BOINC Radio #03 - UX Games and Browsers
BOINC Radio #03
UX Games and Browsers
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Recorded on November 1st
UX Games and Browsers
In this episode of BOINC Radio Delta and jringo discuss the new WCG project, Africa Rainfall, the BOINC Contributors Calls, and the three bodies problem that is being solved by using neural networks (and would be perfect for BOINC). Additionally, your hosts pine for another iteration of Bill Nye, Jringo shares an experience from a FOSS conference, Delta explores what games could do for distributed computing, and the quest for a BOINC browser continues.
Oh, and don't forget about your opportunity to earn 30 USD for making BOINC Radio a banner for these posts. PM jringo or Delta on the BOINC Discord if you're interested. And a huge thanks to LBRY.Science for putting up the funds!
Enjoy!
| Time | Subject |
|---|---|
| 3:00 | $30 BOINC Radio Banner Bounty |
| 5:05 | News New WCG Project: Africa Rainfall BOINC Contributors Call Three Body Problem Using a Neural Net |
| 23:30 | Science Communication |
| 30:00 | FOSS, UX, and Improving BOINC |
| 37:30 | Gaming and Scientific Computing |
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What is BOINC?
The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is an open-source grid computing infrastructure which provides open access to a global volunteer-based distributed computing network. To date, BOINC has been the driving force behind numerous computationally intensive research programs, such as pulsar identification, the creation of patient specific cancer treatments, the simulation of candidate molecules for next-generation solar panels, along with many others. While BOINC has been used primarily for science and mathematics, it can host data from any open or commercial field so long as the data can be formatted for BOINC’s processes. Examples of projects include tasks on engineering, cryptography, rendering, weather and climate prediction, as well as social, market, and resource analytics. Enigma@home, for example, worked to break remaining WWII messages encrypted by an Enigma machine.
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