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[ThePicky.com] World Community Grid’s mission is to create the largest public computing grid benefiting humanity, which is funded and operated by IBM. Using the idle time of computers around the world, World Community Grid’s research projects have analyzed aspects of the human genome, HIV, dengue, muscular dystrophy, and cancer.
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[ReadWriteWeb] Donate Spare Cycles, Cure Cancer: Although perhaps not quite as exciting as finding a real live E.T., the World Community Grid offers the possibility of having an measurable impact in the world of science. And besides, the next time someone asks you what you're doing while you're idly channel surfing from your La-Z-Boy, you can answer with confidence, "I'm helping cure cancer."
[smiling8541çš„åšå®¢] economics: There are other grid computing projects on the Web, but Stan Litow says WorldCommunityGrid.org is different. LITOW: "The power on World Community Grid is used purely for humanitarian purposes ”” cancer research, research on dengue fever, .
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