Wondering about World Community Grid applicability to IAN - Autism research

I'm new here. I am a mom of one son with Autism and one step-son with Asperger's. I'm so glad I found this site!

I apologize if this has been discussed before - or if this suggestion simply doesn't apply/isn't appropriate to the work IAN is doing - but I am signed up as a volunteer with World Community Grid (basically loaning my PC's spare computing power to research projects, etc..). I started to wonder if IAN could take advantage of the free supercomputing power of the World Community Grid to accelerate research of data that's being collected - now or in the future?

Again, apologize for any "newbie" ignorance! Thank you for IAN!!!

Hi 4JAZ, and welcome to IAN.

This is a very good question and the World Community Grid is a really neat way for individual people to contribute their computer's processing power while they are not using it. This resource is very helpful when researchers are running analyses that are extremely computer intensive. We have a couple of researchers who are starting to use IAN who may need this kind of super computing power to do intense data mining. So far, the core IAN Research team does not have this need, but it is coming!

For anyone interested in learning about the World Community Grid, you can visit their website at www.worldcommunitygrid.org