SETI@home, BOINC, and volunteer distributed computing

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 40, Issue , 2012, Pages 69-87

  Korpela, Eric J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Citizen science; Crowdsourcing; Grid computing; High performance computing; Public participation in science

Indexed keywords

CITIZEN SCIENCE; CROWDSOURCING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTATIONS; FLOATING POINT OPERATIONS; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; INTERNET CONNECTION; PROCESSING POWER; PUBLIC PARTICIPATION; PUBLIC RESOURCE COMPUTING; STORAGE CAPABILITY; VOLUNTEER COMPUTING;

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; GRID COMPUTING; INTERNET;

PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

CITIZENSHIP; COMPUTER; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; INTERNET; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84860535511     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-earth-040809-152348     Document Type: Article

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