MilkyWay @ home
| MilkyWay @ home | |
|---|---|
| Area: | astronomy |
| Target: | investigates the gravitational potential of the Milky Way |
| Operator: | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| Country: | United States |
| Platform: | BOINC |
| Website: | http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/ |
| Project status | |
| Status: | active |
| Start: | July 2007 |
| The End: | still active |
MilkyWay @ home is a distributed computing project at the Computer Science Department of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute . The goal of the project is a high-precision 3D - computer model of the Milky Way to create, with the data being used by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey is collected. The research concentrates on the one hand on astroinformatics and on the other hand on general informatics .
The project was officially started in July 2007. The basis of the calculations is the BOINC software from the University of California, Berkeley . Currently, there are applications for 32-bit - and 64-bit - Windows , Linux and Mac OS X . In order to be able to use the computing power of the graphics processor , there is a CUDA application for 32-bit Windows and 64-bit Linux as well as applications for AMD GPUs that can run on graphics cards of the GeForce 200 and younger series .
In September 2010 another project called MilkyWay @ Home N-Body Simulation was added.