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BOINC Radio #06

Tasks Completed, Funding, A New Project

BOINC Radio is a participatory podcast brought to you by the BOINC community. On it Delta1512 and jringo discuss BOINC, BOINC developments, BOINC projects, the BOINC community and network, and SCIENCE!

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Recorded on December 20th

Tasks Completed, Funding, A New Project

 

In this episode of BOINC Radio we discuss news coming from WCG and Primegrid, SETI@Home's funding drive, the new project quchempedia, and some other things, including an invite code giveaway for PrimaBOINCa thanks to listener flashfire42!

For your shot at earning the invite code, follow @BOINCNetwork on twitter, join the BOINCNetwork Discord server, and mention that you're interested in an invite to the PrimaBOINCa project.

Otherwise, we hope you enjoy the show!

Time

Subject

2:40

Returning to our discussion on science communicators

6:45

OpenZika is finished

12:35

Primegrid discovers their 400th megprimePrimeGrid DiscordPrimeGrid Twitter

17:00

Fires in Australia

22:15

Rosetta@Home's parent institute receives funding boost

26:45

SETI@Home Fall/Winter funding drive

29:30

New BOINC Project! QuChempedia

35:30

"Quantum 'FM' Radio"

41:30

PrimaBOINCa invite code giveaway!

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What is BOINC

The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is an open-source grid computing infrastructure which provides open access to a global volunteer-based distributed computing network. To date, BOINC has been the driving force behind numerous computationally intensive research programs, such as pulsar identification, the creation of patient specific cancer treatments, the simulation of candidate molecules for next-generation solar panels, along with many others. While BOINC has been used primarily for science and mathematics, it can host data from any open or commercial field so long as the data can be formatted for BOINC’s processes. Examples of projects include tasks on engineering, cryptography, rendering, weather and climate prediction, as well as social, market, and resource analytics. Enigma@home, for example, worked to break remaining WWII messages encrypted by an Enigma machine.

Want to Learn More?

Discord: https://discord.gg/wPRafUqWebsite: http://boinc.berkeley.eduReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BOINC/GitHub Repo: https://github.com/BOINC/

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BOINC Radio #05

OOBE, Optical Computing, CSIRO

BOINC Radio is a participatory podcast brought to you by the BOINC community. On it Delta1512 and jringo discuss BOINC, BOINC developments, BOINC projects, the BOINC community and network, and SCIENCE!

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Recorded on December 6th

OOBE, Optical Computing, CSIRO

In this episode of BOINC Radio we discuss the freshly released BOINC Out of the Box Experience for Scientists document released by David Anderson.

We also hear from the developer and head of a new BOINC project on their experience and thoughts.

We also discuss optical computing and its potential within the BOINC Network (thanks to PheonixArcher for the discussion topic!)

Lastly we discuss CISRO's radio signal crossing the half-way mark on its journey to a nearby earth-like planet.

Enjoy!

Time

Subject

3:05

Some NewsBOINC Radio Podcast Banner BountyLBRY.Science Curation InitiativeLBRY.Science Science Communication Initiative

7:00

BOINC Out of the Box Experience for Researchers and BOINC Roadmap

14:15

Some Thoughts From a Project Head and Dev

23:15

Optical Computing and BOINC

36:15

CSIRO

 

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What is BOINC

The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is an open-source grid computing infrastructure which provides open access to a global volunteer-based distributed computing network. To date, BOINC has been the driving force behind numerous computationally intensive research programs, such as pulsar identification, the creation of patient specific cancer treatments, the simulation of candidate molecules for next-generation solar panels, along with many others. While BOINC has been used primarily for science and mathematics, it can host data from any open or commercial field so long as the data can be formatted for BOINC’s processes. Examples of projects include tasks on engineering, cryptography, rendering, weather and climate prediction, as well as social, market, and resource analytics. Enigma@home, for example, worked to break remaining WWII messages encrypted by an Enigma machine.

Want to Learn More?

