Just wondered what, if any, ideas you folks have regarding other possible projects that you would like to see running on the BOINC network.

I think I would like to see a project aimed at developing smarter computers...By using many computer cycles to run programs through something of an educational process in an attempt to build some sort of A.I. over many generations.

Any thoughts on this, or any ideas of your own?

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<p align="center">Chess</p>
I've had this idea floating around in my [cramped] head for the last few months. There are a finite number of chess pieces on a chessboard, and the chessboard itself is finite in space. Therefore, there are a finite number of combinations and permutations of chessboard positions and pieces.

For instance, we know that two kings must always be on the board: The black king and the white king. Now, count the number of possible positions of the two kings on the board, and for each of those combinations, evaluate the board - Find out what following move would be advantageous to either player.

Once those 4032 positions are evaluated, start adding pieces, and keep evaluating those positions until every piece and position has been tested - Even if those positions are impossible (like a pawn in rows A or H).

Even though there's a potentially infinite number of chess games that are played, there are a finite number of states (piece + position) of the game. I think distributed computing could help create a chess playbook that would give Deep Blue, Deep Fritz, Kasparov, and Fischer together a run for their money.

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http://distributedcomputing.info/

Check out the "Active Projects" link, in answer to your questions. :)


I think a DC project I'd love to see would be the next step of Seti@home. To be more precise, a project that's working to decypher and translate a recently received ET signal. :)

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> http://distributedcomputing.info/
>
> Check out the "Active Projects" link, in answer to your questions. :)
>

There are some projects here that I wish had the resources to switch to the BOINC platform.

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Kolch - Crunching for the BOINC@Australia team since July 2004.
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> There are some projects here that I wish had the resources to switch to the
> BOINC platform.
>

The nanotech one looked kinda cool.

How about an origins of life simulation, we simulate the "primordial ooze", play around with the conditions, and try to create life. We could then create a set of acceptable conditions for life. Good fun for many schools of biology, it eventually could define planets that could create life elsewhere.

If that ran out of work, we could always try evolution@home. Same idea as before, but we take these lifeforms and run them through millenias and see what happens.

This would help nail down variables in Drake's equation, while shedding some light one how we came to be.

<B>Edit:</B> I see part of this is already being done

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> >
> > There are some projects here that I wish had the resources to switch to
> the
> > BOINC platform.
> >
>
> The nanotech one looked kinda cool.
>
> How about an origins of life simulation, we simulate the "primordial ooze",
> play around with the conditions, and try to create life. We could then create
> a set of acceptable conditions for life. Good fun for many schools of
> biology, it eventually could define planets that could create life elsewhere.
>
> If that ran out of work, we could always try evolution@home. Same idea as
> before, but we take these lifeforms and run them through millenias and see
> what happens.
>
> This would help nail down variables in Drake's equation, while shedding some
> light one how we came to be.
>
> <B>Edit:</B> <a> href="http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=11690"> I see part
> of this is already being done[/url]
Check a previous thread "other things to do during the fix"
it has to do with an evolution program called Avida
it's not alot like BOINC but it,s pretty cool non the less
EDIT sorry you already found it what do you think?

> EDIT sorry you already found it what do you think?

I just ran it (avida) for a few hours and couldn't really work out what was going on. It wouuld probably be a great project if it had better development and support information available. I have found that this is something that the BOINC projects have spent a fair bit of time on, regardless of how much criticism they get when things don't quite go right.

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> Check a previous thread "other things to do during the fix"
> it has to do with an evolution program called Avida
> it's not alot like BOINC but it,s pretty cool non the less
> EDIT sorry you already found it what do you think?
>

Yeah I had missed that when I posted on this one, then found it and edited this one. I liked the idea before I knew anyone was doing it, but I'm attached to 2 other projects (Einstein and CPDN) so my machine stays busy regardless of if Seti is running right, so I didn't try it out.

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Still looking for something profound or inspirational to place here.

Was recently reading up on the progress being made at JET in the development of hydrogen fusion power. Would be cool if there was a BOINC project which aimed to simulate plasma conditions inside a tokomak. How it might change under certain circumstances...

I was please to find recently a very quiet project regrading evolution and AI though so my PC is currently very busy.

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Kolch - Crunching for the BOINC@Australia team since July 2004.
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one cool project would be about evolution - especially if it looks at different environments like off Earth worlds as well :D

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kolch- Dang, you really had to dig for this thread. What did you have a little extra free time???

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<blockquote>kolch- Dang, you really had to dig for this thread. What did you have a little extra free time???
</blockquote>

LOL. The short answer is yes. However it is my thread so I knew it was there. Just used a keyword search.

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Kolch - Crunching for the BOINC@Australia team since July 2004.
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