December 2005:Midwestern Builders has partnered with World Community Grid to assist in research.

In November, 2004, IBM launched World Community Grid at http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/index.html.  World Community Grid will be the largest public computing grid benefiting humanity; the site already boasts well over 126,000 members and over 205,000 devices.  By harnessing the “idle time” of millions of home and workplace PCs, World Community Grid establishes a permanent, flexible infrastructure to provide researchers with an available pool of computational power to solve problems plaguing humanity.  World Community Grid is built upon an IBM infrastructure and with IBM support, as well as software from United Devices, and features an Advisory Board made up of distinguished international experts in health sciences, technology and philanthropy.

World Community Grid invites public and not-for-profit organizations to apply to use its powerful grid technology at no cost for projects that benefit humanity. Grid technology enables researchers to access tremendous amounts of power, exceeding that of several supercomputers, to run complex computations and to accelerate the pace of their research. Research results must be made available to the global research community and will be made available on World Community Grid's web site.

World Community Grid supports research that is:
·        Focused on solving problems to benefit humanity;
·        Conducted by public or nonprofit organizations;
·        Contributed to the public domain; and
·        Accelerated by grid computing technology.

Over the last year, World Community Grid ran the Human Proteome Folding Project, which has been providing scientists with data on how individual proteins within the human body affect human health, enabling them to develop new cures for diseases like lyme disease, malaria and tuberculosis.

On November 21, 2005, World Community Grid launched FightAIDS@Home.  FightAIDS@Home, which is sponsored by the Scripps Research Institute, is using computational methods to identify new candidate drugs to block HIV protease, a key molecular structure that when blocked, stops the virus from maturing and thus is a way of avoiding the onset of AIDS and prolonging life.

Today, Midwestern Builders joins the team of over 128,000 members to assist in research and development with our spare computer processing power. We also encourage others to do the same with their businesses, so that we all can help contribute.

Joining is easy, simply click on the World Community Grid logo at the top of this screen, or visit the World Community Grid website.

We hope that we've provided you with enough information to convince you to join, and we'd be happy to help your organization set up a similar team for your own. Any questions can be forwarded to Ryan Hull.

Here at Midwestern Builders, we have formed a team of our local computers and our current stats/results can be found by clicking here.