Discord: https://discord.gg/wPRafUqWebsite: http://boinc.berkeley.eduReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BOINC/GitHub Repo: https://github.com/BOINC/

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BOINC Radio #04

Development, Birthdays, and Virtual Reality 

BOINC Radio is a participatory podcast brought to you by the BOINC community. On it Delta1512 and jringo discuss BOINC, BOINC developments, BOINC projects, the BOINC community and network, and SCIENCE!

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Recorded on November 15th

Development, Birthdays, and Virtual Reality

In this episode of BOINC Radio Delta and jringo discuss the recently published development roadmap/wishlist, Delta discusses his experience contributing to BOINC development, your hosts celebrate WCG's 15th Birthday and some unique BOINC project ideas, and Delta talks about a recently attended virtual reality conference.

Oh, and don't forget about your opportunity to earn 30 USD for making BOINC Radio a banner for these posts. PM jringo or Delta on the BOINC Discord if you're interested. And a huge thanks to LBRY.Science for putting up the funds!

Enjoy!

Time

Subject

1:15

$30 Bounty for BOINC Radio Banner

5:00

BOINC Development Roadmap

7:30

Delta talks about his experience contributing to BOINC codebase

10:15

The Process of Contributing to FOSS Projects

14:00

Delta talks more about his experience contributing to BOINC codebase

23:45

Happy 15th Birthday WCG!

30:00

We talk about unique BOINC projects

35:30

We are VR

46:45

Closing

 

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What is BOINC

The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is an open-source grid computing infrastructure which provides open access to a global volunteer-based distributed computing network. To date, BOINC has been the driving force behind numerous computationally intensive research programs, such as pulsar identification, the creation of patient specific cancer treatments, the simulation of candidate molecules for next-generation solar panels, along with many others. While BOINC has been used primarily for science and mathematics, it can host data from any open or commercial field so long as the data can be formatted for BOINC’s processes. Examples of projects include tasks on engineering, cryptography, rendering, weather and climate prediction, as well as social, market, and resource analytics. Enigma@home, for example, worked to break remaining WWII messages encrypted by an Enigma machine.

Want to Learn More?

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The Gridcoin Fireside is a participatory podcast brought to you by DCUni. LBRY.Science, OE, and the Gridcoin community. It is intended to introduce and explore DLT, cryptocurrency, and crypto-economics from a science oriented perspective.

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Recorded on November 7th

 

This week we discuss the system of science:

The contemporary scientific system is comprised of structures that stem from the practices of century old networks. Tonight we discuss the outcome of this history. What has been built? What seems to work? What seems to be failing?

The structures of science:

Funding

Education

Research or Study

Validation of Research or Study

Publishing or Dissemination of Information

Accreditation and Reputation

Translation

Time

Subject

5:00

NewsMonthly ReportsNew WCG Project: Africa Rainfall

9:10

The System of Science

13:40

Opening Discussion on Research and Study, Validation, Publication, and Reputation structuresResources:We're Incentivizing Bad ScienceDistrust In ScienceSelfie Scientists

30:30

Funding

46:00

Institutional Incentives

50:00

The Rotten Tomatoes of Science

52:00

Why Open a System

55:30

Translation

 

What is Gridcoin?

Gridcoin is a multi-incentive permissionless blockchain initiated in 2013. It mints and distributes cryptocurrency in relation to the processing power a network participant directs toward data-driven analysis and scientific discovery, as well as through a proof-of-stake reward mechanism. The Gridcoin blockchain monitors processing contributions to the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Networked Computing (BOINC). BOINC hosts major institutional computing projects such as IBM’s World Community Grid, SETI, and CERN, alongside projects developed by students, enthusiasts, mathematicians, researchers, and citizen scientists. Access to Gridcoin's computation resources is free, while computation contributors are incentivized with cryptocurrency minted by the Gridcoin protocol.

Want to Learn More? 

