World Scout Grid
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World Scouting launches technology partnership with World Community Grid
Ginevra, 2 agosto 2007 Se pensate che gli scout siano impegnati solo nel campeggi e nella realizzazione dei nodini, dovete aggiornarvi! Nel mezzo delle celebrazioni per il Centenario dello Scautismo, lo Scautismo mondiale lancia oggi una cooperazione con la World Community Grid™ con lo scopo di progredire verso un mondo migliore usando le tecnologie informatiche.
L'obiettivo che si pone World Community Grid è creare la più ampia rete di calcolo distribuito per progetti che siano a beneficio dell'umanità. Tutti gli Scout che hanno un collegamento a internet sono caldamente invitati ad aderire a questa comunità all'interno del gruppo chiamato guardacaso “SCOUTS” già creato nella World Community Grid, contribuendo con le pause di lavoro dei loro computer all' obiettivo comune.
Milioni di personale computer restano a far niente negli uffici e nelle case di tutto il mondo. Mentre aspettano di essere utili a qualcuno coi loro salvaschermi attivi, milioni di persone muoiono per fame, o per disastri naturali che coinvolgono interi paesi. Ma questo deve essere impedito e lo Scautismo mondiale raccoglie la sfida!
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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 utilises many individual computers, creating a large system with massive computational power that far exceeds the power of a few supercomputers. Donating the time your computer is turned on but idle supports projects that benefit us all! Since its launch in 2004, this virtual community of volunteers has achieved over 100,000 years of run time, providing over 100,000,000 results to research scientists to help in the fight against cancer, muscular dystrophy, AIDS and other types of disease.
“We are calling upon current and former members alike to join the 'SCOUTS' team in the World Community Grid as part of our movement's contribution to creating a better world,” announced Dr. Eduardo Missoni, Secretary General of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, at the launch of the partnership. “World Community Grid provides our members with an efficient and effective way in the modern world to make a real difference on problems that plague humanity. And it's educational - young people can learn more about why those research projects are so important for all of humanity.”
FightAIDS@Home is one such example. The Scripps Research Institute's sponsored project uses 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.
To join, individuals should go to www.worldcommunitygrid.org and simply download and install a free, small software programme on their computers.
“Once you have installed the software, you can join our 'SCOUTS' team and participate in World Community Grid projects whenever your computer is turned on,” explains Ray Saunders, World Scouting's Director of Information Technology. “The free software is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux/BSD operating systems. Most importantly, World Community Grid is easy and safe for young people to use.”
When idle, computers request specific project data from World Community Grid's server. After performing computations on this data, it send the results back to the server, and asks for a new piece of work. Every computation provides scientists with critical information that dramatically accelerates the pace of research! Completed tasks are added to the 'SCOUTS' team score, which will be used to measure the contribution Scouts worldwide are making to global research projects.
“IBM is delighted to welcome the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) as a World Community Grid partner,” announced Mark Wakefield, Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs Manager, IBM UK at the launch. “WOSM has global reach - and World Community Grid is assisting with research programmes that have the potential to benefit every citizen of the world. For individual Scouts, World Community Grid is an excellent opportunity for them to individually participate and to demonstrate their personal commitment to addressing global citizenship issues. Given the reach of World Scouting, we hope that their participation will lead to significant numbers of PCs joining the World Community Grid.”
