The World Community Grid

DrakNet staff and clients participate in the World Community Grid. All DrakNet computers other than the servers utilize a portion of their processor, memory, and disk space at all times towards assigned World Community Grid goals. If you would like to sign up to participate in the World Community Grid on the DrakNet Team, please follow this link to sign up and be put on the team at signup. (You can leave at any time.)

If you are already on the World Community Grid and would like to join our team, please click this link instead of the one above.

Our team has contributed to projects like: AfricanClimate@Home, Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together, FightAIDS@Home, Help Conquer Cancer, Human Proteome Folding 2, Nutritious Rice for the World

Team Statistics
	Statistics Last Updated:	06/17/2008 23:59:59 (UTC) [23 hour(s) ago]

	Totals:
	Current Members	7 (#2,505)
	Retired Members	0
	All-Time Members	7
	Total Run Time (y:d:h:m:s) (Rank)	0:144:14:03:03 (#9,231)
	Points Generated (Rank)	183,164 (#7,987)
	Results Returned (Rank)	285 (#10,059)

	Averages:
	Avg. Run Time Per Calendar Day (y:d:h:m:s)	0:004:12:26:21
	Avg. Run Time Per Result (y:d:h:m:s)	0:000:12:10:32
	Avg. Points Per Hour of Run Time	52.78
	Avg. Points Per Calendar Day	5,723.88
	Avg. Points Per Result	642.68
	Avg. Results Per Calendar Day	8.91

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Our Mission, Our Work and You
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 computer time 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.

Our Sponsor
IBM Corporation, a leader in the creation, development and manufacture of the industry’s most advanced information technologies, has donated the hardware, software, technical services and expertise to build the infrastructure for World Community Grid and provides free hosting, maintenance and support.

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 computer 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 computer performs provides scientists with critical information that accelerates the pace of research!