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| Aug 23, 2017 | IBM has launched a study on the human microbiome and its role in disease | How the bugs in our gut and elsewhere on our body affect our overall health still remains largely a mystery. But IBM is hoping to shed some light on the human microbiome and its role in autoimmune diseases using crowdsourced supercomputers ... |
| Jun 24, 2016 | Can the smartphone cure Zika? | Shawn DuBravac Contributor Shawn DuBravac is chief economist of the Consumer Technology Association and the author of Digital Destiny: How the New Age of Data Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Communicate. More posts by this contrib... |
| May 23, 2016 | Computing power takes on Zika virus | The World Health Organisation has declared Zika a global public health emergency. IBM's World Community Grid and scientists are launching an international study to identify drug candidates to cure Zika, a fast-spreading virus the World Heal... |
| Apr 5, 2016 | Virtual supercomputer joins TB fight | Hundreds of thousands of volunteers are expected to contribute vast computing resources to aid the 'Help Stop TB' project. Computing power is expected to boost research needed to combat tuberculosis (TB), one of the world's most deadly dise... |
| Dec 20, 2014 | You likely won't catch Ebola, but you can help find a cure | Ebola has created quite the stir in 2014, for both the right and wrong reasons. There's no doubting it's a serious disease that needs to be wiped out, but panic over catching it has greatly outpaced the actual spread, which is rather slow a... |
| Nov 29, 2014 | Zennet to Pay for Distributed Computing With Blockchain Tech | For several years now, kindly volunteers have been contributing their spare computing power to vast, distributed supercomputers, all in the name of worthy causes. Spare computing cycles have been used for everything from scanning cosmic rad... |
| Mar 8, 2013 | Crowdsourcing the cloud to find cures for rare and “orphaned” diseases | Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory reader comments 36 with 30 posters participating, including story author Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit For over a decade, the University of California, Berkel... |
| Jul 27, 2011 | The three-motherboard workstation made out of Lego | What do you get if you cross a kind, benevolent soul with the innovative spirit of an engineer? The Lego Folding Farm. Housing three motherboards, three Core i7 2600k CPUs overclocked to 4.7 GHz, oodles of RAM, some SSDs and a hard drive, a... |
| Jul 23, 2011 | Lego Cased Computer Crunches Efficiently For A Good Cause | For many people, building with Legos brings back fond memories. For Mike Schropp, the memories are still being built. Schropp loves Legos, often incorporating them into technology. For his latest project, Schropp built a 12-core PC tucked i... |
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What has the press written about World Community Grid?
Parsers VC has collected 13 articles mentioning World Community Grid, among them “IBM has launched a study on the human microbiome and its role in disease” (Aug 23, 2017) and “Can the smartphone cure Zika?” (Jun 24, 2016).
Is World Community Grid still active?
Yes, World Community Grid is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jun 11, 2020.