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发表于 2011-6-13 16:46:47
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本帖最后由 zglloo 于 2011-9-5 13:18 编辑
The Nutritious Rice for the World (Rice) project, a World Community Grid BOINC project, ended a few weeks ago. BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) is a non-commercial program and infrastructure which allows volunteers to donate their computer’s spare computing resources to take part in very interesting, computing intense scientific projects. Many people around the world contributed their CPU-resources to help figure out the structure of proteins of the most common strains of rice. In the end, about 25,761 years of CPU-time were contributed to the project. IBM heavily contributed to this project through their World Community Grid (WCG) program, offering Rice a massive userbase and community .
全球营养水稻项目(The Nutritious Rice for the World project )-一个世界公共网格(World Community Grid ,以下简称WCG) 在伯克利开放式网络平台上运行的项目在几周前刚刚结束。伯克利开放式网络平台(Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing ,以下简称BIONC[BOINC])是一个非商业性的程序,它作为一个重要的平台,使得志愿者们能够将自己计算机的闲置资源贡献给那些有趣的需要大量运算的科研项目。世界上已经有许多人为了计算出常见品种稻米中蛋白质的结构,而提供了他们的CPU资源。最终 ,志愿者们为这个项目贡献出的运算时间总计约25,761年。在这个过程中,IBM公司通过他们的WCG给了这个项目坚实的用户基础与团体。
Rice is one of the most common foods in various parts of the world. It’s in the interest of us all to find varieties and breeds of rice which are most nutritious or resistant against pests; the project’s goal is to find out which varieties of rice interbreed with others to give the best results so that we’ll get new strains of rice which are harder, better, faster, stronger.
稻米是在世界范围内最为常见的食物之一。我们都有兴趣去寻找最具营养价值,或能够有效抵抗害虫的各种特性、各种品种的新型水稻。全球营养水稻项目的目标就是寻找哪两种水稻杂交能够产生最好的结果,这样我们就能够得到生命力更顽强、品质更优良、生长更快速、植株更强壮的新品种水稻。
A lot of BOINC-users who contributed to the project (like myself) are now asking themselves a lot of questions. Who are the people behind the scenes? How much work is necessary to get a project like this into operation? What was IBM’s role? What will happen with the contributed results? And after all, who will benefit from the project?
许多为这个项目贡献力量的用户(就像我自己)现在都抱有很多疑问。幕后的人是谁?有多少工作对于这类的项目的运行是必要的?IBM扮演的是什么角色?在人们共同努力下获得的成果将会被怎样处理?最终,谁将从中获益? |
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