grid.org
Sign in to savegrid.org was a website and online community established in 2001 for cluster computing and grid computing software users. For six years it operated several different volunteer computing projects that allowed members to donate their spare computer cycles to worthwhile causes. In 2007, it became a community for open source cluster and grid computing software. After around 2010 it redirected to other sites.
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It sits within the topics Computing websites, Defunct websites and Distributed computing projects.
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- Instance of
- virtual community
- Main subject
- carcinoma
- Official website
- grid.org
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- inception
- 2001-00-00
- name in kana
- ユナイテッド デバイセズ キャンサー リサーチ プロジェクト
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Volunteer computing projects
- Cancer Research Project
- Human Proteome Folding Project, phase 1
- Smallpox Project
- Anthrax Project
- HMMER Project
- Webload Project
- Open source grid community
- See also
- References
grid.org was a website and online community established in 2001 for cluster computing and grid computing software users. For six years it operated several different volunteer computing projects that allowed members to donate their spare computer cycles to worthwhile causes. In 2007, it became a community for open source cluster and grid computing software. After around 2010 it redirected to other sites.
== Volunteer computing projects == From its establishment in April 2001 until April 27, 2007, grid.org was the website and organization that ran distributed computing projects such as the United Devices Cancer Research Project, led by Jikku Venkat, Ph.D. and was sponsored philanthropically by United Devices (UD) and members participated in volunteer computing by running the UD Agent software (version 3.0).
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