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: Quake-Catcher Network
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:44:05 -0700
________________________________________ From: Rod Van Meter [rdv () sfc wide ad jp] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 12:25 PM To: David Farber Subject: Quake-Catcher Network Dave, for IP, if you wish... A seismologist at Stanford University in California has developed a computer program for tracking earthquakes in real time. It uses thousands of volunteers' computers and may someday be fast enough to issue warnings just before an earthquake strikes. Quake-Catcher Network, as it's called, uses the accelerometers built into many new computers, which sense when a computer is dropped so that the hard drive can be shut down. But seismologist Jesse Lawrence found that the sensors could also pick up on more subtle movement. Thus was born the latest iteration in distributed computing, which turns the unused computing power of thousands of home computers into a giant supercomputer. <snip>
From the news section of Nature this week.
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080326/full/452397a.html http://qcn.ucr.edu/ It's based on BOINC, the same base for distributed computation as SETI@home. The software's not yet publicly available. --Rod ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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