LHC & Boinc

I don't know if any of you run BOINC, but the Large Hadron Collider is now accepting people for [email protected]

If you're not familar with Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC), it's distributed computing.

Just like a large, multi-processor super computer. Very, very cool.

Your machine will download workunits and upload results.

There are plenty of projects ranging from climate prediction to large protein chain prediction. The Boinc site has a complete list.

Since math/physics are hobbies of mine, I crunch for [email protected] crunching data from Arecibo and the VLA, [email protected] crunching from the LIGOs, and now for [email protected] which will crunch the collider data. LHC is up but doesn't have any work units.

I have no affiliation with UC Berkeley or any of the projects. I just think it's a cool and it doesn't take a lot of my time. Maybe my machine will crunch that workunit from the Arecibo with a message from Vega or discover gravity waves from the LIGO at MIT.....hey, ya never know...:grin:

Does anyone run Boinc?

Mike
Some links:
BOINC
[email protected][email protected]
[email protected]
Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory(LIGO)