With seven years and five projects under itsbelt, Grid.org has successfully completed its mission: To evangelizethe benefits (and demonstrate the viability and security) oflarge-scale Internet-based grid computing. Therefore, it is with greatpride for all the accomplishments of this pioneering resource, andabove all with the utmost gratitude to each of our members around theglobe, that we announce Grid.org will be retiring on Friday, April 27,2007.
We’ll be making a public announcement on the site later this week,but we felt it was important to give you, our loyal member base, anearly heads-up out of respect for the years of support you’ve given toGrid.org. This way you’ll have time to gather final statistics,exchange contact info, and prepare for the official shutdown.
What exactly is happening:
At 12:00 noon Central Time on Friday, April 27, Grid.org will retire:Jobs will stop running, forums will be closed, and the website will beupdated to reflect the retired status of this resource. We will leavethe actual servers up for 1 week, so agent messages about this actioncan continue to be sent to members around the globe who might not checkforums regularly. We will also leave the Stats up for one week so youhave plenty of time to gather this data. After that, only the Home andProjects pages will remain, along with the instructions foruninstalling the agent ( http://www.grid.org/help/faq_uninstalling_agent.htm ).
Why?
Grid.org has completed its established mission to prove the benefitsand viability of Internet-based grid computing. Grid.org was thelargest and most ambitious public interest grid venture ever attemptedwhen it was conceived – and thanks to Grid.org (and more specificallyto all of you), today such a grid is no longer a novelty. Many publicgrids are now available, sponsored by large organizations betterpositioned to provide support to millions of member volunteers and thescientists who leverage their processing power. So, with the underlyingtechnologies now well established globally in both public and privateresearch programs, Grid.org’s goal of establishing the underlyingtechnology has been achieved.
But what about…
We realize that over the past few months, Grid.org has made severalannouncements about upgrades coming in anticipation of a couple of newprojects that we were working on. While we were fairly optimistic aboutthese projects being launched, they ultimately fell through for anumber of reasons. We realize that many of you had looked forward toparticipating in a beta program ahead of launching these projects, andwe’re sorry you won’t have that opportunity.
Moving on: Where to go from here?
It’s clear from your years of loyalty to Grid.org thatInternet-based research projects of this kind are important to you… andso we’re sure many of you will take your valuable resources to otherprojects of this kind that are ready and willing to accept you as newmembers.
Below are just a few of the projects we encourage you to investigate:
> World Community Grid ( http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ ), operated by IBM
> Distributed.net ( http://www.distributed.net/ ), operated by distributed.net
> Compute Against Cancer ( http://www.computeagainstcancer.org/ ), operated by National Cancer Institute
> Folding@Home ( http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ ), operated by Stanford University
> fightAIDS@Home ( http://fightaidsathome.scripps.edu/ ), operated by Olson Lab at Scripps Research Institute
> LHC@home ( http://athome.web.cern.ch/athome/ ), operated by CERN
> Distributed Folding ( http://www.distributedfolding.org/ ), operated by a group of partners including Hogue Bioinformatics Research Lab, Mount Sinai Hospital, and University of Toronto
> SETI@home ( http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ ), operated by University of California at Berkeley
Also, here are a few great sites to visit to learn more about these and other projects:
> http://enterthegrid.com/
> http://gridcafe.web.cern.ch/gridcafe/gridprojects/fora.html
> http://www.ogf.org/
> http://www.grid.org.il/
Uninstalling the agent
The agent will no longer be processing work after Friday at noon, soyou will want to uninstall it from your home device. Here’s how: http://www.grid.org/help/faq_uninstalling_agent.htm . Some more explicit instructions, including Troubleshooting, will be posted online Friday when Grid.org actually retires.
Last but not least
As we’ve tried to emphasize not only in this announcement butthroughout our years of operations, we are fully aware of the debt ofgratitude we owe to all of you, our loyal members.
The excellent work Grid.org has done, both in contributing massiveresearch power to critical health research and in establishing thiskind of research as viable, would not have been possible without yourfaith, efforts, and donations of compute power and goodwill. There isno superlative high enough to describe the value we place on yourongoing support for Grid.org, and so we simply say Thank you, and wehope you feel as proud as we do of the work you’ve done.
Sincerely,
The Grid.org Team
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