PNN has a good summary of an AARP study of volunteers and “givers.” Here’s a link to the full AARP Study (PDF file).

New Service Opens Door to Expanded, Diversified Non-Cash Fundraising

America’s CEOs Reveal Benefits of Volunteer Programs :: PNNOnline :: Title speaks for itself.

IBM has built the first module for Blue Gene, a supercomputer under construction that, by 2006, will crank at 1 petaflops (1 quadrillion operations/sec.). It’s job: figuring out protein folding. IBM Life Science is also developing new algorithms (programs) to do this massive data crunching.