[p2p-research] Fwd: [ox-en] Volunteer computing with BOINC

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Stefan Merten <smerten at oekonux.de>
Date: Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 8:32 PM
Subject: [ox-en] Volunteer computing with BOINC
To: list-en at oekonux.org
Cc: Stefan Merten <smerten at oekonux.de>


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Hi list!

You may have heard of `SETI at home`_. Several years ago this project
asked volunteers all over the Internet to donate their excess
computing power to search for signals from extraterrestrial life
forms.

Today there is BOINC_ which makes such `volunteer computing`_ projects
easy and gives them a common technical platform:

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

 -- http://boinc.berkeley.edu/

It supports a number of projects among them also supporting some
experiments at the `Large Hadron Collider`_. Such projects are
typically scientific projects which need lots and lots of computing
power to calculate useful results but can not afford extremely
expensive super-computers for this task.

I'd consider volunteer computing another example of peer production.
In this case expensive calculation results are created by donations
from lots of peers.

.. _volunteer computing:
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/VolunteerComputing
.. _SETI at home: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/
.. _Large Hadron Collider: http://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/
.. _BOINC: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/


                                               Grüße

                                               Stefan
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