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We have a new logo and an updated website launching soon, but our core mission of supporting humanitarian scientific research remains the same.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Thursday, September 16, beginning at 16:00 UTC.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Thursday, September 16, beginning at 16:00 UTC.
We're thrilled to announce that World Community Grid will now be run and supported by Krembil Research Institute, one of the world's leading basic science and clinical research institutions.
Thanks to additional support from volunteers, the project has seen a significant increase in work units processed over the summer.
The pace of the Africa Rainfall Project continued to accelerate last month, thanks to increased volunteer computing power.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Thursday, September 2, beginning at 17:00 UTC.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Thursday, September 2, beginning at 17:00 UTC.
The research team ran a group of high-priority batches on World Community Grid this past month.
The researchers are running tests and analyzing data for one of the two papers they currently have in progress.
The researchers continue and expand their lab testing, while looking for additional funding.
We are updating the software on our servers on Friday, August 20, beginning at 13:00 UTC.
We are updating the software on our servers on Friday, August 20, beginning at 13:00 UTC.
World Community Grid is processing work for this project more quickly, thanks to increased volunteer support.
The pace of the project has increased in recent weeks thanks to volunteers who are processing more work units.
The research team continues their data analysis, and lab testing is ongoing for potential COVID-19 treatments.
Looking for a project to support? Mapping Cancer Markers has a large amount of work to be done to help fight a devastating collection of diseases.
The researchers are getting ready to analyze their data using new methods.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Friday, July 23, beginning at 13:00 UTC.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Friday, July 23, beginning at 13:00 UTC.
The researchers continue to do lab testing based on data from their most recent work on World Community Grid.
If you are currently donating computing power to this project, you can make a simple change to your settings to help speed up the progress.
As we announced last month, the Microbiome Immunity Project's time on World Community Grid is ending, but their data analysis is in full swing. This will be the final monthly update for this project.
The recent stress test run on World Community Grid allowed the researchers to quickly run simulations for 300 million small molecules.
The researchers recently welcomed a new team member who will be designing machine-learning approaches.
The researchers are beginning to analyze the enormous amount of data generated during last month's stress test, when 30,000 batches of work were run in eight days.
Looking for an additional project to support? Please add Mapping Cancer Markers to your list.
With the recent addition of a new permanent team member, the researchers can begin leveraging machine learning techniques to help with data analysis.
A research team member hits an important academic milestone this month.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Thursday, June 10, beginning at 13:00 UTC.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Thursday, June 10, beginning at 13:00 UTC.
Four years of volunteer computing power helped predict more than 330,000 protein structures. Now, the project's time on World Community Grid is coming to a close. But the data analysis and publication are just beginning.
Four years of volunteer computing power has helped the researchers predict more than 330,000 protein structures. Now, the project's time on World Community Grid is coming to a close.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Friday, June 4, beginning at 14:00 UTC.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Friday, June 4, beginning at 14:00 UTC.
The project has added GPU power to the existing strong CPU power that supports research for potential COVID-19 treatments.
The researchers have done further validation on their lung cancer marker data.
The researchers recently submitted grant applications to help support further lab testing.
The project received extra support this month from the 2021 BOINC Pentathlon.
The researchers are coming closer to making their data easier to share.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Friday, May 7, beginning at 14:00 UTC.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Friday, May 7, beginning at 14:00 UTC.
The researchers are deep into early analysis for several key proteins that are significant in the development of certain childhood cancers.
The researchers continue to work on a paper about lung cancer markers.
The research team continues to analyze the enormous amounts of data generated by World Community Grid while preparing for the publication of their first paper.
The researchers welcome a new permanent team member.
The researchers continue to publicize the project and work on making the data easy to share.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Thursday, April 8, beginning at 15:00 UTC.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Thursday, April 8, beginning at 15:00 UTC.
The software that powers OpenPandemics - COVID-19 has been adapted to use GPU power. This will not only help the researchers to screen more molecules, but also could help them study molecules that are more complex.
Beta testing is in progress for GPU work units, which can help speed up the process of identifying potential treatments for COVID-19.
The researchers continue lab testing on drug candidates that may be effective against proteins and other molecules that play key roles in certain childhood cancers.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Thursday, March 18, beginning at 15:00 UTC.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Thursday, March 18, beginning at 15:00 UTC.
The researchers continue to process work on World Community Grid while working on a paper about lung cancer markers.
Work continues on three papers about the project, and one of the researchers will be speaking about the project at a conference later this month.
The researchers are speaking about the project in two presentations this spring.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Tuesday, March 9, beginning at 14:00 UTC.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Tuesday, March 9, beginning at 14:00 UTC.
Lab testing has begun for several drug candidates that may target proteins that play a role in certain childhood cancers.
The researchers continue to promote the project while making plans for data analysis.
Work continues on a paper about lung cancer markers.
We are updating the software on our servers on Monday, February 15, beginning at 19:00 UTC.
We are updating the software on our servers on Monday, February 15, beginning at 19:00 UTC.
The scientists are continuing to work on papers related to the research being done on World Community Grid.
Lab testing has begun for some of the promising compounds identified with the help of World Community Grid volunteers.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Thursday, January 28, beginning at 19:00 UTC.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Thursday, January 28, beginning at 19:00 UTC.
The researchers and World Community Grid's tech team continue to work together on developing new sarcoma work units.
The researchers are finishing work on a paper about their findings to-date.
The scientists behind the Africa Rainfall Project give us a status update on the research and outline their plans for 2021 in this article.
The project is coming closer to beginning lab testing on promising compounds, but there is still much work to do on World Community Grid.
The project is temporarily paused, and lab testing will soon begin on compounds that may affect two of the targets that have already been run on World Community Grid.
The researchers and World Community Grid developers continue to work on a potential new type of work unit for the project.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Thursday, December 10 beginning at 16:00 UTC.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Thursday, December 10 beginning at 16:00 UTC.
The principal investigator recently gave two presentations about the project, and the researchers will receive university assistance to help enhance their data organization.
In this update, the Mapping Cancer Markers research team explains how a relatively small code change could have a big impact on the project?s ability to analyze markers for various types of sarcoma.
The researchers are finishing a paper about their lung cancer findings, and continuing work on new work units for sarcoma.
Work units for the latest childhood cancer target are nearly completed, and the project will pause while the researchers determine their next area of focus.
The research team has identified 70 compounds that show promise for lab testing.
In this update, meet a new student research team member who will be helping with data analysis over the coming weeks.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Thursday, November 12, beginning at 16:00 UTC.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Thursday, November 12, beginning at 16:00 UTC.
The research team and the World Community Grid tech team continue to collaborate on a new type of work unit for the project.
The principal investigator for the project will be presenting at two virtual conferences before the end of 2020.
In this update, the Forli Lab team at Scripps Research gives us a look at the three viral proteins they?re currently studying and describes their plans for the near future.
The research team continues to analyze the results of the work previously run on World Community Grid while creating new work units for this recently resumed project.
We completed a successful beta test for new sarcoma work units in October.
The researchers recently submitted two papers for review, and are looking ahead to lab testing for potential treatments.
TB was the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent in 2019. This project is studying the bacterium that causes TB to help shed light on the search for better treatments.
The Smash Childhood Cancer project has resumed work on World Community Grid to explore a gene that is involved in the development of many sarcomas. We also welcome Dr. Joanna Gell to the research team.
The last results from the latest round of work on Phase 2 have been sent to the research team.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Thursday, October 15 beginning at 15:00 UTC.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Thursday, October 15 beginning at 15:00 UTC.
The researchers are awaiting news about a paper they submitted to a scientific journal, and working on a potential new type of work unit.
The research team is creating rainfall models based on data received from World Community Grid.
Ian Lawson Van Toch, an intern at the Jurisica Lab, tragically passed away in 2007 during his first year of graduate school. His memory is honored by Ian?s Fund, which helps young scientists launch their careers in cancer informatics.
After a successful beta test earlier this month, Smash Childhood Cancer has resumed work on World Community Grid.
Mapping Cancer Markers currently has a healthy backlog of work for volunteers, with more expected to come.
The researchers and the World Community Grid tech team are continuing their work to get the project working on GPU.
The Help Stop TB researchers will soon have an additional team member to help with data analysis for a couple of months.
We are doing a file system check on our servers on Wednesday, September 16, beginning at 17:00 UTC.
We are doing a file system check on our servers on Wednesday, September 16, beginning at 17:00 UTC.
AutoDock, the software program that powers OpenPandemics and other World Community Grid projects, was created 30 years ago at Scripps Research. Learn more about this powerful software in this article and the attached, recently-published research paper.
The researchers are in the early stages of exploring new possibilities for the next phase of the project.
The Africa Rainfall Project researchers recently welcomed a student to their team.
We are doing a file system check on our servers on Thursday, September 10 beginning at 14:00 UTC.
