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 Simulation of two galaxies interacting with each other at MilkyWay@home | |
| Developer(s) | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
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| Development status | Active |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Platform | BOINC |
| Type | astroinformatics |
| License | GNU GPL v3[1] |
| Average performance | 1,683,957 GFLOPS (June 2023)[2] |
| Active users | 11,686 |
| Total users | 255,522 |
| Active hosts | 30,519 |
| Total hosts | 674,908 |
| Website | milkyway |
MilkyWay@home is a volunteer computing project in the astrophysics category, running on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) platform. Using spare computing power from over 38,000 computers run by over 27,000 active volunteers as of November 2011[update],[3] the MilkyWay@home project aims to generate accurate three-dimensional dynamic models of stellar streams in the immediate vicinity of the Milky Way. With SETI@home and Einstein@home, it is the third computing project of this type that has the investigation of phenomena in interstellar space as its primary purpose. Its secondary objective is to develop and optimize algorithms for volunteer computing.
- ^ milkyway released under GPLv3
- ^ de Zutter W. "MilkyWay@home: Detailed stats". boincstats.com. Retrieved 2023-06-18.
- ^ de Zutter W. "MilkyWay@home: Credit overview". boincstats.com. Retrieved 2017-09-18.