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How does Phase 2 relate to Phase 1?
Phase 2 further refines the results from Phase 1 and helps us identify "false positives," thus saving time and money in future drug development processes.
How do I keep the software from running while my laptop is only using battery power?
The software is configured so that it will not run while your laptop is on battery power.
How do I set my preferences so that World Community Grid will use my GPU while I am actively using my computer?
Once you have allowed World Community Grid to use your GPU, we only use your GPU while you are not actively using your computer.
If you want World Community Grid to use your GPU at all times, you must manually enable this option by going to the Device Profile page under the Custom Options section. This option is labeled "Do work on my graphics card while computer is in use?". You may select either "Yes" or "No."
Why does the World Community Grid software only use 60% of my CPU time?
When World Community Grid was started in 2004, we heard isolated reports of computer instability while running the software at 100%. Because of this we changed the default setting to only run at 60% of the unused processor time. Members are able to modify the cpu time from 10% to 100% to suit their own needs by making a change to their device profile. However, anyone making the change to more than 60% should monitor their device to ensure that the change has not had an adverse impact. If it does then they should revert back to the default settings.
If I have more than one GPU on my computer, how do I let World Community Grid run on all of my GPUs?
In order to do this, you have to use the <use_all_gpus> tag in the cc_config.xml file. Instructions to do this are available here.
Why do I have two World Community Grid or BOINC software icons by my clock?
This area is called the Windows system tray (or systray). When the software updates itself, it will create a new icon here. The previous icon may not clear until you move your mouse over it. This is common among Windows applications that use the systray. If the second icon does not disappear, you may safely close one of them. To close, right click on the icon and select Exit.
How does The Clean Energy Project benefit humanity?
The Clean Energy Project is focused on understanding the fundamental science of how flexible solar cells work, so scientists can design more efficient energy-related technologies. The results of the project will eventually help us reduce our dependence on fossil fuels to lower our carbon emissions, keep our air cleaner, and contribute to the fight against global warming. Our research will facilitate the development of cheap, flexible solar cell materials that we hope will be used worldwide.
How much hard drive space does the software take on my computer?
The software itself will take less than 50 MB of hard drive space or your computer. The different projects that run on the World Community Grid, however, have different system requirements for running on your computer. To find out if your computer meets those requirements, go here.
How do I shut down or change my screen saver?
Click on [Start] [Settings] [Control Panel], and then double click on "Display." Click on [Screen Saver]. Use the drop down menu to either change the screen saver or shut it off by selecting "None."
How long does the scanner take to scan in a whole slide?
Usually under an hour, but it depends on how many discs are on the specimen.
How do I uninstall the World Community Grid Software?
Right click on the World Community Grid icon in the lower right corner of your screen and select "Exit". This will stop the agent. Then use your Add/Remove programs feature to remove the World Community Grid software. If that does not work, use the task manager to stop the processes starting with WCGrid. Then you should be able to delete the C:\Program Files\WorldCommunityGrid directory and its contents. After that remove the corresponding start menu items.
Will I be able to select to run work units only on my CPU, or only on my GPU, or both?
There are separate and independent settings for World Community Grid to run on either your CPU or on your GPU.
By default, World Community Grid is set up to only run work using your CPU and not using your GPU. The CPU preference is available on the Device Profiles page under the custom options section. This option is labeled "Allow research to run on my CPU?" You may select either "Yes" or "No."
To run World Community Grid work units on your GPU, refer to "How do I configure my settings so that World Community Grid uses my device's GPU?" for details.
How does this phase of the project build on the progress already made with FightAIDS@Home?
Significant new aspects of the biology of HIV have been discovered over the past 10 years. The research team's work on HIV protease has discovered new sites on the protein that represent targets that may result in new classes of drugs. Their work on HIV Integrase is exploring new chemical compounds that target a newly discovered mechanism to inhibit HIV infectivity. Again, this work may result in a new class of drugs that will work to defeat the virus and its ability to evolve drug resistance. The BEDAM approach being used in Phase 2 will help move us closer to the discovery of such drugs.
How does the FightAIDS@Home software work?
