Friday, October 16, 2009

Possible New BOINC Projects part 1


     BOINC wide teams is a wonderful thing.  If you have a BOINC team, like TEAM: Brian for instance, every time you join a new BOINC project, you have to create the same old team on the new project.  It gets tedious after a while.  So, from the makers of BOINC comes, BOINC wide teams.  You create a team once, and whenever someone creates a new, BOINC project, your automatically get your team created in that project.  Sweet!  Also, you get e-mailed when a new project is created, so it's kind of like insider info on the newest projects.  That's what this series of posts will be about.  Possible new BOINC projects that I find out about through
BOINC wide teams. So, in alphabetical order, because that's the easiest way to get them out of my e-mail, all the BOINC wide team projects so far:

  • 3g Bridge Project
    •  Created 3/27/09
    • The web site appears to be full of default and generic information, so don't get your hopes up just yet. 
  • AlmereGrid Boinc Grid 
    • Created 7/24/08
    • A project from The Netherlands.  AlmereGrid English site
    • This seems to be a project set up so the Dutch city of Almere can donate computer cycles, thus creating the first city super computer...?  
    • Not to be insulting to the Dutch, but this seems kind of scaled back, considering that SETI@Home created the first global super computer.  
    • I didn't find much on what actual science they are doing. 
  • Artificial Intelligence System 
    • Created 07/05/08
    • The website is dead.  I assume the project is also.  But, who knows,  I could be wrong.  It may only be down for now and will be up, vibrant, and full of life  five minutes from now.  Who knows. 
  • Barcelona tutorial-04 URBAH Etienne 
    • Created 09/20/09
    • The website is dead.  Kaput.  Maybe it'll work later, but it is dead right now.  
  • BOINC alpha test 
    • Created 05/07/09
    • This is a testing project for new versions of BOINC software.  
  • DECS
    • Created 07/05/08
    • ???
    • The website is down due to maintenance or server capacity problems.  
    • My best guess: Personal Test Project?
  • Drug Discovery through Computational Structural Biology and Chemistry
    • Created 07/05/08
    • These people need an anagram, like, N.A.M.B.L.A.  That name is way too long. 
    • This seems to be some kind of drug research involving structural biology and chemistry (no, really?)
    • The site is over a year old and still not complete, however, there was some activity early this month, so maybe soon?  (Or maybe not.)
  • DrugDiscovery@Home
    • Created 04/21/09
    • They are an actual project in the Alpha test phases.
    • I have no idea if they are related to the previous entry.
    • According to their web site, they do not "have a formal relationship with academia or the pharmaceutical industry."
    • So, they're just some guys who like drugs?  (I know a lot of people like that.  None of them are THAT dedicated, though.)
I have another 36 to go, and I'm not going to get through them all tonight, so, to make the size of this post manageable, I'll stop here and continue later.

Brian

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