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MiguelMiguel AngelAngel MarquinaMarquina CERN,CERN, SwitzerlandSwitzerland CERN University of Geneva UN Institute for Training and Research

“All for science, science for all”

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45th EUCEN Conference Connecting Citizens to Science… Charmey - May 31, 2013 Miguel Angel Marquina CitizenCitizen ScienceScience VolunteerVolunteer ComputingComputing

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45th EUCEN Conference Connecting Citizens to Science… Charmey - May 31, 2013 Miguel Angel Marquina PhysicsPhysics ((e.ge.g.. CERN)CERN)

 LHC@homeLHC@home http://http://cern.chcern.ch//LHCathomeLHCathome SixtrackSixtrack 700700 yearsyears T4TT4T 44K44K CPUsCPUs

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45th EUCEN Conference Connecting Citizens to Science… Charmey - May 31, 2013 Miguel Angel Marquina LifeLife SciencesSciences

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45th EUCEN Conference Connecting Citizens to Science… Charmey - May 31, 2013 Miguel Angel Marquina EarthEarth SciencesSciences

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45th EUCEN Conference Connecting Citizens to Science… Charmey - May 31, 2013 Miguel Angel Marquina VolunteerVolunteer ComputingComputing AllAll kinds,kinds, allall flavoursflavours

Proth Sieve SCIENCE LIFE SCIENCES MATHEMATICS AND Twin Internet Prime Search Pi Segment SETI@home (BOINC) Parabon Computation CRYPTOGRAPHY Rectilinear Crossing Number (BOINC) evolution@home Folding@home Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search ABC@home (BOINC) eOn FightAIDS@home Proth Prime Search WEP-M+2 Project (BOINC) climateprediction.net (BOINC) Übero ECMNET distributed.net Muon1 Drug Design Optimization Lab (D2OL) Minimal Equal Sums of Like Powers PrimeGrid (BOINC) LHC@home (BOINC) The Virtual Laboratory Project MM61 Project M4 Einstein@Home(BOINC) Community TSC 3x + 1 Problem HashClash (BOINC) BBC Climate Change Predictor@home (BOINC) Distributed Search for Fermat Assault on 13th Labour Experiment (BOINC) XGrid@Stanford Number Divisors Free Rainbow Tables Leiden Classical (BOINC) Human Proteome Folding (WCG) PCP@Home QMC@home (BOINC) CHRONOS (BOINC) Generalized Fermat Prime Search NanoHive@Home (BOINC) Rosetta@home (BOINC) PSearch IT PERFORMANCE μFluids@Home (BOINC) RALPH@home (BOINC) Seventeen or Bust Gómez Performance ($) Spinhenge@home (BOINC) SIMAP (BOINC) Factorizations of Cyclotomic Numbers Network Peer Cosmology@Home (BOINC) malariacontrol.net (BOINC) Goldbach Conjecture Verification NETI@home PS3GRID (BOINC) Help Defeat Cancer (WCG) The Riesel Problem dCrawl Mars Clickworkers TANPAKU (BOINC) The 3*2^n-1 Search DIMES Genome Comparison (WCG) NFSNET Red Library DLV Docking@Home (BOINC) Search for Multifactorial Primes Majestic-12 proteins@home (BOINC) 15k Prime Search Boitho Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy (WCG) ElevenSmooth PeerFactor Riesel Sieve DepSpid The Prime Sierpinski Project Pingdom GIGRIB P.I.E.S. - Prime Internet Eisenstein Search Project Neuron (BOINC) Factors of k*2^n±1 XYYXF 12121 Search PUZZLES AND GAMES 2721 Search ChessBrain Operation Billion Digits Chess960@home (BOINC) SIGPS Primesearch Lone Mersenne Hunters FINANCIAL Factoring MoneyBee 100 Million digits prefactor project GStock Source: http://distributedcomputing.info/ Repdigit Prime Problems Mersenneplustwo Factorizations th 45 EUCEN Conference Connecting CitizensSierpinski/Riesel to Base Science… 5 ART SZTAKI Desktop Grid (BOINC) electric sheep Charmey - May 31, 2013 Miguel AngelRiesel Prime Marquina Search Internet Movie Project RenderFarm@Home (BOINC) CitizenCitizen ScienceScience VolunteerVolunteer SensingSensing

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CitizenCitizen ProblemProblem SolvingSolving ((A.BinghamA.Bingham))

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ProteinProtein foldingfolding strategiesstrategies

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45th EUCEN Conference Connecting Citizens to Science… Charmey - May 31, 2013 Miguel Angel Marquina CitizenCitizen ScienceScience LearningLearning PathsPaths

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45th EUCEN Conference Connecting Citizens to Science… Charmey - May 31, 2013 Miguel Angel Marquina CitizenCitizen ScienceScience ProjectProject PaybackPayback

 OpportunitiesOpportunities toto exploreexplore novelnovel ideasideas  OutreachOutreach gearsgears resourceresource harvestingharvesting effortsefforts  VolunteersVolunteers becomebecome keykey toto progressprogress  AddressingAddressing taskstasks wherewhere humanshumans outperformoutperform computerscomputers  ImpactImpact onon societysociety preceedspreceeds resultsresults

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45th EUCEN Conference Connecting Citizens to Science… Charmey - May 31, 2013 Miguel Angel Marquina Slide courtesy of L.Kloetzer, UniGe CitizenCitizen ScienceScience FinalFinal WrapWrap UpUp

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OneOne pragmaticpragmatic approachapproach toto GlobalGlobal KnowledgeKnowledge TransferTransfer

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