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{{Infobox software
| name = EDGeS@Home
| logo = EDGeS logo.png
| logo caption = EDGeS@Home project logo
| screenshot = EDGeS@Home screenshot.png
| caption = EDGeS@Home project homepage (archived)
| description = EDGeS@Home was a completed BOINC-based volunteer computing project that bridged desktop grids and service grids to support scientific applications, primarily the ISDEP plasma fusion simulation code, developed by MTA SZTAKI and sponsored by the European Union Seventh Framework Programme.

| status = Completed
| category = Plasma physics, Grid computing
| compute = CPU
| dependencies = BOINC client

| developer = MTA SZTAKI Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems
| author = Péter Kacsuk, Zoltán Farkas
| sponsor = European Union FP7 (grant 211727); DEGISCO (grant 261556)
| maintainer = EDGeS team
| released = {{Start date and age|2009|10|28}}
| completed = May 2011 (ISDEP phase)
| discontinued = ca. 2015
| repository =

| programming language = C
| operating system = Windows, Linux, macOS
| size = ~70 MB (ISDEP application)

| stats as of = {{Start date and age|2015|11|28}}
| average performance = 1.35 GFLOPS
| active users = 0
| total users = 11486
| active hosts = 0
| total hosts = 32308

| rac = 0
| credit per day = 0
| gpu performance =
| cpu performance = 1.35 GFLOPS

| website = {{URL|http://home.edges-grid.eu/home/}}
| license =
}}

'''EDGeS@Home''' ('''E'''nabling '''D'''esktop '''G'''rids for '''e'''-'''S'''cience) was a [[wikipedia:BOINC|BOINC]]-based [[wikipedia:Volunteer computing|volunteer computing]] project that aimed to bridge desktop grid (DG) and service grid (SG) infrastructures, enabling the execution of scientific applications developed by the [[wikipedia:EGEE|EGEE]] and EDGeS community on volunteer-contributed computing resources.<ref name="edgeshome">{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329124047/http://home.edges-grid.eu/home/ |title=EDGeS@Home |publisher=EDGeS |accessdate=2026-08-16 |via=Wayback Machine}}</ref> The project was coordinated by the [[wikipedia:SZTAKI|MTA SZTAKI]] Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems in Hungary and was part of the broader EDGeS [[wikipedia:European Union|European Union]] [[wikipedia:Seventh Framework Programme|Seventh Framework Programme]] (FP7) project.<ref name="boincwiki">{{cite web |url=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/EDGeS@Home |title=EDGeS@Home |publisher=BOINC |accessdate=2026-08-16}}</ref>

The project's primary production-level application was '''ISDEP''' (Integrator of Stochastic Differential Equations for Plasmas), a [[wikipedia:Monte Carlo method|Monte Carlo]] code that simulates [[wikipedia:Ion|ion]] transport in magnetized plasmas for [[wikipedia:Fusion power|fusion energy]] research.<ref name="velasco2012">{{cite journal |last1=Velasco |first1=J.L. |last2=Bustos |first2=A. |last3=Castejón |first3=F. |last4=Fernández |first4=L.A. |last5=Martin-Mayor |first5=V. |last6=Tarancón |first6=A. |title=ISDEP: Integrator of stochastic differential equations for plasmas |journal=Computer Physics Communications |volume=183 |issue=9 |pages=1877–1883 |year=2012 |doi=10.1016/j.cpc.2012.04.004}}</ref> EDGeS@Home also hosted several other applications at the beta (experimental) level.<ref name="edgeshome" />

== History ==

The EDGeS (Enabling Desktop Grids for e-Science) project was an [[wikipedia:European Union|European Union]] FP7 infrastructure project (grant agreement no. 211727) that ran from 2008 to 2010, with the goal of building technological bridges to facilitate [[wikipedia:Interoperability|interoperability]] between desktop grids and service grids.<ref name="urbah2009">{{cite journal |last1=Urbah |first1=E. |last2=Kacsuk |first2=P. |last3=Farkas |first3=Z. |display-authors=etal |title=EDGeS: Bridging EGEE to BOINC and XtremWeb |journal=Journal of Grid Computing |volume=7 |pages=335–354 |year=2009 |doi=10.1007/s10723-009-9137-0}}</ref> The EDGeS@Home BOINC project was launched on '''28 October 2009''' as the volunteer computing component of this infrastructure.<ref name="boincwiki" />

