Technical Tips

• Lend your PC power to researchers through World Community Grid AND save power
• Learn about exciting new events and other information
• Easily find an answer to your question about World Community Grid

World Community Grid's software and your computer's power management software can work in a complementary fashion. A participating computer can be set so that when it is in active use, World Community Grid's software harvests the unused CPU time. When a workstation/laptop is not in active use for more than ten minutes, then power management software will activate in accordance with the user's setting to enable energy savings. This can be enabled by going to http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ms/device/viewProfiles.do, selecting your 'Default' profile and then selecting the 'Power Saving' option. There's plenty of computing power in your laptop – enough to do your job, surf the web, contribute to humanitarian research ... and still conserve energy at the end of the day!

Learn about exciting new events and other information
World Community Grid communicates with members through its forums. The Member News forum is the place where all World Community Grid events are recorded. In addition, issues with World Community Grid are recorded in the Known Issues forum.

Easily find an answer to your question about World Community Grid
World Community Grid has answers to your questions through its Help facility, which is located on every page of World Community Grid's web site. Simply click on Help in the upper menu bar and you will go to the Help page where you can review Help categories and do keyword searches.

If you have a question about World Community Grid, but cannot find an answer through Help, World Community Grid also has forums, which are not only a great place to mingle with other members, but can also provide you with help on any information for which you might be looking. You can do a search to see if your question has already been asked and answered in the forum.

If not, Community Advisors, volunteers from all over the world who have the title Community Advisor associated with their member name, are on hand to help answer questions in the forums. (A list of Community Advisors is provided here.)

Researchers from the various projects also provide answers to questions in the forums. Valid answers about specific research projects are always from people with the title XXX Scientist, where XXX stands for the name of the research project, e.g., FightAIDS@Home Scientist.

World Community Grid's technical support team provides answers in the forums as well. Members of the technical support team have the title "World Community Grid Admin" or "World Community Grid Tech" associated with their member name.

Finally, many members provide answers to questions asked in the forums. These members have special titles associated with their member names in accordance with their contribution to the World Community Grid's forums. The titles are as follows:

• Cruncher: Has contributed at least one post
• Advanced Cruncher: Has contributed at least 50 posts
• Senior Cruncher: Has contributed at least 150 posts
• Veteran Cruncher: Has contributed at least 500 posts
• Master Cruncher: Has contributed at least 1500 posts
• Ace Cruncher: Has contributed at least 4000 posts

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