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za_michal
Cruncher Joined: Sep 24, 2014 Post Count: 1 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hello,
first, apologies, if this is already somewhere described and I am asking the obvious (and if it is, I would appreciate any link). Whom are we actually helping? Research centres? Private companies? I mean, if we spend our computing power to contribute to a drug development against serious illness for a private company, that will then sell for serious money it, I don`t want to volunteer. Do we have it ensured somehow, that this won`t happen? Thanks to all your answers. |
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Sabrina Tarson
Advanced Cruncher United States Joined: Jun 27, 2012 Post Count: 149 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I don't know all of the specifics, but I do know that IBM has a requirement that all of the projects that take advantage of the World Community Grid compute power must release all of their results to the public.
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Falconet
Master Cruncher Portugal Joined: Mar 9, 2009 Post Count: 3295 Status: Recently Active Project Badges: 
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As Chase mentioned, WCG requires all projects to release all raw data computed by WCG to the public. You can download the data yourself (See the DFSL, SN2S, Nutritious Rice for the World Projects, for example)
----------------------------------------AFAIK, there are no private companies behind any of the projects, past or present. There are mostly public Universities, Research Centers or private non-profit Research Centers like Scripps Research. I seem to recall something about proposed projects that were never approved by WCG exactly because they did not want to release the data into the public. Public data releases meaning anyone can use the data. AMD Ryzen 5 1600AF 6C/12T 3.2 GHz - 85W AMD Ryzen 5 2500U 4C/8T 2.0 GHz - 28W AMD Ryzen 7 7730U 8C/16T 3.0 GHz [Edit 3 times, last edit by Falconet at Apr 16, 2020 9:04:15 AM] |
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hiimebm
Senior Cruncher United States Joined: Oct 19, 2014 Post Count: 305 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Just as it should be. Several other projects follow this model too, I believe; Folding@Home i.e?
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Former Member
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AFAIK, there are no private companies behind any of the projects, past or present. There are mostly public Universities, Research Centers or private non-profit Research Centers like Scripps Research.
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