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Sekerob
Ace Cruncher Joined: Jul 24, 2005 Post Count: 20043 Status: Offline |
Post them all here if you find one. Don't copy the whole article, just a paragraph (in quotes) and a link.
----------------------------------------thanks This one March 5, 2008 in Linux Insider (some parts look like a journalistic "lost in translation") : http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Volunteer-C...3.html?welcome=1204890673 .... All Volunteers Like developers who become part of the open source movement, the people who populate these volunteer programs are rabid in their desire to get involved. There is no money to be made. There are no grand accolades, outside the generous thanks from the scientists who work couldn't be done without them. Yet, small collectives have formed through BOINC and the more formally run IBM's World Computer Grid. Just because there's no money involved, it doesn't mean there isn't recognition for those teams that power through issues. Now, teams receive medals -- in the form of icons that designate a pecking order -- based upon the number of projects completed. In other words, BOINC's software -- which now powers the World Computer Grid -- has turned science social. "There is a social component to this," said Richard Mitrich, a 66-year old resident of Highland Park, N.J., who is currently working on six projects. "Every project has forums with topics. You get nothing for these points, though, but that doesn't matter. There are people doing science here, so if you waste six hours for them, you've wasted everyone's time. To me, this is just a great joy." .....
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Former Member
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How to Put Your PC to Good Use While You're Sleeping:
http://lifehacker.com/5452902/how-to-put-your...ping?skyline=true&s=i Share your computing power with researchers: Distributed computing tools allow researchers across the globe to use your extra CPU cycles to run a few algorithms of their own in the background using your computer. That might not seem like much, but with enough computers, researchers can do some serious work with distributed computing. (Wikipedia notes that Folding@home, the most popular distributed computing network, has up to 400,000 active machines running at a time and has reached computing speeds of over 5.0 native petaflops.) If you're interested in putting your PC to use to help the world while you're sleeping, you've got plenty of options:There's Folding@home (a project to understand protein folding), BOINC, the World Community Grid, and LHC@home, to name a few popular options. |
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Richard Mitnick
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Feb 28, 2007 Post Count: 583 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Egad, that article is from March '08, that was me "quoted", but the quote makes no sense. Sek, you sure gotg this one right. Points - or credits - are important, and no one's time is wasted. But, yes, this work is a pure joy for me.
----------------------------------------I think that I remember this thing. There was an article in the Chicago Tribune about "The Work". I think that there was no mention of BOINC or WCG., even though that's what the article was about. I think that it was about some specific project. Then , the article was picked up and posted by ECT, an online news thing. Linux News is an ECT property. One of the things that I do for "The Work" is to go after journalists who COULD give us some good press and don't. So I went after the writer at The Trib and I went after ECT. This guy, Brad King, emailed me and asked for a telephone call. He wanted to see who it was who was making a fuss. I told him that I was just a cruncher, that I am of little help to others technically, so I try to spread The Word about crunching. The bit in quotes is from that telephone call, and he got that totally wrong. |
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mikaok
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Sekerob
Ace Cruncher Joined: Jul 24, 2005 Post Count: 20043 Status: Offline |
For those who're not following the various different feeds, here one snagged from the Facebook news reel as originally posted at CNN.
----------------------------------------IBM Works with Walt Disney Imagineering to Create a New Smarter Planet Exhibit At the Epcot centre, they donate the spare cycles to World Community Grid. ... In addition to providing the computer power for the exhibit, the Smarter Data Center will donate unused computing resources to the World Community Grid to help in various types of medical, humanitarian and environmental research. This project joins together thousands of individual computers worldwide, establishing a large system with massive computational power equivalent to a supercomputer, thereby reducing research time from decades to months...