We are doing a file system check on our servers on Thursday, September 10 beginning at 14:00 UTC.
The Microbiome Immunity Project researchers continue to analyze data while simultaneously working on three academic papers.
The THOR Challenge is back for a fifth year. Learn how you and your team can participate at a time when humanitarian scientific research is more crucial than ever.
The Smash Childhood Cancer researchers have given the World Community Grid tech team new work units for testing, and the researchers are also continuing analysis on the simulation results they've already received.
The Mapping Cancer Markers researchers continue to analyze lung cancer marker data while working with the World Community Grid tech team on new sarcoma work units.
The Help Stop TB researchers recently welcomed a new team member, and continue to research for additional students to help with the project.
Phase 2 is currently paused while the researchers plan for the future and finish up two papers.
OpenPandemics - COVID-19 launched in May, and the work has just begun. Learn more about the scientists' progress so far, as well as the collaborations that will help move the research forward in the coming weeks and months.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Thursday, August 13 beginning at 17:00 UTC.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Thursday, August 13 beginning at 17:00 UTC.
The World Community Grid team had a quick monthly meeting with the Africa Rainfall Project researchers, which you can read about in this article.
Interested in learning more about our monthly calls with the researchers for each active World Community Grid project? You can get updates on our website, in our forum, and via email.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Saturday, July 25 beginning at 16:00 UTC.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Saturday, July 25 beginning at 16:00 UTC.
As the OpenZika research team wrapped up their work on World Community Grid, they identified a promising compound in the ongoing search for Zika treatments.
A protein called HIV-1 capsid (CA), which is crucial to the replication of HIV, may have some recently discovered vulnerabilities.
Sawyer created a World Community Grid team to help accelerate research after his father was diagnosed with brain cancer. In the process, he found a global community of volunteers who are helping scientists at Krembil Research Institute find cancer biomarkers, which could lead to better diagnosis and treatment.
Meet the newest member of the Help Stop TB research team, who will be helping with the project?s data analysis.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Thursday, June 4, beginning at 13:00 UTC.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Thursday, June 4, beginning at 13:00 UTC.
The OpenPandemics - COVID-19 project helps researchers at Scripps Research look for potential COVID-19 treatments. But that's just the beginning for our newest project, and we need your help.
Research in the time of a pandemic is more important than ever. Here?s how the Microbiome Immunity Project team is making continued progress while working from home.
We are performing database maintenance on Wednesday, April 22, 2020 starting at 13:00 UTC.
We are performing database maintenance on Wednesday, April 22, 2020 starting at 13:00 UTC.
The newest version of the World Community Grid software application adds enhanced security measures for Windows and Mac computers. All volunteers who are currently running version 7.14.2 or older are encouraged to upgrade.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Wednesday, April 8, beginning at 13:00 UTC.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Wednesday, April 8, beginning at 13:00 UTC.
The Smash Childhood Cancer researchers are pleased to announce that Dr. Godfrey Chan, a founding member of the team, will be the new Principal Investigator for the project. The project is re-starting with two new targets to investigate in the continuing search for better childhood cancer treatments.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Thursday, February 20, beginning at 17:00 UTC.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Thursday, February 20, beginning at 17:00 UTC.
The FightAIDS@Home researchers recently met in California to discuss their plans for the project?s future.
The Mapping Cancer Markers team discusses the past (lung cancer), present (ovarian cancer), and future (sarcoma) of the project in this comprehensive update.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Friday, January 24, beginning at 17:00 UTC.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Friday, January 24, beginning at 17:00 UTC.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Friday, January 24, beginning at 17:00 UTC.
The Microbiome Immunity Project has (so far) identified almost 275,000 unique protein structures, returned more than 430 million work units, and led to the creation of an important new scientific technique.
Now that OpenZika?s work on World Community Grid is complete, the researchers are beginning the next phase of their work while continuing to spread the word about their early findings.
IBMer Lloyd Treinish was an integral part of the team that reviewed proposals from environmental and climate change projects to be run on World Community Grid. Learn about him in this article.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Thursday, December 5, beginning at 19:00 UTC. ( Complete )
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Thursday, December 5, beginning at 19:00 UTC. ( Complete )
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Thursday, December 5, beginning at 19:00 UTC.
Volunteer computing and humanitarian scientific research got a huge boost from the 4th annual THOR Challenge, which brought support from all over the globe to World Community Grid.
To mark World Community Grid's 15th anniversary, we're asking you as volunteers, researchers, and supporters to publicly show your support for science on social media, in our forum, and on your own website or blog.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Thursday, November 7, beginning at 15:00 UTC. (Completed)
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Thursday, November 7, beginning at 15:00 UTC.
What if your computer could run weather simulations that could help farmers in Africa successfully grow their crops? We're excited to announce the Africa Rainfall Project, our first project in partnership with The Weather Company.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Thursday, October 10, beginning at 15:00 UTC.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Thursday, October 10, beginning at 15:00 UTC.
Dr. Alessandra Carbone, the primary investigator for the Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy project, recently published a paper along with several colleagues to propose new techniques for looking at the complexities of protein-protein interactions.
The THOR Challenge, one of World Community Grid's largest team competitions, is back for another record-breaking season. Learn more in this article.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Thursday, September 5, beginning at 19:00 UTC.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Thursday, September 5, beginning at 19:00 UTC.
World Community Grid scientific liaison Viktors Berstis is retiring after a 42-year career with IBM. In this article, we look back at his work and forward to his plans for the next chapter of his life.
On August 28, World Community Grid will be switching from a username-based login system to an email-based login system. Learn what this means for existing and new volunteers in this article.
A high school in Sweden chose to support Mapping Cancer Markers and the Microbiome Immunity Project during a one-month competition between five World Community Grid teams. Here?s what they learned during the process.
The Microbiome Immunity Project has led to the prediction of almost 200,000 unique protein structures (so far), and the project has gone international. Learn more in this video update.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Thursday, July 18, beginning at 19:00 UTC.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Thursday, July 18, beginning at 19:00 UTC.
The OpenZika researchers are making ambitious plans to analyze the data that has been processed by World Community Grid volunteers over the past three years. Learn about the next steps for the project in this comprehensive update.
While the Help Stop TB researchers continue the search for new team members, they are also learning from the data they receive from World Community Grid.
We are updating the storage on our servers on Thursday, June 13, beginning at 15:45 UTC.
We are updating the storage on our servers on Thursday, June 13, beginning at 15:45 UTC.
In a first for World Community Grid, high school student Dylan Bucci and teacher Robert Esposito recently traveled to Toronto to meet the scientists running the Mapping Cancer Markers project at Krembil Research Institute. This is the first time World Community Grid volunteers have ever visited a research institution to meet with scientists who use the program.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Wednesday, May 1, beginning at 19:00 UTC. (Completed)
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Wednesday, May 1, beginning at 19:00 UTC.
The FightAIDS@Home - Phase 2 team teamed up with World Community Grid to examine and refine the results of Phase 1 of the project. Over the past 18 months, they've created a new technique called asynchronous replica exchange, which drastically increases the effectiveness of their computations and may have implications for other researchers who use the same software for drug discovery. The results of this work were recently published in the Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Thursday, April 11, beginning at 14:00 UTC.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Thursday, April 11, beginning at 14:00 UTC.
Are you a Mac developer? The team of volunteers supporting BOINC is looking for experienced Mac developers to help support and maintain the software that World Community Grid and other distributed computing projects depend on for scientific research.
Are you a Mac developer? The team of volunteers supporting BOINC is looking for experienced Mac developers to help support and maintain the software that World Community Grid and other distributed computing projects depend on for scientific research.
Meet Jerome Doussy, a volunteer from France who shares his own words why he supports World Community Grid and scientific research.
An international team of crunchers is launching a unique new type of team challenge. Learn more about the Athena Trophy, created by CRUNCHERS SANS FRONTIERES, in this article.
FightAIDS@Home - Phase 2 has released a new, more efficient type of work unit. They've also added four new members to their research team.
We're excited host this year's BOINC Workshop in Chicago, Illinois, USA. If you're reading this, you're part of the BOINC community and we'd like to meet you.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Wednesday, February 6, beginning at 19:00 UTC.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Wednesday, February 6, beginning at 19:00 UTC.
We are updating the storage system on our servers on Tuesday, January 8, beginning at 15:00 UTC.
We are updating the storage system on our servers on Tuesday, January 8, beginning at 15:00 UTC.
New research models, a new student, new publications, new collaborations, and continuing data analysis are all detailed in this comprehensive update from the OpenZika research team.
Researchers from three leading scientific institutions are collaborating to explore the proteins in the human microbiome. Learn more about how they work together, and what they've accomplished at the end of the project's first full year, in this update.
We are expanding the storage for one of our databases on Monday, December 10, starting at 15:00 UTC.
