June 13, 2003
Join the fight!
Over the last few months I have been participating in a really interesting project called The Grid. This program, partially sponsored by IBM helps the general population assist in scientific research by using collaborative computing to process the data collected during research.
The download is small, it can be set to run in your systray, and/or as a screensaver when you are not using the computer and it does not require you to be online all the time to work. It downloads a small file each time you connect and uses the basic math processes of your computer to analyze research data.
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Here is some info from their site:
Grid.org is a single destination site for large-scale research projects powered by the United Devices Grid MP Global. From the Cancer Research Project sponsored by Intel and the University of Oxford to the Anthrax Research Project sponsored by Intel and Microsoft, the Grid MP Global @ grid.org has been put to use for research and analysis projects of groundbreaking scope. With the participation of over 2 million devices worldwide, grid.org projects driven by the Grid MP Global have achieved record levels of speed and success in processing data.
How it works
The Grid MP Global @ grid.org is a virtual supercomputer that can be harnessed to power computational research and analysis projects on a massive scale. By combining millions of online CPUs worldwide to work on extremely large computational projects, problems can be solved more quickly and less expensively than by conventional methods. Now any networked computer can help fuel research and projects that previously may have required a bank of supercomputers or a hundred years to complete.
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All that said, this is what I am hitting you up for. I want you to join my team. Our team is called DarkSide and if we get a decent amount of interest going on this and a nice group going, I'll setup a spot on the site here that will show our stats going forward.
By joining a team we can all coordinate our computing efforts and complete projects much faster. As we complete research and log more time on the system we earn points, and compete with other teams. From time to time The Grid will award prizes to teams based on performance.
If you join the team, email me and let me know.