• hendrik@palaver.p3x.de
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    14 days ago

    They’re all kind of old, though. Most of the active ones seem like 5-10 years old. Are there any recent new projects?

    And are the projects from like 2009 still feasable? I mean both argorithms and compute hardware in the datacenters of those universities may have made leaps forwards since then?

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      13 days ago

      I mean, during COVID, the folding@home network was the most powerful ‘datacentre’ in the world by quite a margin.

      Home computing leaps almost as fast as the data centres do.

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        13 days ago

        Wow, I didn’t know. First exaFLOP computing system… I tried looking up more but that seems complicated. I’m missing some graph with the TFLOPs over time. Only thing I found is some old one from 2012. Do you happen to know if the participants get in return any list of what their contribution achieved? I mean it’d be nice to know what kinds of scientific papers were written about Covid, with help of that massive compute capacity.

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      14 days ago

      That’s a good question.

      From what I’ve gathered from my recent experience of running tasks, the project might have started years ago, but they are still offering tasks to be completed.

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      Einstein@Home does pulsar and (continuous) gravitational wave research. They have some long-running pulsar projects, which still find new pulsars getting published, and continuous gravitational wave research usually has a new project every 6-12 months.

      The algorithms are improving all the time, and so do the volunteer computers.