We are expanding the storage for one of our databases on Monday, December 10, starting at 15:00 UTC.
The Smash Childhood Cancer team recently welcomed a new US-based researcher. Several of the researchers also met in person for the first time to discuss the project.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Thursday, November 29, beginning at 20:00 UTC.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Thursday, November 29, beginning at 20:00 UTC.
Scientists, and science itself, are facing increasing challenges in many parts of the world. To mark World Community Grid's 14th anniversary, we're asking you to publicly show your support for science on social media, in our forum, and on your own website or blog.
Volunteers can now upgrade to version 7.14.2 of the software that runs World Community Grid.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Thursday, October 11, beginning at 14:00 UTC.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Thursday, October 11, beginning at 14:00 UTC.
The Outsmart Ebola Together research team is moving on to the data analysis phase of the project. Read more in this message from principal investigator Dr. Erica Ollmann Saphire.
In this update, principal investigator Dr. Anna Croft shares two recent milestones for the Help Stop TB research team, and discusses their continuing search for additional researchers.
CRUNCHERS SANS FRONTIERES, one of World Community Grid's most dedicated teams, issues the THOR Challenge each fall. Find out how you and your team can join this year's challenge and beat last year's results.
This year's annual BOINC Workshop was held at University of Oxford and focused on the BOINC platform's future development.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Tuesday, August 21, beginning at 14:00 UTC.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Tuesday, August 21, beginning at 14:00 UTC.
In this comprehensive update, the Mapping Cancer Markers team explains how they are determining which genes and gene signatures carry the greatest promise for lung cancer diagnosis. They also introduce the next type of cancer--sarcoma--to be added soon to the project.
The data analysis continues while the OpenZika team bids farewell to one of the project co-investigators and brings on new team members.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Tuesday, July 10, beginning at 14:00 UTC.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Tuesday, July 10, beginning at 14:00 UTC.
The Clean Water Project made an exciting discovery about the possible applications of carbon nanostructures to water purification, biomedical research, and energy research. Dr. Ming Ma, one of the scientists on the project, recently published a paper that summarizes the current status of work in this field.
Protein-protein interactions are the basis of cellular structure and function, and understanding these interactions is key to understanding cell life itself. Dr. Alessandra Carbone and her team continue to analyze data on these interactions from the Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy project, and they recently published a new paper to contribute to the body of knowledge in this field.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Tuesday, June 26, beginning at 18:00 UTC.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Tuesday, June 26, beginning at 18:00 UTC.
The Microbiome Immunity Project researchers?from Boston, New York, and San Diego?met in person a few weeks ago to make plans that include a 3D map of the protein universe and other far-ranging uses for the data from the project.
We are updating the storage system on our servers on Thursday, June 14, beginning at 15:00 UTC.
We are updating the storage system on our servers on Thursday, June 14, beginning at 15:00 UTC.
The Smash Childhood Cancer research team recently chose several new target molecules as the focus of their current work. Learn more about the significance of these molecules in this update.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Monday, June 4, beginning at 15:00 UTC.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Monday, June 4, beginning at 15:00 UTC.
We have updated our Online Privacy Statement and Terms of Use, and are introducing new features to give World Community Grid volunteers more control over their data.
The FightAIDS@Home ? Phase 2 researchers are making plans to write a paper and to test new compounds as part of the continuing search for new and better treatments.
After a rigorous review of dozens of applications from all over the world, we're excited to announce the research groups who will receive supercomputing power, weather data, and cloud storage from IBM to accelerate climate change science.
World Community was invited to give two presentations on the power of crowdsourced computing power at SXSW 2018 in Austin, Texas. See the full presentations, as well as a short video with excerpts from both, in this article.
The Help Stop TB researchers are looking to expand their team as they analyze the large amount of data generated by World Community Grid. Read about their plans in this update.
The Drug Search for Leishmaniasis researchers recently conducted lab testing on 10 compounds. The testing showed that none of the compounds were good potential treatments, and the researchers will turn their attention to additional compounds.
The Microbiome Immunity Project is off to a great start on predicting the structures of hundreds of thousands of bacterial proteins within the human gut. Read about their progress and their plans in their first project update.
We are performing database updates on our servers on Monday, March 5 beginning at 18:00 UTC.
We are performing database updates on our servers on Monday, March 5 beginning at 18:00 UTC.
We will be deploying an update to our servers on Wednesday, February 14 at 15:00 UTC.
We will be deploying an update to our servers on Wednesday, February 14 at 15:00 UTC.
The FightAIDS@Home project is searching for possible compounds to target the protein shell inside HIV (called the capsid core), which protects the viral RNA. Currently, there are no approved drugs that target this protein shell. In this update, Dr. Olson summarizes the team?s progress to-date, describes a new software tool that will help their work, and introduces us to a new research team member.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Monday, February 12 beginning at 15:00 UTC.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Monday, February 12 beginning at 15:00 UTC.
An international team of researchers was inspired by the Computing for Clean Water project to do a series of further simulations, using a slightly different model and studying the diffusion of oxygen molecules as well as water molecules. Learn about their results, which validated the work done on World Community Grid, in this article.
We are updating the database on our servers on Monday, January 15, beginning at 20:15 UTC.
We are updating the database on our servers on Monday, January 15, beginning at 20:15 UTC.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Saturday, January 6, beginning at 2:00 UTC.
We are updating the operating system on our servers on Saturday, January 6, beginning at 2:00 UTC.
Dr. Gerry Learmonth, the principal investigator for the Computing for Sustainable Water project, gives an update on the primary findings of the project as well as how other scientists can access the data.
We are upgrading the software on multiple parts of the system on Saturday, December 9, beginning at 2:00 UTC.
We are upgrading the software on multiple parts of the system on Saturday, December 9, beginning at 2:00 UTC.
The Mapping Cancer Markers researchers recently moved to a new institute, but continues analyzing results, planning for expanded research, and creating new work units throughout the transition. Learn about their plans in this article.
The Uncovering Genome Mysteries data (all 30 terabytes) was transferred to the research teams in Brazil and Australia this year. Now, the researchers are analyzing this vast amount of data, and looking for ways to make it easy for other scientists and the public to understand.
What is basic research and how is it applicable to the work done on World Community Grid? In this article, we'll address some of the fundamental questions about basic research, which is the foundation of scientific discovery.
We are upgrading the software version of our clustered file system on Wednesday, October 25, beginning at 12:00 UTC.
We are upgrading the software version of our clustered file system on Wednesday, October 25, beginning at 12:00 UTC.
In this update, Dr. Stan Watowich, principal investigator for the Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together project, explains how the research team is shifting their approach to data analysis. The research team has also released their best-scoring results in order to help other scientists conducting similar studies.
We are conducting maintenance on our file system on Thursday, October 12 at 13:00 UTC.
We are conducting maintenance on our file system on Thursday, October 12 at 13:00 UTC.
The OpenZika researchers are continuing to screen millions of chemical compounds as they look for potential treatments for the Zika virus. In this update, they report on the second stage of the project, using a newly prepared, massive library of 30.2 million compounds that are being screened against the Zika virus proteins. They also continue to spread the word about the project.
Meet Gil Rivet, a volunteer from France who is an administrator for the Crunchers Sans Frontieres team. Here's his story in his own words.
The Help Fight Childhood Cancer researchers discuss how they?re moving forward with data analysis and continuing their search for pharmaceutical partners.
A group of BOINC developers, project managers, researchers, and volunteers recently participated in a workshop where they exchanged information and ideas that will help set the direction for the future development of the BOINC open source project.
What if you could help researchers learn more about how the bacteria in and on our bodies play a role in diseases such as Type 1 diabetes? We're proud to announce our latest project, which will be the first of its kind, large-scale, comprehensive study of the human microbiome.
The Help Stop TB project is turning out to be the most comprehensive study of mycolic acids ever undertaken, which will be of enormous value to all researchers who are interested in how these molecules protect bacteria. In this update, the researchers describe mycolic acid folds that have never been detailed before, and explain how they plan to continue their exploration of this new territory as the project continues.
The Drug Search for Leishmaniasis team has begun lab testing potential treatments for this serious?yet neglected?tropical disease. In this update, Dr. Carlos Muskus discusses the results of topical (on the skin) testing of four compounds.
Dr. Ming Ma, one of the original members of the Computing for Clean Water research team, has created his own lab at Tsinghua University. Dr. Ma and his team continue to analyze the data generated by the project. Learn more about their current work and plans for the future in this update.
We will be updating our security certificates on Tuesday, July 25 at 19:00 UTC.
We will be performing some maintenance which will result in volunteers being temporarily unable to access the website or download new work at 14:00 UTC on Tuesday, July 18.
IBM invites scientists to apply for grants of supercomputing power through World Community Grid, meteorological data from The Weather Company, and IBM Cloud storage to support their environmental and climate change research projects.
