Volunteer computing and grid computing. BOINC. VolunteerComputing – BOINC. What is volunteer computing? ¶ Volunteer computing is an arrangement in which people (volunteers) provide computing resources to projects, which use the resources to do distributed computing and/or storage. Volunteers are typically members of the general public who own Internet-connected personal computers. Organizations such as schools and businesses may also volunteer the use of their computers. Projects are typically academic (university-based) and do scientific research. But there are exceptions; for example, GIMPS and distributed.net (two major projects) are not academic. Several aspects of the project/volunteer relationship are worth noting: Volunteers are effectively anonymous; although they may be required to register and supply email address or other information, they are not linked to a real-world identity. The first volunteer computing project was GIMPS (Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search), which started in 1995.
Why is volunteer computing important? No. Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing. BOINC. BOINC Users. BOINC. BOINC@Denmark. Web resources for BOINC participants. Contents Help and Information Sites with information and documentation about BOINC. Credit statistics The following web sites show statistics for one or more BOINC projects. These sites use XML-format data exported by BOINC projects, as described here. If you're interested in running your own site or participating in the development efforts, please contact the people listed below. BOINC All Project Stats Free-DC (Includes non-BOINC projects and completed projects.) Signature images The following sites offer dynamically-generated images showing your statistics in BOINC projects, and/or news from projects.
United BOINC (Images showing the latest news from your choice of projects) (User-configurable stats counters. Team statistics Miscellaneous Skins for the BOINC Manager Other BOINC-related web sites If you'd like to add a web site to this list, please contact us. Return to BOINC main page Last modified 5:20 AM UTC, December 21 2013. Top 100 multi-project BOINC participants. SETI@home. About SETI@home. The science of SETI@home SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is a scientific area whose goal is to detect intelligent life outside Earth. One approach, known as radio SETI, uses radio telescopes to listen for narrow-bandwidth radio signals from space.
Such signals are not known to occur naturally, so a detection would provide evidence of extraterrestrial technology. Radio telescope signals consist primarily of noise (from celestial sources and the receiver's electronics) and man-made signals such as TV stations, radar, and satellites. Modern radio SETI projects analyze the data digitally. More computing power enables searches to cover greater frequency ranges with more sensitivity. Radio SETI, therefore, has an insatiable appetite for computing power. Previous radio SETI projects have used special-purpose supercomputers, located at the telescope, to do the bulk of the data analysis. Papers about SETI@home science and computing: Project personnel. Science Newsletters. Top hosts. SETI@home: Discover ET Using Your Home Computer. Jill Tarter's call to join the SETI Search (TED Prize! 2009)