At any one time, the project uses one of two software docking tools to automatically download small pieces of work to your device and performs calculations that model how drugs interact with various HIV virus mutations. After your device processes the information, the results are sent back to World Community Grid and then sent on to The Scripps Research Institute where they are analyzed by the Scripps research team. The process takes an enormous amount of computing time, which is why World Community Grid needs you (and your friends!) to participate in FightAIDS@Home project.
How do I change my country name?
To change your country name, take the following steps:
- Sign in using your current member name and password.
- Click the Settings link at the top of the page.
- Select the My Profile option from the menu on the left.
- On the My Profile page, select the country of your choice.
- Enter your current password and press Save.
I'm using the BOINC agent, how do I choose which project or projects my device processes work for?
You may select which projects you participate in using the My Projects page. This will set the projects you participate in for all of your devices. To set projects to run on certain device profiles, go to the Device Profiles page on our website. From there you can set each of your BOINC device profiles to run a different set of projects.
How does reverse osmosis work?
To understand reverse osmosis, first consider osmosis. Osmosis is the movement of a solvent, such as water, through a semi-permeable membrane to equalize the concentrations of a solute, such as salt, on each side of the membrane. If, for example, unequal concentrations of salt solutions were placed on each side of a suitable membrane, the water would move from the lower concentration side through the membrane to the side with the higher concentration of salt. By applying pressure on the higher concentration side, the process can be reversed, hence reverse osmosis. So reverse osmosis can effectively reduce salt concentrations, and is one of several major approaches used to remove salt from seawater.
What does protein structure tell us?
Proteins are governed by the same rules as any other molecule. The structure of a protein, or how it folds, determines its function. For example, the precise arrangement of active chemical groups from different amino acids in the protein chain at the active site of an enzyme accounts for its catalytic activity. Another example is the location of positively charged groups on the surface to allow DNA binding proteins to bind to the negatively charged phosphate backbone of DNA. In addition, one can often identify the role of a protein of unknown function by comparing its structure to structures of known proteins.
What is unique about how research tasks are managed for FightAIDS@Home – Phase 2? How does this impact how work will be distributed to volunteers?
The simulations researchers need to carry out are typically very long running and complex, each of which would take several months to run on a single device. Instead, researchers split up each simulation for a given drug candidate into shorter running research tasks: much smaller and more manageable pieces. These pieces of work can be run independently and simultaneously on a volunteer devices.
However for FightAIDS@Home – Phase 2, the research tasks within a single drug candidate simulation are dependent on each other where the output of one task is used as the input to the next. This means longer research tasks within each drug candidate simulation which can’t be run simultaneously.
To handle this complexity, we are using two different, but related mechanisms called trickle messaging and intermediate uploads to allow us to track your progress through a research task and manage the handover of that task from one volunteer to the next to get it completed in the shortest time possible. This way, we can track the progress of the long simulations to ensure that computations are not delayed or lost, while the researchers get the valuable results back as quickly as possible. In addition, volunteers acquire their credits sooner too.
My Internet Service Provider charges me based on the amount of bandwidth I use. How can I control how much bandwidth is used for World Community Grid?
The most recent version of the World Community Grid/BOINC Software allows you to control how much data is transferred between your computer and our servers. You can set this by doing the following:
You can use this to say that you only want World Community Grid to use at most 500MBytes of bandwidth every 7 days (which would then limit you to 2GBytes/month). Or you could put 1024MBytes every 31 days which would limit you to 1GB per month.
How do I clear my local preferences and use the preferences set on the website?
To clear your local preferences, you will need to pull up your preferences. To do this, double click on the World Community Grid, or BOINC icon, in your system tray and select Advanced View. Then in the top menu, pull down the "Advanced" menu and select "Preferences". Then click the "Clear" button. After you have done this, press "OK" to close the preferences window. Once this is done, select the "Projects" tab and click on World Community Grid. From the left hand menu, select "Update". This will retrieve the preferences from the website and clear your local preferences.
How will my computer make a difference on this project?
