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1 Volunteer computing and volunteer thinking Dr. David P
Volunteer computing and volunteer thinking Dr. David P. Anderson University of California, Berkeley March 23, 2011

2 Volunteer computing projects volunteers CPDN attachments WCG

3 How to volunteer Download BOINC client http://boinc.berkeley.edu
Choose one or more projects

4 Example projects Biology Rosetta@home Medicine Malariacontrol.net
Physics Astronomy Environment Climateprediction.net

5 Volunteer computing status
40 projects 500K volunteers 800K computers 10 PetaFLOPS would cost $3.94 billion/year on Amazon EC2

6 Volunteer thinking Use human skills (cognition, knowledge, reasoning etc.) rather than computing calibration, replication FoldIt! strategy identification

7 Areas to explore Recognize and exploit human diversity
use people for what they’re good at Hybrid human/computer systems Training diverse populations


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