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The World Community Grid (WCG) is a free platform of different distributed-computing projects, which is provided by IBM. However, IBM does not have any influence on the project.
In the beginning, this platform solely used the client of United Devices for all of its computing. To allow users of Linux and MacOS X a participation an additional BOINC client was offered in 2005. Since august 2007 the migration away from the DC client took place (see the WCG forum for reference), which was completed by the first half of 2008. Since that time work is only available using the BOINC client.
World Community Grid merely supports non-profit projects, whose results are being published and released as public domain. The decision, which projects should be included into the Grid is up to the Advisory Board.
Seal of Approval:
This project was awarded the Rechenkraft Seal of Approval in march 2007. With 4 out of 5 possible points it is considered recommendable. The criteria can be found here.
Inhalt
Projects
| AfricanClimate@Home (concluded) | Climatesimulation for parts of Africa |
| Computing for Clean Water (concluded) | Development of water filters with nanotubes |
| Computing for Sustainable Water (concluded) | Human impact on large water areas |
| Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together (concluded) | Find a vaccine for Flavivirus-family |
| Drug Search for Leishmaniasis (concluded) | Finding an agent against leishmaniasis |
| FightAIDS@home (concluded) | Find a vaccine for AIDS |
| Genome Comparison (concluded) | Comparison of proteindatabases |
| GO Fight Against Malaria (concluded) | Search for a drug for malaria |
| Help Conquer Cancer (concluded) | Improve the results of protein X-ray crystallography |
| Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy (concluded) | Find a cure against Muscular Dystrophy |
| Help Defeat Cancer (concluded) | Improve diagnosis of Cancer |
| Help Fight Childhood Cancer (concluded) | Fight against neuroblastoma |
| Help Stop TB | Search for the cause and possibilities of controlling tuberculosis |
| Human Proteome Folding Project (concluded) | Structural prediction of human proteins |
| Microbiome Immunity Project | Finding the most probable structure for each of the studied proteins of the human Microbiota |
| Influenza Antiviral Drug Search (concluded) | Find vaccines against Influenza |
| Mapping Cancer Markers | Search for markers for the identification, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of cancer |
| Nutritious Rice for the World (concluded) | Improve the harvest of Rice |
| OpenZika | Search for drugs to treat Zika disease |
| Outsmart Ebola Together | Search for drugs to treat Ebola |
| Say No to Schistosoma (concluded) | Find possible drug candidates for the treatment of schistosomiasis |
| The Clean Energy Project (intermittent) | Improve the effency of renewable energysources |
| Uncovering Genome Mysteries (concluded) | Comparison of 200 Million genomes to discover new remedies |
Projectlinks
- Homepage
- WCG-Wiki
- Newsfeed (RSS)
- Distribution of computingpower and progress of projects
- minimum requirements of the projects
- Publications of the World Community Grid in the e-Library
- WCG Christmas Race 2009
- regular challenges
Statistics
| Where | Overview | Top Teams | Top User |
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| Projekt Home Page | Overview | Top Teams | Top User |
| BOINCstats.com | Overview | Top Teams | Top User |
| stats.free-dc.org | Overview | Top Teams | Top User |
Clientprogram
Operating Systems
| Windows | ||
| Linux | ||
| DOS | ||
| MacOS X | ||
| BSD | ||
| Solaris | ||
| Java (OS independent) |
Client Properties
| works also with proxy | 
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| program can be executed normally |
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| can be used as screensaver |
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| commandline version available | 
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| personal Proxy for work units available |
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| work units can be exchanged also by email |
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| source code is available |
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| can be used offline |
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| checkpoints |
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Client Specifics
- Technically the original WCG under Windows is an installation of the UD Agent of United Devices, differing only in the name, the logo and some other minor trivia. Therefore, annotations are often the same, as with projects under UD supervision.
