IBM and Volunteers Using Computers to Cultivate Better Rice Crops

To research and develop more nutritious rice from more productive paddies, IBM is utilizing unused computer time on thousands of volunteer computers.

[Kevin]

I hope to see more volunteerism when it comes computer idleness. As long as the computer is expending energy, it might as well be put to good use.

[Ally]

I had no idea people were able to donate computer space! What an amazingly efficient idea!

[Jordan]

It's so cool that math geeks and computer nerds can improve our crops' healthfulness and yield. I hope it works.

[babs]

oooh, i wonder if IBM could do the same thing to lower the calorie count of chocolate and ice cream. i'll totally donate my computer.

[BettyB]

There's definitely a lot of potential for a project like this.

[Janet]

It's great to hear what people can accomplish when they put their heads and computers together.

[Patrick]

What a wonderful and cool way to use excess processing space and memory... keep on keeping on IBM. I thought you were dead but this is just great.

[Firewallz OMG]

If you think I'm gonna let IBM (AKA Tron) hack my mainframe you're outa your mind.

[Addie]

This is amazing. A project that would have taken
22 years to finish took only two years because people volunteered computer space.