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Milkyway@home

Milkyway@home. Billy Coss Distributed Computing. Review. BOINC Maps the Galaxy 338,000 Computers generating 1175 TFLOPS Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. BOINC. ~30 registered projects Idle computer time fights disease http://www.unitedboinc.com /. Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

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Milkyway@home

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  1. Milkyway@home Billy Coss Distributed Computing

  2. Review • BOINC • Maps the Galaxy • 338,000 Computers generating 1175 TFLOPS • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  3. BOINC • ~30 registered projects • Idle computer time fights disease • http://www.unitedboinc.com/

  4. Sloan Digital Sky Survey • 10th release • Analyzed with a 2.5-meter telescope • Mapped over 930,000 galaxies • 120,000 quasars • Almost a quarter of the night sky! http://www.sdss.org/

  5. Where does MW@home come in? • SDSS Produces 1/4th of the sky • MW@home takes that “wedge” and uses distributed computing to fill isolate large clusters. • Takes into consideration: • Weight • mu • r • phi • theta • (l,b) http://www.unitedboinc.com/en/news/1-latest-news/212-milkywayhome-progress-in-plotting-the-stars

  6. Diagram http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/download/images/lb_polar_sgr0.png

  7. Diagram • http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/download/images/MW_cartoon.png

  8. Diagram http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/download/images/XZ_plot.png

  9. What? • Allows astrophysicists to predict dwarf galaxy collisions • Allows us to witness the “birth” of our galaxy • Analyze dark matter clusters

  10. Topics for future • Dark Matter Calculation • Kepler’s Law algorithm

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