"The search for more versatile and less expensive materials for solar energy received a boost today as Harvard launched a free database that catalogues the suitability of 2.3 million organic, carbon compounds for converting sunlight into electricity."
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/using-ibms-crowdsourced-supercomputer-harvard-rates-solar-energy-potential-of-23-million-new-compounds-212746251.html This used BOINC, the world community grid and the data is being released for organic solar cell candidates. There are several derivative stories summarizing this announcement, such as, Blog post from the person leading this project (the link I would possibly share), http://citizenibm.com/2013/06/harvard-clean-energy-project.html Slashdot picked it up too, http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/06/24/1457223/harvard-ibm-crunch-data-for-more-efficient-solar-cells?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Let me know if I did it right - user name is mhanwell Thanks, Marcus _______________________________________________ Sign-up for our weekly newsletter: http://opensource.com/email-newsletter Osdc-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/osdc-list
