IBM And Harvard Join For Solar Energy

Researchers from IBM and Harvard University have teamed up to create the project World Community Grid (WCG) composed of over 400 thousand members in 200 different countries, each of whom will donate free computer cycles on a computer based on the cloud and consists of more than a million cores. The aim is for organic materials can easily produce solar cells of low cost.

IBM says the software would be programmed to “discover and isolate organic molecules which, when combined, can convert more sunlight into electricity and thus produce solar cells much cheaper.

The project will enable the team of researchers compute “in two years what would take 22 on a normal scientific cluster. Investigate thousands of software components with electronic properties and each computer will take approximately 100 days.

Users who want to participate in this project can visit WorlCommunityGrid.org and install a free software program, small and secure in their computers that will use free computer cycles to execute tasks and send the results to the server of WCG.

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