ABC@Home
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 ABC@Home project logo |
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| Developer(s) | University of Leiden |
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| Stable release | 2.10 / August 22, 2010[1] |
| Platform | Cross-platform |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Volunteer computing |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | abcathome.com |
ABC@Home is an educational and non-profit network computing project finding abc-triples related to the abc conjecture in number theory.
Using the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) distributed computing platform. As of March 2011[update], there are more than 7,300 active participants from 114 countries with a total BOINC credit of more than 2.9 billion, reporting about 10 teraflops (10 trillion operations per second) of processing power.[2]
As of 11 April 2011[update] the Data Collected page for the project lists 21.1 million triples which have been found.[3]
The minimum system requirements necessary to contribute to the project As of 11 April 2011[update] are as follows[4]
- Minimum of 256MB RAM free
- 2MB of free disk space
- Windows, Linux, Mac OS X (recommended with a 64-bit CPU)
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Applications". ABC@Home. Archived from the original on 17 September 2010. Retrieved 2010-10-03.
- ^ "Detailed user, host, team and country statistics with graphs for BOINC", boincstats.com, retrieved 2011-03-11
- ^ "Data Collected So Far". ABC@Home. Retrieved 2011-04-11.
- ^ "ABC@home". ABC@Home. Archived from the original on 26 April 2011. Retrieved 2011-04-11.
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