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The folks at Slashdot run an article about the World Community Grid Project.

The World Community Grid Project aims to solve complex computing problems using grid technology, which allows distributed computer resources to work together. By harnessing millions of otherwise idle PC’s, the Grid could be able to trim the time it takes to find answers to complex problems from years, to months.

IBM is one of the organizations behind this project and so far there are more than 50,000 people participating.

Joining is easy, just download a small installer, run it and will run whenever your PC is idle. The software is secure and doesn’t affect the way you work. You don’t need to be online for the software to work, it just downloads a task when is connected, can work on it while offline and will send its results back to the grid when your PC is back online. You don’t have to do anything else.

Currently the Grid is working on mapping out every protein in the human body, this will help in finding the cure for several diseases.

The project maintains very useful statistics about donated time, organized by individuals, teams and countries.

This is an excellent chance to be part of something good for humanity, you can join now and then be a part of Ventanazul’s team.

Now you can do something to help the world, er, well, at least your computer can.

Geez, maybe we can even find the answer to the last question:

“How can the net amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased?”