CS150 Notes 37 (18 November 2005)

Upcoming Schedule

• Monday, 5 December: Problem Set 8 Presentations/Final Reports
• Monday, 5 December: Final out (due Friday, 9 December, 4:59pm)

Links

• SETI@home (finding aliens)
• Other distributed computing projects: Einstein@Home (finding spinning neutron stars), Climate Prediction, Rosetta@home (protein folding and design), distributed.net (mostly breaking encryption)
• RUI: Ensuring Computation Integrity in Distributed Volunteer Computing Platforms, Doug Szajda, Bary Lawson, Jason Owen [Paper on catching cheaters with fake tasks, Catching cheaters with multiple tasks

Rose Bush by Jacintha Henry and Rachel Kay