[WCG] site news of the past week

[StefanR5R]

www.worldcommunitygrid.org is mostly a placeholder site for now of course, and they don't have an RSS feed which we could poll. But they have been posting a news item each day on the past Monday through Friday:

2022-03-11 —WCG in numbers - power
In this post we provide some behind the scene numbers about WCG.

2022-03-10 —Open Pandemics Q&A
Open Pandemics researchers answer questions asked on the forum.

2022-03-09 — Infrastructure Update: All Mission Critical Data Backed Up, Storage Layer Tested, Pass!
Transfer and backup of all WCG data, performant storage layer, DNS and domains now in care of Krembil.

2022-03-08 — Comparison of CPU and GPU performance in Open Pandemics Project
How does CPU and GPU compare in terms of energy and speed? OPN researchers compare them using two example packages.

2022-03-07 — Memories Monday: Behind the Scenes with World Community Grid Communications
Why did a three-month gig with a technology program end up lasting for six years?

[StefanR5R]

They kept the news items flowing.
Week 11:

2022-03-18 —World Community Grid volunteers contributed to 32 projects so far
With almost 2.5 million years of scientific computations, the amazing WCG volunteers contributed to 32 scientific projects already.

2022-03-17 —Database Layer Ready, Batches Being Built at Krembil
Database Administrators have full access to WCG data. Workunit batches are being built on Krembil's infrastructure.

2022-03-14 —From grid.org to World Community Grid
While we are moving to a new location, we take a look into the major changes that took place in WCG history.

Week 12:

2022-03-25 —Streaks Will Be Extended to Cover Downtime, Website and Forums Have Been Restored in Krembil Staging Environment
All streaks that were active as of February 16th, 2022 will be extended to cover the full downtime plus a grace period. Website and Forums are deployed in Krembil staging environment, testing is underway.

2022-03-22 —Smash Childhood Cancer - rhabdomyosarcoma
Charles Keller MD | Scientific Director of Children's Cancer Therapy Development Institute, gives us some detailed background on rhabdomyosarcoma.

Week 13:

2022-04-01 —Mapping Cancer Markers Q&A
Mapping cancer markers researchers answer questions asked on the forum.

2022-03-28 —The African Rainfall Project
Nick van de Giesen and Camille Le Coz from Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, give us some detailed background on the African Rainfall Project.

Week 14:

2022-04-06 —WCG in numbers - platforms, volunteers and teams
What are the most common platforms used by our volunteers? And which volunteers contributed the most?

Week 15:

2022-04-13 —Validation of the WCG Environment Enters Final Stages
Workunit management, website and forums, and APIs have been subjected to unit tests, integration testing, and manual inspection to validate previous WCG functionality. Over 80% of tests and checks have been completed successfully in the Krembil QA environment to date.

2022-04-11 —World Community Grid at the Ride to Conquer Cancer
What do WCG and a 200 Km bicycle ride have in common? Dr Jurisica shares an insight.

[Skillz]

Where'd you get that from?

nevermind, I should read first

[crashtech]

I sure hope they get back online soon.

[StefanR5R]

Week 16:

2022-04-19 —Help Stop TB techniques
Help Stop TB scientists give us an overview of the algorithms used for the project, and the reasons behind their choice.

2022-04-21 —The Home Stretch keeps Stretching… We need to delay restart until May 9th, 2022
With a heavy heart we must announce to volunteers our intent to delay restarting the WCG until May 9th, 2022.

Week 18:

2022-05-07 —Restart update
We continue working hard to restart WCG as soon as possible.

2022-05-08 —Restart update
We conduct further testing to confirm that the system is ready.

Yesterday:

2022-05-10 —Restart update
Issues were fixed, we can continue with testing.

(Edit) Quite a few interesting bits in there.
They will post a new restart schedule tomorrow, May 12.