GridRepublic
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GridRepublic is a BOINC Account Manager. GridRepublic focuses on creating a clean and simple way to join and interact with BOINC. The GridRepublic philosophy is to keep everything clean and simple to encourage general public participation in volunteer computing. The mission of GridRepublic is to raise public awareness and participation in volunteer computing
with BOINC. GridRepublic was formed not long after the establishment of BOINC when GridRepublic's founder suggested that there be a mechanism to control the multiple projects from one place. The code for the BOINC software had to be redesigned to allow for the Account Manager system to be implemented. From that the BOINC Account Manager concept was born.
GridRepublic initially was designed for the handful of projects using BOINC when it was launched and was bare-bones. Since its foundation, GridRepublic has used donations and volunteers to help host, develop and maintain their website.
In October 2008 GridRepublic released the community feature to its website which is designed as a wiki as to begin to create a place to share ideas and encourage collaboration in bringing volunteer computing to the mainstream. The launch of the community section marked a shift in priorities and development for GridRepublic.
Currently, GridRepublic has sustained around 2000 TFlops
of computing power.
GridRepublic's website has won numerous awards including being named finalist at the 2007 SXSW Interactive Festival and the 2008 Stockholm Challenge. GridRepublic has also been recipients of a Google Grant allowing for advertising through Google.
The central control point allows for multiple computer control. In simple terms the preferences selected are replicated to the multiple computers associated with the GridRepublic account. Multiple different preference sets can be created and associated with different computers or groups of computers.
Top popular projects are:
software. The custom installer simplifies and reduces the steps required to join in volunteer computing
. Also included with the GridRepublic client is a GridRepublic skin for the simple view and a custom screensaver for projects that do not have screensavers.
Volunteer computing
Volunteer computing is a type of distributed computing in which computer owners donate their computing resources to one or more "projects".-History:...
with BOINC. GridRepublic was formed not long after the establishment of BOINC when GridRepublic's founder suggested that there be a mechanism to control the multiple projects from one place. The code for the BOINC software had to be redesigned to allow for the Account Manager system to be implemented. From that the BOINC Account Manager concept was born.
About GridRepublic
GridRepublic was founded with the name Computational Charity Project then changed its name to GridRepublic.GridRepublic initially was designed for the handful of projects using BOINC when it was launched and was bare-bones. Since its foundation, GridRepublic has used donations and volunteers to help host, develop and maintain their website.
In October 2008 GridRepublic released the community feature to its website which is designed as a wiki as to begin to create a place to share ideas and encourage collaboration in bringing volunteer computing to the mainstream. The launch of the community section marked a shift in priorities and development for GridRepublic.
Currently, GridRepublic has sustained around 2000 TFlops
FLOPS
In computing, FLOPS is a measure of a computer's performance, especially in fields of scientific calculations that make heavy use of floating-point calculations, similar to the older, simpler, instructions per second...
of computing power.
GridRepublic's website has won numerous awards including being named finalist at the 2007 SXSW Interactive Festival and the 2008 Stockholm Challenge. GridRepublic has also been recipients of a Google Grant allowing for advertising through Google.
How it works
The BOINC Account Manager design allows for creating a unity and central control point for participation in projects using BOINC. GridRepublic created a website where a single login allows for simple point-and-click selection of what projects a computer owner would like to participate. Where upon downloading the application a user provides the email and password to associate with the GridRepublic account so project and preference information is able to be set.The central control point allows for multiple computer control. In simple terms the preferences selected are replicated to the multiple computers associated with the GridRepublic account. Multiple different preference sets can be created and associated with different computers or groups of computers.
Projects
GridRepublic supports a wide range of the BOINC projects over 50. The list of supported projects and the development status of projects are periodically updated.Top popular projects are:
- Climateprediction.netClimateprediction.netClimateprediction.net, or CPDN, is a distributed computing project to investigate and reduce uncertainties in climate modelling. It aims to do this by running hundreds of thousands of different models using the donated idle time of ordinary personal computers, thereby leading to a better...
http://www.climateprediction.net/ Working on doing climate change modeling on personal computers
- Einstein@homeEinstein@HomeEinstein@Home is a volunteer distributed computing project hosted by the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics . The project is directed by Bruce Allen...
http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/ Looking for Pulser Stars from LIGOLIGOLIGO, which stands for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, is a large-scale physics experiment aiming to directly detect gravitational waves. Cofounded in 1992 by Kip Thorne and Ronald Drever of Caltech and Rainer Weiss of MIT, LIGO is a joint project between scientists at MIT,...
and GEO data.
- Rosetta@homeRosetta@homeRosetta@home is a distributed computing project for protein structure prediction on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing platform, run by the Baker laboratory at the University of Washington...
Doing protein folding research.
- SETI@homeSETI@homeSETI@home is an Internet-based public volunteer computing project employing the BOINC software platform, hosted by the Space Sciences Laboratory, at the University of California, Berkeley, in the United States. SETI is an acronym for the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence...
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ Searching radio and light data for signs of Intelligent Life.
GridRepublic Software
GridRepublic is a non-profit, an online application, and software. The software is a customized version of BOINC an open sourceOpen source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
software. The custom installer simplifies and reduces the steps required to join in volunteer computing
Volunteer computing
Volunteer computing is a type of distributed computing in which computer owners donate their computing resources to one or more "projects".-History:...
. Also included with the GridRepublic client is a GridRepublic skin for the simple view and a custom screensaver for projects that do not have screensavers.