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Tadpole Raisin

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Wed Sep 1, 2021, 10:23 AM Sep 2021

I used to donate computer processing power to Stanford for projects involving assessing molecules [View all]

for treatment of Alzheimer’s, Breast Cancer and a lot of other projects. I want to do it again but I couldn’t find the organization but saw others which I am interested in and thought I’d share. There’s even one for COVID.


https://boinc.berkeley.edu/index.php

- BOINC lets you help cutting-edge science research using your computer. The BOINC app, running on your computer, downloads scientific computing jobs and runs them invisibly in the background. It's easy and safe.
- About 30 science projects use BOINC. They investigate diseases, study climate change, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research.
- The BOINC and Science United projects are located at the University of California, Berkeley and are supported by the National Science Foundation.



https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/

3 projects I saw: African Rainfall ProJect, Cancer treatments, COVID treatments

http://qcn.caltech.edu/

Use your computer or get an add on device to assess earthquake data


Hope some of you find this useful. Please let me know if there are other organizations doing similar things for research!

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