While your computer is powered on, much of the time the processor inside your computer is just waiting for something to do, such as processing your next keystroke or mouse click. These idle times add up to a very large amount of processor time, when multiplied across millions of computers, that could be tapped and used for productive purposes such as this project. This can accelerate the research dramatically. Some of these projects would take hundreds or thousands of years to accomplish with the normal resources available to the scientists, and thus are likely not to even be attempted. World Community Grid and your contributions make projects such as these possible for the first time.
How do I configure my settings so that World Community Grid uses my device's GPU?
By default, World Community Grid will not use your device's GPUs. To allow World Community Grid to use your GPUs:
- Go to Device Profiles and select the relevant profile. (If you're not sure which profile relates to the device on which you want to run GPU work, refer to your Device Manager list).
- Ensure that the selected device profile is a Custom Profile.
- Scroll through the Advanced Options to the 'Graphics Card Usage' section.
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In order to get GPU work, select "Yes" for the type of GPU card (AMD/ATI, Intel or NVIDIA) you wish World Community Grid to use. You can set all three types (AMD/ATI, Intel, NVIDIA) as "Yes" if you do not know what card you have or wish to run GPU work on all cards available in a computer.
Another option is "Do work on my graphics card while computer is in use?". This is an advanced option and is set to "No" by default, as in some cases choosing "Yes" can cause the device performance to appear sluggish while the GPU is used for mouse movements and other system operations.
What are the advantages of running World Community Grid on a computer's GPU?
GPUs can perform certain types of computations significantly faster than the central processing units (CPUs) that power computers. When the manufacturers of GPUs realized this, they extended the capabilities of some GPUs so that they could run tasks that were written in a specialized development language. As a result, applications that are modified to use this specialized development language–and can leverage GPUs' specialized capabilities appropriately–can potentially run many times faster on GPU than on the CPU.
If you run a World Community Grid project that is modified to use GPU power on a device that has a GPU, and you adjust your settings accordingly, that device can complete work units more quickly than a device using just a CPU.
However, GPU processing is different than CPU processing on World Community Grid. Specifically, GPUs don't have operating system capabilities that allow us to ensure that running work units doesn't interfere with your use of your computer. Many GPUs can run World Community Grid without any interference; however, some will cause your computer to be slow in responding to you. GPU usage for World Community Grid is therefore opt-in only; by default, World Community Grid will not use GPUs. You can opt in through the Device Profiles page - please refer to "How do I configure my settings so that World Community Grid uses my device's GPU?" for details.
How do I set the software to close the internet connection after downloading a work unit?
The software does not attempt to control your Internet connection. Establishing and closing the connection is done by the operating system.
How may I change my team name, description, or URL?
Team name, description, and URL may only be changed by the team captain. To change this information, sign in to My Contribution, select My Team from the left menu. From the My Team page, select Edit. On the Edit Your Team page, make the changes and select Save.
How exactly does this project use computing power to look for potential COVID-19 treatments?
The Forli Lab is using a process known as molecular docking, which is the study of how two or more molecules fit together, such as a protein in a human cell or in a virus, and a chemical compound. In OpenPandemics - COVID-19, the researchers are leveraging this technique at scale, thanks to World Community Grid's massive computational power, by virtually screening millions of chemical compounds to see which might be capable of binding to proteins of the SARS-Cov2, as well as other coronaviruses proteins. This helps them identify which compounds could be effective against the virus and therefore may be able to contrast the COVID-19 progression. Promising compounds will then proceed through the drug discovery process, which includes laboratory testing and chemical optimizations.
The researchers plan to screen compounds from various sources including existing commercially available and clinically tested compounds, focused libraries generated in silico, as well as in-house libraries of compounds that are available at Scripps Research.
How much computing power does this project need, and why?
Based on the molecular dynamics simulations that the researchers have done up to now, using a cluster of 20 nodes (160 CPU cores) for a couple of months at a time, they estimate that to extend the simulations to water-flow velocities typical of practical nanotube filters, they will require another factor of 400 or more in compute time. And to simulate a representative range of membrane pore sizes would require a further factor of 10, for a total of order 106 thousand single-core-CPU-years. Add on to this a wide variety of contaminants they would like to add to the water in the simulations, and the sky is the limit!
