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CERN)CERN) LHC@homeLHC@home http://http://cern.chcern.ch//LHCathomeLHCathome SixtrackSixtrack 700700 yearsyears T4TT4T 44K44K CPUsCPUs GEANT(4)GEANT(4) studiesstudies InteractionsInteractions ofof particlesparticles//radiationradiation withwith mattermatter PopularPopular codecode inin MedicalMedical PhysicsPhysics GARFIELDGARFIELD –– simulationsimulation ofof gasgas detectorsdetectors 45th EUCEN Conference Connecting Citizens to Science… Charmey - May 31, 2013 Miguel Angel Marquina LifeLife SciencesSciences Predictor@homePredictor@home http://predictor.chem.lsa.umich.edu 17001700 yearsyears 84K84K CPUsCPUs ToTo predictpredict proteineproteine structurestructure fromfrom sequencesequence Rosetta@homeRosetta@home http://boinc.bakerlab.orghttp://boinc.bakerlab.org New proteins for cures of human diseases (HIV, malaria, cancer…) Folding@homeFolding@home http://folding.stanford.eduhttp://folding.stanford.edu ProteineProteine ((mis)foldingmis)folding –– degenerativedegenerative diseasesdiseases (Alzheimer,(Alzheimer, HuntingtonHuntington……)) 45th EUCEN Conference Connecting Citizens to Science… Charmey - May 31, 2013 Miguel Angel Marquina EarthEarth SciencesSciences Climateprediction.netClimateprediction.net http://climateprediction.net 1000010000 yearsyears 115K115K clientsclients Climate@homeClimate@home ClimateClimate changechange ((variantvariant ofof aboveabove,, nonnon--overlappingoverlapping targets)targets) 45th EUCEN Conference Connecting Citizens to Science… Charmey - May 31, 2013 Miguel Angel Marquina AidAid toto DevelopingDeveloping CountriesCountries Africa@homeAfrica@home http://cern.ch/africahttp://cern.ch/africa--atat--home/home/ AfricanAfrican humanitarianhumanitarian causescauses ProjectProject kickkick--offoff initiatedinitiated byby CERNCERN Malariacontrol.netMalariacontrol.net http://malariacontrol.net/http://malariacontrol.net/ MalariaMalaria propagationpropagation studiesstudies ((withinwithin thethe frameworkframework ofof Africa@homeAfrica@home)) ComputingComputing forfor ClearClear WaterWater WaterWater flowflow throughthrough nanotubesnanotubes 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 ActiveActive –– InformationInformation DiscoveryDiscovery fieldfield workwork UUsingsing GPSGPS+camera+camera--enabledenabled devicesdevices forfor datadata gathering,gathering, mapping,mapping, geotagginggeotagging ((oftenoften associatedassociated toto GoogleGoogle Earth)Earth) 45th EUCEN Conference Connecting Citizens to Science… Charmey - May 31, 2013 Miguel Angel Marquina Slide courtesy of F.Grey SensingSensing inin ActionAction CybermapprCybermappr –– http://http://cybermappr.unige.chcybermappr.unige.ch UNOSATUNOSAT//UniGeUniGe partnershippartnership inin CCC,CCC, sponsorsponsoreded byby HPHP UsedUsed currentlycurrently forfor geotagginggeotagging ofof regionsregions underunder humanitarianhumanitarian conflicts/crisisconflicts/crisis SeeSee GoogleGoogle groupgroup ““GeotagGeotag LibyaLibya”” http://groups.google.com/group/geotag-libya 45th EUCEN Conference Connecting Citizens to Science… Charmey - May 31, 2013 Miguel Angel Marquina SensingSensing inin ActionAction EpiCollectEpiCollect -- http://http://www.epicollect.netwww.epicollect.net// FrameworkFramework forfor associatingassociating informationinformation toto mapsmaps 45th EUCEN Conference Connecting Citizens to Science… Charmey - May 31, 2013 Miguel Angel Marquina SensingSensing inin ActionAction HPHP GloeGloe -- http://http://www.hpgloe.comwww.hpgloe.com PlatformPlatform forfor locationlocation--basedbased informationinformation discoverydiscovery 45th EUCEN Conference Connecting Citizens to Science… Charmey - 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