We believe in the power of science and a knowledge-based approach to life in general. So we’re proud to be a part of several community grid computing projects which work to solve open problems in medicine, environmental science, and mathematics.
Our work
We’re currently active in World Community Grid, Rosetta@Home, Einstein@Home, GPUGrid, and Asteroids@Home. You can check out our detailed stats across all projects.
WCG stats
Updated every 5 years of CPU time (last update: 2020-07-31). A WU is
a “workunit”; a packet of computational tasks sent by the project and
returned when complete.
| Subproject | Team CPU Time | Team WUs | Subproject status |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenPandemics | 5 years+ | 21_000+ | Active |
| Africa Rainfall Project | 2 years+ | 1_000+ | Active |
| Microbiome Immunity Project | 31 years+ | 190_000+ | Active |
| Help Stop TB | 183 days+ | 416 | Active |
| FightAIDS@Home 2 | 10 years+ | 30_000+ | Active |
| Mapping Cancer Markers | 84 years+ | 243_000+ | Active |
| Beta Testing | 52 days+ | 487 | Intermittent |
| Smash Childhood Cancer | 4 years+ | 44_000+ | Intermittent |
| OpenZika | 7y 290d 04:23:01 | 65_778 | Complete (2016-05 to 2019-12) |
| Outsmart Ebola Together | 3y 101d 15:01:33 | 9_312 | Complete (2014-12 to 2018-12) |
| 150 years+ | 607_000+ |
Other project stats
Most projects don’t provide rich statistics, so we generate some numbers from our local logs.
| Project | Team CPU Time | Team WUs | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rosetta (bioinformatics) | 11 years+ | 13_000+ | Active |
| GPUGrid (bioinformatics) | 207 days+ | 2_000+ | Active |
| Einstein (astrophysics) | 105 days+ | 5_000+ | Active |
| Asteroids (astronomy) | 324 days+ | 4_000+ | Active |
Some “CPU” times are so low compared to other projects because those are GPU projects. BOINC counts 1 second of wall-clock time as 1 second of GPU time, regardless of how many hundreds (or thousands!) of cores are working on a task. For CPU projects, 1 second of time is counted for each core/thread, and cumulative runtime goes up much faster as a result.
Our projects
- We develop the Homefarm cluster orchestration suite
- We created the Greenhouse multi-machine chassis project
- For testing Homefarm on ARM CPUs, we created Greenroom
- Greenhouse 2 is in the planning phases, with construction to start soon.
Our fleet
These machines run 24/7/365, crunching workunits.
| Machine | CPU | Cores | RAM | GPU | GFLOPs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| node01 | Ryzen 3900X | 12c24t | 32GB | — | 130 |
| node02 | Ryzen 3900X | 12c24t | 32GB | GTX 1650 | 130 + 2903 |
| node03 | Ryzen 3900X | 12c24t | 16GB | — | 130 |
| node04 | Ryzen 3900X | 12c24t | 16GB | — | 130 |
| node05 | Ryzen 2700 | 08c16t | 32GB | GTX 750 Ti | 78 + 1606 |
| node06 | Ryzen 2700 | 08c16t | 16GB | GTX 1650 | 78 + 3001 |
| nodepi01 | RPi 4 B | 04c04t | 4GB | — | 9 |
| nodepi02 | RPi 4 B | 04c04t | 4GB | — | 9 |
| nodepi03 | RPi 4 B | 04c04t | 4GB | — | 9 |
| nodepi04 | RPi 4 B | 04c04t | 4GB | — | 9 |
| 80c144t | 160GB | 8222 |
And we try to maximize the goodness by turning upgraded parts into new machines that we give to people who can use them to do even more good work.
Team news
For more in-depth information on computing milestones and plans, check out our most recent updates.