Are you a scientist studying climate change or ways to mitigate or adapt to its impacts?

IBM invites you to apply for free crowdsourced supercomputing power, weather data and cloud storage to support your climate or environmental research project.

We welcome scientists around the world to apply for a grant on a rolling basis, with a first round deadline of September 15, 2017. Up to five winning research teams will be announced beginning Fall 2017.

In return for this support, worth up to $40 million, we ask you to support open science by publicly releasing the research data from your collaboration with IBM, enabling the global community to benefit from and build upon your findings.

IBM has been a leader in addressing climate change through our energy conservation and climate protection programs for decades. We’re proud to expand our support for vital climate change research through this initiative.

You study our planet’s vital signs. Let us supercharge your research!

IBM Resources, For Free

Crowdsourced computing power

Scientists can receive free, 24/7 access to up to 150,000 years of computing power though World Community Grid, an award-winning IBM Citizenship initiative that enables anyone with a computer or Android device to support scientific research by carrying out computational research tasks on their devices. This allows researchers to conduct large-scale investigations, often magnitudes larger than they would have otherwise been able to conduct.

Established in 2004, the initiative has enabled a number of breakthrough discoveries and has supported environmental research by helping scientists discover new materials for efficient solar energy, study the impact of management policies on large watershed areas and uncover more efficient ways to filter water. World Community Grid’s impact has been recognized by the White House Climate Data Initiative in 2014, the White House Materials Genome Initiative in 2013, and a Webby Award in 2016.

          “World Community Grid enabled us to find
new possibilities for solar cells on a
timescale that matters to humanity–in other
words, in a few years instead of decades.”

                                          Dr. Alan Aspuru-Guzik
Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University

Called from: https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org