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Florida TaxWatch Joins IBM World Community Grid
Florida TaxWatch is pleased to announce its partnership with the IBM World Community Grid. World Community Grid
establishes a permanent, flexible infrastructure that provides researchers with a readily available pool of
computational power that can be used to solve problems facing humanity. Likewise, the grid will allow Florida
TaxWatch and its research consultants to use the grid for research requiring advanced computing power.
Grid technology joins together many individual computers, creating a large system with huge computational power.
When idle, computers linked to the grid 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 only uses cycles that are not being used by other applications and will yield to any request for
those cycles.
This vast computing capacity can be applied, on a global scale, to humanitarian issues such as researching cures for
diseases like HIV and AIDS, genomic research, and predicting natural disasters.
In 2003, the IBM Corporation was one of the sponsors of a smallpox study that took advantage of grid computing. This
study, using today's largest available super computers, would have taken years to complete. With grid computing, this
study was completed in less than six months and identified 45 potential smallpox treatment candidates.
With over 92,000 members and more than 148,000 devices, World Community Grid will be the largest public computing grid
benefiting humanity.
For more information on the World Community Grid click on logo:
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