Of course, the researchers will have to go one step at a time, and a lot of the computing effort will be to verify previous results at each stage and to make sure the results are reliable.
How does the GO Fight Against Malaria software work?
The GO Fight Against Malaria project uses software that automatically downloads small amounts of input data and then performs calculations that model how well different drug candidates interact with various molecular targets from the malaria parasite. After your device finishes one set of calculations, the results are sent by World Community Grid to a computer at The Scripps Research Institute. The Scripps research team then analyzes the results produced by all of the different donor machines on World Community Grid.
This project uses AutoDock 4.2 and the new AutoDock Vina computer software to evaluate how well each candidate compound (molecule) attaches ("docks" or "binds") against a malarial target (usually a protein molecule.) Millions of candidate compounds will be tested against 14 different molecular drug targets from the malaria parasite in order to discover new compounds that can block (inhibit) the activity of these multi-drug-resistant mutant superbugs. These candidates will be tested by docking flexible models of them against 3-D, atomic-scale models of different protein drug targets from the malaria parasite, to predict (a) how tightly these compounds might be able to bind, (b) where these compounds prefer to bind on the molecular target, and (c) what specific interactions are formed between the candidate and the drug target. In other words, these calculations will be used to predict the affinity/potency of the compound, the location where it binds on the protein molecule, and the mode it uses to potentially disable the target. Compounds that can bind tightly to the right regions of particular proteins from the malaria parasite have the potential to “gum up” the parasite’s machinery and, thus, help advance the discovery of new types of drugs to cure malaria.
How may I tell how much my team is contributing?
There are two ways to do this:
- Go to the home page and sign in. On the My Contribution page, the team that you are a member of will be shown in the center of the page next to My Team. Select that link to view the team statistics.
- Click Here to search for a team. This section is listed under "Find a Team" in the My Contribution section, but will allow you to search through all the teams that have been created at World Community Grid.
Will running the World Community Grid Software affect my regular use of my device?
No. Configured correctly, the software will never interfere with your ability to use your own device. Most devices never use all of their resources and it is estimated that up to 90% of the processing power of an individual device can go unused. The World Community Grid distributed computing model is based on the ability to utilize this "idle" capacity from individual devices.
How do I know if my computer is running the 64-bit research application?
On a Windows machine, you can use the Windows task manager to view the process name. 64-bit research applications will end with "windows_intelx86_64", while 32-bit applications will end with "windows_intelx86"
On a Linux machine, you can find the PID of the research application (which will start with the name "wcg") and then execute the command "file -L /proc/PID/exe"
On OS X we only support 64 bit applications, therefore all World Community Grid tasks will be running a 64 bit application.
How do I set up my device so that it will download enough work to keep my device working for several days?
You may set up the BOINC agent so that it will keep a cache of work units to keep your device busy. You can do this on the website by going to your Settings page, and then selecting Device Manager. This screen will show you a list of your active devices. Associated with each device is a device profile. Click on the device profile associated with the device you want to cache additional work units on. On the Device Profile screen select 'Custom Profile' and then find the field labeled 'Work Unit Cache Settings', change the fields to meet your requirements and save the profile. Please do not use values longer then 4 days, as the scheduling algorithm in the client may prevent you from getting as much work as you would like.
How can I help reduce the energy usage associated with my computer?
The World Community Grid software and the workstation power management software may work in a complementary fashion. A World Community Grid participating computer may be set so that when it is in active use, the World Community Grid software harvests the unused CPU time. When a computer is not in active use for more than ten minutes, then power management software may be activated in accordance with the user's setting to enable energy saving. This may be enabled by going to your Device Profiles and selecting your 'Default' (or appropriate) profile and then selecting the 'Power Saving' option. There's plenty of computing power in the majority of our member's computers – enough to do their job, be productive, contribute to humanitarian research and still conserve energy at the end of the day.
By utilizing the Power–Saving Capability, we can all actively work towards reducing our energy use. And if you also participate in World Community Grid, you will be contributing to valuable humanitarian research.
How is my computing time helping fight schistosomiasis?
