World Community Grid

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Update -

Following IBM’s decision earlier this year to cease administering the World Community Grid please note that it is now being managed by the Krembil Research Institute in Toronto, Canada. Krembil is part of the University Health Network, a large public teaching hospital and research organisation. The data migration project took place over a three month shutdown earlier this year and is now complete. IBM, with over 450,000 computers, still remains the main contributor to this initiative.

Unfortunately, Krembil, as a scientific research organisation, was not fully prepared or resourced to manage a worldwide grid computing project of this size, mainly due to lack of server capacity and technical support, but has since sourced external help and sponsorship and the program is once again running smoothly. As a result there was some loss of volunteers so for those members who did sign up and may have experienced problems please note that the system is now functional. The system still utilises BOINC and work units are now processed on both CPU’s and GPU’s.

Post transition and looking to the future, Krembil plans to take on more medical and humanitarian projects which will initially involve North American high schools in order to introduce students to science and technology as well as high performance computing and also to utilise their resources for the benefit of humanity.