Africa@home
Africa@home is a website for volunteer computing projects which allow your computer to contribute to African humanitarian causes.
Africa@home is a joint project of the Swiss Tropical Institute, the University of Geneva, CERN, ICVolunteers and Software Without Borders. It is sponsored by the Geneva International Academic Network (GIAN), having received an initial grant of SFr 46,000.
The Malaria Control Project (MCP) is a grid computing project run by Africa@home.
The Africa@home application is proprietary.
See also
- List of distributed computing projects
- Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC)
- Distributed computing
- Grid computing
- Geneva International Academic Network
- Malaria Control Project
External links
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