Hi everyone!

My name is Cyclops, and I am the new Communications Intern at WCG. For the next 16 months, I will be communicating with you and answering any questions on the web site/forums, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. I am new to the World Community Grid community but I was blown away by the support, ingenuity and unity shared among volunteers. I will also provide information on research team updates, current news from the technical team, and answer all your concerns and collect suggestions.

As a start, I wanted to address by far the biggest concern that the team has been seeing on the forums recently: why is the “migration” taking so long? The move of WCG from IBM to our group at Krembil Research Institute has been a significant undertaking, considering time, people and physical infrastructure. After planning, legal matters, design and setup, we had to reconfigure the system to work on our current hardware, and consider our licensing options. While we did expand our MCM team lightly, we are still a very small academic team. The process has been taking longer than we anticipated; but be assured that we are working hard to ensure WCG will continue accelerating science with your help!

For those wondering why we decided to reopen the website and forums before the WCG BOINC platform, it was to allow volunteers to communicate with each other and not feel neglected by the team. But also, you are now helping us to find additional bugs and missing images and improve the system; so thank you for powering WCG and helping to improve it. Once we restart the BOINC, we trust you will help us to catch any remaining issues.

Thank you for your patience! Thank you for your support!

Cyclops and the WCG Team