Sign a BOINC petition to the German Parliament

Help us by signing a BOINC petition to the German Parliament. The members of the nonprofit associtiation Rechenkraft.net e.V. want to use the computing power of idle pcs in german federal bureaucracy, public institutions and universities for the benefit of science. As a first step, we filed this petition in which we demand the Bundestag (german parliament) to take steps for a law to implement distributed computing in the non-security sensitive computers of public facilities.

The more people sign this petition until 06.01.2009, the higher our weight in parliament will be. 50.000 petitioners during the first three weeks would allow us to present our ideas at the committee for petitions in the Bundestag itself.

Text of Petition

The German Bundestag may decide, to use the computing capacities of German public institutions, in non-security-sensitive areas for the aim of public science and developement.

Background

Science and developement nowadays are often based on the use of software simulations. The founding of the D-Grid-initiative rised the availabe capacities in Germany a lot but are far from being sufficient. By the use of distributed computing or grid computing, it will be possible to connect tens of thousands of idle pcs in public institutions and deploy them for public science. Compared to the possible achievements, costs will be insignificant.

Procedure to sign the petition (English):

First you must register on the petition website by clicking "registrieren".
Than you will get an email and have to activate the link in it.
Afterwards you have to login to the petition website by clicking "einloggen" there.
Now you can sign the petition by clicking the button that says "Diese petition mitzeichnen"

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