grid.org

From its establishment in April 2001 until April 27, 2007,[1] grid.org was the website and organization that ran distributed computing projects such as the United Devices Cancer Research Project, led by Jikku Venkat, Ph.D and was sponsored philanthropically by United Devices (UD) and members participated in volunteer computing by running the UD Agent software (version 3.0).

The project was an alliance of several companies and organisations:[3] United Devices released the cancer research screensaver under the principle of using spare computing power.

The program, which could be set to run continually, used "virtual screening" to find possible interactions between molecules and target proteins, i.e. a drug.

Most members wanted to see all available computing power directed toward the still-active cancer project,[9] but UD representative Robby Brewer asserted that "some [users] like the screensaver".

[citation needed] The Anthrax Research Project was a part of the United Devices "Patriot Grid" initiative to fight biological terrorism.

[15] In November 2007, grid.org was repositioned by Univa as a community to allow users to interact and discuss open source cluster and grid related topics.

[16] It allowed users to download, get support for, contribute to, and report issues about the open source Globus Toolkit based products offered by Univa.