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From our website, volunteers download a small app which enables them to lend their PC's spare processing power to cancer study, climate modeling, and other vital causes. It's a form of digital philanthropy called "Volunteer Computing". By aggregating idle resources from participants around the world, scientists get access to massive "virtual" supercomputers -- making possible investigations that would otherwise be impossible.
Attending the SXSW Festival this weekend? Come to the talk Sunday at 5-6pm called "Collectively Outsmarting Malaria" http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP13975.
GridRepublic Executive Director Matthew Blumberg and Nicolas Maire Project Leader Scientific Computing at the
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute will be presenting.
Take a moment to get to talk with some of the GridRepublic team face to face. We really would like to meet you!
SXSW Action: Collectively Outsmarting Malaria Each year there are more than 225 million cases of Malaria, killing around 781,000 people. That's 2.23% of deaths worldwide every year- the majority of them young children. Please stop by this session, because together we’re going to do something about it:The session will lay out a program through...
11/22/2011
A Challenge project called STEMulate Learning! aims to create an open source learning lab design for schools. This project could help expose more people to volunteer computing and increase participation. The crowdfunding goal is $20,000 in the next 24 days.
Read more about this initiative at http://rockethub.com/projects/3814-stemulate-learning
STEMulate Learning! Help discover cures for childhood diseases and cancer, find clean water resources and develop clean energy technologies while inspiring the innovators of tomorrow!
11/10/2011
GridRepublic is now also available on Google+. Check out our page: https://plus.google.com/104690413534448036352
GridRepublic - Google+ GridRepublic - Volunteer Computing - The GridRepublic website enables a form of philanthropy called "volunteer computing". GridRepublic is a nonprofit raising awareness and increase participation in volunteer computing. Working in
04/30/2011
Progress Thru Processors gets a big boost with a YouTube video!
Intel Tech Wonders: Saving The World Just Got a "Bit" Easier Intel Corporation's Progress Thru Processors is an application and community on Facebook that applies unused PC processor power toward life-changing research...
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