Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
David Anderson, A Brief History of (CPU) Time
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Comp scientist at UC Berkley, building platform for citizen science. Looking for commonalities, software support that addresses community’s needs to make it easier for scientists to use volunteer power. Tech is only one piece of the solution.
Build platforms for:
- Volunteer computing
- Distributed thinking
- Education
Computational science:
Simulations are now so vastly complex that they can only be done on computer. Simulations at various scales, e.g. proteins, ecosystems, Earth, galaxy, universe. . Need lots of computing power because need to fit models to observed data. To predict what’s going to happen you need to run thousands or millions of simulations.
Generation of new
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