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What do the Member Titles, underneath the Member Name, in the forums mean?
The following Member Titles are displayed based upon the number of posts a member makes:
0 - 49: Cruncher
50 - 149: Advanced Cruncher
150 - 499: Senior Cruncher
500 - 1499: Veteran Cruncher
1500 - 3999: Master Cruncher
4000+: Ace Cruncher
If I change my username, will I lose my points?
No, changing your member name will not affect your points or any other contribution that you've made to World Community Grid.
How do you change team captains?
If you are the current team captain, you may appoint a new team captain by following these steps:
1. Log in to your World Community Grid account.
2. Click on My Contribution, then click on My Team on the left side of the page.
3. Click on the 'Appoint New Captain' link, next to your Member Name listed as Captain.
4. Choose the team member who you would like to become captain, and click the 'Appoint as Captain' link next to their name.
I checked the 'Remember Me' box when I signed in, but now the site is asking me to log in again.
As a security precaution, you must verify your member name and password in order to view pages that contain private member information.
For example, if you signed in a few days ago and checked the 'Remember Me' box, you won't be asked to sign in to view your My Statistics page. If you go to My Profile, you may have to sign in again since this page allows you to change your member name and email address (among other things).
What is the Verification Code and what is it used for?
The Verification Code is a private, personal code that you can use to verify your team membership and team stats. There are teams that provide incentives and/or rewards to members for being a part of their team. World Community Grid is providing the Verification Code as a way for these teams to verify their members' statistics and team membership without requiring members to give the team their password.
Note that your Verification Code will change if you change your member name and/or password. If your team is relying on your verification code to verify your membership and statistics, be sure they have your current Verification Code.
To verify the team membership and statistics for a member, use the API:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/verifyMember.do?name=MEMBERNAME&code=VERIFICATIONCODE
You must set your data sharing preferences to "Display my data" for this API to return data for your account.
You will get a response in XML containing the membership information for that member. If there is an error, it will be reported back in the XML response.
Where may I get the BOINC client for Windows, Linux, or Mac?
If you are a new member and do not currently have a World Community Grid member name, you may register and download the BOINC client here. If you are currently a World Community Grid member and want to download the BOINC client to a new, or additional computer(s), you may download the BOINC client client here.
How can I limit when the software connects to the Internet?
There are two ways to do this:
- Enter the Device Profiles section of the site. Next click on the default profile and then select "Custom Profile". Change the settings for "Connect to the Internet only between:" to the times that you want. Click the "Save" button at the bottom of the page. This will change the connection times for all computers under your member name that use the default profile. Next click on the default profile and follow the instructions to change the execution time for your computer(s) and save. This will change the connection times for all computers under your member name.
- To change the connection times for a particular computer under your member name. Double click on the World Community Grid, or BOINC, icon in your system tray. Select Options and the select Computing Preferences. In the dialogue box that comes up select "Daily Schedules" and under the "Network" section designate your preferred connections under times and select “save”.
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.
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.
Are all volunteer data visible on World Community Grid?
World Community Grid volunteers have the option of making their data public or private. If a volunteer opts to make their data private, their information (including their member name, contribution statistics, etc) is not visible to others on the statistics pages of our website nor available in data exports. This does not impact the visibility of aggregate-level statistics.
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.
How do I make World Community Grid run while my computer is on batteries?
You may change your preferences to allow World Community Grid to run while you are on battery power as follows:
- 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 “Processor Usage” change your setting to reflect: “Do work while computer is running on batteries: Yes” 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 then click “Do work while on battery” and “save”. The setting changes made here take effect immediately and override those in the device profile above.
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 do I join a team?
- Go to the home page and log in.
- From the My Contribution page, select My Team from the left navigation menu.
- From the Find a Team page, under Keyword Search, Next to "Team" select the "Name" drop down and in the text box next to "Contains:", enter all or portions of the team name of the team that you wish to join,
- Press search. If there is more than one team name returned, find the one that you wish to join.
- Click on the team name and the system will return the team information.
- Press "join this team" to become a member of the team.
Is there an API to get a list of in-progress and recently returned results for a member?
