Rechenkraft.net
| Rechenkraft.net e. V. (RKN) |
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| purpose | Promotion of distributed computing |
| Chair: | MHW Weber, D. Kautz |
| Establishment date: | June 2005 |
| Number of members: | 77 (as of February 17, 2014) |
| Seat : | Marburg |
| Website: | rechenkraft.net |
Rechenkraft.net e. V. is the world's first and so far only non-profit association that has set itself the task of promoting distributed computing for non-profit purposes ( volunteer computing ). It is based in Marburg and was created after a founding meeting in October 2004 through official registration in June 2005 from the community of the website “Rechenkraft.net”. The public benefit was recognized by the Marburg tax office in July 2005 and is still in place today.
The aim of the association is to make the idea of donating computing time for a charitable cause better known and more popular. A means of communication for the members of the association, who are distributed around the world, is the associated Internet forum . In addition to partnerships with other projects (e.g. World Community Grid since 2007), the association operates an extensive, publicly accessible electronic library with publications on the topic of distributed computing. There is also an extensive wiki on projects and platforms for distributed computing. The association operates a cluster which is located at the Humboldt University in Berlin .
In spring 2009 the construction of the Rechenkraft.net seismic array began. This consists of a worldwide distribution of seismic sensors, which - based on the Quake-Catcher Network project - are supposed to register earthquakes .
yoyo @ home
| yoyo @ home | |
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| Target: | integrates non-BOINC projects under BOINC |
| Country: | Germany |
| Platform: | BOINC |
| Website: | http://www.rechenkraft.net/yoyo/ |
| Project status | |
| Status: | active |
| Start: | July 14, 2007 |
| The End: | still active |
Rechenkraft.net has been running the BOINC project yoyo @ home since 2007 , which integrates existing distributed computing projects into the BOINC world using BOINC wrapper technology . Five sub-projects are currently running on yoyo @ home: ECM , Muon , evolution @ home , Odd Weird Search and OGR-NG from distributed.net . ECM, in turn, is currently divided into ElevenSmooth , Mersenneplustwo Factorizations , near-repdigit-related numbers , Oddperfect , RepUnit and XYYXF .
RNA World
| RNA World | |
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| Area: | biochemistry |
| Target: | advancing RNA research |
| Country: | Germany |
| Platform: | BOINC |
| Website: | http://www.rnaworld.de/ |
| Project status | |
| Status: | active |
| Start: | February 2010 |
| The End: | still active |
Since February 2010, the association has been running the DC project RNA World in cooperation with the Philipps University of Marburg and the Indian Institute of Science , which has the task of promoting research on ribonucleic acid .
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Our Partners. World Community Grid ; Retrieved December 4, 2009
- ↑ electronic library. Website last updated: November 17th, 2009; accessed: December 4, 2009
- ↑ Cluster. Website last updated April 10, 2009; Retrieved December 4, 2009
- ^ Annual report of the board for 2008 . (PDF; 59 kB) p. 4; Retrieved December 4, 2009
- ↑ Seismic-Array website last updated September 26, 2009; Retrieved December 4, 2009
- ↑ Activity report 2007-2008 . September 12, 2008 (PDF; 101 kB) Rechenkraft.net e. V., p. 1; Retrieved December 4, 2009