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
Deadline to sign up by: 15th October 2005
24 people signed up (4 over target)
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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.
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Current signatories (
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Lynne Beaman, the Pledge Creator, joined by:
- Karen Kluttz
- Susan Fletcher
- Gwen Cox
- Elizabeth A Pfrogner
- Jan Bandke
- Andrew
- Darryl Adie
- Cathy
- Jay Cadmus
- elstobo
- Summer
- Steve
- Anj
- Paul O
- David Hart
- Richard
- Joey Stanford
- Paul Harrison
- Iain Robertson
- Jens Wetzel
- Regis Fritsch
- 3 people who did not want to give their names
Comments on this pledge
Perhaps you could choose a distrubuted computing program which is open source and runs on many OSes.
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
Please pledge!
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.
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