{"id":167,"date":"2007-03-14T14:58:51","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T19:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/2007\/03\/14\/a-sort-of-psa-donate-computation-"},"modified":"2007-03-14T14:58:54","modified_gmt":"2007-03-14T19:58:54","slug":"a-sort-of-psa-donate-computation-time-to-the-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/2007\/03\/14\/a-sort-of-psa-donate-computation-time-to-the-grid\/","title":{"rendered":"A sort of PSA: Donate computation time to The Grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldcommunitygrid.org\/images\/logo.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>OK, so this is a bit of a public service announcement, but I just wanted to give a shout out to anyone with a computer that may be often idle.&nbsp; You know you&#8217;re the one if you&#8217;ve got a slick new machine and it basically is a fancy web browser and text editor with occasional number crunching during the dissertation or that last field report &#8230; Consider donating that down time to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcommunitygrid.org\/projects_showcase\/viewResearch.do\">World Community Grid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcommunitygrid.org\/index.jsp\">World Community Grid<\/a> has been operating in its current form since November 2005 (you can read about the 2005 launch in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaisernetwork.org\/daily_reports\/rep_index.cfm?hint=1&amp;DR_ID=33891\">KaiserNetwork<\/a> archives).&nbsp; They run a few extremely large research efforts on fundamental health science that require extremely large amounts of computer time.&nbsp; You can simply visit WCG, download the secure software, and you&#8217;re done.&nbsp; It runs in the background when you&#8217;re not using your machine and you contribute to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcommunitygrid.org\/projects_showcase\/viewResearch.do\">research on genetics, cancer, and HIV<\/a>.&nbsp; Something to consider anyway.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so this is a bit of a public service announcement, but I just wanted to give a shout out to anyone with a computer that may be often idle.&nbsp; You know you&#8217;re the one if you&#8217;ve got a slick new machine and it basically is a fancy web browser and text editor with occasional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}