World Community Grid

[spytech]

Creio que não há nenhum tópico geral do WCG (pelo menos numa pesquisa rápida só encontrei tópicos de alguns sub projectos), serve o presente como tal (possivelmente agora quase só se vai falar do OpenPandemics, mas fica a intenção )

O OpenPandemics, desde que se iniciou, já conseguiu pelo menos diminuir o campo de pesquisa a ~1500 compostos, estão a estudar uma versão GPU, e o backlog de momento é de cerca de ~30 dias a este ritmo.

O Smash Childhood Cancer voltou, depois de um beta test, e está-se a focar em compreender o sarcoma de Ewing.

Pessoalmente, já não BOINCava aí há uns 2 anos, creio, e voltei por causa da pandemia... Juntei-me ao WCG porque é o único projecto relacionado com o COVID-19 com trabalho para ARM (adicionei o Rosetta às maquinas, mas nada, fica a aguardar). Estou com 1 ano e 58 dias de CPU time.

 

[FastBoy]

O World Community Grid é uma excelente iniciativa, não existe nenhum projecto que não mereça o tempo de CPU dispendido.

Já à algum tempo que vou contribuindo. Há cerca de 2 anos comecei a usar o WCG tambem para testar maquinas em QA (para simular high CPU demand) aliando o contributo à utilidade o que permitiu receber alguns badges interessantes:

Dec. 15, 2020 - 2 year badge - Africa Rainfall Project
May. 31, 2020 - 5 year badge - OpenPandemics - COVID-19
May. 17, 2020 - 100 year badge - Mapping Cancer Markers
Apr. 12, 2020 - 20 year badge - Microbiome Immunity Project
Dec. 4, 2019 - 45 day badge - Help Stop TB
Oct. 10, 2019 - 2 year badge - FightAIDS@Home - Phase 2
Sep. 13, 2019 - 1 year badge - Smash Childhood Cancer
Sep. 8, 2019 - 1 year badge - OpenZika
Jan. 15, 2016 - 14 day badge - Uncovering Genome Mysteries
Dec. 17, 2015 - 14 day badge - Outsmart Ebola Together
Nov. 27, 2015 - 14 day badge - The Clean Energy Project - Phase 2

 

[Ra7or]

Agora que vamos ter de hibernar um pouco, o que aconcelham para manter os CPUs quentes no inverno?

https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/article.s?articleId=757

 

[nunyx]

O mais recent update no World Community Grid:

Research update from the MCM team (January 2024)​

We continue our work on characterizing lung cancer biomarkers identified in the MCM1 project. This update focuses on PCSK5, a gene associated with lung cancer survival and which shows differential expression across various cancer types.

https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/article.s?articleId=805

É sempre bom saber que é possível ajudar neste tipo de desenvolvimentos a nível de saúde.

 

[nunyx]

Spoiler: WCG Data Transfer Underway

WCG Data Transfer Underway, Stress Test of New Infrastructure Scheduled For Feb 28th​

We have started to transfer data for all active WCG projects to the Krembil Research Institute. We are gearing up to start testing the whole system on February 28, 2022.

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Published on: 9 fev 2022

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Ensuring a smooth and safe transition is our first priority. As a result, we will need to pause new work units on February 14, to gracefully shut down all computation by February 28. We will then backup and stress test the new system before proceeding into the final phase of the transition.

The legal transfer was completed in September as outlined in our previous post, and IBM’s extended support will end on March 2, 2022. We would like to thank IBM and the whole WCG team: Al, Bill, Blaine, Caitlin, Erika, Jonathan, Juan, Julie, Keith, Kevin, Nels, Rick, Robin, Sophia, Tedi and Viktors for founding and supporting this amazing community of citizen scientists, and for helping us to continue that work.

As part of preparing for the final phase of WCG migration, we want to make volunteers aware of the following important dates:

• World Community Grid pauses sending out work units: February 14, 2022.
• World Community Grid pauses receiving work units: February 27, 2022.
• Website and forum will be offline: from February 28 until April 22, 2022. A simplified version of the website will act as a sign post during the transition, to share updates and communicate our progress and roadmap for the World Community Grid in 2022.

Volunteers will not need to take any action to wind down the flow of work units to and from their devices. Likewise, clients will automatically begin receiving work units when the system is brought up again.

During this final phase of the migration, we will post all updates and communications on the simplified WCG website, and will cross-post them on WCG Facebook and Twitter pages. Unfortunately, neither forums, nor the full WCG webpage material will be accessible during this time.

Thank you all for your understanding. We appreciate your continued support, and look forward to working with you on finishing existing projects and working on the new ones.

WCG Team