The launch of Computing for Clean Water

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Jie Wu Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project tester Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 14 Mar 10 Posts: 60 Credit: 3,474 RAC: 0	Message 206 - Posted: 30 Sep 2010, 1:14:57 UTC Last modified: 30 Sep 2010, 1:18:53 UTC
	IBM and Tsinghua University announced the launch of Computing for Clean Water, a new volunteer computing project from China. CAS@home welcomes this younger brother. The project is part of the World Community Grid, which IBM supports philanthropically. See WCG to find out more and join the new project. If you are in China, please tell family and friends about the project, because WCG is easy to use for beginners, and there is good Chinese language information explaining the project. Also the Tsinghua scientists want to reach 100,000 new volunteers in one month!
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Byron Leigh Hatch @ team Carl Sagan Send message Joined: 16 Jul 10 Posts: 21 Credit: 61,320 RAC: 44	Message 327 - Posted: 19 Feb 2011, 21:10:48 UTC
	Dr David P. Anderson - Project director, architect, and developer of BOINC posted: On January 13th IBM announced that World Community Grid will receive half of the winnings from a man vs. machine contest on the Jeopardy! game show, to air February 14, 15 and 16, 2011. 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 -- <snip> ... ... </snip> 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 read more here ... http://www.hpcwire.com/offthewire/In-Watsons-Wake-IBM-World-Community-Grid-Registration-Skyrockets-700-116476438.html http://www.hpcwire.com/offthewire/In-Watsons-Wake-IBM-World-Community-Grid-Registration-Skyrockets-700-116476438.html
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