IBM World Community Grid Platform for Supercomputing

Asked By Jason K Shivers 60 points N/A Posted on - 11/17/2014

Have you used IBM’s world community grid facility before? How did you find it? How did it benefit you in any way? In which ways did using this community profit you? Would you recommend this facility to people who use supercomputers? What are the requirements for membership of this community?

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Answered By Shelock kate 0 points N/A #186502

IBM World Community Grid Platform for Supercomputing

World community grid is one of the innovative intiatives of IBM. 

It was started in 2004. It provides help to the scientists who

are unable to effort best computing facilities for their 

research. One more interesting feature of the project is, it is

mainly used for humanitarian purposes.So far 19 fascinating 

researches have been done on various aspects like HIV, cancer, Ebola,

etc., The notable projects are GO Fight Against Malaria, Clean

Energy Project, FightAIDS@Home etc.,

Regarding it's computational abilities, it is one of

the top 15 fastest machines. It has been integrated with more 

than 1.9 million spare computing power. 

  More than 0.5 million users are registered with this 

facility and approximately 65,000 members use it frequently.

If you are interested to register go with the official site of

https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/maintenance.html.

Hope it helps you.

 

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