Ibercivis

Ibercivis
Developer(s) University of Zaragoza, CIEMAT, the Spanish National Research Council and RedIris
Development status Active
Operating system Cross-platform
Platform BOINC
Average performance 2.966teraFLOPS (average)[1]
Active users 2,183[1]
Total users 20,613[1]
Active hosts 4,618[1]
Total hosts 57,761[1]
Website ibercivis.es

Ibercivis is a distributed computing platform which allows internet users to participate in scientific research by donating unused computer cycles to run scientific simulations and other tasks. The project, which became operational in 2008, is a scientific collaboration between the Portuguese and Spanish governments, but it is open to the general public and scientific community, both within and beyond the Iberian Peninsula. The project's name is a portmanteau of "Iberia" and the Latin word civis, meaning "citizen".

History

Ibercivis was developed in Spain with the cooperation of the Institute of Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems at the University of Zaragoza, CIEMAT, CETA-CIEMAT, the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and RedIris. The project tasks are issued by different scientific and technological centers in Spain with the aim of creating a functional platform for volunteer-based scientific distributed computing. The project is a European counterpart to the successful United States-based SETI@home and Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) distributed computing projects.

Ibercivis' predecessor, the University of Zaragoza-based distributed computing project Zivis, began operation in 2007, and Ibercivis itself started operating in June 2008. The Zivis project was a local distributed computing application funded by the ayuntamiento (city council) of the city of Zaragoza. The larger-scale Ibercivis infrastructure has been used for a variety of calculating applications, including nuclear fusion research, protein folding and materials simulations. In July 2009, the Ibercivis platform was extended to Portugal following an agreement signed by the governments of both countries during the Luso-Spanish Summit held in Zamora, Spain, in January 2009. Several Portuguese institutions subsequently affiliated themselves with Ibercivis, including the Ministry of Science, the Centre for Neuroscience and Cell Biology at the University of Coimbra, and the LIP experimental high-energy physics laboratory.

Number of participants

At its inception in June 2008, Ibercivis had 3,000 registered users hosting its various projects. By December 2012, this figure had risen to over 19,800, distributed across 124 countries.[1] There are around 55,000 individual hosting devices registered with the project, of which over 3,600 are active on a weekly basis.[1]

Projects

Ibercivis is intended to run indefinitely, and is designed to run several simultaneous applications belonging to different scientific disciplines, in a manner similar to the IBM-funded World Community Grid. Users can select which projects they wish to contribute to via the project's website.[2] As of October 2011, Ibercivis encompasses eight different active projects:[3]

Ibercivis furthermore publishes monthly online progress bulletins, featuring interviews with leading researchers involved with the platform's various research projects.[8]

Former projects

Ibercivis projects that have been completed or discontinued as of October 2011 include:[9]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 de Zutter, W. (19 April 2013). "Ibercivis: Credit overview". BoincStats.com. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
  2. "Faqs". Ibercivis.es. Retrieved 2011-02-20.
  3. Ibercivis.pt - Projects. Retrieved 2011-10-15.
  4. AMILOIDE, The Movie — Inception Style Trailer, youtube.com
  5. Ibercivis.pt - Criticalidad. Retrieved 2011-10-15.
  6. Ibercivis.pt - Soluvel. Retrieved 2011-10-15.
  7. Ibercivis.pt - Primalidad. Retrieved 2011-10-15.
  8. "Prensa y Divulgación" (in Spanish), Ibercivis.es, November 2011. Retrieved 2011-12-02.
  9. Ibercivis.pt - Previous Projects. Retrieved 2011-10-15.

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