check out www.worldcommunitygrid.org for more details.
  Thanks...
  Lynne
  Lynne Beaman, 4 years ago. Abusive? Report it!
• This is old, but google brought me here.. so I thought I'd add that in response to those looking for mac/linux support, there is a client called BOINC which runs WCG projects. They have a client for win/linux/unix/mac/etc.
  me, 4 years ago. Abusive? Report it!