World Community Grid

BOINC based volunteer computing project to aid scientific research
Organization nonprofit_organization Q826776
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World Community Grid

Summary

World Community Grid is a nonprofit organization[1]. It ranks in the top 7% of nonprofit_organization entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (41 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • World Community Grid's field of work was volunteer computing[3].
  • World Community Grid is in the country of Canada[4].
  • World Community Grid's image is recorded as Pandemics.gif[5].
  • World Community Grid's instance of is recorded as nonprofit organization[6].
  • World Community Grid's instance of is recorded as Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing projects[7].
  • World Community Grid's instance of is recorded as volunteer computing[8].
  • World Community Grid's instance of is recorded as free software[9].
  • World Community Grid's instance of is recorded as distributed computing[10].
  • World Community Grid's operator is recorded as Krembil Research Institute[11].
  • World Community Grid's logo image is recorded as Worldcommunitygrid.png[12].
  • World Community Grid's programmed in is recorded as Q2407[13].
  • World Community Grid's operating system is recorded as Microsoft Windows[14].
  • World Community Grid's operating system is recorded as Linux[15].
  • World Community Grid's operating system is recorded as macOS[16].
  • World Community Grid's operating system is recorded as FreeBSD[17].
  • World Community Grid's operating system is recorded as Android[18].
  • World Community Grid's operating system is recorded as Raspberry Pi OS[19].
  • World Community Grid's part of is recorded as Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing projects[20].
  • World Community Grid's Commons category is recorded as World Community Grid[21].
  • World Community Grid's platform is recorded as Q182933[22].
  • World Community Grid's platform is recorded as ARM architecture[23].
  • World Community Grid's has part is recorded as Smash Childhood Cancer[24].
  • World Community Grid's has part is recorded as Help Fight Childhood Cancer[25].
  • World Community Grid's has part is recorded as Clean Energy Project[26].
  • World Community Grid's has part is recorded as Discovering Dengue Drugs – Together[27].

Body

Founding

+2004-11-16T00:00:00Z marks the founding of World Community Grid[28].

Identity

World Community Grid's part of is recorded as Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing projects[20].

Operations

World Community Grid's operator is recorded as Krembil Research Institute[11].

Industry

World Community Grid's field of work was volunteer computing[3].

Why It Matters

World Community Grid ranks in the top 7% of nonprofit_organization entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (41 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] It is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . Open Funder Registry. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] . wikidata.org.
  7. [10] . wikidata.org.
  8. [3] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . worldcommunitygrid.org. worldcommunitygrid.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . worldcommunitygrid.org. worldcommunitygrid.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . worldcommunitygrid.org. worldcommunitygrid.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . worldcommunitygrid.org. worldcommunitygrid.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . worldcommunitygrid.org. worldcommunitygrid.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . worldcommunitygrid.org. worldcommunitygrid.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [30] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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