Proyectos BOINC
Lista de proyectos oficiales para BOINC a fecha de hoy:
SETI@Home
Home: U.C. Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory
Area: Astrophysics, astrobiology
Goal: 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.
Rosetta@Home
Home: University of Washington
Area: Biology
Goal: Determine the 3-dimensional shapes of proteins in research that may ultimately lead to finding cures for some major human diseases. By running Rosetta@home you will help us speed up and extend our research in ways we couldn't possibly attempt without your help. You will also be helping our efforts at designing new proteins to fight diseases such as HIV, Malaria, Cancer, and Alzheimer's
Predictor@Home
Home: Scripps Research Institute
Area: Biology
Goal: Protein structure prediction starts from a sequence of amino acids and attempts to predict the folded, functioning, form of the protein. Predicting the structure of an unknown protein is a critical problem in enabling structure-based drug design to treat new and existing diseases.
Einstein@Home
Home: Univ. of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Albert Einstein Institute
Area: Astrophysics
Goal: Search for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors. Einstein@Home is a World Year of Physics 2005 project supported by the American Physical Society (APS) and by a number of international organizations.
SIMAP
Home: Technical University of Munich
Area: Biology
Goal: Calculate similarities between proteins. SIMAP provides a public database of the resulting data, which plays a key role in many bioinformatics research projects.
BBC Climate Change Experiment
Home: Oxford University
Area: Earth sciences
Goal: The experiment adds the processing power of your home or office computer to thousands of others to predict climate change. The same model that the Met Office uses to make daily weather forecasts has been adapted by climateprediction.net to run on home PCs. The model incorporates many variable parameters, allowing thousands of sets of conditions. Your computer will run one individual set of conditions in effect your individual version of how the world's climate works and then report back to the climateprediction.net team what it calculates.
World Community Grid
Home: IBM
Area: Biomedicine
Goal: Advance our knowledge of human disease.
SZTAKI Desktop Grid
Home: MTA-SZTAKI Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems (Budapest)
Area: Mathematics
Goal: Find all the generalized binary number systems (in which bases are matrices and digits are vectors) up to dimension 11.
Climateprediction.net
Home: Oxford University
Area: Earth sciences
Goal: To investigate the approximations that have to be made in state-of-the-art climate models. By running the model thousands of times we hope to find out how the model responds to slight tweaks to these approximations - slight enough to not make the approximations any less realistic. This will allow us to improve our understanding of how sensitive our models are to small changes and also to things like changes in carbon dioxide and the sulphur cycle. This will allow us to explore how climate may change in the next century under a wide range of different scenarios.
Seasonal Attribution Project
Home: Oxford University
Area: Earth sciences
Goal: To determine the extent to which extreme weather events like the United Kingdom floods of Autumn 2000 are attributable to human-induced climate change. We invite you to download and run high-resolution model simulations of the world\'s climate on your own computer. By comparing the results of these simulations, half of which will include the effects of human-induced climate change, and half of which will not, we will investigate the possible impact of human activity on extreme weather risk. This project has fairly high computing requirements, including 1GB RAM.
Quantum Monte Carlo at Home
Home: University of Muenster
Area: Chemistry
Goal: Study the structure and reactivity of molecules using Quantum Chemistry.
LHC@Home
Home: CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Area: Physics
Goal: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator which is being built at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the world\'s largest particle physics laboratory. When it switches on in 2007, it will be the most powerful instrument ever built to investigate on particles proprieties. LHC@home simulates particles traveling around the LHC to study the stability of their orbits.')
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