The WCG took on the task of hosting the compute for clean water project, with collaboration from CAS scientists. I expect CAS did not have the infrastructure/resources to run the project themselves, along with other projects; CAS is a multi-project outfit. The benefits are cross-project cooperation, CAS can continue with other research, the clean water research will be expedited, and we get the fun of crunching for another WCG project.

Yes, we meet regularly with the team at the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, who are managing CAS@home . The purpose to the meetings is to try to encourage more scientists in China to use volunteer computing and to find ways of attracting more Chinese volunteers.

As correctly surmised, CAS@home is a small operation, and not suitable for the really large number of volunteers that World Community Grid supports, but we are considering to use CAS@home for some small scale projects to complement the results provided by the volunteers on the World Community Grid.

One of the members of the C4CW team, Francois Grey , helped to set up CAS@home while a visiting professor at CAS earlier this year. He also established the initial link between Tsinghua and the World Community Grid, and coordinates the Citizen Cyberscience Centre in Geneva.