{"id":3556,"date":"2011-01-17T10:19:37","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T16:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/?p=3556"},"modified":"2015-09-26T11:11:01","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T18:11:01","slug":"donate-your-spare-cpu-cycles-to-world-community-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/donate-your-spare-cpu-cycles-to-world-community-grid\/","title":{"rendered":"Donate your spare CPU cycles to World Community Grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldcommunitygrid.org\/getDynamicImage.do?statsOff=true&#038;mnOn=false&#038;stat=1&#038;imageNum=1&#038;rankOn=false&#038;projectsOn=true&#038;special=true\" frameborder=\"0\" name=\"di\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"405px\" height=\"165px\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting way to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcommunitygrid.org\/index.jsp\">donate your spare CPU cycles to a good cause<\/a>.  This project has been around for a few years now, but I just started participating.<\/p>\n<p>Running the software reminds me of my college days.  There was a time when everyone I knew was running the <a href=\"http:\/\/setiathome.berkeley.edu\/\">SETI@Home<\/a> screensaver (most likely on an AMD K6 or Celeron 300A!)<\/p>\n<p>Clients are available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcommunitygrid.org\/reg\/viewRegister.do\">for all major operating systems<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting way to donate your spare CPU cycles to a good cause. This project has been around for a few years now, but I just started participating. Running the software reminds me of my college days. There was a time when everyone I knew was running the SETI@Home screensaver (most likely on an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/donate-your-spare-cpu-cycles-to-world-community-grid\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Donate your spare CPU cycles to World Community Grid<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[371,372,301],"class_list":["post-3556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-boinc","tag-grid-computing","tag-ucsd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pioCd-Vm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":909,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/will-2009-be-the-year-of-the-hacker\/","url_meta":{"origin":3556,"position":0},"title":"Will 2009 be the Year of the Hacker?","author":"Jeff","date":"December 28, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Kevin Kelleher wrote an interesting post the other day on emerging technology blog GigaOM, entitled 2009: Year of the Hacker. 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