Yes. The URL for the API to access a members results is:
https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/api/members/{member name}/results?code={verification code}
member name is the member name of the member whose results data you wish to access
verification code is found on the My Profile page of the member whose results data you wish to access
The default format is JSON.
You must set your data sharing preferences to "Display my data" for this API to return data for your account.
Optional parameters are (can be combined):
- limit: Defines the number of results returned. Default is 25. Max is 250.
- offset: Defines how many results are skipped before the API returns any data. Default is 0.
- sortBy: Defines the sorting order of the results. Options are: DeviceId, SentTime, ReportDeadline, ReceivedTime or CpuTime. Default is SentTime.
- format: The format of the data. Options are XML or JSON. Default is JSON.
- modTime: Return results which were last modified on or after this time. This value is a Unixtimestamp (number of seconds since midnight Jan 1 1970).
- serverState: Return results based on whether they are currently in progress or have already been reported back to World Community Grid. 4 would return in-progress results, 5 would return results which have already been reported back to the server.
- outcome: Return results based on the outcome of their processing. 1 means success, 3 means error, 4 means no reply, 6 means validation error, 7 means abandoned./
- validateState: Return results based on the validation status. 0 means pending validation, 1 means valid, 2 means invalid, 4 means pending verification, 5 means results failed to validate within given deadline.
- fileDeleteState: Return results based on their file delete state. 0 means not deleted. 1 means ready to delete. 2 means deleted.
How do I set the software to not run while I am using the computer?
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 update and select custom profile. Under "Advanced Options" change your settings as follows:
The new settings will take effect when the software next communicates with the servers.
What are the Username Guidelines?
World Community Grid usernames are optional to add to your member profile after you complete the registration process.
Your username must be between 4 and 30 characters. It is recommended that you choose something other than your real name or your email address. Also, World Community Grid will reject/remove usernames which it considers objectionable to our community. Your username can contain alphanumeric characters (a-z, A-Z, 0-9); spaces and the following punctuation marks: ! - _ [ ] > . @
I know that my device has returned several results. Where can I check the status of those results?
You may check your World Community Grid results by logging into our website using your existing member name. On the left hand menu on your "My Contribution" page, select "Results Status". You may access this page here. A detailed description of the various statistics may be found here.
Where do I check on the status, statistics, etc. for my Team Challenge (or a challenge my team is participating in)?
Just go to your My Team page, and scroll down to the Challenge Control Panel. All team members will see up to five Current and Upcoming Team Challenges (team captains will see Pending Team Challenges as well). If your team has more than five Current Team Challenges or more than five Upcoming Team Challenges, you may click the link at the bottom of the Challenge Control Panel to view your team's entire Team Challenge History. In the Challenge Control Panel or Team Challenge History View you may click on the name of the challenge to view more details about the challenge; for example: scores for all teams in the challenge, the names of the other teams participating in the challenge, and whether the challenge is open or not. The Team Challenge History page is where you may view your team's past challenges.
Why do I have a message that says my Account Key is missing?
When you installed our application, the Account Key was not properly assigned. Please take the following action:
- double left click on the World Community Grid or BOINC icon in your system tray
- click on "advanced view" (if not already in advanced view)
- click on your "projects" tab
- click on World Community Grid and then on the left hand menu select "detach"
- now, go to menu's at the top of your screen and select Tools -> Attach to Project
- this will bring up a panel that asks you to enter in a project URL. Please use: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org
What is Ebola?
The Ebola virus, first identified in 1976 and named after the Ebola river near its outbreak, is a member of the filovirus family. The virus, which is shaped like a long, flexible filament, attaches to and drives itself into the cell. It then replicates efficiently, budding out numerous copies of itself from the cell. The virus attacks several types of cells, including important cells of the immune system that circulate and carry the virus throughout the body. The damage includes inappropriate clotting, leakage from blood vessels, inflammation, organ failure and shock. When a person is first infected, there is a two to 21 day incubation period before the infected person shows symptoms. Initial symptoms can closely resemble those caused by flu or common tropical diseases and progress to include high fever, vomiting, diarrhea, dehydration and more. Contact with an infected person's fluids or the body of a patient that died from disease can infect the next person.
