Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Open-source software for Volunteer and Grid Computing


Use the idle time on your computers (Windows, Mac, or Linux) to cure diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research.

Choose your own projects, eg Seti@home, (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) by running a free program that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data) or Rosetta@home, (determine the 3-dimensional shapes of proteins in research that may ultimately lead to finding cures for some major human diseases) and other scientific projects.

To get started, you need to first download the BOINC software,then choose your scientific projects from here, you can participate in more than one projects according to your interest & your computer's resources.

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My current hosts running BOINC,
(2 Asus netbooks and an old 'dino' Pentium 4)


2 comments:

  1. Hey, I noticed that you haven't posted in a while. I really like your posts on what you can do with a small scope and it would be a shame if you stopped. More please!

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  2. Dr Vector

    Thanks for your comment! Most of my current observations are done through my restrictive small room window, and yes I need to get out there to complete the 50 objects target with my 50mm scope! How about Jupiter for a start :)

    Thanks for reading and clear skies!

    Jeff

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