APLA 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, including HIV/AIDS. While computer owners run their screen savers, millions die from hunger, or environmental disasters devastate whole communities.

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World Community Grid
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What if each of the world's estimated 650 million PCs could be linked to focus on humanity's most pressing issues?

To make this vision a reality, APLA has become a partner of World Community Grid, joining the IBM Corporation and a group of more than 345 companies, associations, foundations, nonprofits and academic institutions. APLA is encouraging members of the community to contribute their idle PC time to assist humanitarian research by joining World Community Grid.

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. And World Community Grid is easy and safe to use.

On November 21, 2005, World Community Grid launched FightAIDS@Home, sponsored by The Scripps Research Institute. The project is using computational methods to identify new candidate drugs to block HIV protease, a key molecular structure that when blocked, stops the virus from maturing and thus is a way of avoiding the onset of AIDS and prolonging life.

To join, visit the World Community Grid Web site and simply download and install a free, small software program on any personal computer. Then, join team AIDS Project Los Angeles. When idle, the computer will request data from World Community Grid's server, will perform computations using this data, and will then send the results back to the server and prompt it for a new piece of work.

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 visit the World Community Grid Web site and become a member today and then join our team.

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