[[File:TJ-II model including plasma, coils and vacuum vessel.jpg|thumb|The [[wikipedia:TJ-II|TJ-II]] [[wikipedia:Stellarator|stellarator]] at [[wikipedia:CIEMAT|CIEMAT]], Madrid, the primary fusion device studied using ISDEP on EDGeS@Home.|alt=The TJ-II stellarator device]]

The EDGeS@Home desktop grid and its applications were partly supported by the follow-on '''DEGISCO''' project (Desktop Grid Initiatives for Scientific Collaboration), funded under EU FP7 grant agreement no. 261556.<ref name="edgeshome" /> The experts of the '''International Desktop Grid Federation''' (IDGF) provided further support for the EDGeS@Home infrastructure, its applications, and its integration into the DEGISCO infrastructure.<ref name="edgeshome" />

A server upgrade was performed in April 2011, after which the project continued operating.<ref name="edgeshome" /> The ISDEP computation phase was completed on '''21 May 2011'''.<ref name="boincruforum">{{cite web |url=https://boinc.ru/forum/topic/proekt-edgeshome-on-zhe-ibercivis/ |title=EDGeS@Home |publisher=BOINC.RU |accessdate=2026-08-16 |language=Russian}}</ref> After the ISDEP phase ended, the project briefly hosted an [[wikipedia:AutoDock|AutoDock]] application for [[wikipedia:Molecular docking|molecular docking]] computations at the beta level.<ref name="boincruforum" /> The project became inactive by approximately 2015, with the last statistics export occurring on 28 November 2015.<ref name="boincstats">{{cite web |url=https://www.boincstats.com/stats/89/project/detail |title=EDGeS@Home – Detailed stats |publisher=BOINCstats |accessdate=2026-08-16}}</ref>

== Scientific objectives ==

The aim of the EDGeS@Home project was to support the execution of selected and validated scientific applications developed by the EGEE and EDGeS community on [[wikipedia:Volunteer computing|volunteer computing]] resources.<ref name="edgeshome" /> The project served as a practical demonstration of the EDGeS bridging technology, which connected [[wikipedia:BOINC|BOINC]]-based and XtremWeb-based desktop grids with the EGEE service grid infrastructure, creating a seamless pool of over 250,000 processors from desktop grids combined with approximately 150,000 processors from service grids.<ref name="degisco">{{cite web |url=https://sztaki.hu/en/projects/degisco |title=DEGISCO |publisher=MTA SZTAKI |accessdate=2026-08-16}}</ref>

=== ISDEP ===

[[File:EDGeS Bridge diagram.jpg|thumb|The EDGeS 3G Bridge architecture connecting BOINC desktop grids with the EGEE service grid, enabling bidirectional job execution.|alt=EDGeS 3G Bridge architecture diagram]]

The principal application hosted on EDGeS@Home was '''ISDEP''' (Integrator of Stochastic Differential Equations for Plasmas), a Monte Carlo code developed under the collaboration between the '''National Fusion Laboratory''' at [[wikipedia:CIEMAT|CIEMAT]] (Madrid), the '''Institute of Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems''' (BIFI) at the [[wikipedia:University of Zaragoza|University of Zaragoza]], and the [[wikipedia:Complutense University of Madrid|Complutense University of Madrid]].<ref name="velasco2012" />

ISDEP solves the dynamics of a minority population of ions in a complex 3D fusion device, computing the [[wikipedia:Distribution function|distribution function]] by numerically integrating the [[wikipedia:Langevin equation|Langevin equation]]s equivalent to the [[wikipedia:Fokker–Planck equation|Fokker–Planck equation]].<ref name="velasco2012" /> The code takes into account:

* The full three-dimensional structure of fusion devices, avoiding common approximations such as Boozer coordinates and the neoclassical ordering
* The confining [[wikipedia:Electromagnetic field|electromagnetic field]]
* [[wikipedia:Collision|Collision]]s with other [[wikipedia:Plasma (physics)|plasma]] species (ions and electrons) using the Boozer–Kuo-Petravic collision operator
* The [[wikipedia:Electric potential|electrostatic potential]]

The Monte Carlo method used by ISDEP is based on the equivalence between the [[wikipedia:Fokker–Planck equation|Fokker–Planck]] and [[wikipedia:Langevin equation|Langevin equation]]s, which allows the code to run on [[wikipedia:Distributed computing|distributed computing]] platforms without [[wikipedia:Inter-process communication|communication between nodes]], achieving near-linear scaling.<ref name="velasco2012" /> Each computing node integrates one or more ion trajectories independently, with statistical independence guaranteed by reading the [[wikipedia:Random seed|random seed]] locally.<ref name="velasco2012" />

