Help solve humanitarian problems and make a difference to the world
World Community Grid's mission is to create the largest public computing grid benefiting humanity. Help solve some of humanity's biggest problems including AIDS, cancer, natural disasters and hunger!
It's easy, safe and free and all it takes is your computer and less than 10 minutes of your time. When you're not using your computer, you can donate idle time on your computer to non-profit research projects focused on benefiting humanity.
Hundreds of thousands of volunteers around the globe donate the spare processing power of their personal computers to help.
More participants enables World Community Grid complete more research on these promising humanitarian projects, reducing time needed for research from years to months.
How does it work?
All you need to do is download a small, safe & secure program onto your computer. While there is space processing capacity on your computer, the software helps complete this critical research.
Choose research projects
- View research projects
- Active, inactive and complete research
Join a team!
Joining a team is fun! Your team can compete with other teams for number of members on a team, total run time, points, and results returned. This helps to shorten the time it takes to complete projects for humanitarian good.
Here are some Australian teams you can join (or you can start your own)...
- Macquarie University
- We need more Macquarie Uni team members!
- Eden
- A team consisting of members from Sydney University's School of IT
- Sydney Star Observer
- Perhaps Australia's largest circulating newspaper for the gay and lesbian community. Sydney Star Observer members are strong supporters of the FightAIDS@Home project.
- Questacon
- The coolest science centre in Australia is also a World Community Grid partner
- ConnectGen
- Watch this space!
- IBM Australia
- The biggest Australian team yet
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World Community Grid and the Nutritious Rice for the World project
IBM World Community Grid Tackles Rice Crisis
As concerns of a global hunger crises mount, IBM and researchers at the University of Washington today launched a new program to develop stronger strains of rice that could produce crops with larger and more nutritious yields. Anyone with a computer and the Internet can help by joining World Community Grid at http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org
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