The Nutritious Rice for the World project will use "donated" processing power
from the grid's users to study rice at an atomic level.
This data will then be combined with established harvesting information, with
a view to creating a new kind of rice that yields large crops, even under harsh
conditions.
"The computational revolution allows scientists around the world to tackle
almost unimaginably complex problems as a community, and in real-time,” said
Robert Zeigler, director general of the International Rice Research Institute.
“While there are no silver bullets, rice production can be revitalised with
the help of new technologies. The world community must invest now and for a long
time to come.”
Users of the World Community Grid download a client programme which carries
out minor calculations while their computer is idle. The combined activity of
the grid's global community creates processing power equivalent to 167 teraflops
– as fast the world's third most powerful supercomputer.
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