The primary fusion device studied with ISDEP on EDGeS@Home was the [[wikipedia:TJ-II|TJ-II]] [[wikipedia:Stellarator|stellarator]] at CIEMAT.<ref name="castejon2007">{{cite journal |last1=Castejón |first1=F. |last2=Fernández |first2=L.A. |last3=Guasp |first3=J. |last4=Martin-Mayor |first4=V. |last5=Tarancón |first5=A. |last6=Velasco |first6=J.L. |title=Ion kinetic transport in the presence of collisions and electric field in TJ-II ECRH plasmas |journal=Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion |volume=49 |issue=6 |pages=753 |year=2007 |doi=10.1088/0741-3335/49/6/006}}</ref> ISDEP was also applied to study ion transport in [[wikipedia:ITER|ITER]]<ref name="bustos2010">{{cite journal |last1=Bustos |first1=A. |last2=Castejón |first2=F. |last3=Fernández |first3=L.A. |display-authors=etal |title=Impact of 3D features on ion collisional transport in ITER |journal=Nuclear Fusion |volume=50 |issue=12 |pages=125007 |year=2010 |doi=10.1088/0029-5515/50/12/125007}}</ref> and the [[wikipedia:Large Helical Device|Large Helical Device]] (LHD) stellarator.<ref name="velasco2012" />

ISDEP was programmed in [[wikipedia:C (programming language)|C]] to maximize performance and portability, and was designed from the outset to run on [[wikipedia:Grid computing|grid computing]] and volunteer computing platforms.<ref name="velasco2012" /> The application download size was approximately 70 MB, with input data per workunit of 212 bytes and output data of 500–700 KB.<ref name="ruwiki">{{cite web |url=https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDGeS@Home |title=EDGeS@Home |publisher=Wikipedia |accessdate=2026-08-16 |language=Russian}}</ref>

=== Other applications ===

In addition to ISDEP at production level, EDGeS@Home hosted several other applications at the beta (experimental) level:<ref name="edgeshome" />

* '''AutoDock''' – a [[wikipedia:Molecular docking|molecular docking]] application used in [[wikipedia:Biomedicine|biomedical]] research, which became the sole active application after the ISDEP phase ended in May 2011<ref name="boincruforum" />
* Applications from the broader EDGeS infrastructure, including those bridged from EGEE service grids via the 3G Bridge technology

The ISDEP application was also available through the Spanish volunteer computing project [[wikipedia:Ibercivis|Ibercivis]] and its predecessor ZIVIS (Zaragoza Institutional Volunteer Computing for Investigative Science), a city-wide computing platform deployed in [[wikipedia:Zaragoza|Zaragoza]], Spain.<ref name="zivis">{{cite conference |last1=Antolí |first1=B. |last2=Castejón |first2=F. |last3=Giner |first3=A. |display-authors=etal |title=ZIVIS: A City Computing Platform Based on Volunteer Computing |year=2007 |booktitle=International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing}}</ref>

== Bridging technology ==

The core technical contribution of the EDGeS project was the development of '''3G Bridge''' (Generic Grid-to-Grid Bridge), a middleware-independent framework that enabled [[wikipedia:Interoperability|interoperability]] between desktop grids and service grids.<ref name="urbah2009" /> The bridge operated in two directions:

* '''BOINC → EGEE bridge''': A modified [[wikipedia:BOINC|BOINC]] client that represented itself as a powerful desktop PC with many CPU cores to the EGEE Workload Management System (WMS), pulling workunits from the BOINC server and executing them on EGEE resources. This was based on the super-worker approach.<ref name="fedak2008">{{cite conference |last1=Fedak |first1=Gilles |last2=He |first2=Haiwu |last3=Lodygensky |first3=Oleg |display-authors=etal |title=EDGeS: A Bridge between Desktop Grids and Service Grids |booktitle=2008 Third ChinaGrid Annual Conference (CHINAGRID) |year=2008 |doi=10.1109/ChinaGrid.2008.44}}</ref>
* '''EGEE → BOINC bridge''': Allowed EGEE users to submit jobs that were transparently forwarded to and executed on connected desktop grid systems, extending the capacity of EGEE [[wikipedia:Virtual organization|Virtual Organization]]s (VOs) with volunteer resources.<ref name="kacsuk2011">{{cite book |last1=Kacsuk |first1=P. |last2=Farkas |first2=Z. |last3=Balaton |first3=Z. |title=EDGeS Bridge Technologies to Interconnect Service and Desktop Grids |booktitle=Remote Instrumentation Services on the e-Infrastructure |year=2011 |publisher=Springer |doi=10.1007/978-1-4419-5574-6_5}}</ref>