There are many approaches that can help combat not only schistosomiasis, but many infectious diseases, whose genome is sequenced and proteins annotated. Using computational methods or bioinformatics, it is possible to predict or identify molecules that are essential to the survival of these organisms, so they can be then evaluated as drug targets or vaccines. Furthermore, it is also possible to identify whether a drug could interact and inhibit an essential protein of the parasite, in order to kill it or to stop its multiplication. For the design of new drugs, it is very useful to identify molecular targets in microorganisms, and then based on these targets, to design new drugs or evaluate some previously synthesized and used for other purposes. The availability of the complete genome of Schistosoma (http://www.sanger.ac.uk/resources/downloads/helminths/schistosoma-mansoni.html) will facilitate prediction of critical or important gene products, such as those involved in pathways or metabolic essential processes for the Schistosoma parasite.
How do I get the software to use 100% of the available CPU?
The software has a default setting of 60%. You may change the CPU utilization setting to 100% CPU utilization, we certainly welcome the additional contribution this setting brings to our projects.
- To change your preferences for all computers under your member name, sign on to our website and go to your “Settings” page. Select “Device Manager”, then “Device Profiles from the left hand Navigation. Click the Profile Name that you want to alter and select “Custom Profile”. Under “Disk Usage” change your setting to reflect: “Use no more than: 100% of total disk space” and select “save”. The new settings will take effect when the agent software next communicates with the servers.
- To change the preferences for a particular computer under your member name. Double left click on the World Community Grid, or BOINC, icon in the system tray of the appropriate computer. Select Preferences from Simple View. Then check “I want to customize my preferences for this computer only” and the information panel should reflect “Use no more than 100% of the processor” and “save”. The setting changes made here take effect immediately and override those in the device profile above.
How does a molecular dynamics simulation work?
Newton wrote down simple equations of motion to describe how balls fly through the air or apples fall. The world of atoms and molecules is subject to quantum mechanics, which is a good deal more complex than classical Newtonian mechanics. Yet it turns out that by making certain approximations and simplifications, it is possible to simulate the molecular world by letting large numbers of atoms or molecules interact according to Newton’s laws.
So the idea of a molecular dynamics simulation is to let things evolve using a computer program which can track every detail of what happens to each molecule over time as it is buffeted by all the surrounding ones. But to get a statistically meaningful picture from such simulations it usually requires repeating the simulations thousands or even millions of times with slightly different starting conditions. It is this computational challenge that this project addresses, by getting volunteers to provide more than a thousand times the computing power that a typical research group would have access.
How does understanding protein structure help scientists understand the role of bacteria in human health?
Different proteins can have many different structures (shapes). They can have sticky portions which like to attach to certain chemical compounds, or repel them. They can sometimes be flexible. For example, enzymes are proteins which can enhance certain chemical reactions or even cut proteins or other compounds apart. Their structures and the patterns of electrical charges on their surface determine which other compounds they may interact with and how they may alter the other compounds.
Since cells use proteins for most of their basic life processes, their functions, determined by their structure, are very important. If these functions are disturbed, diseases can result. Since the human microbiome has over 1,000 times more different kinds of proteins than the human body, many of those have the potential for affecting human cells' operations. Some of these proteins can be beneficial or even necessary, while others may be harmful. This is an area which still needs a lot of exploration. One of the early steps in understanding the role of the microbiome is to discover the functions of its proteins. That requires discovering the structure of those proteins.
What if my computer stutters while World Community Grid is using my GPU?
Due to the nature of running research applications, it is possible that running World Community Grid on your GPU while you are using your computer could interfere with the normal use of the device. If you encounter this, then we suggest that you try the option to only allow World Community Grid to use your GPU when you are not actively using your computer. This option is available on the Device Profile page under the custom options section. This option is labeled "Do work on my graphics card while computer is in use?". Select "No" and save.
Why does my device show high CPU use?