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Former Member
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And here's a translation (sic) of that Finnish page:-
IBM has launched its third global tietojenkäsittelytalkoot World Community Grid (WCG)-hilaverkossa, which was built in November 2004 to serve if yleishumanitääristä. Companies and individuals have joined, in front of the computer already 381 000, and white näytönsäästäjältä over syöpäsairauksien therapies are now used are embedded in the investigation. Anyone can join. Hosted by IBM and the Wcg network already joined more than 381 000 computer from around the world make up the Help Defeat Cancer project virtual supertietokoneen, which serves as a graphical image tutkimuslaboratoriona performing at its best. It can analyze by using the application for the purpose of cancer in the same quantity of kudosnäytteitä in a single day, which is typical of the Institute shall be dealt with by a single PC about 130 years. Wcg network has previously determined that, inter alia, of proteins in the human laskostumisen causes and searched the hiv virus in cells of the anorectic agents increase in lääkeainemolekyylejä. Virtual superkone attacks upon the diversity of cancer A major challenge for the development of cancer cases among taltuttavien therapies for cancer, as well as the diversity of the different sub-species, they depend on the characteristics and evaluated. For the group is listed as belonging to more than 2 000 different tautityyppiä, but the researchers and doctors are faced with a constantly for the time patients are subtypes of sairastavia luokittelemattomiakin. One should take advantage of the current cancer medical kudossiru-that is, computer-assisted translation quality technology (Tissue Microarray). In the syöpäsolujen sairastuttamista tissues samples is being digitised and are arranged in a large, up to hundreds or thousands of samples as a set. After this, you can search for the dyeing näytejoukosta and värintunnistusalgoritmien to be used to determine the essential proteins, for example, täsmälääkityksen, as well as to examine the statistical methods their presence in the large potilasryhmissä. According to talkoisiin IBM has organized the project at the University of the State of New Jersey, and syöpäinstituutin. Help Defeat Cancer-to join the project, you can download the IBM site in the free application, ylläpitämältä to activate your screen saver PCs normally used for pyhitetyn tyhjäkäyntiajan. Help Defeat Cancer-talkoisiin may be involved in, download your own according to enroll in either the Windows, Linux or Mac-based software from the Internet. The application retrieves the set of the ECHR along the tutkimuspalvelimelta tiedonsiirtoväylää kudosnäytteitä and begin conducting machine moves to näytönsäästäjätilaan. Upon receipt of the task as complete machine returns the results to the server and retrieves the same new given work lots. |
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Sekerob
Ace Cruncher Joined: Jul 24, 2005 Post Count: 20043 Status: Offline |
A 3 page article on WCG in http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/145/look-whos-curing-cancer.html
---------------------------------------- How IBM's World Community Grid Is Helping Cure AIDs, Cancer, and World Hunger By: Chuck SalterMay 1, 2010 IBM's virtual supercomputer is tapping the unused processors of half a million people to speed up critical scientific research. VOLUNTEERING: When Lauren Moran isn't typing on her laptop, it's busy with heavy-duty computations for medical research projects. | Photograph by Joao Canziani AT GRID HQ: "We're opening up the field of bioinformatics," says IBM VP Robin Willner. Photograph by Reed Young For the past four years, Lauren Moran has devoted herself to groundbreaking cancer research, chronicling the fickle interaction between molecules and proteins. Despite having a full-time job -- "stat geek" on the New York Yankees' media relations staff -- Moran screens drug candidates daily. And continuously. She conducts experiments while talking on the phone to her parents, attending games at Yankee Stadium, and watching episodes of The Office in her Bronx apartment. Even in the dead of night. When she's not trying to cure cancer, she's busy cracking other monumental problems: AIDS. World hunger. Clean energy. It's a breathtaking portfolio for a 24-year-old communications major who didn't take a single chemistry or biology class in college. Moran is a new breed of innovator: a citizen researcher on IBM's World Community Grid (WCG), an unprecedented effort to deploy ordinary people's idle computers to create a free, open-source lab for researchers around the globe. Massive computational research is broken down into discrete problems and distributed across a vast network. Since the tech giant launched the nearly $2-million-a-year project in November 2004, more than half a million people in 218 countries have volunteered some 1.5 million laptops and desktops. In raw computing power, the grid is comparable to a top-10 supercomputer. The average PC would take more than 328,000 years to complete the grid's calculations so far. The grid, says researcher Alán Aspuru-Guzik, an assistant professor of chemistry at Harvard, "gives you the opportunity to do something nobody else has done. Something disruptive. read on at the link ..."
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