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Welcome to World Community Grid's newsletter!
Over the last six months, World Community Grid community has made significant accomplishments. Three
projects have been completed, and two
new projects have been launched. We have decided to make BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure Networking
Computing), a software platform for volunteer computing and desktop grid computing, World Community
Grid's sole platform and are now in the process of migrating fully to BOINC. We also have added a number of
interesting features to the web site. This, and much more information, is presented to you in this newsletter.
If you are no longer running World Community Grid, we ask you to rejoin this great cause. Just
click here to
download the grid agent. Remember, it's easy, safe and free.
Most importantly, we'd like to thank each and every one of our members for their continuing participation in
creating the world's largest public computing grid benefiting humanity.
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| Research Update |
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| Since World Community Grid's launch in November 2004, more than 750,000 devices have been registered. The
computer power that our volunteer community has donated equals one PC running nonstop for more than
115,000 years. At present, volunteers are donating an average of 1,100 years of compute time per week!
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As a result, World Community Grid is running four projects and has completed four. More details about each
project is provided below. Our newest projects — AfricanClimate@Home and Discovering Dengue
Drugs – Together — also are featured in this newsletter.
[read more]
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| AfricanClimate@Home |
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The project, "AfricanClimate@Home," will use the vast computational power of World Community Grid to improve
the models used to predict the climate by conducting simulations in small regions of Africa and then checking
them against real observations. While large-scale global climate models provide people with a general idea of
what the climate may be like over a wide area, they do not necessarily reflect what will happen in a particular
region because the global models do not sufficiently take into account large lakes, mountains, or plains
that can affect the local climate.
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| Discovering Dengue Drugs – Together |
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| In an effort to halt the spread of deadly infectious diseases now threatening to reach epidemic proportions
around the globe, World Community Grid has launched an unprecedented research effort with The University of
Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) and the University of Chicago to discover drugs to treat and cure dengue fever,
West Nile encephalitis, hepatitis C, and a host of related diseases including yellow fever.
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| BOINC Migration |
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World Community Grid is pleased to announce that it has made the decision to migrate entirely to
BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing). This software platform has been in use by World Community Grid since November 2005. It was added originally
to provide support for users of the Linux and Macintosh operating systems, but due to its popularity,
World Community Grid also has supported BOINC on Windows since December 2005. Today, approximately 50%
of all runtime is returned by computers running the BOINC agent, and 80% of new computer registrations
are using the BOINC software.
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| Technical Tips: Team Updates |
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World Community Grid has added some new features to make the team experience more personal and exciting!
Team members can e-mail their captains, and captains can send e-mails to their team members. In addition,
teams can now participate in Team Challenges. The initial uptake of this exciting new feature has been
tremendous!
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Last Updated: 04 Feb 2012 |
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Members: 584,890 |
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Devices: 1,957,287 |
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Run Time: 560,046 yrs |
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