The CPU in computers and other computing devices is actually highly utilized no matter what is going on, except when it is powered off, or stopped. There is a hidden "idle" task running in the background that runs at lower priority than everything else in the device, even lower than the World Community Grid software. The idle task counts up the percentage of the time it runs and calls this "idle time" and reduces the reported CPU utilization figure accordingly. Neither the World Community Software software nor the idle task will run if your device has other work to do. However, since our software runs at a slightly higher priority than the idle task, the idle task won't run at all and thus report that your computer will be 100% utilized*. Having our software run in the background along with other applications is usually not a problem unless you have a system with relatively little memory. For such systems you may want to change your preferences to meet your requirements.
An overview of the various performance settings may be found here.
* Note: If you set the throttle in the BOINC agent (called: Use no more than: % of processor time) to 60%, the agent will run at 100% for three seconds, and then at 0% for two seconds.
Why does this application require zero redundancy, i.e. no comparison of results across devices?
Unlike many of our research projects, FightAIDS@Home – Phase 2 does not require redundancy, where the same research task is sent to two devices and the results are compared for consistency. Instead, this project will be using various processing metrics during the computation of a research task to validate that the task is progressing without errors.
Why are my work units failing with exit code 234 “Error: cl_khr_local_int32_base_atomics extension required by this program is not supported”?
The Help Conquer Cancer graphics card application requires the OpenCL extension cl_khr_local_int32_base_atomics and will not run on cards that do not support this extension. If you see the error above it is because your graphics card does not support the extension.
What does the Scripps Research Institute logo in the screen saver represent?
The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, is the largest private biomedical research institute in the US and the home of the research team behind the FightAIDS@Home Project.
What does the Progress Bar at the top represent?
This graphically shows the approximate percentage of how far along your device is in calculating the current task. When it reaches 100%, the computation is completed and the results will then be uploaded to the servers at World Community Grid before being packaged and sent back to the research team.
What does the progress bar in the screen saver represent?
The progress bar, towards the bottom of the screen saver, represents approximately how much of the current task your device has processed. When it reaches 100%, the computation is complete and the results will then be sent back to World Community Grid, where they will be packaged and delivered to the Help Stop TB researchers.
How do I contact my team members?
Team captains may e-mail (email) the members of their team and team members may send e-mails to their team captain. To use this feature, just go to your team page and click the "e-mail team" or "e-mail captain" button.
Team e-mails will be sent to any member of the team who has opted-in to receive the e-mails. If there are no members opted-in, there is a warning message for the captain, and there is no button to send the e-mail. The same applies in reverse if the captain has not opted-in.
To opt-in to team e-mails, you may go to My Profile and select the option to receive team e-mails. You will also see that you can enter in an alternate email address that is used only for team emails.
Some teams have a URL pointing to their site where they have created a special forum for team members to chat. As an alternative, you might go to the World Community Grid forums by selecting Forums from the global navigation bar. The forums contain Team forums expressly for team activity. You might consider reaching out to other members from your team in one of these forums.
We recommend that you do not divulge any private information in the forums as they are public forums.
How are points used?
The calculation of Points is the method World Community Grid uses to measure your contribution to individual research projects running on World Community Grid. Points are one method for competitive comparison on the stats pages.
I registered my agent successfully but it is not running any task.
One possibility is that your device does not meet the minimum resources required for any of our projects. You may check our system requirements here.
If your device does meet our minimum system requirements, please review the Network Connections and Settings FAQs. If this doesn’t apply, please post in our BOINC Support Forum, as a member may be able to quickly assist you with your problem.
What software does the Africa Rainfall Project use?
The Africa Rainfall Project uses the Weather Research & Forecasting (WRF) model for the research application. It is used to simulate weather conditions in a geographical region over a defined time period. The work for this project will be broken into small geographical regions of sub-Saharan Africa, and in the end each region will be simulated for one calendar year.
WRF is a very large, mostly Fortran application, and the simulations being run require more resources than are typically used for a World Community Grid project. For this reason, volunteers will not be automatically opted into this project.
What is my BOINC account key and where do I find it?
The BOINC Account key is a unique identifier that is used by the BOINC client and the BOINC server to uniquely identify you and the devices registered under your member name. You may find your BOINC account key on your My Profile page.
I'd like to put something about World Community Grid on my website; is there something that I can use?
