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Lets help the scientists

Here it is my first blog!

Many of as have heard about SETI@home. This year the project transformed into BOINC.
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/
It is an open-source platform for sharing computing power. When you install the client you can donate the free resources of your system (mainly CPU) for various scientific computations. This helps the scientists to gain enourmous computing power without having to buy costly supercomputers. If more people were to join then the discoveries would come even quicker.
The BOINC project lends computing powers to several scientific projects

"BOINC lets you donate computing power to scientific research projects such as:

Einstein@home: search for gravitational signals emitted by pulsars.
LHC@home: improve the design of the CERN LHC particle accelerator
World Community Grid: advance our knowledge of human disease (requires 5.2.1 or greater).
Climateprediction.net, BBC Climate Change Experiment, and Seasonal Attribution Project: study climate change.
SIMAP: calculate protein similarity data for use by many biological research projects.
Quantum Monte Carlo at Home: study the structure and reactivity of molecules using Quantum Chemistry.
SETI@home: Look for radio evidence of extraterrestrial life.
Rosetta@home : help researchers develop cures for human diseases.
SZTAKI Desktop Grid: search for generalized binary number systems.
Predictor@home: investigate protein-related diseases.
Cell Computing biomedical research (Japanese; requires nonstandard client software)."

This kind of projects have proven to be of enormous significance for science.
Here are another 3 that are not supported by boinc but have their own clients

http://folding.stanford.edu/
Research of proteins
http://gah.stanford.edu/
Research of the human Genome
http://distributed.net/

In fact all the projects listed above have thei own clients but the boinc client lets you donate power to each of them at once. You may choose wich projects you want to donate power to.
The BOINC projects eagerly accepts other scientific projects, practicly everyone can use it to have access to computing power.So i tink that soon the list will be even bigger.

All the projects are in the sphere of transhumanists interests. If we take part in them and promote them, I am sure the arrival of "The magical future" could happen much sooner.

Published Saturday, March 18, 2006 11:19 AM by Glarusm@n

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	Mr. Farlops wrote on March 18, 2006 6:39 AM Sadly there are no easily installed BOINC clients for Ubuntu (Which runs Gnome) Although, I guess if I search around, I could probably find some documentation to do this. I do have BOINC running on 2 Windows machines here in my apartment but usually those are off.
	Glarusm@n wrote on March 18, 2006 7:01 AM Actually I have Ubuntu installed as well and I was thinking to install BOINC on it this evening. There are no .deb packages and that's why you can't find it in the repositories. But I don't think it'll be that hard.Here is the self-extracting file: http://einstein.astro.gla.ac.uk/download/boinc/dl/boinc_5.2.13_i686-pc-linux-gnu.sh and here are the instuctions on how to install and configure it on linux: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/sea.php If I get problems with the installation and find solutions, I'll post them.
	Hoelderlin wrote on March 18, 2006 11:39 PM So would there be some interest to create 'betterhumans' teams on some of those projects ? Personally I am a big fan of Rosetta@home (protein folding project at the University of Washington) . This is still one of the smaller projects where one can really make a difference. Also, the project manager, David Baker, is very accessible. Ask him a question on their forum and he will respond. He reports on the project progress on a daily (!) basis. They are currently doing basic research (improving their protein folding algorithm) but intend to move to disease related research in the near future (see their 'disease related research' web page).
	Glarusm@n wrote on March 19, 2006 2:56 PM Hoelderlin, I made a forum thread about BOINC: http://betterhumans.com/forums/5065/ShowThread.aspx#5065 If you find interesting information about the projects post it there. Also the team is a good idea but it's better if more people were to join. I personally participate in SETI@home, Rosetta@home and World Community Grid

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Born and living in Bulgaria. I am currently a student in Mathematics and also in Informatics (Computer science). I have LOTS of interests,but the main is my strive to improve myself in every aspect of what I am and what I do.