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Sekerob
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A Thread to "Exclusively" collect news and links discussing C4CW:
----------------------------------------On "Calcolo Distribuito", an Italian presentation of Computing for the Cause of Clean Water: http://www.calcolodistribuito.it/news/221-ela...usa-dellacqua-pulita.html
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Richard Mitnick
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Is there an English version for the piece on the link?
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Former Member
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Is there an English version for the piece on the link? the piece on that link is substantially the italian version of the WCG project overview I plan to deepen the subject in the next few months [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Aug 28, 2010 11:03:47 PM] |
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Richard Mitnick
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Thanks, I already read the project overview on a different thread.
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Thomas Klauset Aurdal
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Sekerob
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http://www.voiceanddata.com.au/news/43255-Aus...an-water-research-program
----------------------------------------Aussie universities join IBM's clean water research program University of Sydney and Monash University will work with China’s Tsinghua University and global academics to improve water quality. IBM's World Community Grid, a voluntary, worldwide network of PCs, has announced a series of projects aimed at producing cleaner and safer water, an increasingly scarce global commodity eluding at least 1.2 billion people worldwide. Working with researchers from all over the world, including Australia’s University of Sydney and Monash University, the ‘Computing For Clean Water’ project at China’s Tsinghua University aims to produce more efficient and effective water filtering techniques. Utilising the World Community Grid will enable complex research to be completed much quicker and more cost effectively than if conventional power systems were used. IBM’s World Community Grid harnesses unused and donated power from over 1.5 million individual PCs from around the world whose computers perform calculations for scientists when these machines would otherwise be underutilised. Computing for Clean Water focuses on scrubbing polluted water, as well as converting saltwater into drinkable freshwater, with less expense, complexity and energy than current techniques. A new technique aimed at improving water quality uses molecular-scale tubes made of graphitic carbon. “The small pores on the tubes keep unwanted organic molecules from passing through them - including salt. In order to get liquids to pass through the small pores, scientists currently need to use extreme high pressure to get liquids to pass through these really small pores,” says Dr Luming Shen, Senior Lecturer, School of Civil Engineering, University of Sydney. The IBM-supported World Community Grid - equivalent to one of the world's fastest supercomputers - will enable the researchers to perform online simulations and pose hypothetical scenarios to solve these difficult problems. Anyone can donate their unused computer time, enabling scientists to use the World Community Grid for different projects such as engineering cleaner energy, curing disease and producing healthier food staples. “When the first phase is completed, we hope to gain new insight into how nanotubes of a certain diameter produce the most efficient flow,” says Dr Zhe Liu, Lecturer from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering who is leading the computational materials and mechanics research group at Monash University. “This information will be fed back to researchers making the materials. Future phases of the project will study in more detail how effectively different types of contaminant molecules are blocked by the nanotubes, as well as the filtering effect of the tubes on dissolved salt. At the end of the day, our aim is to find more efficient and inexpensive methods of providing clean water around the world.” IBM has donated the server hardware, software, technical services and expertise to build the infrastructure for World Community Grid and provides free hosting, maintenance and support.
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http://www.voiceanddata.com.au/news/43255-Aus...an-water-research-program Aussie universities join IBM's clean water research program University of Sydney and Monash University will work with China’s Tsinghua University and global academics to improve water quality. IBM's World Community Grid, a voluntary, worldwide network of PCs, has announced a series of projects aimed at producing cleaner and safer water, an increasingly scarce global commodity eluding at least 1.2 billion people worldwide. Working with researchers from all over the world, including Australia’s University of Sydney and Monash University, the ‘Computing For Clean Water’ project at China’s Tsinghua University aims to produce more efficient and effective water filtering techniques. Utilising the World Community Grid will enable complex research to be completed much quicker and more cost effectively than if conventional power systems were used. IBM’s World Community Grid harnesses unused and donated power from over 1.5 million individual PCs from around the world whose computers perform calculations for scientists when these machines would otherwise be underutilised. Computing for Clean Water focuses on scrubbing polluted water, as well as converting saltwater into drinkable freshwater, with less expense, complexity and energy than current techniques. A new technique aimed at improving water quality uses molecular-scale tubes made of graphitic carbon. “The small pores on the tubes keep unwanted organic molecules from passing through them - including salt. In order to get liquids to pass through the small pores, scientists currently need to use extreme high pressure to get liquids to pass through these really small pores,” says Dr Luming Shen, Senior Lecturer, School of Civil Engineering, University of Sydney. The IBM-supported World Community Grid - equivalent to one of the world's fastest supercomputers - will enable the researchers to perform online simulations and pose hypothetical scenarios to solve these difficult problems. Anyone can donate their unused computer time, enabling scientists to use the World Community Grid for different projects such as engineering cleaner energy, curing disease and producing healthier food staples. “When the first phase is completed, we hope to gain new insight into how nanotubes of a certain diameter produce the most efficient flow,” says Dr Zhe Liu, Lecturer from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering who is leading the computational materials and mechanics research group at Monash University. “This information will be fed back to researchers making the materials. Future phases of the project will study in more detail how effectively different types of contaminant molecules are blocked by the nanotubes, as well as the filtering effect of the tubes on dissolved salt. At the end of the day, our aim is to find more efficient and inexpensive methods of providing clean water around the world.” IBM has donated the server hardware, software, technical services and expertise to build the infrastructure for World Community Grid and provides free hosting, maintenance and support. Great news. Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! oy! oy! oy! Aussie! oy! Aussie! oy! Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! oy! oy! oy! |
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In Germany we are ready to manufacture, cool! :-)
"End of January 2009 in Leverkusen 80 partners from industry and research have been formed for the Innovation Alliance Inno.CNT. Prior to their opening event, Bayer AG has laid the foundation for the world's largest pilot plant for carbon nanotubes, which is in operation since January 2010 and had cost 22 million €. It has an annual production capacity of 200 tonnes." (my translation from Wikipedia Germany) Do you know where else production plants are? |
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Dataman
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Perhaps I am the only one but I did not know CC4W has a "younger brother" project ... CAS@Home.
----------------------------------------http://casathome.ihep.ac.cn/index.php Their servers are running and have work. Not sure it will remain so. They have an active forum and started complaining about credits in August (18 credits/hour). http://casathome.ihep.ac.cn/forum_thread.php?id=20 I didn't try to attach to the project through that url so not sure it still works. I post it because it has some more information about the project and the university and the forum info is interesting. As I said, this may have already been announced here and I missed it. |
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nasher
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personally i have worked on many projects that have died in the past without completing there run... CAS is been running for it looks like just over 2 months... personally i would prefer to crunch for WCG that has proven to have many projects that they have finished along with others that are continuing to advance.
----------------------------------------To me at least i know that the results from here will go to public... not sure how the results at CAS will go. whatever you do have fun and good luck crunching |
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