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http://forum.compumatrix.co/index.php?topic=453.0We are happy to announce another way to earn activity points. This is through our partnership with the World Community Grid.
The World Community Grid's mission is to create the world's largest public computing grid to tackle projects that benefit humanity.
Our work has developed the technical infrastructure that serves as the grid's foundation for scientific research. Our success depends upon individuals collectively contributing their unused processing power to change the world for the better.
World Community Grid is making technology available only to public and not-for-profit organizations to use in humanitarian research that might otherwise not be completed due to the high cost of the computer infrastructure required in the absence of a public grid. As part of our commitment to advancing human welfare, all results will be in the public domain and made public to the global research community.
How Grid Technology Works
Making a difference has never been easier! Grid technology is simple and safe to use. To start, you register, then download and install a small program or "agent" onto your computer.
When idle, your device will request data on a specific project from World Community Grid's server. It will then perform computations on this data, send the results back to the server, and ask the server for a new piece of work. Each computation that your device performs provides scientists with critical information that accelerates the pace of research!
World Community Grid supports research that is:
Focused on solving problems to benefit humanity;
Conducted by public or nonprofit organizations;
Contributed to the public domain; and
Accelerated by grid computing technology.
Research projects that benefit from grid technology are those that perform computations that require millions of computer processing units (CPUs) and that can be divided into smaller independent computations.
Examples of potential fields of study include:
New and existing infectious disease research - development of treatments for HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), etc.
Genomics and disease - functions of proteins that are coded by human genes and how they might relate to cures for common diseases
Environmental research - meteorology and severe weather warning, pollution, remediation, climate modeling, and others
Natural disasters and hunger - earthquake warning, information on improving crop yields and livestock production, and evaluation of the supply of critical natural resources such as water
Please note that the forum thread for the Compumatrix Global team on World Community Grid is:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=36228Please do introduce yourself and your Compumatrix Business on that thread.
Encourage your friends and colleagues to help your team!
If they already participate in the World Community Grid, then copy and paste the web address below and send it to them in an email. All they need to do to join your team is click on the web address and then click on the join now button on the page that appears.
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=N13140HGJ32If they have not yet joined World Community Grid, then copy and paste the web address below and send it to them in an email. When they register, the team will be automatically selected for them. Let them know that they will still need to download and install the World Community Grid software.
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/reg/viewRegister.do?teamID=N13140HGJ32Please note that they need to be a part of our Compumatrix Social Network (compumatrix.us) in order to earn activity points from us and monetize it via production, sales and marketing of our Virtual Prepaid Load Cards. Sales Commissions are sent to your Compumatrix eWallet which you can use to purchase real-world and online products and services on our growing global merchant network.
Make sure that you use your compumatrix username
Note: If it won't take you compumatrix username and you use something different you will need to email terry
@compumatrix.us and let her know the username you used so that you will receive credits for your WCG points.
Henry James (Founder)
February 2, 2014 12:41 pm