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Library - Volunteer Computing

Also called peer-to-peer computing, global computing or community computing, it uses computers offered by the general public on a voluntary basis to do complex scientific computing. The most commonly used technologies for such sharing is called BOINC (http://boinc.berkeley.edu). It is currently being used in particular in molecular biology, medicine, climate studies, high energy physics, and environmental sciences.

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Workshop on Volunteer Computing in Asia

Workshop on Volunteer Computing in Asia
Apr 2009.

Taipei, 16 and 17 April 2009
On 16 and 17 April 2009, some 40 participants are taking part in a Workshop on Volunteer Computing at Academia Sinica in Taipei. More...
Workshop Report of the AIMS workshop on Volunteer Computing for Africa

Workshop Report of the AIMS workshop on Volunteer Computing for Africa
By Jim Rudolf, version française Sophie Colesse. Jul 2007.

The view of a programmer/volunteer
The AIMS Workshop on Volunteer Computing took place from 16 to 22 July 2007 at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in Muizenberg, South Africa (a suburb of Cape Town). More...

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