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World Community Grid Offers Grid Computing Technology for Research Projects to Benefit Humanity

World Community Grid is an IBM-supported philanthropic initiative that provides grid computing technology for research projects to benefit humanity.

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.

World Community Grid is seeking proposals from research organizations interested in harnessing the power of Internet-connected computers to accelerate humanitarian research. Research organizations may apply to use this computing grid infrastructure at no cost for projects conducted for public and non-for-profit purposes. The program's goal is to support innovative efforts that will benefit most from this technology and promise to deliver significant results on the most pressing issues facing the global community. To meet this goal, World Community Grid plans to implement as many as five to six research projects per year.

Because projects must serve to promote human welfare directly or indirectly by advancing knowledge in areas that contribute to the overall goal, it is anticipated that projects in the following disciplines will be submitted: new and existing infectious disease research; genomic and disease research; natural disasters and hunger; and environmental research.

Research that has the potential to assist economically disadvantaged communities and those in developing countries or to provide the initial research that can open new fields of inquiry will have priority.

Research organizations are invited to visit the World Community Grid Web site to learn more about the project and to download a copy of the request for proposal and proposal application.

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