In this letter to volunteers, Dr. Alessandra Carbone, the principal investigator for the Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy project, announces the release of two new open access tools which can accelerate the work of researchers who investigate protein interactions.
We're experiencing an unplanned outage which initially affected our website as well as sending and receiving work units. Our tech team is working to fix the issue, and we will add updates to this article regularly.
We're experiencing an unplanned outage which initially affected our website as well as sending and receiving work units. Our tech team is working to fix the issue, and we will add updates to this article regularly.
We're experiencing an unplanned outage which initially affected our website as well as sending and receiving work units. Our tech team is working to fix the issue, and we will add updates to this article regularly.
FightAIDS@Home researchers restarted the first phase of the project at the end of 2016, and in just a few months, they have completed approximately 46 percent of their projected work on World Community Grid. Read about their progress on finding compounds that could stop HIV from replicating.
Volunteers will not be able to fetch new research tasks or report results for approximately one hour while we perform database maintenance work. [Complete]
Volunteers will not be able to fetch new research tasks or report results for approximately one hour while we perform database maintenance work.
Our move to IBM Cloud began on the morning of May 15. This article includes updates for volunteers.
Three co-workers wanted their company to support World Community Grid, but they knew they?d need to convince many people to make their vision a reality. Here?s how they did it.
On May 15, World Community Grid will begin migrating to IBM Cloud, as part of an effort to modernize and enhance our infrastructure capabilities. Our system will be unavailable for approximately 48 hours while the migration takes place, but otherwise the move will not affect most volunteers.
Our website will be unavailable for about 30 minutes in order to perform some database maintenance work.
In this project update, the Mapping Cancer Markers team describes how they are analyzing 45 million of the most promising lung cancer data results, and how they have begun to disseminate their early findings.
The Clean Energy Project team is working on publicizing their results to-date. They have wrapped up the second phase of the project, and are also making decisions about their future work with World Community Grid.
The OpenZika researchers are continuing to screen millions of chemical compounds as they look for potential treatments for the Zika virus. In this update, they report on the status of their calculations and their continuing work to spread the word about the project.
This team member was an experienced coder by the time he was in his teens, and began working for IBM while still in college. Meet Al Seippel in this article.
The data from the Nutritious Rice for the World project is now available on a web server built by the researchers, and they recently published a short paper about their findings.
The Help Stop TB team is hard at work analyzing the data they?ve received so far from World Community Grid. They recently chose two new data analysis tools, which will help them better understand the behavior of the bacterium which causes tuberculosis.
Which proteins are most likely to interact with other proteins, and how might these interactions affect disease, and life itself? Results from data computed by World Community Grid are being used to help create a protein sociability index, which could help future advances in biology and medicine.
The Help Fight Childhood Cancer project made a breakthrough discovery when they uncovered several potential drug candidates to fight neuroblastoma. Today, we are proud to announce that the project's lead scientist has assembled an international team to fight even more childhood cancers.
The Outsmart Ebola Together research team has conducted an enormous number of virtual docking experiments, and they are now ready to embark on a new stage of their research.
Phase 2 of Help Fight Childhood Cancer will expand on the breakthrough discoveries from Phase 1. New collaborators, new disease targets and new therapy options will mean new hope for even more pediatric patients afflicted with cancer.
In this extensive update, the FightAIDS@Home team leader, Prof. Art Olson, recaps nearly a decade of progress in the fight against AIDS: new computational methods, new understanding of key HIV proteins, and huge volumes of computational results that have only begun to be explored. Though Phase 1 is winding down, Phase 2 of this enormous project will continue to advance vital research into the world's deadliest virus.
The power of World Community Grid's crowdsourced research is highlighted in this article on PharmaVOICE.com.
The Clean Energy Project team has just published some thoughts about the philosophy, practicalities and potential of high-throughput virtual screening. Because computers and software continue to evolve rapidly, other researchers who are interested in high-throughput screening should consider these general guidelines, rather than trying to meet specific technical parameters.
The Uncovering Genome Mysteries project has already amassed data on over 200 million proteins, with the goal of understanding the common features of life everywhere on earth. There are tens of millions of calculations still to run, but the team is also making preparations for analysis and eventual publication of the data.
A new paper from the Clean Energy Project team reveals that they can now use multi-layer artificial neural networks to predict the electrical properties of novel molecules without actually simulating the entire molecule. This advance was made possible by the enormous number of simulations done for the Clean Energy Project, and promises to enable screening of many more molecules than the team was able to address in their previous work.
We've recently been invited to write a chapter for an upcoming book: The Future of HIV-1 Therapeutics. Our chapter focuses on structure-based drug design, and discusses the benefits of "in silico" modeling for dramatically expanding the scope and effectiveness of structure-based research. We pay particular attention to the benefits of the large-scale computation network that we found in World Community Grid.
Efforts to simulate matches between candidate compounds and one key Ebola virus protein are largely complete. Simulations of matches against another, newly discovered target protein are beginning now. Even as simulation work continues, the team is beginning to analyze these results and home in on compounds that could form the basis for effective new drugs against Ebola and other related diseases. Thanks to your help, and a new grant, the work is proceeding well.
The team behind FightAIDS@Home is launching Phase 2 of the project, putting to use a more accurate simulation tool to help them determine which of the Phase 1 results merit further investigation. Phase 2 will also be applying this analysis technique at an unprecedented scale, which if proven successful, can benefit medical research not only for HIV but many other diseases as well.
System updates will be performed Sunday, September 20th.
System updates will be performed Sunday, September 20th. [ Completed ]
A busy summer has led to several advances in the Clean Energy Project: new team members, new database search functionality, new publications and (hopefully) new funding!
Behind-the-scenes work continues on the Help Conquer Cancer project - the team is analyzing millions of protein crystallization images processed by World Community Grid volunteers, with the hope of finding patterns that will help researchers build better cancer screening tools.
Although work continues, enough data has already been processed to let the Mapping Cancer Markers team begin identifying high-scoring signatures and associating them with particular lung cancer biomarkers. The ultimate goal is to find signatures that distinguish many types of cancer, giving physicians and researchers another tool to improve detection, treatment and patient outcomes.
World Community Grid is competing for a chance to present at the SXSW Interactive 2016 conference and we need your help to get there! Vote today to help us tell this influential crowd how we?re using crowdsourced computing, donated by you, to take on critical humanitarian challenges, such as improving access to clean water.
A firmware upgrade will be performed on Saturday, August 8th. [ Completed @ 0830 ]
The Computing for Clean Water team is pleased to announce that the breakthrough paper we published online last month on the use of nanotechnology for more efficient water filtration will be available in the August print edition of Nature Nanotechnology. With our results published, we're now making the underlying data available to other interested scientists and discussing the attention our work has gotten, both from international experts in the field and from the world media.
A firmware upgrade will be performed on Saturday, August 8th. [ Completed @ 0830 ]
A firmware upgrade will be performed on Saturday, August 8th.
An exciting video about the recent Computing for Clean Water breakthrough.
We will be updating our security certificates on Monday, July 20th, 2015. Volunteers using older versions of the software may need to upgrade.
The Drug Search for Leishmaniasis team has completed in vitro lab testing of the 10 top-rated compounds identified during screening, and have found that 4 of those 10 have very interesting properties that could point the way to new therapies. The post-processing of results continues, with the hope of identifying even more promising compounds for future lab and in vivo testing.
The Computing for Clean Water team has discovered how water can pass through tiny carbon nanotubes much more easily than previously predicted. This groundbreaking understanding of a fundamental physical process holds potential for improving access to clean water for millions through more efficient water filtration and desalination, as well as possible applications in clean energy and medicine. This discovery has been published in Nature Nanotechnology, the world's most prestigious nanotechnology journal.
An article in The Independent, one of the UK's most prominent daily newspapers, detailing the past 10 successful years of World Community Grid.
The GO Fight Against Malaria project team has been making good use of the calculations which were conducted by our volunteers and that concluded in summer 2013. Their findings have sparked progress against not only malaria, but tuberculosis as well. They have one paper published and two more about to be submitted. They continue their work to publish their findings, after which they will resume the analysis on and experimental assessment of the massive amount of data generated by World Community Grid volunteers.
Even as World Community Grid computations continue, the team behind the Clean Energy Project is busy improving their database structure, making their results more accessible to the wider scientific community, and authoring papers to disseminate the methodology behind the project. Also, look out for their new project website coming soon!
A firmware upgrade will be performed on Tuesday, May 5th. [ Completed ]
Thanks to the huge level of support from World Community Grid, the team at the Scripps Research Institute has already received most of the matching data for the first target protein of the Ebola virus. While this data is being analyzed, the search now moves to another related protein with potential to help the fight against hemorrhagic fevers.
A firmware upgrade will be performed on Tuesday, May 5th.
