I am currently in the lonely position of being the only producer on the TeAm AnandTech lifemapper team. I doubt I'll be able to drum up support like DanC has been able to do with dpad, but I thought I'd at least give it a shot. We are currently in 31st place and are outproducing all but 9 teams. Just like dpad, a small contribution will make a big difference. I have had no problems with the client. It has never crashed on me, it allows you to set the priority that it runs at, and you can cache up to 200 units. It doesn't support multiple cpus/HT so you will have to run more than 1 client.
Here is a quick overview of the project taken from the lifemapper.com website.
It uses the Internet and leading-edge information technology to retrieve records of millions of plants and animals in the world's natural history museums. Lifemapper analyzes the data, computes the ecological profile of each species, maps where the species has been found and predicts where each species could potentially live.
The research that developed Lifemapper was supported by the National Science Foundation, the US government agency that supports all basic research and education in non-medical science.
How will Lifemapper's results be used?
For biodiversity research, education and conservation worldwide, especially to forecast environmental events and inform public policy with leading-edge science.
For example, using Lifemapper's predictions of animal and plant distributions
Researchers will be able to model and simulate the spread of emerging diseases, plant and animal pests, or invasive species of plants and animals and their effects on natural resources, agricultural crops and human populations.
Environmental scientists will be able to model and predict the effects of local, regional or global climate change on Earth's species of plants and animals.
Land planners and policy-makers will be able to identify the highest priority areas for biodiversity conservation.
Teachers, students and the public will be able to discover and map their backyard biodiversity and how it might be affected by changes in rainfall or temperature or by the spread of other species.
Humans have explored the life of the planet for the past 250 years. That knowledge is documented by millions of original specimens of plants and animals in the world's natural history museums and herbaria. Become a Lifemapper and help science use this knowledge to better understand and conserve Earth's biological diversity. Become a Lifemapper and help science inform environmental solutions for Earth's biological diversity.
You can view your stats on number of units analyzed, number of species analyzed and you can even look at more detailed information on the last 500 units you crunched including pictures if available on google and a map of the data you worked on.
It is starting to get lonely being the only person on this project. It would be nice to have someone throw at least computer onto this project to keep me company. I am managing to keep us at around the #9 team in daily production with just a p3 1ghz and a p3 3.2ghz.
Here is a quick overview of the project taken from the lifemapper.com website.
It uses the Internet and leading-edge information technology to retrieve records of millions of plants and animals in the world's natural history museums. Lifemapper analyzes the data, computes the ecological profile of each species, maps where the species has been found and predicts where each species could potentially live.
The research that developed Lifemapper was supported by the National Science Foundation, the US government agency that supports all basic research and education in non-medical science.
How will Lifemapper's results be used?
For biodiversity research, education and conservation worldwide, especially to forecast environmental events and inform public policy with leading-edge science.
For example, using Lifemapper's predictions of animal and plant distributions
Researchers will be able to model and simulate the spread of emerging diseases, plant and animal pests, or invasive species of plants and animals and their effects on natural resources, agricultural crops and human populations.
Environmental scientists will be able to model and predict the effects of local, regional or global climate change on Earth's species of plants and animals.
Land planners and policy-makers will be able to identify the highest priority areas for biodiversity conservation.
Teachers, students and the public will be able to discover and map their backyard biodiversity and how it might be affected by changes in rainfall or temperature or by the spread of other species.
Humans have explored the life of the planet for the past 250 years. That knowledge is documented by millions of original specimens of plants and animals in the world's natural history museums and herbaria. Become a Lifemapper and help science use this knowledge to better understand and conserve Earth's biological diversity. Become a Lifemapper and help science inform environmental solutions for Earth's biological diversity.
You can view your stats on number of units analyzed, number of species analyzed and you can even look at more detailed information on the last 500 units you crunched including pictures if available on google and a map of the data you worked on.
It is starting to get lonely being the only person on this project. It would be nice to have someone throw at least computer onto this project to keep me company. I am managing to keep us at around the #9 team in daily production with just a p3 1ghz and a p3 3.2ghz.