If you'd like to promote World Community Grid and/or use the World Community Grid logo image on your website, you can make use of the World Community Grid widget. Click here for an FAQ explaining more about the World Community Grid widget.
Why is my device uploading result data (intermediate upload files) while a research task is still in progress?
We are using a mechanism called intermediate uploads whereby at certain processing milestones, your device would send us back partial results for the research task your device is currently working on. This allows us to validate the work you have completed up to that point and helps the researchers examine and interpret the results being returned by the volunteers.
What are Project and Recruitment Badges?
Project badges recognize the contribution that a member has made to a research project running on World Community Grid, and recruitment badges recognize the member's contribution to introducing new volunteers to World Community Grid. All available project badges may be viewed here and all available recruitment badges may be viewed here.
Badges appear on a member's My Contribution page and next to their name in the forums.
Project Badges: There are 11 levels of badges awarded based upon how much computing time a member has contributed to each project:
Recruitment Badges: There are 5 levels of badges awarded based on how many new people a member has recruited to World Community Grid:
Members receive credit towards recruitment badges when someone signs up for World Community Grid using that member's unique recruitment URL and begins contributing computing power. You can get your recruitment URL and see which members you've recruited on your My Contribution page.
Recruitment badges are different from project badges in that they must be maintained. Recruited members must actively contribute computing power (return a result at least every 30 days) to count towards a member's recruitment badge. If an inactive recruited member becomes active again, they will once again count towards the recruitment total of the member who introduced them to World Community Grid.
How many characters may I use in a forum post?
The database limit is 32,700 characters. If special characters are used, the character count is decreased due to how special characters are stored in the database. If you have more than 32,700 characters, or utilize special characters, you will need to create 2 or more posts.
How is my individual member rank calculated?
A member may see their individual stats on their My Contribution page for run time, points, and results returned. Your individual rank is based on the total number of members that have returned a result. You may see how many members there currently are on the Global Statistics page.
How is my team rank calculated?
A member may see their team stats on their My Team page for run time, points, and results returned. Your team rank is based on the total number of teams that have returned a result. You may see how many teams there currently are on the Team Statistics page.
Why does my country have so few members when I know there are more?
On the Statistics By Geography page you can see that there are tens of thousands of member who have decided not to identify their country. If you wish to identify yourself with a country, please update your profile.
My team page contains the words "BOINC Team ID." What does that mean?
World Community Grid has members who participate through BOINC. On BOINC, these members have a layer of team statistics as they are able to participate in multiple distributed computing projects. BOINC Team ID" refers to an identifier found on the BOINC site for this purpose (http://www.boincstats.com/). For more information about BOINC, please go to the Help facility and search on BOINC.
How do I remove my member information from the World Community Grid system?
To permanently delete your account and remove your World Community Grid member information from our system, please take the following steps:
- Log in to your World Community Grid member account.
- Go to the Delete Account page (located in the My Profile section of your Settings). Read the instructions on this page carefully, as this is a permanent action and your account and information cannot be recovered once deleted.
- Once you submit the request for your account to be deleted, we will ask you to confirm that action via email. Therefore, first check that the email address listed on the page is correct, then enter in your World Community Grid account password, and click the Delete Account button.
- You will receive an email from us, to the email address that was listed, asking you to click a link to confirm your request to delete your account. If you don't click on the link within 24 hours, the action will be cancelled.
After clicking on the Delete Account link in the email that was sent, you will have up to 48 hours to return to the Delete Account page and cancel the action, if you choose.
I want to contribute to one of World Community Grid's research projects. How do I register for a particular research project and start contributing?
Members only need to register and attach once to World Community Grid in order to contribute to any, or all, of our research projects. In order to contribute, please take the following steps:
- Register with World Community Grid
- Select which of our research projects you wish to contribute to:
- The registration process gives you a list of research projects to choose from
- If you are already registered, you may change which projects you contribute to on your My Projects page
- If you do not already have BOINC installed, download and install the software
- If you already have the current version of BOINC installed, then you may participate in World Community Grid using your existing BOINC software. Just attach to World Community Grid using the URL: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org and the email address and password you used at registration.