Volunteer Computing at Omega Verksted!
BOINC
Omega Verksted uses the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) to contribute to various science projects using excess computing power.
BOINC works like this:
Scientists prepare a project which needs a huge computational power and, at the same time, can be divided in small parts that may be run as parallel computations. A server is prepared and the BOINC infrastructure installed on it. From that moment everyone connected to the Internet can download the client program. It monitors their computers and if only machine processor is becomes idle, it downloads the data and calculates.
The computer workstations available at Omega Verksted, as well as our server infrastructure, are used when idle. A portfolio of projects is used to distribute workloads across our various hosts according to current project demands.
Currently Supported Projects
| Project | TL;DR |
|---|---|
| Climate Prediction | Runs climate models |
| World Community Grid | Umbrella project for various humanitarian projects, including analyzing aspects of the human genome, HIV, dengue, muscular dystrophy, cancer, influenza, Ebola, virtual screening, rice crop yields, and clean energy. |
| Distr. Hardware Evolution | Uses an evolutionary algorithm to create or optimize new designs for integrated circuits |
| Einstein@Home | Searches for weak astrophysical signals from pulsars using data from the LIGO gravitational-wave detectors, the Arecibo radio telescope, and the Fermi gamma-ray satellite. |
| LHC@Home | Helps process raw sensor data from the LHC |
| Rosetta@Home | Computes the lowest energy physical configuration of proteins ("protein folding") to predict how they will behave |
| Universe@Home | Various research areas in astronomy, including Ultraluminous X-ray Sources, Gravitational Waves and Supernovae Ia |
| GPUGRID | Performs biomedical research using GPU power |
Performance Data
(Coming Soon)