Milkyway@home

Also known as MilkyWay

MilkyWay@home is a volunteer computing project in the astrophysics category, running on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) platform. Using spare computing power from over 38,000 computers run by over 27,000 active volunteers , the MilkyWay@home project aims to generate accurate three-dimensional dynamic models of stellar streams in the immediate vicinity of the Milky Way. With SETI@home and Einstein@home, it is the third computing project of this type that has the investigation of phenomena in interstellar space as its primary purpose. Its secondary objective is to

Key facts

Distributed computing project.name: MilkyWay@home
Distributed computing project.logo: Milkyway at home logo.png
Distributed computing project.logo_size: 280px
Distributed computing project.developer: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Distributed computing project.operating system: Cross-platform
Distributed computing project.platform: BOINC
Distributed computing project.license: GNU GPL v3
Distributed computing project.status: Active
Distributed computing project.performance: 1,683,957 GFLOPS (June 2023)
Distributed computing project.active users: 11,686
Distributed computing project.total users: 255,522
Distributed computing project.active hosts

Article · Español

MilkyWay@home es un proyecto de computación distribuida que corre en la plataforma informática Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC). MilkyWay@home intenta general modelos tridimensionales de alta precisión de corrientes estelares en las vecindades inmediatas de nuestra galaxia Vía Láctea. Con SETI@home y Einstein@home, este es el tercer proyecto informático de este tipo que investiga los fenómenos del espacio interestelar como primer objetivo. Su segundo objetivo es el desarrollo y optimización de los algoritmos para la computación distribuida.

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