World Community Grid

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Name: World Community Grid

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

Harvard University

Harvard aims to help developers make cheaper solar panels

_ Computerworld - In a move that it hopes will help usher in an age of low-cost solar power, Harvard University's Clean Energy Project (CEP) in June plans to release a list of 20,000 organic compounds that could be used to make cheap, printable photovoltaic ... [Published Computerworld - May 06 2013]

Entities: Harvard University, Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Solar Panels

First reported Apr 16 2013 - Updated Apr 17 2013 - 3 reports

Harvard Grid Computing Project Discovers 20k Organic Photovoltaic Molecules

Entities: Molecules, Organic, Photovoltaic, Harvard University

First reported Jan 04 2013 - Updated Jan 04 2013 - 1 reports

World Community Grid

Wind tunnel PC case pushes the air cooling envelope, does its thing for cancer research

Pushing air cooling to its limits might mean buying a bigger fan to the mortal PC builder, but for Mike at Total Geekdom, it meant constructing a wind tunnel case . Built from a box fan, medium-density fiberboard, lexan and aluminum, the tunnel ... [Published Engadget - Jan 04 2013]

Entities: Cancer Research, World Community Grid, AIRSpeed, Personal computer hardware

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Lucas123 writes "In June, Harvard's Clean Energy Project plans to release to solar power developers a list of the top 20,000 organic compounds, any one of which could be used to make cheap, printable photovoltaic cells (PVCs). The CEP uses the computing resources of IBM's World Community Grid for the computational chemistry to find the best molecules for organic photovoltaics culled the list from about 7 million. About 6,000 computers are part of the project at any one time. If successful, the crowdsourcing-style project, which has been crunching data for the past two-plus years, could lead to PVCs that cost about as much as paint to cover a one-meter square wall." The big thing here is that they've discovered a lot of organic molecules that have the potential for 10% or better conversion; roughly equivalent to...

Harvard Grid Computing Project Discovers 20k Organic Photovoltaic Molecules [Published Slashdot - Apr 17 2013]

"The data we're creating will ultimately benefit mankind with cleaner energy solutions," Aspuru-Guzik said. "Accordingly, we designed our Jabba storage arrays with built-in redundancies. But the key to the arrays' performance is the use of reliable, high-capacity, and low-power storage from HGST. We've filled nearly 150 HGST drives to this point and are currently building Jabba 5 and 6 to handle the enormous amount of data generated for the project."

Harvard global grid computing project will help create printable solar cells [Published Computerworld New Zealand - Apr 16 2013]

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Wind tunnel PC case pushes the air cooling enve... [Published Engadget - Jan 04 2013] Pushing air cooling to its limits might mean buying a bigger fan to the mortal PC builder, but for Mike at Total Geekdom, it meant constructing a wind tunnel case . Built from a box fan, medium-density fiberboard, lexan and aluminum, the tunnel ...