Project Update

[Dingo]

[World Community Grid] The Computation Moonshot starts today!
The Computation Moonshot, a competition encouraging high school students to learn about data science and distributed computing, began today.

View article · Mon, 25 Mar 2024 19:49:06 +0000

[Dingo]

[World Community Grid] ARP restart update
The ARP team is preparing to restart after the project was put on pause in December 2022. This article outlines the steps that we are taking in order to restart this project.

View article · Thu, 25 Apr 2024 15:09:54 +0000

[Dingo]

[World Community Grid] Research update from the MCM team (May 2024)
We continue to characterise lung cancer biomarkers identified in the MCM1 project. This update focuses on KLF5, a well-studied gene that has been implicated in several cancer types. KLF5 is a transcription factor, which is expressed across numerous organs and tissues.

View article · Mon, 13 May 2024 15:27:39 +0000

[Dingo]

[World Community Grid] Research Update from the MCM team (July 2024)
We continue to characterise lung cancer biomarkers identified in the MCM1 project. This update focuses on ASTN2, a protein involved in neuronal migration. It is expressed across several tissue types, and has been implicated in various cancers.

View article · Wed, 10 Jul 2024 21:25:48 +0000

[tazzduke]

Greetings,

For those that have the WCG statistics in their signature, it won't be updating anytime soon, whilst I was perusing the WCG forums, discovered in a thread, that user SNURK who did these signatures, has not been active since Feb this year.  No one has any idea on what has happened to him either.

Regards

[Mick Lindsay]

Thanks tazzduke, I've been wondering why there has been no new badges.

[chooka03]

Greetings,

For those that have the WCG statistics in their signature, it won't be updating anytime soon, whilst I was perusing the WCG forums, discovered in a thread, that user SNURK who did these signatures, has not been active since Feb this year.  No one has any idea on what has happened to him either.

Regards

Thanks for the update Tazzduke 
I think I stopped using mine a while back. Too cluttered with all these icons lol (well for my OCD) 

[Abruraspingi]

https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/article.s?articleId=817

What does WCG have left? I mean I don't think I've seen work units for these ones in years. They used to have so many projects, with such variety and heaps of WU's, now they only have African Rainfall Project and Mapping Cancer Markers (the only one I seem to be able to get WU's for)

I kept hoping they would have a new project but those dreams were dashed long ago

[jave808]

Found this on X... (post dated Dec 6 2024)

IMPORTANT: There will be an extended WCG downtime from December 7th, 2024 to January 3rd, 2025. 

Workunits production have been stopped.   

To keep up to date on any issue, please check https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~juris/jlab/wcg.html

[Dingo]

WCG finally back up after a long Xmas down time.  I had a lot of work units to return and they have all uploaded and returned.

[Mick Lindsay]

My old out of date work units have been returned but nothing has come back so I'm giving WCG a break for a while.

[Dingo]

The project seems to be up and running better than ever.  I will be going here after the Primegrid Challenge.  They also didn't take away the "Current Streak" number of days because they were down.  They used to reset to zero whenever they didn't receive a work unit from a user even if the system was down.  I put a ticket in on it so they must have reconsidered.  I am up to 82 days now and my longest before was 31 Days.

[Abruraspingi]

Sometimes I check out the WUProp active projects chart to see what's worth crunching or if a project runs out of tasks. One thing I noticed is a new project on WCG. Currently in testing where it's mapping arthritis markers. It's exciting that there is finally a new project

https://wuprop.boinc-af.org/active_projects.py

[chooka03]

Team FRANCE are RIGHT behind us hey!
As usual though, they have a one man cruncher who solely loves WCG. He's committed to the cause!

https://tinypic.host/image/warhammer-Adepta-Sororitas.3YiG06

Not sure we can keep ahead of them.

[Dingo]

World Community Grid: Research Update from the ARP Team (July 2025)
The African Rainfall Project (ARP) of the World Community Grid is running again! We are excited to share an update on our progress since Fall 2024.
8/07/2025 6:03:41 PM · more...