Answer: a Computing Grid without a purpose. What would you do with a computing grid? Win prizes in this competition. 

A very short article just to alert you to a competition you may wish to enter. The BCS is very proud of its sponsorship of a competition to identify new green uses of computing grids. The most readable description of the competition is at http://www.greenbang.com/3639/do-you-know-what-to-do-with-grid-computing/

Entry details are at the bottom of this blog.

Some ideas that might trigger an entry:

(And no I have not thought them all through - they are just triggers for innovation)

1. Who does this journey: Analyse number plate reading cameras to let citizens know if there is anyone else who is regularly doing the same journey as yourself to help car sharing or making a particular journey who could transport goods (such as those bought off ebay) across the country for "free".
   
   
   
   
2. Where to plant a wind turbine: Allow households in a community to capture wind speed as measured by each house to determine the optimum places for that community to site a community wind turbine.
   
   
   
   
3. What's this picture of? I haven't thought of an environmental angle for this but it would be compute and storage intensive - especially if applied to video.

Entry details

Please register your interest for this competition by emailing

competition@gridcomputingnow.org by 30 July 2008.

Please submit your 1,000 word entry along with your name and contact details by 01 September 2008.



For further information on the competition contact:

Tara Kelly

T 020 7331 2171

E tara.kelly@intellectuk.org