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Finding needles in haystacks

Volunteer Computing Connecting the World to Science David P. Anderson Space Sciences Lab U.C. Berkeley April 29, 2008. Finding needles in haystacks. Astronomy. Physics. Genetics. Computing as Virtual Laboratory. Biology. Cosmology. Climate study. Darwinian computing.

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Finding needles in haystacks

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  1. Volunteer ComputingConnecting the World to ScienceDavid P. AndersonSpace Sciences LabU.C. BerkeleyApril 29, 2008

  2. Finding needles in haystacks Astronomy Physics Genetics

  3. Computing as Virtual Laboratory Biology Cosmology Climate study

  4. Darwinian computing

  5. Where’s the computing power? Individuals (~1 billion PCs)‏ Volunteer computing Companies (~100M PCs)‏ Government (~50M PCs)‏

  6. The BOINC model Your PC BOINC-based projects Climateprediction.net Oxford; climate study Rosetta@home U. of Washington; biology MalariaControl.net STI; malaria epidemiology World Community Grid IBM; several applications . . . Attachments • Simple • Secure • Invisible • Independent • No central authority

  7. The volunteer computing ecosystem • Do more science • Involve public in science Projects Public Teach, motivate volunteer

  8. Where we’re at • ~40 projects • 500,000 active participants • growing slowly • mostly geeks? • Computing power: about 2 PetaFLOPS • About 8X a $300M supercomputer

  9. Some BOINC projects • Climateprediction.net • Oxford University • Global climate modeling • Einstein@home • LIGO scientific collaboration • gravitational wave detection • SETI@home • U.C. Berkeley • Radio search for E.T.I. and black hole evaporation • Leiden Classical • Leiden University • Surface chemistry using classical dynamics

  10. More projects • LHC@home • CERN • simulator of LHC, collisions • QMC@home • Univ. of Muenster • Quantum chemistry • Spinhenge@home • Bielefeld Univ. • Sutdy nanoscale magnetism • ABC@home • Leiden Univ. • Number theory

  11. Biomed-related BOINC projects • Rosetta@home • University of Washington • Rosetta: Protein folding, docking, and design • Tanpaku • Tokyo Univ. of Science • Protein structure prediction using Brownian dynamics • MalariaControl • The Swiss Tropical Institute • Epidemiological simulation

  12. More projects • Predictor@home • Univ. of Michigan • CHARMM, protein structure prediction • SIMAP • Tech. Univ. of Munich • Protein similarity matrix • Superlink@Technion • Technion • Genetic linkage analysis using Bayesian networks

  13. More projects • Dengue fever drug discovery • U. of Texas, U. of Chicago • Autodock • Human Proteome Folding • New York University • Rosetta • FightAIDS@home • Scripps Institute • Autodock

  14. Conclusion • Science needs much more computing power • Volunteer computing can provide it • and maybe avoid Dark Ages II • BOINC: the enabling technology • How to grow from 0.5M to 50M volunteers?

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