The production infrastructure included the SZTAKI Desktop Grid, the Extremadura Desktop Grid, and the AlmereGrid, connected to EGEE service grids through the 3G Bridge.<ref name="urbah2009" />

== Volunteer participation ==

Volunteers participated in EDGeS@Home by installing the [[wikipedia:BOINC|BOINC]] client and attaching to the project URL <code>http://home.edges-grid.eu/home/</code>.<ref name="edgeshome" /> At its peak, the project reached approximately:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Metric !! Value
|-
| Total users || 11,486
|-
| Total hosts || 32,308
|-
| Total credit || 460,481,463
|-
| Peak estimated performance (48 h) || ~1.57 [[wikipedia:FLOPS|TFLOPS]]
|-
| Number of countries || 84
|-
| Number of teams || 684
|-
|}

As of March 2012, over 7,000 users from 84 countries had contributed more than 17,000 computers, providing an integrated performance of approximately 2.6 [[wikipedia:FLOPS|TFLOPS]].<ref name="boincruforum" /> The project had 11,032 users and 16,385 hosts as of March 2012, with an estimated 48-hour performance of 1,352.6 GFLOPS.<ref name="edgeshome" />

== Relationship to other projects ==

EDGeS@Home was closely related to several other grid and volunteer computing initiatives:

* '''[[wikipedia:Ibercivis|Ibercivis]]''' – A Spanish volunteer computing project that also hosted the ISDEP application. EDGeS@Home served as part of a unified European grid infrastructure that included Ibercivis as a sub-grid.<ref name="boincruforum" />
* '''SZTAKI Desktop Grid''' – A BOINC-based desktop grid developed at MTA SZTAKI using the DC-API (Distributed Computing Application Programming Interface), which was a foundational component of the EDGeS infrastructure.<ref name="urbah2009" />
* '''ZIVIS''' – A city-wide volunteer computing platform in Zaragoza, Spain, that served as a precursor to Ibercivis and hosted ISDEP as its pilot application.<ref name="zivis" />
* '''AlmereGrid''' – A Dutch desktop grid that was part of the EDGeS production infrastructure.<ref name="urbah2009" />
* '''DEGISCO''' – The follow-on project (FP7 grant 261556) that supported the EDGeS@Home infrastructure and promoted interoperation between desktop grid and service grid infrastructures on a global scale.<ref name="degisco" />

== Mathematical formulation ==

ISDEP solves the [[wikipedia:Fokker–Planck equation|Fokker–Planck equation]] for a minority ion population in a magnetized plasma:

:<math>\frac{\partial f}{\partial t} + \dot{\mathbf{x}} \cdot \nabla f + \dot{\mathbf{v}} \cdot \nabla_v f = C(f)</math>

where <math>f(\mathbf{x}, \mathbf{v}, t)</math> is the [[wikipedia:Distribution function|ion distribution function]], <math>\mathbf{x}</math> and <math>\mathbf{v}</math> are position and velocity in [[wikipedia:Cartesian coordinate system|Cartesian coordinates]], and <math>C(f)</math> is the collision operator (Boozer–Kuo-Petravic).<ref name="velasco2012" />

By exploiting the equivalence between the Fokker–Planck equation and the [[wikipedia:Langevin equation|Langevin equation]]s, ISDEP integrates the [[wikipedia:Stochastic differential equation|stochastic differential equation]]s:

:<math>d\mathbf{X} = \mathbf{a}(\mathbf{X}, t)\,dt + \mathbf{b}(\mathbf{X}, t)\,d\mathbf{W}</math>

where <math>\mathbf{a}</math> is the drift term (deterministic motion in the electromagnetic field), <math>\mathbf{b}</math> is the diffusion coefficient (collisional effects), and <math>\mathbf{W}</math> is a [[wikipedia:Wiener process|Wiener process]].<ref name="velasco2012" /> The numerical integration uses a [[wikipedia:Runge–Kutta method|Runge–Kutta method]] upgraded to handle [[wikipedia:Gaussian noise|Gaussian noise]] from collisional effects.<ref name="zivis" />

Since individual particle trajectories are statistically independent, no inter-node communication is required during computation, making the problem [[wikipedia:Embarrassingly parallel|embarrassingly parallel]] and well-suited for [[wikipedia:Volunteer computing|volunteer computing]] platforms.<ref name="velasco2012" />