Website: https://gridcoin.usDiscord: https://discord.gg/jf9XX4aSteemit: https://steemit.com/created/gridcoinWhite Paper: https://gridcoin.us/assets/img/whitepaper.pdf

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BOINC Radio #03

UX Games and Browsers 

BOINC Radio is a participatory podcast brought to you by the BOINC community. On it Delta1512 and jringo discuss BOINC, BOINC developments, BOINC projects, the BOINC community and network, and SCIENCE!

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Recorded on November 1st

UX Games and Browsers

In this episode of BOINC Radio Delta and jringo discuss the new WCG project, Africa Rainfall, the BOINC Contributors Calls, and the three bodies problem that is being solved by using neural networks (and would be perfect for BOINC). Additionally, your hosts pine for another iteration of Bill Nye, Jringo shares an experience from a FOSS conference, Delta explores what games could do for distributed computing, and the quest for a BOINC browser continues.

Oh, and don't forget about your opportunity to earn 30 USD for making BOINC Radio a banner for these posts. PM jringo or Delta on the BOINC Discord if you're interested. And a huge thanks to LBRY.Science for putting up the funds!

Enjoy!

Time

Subject

3:00

$30 BOINC Radio Banner Bounty

5:05

NewsNew WCG Project: Africa RainfallBOINC Contributors CallThree Body Problem Using a Neural Net

23:30

Science Communication

30:00

FOSS, UX, and Improving BOINC

37:30

Gaming and Scientific Computing

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The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is an open-source grid computing infrastructure which provides open access to a global volunteer-based distributed computing network. To date, BOINC has been the driving force behind numerous computationally intensive research programs, such as pulsar identification, the creation of patient specific cancer treatments, the simulation of candidate molecules for next-generation solar panels, along with many others. While BOINC has been used primarily for science and mathematics, it can host data from any open or commercial field so long as the data can be formatted for BOINC’s processes. Examples of projects include tasks on engineering, cryptography, rendering, weather and climate prediction, as well as social, market, and resource analytics. Enigma@home, for example, worked to break remaining WWII messages encrypted by an Enigma machine.

Want to Learn More?

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The Gridcoin Fireside is a participatory podcast brought to you by DCUni and the Gridcoin community. It is intended to introduce and explore DLT, cryptocurrency, and crypto-economics from a science oriented perspective.

The audience is welcome to participate through voice-comms or via the discord text chat.

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Recorded on October 24th

 

FOSS product groups and organizations have experimented with and developed unique organizational models over the decades. Largely based on reputation and positions of responsibility, these organizations have ultimately produced some of the most widely used software.

In this episode we discuss how these organizations work and how Blockchain and DLT can add to their operation.

Time

Subject

2:20

NewsGridcoin 4.0.6 Release (Ernestine)Gridcoin Marketing and Engagement ProposalLBRY.ScienceWhoisterencelee's decentralized distributed incentivized computing project

13:30

Organizational Models

22:40

FOSS vs Standard Career Path

28:00

What Maintains Open Source Software?

36:40

Gridcoin as a Case Study

44:45

Blockchain FOSS Organizational Model

46:45

Fern

52:00

Gridcoin as a Case Study PT 2

 

What is Gridcoin?

Gridcoin is a multi-incentive permissionless blockchain initiated in 2013. It mints and distributes cryptocurrency in relation to the processing power a network participant directs toward data-driven analysis and scientific discovery, as well as through a proof-of-stake reward mechanism. The Gridcoin blockchain monitors processing contributions to the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Networked Computing (BOINC). BOINC hosts major institutional computing projects such as IBM’s World Community Grid, SETI, and CERN, alongside projects developed by students, enthusiasts, mathematicians, researchers, and citizen scientists. Access to Gridcoin's computation resources is free, while computation contributors are incentivized with cryptocurrency minted by the Gridcoin protocol.

Want to Learn More? 

Website: https://gridcoin.usDiscord: https://discord.gg/jf9XX4aSteemit: https://steemit.com/created/gridcoinWhite Paper: https://gridcoin.us/assets/img/whitepaper.pdf

-- Github --

Codebase: https://github.com/gridcoin-community/Gridcoin-ResearchCommunity: https://github.com/gridcoin-community

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The Gridcoin Fireside is a participatory podcast brought to you by DCUni and the Gridcoin community. It is intended to introduce and explore DLT, cryptocurrency, and crypto-economics from a science oriented perspective.

