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Welcome to the BAUT Team Page
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The BAUT distributed computing teams take their name from the Bad
Astronomy / Universe Today forum.
Recently Bad Astronomy joined with the Universe Today forum to make up one large astronomy
forum which is named BAUT for Bad Astronomy and Universe Today.
The projects run on the BOINC platform, which allows
people to contribute to several number crunching projects using a single interface. The user can decide which projects get how muc
computing time on their computer.
The team was formed by members of the BAUT forum, but is open to all who wish to join.
Bad Astronomy is:
"The Bad Astronomer", Phil Plait:
has critiqued many popular movies and television shows, pointing out
the "bad astronomy" that they contain. He's also a working astronomer at Sonoma University in Sonoma, California, has
worked on
STIS, and is currently working on
GLAST and
LISA.
The Bad Astronomy Website:
which is devoted to "dispelling myths, misconceptions,
and misuses of astronomy". Many of these myths come from movies, television shows, and even the news.
The Bad Astronomy Blog:
the Good, the Bad, the Astronomy. If you just cannot
get enough of the Bad Astronomer!
Bad Astronomy, the book:
humorously disproves many
fallacies some people have regarding the moon landing, UFO's, and many other subjects.
Universe Today is:
Fraser Cain
is the publisher of Universe Today and co-administrator
of the Bad Astronomy/Universe Today forum.
Universe Today Website
is the place to find news in recent events in astronomy and space exploration. The website
is updated with new events several times a day, so visit it often.
The Universe Today Newsletter
is for those who wish to stay up-to-date on events in astronomy and space exploration through email. The newsletter delivers the same
stories that appear on the website, in your choice of daily edition or weekly edition.
The BAUT team is currently involved in the Einstein@Home, orbit@home, LHC@Home, SETI@Home, Predictor@home, and ClimatePrediction.net projects.
Questions about the projects described below or how to join the projects can be discussed at Scotsons Shack Forum
or at this thread at the BAUT forum.
The graphic below is a near live report of the team's credit. The RAC stands for recent average credit, which is the average credit we
get in a day, with a weighting factor so that more recent days count more. We are in the process of making a members section, but at the moment we have pages
listing member statistics for all the BAUT teams, including combined stats across all projects.
Einstein@home
Einstein@home is a program that uses your computer's idle time to search
for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO
and GEO gravitational wave detectors.
Einstein@home is a World Year of Physics 2005
project supported by the American Physical Society
(APS) and by a number of international organizations. For more information on Einstein@home, go to http://einsteinathome.org/
Orbit@home
Orbit@home is a project based on BOINC
and ORSA, monitoring the orbit of all the
asteroids passing near the Earth. Every time a new asteroid is discovered or re-observed, the orbit of the asteroid
is updated and propagated in future to check for possible impacts with the Earth.
As bigger and better telescopes are built, the number of orbits to update every day increases, so more computing
power is needed in order to do it. It is at this point that the distributed computing philosophy enters and helps
doing the work. The basic idea is the following: each different client can work with the data relative to a single
asteroid, because there is no correlation between asteroids (excluding extremely rare cases, like asteroid-asteroid
impact or gravitational perturbation; both these cases can be handled in an improved version of orbit@home). If the
number of clients available is greater than the number of orbits to update (times a redundancy factor), it is possible
in principle to update all the orbits in the same time needed by a single computer to update a single orbit. This is
what makes the orbit@home project so appealing.
Pasquale Tricarico -- Project Architect
LHC@Home
LHC stands for Large Hadron Collider. It will be the largest and most powerful particle accelerator ever built.
LHC@home helps the construction of LHC. It simulates how the particles travel trough the 27 km long tunnel. With the help of the calculated information,
the magnets that control the beam can be calibrated with greater precision. More information can be found here.
SETI@Home
SETI, or the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, is a scientific effort seeking to determine if there is intelligent life outside Earth. SETI researchers
use many methods. One popular method, radio SETI, listens for artificial radio signals coming from other stars. SETI@home
is a radio SETI project that lets anyone with a computer and an Internet connection participate.
ClimatePrediction.net
ClimatePrediction.net is the largest experiment to model the climate through the coming century. CPDN should determine whether or not global warming is the destiny of our planet.
The project continues to evolve as project programmers develop new techniques and implement more factors into the model.
Predictor@home
Predictor@home is a project developed to predict protein structures from protein sequences. The project will be used to shed light on some critical problems in biomedicine.
Predictor@home is a pilot project of BOINC.
Rosetta@home
Rosetta@home, like Predictor@home, predicts protein structures. The project will be used to help fight diseases such as HIV, Malaria, Cancer, and Alzheimer's. A more
extensive list of diseases this project will help fight is located here.
μfluids.net
μfluids.net studies fluid behavior in microfluids and microgravity problems. The project is designed to assist in designing better satellite propellants management devices,
microchannel devices, and MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems) devices.
SZTAKI Desktop Grid
The aim of the SZTAKI Desktop Grid is to find all the generalized binary number systems up to dimension 11. The "base" of such a system is a square matrix.
Quantum Monte Carlo at Home
Quantum Monte Carlo At Home (QMC@HOME) is a project designed to further develop the Quantum Monte Carlo method for general use in Quantum Chemistry.
MalariaControl.net
The MalariaControl.net project is an application that makes use of network computing for stochastic modelling of the clinical epidemiology and natural history of Plasmodium falciparum malaria. It models how Malaria has spread along the continent of Africa. MalariaControl.net is the first application developed by Africa@Home.
Directions for signing up
To sign up for one of these projects, follow the steps below.
- Download and install the BOINC Manager software here.
- Click Create Account for the project you want to join in the table below.
- You will receive an email from the project, with a URL and your account key.
To attach to a project, go to the project tab of the BOINC manager
and click Attach to new project. Fill in the URL and your account key from the email you received.
- Click Join BAUT for your project below. On the page that opens, click Join.
Questions/comments can be sent to: azazul
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