How do I create a Team Challenge?
As the captain of a team, you may create as many Team Challenges as you want; the only requirement is that they have different names so members can tell them apart from other Team Challenges.
To create a Team Challenge, go to My Contribution and click on My Team in the lefthand navigation. Just under the Team Information, you'll see the Team Control Panel with an Issue Team Challenge button. Click the button to be taken to the Issue Team Challenge page.
Once on the Issue Team Challenge page, you start by picking a name for your Team Challenge. After that, decide if you want your Team Challenge to be open to all teams, or if you want to choose which teams to invite. If you want an Open Challenge, check the box next to "Open Challenge?"
Next up, pick the dates for your Team Challenge. The Start Date must be at least one day in the future, but not more than 30 days away. The End Date must be at least one day after the Start Date, but not more than 180 days after the Start Date.
Once you've chosen the dates, select what type of Team Challenge you'd like. The choices are Points, Run Time, and Results Returned, or an Increase in one of Points, Run Time, or Results Returned. For more in the "increase" challenges, read this FAQ.
Next choose whether or not you want to allow Late Joiners; that is, allow teams to join the challenge after the Start Date. This applies to teams that are invited as well as for Open challenges. Teams that join a challenge after the Start Date will only receive credit for statistics after they join the challenge.
Last but not least, you may invite other teams to participate in your Team Challenge. You may invite teams even if your are issuing an Open Challenge. If you are issuing a Closed Challenge you must invite at least one team.
To invite teams, just search for the name of the team you want to invite, and click the link to "Invite This Team." For more general searches, only the first 25 teams are returned. If this happens, try being a little more specific in your search.
Will running the World Community Grid Software cost me more in electricity?
The amount of electrical energy consumed by your computer or other computing device is in many ways related to how much processing that it is doing at any given time. If it is sitting completely idle, then it uses relatively little power (usually about 50% of the maximum value). Actively using the device and simultaneously using more programs causes the device to consume more power. The World Community Grid software runs during times at which your device would otherwise be idle. This will cause it to use slightly more electricity (power) and therefore you may see a slight increase in your electricity costs. Exactly how much this increase will impact you depends on conditions where you live and how you have set your preferences. In most cases, the impact will be the equivalent of an additional low wattage light bulb. If these costs are a concern, you may limit the operational time for the software through preference settings on your Settings page or on your computer.
The default values of the BOINC agent are set so that the impact on average computers is minimal. Setting this to a higher value increases energy consumption and lowering it reduces energy consumption. We have chosen 60% because for most computers this figure seems to keep the energy consumption from increasing significantly and keeps laptop computers from getting too hot. In a multiple processor computer, reducing the number of processors permitted to run World Community Grid software may also control energy consumption. However, different machines vary in energy consumption patterns, so the maximum percent of the processor time and number of processors to be used by World Community Grid may be changed to custom values as follows:
Changing the above settings will correspondingly increase or decrease the amount of contribution your computer is making to the research projects.
I can't run the agent all the time. Is there a way to establish a set schedule?
Yes, you may customize when the agent runs. This is done by updating the device profile associated with the device where the agent is running. You can update the device profile by visiting the Device Manager. Once there, click on the device profile for the device whose schedule you want to change. Once on the Device Profile page, you can set a customized schedule for each day that you need one. When finished, press save. After you press save, the schedule will go into effect the next time your grid agent communicates with the grid servers. When establishing the customized schedule, the drop-down for Hard drive space may be ignored.
If needed, you can create additional device profiles by visiting the Device Profiles screen. This screen has an option that allows you to create new profiles.
Changing your profile on the website will change your preferences for all of the computers you have under your member name. If you need to have different preferences for different computers you may set preferences for each computer by double clicking on the World Community Grid or BOINC icon in your system tray and selecting Advanced View. From the menu at the top of your screen, select: Advanced>Preferences and then set your preferences for that specific computer. Remember to select “OK” after you have set your preferences. Please note: Local preferences set at your computer will override preference settings on the website