So far you have contributed to the following investigations:
Looks like you haven't contributed to any projects yet...
Press the start button at the top of the page to start computing! (You can also try to refresh the page in case it has not been updated yet)
The project
It all starts with you... When you press the start button, you are inadvertently collaborating with various scientific investigations in the medical, physical, space, and many other fields.
This project was born in 2023 as a result of a computer science final degree project. It consists in a system that allows scientific comunity to use the domestic compute power to perform simulations and support all kinds of investigations that require intensive computation.
How it works
- You press the start button
- Your computer downloads a task created by scientists
- It calculates the answer to the proposed problem
- It sends the result back to the scientists
- Congratulations! You have now collaborated with science
Detailed explanation
To better understand what the architecture looks like, an example of the traffic between the different elements is shown below:
- User B requests a new task (yellow route).
- The server queries the database to retrieve the available tasks and selects the most appropriate one based on the selected distribution method (gray path).
- The server sends the task to the user, indicating that there is a data dependency (file 2) and where to find the Torrent file needed to download it (orange path).
- User B, using Torrent, establishes a connection with user A and obtains the data file (blue path).
- Finally, user B calculates the result of the task and sends it back to the server (yellow route).
- The server stores the result in the database (gray path) and waits for new requests.
Credits