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Recorded on October 17th

In this episode we answer the questions:

What would happen if everyone could choose from a market of societal incentive structures and economic systems?

What would happen if economic systems were built and managed via an open-source organizational model?

What would happen if the value of economic variables were rules-based?

What would happen if the transition out of a failing or unpopular economic system was not only possible, but seamless?

What would happen if anyone could start their own economic system at any time with a few lines of code?

Time

Subject

2:45

NewsGridcoin BirthdayGridcoin Marketing and Engagement InitiativeGridcoin.world websiteGridcoin whitepaperBOINC Radio

13:00

Project brief: GPUGrid

35:40

Incentives and Economics

43:45

Innovation in a Market of Economic Systems

56:45

Marketing in a Market of Economics

1:05:00

Closing Comments

Project brief: GPUGrid

This week delta1512 introduced us to the project GPU Grid

GPUGRID is a project that runs molecular dynamics (MD) simulations for scientists in the fields of cancer, HIV/AIDS, neurological disorders and general scientific and lab simulations.

What is Gridcoin?

Gridcoin is a multi-incentive permissionless blockchain initiated in 2013. It mints and distributes cryptocurrency in relation to the processing power a network participant directs toward data-driven analysis and scientific discovery, as well as through a proof-of-stake reward mechanism. The Gridcoin blockchain monitors processing contributions to the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Networked Computing (BOINC). BOINC hosts major institutional computing projects such as IBM’s World Community Grid, SETI, and CERN, alongside projects developed by students, enthusiasts, mathematicians, researchers, and citizen scientists. Access to Gridcoin's computation resources is free, while computation contributors are incentivized with cryptocurrency minted by the Gridcoin protocol.

Want to Learn More? 

Website: https://gridcoin.usDiscord: https://discord.gg/jf9XX4aSteemit: https://steemit.com/created/gridcoinWhite Paper: https://gridcoin.us/assets/img/whitepaper.pdf

-- Github --

Codebase: https://github.com/gridcoin-community/Gridcoin-ResearchCommunity: https://github.com/gridcoin-community

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BOINC Radio #02

Gameification and UX 

BOINC Radio is a participatory podcast brought to you by the BOINC community. On it Delta1512 and jringo discuss BOINC, BOINC developments, BOINC projects, the BOINC community and network, and SCIENCE!

The audience is welcome to participate through voice-comms or via the discord text chat.

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Recorded on October 18th

Gameification and UX

Over the years, BOINC has manifested something of a social network combined with a competitive circuit. This process is part of what is called gameification. In this episode we discussed BOINC's use of the concept along with the user experience it has created.

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Time

Subject

2:20

What is Gameification?

6:40

How BOINC does Gameification

14:00

Is Gameification Really Good for a System?

23:50

Cheating in BOINC vs Scientific Publication/Peer Review vs FOSS and Open Systems

30:35

Gamers, BOINC, and UX

37:30

A major flaw in the BOINC UX

38:40

How the BOINC Infrastructure Works

42:50

Haptic UX

What is BOINC

The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is an open-source grid computing infrastructure which provides open access to a global volunteer-based distributed computing network. To date, BOINC has been the driving force behind numerous computationally intensive research programs, such as pulsar identification, the creation of patient specific cancer treatments, the simulation of candidate molecules for next-generation solar panels, along with many others. While BOINC has been used primarily for science and mathematics, it can host data from any open or commercial field so long as the data can be formatted for BOINC’s processes. Examples of projects include tasks on engineering, cryptography, rendering, weather and climate prediction, as well as social, market, and resource analytics. Enigma@home, for example, worked to break remaining WWII messages encrypted by an Enigma machine.

Want to Learn More?

Discord: https://discord.gg/wPRafUqWebsite: http://boinc.berkeley.eduReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BOINC/GitHub Repo: https://github.com/BOINC/

Project brief (Pb) is a segment of the Gridcoin Fireside where Delta talks about scientific projects apart of the BOINC network in simple terms.

