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Junior Chamber
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Joins World Community Grid
Millions
of personal computers sit idly on desks and in homes worldwide. As they wait,
every hour hundreds of people contract and die from infectious diseases. While
computer owners run their screen savers, millions die from hunger, or
environmental disasters devastate whole communities. What if each of the worlds
estimated 1 billion computers could be linked to focus on humanity's most
pressing issues?
To
make this vision a reality, JCI Dublin has
become a partner of World Community Grid, joining the IBM Corporation and a
group of more than 390 companies, associations, foundations, nonprofits,
government agencies and academic institutions. JCI Dublin is encouraging members of the community to contribute
their idle PC time to assist humanitarian research by joining World Community
Grid at www.worldcommunitygrid.org and
becoming a member of the Junior Chamber International team.
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.
To
join, individuals 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 our busy members of the community with an efficient and
effective way to make a difference on problems that plague humanity," said
Kevin Guerin, JCI Dublin President. "We are asking individuals to join World
Community Grid as part of our overall efforts to enrich the lives of our
communities."
Today,
hundreds of thousand of volunteers around the globe are donating some of the
time when their computers are on but not in use, and World Community Grid is
harnessing this power to help advance promising humanitarian research projects.
Results on critical health issues have already been achieved, demonstrating
World Community Grid's potential to make significant inroads on a great range
of future projects that can benefit the world.
You
can start making a difference today. Please go to www.worldcommunitygrid.org and become
a member today and then join our team.
Join World Community Grid
as part of the
Junior Chamber International team today! |
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