Starting on May 3rd, no work units were distributed across all World Community Grid projects due to technical issues which have now been resolved.
System updates will be performed Sunday, April 26th. [ Completed ]
System updates will be performed Sunday, April 26th.
The research team has combed through the grid computing results of Say No to Schistosoma, using several additional analytical techniques to help them select promising compounds. The three most promising substances are undergoing additional testing with the hope of identifying the most effective potential treatments for schistosomiasis.
World Community Grid senior scientist Viktors Berstis and technical lead Keith Uplinger participated in a Question & Answer session with one of the winners of the Decade of Discovery recruitment competition held last November.
An article on ITWorld.com about the Outsmart Ebola Together project on World Community Grid.
The Uncovering Genome Mysteries research team has started analyzing results from their massive ongoing project, which is comparing proteins between diverse organisms from around the world. Better understanding of similarities between proteomes should help scientists develop sustainable technologies, renewable materials, productive crops, and new treatments for stubborn diseases.
Database upgrades will be performed Saturday, February 28th.
Database upgrades will be performed Saturday, February 28th.[ Completed at 13:50 UTC on Feb 28 ]
Network upgrades will be performed on Saturday, February 21st. [ Completed ]
Thanks to the incredible generosity of World Community Grid volunteers, the FightAIDS@Home project team has finished with an important stage of their project. The research team has refocused on analyzing their existing results and preparing for the end of this historic grid computing stage.
An update about recent and upcoming technical activities at World Community Grid.
Network upgrades will be performed on Saturday, February 21st.
Results from the first stage of the Mapping Cancer Markers project are helping the researchers identify the markers for lung cancer, as well as improve their research methodology as they move on to analyze other cancers.
The GO Fight Against Malaria team has just published a paper in which they describe an unexpected benefit of their research: they?ve identified two compounds that could advance the future development of new drugs to treat tuberculosis, including drug-resistant tuberculosis. These results open up a new front in the fight against tuberculosis, which is constantly evolving to resist existing treatments.
The Computing for Clean Water team has written a paper describing the results of their research on World Community Grid. They?ve described the novel flow effect that all you volunteers helped discover. Their paper is currently under consideration at a prestigious journal.
System upgrades will be performed on Saturday, February 7th. [ Completed Feb 7th @ 2350 UTC ]
The Clean Energy Project team has added new members and continues to explore exciting facets of the largest quantum chemistry experiment ever conducted. New team members will help expand on the results of the current experiments and make methodological improvements that will improve future research.
System upgrades will be performed on Saturday, February 7th.
The Chesapeake Bay is suffering: excess nutrient levels in runoff from populated areas are leading to oxygen-depleted "dead zones." The Computing for Sustainable Water project modeled nutrient flows and oxygenation levels in the Bay and predicted the effectiveness of various environmental policies - helping policymakers understand the best and most cost-effective ways of preserving this important economic and ecological region.
Prof. Nakagawara, lead researcher of the Help Fight Childhood Cancer project, updates us on the project's status after a remarkable year that included the publication of a breakthrough paper in 'Cancer Medicine'. World Community Grid results have revealed even more potential treatment mechanisms than the team previously thought, and paved the way for a second phase of the project.
An update about technical activities at World Community Grid in January 2015.
Network equipment upgrades will be performed on Saturday, January 17th.
Network equipment upgrades will be performed on Saturday, January 17th.
[ Completed: Jan 17 @ 05:50 UTC ]
An article on FastCompany.com about the Outsmart Ebola Together project on World Community Grid.
An article on Engadget.com about the Outsmart Ebola Together project on World Community Grid.
There is currently a temporary pause in the sending of new work for the Outsmart Ebola Together project.
An article on TIME.com about the new Outsmart Ebola Together project on World Community Grid.
The Help Conquer Cancer research team at the Ontario Cancer Institute continues to analyze the millions of protein-crystallization images processed by World Community Grid volunteers, by building new classifiers based on a combination of Grid-processed image features, and deep features learned directly from image pixels. Improvements in image classification, along with new data provided by our collaborators increase possibilities for discovering useful and interesting patterns in protein crystallization.
Project and experiment updates from the Scripps website: May 2008 - December 2014
An article on International Business Times.com about the new Outsmart Ebola Together project on World Community Grid.
An article on CNNMoney.com about the new Outsmart Ebola Together project on World Community Grid.
An article on ABCNews.com about the new Outsmart Ebola Together project on World Community Grid.
An article on Mashable.com about the new Outsmart Ebola Together project on World Community Grid.
The Ebola virus is a significant global health threat and is responsible for a growing humanitarian crisis in West Africa. Currently, there are no proven treatments or vaccines. We?re launching Outsmart Ebola Together to help researchers find a cure. Dr. Erica Ollmann Saphire of The Scripps Research Institute tells us more about the project and what she hopes to achieve together.
Team leader Dr. Carlos Muskus provided this extensive update on the progress of the Drug Search for Leishmaniasis project.
The Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy project finished its grid calculations last year. Team leader Dr. Alessandra Carbone has posted an update explaining her colleagues? ongoing work on understanding and modeling the complex protein-protein interactions that lie behind diseases such as muscular dystrophy.
We?ve reached the end of our six-week decade of discovery celebrations - marking 10 years of scientific success. Since October, we?ve been revisiting key projects from the last decade and highlighting some of the fantastic achievements that you?ve helped make possible. We?ve also been running a competition to encourage more people to join World Community Grid. We?d like to thank you again for your support and remind you why it?s so important to keep spreading the word...
The Discovering Dengue Drugs research team has published a paper describing a new drug candidate that was discovered with the help of World Community Grid volunteers. This drug candidate has no known adverse risks, and seems to be an attractive candidate for preclinical studies. A new antiviral treatment would be hugely beneficial for the roughly half of the world?s population that is at risk of contracting dengue or other related viruses such as hepatitis C, yellow fever and West Nile.
For week five of our decade of discovery celebrations we?re looking back at the Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together project, which helped researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston search for drugs to help combat dengue - a debilitating tropical disease that threatens 40% of the world?s population. Thanks to World Community Grid volunteers, researchers have identified a drug lead that has the potential to stop the virus in its tracks.
Imaging studies have now confirmed some of the computational predictions made during FightAIDS@Home, providing important confirmation of our methodology and the value of your computational results. This work is ongoing, but promises to increase our understanding of how HIV protease can be disrupted.
It's week four of our 10th anniversary celebrations, and we're following up last week's childhood cancer feature by spotlighting another cancer project that's helped researchers develop powerful new tools to diagnose cancer and tailor treatments to individual patients, using big data and analytics.
Project updates from the Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy website: February 2009 - October 2014
To mark week three of our decade of discovery celebrations, we?re focusing our efforts on childhood cancer research. Through the Help Fight Childhood Cancer project, World Community Grid volunteers powered the screening of over three million drug candidates for neuroblastoma ? a common and dangerous form of childhood cancer. Through this screening, researchers identified seven drug candidates that showed great potential for drug development ? a breakthrough that could save many young lives.
University of New South Wales press release about the new Uncovering Genome Mysteries project on World Community Grid.
Lead researchers, Wim Degrave and Torsen Thomas, give us an insight on the new World Community Grid project, Uncovering Genome Mysteries, in this Citizen IBM blog post.
An article on Business Insider-Australia about the new Uncovering Genome Mysteries project on World Community Grid.
An article published on HPC wire about the new Uncovering Genome Mysteries project on World Community Grid.
Thanks to your help, the Mapping Cancer Markers team is nearly finished with benchmarking their first set of genetic markers. In this update, the team presents an in-depth review of what they've accomplished thus far, and what significance this early work will have for cancer research at their lab and elsewhere.
The Clean Energy Project team has an end-of-summer update for all the World Community Grid volunteers. Several changes to the database and work units were put in place over the summer. The team sends a big thank-you to the volunteers who make this work possible, as well as to the lab?s summer students and the departing CEP web developer.
To mark our 10th anniversary, we?re looking at key scientific discoveries of the last decade. This week, we?re driving the search for organic solar cells through The Clean Energy Project in partnership with Harvard University. So far, we?ve helped researchers identify over 35,000 compounds with the potential to double carbon-based solar cell efficiency. With your help, we can explore thousands more.
As we celebrate a decade of discovery, we?re inviting you to take part in a community-wide competition to introduce new volunteers to World Community Grid.
To kick off World Community Grid's 10th anniversary celebrations, we're launching Uncovering Genome Mysteries to compare hundreds of millions of genes from many organisms that have never been studied before, helping scientists unearth some of the hidden superpowers of the natural world.
To celebrate a decade of scientific discovery, we're launching new badges to recognize volunteers for recruiting friends and family to World Community Grid. Start earning your badges today!
Routine system maintenance will be performed on Sunday, October 12th.
