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'''World Community Grid''' ('''WCG''') is a [[volunteer computing]] platform dedicated to humanitarian and biomedical scientific research. It harnesses the idle processing power of everyday devices — personal computers, laptops, Android smartphones, and Raspberry Pi systems — to perform large-scale scientific calculations that would otherwise require decades of supercomputing time. Since its founding in 2004, the project has expanded to cover diseases including HIV/AIDS, cancer, tuberculosis, dengue fever, Ebola, Zika virus, and COVID-19, as well as research into clean energy, water purification, food security, and climate science.<ref name="ibm-org">{{cite web |url=https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about/about.s |title=About Us |publisher=World Community Grid |access-date=2026-05-25}}</ref>

'''World Community Grid''' ('''WCG''') is a [[volunteer computing]] platform dedicated to humanitarian and biomedical scientific research. It harnesses the idle processing power of everyday devices (personal computers, laptops, Android smartphones, and Raspberry Pi systems) to perform large-scale scientific calculations that would otherwise require decades of supercomputing time. Since its founding in 2004, the project has expanded to cover diseases including HIV/AIDS, cancer, tuberculosis, dengue fever, Ebola, Zika virus, and COVID-19, as well as research into clean energy, water purification, food security, and climate science.<ref name="ibm-org">{{cite web |url=https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about/about.s |title=About Us |publisher=World Community Grid |access-date=2026-05-25}}</ref>

== Why World Community Grid? ==

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-'''World Community Grid''' ('''WCG''') is a [[volunteer computing]] platform dedicated to humanitarian and biomedical scientific research. It harnesses the idle processing power of everyday devices — personal computers, laptops, Android smartphones, and Raspberry Pi systems — to perform large-scale scientific calculations that would otherwise require decades of supercomputing time. Since its founding in 2004, the project has expanded to cover diseases including HIV/AIDS, cancer, tuberculosis, dengue fever, Ebola, Zika virus, and COVID-19, as well as research into clean energy, water purification, food security, and climate science.<ref name="ibm-org">{{cite web |url=https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about/about.s |title=About Us |publisher=World Community Grid |access-date=2026-05-25}}</ref>
+'''World Community Grid''' ('''WCG''') is a [[volunteer computing]] platform dedicated to humanitarian and biomedical scientific research. It harnesses the idle processing power of everyday devices (personal computers, laptops, Android smartphones, and Raspberry Pi systems) to perform large-scale scientific calculations that would otherwise require decades of supercomputing time. Since its founding in 2004, the project has expanded to cover diseases including HIV/AIDS, cancer, tuberculosis, dengue fever, Ebola, Zika virus, and COVID-19, as well as research into clean energy, water purification, food security, and climate science.<ref name="ibm-org">{{cite web |url=https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about/about.s |title=About Us |publisher=World Community Grid |access-date=2026-05-25}}</ref>
 == Why World Community Grid? ==