Amplify Joins World Community Grid
What if each of the world’s estimated 650 million PCs could be linked to focus on humanity’s most pressing issues?
To help make this vision a reality, Amplify has
become a partner of World Community Grid, joining the IBM Corporation 
and
a group of more than 220 companies, associations, foundations,
nonprofits and academic institutions. Amplify encourages
the community to contribute their idle PC time to assist humanitarian
research by joining World Community Grid at www.worldcommunitygrid.org,
and then becoming a member of the Amplify team. It’s easy:
- If you’re already a member of the WCG, skip to step 3.
- If you are not a member of the WCG, download and install the software found at www.worldcommunitygrid.org.
- Join our team by following this link.
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.
“World Community Grid provides another way Amplify can contribute to the community at large, and it’s effortless!” said Tim Ray.
In its first year, World Community Grid ran the Human Proteome Folding Project.
On November 21, 2005 World Community Grid launched FightAIDS@Home.
On July 20, 2006, World Community Grid launched a new effort that will assist in cancer research using the massive computational power of World Community Grid. The Help Defeat Cancer project will use World Community Grid to analyze tissue microarrays (TMA) – a new investigative tool that will ultimately help doctors select proper treatments and provide accurate prognosis for cancer patients.
Please go to www.worldcommunitygrid.org and become a member today and then join our team.