== Publications ==

=== BOINC-listed publications ===

The following 12 publications are listed on the [[wikipedia:BOINC|BOINC]] publications page for EDGeS@Home:<ref name="boincpubs">{{cite web |url=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#EDGeS@Home |title=Publications by BOINC Projects – EDGeS@Home |publisher=BOINC |accessdate=2026-08-16}}</ref>

# Kacsuk, P., Z. Farkas, J. Kovács ''et al''. [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/296885066_Desktop_grid_in_the_era_of_cloud_computing Desktop grid in the era of cloud computing]. (2015).
# Fedak, Gilles. [https://hal.inria.fr/tel-01158462 Contributions to Desktop Grid Computing]. (2015). Habilitation à diriger des recherches.
# Delamare, Simon, Gilles Fedak, Derrick Kondo and Oleg Lodygensky. [http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10586-013-0283-6 SpeQuloS: a QoS service for hybrid and elastic computing infrastructures]. ''Cluster Computing'' (2014). DOI: 10.1007/s10586-013-0283-6.
# Visegrádi, Ádám, J. Kovács and P. Kacsuk. [https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0167739X1300229X Efficient extension of gLite VOs with BOINC based desktop grids]. ''Future Generation Computer Systems'' (2014). DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2013.10.012.
# Marosi, Attila, J. Kovács and P. Kacsuk. [https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0167739X12000660 Towards a volunteer cloud system]. ''Future Generation Computer Systems'' (2013). DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2012.03.013.
# Delamare, Simon, Gilles Fedak, Derrick Kondo, O. Lodygensky, P. Kacsuk, J. Kovács and F. Araujo. [https://hal.inria.fr/hal-00819907 Advanced QoS Prototype for the EDGI Infrastructure]. (2013).
# Delamare, Simon, Gilles Fedak, Derrick Kondo, O. Lodygensky, P. Kacsuk, J. Kovács and F. Araujo. [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/278629554_Intermediate_QoS_Prototype_for_the_EDGI_Infrastructure Intermediate QoS Prototype for the EDGI Infrastructure]. (2013).
# Terstyanszky, Gabor, Tamas Kiss, Tamas Kukla, Zsolt Lichtenberger, Stephen Winter, Pamela Greenwell, Sharron McEldowney and Hans Heindl. [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22942006/ Application repository and science gateway for running molecular docking and dynamics simulations]. ''Studies in Health Technology and Informatics'' (2012).
# Kacsuk, P., Z. Farkas and Z. Balaton. [http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-1-4419-5574-6_5 EDGeS Bridge Technologies to Interconnect Service and Desktop Grids]. ''Remote Instrumentation Services on the e-Infrastructure'' (2011).
# Velasco, J. L., F. Castejón and A. Tarancón. [http://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.3126583 Finite orbit width effect in ion collisional transport in TJ-II]. ''Physics of Plasmas'' (2009). DOI: 10.1063/1.3126583.
# Fedak, Gilles, Haiwu He, Oleg Lodygensky ''et al''. [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4624461/ EDGeS: A Bridge between Desktop Grids and Service Grids]. ''2008 Third ChinaGrid Annual Conference'' (2008). DOI: 10.1109/ChinaGrid.2008.44.
# Antolí, B., F. Castejón, A. Giner ''et al''. [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/242126353_ZIVIS_A_City_Computing_Platform_Based_on_Volunteer_Computing ZIVIS: A City Computing Platform Based on Volunteer Computing]. (2007).

=== Additional publications ===

The following additional publications are related to the ISDEP application and the EDGeS project but are not listed on the BOINC publications page:

# Urbah, E., P. Kacsuk, Z. Farkas ''et al''. [https://doi.org/10.1007/s10723-009-9137-0 EDGeS: Bridging EGEE to BOINC and XtremWeb]. ''Journal of Grid Computing'' '''7''', 335–354 (2009). DOI: 10.1007/s10723-009-9137-0.
# Velasco, J.L., A. Bustos, F. Castejón, L.A. Fernández, V. Martín-Mayor and A. Tarancón. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2012.04.004 ISDEP: Integrator of stochastic differential equations for plasmas]. ''Computer Physics Communications'' '''183'''(9), 1877–1883 (2012). DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2012.04.004.
# Bustos, A., F. Castejón, L.A. Fernández, J. García, V. Martín-Mayor, J.M. Reynolds, R. Seki and J.L. Velasco. [https://doi.org/10.1088/0029-5515/50/12/125007 Impact of 3D features on ion collisional transport in ITER]. ''Nuclear Fusion'' '''50'''(12), 125007 (2010). DOI: 10.1088/0029-5515/50/12/125007.
# Bustos, A., J.M. Fontdecaba, F. Castejón, J.L. Velasco, M. Tereshchenko and J. Arévalo. [https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4793731 Studies of the fast ion energy spectra in TJ-II]. ''Physics of Plasmas'' '''20'''(2), 022507 (2013). DOI: 10.1063/1.4793731.
# Castejón, F., L.A. Fernández, J. Guasp, V. Martín-Mayor, A. Tarancón and J.L. Velasco. [https://doi.org/10.1088/0741-3335/49/6/006 Ion kinetic transport in the presence of collisions and electric field in TJ-II ECRH plasmas]. ''Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion'' '''49'''(6), 753 (2007). DOI: 10.1088/0741-3335/49/6/006.
# Rivero, A. and D. Ferrer. [https://www.academia.edu/758702/ISDEP_a_fusion_application_deployed_in_the_EDGeS_project ISDEP, a fusion application deployed in the EDGeS project]. EGEE User Forum, ''EnterTheGrid'' workshop (2010).
# Cárdenas-Montes, M., A. Emmen, A.C. Marosi ''et al''. EDGeS: bridging Desktop and Service Grids. ''EGEE User Forum'' (2008).

== See also ==

* [[wikipedia:BOINC|BOINC]]
* [[wikipedia:Volunteer computing|Volunteer computing]]
* [[wikipedia:Ibercivis|Ibercivis]]
* [[wikipedia:TJ-II|TJ-II stellarator]]
* [[wikipedia:ITER|ITER]]
* [[wikipedia:Stellarator|Stellarator]]
* [[wikipedia:Plasma (physics)|Plasma (physics)]]

==References==

{{Reflist}}

[[Category:BOINC projects]]
[[Category:Completed BOINC projects]]
[[Category:Volunteer computing]]
[[Category:Grid computing]]
[[Category:Plasma physics]]
[[Category:Fusion research]]
[[Category:European Union research projects]]

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{{Infobox software
| name = SciLINC
| logo =
| logo caption =
| screenshot =
| caption = The BOINC Manager client software used by SciLINC volunteers
| description = SciLINC (Scientific Literature Indexing on Networked Computers) was a short lived BOINC volunteer computing project run by the Missouri Botanical Garden that indexed digitized botanical literature on participants' computers between March and June 2007.
| status = Completed
| category = Biology
| compute = CPU
| dependencies = BOINC client
| developer = Missouri Botanical Garden
| author = Missouri Botanical Garden
| sponsor = Institute of Museum and Library Services
| maintainer =
| released = {{Start date and age|2007|03|22}}
| completed = June 2007
| discontinued = 2009
| repository =
| programming language =
| operating system = Microsoft Windows (98 or later), Linux
| size =
| stats as of = {{Start date and age|2007|07|24}}
| average performance = 0.0 GigaFLOPS
| active users = 0
| total users = 150
| active hosts = 0
| total hosts = 217
| rac = 0
| credit per day = 0
| gpu performance =
| cpu performance =
| website = {{URL|https://www.scilinc.org/}}
| license = Not published
}}

'''SciLINC''', an acronym for '''Sci'''entific '''L'''iterature '''I'''ndexing on '''N'''etworked '''C'''omputers, was a [[BOINC]] volunteer computing project operated by the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, Missouri.<ref name="botanicus">{{cite web |url=http://www.botanicus.org/Scilinc.aspx |title=Botanicus.org: SciLINC, Scientific Literature Indexing on Networked Computers |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden |access-date=August 14, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081212014154/http://www.botanicus.org/Scilinc.aspx |archive-date=December 12, 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Volunteers attached their computers to the project so that pages of digitized botanical literature could be analyzed during idle time: each workunit bundled OCR text of scanned pages together with an algorithm for finding scientific names, and the results were used to build full text and keyword indexes for the Garden's Botanicus digital library.<ref name="freeland2011">{{cite web |url=http://blog.chrisfreeland.com/2011/12/boincing-angry-birds-for-bhl.html |title=BOINCing Angry Birds for BHL: Purposeful Gaming in Digital Libraries |first=Chris |last=Freeland |publisher=ChrisFreeland.com |date=December 2, 2011 |access-date=August 14, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120313135210/http://blog.chrisfreeland.com/2011/12/boincing-angry-birds-for-bhl.html |archive-date=March 13, 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref> SciLINC went online on March 22, 2007 and sent out its first workunits on March 29, 2007.<ref name="oldnews">{{cite web |url=http://www.scilinc.org/old_news.php |title=SciLINC: News archive |first=Ron |last=Parker |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden |date=June 19, 2007 |access-date=August 14, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071223012202/http://www.scilinc.org/old_news.php |archive-date=December 23, 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> It was a pioneering effort, presented by its creators as the first attempt to apply public-resource computing within the library community.<ref name="botanicus"/>

