Hey, guys. Bear with me -- this is a BIG BIG post! I'm trying to find some more Canadians who might be interested in joining up for a good cause!
The World Community Grid is a venture by IBM to let people donate their clock cycles towards protein folding and curing diseases. It's kind of like SETI@home, but it's big because it's basically one of the things that IBM is banking its future on -- and it's about twice as effective as they were thinking it would be!
I just thought I'd let everyone know that Canada has a team, and they're already #4 in TOTAL POINT GENERATED:
Slashdot Users 88,506,345
IBM Corporation 23,596,904
IBM Rochester 15,789,455
Canada 14,497,815
MyOnlineTeam 11,520,589
IBM Software Services 9,783,396
TribalWar.com 9,397,240
IBM Australia 9,244,694
IBM Innovation Centres 9,019,977
IBM Research Triangle Park (RTP) 8,389,121
America (USA) 8,334,622
First, it's sort of nice that Canada is beating team USA.
But everyone wins -- because every donated CPU cycle is an act of love.
I think that the general goodwill of this project is really encouraging, and it's astonishing everyone -- IBM announced that the entire human proteome is going to be finished in something like 6 months now, instead of the year and a half that they thought. It's proved to be really easy for groups to move up the ranks, and aside from Slashdot (who will always have the lock on the number one spot) it's an open field.
Team Canada is, unfortunately, being out-produced in a big way every day though, and is in danger of losing its dominance within a week or two. But as few as ten or twenty more people signing up could give Team Canada the extra production needed to keep competitive -- and overcome IBM for the #2 spot overall!
We have about 6 months left before this is over. It's been running for about 6 so far, and while Team Canada was basically THE ORIGINAL non-corporate team (well, and non-slashdot, they're just too huge)
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org
Once you've downloaded and installed it (it doesn't interfere with your computer! you can set it to run as a screensaver, and can easily turn it off, or leave it running and it won't slow things down because it only uses extra/spare cycles), click on this:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=4C21G7R9N
edit: Forgot to mention!
Make sure to go to this forum thread and sign in afterwards, so we can say hello, and so that you can be in touch with other team members!!!!
https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=1540
The World Community Grid is a venture by IBM to let people donate their clock cycles towards protein folding and curing diseases. It's kind of like SETI@home, but it's big because it's basically one of the things that IBM is banking its future on -- and it's about twice as effective as they were thinking it would be!
I just thought I'd let everyone know that Canada has a team, and they're already #4 in TOTAL POINT GENERATED:
Slashdot Users 88,506,345
IBM Corporation 23,596,904
IBM Rochester 15,789,455
Canada 14,497,815
MyOnlineTeam 11,520,589
IBM Software Services 9,783,396
TribalWar.com 9,397,240
IBM Australia 9,244,694
IBM Innovation Centres 9,019,977
IBM Research Triangle Park (RTP) 8,389,121
America (USA) 8,334,622
First, it's sort of nice that Canada is beating team USA.
But everyone wins -- because every donated CPU cycle is an act of love.I think that the general goodwill of this project is really encouraging, and it's astonishing everyone -- IBM announced that the entire human proteome is going to be finished in something like 6 months now, instead of the year and a half that they thought. It's proved to be really easy for groups to move up the ranks, and aside from Slashdot (who will always have the lock on the number one spot) it's an open field.
Team Canada is, unfortunately, being out-produced in a big way every day though, and is in danger of losing its dominance within a week or two.
But as few as ten or twenty more people signing up could give Team Canada the extra production needed to keep competitive -- and overcome IBM for the #2 spot overall!We have about 6 months left before this is over. It's been running for about 6 so far, and while Team Canada was basically THE ORIGINAL non-corporate team (well, and non-slashdot, they're just too huge)
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org
Once you've downloaded and installed it (it doesn't interfere with your computer! you can set it to run as a screensaver, and can easily turn it off, or leave it running and it won't slow things down because it only uses extra/spare cycles), click on this:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=4C21G7R9N
edit: Forgot to mention!
Make sure to go to this forum thread and sign in afterwards, so we can say hello, and so that you can be in touch with other team members!!!!
https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=1540