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the World . . . with Your Computer
CMC Limited joins World Community Grid
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March 2006
Millions of personal computers
sit idly on desks and in homes worldwide.
During this idle time, the mysteries of
science and space continue to elude us.
What if each of the worlds' estimated
650 million PCs could be linked to focus
on humanity's most pressing issues?
To make this vision a reality,
CMC Limited has become a partner of World
Community Grid, joining the IBM Corporation
and a group of leading foundations, public
organisations and academic institutions.
World Community Grid establishes a permanent,
flexible infrastructure that provides
researchers with a readily available pool
of computational power that can be used
to solve problems plaguing humanity. Importantly,
World Community Grid is easy and safe
to use.
To join, members, business
associates, family and friends should
go to www.worldcommunitygrid.org
and simply download and install a free,
small software program on their computers.
When idle, your computers
request data from World Community Grid's
server. Computers then perform computations
using this data, send the results back
to the server and prompt it for a new
piece of work.
World Community Grid provides
an efficient and effective way to make
a difference on problems that plague humanity.
We are asking our members, business associates,
family and friends to join World Community
Grid as part of our overall efforts to
enrich the lives of CMC Limited members
and our communities. In addition, we would
like everyone to become a member of the
CMC Limited team.
World Community Grid will
address global humanitarian issues, such
as:
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New
and existing infectious disease research:
Researching cures for HIV and AIDS,
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
(SARS), malaria and others. |
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Genomic and disease research:
The Human Proteome Folding project-World
Community Grid's first project-seeks
to help identify the functions of
proteins that are coded by human genes. |
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Natural
disasters and hunger: World Community
Grid applications can help researchers
and scientists with earthquake predictions,
improving crop yields and evaluating
the supply of critical natural resources
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What is grid technology?
Grid technology joins together many
individual computers, creating a large
system with massive computational power
that exceeds the power of a few supercomputers.
This capability can be applied, on a global
scale, to very large and complex problems
for the benefit of humanity.
The benefits are proven.
In 2003, IBM Corporation was one of the
sponsors of a smallpox study that took
advantage of grid computing. This study,
using today's largest available super
computers, would have taken years to complete.
With grid computing, this study was completed
in less than six months and identified
45 potential smallpox-treatment candidates.
IBM's world class and open
eServer and Storage products, built with
IBM's innovative and open Middleware products
like WebSphere, DB2 and managed by Tivoli,
serves as the technology behind grid computing.
United Devices, the market leader in highly
secure grid solutions for businesses of
all sizes, developed the special software
application that enables World Community
Grid to operate.
CMC Limited, Rochester Institute
of Technology, Information Technology
Association of Canada and other leaders
in the world community are partnering
with World Community Grid to help solve
problems that are plaguing humanity.
Join the CMC Limited World
Community Grid Team today!
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