NanoHive@Home
NanoHive@Home was a short lived project which excited me.
It was researching how to use nano-technology to build microscopic factories which would, in turn, build electronic appliances. The aim was for far more efficient machines which used much less power.
LHC@home
LHC@home was started in 2004. Many years ago I attended a lecture on the CERN particle accelerators which were trying to create nuclear fusion. Today The Large Hadron Collider is much better known.
If they succeed we will have an endless supply of cheap clean energy which would be of great benefit to the world. Nuclear fusion has none of the problems of nuclear fision power generation as if there is a problem it automatically shuts down and you do not end up with hazardous waste products.
For these reasons I have followed the project closely and was happy to add this to the list of my BOINC projects.
Einstein@home
Einstein@home is is a project launched in 2005 to coincide with the world year of physics.
The project searches for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (LIGO) in the US and from the GEO 600 gravitational wave observatory in Germany.
In view of my interest in astronomy I ran this project for a while.
Cosmology@Home
Cosmology@Home is a project which is still in the test phase at the moment.
The goal of the project is to search for the model that best describes our Universe and to find the range of models that agree with the available astronomical and particle physics data.
