MilkyWay@home

<p>MilkyWay@home is a <a href="/facts/Volunteer_computing/YkXGa3N8">volunteer computing</a> project in the <a href="/facts/Astrophysics/krFPRWLA">astrophysics</a> category, running on the <a href="/facts/Berkeley_Open_Infrastructure_for_Network_Computing/RPaqqojG">Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing</a> (BOINC) platform.  Using spare computing power from over 38,000 computers run by over 27,000 active volunteers as of November 2011, the MilkyWay@home project aims to generate accurate three-dimensional dynamic models of <a href="/facts/Stellar_streams/QAzPSXnH">stellar streams</a> in the immediate vicinity of the <a href="/facts/Milky_Way/ulF6lccN">Milky Way</a>. With <a href="/facts/SETI%40home/y8w7Euex">SETI@home</a> and <a href="/facts/Einstein%40home/D5dljmkD">Einstein@home</a>, 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.
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