- The grant of point is somewhat special: there are points for the BOINC-statistics as well as there are points, which are WCG internally only. The UD Client grants 'WCG-points', whereas BOINC grants both. Since those points are being included into different statistics, BOINCusers do not have any advantages.
- WCG awards so called 'Badges' for contributed computing time! Each project has an own 'emblem': bronze = 14 days, silver = 45 days, gold = 90 days, ruby = 180 days, emerald = 1 year, sapphire = 2 years of computing time. Only the project AfricanClimate@Home differs from that, due to lower time requirements.
- To enable computing under Linux BOINC was offered as plattform. Since then it is possible for both Windows and Mac-OS to use BOINC.
- The UD-Client has a maximum CPU usage of 60% by default. With an official tool it is possible to change the CPU usage manually very easily. Using BOINC 100% is set by default, in this case a change of the usage is possible under the option "General Preferences" on the project site.
- Since 19.08.2008 the UD-Client was removed with the relaunch of the WCG-Website.
WU Information
| Name | RAM | Duration | Deadline | Disk Space | Download | Upload | Minimal requirements
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| DDDT | 84 MB | 1:50-4:40 h (1,3 GHz) | 9 days | 100 MB | 0,1 MB | 1,0 MB | {{{mindestanforderung}}} oder besser
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| FAAH | 132 MB | 6:00 h ( GHz) | 9 days | 100 MB | 0,1 MB | 0,1 MB | {{{mindestanforderung}}} oder besser
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| HCC | 42 MB | 9:10-9:20 h (2,0 GHz) | 9 days | 50 MB | 0,1 MB | 0,1 MB | {{{mindestanforderung}}} oder besser
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| HPFP | MB | 3:35 h (2,4 GHz) | 11 days | 100 MB | 1,5 MB | 0,1 MB | {{{mindestanforderung}}} oder besser
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| NRW | 12 MB | 6:00 h (x GHz) | 12 days | 50 MB | 0,2 MB | 0,2 MB | {{{mindestanforderung}}} oder besser
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| TCEP | 280 MB | 11:30 h (2,4 GHz) | 10 days | 100 MB | 0,5 MB | 1,0-8,5 MB | {{{mindestanforderung}}} oder besser
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Duration is the average computing time needed, having the CPU clocked at the variable.
Deadline is the timespan, within which the Work unit needs to be finished.
News
Juni 2009: Newsletter Volume 8
16.12.2008: ZDF Mitteilung über WCG
- November 2008: Newsletter Volume 7
- Juli 2008: Newsletter Volume 6
- Oktober 2007: Newsletter Volume 5
- März 2007: Newsletter Volume 4
- 24.10.2006: Fon unterstützt das World Community Grid
- 27.06.2006: World Grid used to study protein folding
- 08.06.2006:
World Community Grid
- Juni 2006: Newsletter Volume 3
- März 2006: Newsletter Volume 2
- November 2005: Newsletter Volume 1
- 21.10.2005: Die Hochschule Heilbronn spendet als erste Hochschule in Deutschland Rechenzeit im World Community Grid
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| World Community Grid projects (intermittent projects in italic font | definitely concluded projects in normal font) |
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| AfricanClimate@Home · Computing for Clean Water · Computing for Sustainable Water · Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together Phase 1 & 2 · Drug Search for Leishmaniasis · FightAIDS@home Phase 1 & 2 · Genome Comparison · GO Fight Against Malaria · Help Conquer Cancer · Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy Phase 1 & 2 · Help Defeat Cancer · Help Fight Childhood Cancer · Help Stop TB · Human Proteome Folding Phase 1 & 2 · Influenza Antiviral Drug Search · Mapping Cancer Markers · Microbiome Immunity Project · Nutritious Rice for the World · OpenZika · Outsmart Ebola Together · Say No to Schistosoma · The Clean Energy Project Phase 1 & Phase 2 · Uncovering Genome Mysteries · Smash Childhood Cancer |