Routine system maintenance will be performed on Sunday, October 12th. [ Completed Oct 12 @ 08:15 UTC ]
Routine system maintenance will be performed on Sunday, October 5th. [ Completed Oct 5 @ 09:00 UTC ]
An article published in the Toronto Star featured Dr. Igor Jurisica, the lead researcher of the Mapping Cancer Markers project. He discussed the value of the supercomputing power that is provided to researchers through a global network of home and business computers.
Routine system maintenance will be performed on Sunday, October 5th.
The computing phase of Say No to Schistosoma is now complete. The research team is analyzing the results and exploring the potential applications of the compounds that volunteers helped identify.
Due to validation issues, The Clean Energy Project - Phase 2 work units are not currently being sent out. Beta tests to fix the issue are underway. -Resolved Aug 29, 2014
Routine system maintenance will be performed on Sunday, August 24th. - Complete 06:15 UTC
Routine system maintenance will be performed on Sunday, August 24th.
Due to validation issues, The Clean Energy Project - Phase 2 work units are not currently being sent out. Beta tests to fix the issue are underway.
There will be an unplanned BOINC database maintenance on Aug 12, 2014 at 1500 UTC time. [ Completed Aug 13 @ 0100 ]
There will be an unplanned BOINC database maintenance on Aug 12, 2014 at 1500 UTC time.
Preliminary analysis of the Computing for Sustainable Water data shows the importance of broad community-based coordination, so that environmental priorities can be achieved with a minimum of redundant effort. The project has also increased understanding of sustainability practices in other watershed areas.
In response to President Obama's call to action on the Climate Data Initiative, we invite scientists studying climate change issues to submit proposals for accessing massive supercomputing power to advance their research.
World Community Grid is being featured at the 20th International AIDS Conference which begins today in Melbourne, Australia. Dr. Arthur Olson, FightAIDS@Home principal investigator, shares his perspective on how World Community Grid is helping his team develop therapies and a potential cure for AIDS.
New methods and processes help the research team process World Community Grid data more efficiently and provide more accurate docking techniques.
Project and experiment updates from the Scripps website: May 2008 - July 2014
Dr. Alexander Perryman describes the analysis and initial findings from the first phase of GO Fight Against Malaria, which include the discovery of several promising hits against key drug targets for treating both malaria and drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis. They are conducting further analysis and experimentation on the massive amount of data generated by World Community Grid volunteers.
Routine system maintenance will be performed on Saturday, July 12th. -
Completed: 7/12/2014 @ 06:38:00 UTC
The lead researcher for Mapping Cancer Markers presents a roadmap for the project to analyze signatures for 4 types of cancer: lung, ovarian, prostate and sarcoma; an update on his team?s progress thus far, and an invitation to join the research team in an August cancer fundraiser.
The research team expands to advance their analysis of the millions of protein-crystallization images processed by World Community Grid volunteers. This will help scientists understand how protein structure can lead to better cancer drug design.
Routine system maintenance will be performed on Saturday, July 12th.
New website features give you more information about the people and connections that make World Community Grid possible.
Routine system maintenance will be performed on Sunday, July 6th. (Completed July 6, 2014 at 06:00 UTC).
Dr. Nakagawara, the lead researcher for Help Fight Childhood Cancer, provides an update on his continued efforts to advance his neuroblastoma drug candidate discovery, his transition to a new role and his hopes for expanding his research on World Community Grid to other pediatric cancers.
Routine system maintenance will be performed on Sunday, July 6th.
The Scripps research team published a paper proving the effectiveness of a method to more accurately predict bindings between protein targets and drug candidates, which could benefit FightAIDS@Home and other World Community Grid drug discovery projects.
The team at Harvard provides an update which includes details of how a recent team member addition is changing the way they determine which new molecules to investigate; their ongoing collaborations with other research teams to accelerate their results and calculate electrical conductivity of targeted materials; and upcoming paper publications.
We're launching a new timeline feature that showcases project progress and highlights, and new badges for higher levels of contribution.
Routine server maintenance will be performed on Wednesday, May 21st.
Routine server maintenance will be performed on Wednesday, May 21st.
The researchers at Harvard are relocating their servers which requires a temporary pause on any new Clean Energy Project tasks being sent out. Distribution of new tasks will resume automatically once server migration work is complete.
In the first of our 'Behind the Scenes' series, which will give members insight into the workings of World Community Grid, IBM designer Rodrigo Cardoso discusses the motivations and rationale behind the program's new look, including our new logo.
Volunteers are experiencing issues receiving new research tasks or sending us results. We are investigating the root cause of this problem and will update members once we have more information.
Volunteers are experiencing issues receiving new research tasks or sending us results. We are investigating the root cause of this problem and will update members once we have more information.
The researchers at Harvard are relocating their servers which requires a temporary pause on any new Clean Energy Project tasks being sent out. Distribution of new tasks will resume automatically once server migration work is complete.
We?re continuing to make changes to the website in response to member feedback, including additional communication options and simpler account management. Thanks for helping us improve!
Researchers announce the end of the project as they complete further studies to confirm interesting results gained from World Community Grid data and prepare to publish their exciting findings.
The Nutritious Rice for the World project predicted the structures of key proteins in the rice plant, providing information that can help scientists develop better strains of rice. Watch a replay of last week's webcast in which project researcher, Dr. Hung, discussed the project, the publication of its results, its findings and its significance.
Join us on April 17th at 3:00pm Eastern (7:00pm UTC) for a live online presentation that will review how our members helped researchers understand the structure of rice proteins. These results could support the development of better food for billions of people worldwide.
A project update from the Drug Search for Leishmaniasis scientists, describing the analysis of the data generated by World Community Grid volunteers.
Volunteers may have recently experienced issues sending us their results. We have taken several measures to address this.
We have addressed several defects and issues with the new website design that you brought to our attention. Thanks for your feedback!
Routine server maintenance will be performed on Sunday, April 6.
As we move toward our second decade of supporting humanitarian research, we're excited to introduce a more approachable and welcoming World Community Grid, as well as a new software application available for upgrade.
New release of the FightAIDS@Home research application for Android users to address a recent issue causing more invalid results than expected.
A paper about innovations and performance improvements that were used to process the results data from the Nutritious Rice for the World project. The paper was published online on March 17, 2014 in the journal Bioinformatics.
Project and experiment updates from the Scripps website: May 2008 - March 2014
New release of the Mapping Cancer Markers research application to address a recent checkpointing issue.
The research team behind the Help Fight Childhood Cancer project has just published a groundbreaking paper. It reveals seven promising drug candidates - identified with the help of World Community Grid members ? for neuroblastoma, one of the most common and dangerous forms of childhood cancer.
Blog post announcing a breakthrough in the search for a new treatment for neuroblastoma, written by Dr. Akira Nakagawara, principal investigator for Help Fight Childhood Cancer
Today we released some changes that include the addition of new APIs to access our data more directly and more specific installation instructions for Linux members.
If you missed last week'€™s live webcast with Prof. Carbone of the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, the replay is now available.
We're adding news and communications preferences features to give you more insight into World Community Grid research and activities, and make it easier for you to get the information you want.
Join Prof. Alessandra Carbone, leader of the Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy research team, for a live webcast that will explain how World Community Grid members are helping unravel the mysteries of protein-protein interactions in neuromuscular diseases.
We are implementing a new system for delivering research work. Most members will not notice anything different. However, if you have manual firewall configurations, you may need to update them.
Project and experiment updates from the Scripps website: May 2008 - January 2014
Project and experiment updates from the Scripps website: May 2008 - January 2014
An article published in USA Today mentioning World Community Grid and The Clean Energy Project as potential game changers in 2014.
A paper about the first phase of the Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy project and its initial results was published in the journal ?PLOS Computational Biology? on December 5, 2013, Volume 9, Issue 12.
Watch the replay of Dr. Stan Watowich's webcast where he explains his team?s progress since the end of Phase 1, and outlines how computational research helps accelerate the search for important treatments.
Project and experiment updates from the Scripps website: May 2008 - December 2013
Project updates from the World Community Grid forums
Join us on December 6th for a live webcast where Dr. Stan Watowich will explain his team?s progress since the end of Phase 1, and outline how computational research helps accelerate the search for important treatments.
A new World Community Grid project will help identify characteristic chemical "œmarkers" for different types of cancer, thus leading to better detection, more personalized treatments and faster future research.
The Scripps Research Institute FightAIDS@Home scientists publish Vol. 12 of their newsletter.
Our 9th year saw many firsts and notable achievements on World Community Grid: our first mobile computing app, the completion of grid computations for six projects, and the publication of the Clean Energy Project results. Thanks to all the volunteers who make this work possible!
An article published by Chemistry World about the Harvard Clean Energy Project database.
Project and experiment updates from the Scripps website: May 2008 - November 2013
A paper about the database created using the results from The Clean Energy Project was published online in the proceedings of the journal "Energy & Environmental Science" from the Royal Society of Chemistry on October 25, 2013.
