boinc/doc/projects.inc

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$biomed = array(
    "Biology and Medicine",
    array(
        array(
            "Malariacontrol.net",
            "http://www.malariacontrol.net",
            "The Swiss Tropical Institute",
            "Epidemiology",
            "Simulation models of the transmission dynamics and health effects of malaria are an important tool for malaria control. They can be used to determine optimal strategies for delivering mosquito nets, chemotherapy, or new vaccines which are currently under development and testing.  Such modeling is extremely computer intensive, requiring simulations of large human populations with a diverse set of parameters related to biological and social factors that influence the distribution of the disease. ",
            "africaathome.gif"
        ),
        array(
            "Tanpaku",
            "http://issofty17.is.noda.tus.ac.jp/",
            "Tokyo University of Science",
            "Biology",
            "To predict protein structure and function from genetic sequences, using the \'Brownian Dynamics\' (BD) method.  This method enables us to simulate more efficiently than conventional methods.",
            "tanpaku.jpg"
        ),
        array(
            "Predictor@home",
            "http://predictor.scripps.edu",
            "Scripps Research Institute",
            "Biology",
            "Protein structure prediction starts from a sequence of amino acids and attempts to predict the folded, functioning, form of the protein.  Predicting the structure of an unknown protein is a critical problem in enabling structure-based drug design to treat new and existing diseases.",
            "predictor.jpg"
        ),
        array(
            "Rosetta@home",
            "http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/",
            "University of Washington",
            "Biology",
            "Determine the 3-dimensional shapes of proteins in research that may ultimately lead to finding cures for some major human diseases. By running Rosetta@home you will help us speed up and extend our research in ways we couldn\'t possibly attempt without your help. You will also be helping our efforts at designing new proteins to fight diseases such as HIV, Malaria, Cancer, and Alzheimer\'s",
            "rosetta_at_home_logo.jpg"
        ),
        array(
            "SIMAP",
            "http://boinc.bio.wzw.tum.de/boincsimap/",
            "Technical University of Munich",
            "Biology",
            "Calculate similarities between proteins. SIMAP provides a public database of the resulting data, which plays a key role in many bioinformatics research projects.",
            "simaplogo.jpg"
        ),
        array(
            "World Community Grid",
            "http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/",
            "IBM",
            "Biomedicine",
            "Advance our knowledge of human disease.",
            "wcg.jpg",
        ),
    ),
);
$earth = array(
    "Earth Sciences",
    array(
        array(
            "Climateprediction.net",
            "http://climateprediction.net",
            "Oxford University",
            "Earth sciences",
            "To investigate the approximations that have to be made in state-of-the-art climate models. By running the model thousands of times we hope to find out how the model responds to slight tweaks to these approximations - slight enough to not make the approximations any less realistic. This will allow us to improve our understanding of how sensitive our models are to small changes and also to things like changes in carbon dioxide and the sulphur cycle. This will allow us to explore how climate may change in the next century under a wide range of different scenarios.",
            "cpn_logo_world_1.jpg"
        ),
        array(
            "BBC Climate Change Experiment",
            "http://bbc.cpdn.org/",
            "Oxford University",
            "Earth sciences",
            "The experiment adds the processing power of your home or office computer to thousands of others to predict climate change. The same model that the Met Office uses to make daily weather forecasts has been adapted by climateprediction.net to run on home PCs.<p> The model incorporates many variable parameters, allowing thousands of sets of conditions. Your computer will run one individual set of conditions -  in effect your individual version of how the world\'s climate works - and then report back to the climateprediction.net team what it calculates.",

            "cpn_logo_world_1.jpg"
        ),
        array(
            "Seasonal Attribution Project",
            "http://attribution.cpdn.org/",
            "Oxford University",
            "Earth sciences",
            "To determine the extent to which extreme weather events like the United Kingdom floods of Autumn 2000 are attributable to human-induced climate change. We invite you to download and run high-resolution model simulations of the world\'s climate on your own computer. By comparing the results of these simulations, half of which will include the effects of human-induced climate change, and half of which will not, we will investigate the possible impact of human activity on extreme weather risk. This project has fairly high computing requirements, including 1GB RAM.",
            "cpn_logo_world_1.jpg"
        ),
    ),
);
$astro_phys_chem = array(
    "Astronomy/Physics/Chemistry",
    array(
        array(
            "Einstein@home",
            "http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/",
            "Univ. of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Albert Einstein Institute",
            "Astrophysics",
            "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.",
            "einstein.jpg"
        ),
        array(
            "LHC@home",
            "http://lhcathome.cern.ch/",
            "CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)",
            "Physics",
            "The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator which is being built at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the world\'s largest particle physics laboratory. When it switches on in 2007, it will be the most powerful instrument ever built to investigate on particles proprieties. LHC@home simulates particles traveling around the LHC to study the stability of their orbits.",
            "lhc.jpg"
        ),
        array(
            "SETI@home",
            "http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/",
            "U.C. Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory",
            "Astrophysics, astrobiology",
            "SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is a scientific area whose goal is to detect intelligent life outside Earth. One approach, known as radio SETI, uses radio telescopes to listen for narrow-bandwidth radio signals from space. Such signals are not known to occur naturally, so a detection would provide evidence of extraterrestrial technology.",
            "seti_logo.png"
        ),
        array(
            "Quantum Monte Carlo at Home",
            "http://qah.uni-muenster.de/",
            "University of Muenster",
            "Chemistry",
            "Study the structure and reactivity of molecules using Quantum Chemistry.",
            "logo_oben.jpg"
        ),
        array(
            "Spinhenge@home",
            "http://spin.fh-bielefeld.de/",
            "Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences",
            "Chemical engineering and nanotechnology",
            "The study of molecular magnets and controlled nanoscale magnetism.  These magnetic molecules may be used to develop tiny magnetic switches, with applications in medicine (such as local tumor chemotherapy) and biotechnology.",
            "rotating-fe30-h90px.gif"
        ),
    ),
);
$math = array(
    "Mathematics and strategy games",
    array(
        array(
            "SZTAKI Desktop Grid",
            "http://szdg.lpds.sztaki.hu/szdg/",
            "MTA-SZTAKI Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems (Budapest)",
            "Mathematics",
            "Find all the generalized binary number systems (in which bases are matrices and digits are vectors) up to dimension 11.",
            "szdg1_small.jpg"
        ),
        array(
            "Riesel Sieve",
            "http://boinc.rieselsieve.com/",
            "Riesel Sieve community",
            "Mathematics",
            "Find prime numbers of the form k*2<sup>n</sup>-1",
            ""
        ),
        array(
            "Rectilinear Crossing Number",
            "http://dist.ist.tugraz.at/cape5/",
            "Graz University of Technology (Austria)",
            "Mathematics",
            "What is the least number of crossings a straight-edge drawing of the complete graph on top of a set of n points in the plane obtains?  From very recent (not even published yet) mathematical considerations the rectilinear crossing numbers for n=19 and n=21 are also known. So the most tantalizing problem now is to determine the true value for n=18, which is the main focus of this project.",
            ""
        ),
        array(
            "Chess960@home",
            "http://www.chess960athome.org/",
            "Chess-960.org",
            "Game-playing",
            "This project studies Chess 960, a variant of orthodox chess. In classical chess the starting position of the game never changes.  In Chess 960, just before the start of every game, the initial configuration of the chess pieces is determined randomly.",
            "chess960athome.jpg"
        ),
    ),
);

$areas = array($biomed, $astro_phys_chem, $math, $earth);

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