World Community Grid
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title:
World Community Grid
text:
World Community Grid (WCG) is an effort to create the world's largest volunteer computing platform to tackle scientific research that benefits humanity. Launched on November 16, 2004, with proprietary Grid MP client from United Devices and adding support for Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) in 2005, World Community Grid eventually discontinued the Grid MP client and consolidated on the BOINC platform in 2008. In September 2021, it was announced that IBM transferred owne
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wiki
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encyclopedia
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BOINC based volunteer computing project to aid scientific research
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Community_Grid
date created:
2004-11-16T18:45:05Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T18:32:45Z
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