首先,什么是WCG呢?小编上维基百科上查了下,World Community Grid,中文译名为“世界社群网格”[1][2]、“世界共同体网格计划”或“世界公共网格”。是由IBM公司主持的一项基于互联网的公益性分布式计算项目,开始于2004年11月16日。该项目将联合分布于世界各地的志愿者们提供的计算资源,用于一些能为全人类带来福音的大型科学研究项目。World Community Grid 创立之初是基于 Grid.org 的平台搭建的,之后于 2007 年开始全面迁移至开源的 BOINC 平台。World Community Grid 在底层计算平台的基础上,为具体的计算项目提供了一个更高层次的计算平台。
Thanks for contributing to World Community Grid as part of the Ripple Labs "Computing for Good" initiative. Although Ripple Labs has decided to end their initiative, we hope that you will continue to donate your computing power through World Community Grid to help advance critical humanitarian research. Every calculation helps to accelerate our research projects and move humanity closer to solutions to some of the most pressing issues of our time.
World Community Grid volunteers have already powered major specific advances in cancer, solar energy and other pressing world problems. And there's so much more we can accomplish together!