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Dr David P. Anderson - Project director, architect, and developer of BOINC posted:


In Watson's Wake, IBM World Community Grid Registration Skyrockets 700%

February 18, 2011

$500,000 in IBM Jeopardy! Challenge prize money to fund global research that benefits humanity

ARMONK, NY, Feb. 18 -- Watson wasn't the only computer system that won this week when it competed successfully against two human champions on the Jeopardy! game show.

The other computing system is called World Community Grid, a virtual supercomputer that helps scientists solve humanitarian challenges by tapping the unused computing power of personal computers around the world. Scientists who use World Community Grid are not only set to receive $500,000 in prize money --

One additional grant will be provided to the -- University of California, Berkeley for its "BOINC operating system"

the software that runs public, volunteer-based computing efforts such as World Community Grid.

*The recipients are:

*Computing for Clean Water: Tsinghua University / China
*Help Conquer Cancer: Ontario Cancer Institute / Canada
*Help Fight Childhood Cancer: Chiba Cancer Center Research Institute & Chiba University / Japan
*Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together: University Texas Medical Branch & University of Chicago / USA
*FightAIDS@Home: Scripps Research Institute / USA
*Help Defeat Cancer: Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Rutgers University & University of Pennsylvania / USA

To put its size, power and scope and contributions into perspective, World Community Grid:

*Receives seven computational results from volunteers' PCs every second of the day -- 500,000,000 in all since World Community Grid started six years ago.
*Has performed computations for the equivalent of 392,000 years.
*Has yielded 31 scientific, peer-reviewed published papers.
*Performs computation for projects run by academic and research organizations on nearly every continent.
*Consumes only three extra watts of power on the average computer -- less than half used by a seven-watt nightlight.
*Performs 400 trillion floating-point operations per second.

Way To Go - David - for Devloping BOINC - way back in 1998 - 2002

all the years of hard work by your self and hundreds of BOINC Volunteer developers and Moderators is paying off :)

Best Wishes
Byron

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