| Distributed Computing Platforms |
| Platform | Current Project(s) | Past Project(s) |
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| Computing Platforms are software client applications that you can run on your computer and that host various, often unrelated, project applications. You can visit a computing platform website from this page, download the client and participate in the projects for that platform, or you can follow the platforms' project links to read more about them. | ||
grid.org
is a distributed computing platform which
allows you to participate in health and science
projects. It is "a single
destination site for large-scale research projects powered by the
United Devices Global MetaProcessor." See
the latest known progress for grid.org's projects in
this discussion
forum.
Platform participants: join one or more of the grid.org projects by downloading and running the MetaProcessor agent. It will automatically set itself up to participate in grid.org's projects. You can opt in or out of grid.org's various projects through your member web page on the project site. Version 3.0 of the MetaProcessor agent is available as of June 18, 2002. The client will not run on Win95, but will run on all later Windows platforms. Note for 3.0 users: there is a known bug which causes the client to start from the beginning of a work-unit if you restart the client. See global statistics for all grid.org projects. Join a discussion group about this platform. |
Cancer Research
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Genetic Research with HMMER
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"Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing
(BOINC) is a platform
for projects, like
distributed.net and SETI@home,
that use millions of volunteer computers as a parallel supercomputer."
Source code is available
for the platform, and interested C++ developers are encouraged to help
develop the
platform code. Information about BOINC is available in the following
langauges (through links at the project website): Chinese, Estonian, Danish,
French, German, Russian, Spanish.
BOINC is currently supported on Windows, Linux, UNIX, and Mac OSX platforms. CPU platform requirements may vary among project clients using BOINC. As of November 21, 2004, the core client has a cross-platform graphical user interface (GUI) which allows the user to "suspend/resume projects and results, and project-specific web links. It uses a socket-based GUI RPC mechanism, which makes it possible to develop other GUIs, including ones that control many hosts." Projects planning to use BOINC are: Einstein@Home, and The Lattice Project, an upcoming project by the University of Maryland's Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology to research various problems in bioinformatics. Version 4.13 of the BOINC platform is available for Windows as of October 13, 2004. Version 4.13 is available for Linux X86 as of October 13, 2004. Version 4.13 is available for Mac OSX as of October 13, 2004. Optimized Mac OSX clients are available from Team MacNN. Version 4.13 is available for Solaris as of October 13, 2004. A Solaris 9 X86 client is available from SOLARIS@x86. An anonymous platform mechanism, which allows you to run BOINC on any platform, is available as of February 1, 2004. Platform participants: join one or more of the BOINC projects by registering for an account at a project site, then downloading and running the BOINC client. It will automatically set itself up to participate in that project. See more information about participating in BOINC projects. Project owners: the project site has a lot of information about creating a BOINC project. See unofficial stats for all active BOINC projects at BOINCstats. |
BOINC Beta Test
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World Community Grid
is a distributed computing platform which
allows you to support multiple computing
projects.
Version 3.0 of the World Community Grid agent platform is available for Windows as of November 16, 2004. Platform participants: join one or more of the World Community Grid projects by registering for an account at the project site, then downloading and running the World Community Grid agent software (note: if you are already participating in grid.org you do not need to register for this platform: they are the same project). The agent will automatically set itself up to participate in World Community Grid projects. See global statistics for all World Community Grid projects. Join a discussion group about this platform. |
Human Proteome Folding
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Smallpox
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| Past Distributed Computing Platforms | ||
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