Because text indexing demands very little computing per unit of data, the public phase of the project was brief: the available work was processed within days, and in June 2007 the team announced that all remaining SciLINC computation would be performed on the Garden's own servers.<ref name="june22">{{cite web |url=http://www.scilinc.org/ |title=SciLINC: SciLINC Update |first=Ron |last=Parker |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden |date=June 22, 2007 |access-date=August 14, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071023063008/http://www.scilinc.org/ |archive-date=October 23, 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Statistics sites such as [[BOINCstats]] froze their SciLINC data on July 24, 2007, recording 150 registered users, 217 hosts and 2,093 total credits.<ref name="boincstats">{{cite web |url=https://boincstats.com/stats/project_graph.php?pr=scilinc |title=BOINCstats: SciLINC, Credit overview |publisher=BOINCstats |access-date=August 14, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111012020502/http://boincstats.com/stats/project_graph.php?pr=scilinc |archive-date=October 12, 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The project website remained online through 2009 and later went offline.<ref name="oldnews"/> Although short lived, SciLINC influenced later biodiversity informatics work, most notably the TaxonFinder name-finding service adopted by the Biodiversity Heritage Library.<ref name="freeland2011"/><ref name="idealstnr">{{cite web |url=https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/9140 |title=Taxonomic Name Recognition in Biodiversity Heritage Library |first1=Qin |last1=Wei |first2=Chris |last2=Freeland |first3=P. Bryan |last3=Heidorn |publisher=University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IDEALS |date=October 17, 2008 |access-date=August 14, 2026}}</ref>

== Background and goals ==

The Missouri Botanical Garden, founded in 1859, is one of the oldest botanical institutions in the United States and maintains a major research library of rare botanical literature.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_Botanical_Garden |title=Missouri Botanical Garden |publisher=Wikipedia |access-date=August 14, 2026}}</ref> Much of that literature is scarce or unique, and scientists have traditionally travelled to St. Louis to consult it. To make the collection widely available, the Garden digitizes books and journals through its Botanicus digital library, and in October 2005 it received a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), a United States federal agency, to build SciLINC as a three-year project.<ref name="botanicus"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chrisfreeland.com/Freeland_CV.pdf |title=Christopher David Freeland: Curriculum Vitae |publisher=ChrisFreeland.com |access-date=August 14, 2026}}</ref> Chris Freeland was the project's listed contact at the Garden, and Ron Parker wrote the project's news pages and development blog.<ref name="botanicus"/><ref name="june22"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://scilincdev.blogspot.com/2006/10/boinc.html |title=SciLINC, Scientific Literature Indexing on Networked Computers |first=Ron |last=Parker |work=SciLINC Dev |date=October 3, 2006 |access-date=August 14, 2026}}</ref>

The project description on Botanicus set out four primary goals:<ref name="botanicus"/>

# Increase public access to nationally significant scientific literature held by the Missouri Botanical Garden Library.
# Enhance the usefulness of the digitized materials by creating a web repository of scanned literature, keywords and online resources with tools for searching and analysis.
# Create an educational tool for learning about plant life: while indexing keywords, the participant's computer would display information about each plant name being processed, including descriptive data, images, maps and annotated links.
# Provide a model for adopting public-resource computing applications within the library community, where such applications "have been successfully employed in research and museum communities" but "so far have not been applied within libraries".

The keywords identified by SciLINC were to be derived from the Garden's botanical databases and would include plant names, place names, authors and other phrases of interest to people studying plants, each annotated with links to related online resources.<ref name="botanicus"/>

[[File:Climatron, Missouri Botanical Gardens.jpg|thumb|The Climatron conservatory at the Missouri Botanical Garden, which developed and operated SciLINC.]]

