Comments on: PetriDish: Fund the Science You Want to See Happen http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/03/09/petridish-fund-the-science-you-want-to-see-happen/ Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Amos Zeeberg (Discover Web Editor) http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/03/09/petridish-fund-the-science-you-want-to-see-happen/#comment-32050 Amos Zeeberg (Discover Web Editor) Fri, 16 Mar 2012 02:38:41 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=35670#comment-32050 @GlenM: Good ideas. The researcher, David Kipping, actually addressed both of these points in the comment thread for the project. <a href="http://www.petridish.org/projects/help-us-find-the-first-exomoon#comment-463405498" rel="nofollow">E.g.</a>, "A great example of distributed computing working well is of course the SETI@Home project. Unfortunately for us, the tasks we run cannot be efficiently broken up into small chunks. They require multiple CPUs with very fast communication between them." I'll bet he's thought this stuff through pretty well. @GlenM: Good ideas. The researcher, David Kipping, actually addressed both of these points in the comment thread for the project. E.g., “A great example of distributed computing working well is of course the SETI@Home project. Unfortunately for us, the tasks we run cannot be efficiently broken up into small chunks. They require multiple CPUs with very fast communication between them.”

I’ll bet he’s thought this stuff through pretty well.

]]> By: Pedro Castro http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/03/09/petridish-fund-the-science-you-want-to-see-happen/#comment-32049 Pedro Castro Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:25:24 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=35670#comment-32049 Glen: Yes, it's called World Community Grid (http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org). Glen: Yes, it’s called World Community Grid (http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org).

]]> By: GlenM http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/03/09/petridish-fund-the-science-you-want-to-see-happen/#comment-32048 GlenM Fri, 09 Mar 2012 20:53:05 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=35670#comment-32048 The guy needs a supercomputer - seriously? He should set up his project like Seti does, using crowd sourced computing. Cost is practically nothing. There is a website, can't remember the name, that is a repository for projects like that. Or at least rent time on a super computer. He could run batches of information on a really big super computer. The guy needs a supercomputer – seriously? He should set up his project like Seti does, using crowd sourced computing. Cost is practically nothing. There is a website, can’t remember the name, that is a repository for projects like that.
Or at least rent time on a super computer. He could run batches of information on a really big super computer.

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