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Models@Home: distributed computing in bioinformatics using a screensaver based approach

Author(s) -

Elmar Krieger,

Gert Vriend

Publication year - 2002

Publication title -

bioinformatics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.599

H-Index - 390

eISSN - 1367-4811

pISSN - 1367-4803

DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/18.2.315

Subject(s) - computer science , workstation , distributed computing , scheduling (production processes) , software , computer cluster , exploit , source code , homogeneous , supercomputer , field (mathematics) , operating system , software engineering , operations management , physics , computer security , mathematics , pure mathematics , economics , thermodynamics

Due to the steadily growing computational demands in bioinformatics and related scientific disciplines, one is forced to make optimal use of the available resources. A straightforward solution is to build a network of idle computers and let each of them work on a small piece of a scientific challenge, as done by Seti@Home (http://setiathome.berkeley.edu), the world's largest distributed computing project.

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