On November 16, 2004, IBM launched a project called World Community Grid in an effort to collaborate idle computers into benefiting humanity. It shares project resources and processing tasks across multiple computers through a concept called grid computing. There over several dozen projects to choose from including research processing for AIDs, Cancer, Alternative Energy, Clean Water, and Muscle Dystrophy. The software can currently run on all the major operating systems including: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and FreeBSD. You can even configure it to only use a small fraction (like 10% of your power) when the system goes idle (which can also be configured). The program immediately pauses once your system resumes from an idle state to give you back full performance. Setting it to use a small fraction of your computer's idle power shouldn't raise electric bills much at all either. Download the World Community Grid software here at: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/index.jsp.
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