You may have noticed in the sig area of many forum members a reference to TeAm AnandTech. If you have found value in the articles and forums on the AnandTech Website you can show your appreciation by becoming a member of TeAm AnandTech. We would like to invite you to join us and use the idle CPU cycles of your computer to further various science experiments. But TeAm AnandTech is much more than sharing your spare CPU cycles for a "worthwhile" cause... it's about being a part of a "Family." The TeAm AnandTech "Family" is a very close knit group of people...from all backgrounds and societies... all working and playing together on various DC projects. We think the
Distributed Computing Forum is one of the most friendly and helpful places on the AnandTech forums... add that to the great team spirit... and you've got a winning combination!
In the links below are descriptions of the projects that TeAm AnandTech participates in along with some helpful links and tidbits about the individual project. All the Teams really need more Teammates... as many of the other teams in the world have grown lately, while we've slowed down... but YOU can help change the trend.
Look over the various projects. Most are very easy to set up and run, don't require 24 hour/day operation (but once addicted, you may just do that), and have almost no effect on your everyday PC(s) operations. If you have a question, please jump over to the
Distributed Computing Forum and ask a question... or just say hello! You'll be glad you did, and we will, too!
In some projects TeAm Anandtech needs crunchers more than in others. These projects are:
DPAD: a race is going on. TeAm Anandtech has fallen from 2nd rank to third, and we need more members in the team to get our place back! Please look here:
DPAD
Seti@home: One of the main projects for TeAm Anandtech! The TeAm is in 18th place, but 4 teams are a threat. Production has been falling over the past months because crunchers have moved to other projects. Some other teams are catching up! Please look here:
SETI@home
Rosetta: an other of the main projects for the TeAm. Some TeAm members have been inspired to crunch this project to help a small girl to fight cancer and to do something - not only for her but also for humanity. Please look here:
Rosetta@home
There are many projects around. Please take a look and join!
BURP aims to develop a publicly distributed system for rendering 3D animations.
Chess960@Home Chess960 is a young innovative chess variant. In Chess960, just before the start of every game, the initial configuration of the chess pieces is determined randomly. In this project we try to combine Chess960 and the idea of distributed computing. With it we want to give this chess variant some basics in theory of this game.
Climateprediction is the largest experiment to try and produce a forecast of the climate in the 21st century.
Climateprediction: Seasonal Attribution Project Recent extreme weather events have prompted the debate about effects of human activity on the world's climate. Now you can help us to determine the extent to which extreme weather events like the United Kingdom floods of Autumn 2000 are attributable to human-induced climate change.
DPAD Muon1 Distributed Particle Accelerator Design: Here you can use your own PC's idle time to simulate and design parts of a particle accelerator.
Einstein@Home is a program that uses your computer's idle time to search for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors.
Folding@home Proteins are biology's workhorses - its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out these important functions, they assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, in many ways remains a mystery. Moreover, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious consequences, including many well known diseases (e.g. Alzheimers, Huntingdon's disease, Parkinson's disease, Cancer)
HashClash This project is intended as cryptographic research only. The purpose is to extend both theoretical and experimental results on collision generation for the MD5 and SHA1 hash functions, based on the ideas of Xiaoyun Wang and her co-workers.
Leiden Classical Join in and help to build a Desktop Computer Grid dedicated to general Classical Dynamics for any scientist or science student!
LHC@Home The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator which is being built at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the world's largest particle physics laboratory. When it will switch on in 2007, it will be the most powerful instrument ever built to investigate on particles proprieties. This project determines different parameters of the collider. Sometimes low on workunits.
MalariaControl project is an application that makes use of network computing for stochastic modelling of the clinical epidemiology and natural history of Plasmodium falciparum malaria.
nanohive@Home is a modular simulator used for modeling the physical world at a nanometer scale. The intended purpose of the simulator is to act as a tool for the study, experimentation, and development of nanotech entities.
Pirates@Home is an ongoing test of BOINC, the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing. Pirates@Home is currently being used to test BOINC's forum software for possible use by another project, Interactions in Understanding the Universe. At present Pirates@Home is not doing any real scientific computation, we are just having 'fun' with BOINC.
Predictor@home is a world-community experiment to assemble a supercomputer able to predict protein structure from protein sequence. Sometimes low on workunits.
QMC@Home Reactions between molecules are important for virtually all parts of our lives. The structure and reactivity of molecules can be predicted by Quantum Chemistry, but the solution of the vastly complex equations of Quantum Theory often requires huge amounts of computing power. In our project we want to aquire the necessary computing time to further develop the very promising Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method for general use in Quantum Chemistry.
Rectilinear Crossing Number (RCN) Determine least number of crossings a straight-edge drawing of the complete graph on top of a set of n points in the plane obtains? (i.e. If there are a specific number of points on a graph, and straight lines are drawn between all of the points, what arrangement of the points will provide the lowest number of crossed lines?) A geometry project - somewhat hard to explain in one sentence - please check the link!
Riesel Sieve Implement the prime testing software used by the Riesel Sieve Project under the BOINC system. The project's goal is to prove that 509203 is the smallest odd k where for every n >= 1, k*2^n-1 is composite.
Rosetta@home needs your help to determine the 3-dimensional shapes of proteins in research that may ultimately lead to finding cures for some major human diseases.
SETI@home Search for extraterrestial intelligence: the project which started it all ...
SETI@home/AstroPulse Beta Beta test for the Seti@Home project.
SIMAP is a database of protein similarities and protein domains. It contains about all currently published protein sequences and is continuously updated. Protein similarities are computed using the FASTA algorithm which provides optimal speed and sensitivity. Protein domains are calculated using the InterPro methods and databases. SIMAP is to our knowledge the only project that combines comprehensive coverage with respect to all known proteins and incremental update capabilities.
Spinhenge@home Study statistical computations for Spin dynamics to determine methods of making molecular magnetic materials for Nano technology.
SZTAKI Desktop Gridcurrently searches for generalized binary number systems.
TANPAKU is aiming to predict protein structures with the help of your computational resources.
µFluids is a massively distributed computer simulation of two-phase fluid behavior in microgravity and microfluidics problems. Our goal is to design better satellite propellant management devices and address two-phase flow in microchannel and MEMS devices.
VTU The aim of the project is to count the quantity of prime numbers in a large interval. The worst possible known algorithm is used in order to utilize lot of computing hours and many work units to test the BOINC system and study the client API.
World Community Grid World Community Grid's mission is to create the largest public computing grid benefiting humanity. Our work is built on the belief that technological innovation combined with visionary scientific research and large-scale volunteerism can change our world for the better. Active projects: Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy Project, Genome Comparison Project, Help Defeat Cancer Project, Human Proteome Folding - Phase 2 Project, FightAIDS@Home Project.
XtremLab is a BOINC project for measuring the free resources available on personal computers involved in large-scale distributed computing. Ultimately, these measurements will be used to improve the design and implementation of current systems, such as BOINC.
Edit # 1: Spelling. Changed Team AnandTech to TeAm AnandTech. Looks more ... "nerdy" :Q ?
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