Orbit @ home
| Orbit @ home | |
|---|---|
| Area: | astronomy |
| Target: | Analysis of the hazard potential of near-earth objects |
| Operator: | Planetary Science Institute, Tucson , Arizona |
| Country: | United States |
| Platform: | BOINC |
| Website: | orbit.psi.edu |
| Project status | |
| Status: | active (test phase) |
| Start: | February 2008 |
| The End: | still active |
Orbit @ home is a distributed computing project based on the BOINC infrastructure , with the help of which dangers are to be analyzed, which can emanate from objects close to the earth (also known as "earth orbit cruisers"). These near-earth objects are, for example, asteroids or comets , which pass the earth at a relatively short distance and can therefore represent a considerable danger due to a possible impact.
history
The Orbit @ home project started on June 15, 2005 with the (pre) -alphatest phase . Almost a month later, on July 5, 2005, just over 1000 registered participants were counted.
The Orbit @ home program for BOINC should then actually be generally available from August 2005 and corresponding work units should also be delivered. However, the creation of additional participant accounts was deactivated from mid-2005.
On February 26, 2007 the beta test phase of the project was initiated and the registration of new participants was reactivated. Since then, in addition to the previously supported version for Linux , the Windows and Macintosh platforms are also supported.
In 2008 it was announced that the translation ( porting ) to the Windows platform - which is based on the free software ORSA - was ready and that the translation for the Macintosh platform ( Mac OS X ) would begin.
In 2009, a simulation was completed in which, among other things, an artificial population of objects close to the earth was used to test how efficient the search strategies used are.
Since September 2010 Orbit @ home has been using real data from surveys specializing in near-earth objects .
more details
In the Orbit @ home project, which is financed by NASA , similar to SETI @ home , the previously collected data ( server- side) should first be processed into small work units (English "work units", "WUs" for short) to then be sent to to distribute the client computers, where the actual evaluation of the work units should then take place.
Like the actual project goal of Orbit @ home, the naming was obviously based on the most famous distributed computing project - SETI @ home.
See also
Web links
- orbit @ home (English) - official project website
- Orbit @ home - overview and messages at Rechenkraft.net
- Orbit Reconstruction, Simulation and Analysis (English) - official project website of ORSA
Individual evidence
- ↑ Windows application ready - Mac OS X next ( Memento from February 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (English) - Report to orbit @ home , from April 11, 2008;
- ↑ Update & Plans for 2010 ( Memento from June 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (English) - Report to orbit @ home , from June 1, 2010;
- ^ Orbit @ Home in Production Mode with Real Data. September 12, 2010, accessed September 2, 2012 .
- ↑ About ( Memento from July 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (English) - Page at orbit @ home ; Status: August 18, 2010;