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Volunteer Computing Connecting the World to Science David P. Anderson Space Sciences Lab U.C. Berkeley April 29, 2008 Finding needles in haystacks Astronomy Physics Genetics Computing as Virtual Laboratory Biology Cosmology Climate study Darwinian computing Where’s the computing power? Volunteer computing Individuals (~1 billion PCs) Government (~50M PCs) Companies (~100M PCs) The BOINC model Your PC BOINC-based proje Climateprediction.net Oxford; climate study Rosetta@home U. of Washington; biology MalariaControl.net STI; malaria epidemiology World Community Grid IBM; several applications ... Attachments Simple Secure Invisible Independent No central authority The volunteer computing ecosystem Projects Public Teach, motivate volunteer Do more science Involve public in science Where we’re at ~40 projects 500,000 active participants growing slowly mostly geeks? Computing power: about 2 PetaFLOPS About 8X a $300M supercomputer Some BOINC projects Climateprediction.net Einstein@home LIGO scientific collaboration gravitational wave detection SETI@home Oxford University Global climate modeling U.C. Berkeley Radio search for E.T.I. and black hole evaporation Leiden Classical Leiden University Surface chemistry using classical dynamics More projects LHC@home QMC@home Univ. of Muenster Quantum chemistry Spinhenge@home CERN simulator of LHC, collisions Bielefeld Univ. Sutdy nanoscale magnetism ABC@home Leiden Univ. Number theory Biomed-related BOINC projects Rosetta@home Tanpaku University of Washington Rosetta: Protein folding, docking, and design Tokyo Univ. of Science Protein structure prediction using Brownian dynamics MalariaControl The Swiss Tropical Institute Epidemiological simulation More projects Predictor@home SIMAP Univ. of Michigan CHARMM, protein structure prediction Tech. Univ. of Munich Protein similarity matrix Superlink@Technion Technion Genetic linkage analysis using Bayesian networks More projects Dengue fever drug discovery Human Proteome Folding U. of Texas, U. of Chicago Autodock New York University Rosetta FightAIDS@home Scripps Institute Autodock Conclusion Science needs much more computing power Volunteer computing can provide it and maybe avoid Dark Ages II BOINC: the enabling technology How to grow from 0.5M to 50M volunteers?