The White House wants your DC stories

[Ken g6]

From the BOINC forums:

The White House is staging a webcast forum on citizen science on Sept. 30. Let's make sure that BOINC and volunteer computing are represented in this event! Please tell the White House about your experience with volunteer computing, and why it's important.

But, of course, DC isn't all BOINC either. Feel free to add in F@H or whatever else.

 

[Rudy Toody]

Can anyone name a US-based project with significant scientific results?

Most projects like SIMAP, POGS... are elsewhere.

 

[Orange Kid]

DPAD is now being done on US soil.

 

[Orange Kid]

This post best explains the current status since Steven's move to the US

 

[John Connor]

Has any distributed computing actually benefited anything? I used to run three computers on Folding@Home for TechIMO.

 

[Ken g6]

Has any distributed computing actually benefited anything? I used to run three computers on Folding@Home for TechIMO.

SIMAP certainly did. GPUGrid (based in Spain) does - you get badges for papers you've contributed to. I'm sure there's a few others, but nothing else springs to mind.

 

[John Connor]

My very first DC app was a screen saver I installed back in 2003 for SETI.

 

[petrusbroder]

Has any distributed computing actually benefited anything? I used to run three computers on Folding@Home for TechIMO.

Yes indeed. Until May 2015 there were more than 300 scientific papers published in peer reviewed journal, and a total of more than 460 papers:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=35545345&postcount=1

I am quite sure a few more have appeared ...