YSK: There is a list of volunteer computing projects where you can donate CPU/GPU time to help researchers globally with their scientific problems.
YSK: There is a list of volunteer computing projects where you can donate CPU/GPU time to help researchers globally with their scientific problems.
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They're all kind of old, though. Most of the active ones seem like 5-10 years old. Are there any recent new projects?
And are the projects from like 2009 still feasable? I mean both argorithms and compute hardware in the datacenters of those universities may have made leaps forwards since then?
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I mean, during COVID, the folding@home network was the most powerful 'datacentre' in the world by quite a margin.
Home computing leaps almost as fast as the data centres do.
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Wow, I didn't know. First exaFLOP computing system... I tried looking up more but that seems complicated. I'm missing some graph with the TFLOPs over time. Only thing I found is some old one from 2012. Do you happen to know if the participants get in return any list of what their contribution achieved? I mean it'd be nice to know what kinds of scientific papers were written about Covid, with help of that massive compute capacity.
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They list the papers here (there may be more not listed). See how many more there are in 2021!
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That's a good question.
From what I've gathered from my recent experience of running tasks, the project might have started years ago, but they are still offering tasks to be completed.
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Einstein@Home does pulsar and (continuous) gravitational wave research. They have some long-running pulsar projects, which still find new pulsars getting published, and continuous gravitational wave research usually has a new project every 6-12 months.
The algorithms are improving all the time, and so do the volunteer computers.
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I wonder how much of this is because of crypto. Option to get paid appears, and donations go down.
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