Opus Interactive Joins World Community Grid

April 6, 2009 - PRLog -- Millions of personal computers sit idly on desks and in homes worldwide. As they wait, every hour hundreds of people contract and die from infectious diseases. While computer owners run their screen savers, millions die from hunger, or environmental disasters devastate whole communities. What if each of the worlds estimated 1 billion computers could be linked to focus on humanity's most pressing issues?

To make this vision a reality, Opus Interactive has become a partner of World Community Grid, joining the IBM Corporation and a group of more than 400 companies, associations, foundations, nonprofits, government agencies and academic institutions. Opus is encouraging members of the community to contribute their idle PC time to assist humanitarian research by joining World Community Grid at www.worldcommunitygrid.org and becoming a member of the Opus Interactive team.

World Community Grid uses grid technology to establish a permanent, flexible infrastructure that provides researchers with a readily available pool of computational power that can be used to solve problems plaguing humanity. Grid technology joins together many individual computers, creating a large system with massive computational power that far exceeds the power of a few supercomputers. Importantly, World Community Grid is easy and safe to use.

To join, individuals should go to www.worldcommunitygrid.org and simply download and install a free, small software program on their computers. When idle, your computers request data from World Community Grid's server. Computers then perform computations using this data, send the results back to the server and prompt it for a new piece of work.

"World Community Grid provides our busy members of the community with an efficient and effective way to make a difference on problems that plague humanity," said Jeremy Sherwood, Strategic Account Manager. "We are asking individuals to join World Community Grid as part of our overall efforts to enrich the lives of our communities."

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About Opus Interactive: Portland, Oregon based Opus Interactive is a full-service Managed Services Provider (MSP). Founded in 1994, the company provides managed hosting, dedicated virtual and standard servers, collocation, and hi-capacity Internet services. With its unique micro data center model, advanced technology adoption, clean power utilization, and energy efficient hosting solutions, Opus Interactive works with organizations of all sizes helping them reduce IT infrastructure costs and consolidate their server footprint. They team with industry leading partners such as VMware, HP, LeftHand Networks, and Microsoft. Opus Interactive is an accredited member of the International Managed Services Provider Alliance. For more information about Opus Interactive, visit http://www.opusinteractive.com.