 

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What does GPUGRID do?

 

 

GPUGRID is a project that runs molecular dynamics (MD) simulations for scientists in the fields of cancer, HIV/AIDS, neurological disorders and general scientific and lab simulations.

GPUGRID does things a little similar to Rosetta@home but where Rosetta focuses on mainly folding and proteins, GPUGRID does all sorts of things from docking, to folding to just "what happens if this happens" types of experiments with not only proteins but also smaller molecules. To learn more about how proteins work, check out my other Project Brief on Rosetta.

What is MD?

 

 

Molecular dynamics is the physics of molecules and atoms and how they interact at the tiny scales where they live. The animation above is a little bit fast but it shows how one big molecule interacts in a sea of smaller water or gas molecules.

It is a little hectic, and that's how it is in reality (just we can't really see it). All that jiggling around is what we call heat, the hotter it is, the more it jiggles and the more chance it has to separate a material (for example, turning water into steam).

This jiggling is important to incorporate into simulations like folding or docking, because that way, the possible drug or cure that is being tested is in the most realistic situation it can be.

Why GPUs and not CPUs?

 

 

For those of you that don't know, CPUs are what makes your computer run, it does the maths, it manages your memory and files and all the general stuff. CPUs usually only need a couple of hands (cores) to do a bunch of complex things because usually you will only be doing a couple things at a time on the computer.

 

 

The GPU is usually an extra card or component within the computer that puts stuff on the screen. Now the key thing about this is that to put stuff on the screen, you can have lots and lots of little hands (cores) doing very simple things to bring one big thing together in the end (ie, the picture on the screen)

This fact is why GPUGRID only uses GPUs, because they are really really good at lots and lots of really small calculations. Much like lots and lots of molecules all bouncing around.

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BOINC Radio #01

What is BOINC?

BOINC Radio is a participatory podcast brought to you by the BOINC community. On it Delta1512 and jringo discuss BOINC, BOINC developments, BOINC projects, the BOINC community and network, and SCIENCE!

The audience is welcome to participate through voice-comms or via the discord text chat.

You can join the BOINC community on the first and third Friday of the month at 5pm EST on the BOINC discord server.

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Recorded on October 4th

 

What is BOINC?

Welcome to the first episode of BOINC Radio! In this recording delta1512 and jringo introduce the show and give a broad overview of BOINC.

As mentioned in the beginning of the show, we're looking for help developing the show. Definitely definitely definitely reach out if you can already or want to learn how to:

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Otherwise, enjoy the show and see you next time!

Time

Subject

1:45

About the show

5:20

What is BOINC?

7:55

Why is BOINC?

11:30

How is BOINC?

13:10

Cost savings of BOINC

16:10

Using existing hardware

17:40

Connecting scientists and participants

22:15

BOINC as an open-source product

24:00

A brief history of BOINC

27:00

New unique BOINC project: ithena

28:00

Other unique BOINC project: Radioactive@home

29:30

Other possible sensor projects

30:00

A major drawback to BOINC

33:00

Results from BOINC projects

37:15

What is BOINC? Pt 2

 

What is BOINC?

The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is an open-source grid computing infrastructure which provides open access to a global volunteer-based distributed computing network. To date, BOINC has been the driving force behind numerous computationally intensive research programs, such as pulsar identification, the creation of patient specific cancer treatments, the simulation of candidate molecules for next-generation solar panels, along with many others. While BOINC has been used primarily for science and mathematics, it can host data from any open or commercial field so long as the data can be formatted for BOINC’s processes. Examples of projects include tasks on engineering, cryptography, rendering, weather and climate prediction, as well as social, market, and resource analytics. Enigma@home, for example, worked to break remaining WWII messages encrypted by an Enigma machine.

 

Want to Learn More?

Discord: https://discord.gg/wPRafUqWebsite: http://boinc.berkeley.eduReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BOINC/GitHub Repo: https://github.com/BOINC/