
Change the World... with Your Computer
InfoStructure, Inc. 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. While computer owners run their screen savers, millions die
from hunger, or environmental disasters devastate whole communities. What if each of the worlds estimated
1 billion computers could be linked to focus on humanity's most pressing issues?
To make this vision a reality, InfoStructure, Inc. has become a partner of World Community Grid, joining the
IBM Corporation and a group of more than 400 companies, associations, foundations, nonprofits, government
agencies and academic institutions. InfoStructure, Inc. is encouraging members of the community to contribute
their idle PC time to assist humanitarian research by joining World Community Grid at
www.worldcommunitygrid.org and becoming a member of the InfoStructure, Inc. team.
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. Importantly, World Community Grid
is easy and safe to use.
To join, individuals should go to www.worldcommunitygrid.org and simply download and install a free, small
software program on their computers. When idle, your computers request data from World Community Grid's
server. Computers then perform computations using this data, send the results back to the server and prompt
it for a new piece of work.
"World Community Grid provides our busy members of the community with an efficient and effective way to
make a difference on problems that plague humanity," said John Scruggs, Marketing & Sustainability Manger.
"We are asking individuals to join our InfoStructure Team with the World Community Grid as part of our overall
efforts to enrich the lives of our communities."
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 become a member today and then join our team.