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Forum: We're Moving to Krembil Research Institute!
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caitilarkin
Former World Community Grid Admin USA Joined: Nov 4, 2015 Post Count: 331 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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This thread is for comments and discussion about World Community Grid's move.
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Falconet
Master Cruncher Portugal Joined: Mar 9, 2009 Post Count: 3295 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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First of all, thanks to IBM for having created the World Community Grid.
----------------------------------------Secondly, I think this can be very good. World Community Grid will now be run by a research institute. Thirdly, I'm very excited about the future science projects alluded to in the article, including the Parkinson project (which I assume is run by someone at Krembil). Hopefully, we can get many more projects going. 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 |
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Grumpy Swede
Master Cruncher Svíþjóð Joined: Apr 10, 2020 Post Count: 2188 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Will the project staff from IBM/WCG also move to Krembil Research Institute?
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bozz4science
Advanced Cruncher Germany Joined: May 3, 2020 Post Count: 104 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Exciting news! Looking forward to contribute more in the future. Hopefully this transition will benefit the scientists and research projects. Long-term development will be interesting to watch.
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Dayle Diamond
Senior Cruncher Joined: Jan 31, 2013 Post Count: 452 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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This is not good news.
Projects do not grow by leaving one of the worlds largest companies to 'seek funding from diverse sources'. IBM ditched the World Community Grid and Krimbal was nice enough to keep the project going. But their staff have other projects. It's a lot easier to recruit people to WCG when I say it's IBM curating the projects, because people trust IBM. The only people who know about KRI are Canadians. That's gonna be one more complicated thing we have to explain before donors agree to participate. |
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PMH_UK
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Apr 26, 2007 Post Count: 771 Status: Recently Active Project Badges: 
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The links in the announcement are broken for me, they appear to be relative links without the base website id.
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Acibant
Advanced Cruncher USA Joined: Apr 15, 2020 Post Count: 126 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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The links in the announcement are broken for me, they appear to be relative links without the base website id. They edited the post to fix the link, but you can find the announcement here: https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/viewNewsArticle.do?articleId=732 |
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knreed
Former World Community Grid Tech Joined: Nov 8, 2004 Post Count: 4504 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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The links in the announcement are broken for me, they appear to be relative links without the base website id.Paul. Thanks for letting us know. That has been fixed. |
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Falconet
Master Cruncher Portugal Joined: Mar 9, 2009 Post Count: 3295 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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There is an official announcement at University Health Network website.
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stoneageman
Advanced Cruncher UK Joined: Nov 21, 2005 Post Count: 102 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I suspect IBM took the decision to part company 3 years ago, which was when their team started to massively scale back on the number of hosts that ran WCG.
----------------------------------------Clearly this is a major win for Krembil. Not so sure about science overall. ---------------------------------------- [Edit 1 times, last edit by stoneageman at Sep 13, 2021 3:32:36 PM] |
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