A big thank-you from the research team as the Drug Search for Leishmaniasis project analyzes the results from grid computations.
Project and experiment updates from the Scripps website: May 2008 - September 2013
The Computing for Clean Water researchers are analyzing the huge amounts of data recieved and working on summarizing the results for a paper, which will be submitted to a peer-reviewed journal.
Overview of the findings from the March 2013 member study and how World Community Grid is changing in response to this valuable member feedback.
Project updates from the World Community Grid forums
Project updates from the Chiba website: March 2009 - March 2013
World Community Grid launches an Android application, allowing volunteers to donate their mobile devices' spare computing time to accelerate critical humanitarian research, starting with the FightAIDS@Home project.
An article published by the National Science Foundation about the launch of World Community Grid on Android.
An article published by UC Berkeley about the launch of World Community Grid on Android.
An article published on CNET about the launch of World Community Grid on Android.
The FightAIDS@Home team is adding a new modeling tool to further advance the World Community Grid simulations. In future, project volunteers might notice one of two tools being used, depending on the specific work unit being processed.
An article published on Voice of America about The Clean Energy Project's published database of 2.3 million organic compounds.
Project and experiment updates from the Scripps website: May 2008 - July 2013
An article published on International Science Grid This Week about The Clean Energy Project's published database of 2.3 million organic compounds.
An article published on Big Think about The Clean Energy Project's published database of 2.3 million organic compounds.
An article published on Popular Science about The Clean Energy Project's published database of 2.3 million organic compounds.
Researchers at the Bonneau lab have posted a message thanking all the World Community Grid volunteers as the grid computation phase of this project is complete.
The computations for the GO Fight Against Malaria project are recently complete, so Dr. Alex Perryman posted a thank-you message to members and an extensive review of the project.
Thanks to World Community Grid volunteers, Harvard has published data about the suitability of 2.3 million organic compounds for converting sunlight into electricity.
The Harvard press release about The Clean Energy Project's published database of 2.3 million organic compounds.
An article published on Phys.org about The Clean Energy Project's published database of 2.3 million organic compounds.
An article published on the Washington Post about The Clean Energy Project's published database of 2.3 million organic compounds.
An article published on MIT Technology Review about The Clean Energy Project's published database of 2.3 million organic compounds.
The GO Fight Against Malaria project, launched on November 16, 2011, has completed processing the computational portion of their research. The Scripps Research Institute researchers thank World Community Grid members for making this project possible by contributing over 28,000 CPU-years of computing power. The project screened 5.6 million commercially available compounds against 22 different classes of potential targets. In the process they have found chemical compounds which appear to be interesting potential drug candidates. Further research will further test these compounds in the laboratory and try to modify the compounds to make them even more effective so they might eventually become treatments.
A poster, containing preliminary Drug Search for Leishmaniasis project results, presented at the WorldLeish5 Congress in Porto de Galinhas-Brasil in May 2013.
Dr. Igor Jurisica explained the outcome of the Help Conquer Cancer project, and detailed the real-world implications that these results can have for cancer research.
The Computing for Clean Water researchers have analyzed most of the results to date for the project and are currently writing a research paper about their findings.
Thanks to the generous contribution of computing power from our members, the Help Conquer Cancer project has concluded.
With centuries of donated computing time, volunteers have finished the computations for several popular research projects. Thank you! But there's still more work to do, as well as new projects and new features ahead!
Listen to the research team discuss the recently completed Help Conquer Cancer project and hear how the results are being used: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 at 12:00pm ET / 16:00 UTC
The power of World Community Grid has enabled the Computing for Clean Water project researchers to discover some unexpected properties about the flow of water through carbon nanotubes. They believe that this might lead to ways of tuning filters, based on these nanotubes, to increase efficiency. More details about their exciting new scientific discovery will come with the publication of their research paper.
The first project to run on World Community Grid, the Human Proteome Folding project, is coming to a close. They have added greatly to the knowledge of protein structures, providing their results to other scientists via their data base resources.
The Nutritious Rice for the World project has been post-processing their rice protein structure prediction data computed via World Community Grid. In the process of benchmarking and validating their post-processing technique, they believe they have come up with a better method that will improve the accuracy of the final predictions. This new method will be detailed in a new paper and software update, which will be released to the general protein folding community.
The GO Fight Against Malaria (GFAM) project researchers are challenging other scientists to openly collaborate, rather than compete, in finding ways to combat malaria. To this end, the GFAM project has made their results publicly available to other researchers and encourages others to suggest additional computational searches within the GFAM project.
Project updates from the World Community Grid forums
In June 2013, Harvard's Clean Energy Project plans to release to solar power developers a list of the top 20,000 organic compounds that could be used to make cheap, printable photovoltaic cells.
Project updates from the PECET website: March 2012 - April 2013
Project updates from the Chiba website: March 2009 - March 2013
Project updates from the University of Toronto website
Project updates from the World Community Grid forums
Project updates from the PECET website: March 2012 - March 2013
Project updates from the World Community Grid forums
Project updates from the World Community Grid forums
Duncan Penfold-Brown, a Research Associate with the Human Proteome Folding project, gives a tour and demonstration of two web interfaces that organize the results of the Human Proteome Folding calculations and make those results accessible to researchers and the public.
Project updates from the World Community Grid forums
Project updates from the World Community Grid forums
Project updates from the World Community Grid forums
A paper about the ProteinWorldDB database, created with the results of the Genome Comparison project, was published in the proceedings of the 7th Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics, BSB 2012, Campo Grande, Brazil, August 15-17, 2012.
In this International Science Grid This Week article, World Community Grid's Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy project is discussed - including what is being done with the current results.
In this International Science Grid This Week (iSGTW) article, World Community Grid's Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy project is discussed - including what is being done with the current results.
The official Clean Energy Project Facebook page where project news and updates are frequently posted.
Project updates from the NYU website
Replay of the FightAIDS@Home webcast given by Dr. Alex Perryman of the Scripps Research Institute on November 29, 2012
Project and experiment updates from the Scripps website
Project updates from the World Community Grid forums
On November 29, 2012 Dr. Alex Perryman from The Scripps Research Institute will present a live webcast update on the FightAIDS@Home project
Project and experiment updates from the Scripps website: May 2008 - November 2012
Project updates from the World Community Grid forums
World Community Grid celebrates 8 years of advancing critical humanitarian research!
Project updates in the World Community Grid forums
In this International Science Grid This Week article, World Community Grid's Computing for Sustainable Water project is discussed - including future plans for the results.
Project updates from the UTMB website: January 2008 - November 2012
Project updates in the World Community Grid forums
Project updates from the University of Toronto website
Project updates from the World Community Grid forums
Thanks to the generous contribution of computing power from our members, the Computing for Sustainable Water project has concluded.
We are excited to announce the release of GPU processing capability for the Help Conquer Cancer project!
A paper was published in the journal Bioinformatics, which describes the use of Graphics Processing Units (GPU's) to accelerate computations comparing protein structures.
Thanks to the generous contribution of computing power from our members, the Computing for Sustainable Water project is concluding.
As a result of the generous contribution of computing power from our members, the Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy - Phase 2 project is on the verge of finishing.
On August 22, 2012, Dr. Igor Jurisica provided an update on the Help Conquer Cancer project via live webcast.
On August 22, 2012 Dr. Igor Jurisica, Senior Scientist at the Ontario Cancer Institute, will be presenting an overview of the Help Conquer Cancer project via live webcast.
A paper was published in the journal Molecular Cell, which used results from the Human Proteome Folding project in identifying proteins which regulate processes in human cells.
World Community Grid announces that members have returned more than 1 Billion results.
Researchers have published a paper in the journal Genome Biology and Evolution, which documents their findings studying a number of plant genomes, their proteomes, evolution and protein structure.
On April 20, 2012, Dr. Gerard Learmonth, Sr. provided an overview of the Computing for Sustainable Water project via webcast. You can see the webcast and the related question and answer session here.
On April 20, 2012 Dr. Gerry Learmonth, Sr. from the University of Virginia will be giving an overview of the Computing for Sustainable Water project via live webcast.
The scientists working on the Drug Search for Leishmaniasis project on World Community Grid have written a chapter in the book "Current Topics in Tropical Medicine".
On March 22, 2012 (China) / March 21, 2012 (USA) Dr. Francois Grey, from Tsinghua University, will be giving an update on the Computing for Clean Water project via live webcast.
On World Water Day, March 22, 2012, Dr. Francois Grey provided an update on the Computing for Clean Water project via webcast. You can see the webcast and the related question and answer session here.
The Help Conquer Cancer (HCC) project researchers have published a paper describing their efforts in re-implementing their algorithms to take advantage of Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) hardware present in many of today's computer's. If the algorithms lend themselves to use a GPU implementation, this can dramatically increase their performance. Their work has led to the testing of a beta release of HCC using GPU hardware on World Community Grid. This paper discusses their experiences.
