Dave Dickler,
Chief Financial Officer of Lighting Components and Design, Inc., a Deerfield
Beach manufacturer of miniature lighting devices, announced the company
is expanding its program of Computer "Contributions-in-kind"
in Support of Medial & Scientific Research into Cancer, AIDS and
Outer Space.
LC&D
contributes its "idle" computer time for distributed data
processing applications which perform data analysis of information for
these organizations:
- National
Foundation for Cancer Research.
- Olson
Laboratory of the Scripps Research Institute (Aids Research).
- Space
Sciences Laboratory of the University of California at Berkeley
(Space Research).
- United
Devices Cancer Research Program (Leukemia).
- Stanford
Alzheimer and Amyloidogenic Disease Research Program. (Alzheimer's
disease, Type II diabetes and Mad Cow disease).
Dave
Dickler, Chief Financial Officer of Lighting Components and Design,
Inc., a Deerfield Beach manufacturer of miniature lighting devices,
announced the company is expanding its program of Computer "Contributions-in-kind"
in Support of Medial & Scientific Research into Cancer, AIDS and
Outer Space.
LC&D
contributes its "idle" computer time for distributed data
processing applications which perform data analysis of information for
these organizations:
- National
Foundation for Cancer Research.
- Olson
Laboratory of the Scripps Research Institute (Aids Research).
- Space
Sciences Laboratory of the University of California at Berkeley
(Space Research).
- United
Devices Cancer Research Program (Leukemia).
- Stanford
Alzheimer and Amyloidogenic Disease Research Program. (Alzheimer's
disease, Type II diabetes and Mad Cow disease).
In announcing
this expanded program, Dickler said:
"Along
with thousands of other technologically oriented Corporations, Universities
and individuals, LC&D contributes its "idle" computer
time for distributed data processing applications which perform data
analysis of information for these organizations."
"Over
the past several years LC&D and its employees have contributed tens
of thousands of machine-hours of computer time to perform data analysis
for these programs, primarily during idle hours at night and on weekends."
"SETI
and Intel have been two pioneers in the area of Distributed Computing,
the underlying technology for this type of collaborative research."
"Anyone
can do it… you simply go to any of the following research sites
and download the software. Typically, the programs 1- 2MB in size —
only slightly larger than a floppy disk. When you run a program, it
will automatically guide you through an installation process."
"The
beauty part is that the research program operates in the background,
so you should not notice it is running during computer use. In fact,
they are designed to run only when computing resources are unused, so
as soon as you run an application that needs computing power, the research
program automatically stops, and your computing performance is unaffected."
"As
the program runs, it uses your computer process a small packet of data.
Once processing is complete (which may involves 10-20 hours of computing
time), the program sends the results back to a server and requests a
new packet of data. If you are not online when the processing is done,
your computer will wait to send and receive data packets until the next
time you are connected to the Internet. The upload and download time
for these data packets is measured in seconds a few times a month. The
time is trivial, usually "off hours" and is virtually invisible
to the user."
"We
encourage our employees to install this software on their PCs both at
home and at work. While we don’t track participation, we have over
50 PCs at LC&D that are eligible to participate, and our employees
have several hundred more available to them at home."
Dickler
closed by saying "I want to encourage employees and individuals
worldwide to join these programs, and make these "contributions-in-kind"
of idle time on their computers at home and at work. It costs nothing
and can someday help bring about a cure for diseases and increase mankind’s
knowledge of the universe we live in."
For Further Information About These Research Programs or to Participate
For further information about these research programs, to participate
and/or to download the software to support one or more of them, simply
click on the links below:
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