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Thread: The World Community Grid has turned 20! |
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WCGAdmin
World Community Grid Admin Joined: Jun 9, 2020 Post Count: 167 Status: Offline |
This November, we celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the World Community Grid (WCG), an initiative that has harnessed the idle computing power of volunteers worldwide to advance critical scientific research.
https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/article.s?articleId=816 |
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FREE GAZA
Cruncher China Joined: Feb 20, 2021 Post Count: 2 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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To celebrate our birthday, we decide to stop solving the current website problems until next year!! 😋😋
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gj82854
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Sep 26, 2022 Post Count: 57 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Maybe the best thing, since it is the end of the year, is to make the decision to shutdown WCG in 2025. Get a single server and run MCM@home as a standalone project like many other BOINC projects. Probably would be a whole lot cheaper also. Get rid of all the complexity and stop continuously fighting this monstrosity. Delft can take back ARP1 and do the same thing.
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Robokapp
Senior Cruncher Joined: Feb 6, 2012 Post Count: 248 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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normally here you'd give a speech about the bright future but ...
as the posters above me have expressed, that is not where we are. |
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Falconet
Master Cruncher Portugal Joined: Mar 9, 2009 Post Count: 3294 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Congratulations to the World Community Grid. I am looking forward to the new projects and for new science updates.
----------------------------------------I hope these server issues can be resolved soon. The website seems much faster today and daily returned MCM results have hit a recent high while daily returned ARP1 results have been dropping fast. I don't agree about shutting down the WCG and building a MCM@home project, but maybe it would be simpler and useful to transition the WCG to the standard BOINC website/server software like most other BOINC projects? At least we'd get an updated forum, a server status page, a simpler and cleaner website with perhaps less overhead? 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 2 times, last edit by Falconet at Nov 17, 2024 10:41:08 AM] |
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Speedy51
Veteran Cruncher New Zealand Joined: Nov 4, 2005 Post Count: 1258 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I completely agree with the above post. Work is getting done however at a slower rate.
----------------------------------------Congratulations on turning 20. I am looking forward to the new project  |
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ibanderson
Cruncher Joined: Apr 6, 2015 Post Count: 5 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Congratulations WCG and Krembil. Thanks for keeping the WCG going when IBM abandoned it and with the comparatively limited funding resources.
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tfmagnetism
Cruncher Joined: Jul 22, 2011 Post Count: 25 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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20 - 2 (Krembil) = 18 years. Do you not even have RTC's in your PC's or what? Or maybe they turned off your MSF time signal at Anthorn like they do for maintenance during the summer in the UK and forgot to switch it back on. That's:
EIGHTEEN! (see post on ARP1 UPLOAD problems - assuming anyone is reading there persons Krembil...) |
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Unixchick
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Apr 16, 2020 Post Count: 835 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Thank you so much to the team at Krembil for making the 20th anniversary possible. I look forward to future milestones. It is important to celebrate the successes!!!
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Paul Schlaffer
Senior Cruncher USA Joined: Jun 12, 2005 Post Count: 240 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Congratulations on 20 years! In terms of IT projects, this is a major milestone. I'm an original member. I ran on United Devices until they wrapped up, and moved over.
----------------------------------------In 2022, IBM stopped supporting the platform, and the working budget has been greatly reduced. We all have to work within, and do the best we can with the budgets we have. There is not 7 day 24 hour support. It would be wise for those complaining to keep this in mind. If you want more, then take action & help support the project financially. Many thanks to Krembil for keeping this worthwhile venture going.  “Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.” – James Madison (1792) [Edit 1 times, last edit by Paul Schlaffer at Nov 18, 2024 10:56:52 PM] |
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