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On World Aids Day, December 1, 2011, Dr. Alex Perryman provided an update on the FightAIDS@Home project via webcast. You can see the webcast and the related question and answer session here.
World Community Grid is featured on IBM?s A Smarter Planet blog in a series of articles.
On December 1, 2011 Dr. Alex Perryman from The Scripps Research Institute will be giving an update on the FightAIDS@Home project via live webcast.
World Community Grid is pleased to announce the launch of the GO Fight Against Malaria project.
On October 21, 2011, Dr. Richard Bonneau provided an update for the Human Proteome Folding project via webcast. You can see the webcast and the related question and answer session here.
On October 21, 2011 Dr. Richard Bonneau from New York University will be giving an update on the Human Proteome Folding project via live webcast.
On October 21, 2011, Dr. Richard Bonneau provided an update for the Human Proteome Folding project via webcast. You can see the webcast and the related question and answer session here.
In this video, Dr. Alex Perryman gives a brief summary of the FightAIDS@Home project.
The Clean Energy Project researchers have published a paper in the journal Energy & Environmental Science, describing their approach for discovering new materials for use in solar cells.
The Human Proteome Folding project researchers have published a paper in
the journal Genome Research, which announces the availability of their data
base of predicted protein structures, their validation methods and how this
augments other information about these proteins, thus helping to solve a critical problem for biologists.
IBM researcher, Dr. Joe Jasinski, gives an interview discussing World Community Grid.
In this video, researchers from The Clean Energy Project discuss their Perspective published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.
The Clean Energy Project's solar energy research is highlighted in this Physorg.com article.
World Community Grid is pleased to announce the launch of the Drug Search for Leishmaniasis project.
In this video, researchers from The Clean Energy Project discuss their Perspective published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.
The Clean Energy Project researchers have published a paper in the journal Physical Chemistry Letters, giving an overview of their project to discover new materials for use in solar cells.
World Community Grid is featured in this press release about the Citizen Cyberspace Centre (CCC) at CERN and grid computing.
The Clean Energy Project researchers have published a paper in the journal Nature, which describes their preliminary work in developing a method for discovering new materials for use in solar cells.
The Clean Energy Project researchers have published a paper in the journal Nature Communications, which describes their preliminary work in developing a method for discovering new materials for use in solar cells.
On August 12, 2011, Dr. Robert Malmstrom provided an update for The Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together project via webcast. Here are the links to the webcast and the related question and answer session.
On August 12, 2011 Dr. Robert Malmstrom from The University of Texas Medical Branch will be giving an update on the Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together project via live webcast.
The Human Proteome Folding project researchers have published a paper in
the journal Genome Research, which announces the availability of their data
base of predicted protein structures, their validation methods and how this
augments other information about these proteins, thus helping to solve a critical problem for biologists.
World Community Grid is highlighted in this CNNMoney.com article.
World Community Grid is highlighted in this CNNMoney.com article.
IBM and World Community Grid have received the 2011 21st Century Award in Collaboration.
The Computing for Clean Water researchers have developed an equation which more accurately describes the flow rate of water passing through carbon nanotubes. They published a paper describing these initial findings.
Title: ImageMiner: a software system for comparative analysis of tissue microarrays using content-based image retrieval, high-performance computing, and grid technology.
The Nutritious Rice for the World researchers developed a way to speed postprocessing of the results computed by World Community Grid. They published a paper describing how this was done using Graphical Processing Units, normally used to in computers for games and entertainment.
On Earth Day, April 22, 2011, Dr. Alan Aspuru-Guzik provided an update for The Clean Energy Project via webcast. Here are the links to the webcast and the related question and answer session.
Dr. Alan Aspuru-Guzik, from the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, will be giving an update on The Clean Energy Project via live webcast.
Videos to help with some of the most frequently asked questions.
World Community Grid has been selected as one of the 100 innovations which helped shape IBM, thus highlighting the project as one of its most important contributions to society.
World Community Grid announces the release of 64-bit applications.
World Community Grid announces the release of 64-bit applications.
World Community Grid received fifty percent of the winnings from the Jeopardy! competition between IBM's Watson computing system and two past Jeopardy! champs.
This "Chemistry World" article interviews several World Community Grid researchers, giving an informative look at how volunteers are accelerating humanitarian research.
World Community Grid is set to receive fifty percent of the winnings from the Jeopardy! competition between IBM's 'Watson' computing system and two past Jeopardy! champs.
On World Aids Day, December 1, 2010, Dr. Alex Perryman provided a FightAIDS@Home project update via webcast. Here are the links to the webcast and the related Question and Answer session.
On World Aids Day, December 1, 2010, Dr. Alex Perryman from the Scripps Research Institute will be providing a FightAIDS@Home project update via webcast.
World Community Grid is pleased to announce the launch of the Windows and Mac versions of The Clean Energy Project - Phase 2 (CEP2).
These are two videos from the C4CW launch event held September, 2010
IBM?s World Community Grid and Tsinghua University Launch Clean Computing Project
Sony Electronics VAIO® computers now come equipped with IBM?s World Community Grid software.
World Community Grid joins forces with People for a Smarter Planet, communities that use the power of online crowdsourcing to tackle major global challenges.
World Community Grid is now offering version 6.10.58 of the BOINC software.
World Community Grid is pleased to announce the launch of the Computing for Clean Water project.
World Community Grid announces several computing projects aimed at developing techniques to produce cleaner and safer water.
World Community Grid announces that members have returned more than 500 million results.
World Community Grid has completed its annual language sync-up.
World Community Grid is pleased to launch the Linux version of The Clean Energy Project - Phase 2 (CEP2). This project is provided by the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and hopes to find promising new materials for organic solar cells.
World Community Grid project automates tedious process to determine if protein samples are ready for x-ray examination.
The researchers from Fiocruz have published a paper for their database about the results of the Genome Comparison project. This project included the comparative analysis of the genomes of more than 300 organisms. This database is now available for use by researchers throughout the world.
An interview with Dr. Ram Samudrala, Principal Investigator for the Nutritious Rice for the World project.
The Help Conquer Cancer project researchers have developed an image-analysis and classification system for automatically scoring images from high-throughput protein crystallization trials.
Dr. Alessandra Carbone, Principal Investigator for the Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy project, was recently honored as "Woman Scientist of the Year".
This Fast Company article takes an in-depth look at how World Community Grid, researchers, and volunteers are enabling life-saving research.
World Community Grid members donate computing time to The Clean Energy Project.
World Community Grid is pleased to announce, that as a result of the generous contribution of computing power from our members, the Nutritious Rice for the World project finished on April 6, 2010.
Interview of Dr. Alessandra Carbone, the Principal Investigator for the Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy Project, while attending Techfest 2010 in India in January of 2010.
Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) and World Community Grid have played a key role in helping Dr. Stan Watowich, from The University of Texas Medical Branch, complete Phase 1 of his research project to discover chemical compounds that can be effective against Dengue Fever.
Researchers from the FightAIDS@Home project on World Community Grid have found a potentially new way to fight drug resistant strains of AIDS.
World Community Grid is pleased to launch the Discover Dengue Drugs - Together - Phase 2 project by The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston, Texas, USA and the University of Chicago in Illinois, USA. The mission of Discovering Dengue Drugs ? Together - Phase 2 is to identify promising drug leads to combat dengue, hepatitis C, West Nile, Yellow fever, and related viruses.
IBM unveils a new experiential exhibit at INNOVENTIONS at Epcot® at the Walt Disney World® Resort, which invites guests to discover the possibilities of building a smarter planet.
Nicola Bernadelli, winner of the 5th anniversary video contest, created a special video message thanking everyone.
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The World Community Grid was set up to address the fact that vital humanitarian research is not being undertaken due to lack of access to essential computational power. World Community Grid harvests the unused computing capacity of volunteer PCs around the world, creating a secure virtual supercomputer available to scientists engaged in not-for-profit humanitarian research. Pioneering scientific research into disease, climate change, hunger and social science is made possible and accelerated through a global grid of devices or "virtual supercomputer", thereby helping to remove constraints of access and affordability. 300,000 years of computer run-time has been provided which has processed over 350 million results for scientists over a period of 5 years.
The members have voted and the winning video was been selected. With 53% of the votes, the video submitted by member dicudiddu has won!
Article mentioning that World Community Grid as a good idea for charitable giving.
Voting for the World Community Grid - 5th Anniversary Video Contest starts today and will end on January 5, 2010.
This video clip was featured on the Nightly News with Brian Williams
Information technology giant IBM was awarded the Asian CSR Award for poverty alleviation for its program, ?World Community Grid: Nutritious Rice for the World? during the 8th Asian Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) awards.
Brochure about TryScience and World Community Grid