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Volunteer Computing Connecting the World to Science David P. Anderson Space Sciences Lab U.C. Berkeley April 29, 2008. Finding needles in haystacks. Astronomy. Physics. Genetics. Computing as Virtual Laboratory. Biology. Cosmology. Climate study. Darwinian computing. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Volunteer ComputingConnecting the World to Science
David P. AndersonSpace Sciences Lab
U.C. Berkeley
April 29, 2008
Finding needles in haystacks
Physics
Astronomy
Genetics
Computing as Virtual Laboratory
Biology
Climate study
Cosmology
Darwinian computing
Where’s the computing power?
Individuals(~1 billion PCs)
Companies(~100M PCs)
Government(~50M PCs)
Volunteercomputing
The BOINC model
Attachments
Your PC BOINC-based projects
Climateprediction.netOxford; climate study
Rosetta@homeU. of Washington; biology
MalariaControl.netSTI; malaria epidemiology
World Community GridIBM; several applications
. . .
Simple Secure Invisible
Independent No central authority
The volunteer computing ecosystem
Projects Public
Do more science Involve public in science
Teach, motivate
volunteer
Where we’re at
~40 projects 500,000 active participants
growing slowly mostly geeks?
Computing power: about 2 PetaFLOPS About 8X a $300M supercomputer
Some BOINC projects Climateprediction.net
Oxford University Global climate modeling
Einstein@home LIGO scientific collaboration gravitational wave detection
SETI@home U.C. Berkeley Radio search for E.T.I. and black hole evaporation
Leiden Classical Leiden University Surface chemistry using classical dynamics
More projects
LHC@home CERN simulator of LHC, collisions
QMC@home Univ. of Muenster Quantum chemistry
Spinhenge@home Bielefeld Univ. Sutdy nanoscale magnetism
ABC@home Leiden Univ. Number theory
Biomed-related BOINC projects
Rosetta@home University of Washington Rosetta: Protein folding, docking, and design
Tanpaku Tokyo Univ. of Science Protein structure prediction using Brownian dynamics
MalariaControl The Swiss Tropical Institute Epidemiological simulation
More projects
Predictor@home Univ. of Michigan CHARMM, protein structure prediction
SIMAP Tech. Univ. of Munich Protein similarity matrix
Superlink@Technion Technion Genetic linkage analysis using Bayesian networks
More projects
Dengue fever drug discovery U. of Texas, U. of Chicago Autodock
Human Proteome Folding New York University Rosetta
FightAIDS@home Scripps Institute Autodock
Conclusion
Science needs much more computing power Volunteer computing can provide it
and maybe avoid Dark Ages II BOINC: the enabling technology How to grow from 0.5M to 50M volunteers?