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World Community Grid, a CSR Program by International Business Machines


"World Community Grid was launched by IBM Corporation in 2004. Grid computing joins together many individual computers, creating a large system with massive computational power that far surpasses the power of several supercomputers. Because the work is split into small pieces that can
be processed simultaneously, research time is reduced from years to months, or even days. The technology is also very cost-effective, enabling better use of critical funds. World Community Grid establishes a permanent, flexible infrastructure that
gives researchers a large — and continuous — pool of available resources. Use of World Community Grid for research is available only to public and
not-for-profit organizations. As part of IBM’s commitment to address critical societal issues, all results must be published in the public domain and
made public to the global research community."
Reference

International Business Machines (2008). World Community Grid. Retrieved October 20th, 2008 from http://www.ibm.com/ibm/ibmgives/grant/helping/wcg.shtml

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