BOINC: Compute For Science: Distributed Computing
DriftingByTheStorm
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Anyone else ever used to run the SETI@Home program back in the day?
It basically chunks out bits of radio data to your computer and allows you to participate by contributing your computing power to help discover aliens.
I guess distributed computing has come a long way since i first tried this 5 years ago or so ...
now they have BOINC: Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing which is a master DC app for several way cool projects.
Wiki List of BOINC projects.
Active Projects
Biology
Cells@Home - studies how diseases spread through a body.[1]
Malaria Control — for stochastic modelling of the clinical epidemiology and natural history of malaria.
POEM@Home — models protein folding using Anfinsen's dogma.[2]
Rosetta@home — tests the assembly of specific proteins, using appropriate fragments of better-known proteins.
SIMAP — compiles a database of protein similarities using the FASTA algorithm, and protein domains using InterPro.
TANPAKU — to predict protein structures using Brownian dynamics.
Earth Sciences
Climateprediction.net — tries to produce a forecast of the climate in the 21st century.
Physics and Astronomy[
BRaTS@Home — to study gravitational lensing.[3]
Einstein@Home — uses data from LIGO and GEO 600 to detect gravitational waves.
LHC@home — simulates particles travelling in the Large Hadron Collider.
QMC@Home — uses Quantum Monte Carlo to predict the structure and reactivity of molecules.
SETI@home — Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence
Mathematics
ABC@Home — attempt to solve the ABC conjecture problem.
SZTAKI Desktop Grid — searches for generalized binary number systems.
TSP - studies the traveling salesman problem.[4]
Pretty cool huh?
Now you can help change\save the world, just by leaving your computer on when you're not using it. Lol.
Anyone else ever used to run the SETI@Home program back in the day?
It basically chunks out bits of radio data to your computer and allows you to participate by contributing your computing power to help discover aliens.
I guess distributed computing has come a long way since i first tried this 5 years ago or so ...
now they have BOINC: Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing which is a master DC app for several way cool projects.
Wiki List of BOINC projects.
Active Projects
Biology
Cells@Home - studies how diseases spread through a body.[1]
Malaria Control — for stochastic modelling of the clinical epidemiology and natural history of malaria.
POEM@Home — models protein folding using Anfinsen's dogma.[2]
Rosetta@home — tests the assembly of specific proteins, using appropriate fragments of better-known proteins.
SIMAP — compiles a database of protein similarities using the FASTA algorithm, and protein domains using InterPro.
TANPAKU — to predict protein structures using Brownian dynamics.
Earth Sciences
Climateprediction.net — tries to produce a forecast of the climate in the 21st century.
Physics and Astronomy[
BRaTS@Home — to study gravitational lensing.[3]
Einstein@Home — uses data from LIGO and GEO 600 to detect gravitational waves.
LHC@home — simulates particles travelling in the Large Hadron Collider.
QMC@Home — uses Quantum Monte Carlo to predict the structure and reactivity of molecules.
SETI@home — Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence
Mathematics
ABC@Home — attempt to solve the ABC conjecture problem.
SZTAKI Desktop Grid — searches for generalized binary number systems.
TSP - studies the traveling salesman problem.[4]
Pretty cool huh?
Now you can help change\save the world, just by leaving your computer on when you're not using it. Lol.
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If I opened it now would you not understand?
If I opened it now would you not understand?
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And from what I read in my pop-science mags, this shared computing technology can be the next big thing in computers/internet.
Peace
Dan
"Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty." - Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965