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Supporting and expanding beneficial academic research for humanity.

Computing for Humanity’s mission is to work in partnership with researchers, institutions, donors and influential networks to accelerate the pace of medical advancements by making readily available high performance computing resources.

Understanding the problem

Modern research requires the use of supercomputers but access is limited.

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In the race for scientific advancement, academic researchers are too often left behind. According to the National Science Foundation, in 2018, U.S. companies spent approximately $375 billion on research and development, while universities and colleges spent around $80 billion. Your donation directly provides essential resources to academic institutions, where we can help level the playing field and support researchers in making groundbreaking discoveries that can have a positive impact on society as a whole.

How we help

Computing for Humanity builds supercomputers from donated hardware providing fast, subsidized, and in many cases free access to the high-performance computational resources that scientists and diseases researchers require.

Eliminate Wait Times

We provide fast access for researchers when they need it.

Enable collaboration

We promote access to open science and collaboration initiatives between researchers.

Empower "Citizen Science"

We provide affordable access to supercomputing power for non-affiliated researchers.

Environmentally Green

We build our supercomputers from donated hardware, diverting it from landfills.

How we’re making a difference

In partnership with research centres and academic institutions, Computing for Humanity strives to provide high performance computing resources for researchers. In alliance with our partners (donated hardware), we actively collaborate with researchers and their facilities by providing the recycled Super Computing resources (local, cloud based, user friendly interface and optimized workflow) necessary to achieve medical advancements destined to improving human life.

What that looks like

  • OUR RESEARCH GRID

    Computing for Humanity and its network of 21 universities and 3 research centres aim to collaborate and develop best practices and tools in big data center operations, computational modeling, data management and platforms, structural biology research, simulations, image visualization, and AI modeling.

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    SUPPORTING OUR RESEARCHERS

    We want researchers to focus on breakthroughs. Computing for Humanity helps by providing gear to our partners, user and technical support to propel research with advanced computing. We are also partnered with the World Community Grid, now based in Canada, supporting national and international research projects with the aim of improving human life.

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    STORING RESEARCHER’S DATA

    We do data storage differently. Computing for Humanity offers drives for storage to scientists in the hundreds of terabytes range to accommodate researchers' long-term needs for storing their valuable data. Our servers are named commemorating loved ones taken by illness and diseases. Researchers believe computing is vital to finding advancements for humanity.

  • 23,000+ VOLUNTEER HOURS

    We are passionate and focused with our dedicated team of volunteers in support of researchers by providing them with supercomputing power to find advancements that will benefit all of humanity.

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    600,000,000+ HOURS OF RESEARCH

    To date, our supercomputers have computed over 600 million core hours and 6 million GPUs hours of research helping scientists get closer to the advancements for humanity. Through the years, we have saved configured settings for future use and re-run experiments/workflows, beyond a normal-sized grant allocation.

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    4,623+ CORES 835 GPUs RUNNING 24/7

    Together, we provide the current amount of 4,623 cores and 835 GPUs to researchers available 24/7! Join us to empower research and play an active part in scientific discovery.

How our resources are being used

With help from people like you, Computing for Humanity has provided researchers with 600,000,000 core hours since the project began in 2015.

See how researchers are utilizing Computing for Humanity resources.


  • Folding@Home

    Some heroes do not wear capes but run big data on their computers. Computing for Humanity provides High Performance Computing power to citizen scientists focused on the project Folding @ Home which embraces different angles of research primarily related to cancer, infectious and neurological diseases caused by protein misfolding and aggregation, and the development of medicines using computational simulations.

  • Open Science Grid

    Computing for Humanity supplies resources to the Open Science Grid through servers for computational mining and modeling helping to faster data analysis. The research community operated by US-based academic, government, or non-profit organizations address their effort to the study of health issues as the adaptive immune system, neural circuit function, gene frequencies under a variety of environmental conditions among other challenging studies. Additionally, innovative studies introduce technology as a tool to analyze citizens behavior to implement public policies to collaborate with the society.

  • Rosetta@Home

    We have been working closely with Rosetta @ Home to support their progress in predicting protein-protein docking, designing new proteins, and analyzing the interactions between proteins with other molecules that might lead to drug discoveries and cures for human diseases. Our effort as Computing for Humanity consists of offering researchers high-performance computing solutions. We provide a user-friendly and efficient interface to facilitate projects that would otherwise not be possible.

  • World Community Grid

    Thousands of patience, an astronomical number of combinations, and a massive amount of computer power donated by Computing to Humanity are necessary to help scientists with their research efforts on topics such as health, poverty, and sustainability. Current studies are concentrated to simulate the behavior of molecules of the tuberculosis bacterium, identifying patterns of markers for different cancers, developing antiviral drugs to combat coronaviruses and other viruses with pandemic potential, and predicting accurate weather forecasts in sub-Saharan Africa.

Want to get involved?

Join the team to make a difference and play an active part in scientific discovery.

How can you help?

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