Posted at 12:28 on Friday 26 October 2007 by Kirk Kittell
Occasionally my alma mater, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, does things that I really am proud of, like beating Wisconsin in football. This week, UIUC released a project called Cosmology@Home. C@H runs on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing, or: BOINC. BOINC allows a complex problem -- in this case, performing calculations that relate models of our universe to astronomical and particle physics data -- to be calculated on many personal computers. Essentially, it turns a few thousand personal computers into a supercomputer.
I thought it would be interesting to organize a SEDS team for the students, since my experience from a US university is that students have computer that are always on, not always used, and could participate in a distributed computing project like this. And it's space-themed, so... bonus. Everyone who joins the SEDS team will have their statistics added to the group's statistics; that means extra publicity and pride (like beating Wisconsin -- yes, Wisconsin students are still welcome to participate :) )
SEDS Cosmology@Home page: http://wiki.seds.org/index.php/CosmologyAtHome
Cosmology@Home: http://www.cosmologyathome.org
Press release: http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/07/1024cosmology.html
And since I'm never the first guy to think of anything, Chris Lewicki start a SETI@Home team some years ago...
SEDS SETI@Home page: http://wiki.seds.org/index.php/SETIatHome
SETI@Home: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu
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