Science at home with Distributed Volunteer Computing: BOINC - World Community Grid - etc
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2022 11:29 pm
Anybody into using their computers at home to solve REAL science problems via Volunteer Computing (Wikipedia)
Ever heard of SETI? Search for Extraterrestrial Intellegence? The project has ended now (its data came from the now defunct Arecibo Radio Telescope), but many others are needing volunteer computers all the time.
BOINC is the major platform used by a wide range of computing problems today, from mapping the galaxy, to folding proteins, cancer research, covid research, etc, etc. You can download the BOINC client here
World Community Grid, originally developed by IBM to work on smallpox, is now a coordinator for many scientific projects. A list of some of the completed projects is at the Wikipedia page:
Here's some info on a recent project that has just released its paper and some interesting summary videos.
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Milkyway@Home: New N-Body Result!
We have measured the original shape and mass of the dwarf galaxy that was ripped apart to make the Orphan-Chenab Stream! The paper is out today: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3 ... 357/ac498a Eric Mendelsohn was the lead author on this study.
Professor Heidi Jo Newberg has made a ~14 min video explaining the topic here: , and a longer ~24 min video with more information here:
Thank you to all our volunteers for helping make this possible! We seriously appreciate the contributions that you all make to this project. Without you, we wouldn't have been able to locate dark matter in the Milky Way!
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Ever heard of SETI? Search for Extraterrestrial Intellegence? The project has ended now (its data came from the now defunct Arecibo Radio Telescope), but many others are needing volunteer computers all the time.
BOINC is the major platform used by a wide range of computing problems today, from mapping the galaxy, to folding proteins, cancer research, covid research, etc, etc. You can download the BOINC client here
World Community Grid, originally developed by IBM to work on smallpox, is now a coordinator for many scientific projects. A list of some of the completed projects is at the Wikipedia page:
Here's some info on a recent project that has just released its paper and some interesting summary videos.
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Milkyway@Home: New N-Body Result!
We have measured the original shape and mass of the dwarf galaxy that was ripped apart to make the Orphan-Chenab Stream! The paper is out today: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3 ... 357/ac498a Eric Mendelsohn was the lead author on this study.
Professor Heidi Jo Newberg has made a ~14 min video explaining the topic here: , and a longer ~24 min video with more information here:
Thank you to all our volunteers for helping make this possible! We seriously appreciate the contributions that you all make to this project. Without you, we wouldn't have been able to locate dark matter in the Milky Way!
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