Harvard Crowd-Sources Organic Solar Cell Research Project

APRIL 24, 2012 BY TINA CASEY 

A crowd-sourced solar cell research initiative at Harvard University called the Clean Energy Project is about to get a big boost: the initiative, which has relied on a network of home and office personal computers,  is scheduled for a block of time on the Trestles supercomputer at the University of California, San Diego. The project is designed to help develop the next generation of low cost organic solar cells.

A supercomputer and crowd sourcing mashup

The supercomputer will enable CEP to leap over a number of less-than-ideal factors that can hobble distributed computer networks, including hardware compatibility, data transfer, and donor scheduling.

Source: Clean Technica (http://s.tt/19Y5n)