Boinc
June 10th, 2009 by mopey
Boinc is a project I just discovered, but find it very cool. I have used projects like the protein folding and seti@home in the past, which use your spare cpu cycles for something useful. Boinc allows you to manage many projects like that in one place. It seems like an awesome way to help scientists discover look at some really cool problems. http://boinc.berkeley.edu/
One of the coolest projects that I’d never heard of before is called cosmology@home:
The goal of Cosmology@Home is to compare theoretical models of the universe to the data measured to date and search for the model that best matches it
Tags: parallel
June 10th, 2009 at 16:10
Ironically, I found this program by telling one of our students not to use it. He was aggressively using it on our main server.
June 11th, 2009 at 22:12
I would recommend checking out GridRepublic a 501(3)(c) nonprofit working in collaboration with BOINC to make it simple and easy to discover, join, and manage projects and computers with a single login and website. They also are working to raise public awareness and involvement in volunteer computing.
Check them out at http://www.gridrepublic.org