![]() Rocker, scientist and Emacs-admirer – he was so kind to answer me some questions about the project. ![]() ![]() I think no one can give better answers than Ram Samudrala, PhD and Principal Investigator of a computational genomics research group at the University of Washington. Who are the people behind the scenes? How much work is necessary to get a project like this into operation? What was IBM’s role? What will happen with the contributed results? And after all, who will benefit from the project? It’s in the interest of us all to find varieties and breeds of rice which are most nutritious or resistant against pests the project’s goal is to find out which varieties of rice interbreed with others to give the best results so that we’ll get new strains of rice which are harder, better, faster, stronger.Ī lot of BOINC-users who contributed to the project (like myself) are now asking themselves a lot of questions. Rice is one of the most common foods in various parts of the world. IBM heavily contributed to this project through their World Community Grid (WCG) program, offering Rice a massive userbase and community. In the end, about 25,761 years of CPU-time were contributed to the project. Many people around the world contributed their CPU-resources to help figure out the structure of proteins of the most common strains of rice. BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) is a non-commercial program and infrastructure which allows volunteers to donate their computer’s spare computing resources to take part in very interesting, computing intense scientific projects. The Nutritious Rice for the World (Rice) project, a World Community Grid BOINC project, ended a few weeks ago. ![]()
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