GridRepublic

GridRepublic non-profit

Founded	2004
Founder	Matthew Blumberg[1]
Focus	Charity
Location	Brooklyn, New York, United States
Origins	USA
Area served	Global
Key people	Matthew Blumberg
Website	www.gridrepublic.org

GridRepublic software

Developer(s)	GridRepublic in coordination with BOINC
Stable release	5.10.30 (Win), 5.2.5 (Mac) / July 18, 2009; 15 years ago (2009-07-18)
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	Grid computing and Volunteer computing
Website	www.gridrepublic.org

GridRepublic is a BOINC Account Manager. It focuses on creating a clean and simple way to join and interact with BOINC. GridRepublic was started with a mission to raise public awareness and participation in volunteer computing with BOINC. GridRepublic was formed in 2004 by Matthew Blumberg as a mechanism to control the multiple projects from one place. The code for the BOINC software had to be redesigned to allow for the Account Manager system to be implemented.

GridRepublic's website has won numerous awards including being named finalist at the 2007 SXSW Interactive Festival[2] and the 2008 Stockholm Challenge.[3] GridRepublic has also been the recipients of a Google Grant allowing for advertising through Google.[4]

Projects

GridRepublic supports a wide range of the BOINC projects.[5] The list of supported projects and the development status of projects are periodically updated. Some of its popular projects include:

Climateprediction.net

Climate change modeling on personal computers

Einstein@home

Pulsar stars from LIGO and GEO data

Rosetta@home

Protein folding research

SETI@home

Searching radio and light data for signs of intelligent life

Software

GridRepublic is a non-profit organisation, an online application, and software. The software is open source and a customized version of BOINC.[6]

References

1. "Matthew Blumberg". Cyber.Law.Harvard.edu. August 30, 2013. Retrieved August 30, 2020.
2. "SXSW Web Awards Finalists". Archived from the original on May 9, 2007. Retrieved August 30, 2020.
3. "GridRepublic". Archived from the original on March 31, 2008. Retrieved August 30, 2020.
4. "About GridRepublic" (PDF). GridRepublic. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 16, 2010. Retrieved July 19, 2009.
5. "GridRepublic | Grid Republic | BOINC Volunteer Distributed Grid Computing". Grid Republic. Retrieved April 6, 2014.
6. "grid". GridRepublic.org. Retrieved February 20, 2011.

External links

• Official website