Ian
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As our regular forum members will know, PC Review participate in a project called World Community Grid. This project aims to solve medical problems using the spare processing power of computers.
It would costs a great deal of money for these research companies to buy the processing power required, and so they ask for help from the general public. By simply downloading the relevant software, anyone can let their computer 'crunch' data, with the aim of finding such things as a cure for cancer. The program runs in the background while your computer is switched on, and you can go about your normal daily business without noticing any difference.
WCG have a Bunny Race starting on the 1st of March, till Easter Monday (24th). This is a friendly competition to see which of the WCG teams can crunch the most. We are also the lucky recipients of the Base Camp trek, so we may see a few more faces to help us out for a short while.
You can find out more and track the team progress here:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/challenge/viewTeamChallenge.do?challengeId=821
It would costs a great deal of money for these research companies to buy the processing power required, and so they ask for help from the general public. By simply downloading the relevant software, anyone can let their computer 'crunch' data, with the aim of finding such things as a cure for cancer. The program runs in the background while your computer is switched on, and you can go about your normal daily business without noticing any difference.
WCG have a Bunny Race starting on the 1st of March, till Easter Monday (24th). This is a friendly competition to see which of the WCG teams can crunch the most. We are also the lucky recipients of the Base Camp trek, so we may see a few more faces to help us out for a short while.
You can find out more and track the team progress here:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/challenge/viewTeamChallenge.do?challengeId=821
(as anything posted in this forum will appear there) 
