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*2n-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); ?>