World Community Grid: Crunching Since 2005 (you should crunch too!)
Are you familiar with World Community Grid (WCG)? If not, please consider joining—and earning some crypto, too!
WCG was established by IBM over a decade ago. The project works with universities and research institutes around the world to conduct scientific research. "Distributed Computing" is the method of search, and it means the division of a simulation into work units for individual computers to crunch/calculate. As someone who loves science, this has been a cool way to learn about different types of research—while also contributing to that research. It has been really neat to lend computing time to issues like finding novel compounds to cure HIV and studying the human microbiome (the bacteria that live in our bodies, like probiotics!)
Want to know more? Ask me here or https://join.worldcommunitygrid.org?recruiterId=144874
Oh, and I forgot to mention, for those crypto lovers: Byteball and Gridcoin currently allow you to earn their cryptos by linking your WCG work!
Photo caption: some of the projects my computers have worked on since joining WCG in 2005.
I am glad that Gridcoin works with WCG again. I will start crunching this project again. It used to be blocked in order to get GDPR compliance.
Is it official that Gridcoin works with WCG again? I would like to accept new work from the project. Any links or news on the issue?
It is funny how many entities in the US blame "GDPR compliance" for troubles.
In 95% that is simply bullshit. The rules were there (in the EU or part of EU's countries) before, it was just that you could not harm those in the US who did not follow.
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STOPTo support your work, I also upvoted your post!
Awesome accomplishments! I'm doing it since 2006 but don't have such a track record!