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Ibercivis: A Free Volunteer Computing Platform for Multi-Domain Applications (IBERCIVIS)
Identification
Hosting Legal Entity
University of Zaragoza
Location
Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, PO: 3004-535 (Portugal)
Structure
Type Of RI
Distributed
Coordinating Country
Portugal
Status
Status
Current Status:
Operational since 2008
Scientific Description
Ibercivis is a project pioneered by the University of Zaragoza, Spain, later on extended to the entire Iberian territory in collaboration with the University of Coimbra, Portugal. Ibercivis is designed to allow scientists, particularly academic researchers without access to massive computer infrastructures, to deploy scientific applications and execute them across a network of computer CPUs donated by volunteer citizens around the World. In parallel, Ibercivis tries to narrow the gap between society and science, by fostering the interest and the participation of citizens in the science making process.

RI Keywords
Volunteer computing, Science dissemination and communication, Distributed computing
Classifications
RI Category
Distributed Computing Facilities
Scientific Domain
Chemistry and Material Sciences
Physics, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Mathematics
Biological and Medical Sciences
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Social Sciences
Engineering and Energy
Information Science and Technology
Services
Technical Support

Ibercivis development team supports new research groups porting their applications so that they can be executed on BOINC in different platforms (Linux,Windows and MacOSX).

Applications

Applications related to different scientific topics are currently available for new researchers to use: * AUDIVERIS * AUTODOCK * AUTODOCK VINA * BLENDER * BNB-GRID * BINSYS * Burrows-Wheeler Aligner (BWA) * CLASSIFICATION * CORSIKA * DSP * EMMIL (E-Marketplace Model Integrated with Logistics) * LASERAC * MERLIN * SIMAP * TINKER –Software Tools for Molecular Design * UC-Explorer * VISIVO * XRAY.

Equipment
Volunteers Computers

Citizens personal computers. With more than 30,000 registered volunteers, Ibercivis has sustained a processing rate of about 2.3 TeraFLOPS in 4 years. On average 11,000 cores are active every week.

Hardware - 15 computers

Ibercivis is currently supported by 15 computers distributed between Spain and Portugal according to the following structure: * 6 computers at BIFI, Zaragoza, Spain; * 2 computers at FCCN, Lisbon, Portugal; * 5 computers at Ceta-Cimea,Trujillo, Spain; * 1 computer in CSIC, Madrid, Spain; and * 1 computer in RedIRIS, Madrid, Spain.

Date of last update: 23/08/2013
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