High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Template:Infobox distributed computing project sandbox Ibercivis is a distributed computing platform which allows internet users to participate in scientific research by donating unused computer cycles to run scientific simulations and other tasks. The project, which became operational in 2008, is a scientific collaboration between the Portuguese and Spanish governments, but it is open to the general public and scientific community, both within and beyond the Iberian Peninsula. The project`s name is a portmanteau of "Iberia" and the Latin word civis, meaning "citizen".