World Community Grid finds a new home at Krembil Research Institute
www.worldcommunitygrid.org
We're thrilled to announce that World Community Grid will now be run and supported by Krembil Research Institute, one of the world's leading basic science and clinical research institutions.

The World Community Grid is a BOINC project that enables anyone with a computer to contribute to cancer research, find treatments for COVID, improve weather forecasts for African agriculture, and many other humanitarian efforts. All research done through WCG is published in the public domain free of charge.

On 13Sep2021 World Community Grid announced that ownership of the project is being transfered to Krembil Research Institute. The project is in talks with new sources for funding.

IBM was previously the sole source of funding and the #1 contributor of computing resources to the World Community Grid. There is a lot of uncertainty within the community regarding this move, because it is likely to limit the scope of research conducted through WCG.

  • Echedenyan@lemmy.ml
    2·
    3 years ago

    With a few cases, most of software in BOINC projects, NOT the BOINC platform but the programs which are executed in your PC which are part of each project, are mostly non-free.