Some members of the Satellites club participate in other endeavors like distributed computing (DC). There are projects that fold proteins in an effort to find cures for a large number of human diseases, or search the universe for gravity waves. DC projects help the scientific community solve big number crunching problems. During our first project, one of the members created a Satellites Team Forum where observations and problems could be discussed. Its use was expanded to cover all of our DC projects. There are many distributed computing projects available on the web. If you don't like any of the ones we have chosen, look at some others. You'll probably find one that you think deserves your support.
There are several DF projects that have a "Satellites" team. Our first project, "Distributed Folding" sourced here in Toronto, is now offline. Here are some of the current projects with a Satellites team. Click here for a complete list of all the Satellites teams under the BOINC umbrella.
No, its not just a crazy sound. Its the name of a distribution system that allows a DC project to distribute its "work units" and client code from their servers to the client processes you run on your machine to support their project. Created by the same people who created "Seti@home", the first widely recognized distributed computing project, it was created to provide a high function process for DC projects so that they didn't have to "reinvent the wheel" so to speak. The BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) software installed in your computer manages the projects you select to run on your PC.
You can look at our Rosetta@home team's progress here.
Currently this project is our main project. More of our team members are active here than elsewhere.
You can look at our einstein@home team's progress at the following website:
Satellites Einstein@home Team Statistics
You can look at our SIMAP@home team's progress at the following websites:
Satellites SIMAP@home Team Statistics - Synergy Version
Satellites SIMAP@home Team Statistics - SIMAP Version
Satellites MalariaControl.net Team Staistics - Synergy Version
Satellites Lattice Project Team Staistics - Synergy Version
This is a mature protein folding distributed computing project, not under the BOINC umbrella. To quote from their website:
"What are proteins and why do they "fold"? Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out their biochemical function, they remarkably assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, remains a mystery. Moreover, perhaps not surprisingly, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious effects, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, and Parkinson's disease."
You can look at our folding@home team's progress at the following website:
Satellites Folding@home Team Statistics