== Design and operation ==

SciLINC used [[BOINC]], the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing, the open-source volunteer computing platform developed at the University of California, Berkeley, which also powers projects such as [[SETI@home]] and [[World Community Grid]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/ |title=BOINC: Open-source software for volunteer computing |publisher=University of California, Berkeley |access-date=August 14, 2026}}</ref> The project packaged OCR text of scanned botanical pages into workunits and sent them, along with a name-finding algorithm, to volunteers' computers, which then reported back the locations of scientific names and index terms found in the text.<ref name="freeland2011"/> Participants joined by installing the BOINC client and attaching to the project URL <code>http://www.scilinc.org/SciLINC/</code>.<ref name="june22"/>

The volunteer application was named TaxonGrab. As listed on the project's applications page, version 1.39 ran on Microsoft Windows 98 or later on Intel x86-compatible processors, while the first results reported on March 29, 2007 were produced by a Linux version.<ref name="oldnews"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.scilinc.org/apps.php |title=SciLINC: Applications |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden |date=June 27, 2007 |access-date=August 14, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070627230850/http://www.scilinc.org/apps.php |archive-date=June 27, 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Participants operated under standard BOINC rules and policies: the software had to be run only on authorized computers, volunteers could control how much CPU power, disk space and bandwidth SciLINC used, and account names, along with a summary of each computer's work, could be shown on the project website.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.scilinc.org/info.php |title=SciLINC: Read our rules and policies |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden |access-date=August 14, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071023063008/http://www.scilinc.org/info.php |archive-date=October 23, 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Volunteers earned BOINC credit for completed work, though the team later acknowledged that "a relatively small amount of credit" was earned for "a comparatively large load" on participants' systems.<ref name="june22"/>

During 2006, Parker documented development on the SciLINC Dev blog, covering topics such as installing the BOINC server software on CentOS and Fedora Core Linux, running the server under Xen virtualization, and a summary of a BOINC community conference question and answer session with BOINC founder David P. Anderson and SETI@home scientist Eric Korpela.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://scilincdev.blogspot.com/2006/11/linux-boinc-server-centos-4.html |title=Linux BOINC Server CentOS-4 Installation |first=Ron |last=Parker |work=SciLINC Dev |date=November 19, 2006 |access-date=August 14, 2026}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://scilincdev.blogspot.com/2006/12/boinc-conference-summary.html |title=BOINC Conference Summary |first=Ron |last=Parker |work=SciLINC Dev |date=December 19, 2006 |access-date=August 14, 2026}}</ref> The blog also recorded the project's design philosophy, borrowed from the BOINC literature: to make efficient use of public-resource computing, the compute time of the client must be relatively large compared to the data-transfer time required, that is

<math>t_{\text{compute}} \gg t_{\text{transfer}}</math>

== History ==

SciLINC went online on March 22, 2007, with the project team expecting to "be processing work within a few days".<ref name="oldnews"/> On March 29, 2007 the server sent out its first set of workunits and received its first results, running on Linux, with a Windows version announced as coming shortly.<ref name="oldnews"/> The project had originally operated on the Garden's internal network, and on May 14, 2007 the server was moved to the public Internet at www.scilinc.org; a server outage followed a few days later, and the recovery process, which involved changing the BOINC server's name, was documented on the development blog.<ref name="oldnews"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://scilincdev.blogspot.com/2007/05/problems-changing-boinc-servers-name.html |title=Problems changing a BOINC server's name |first=Ron |last=Parker |work=SciLINC Dev |date=May 21, 2007 |access-date=August 14, 2026}}</ref>

On June 1, 2007 the project announced that results from SciLINC were being passed to Botanicus.<ref name="oldnews"/> In mid June the project hit a series of setbacks: on June 15 the process that gathered work for SciLINC "filled the drive with everything it could find in the vaults" (images, PDFs and more); on June 16 an electrical transient in the building housing the server corrupted the MySQL database, including the SciLINC results table; and on June 18 new account creation was temporarily disabled.<ref name="oldnews"/> Around the same time, volunteers on the BOINCstats and BOINC forums reported that the roughly 50 files served per workunit were causing high CPU load in the core BOINC client.<ref name="oldnews"/> On June 19 the team restored the database but disabled the sending of new workunits, warning that pending results might never receive credit.<ref name="oldnews"/>

The decisive announcement came on June 22, 2007 in a news item titled "SciLINC Update". The team reported that goals 1, 2 and 4 had been met (Botanicus was processing SciLINC's output, and the project had demonstrated the library use of public-resource computing), but that "the workunits fly by so rapidly" that the educational screensaver of goal 3 had never become realistic. It also noted that the BOINC community had discovered the project before the team was ready to announce it. The update concluded that "for now all SciLINC computation will be performed internally", with hopes of returning to volunteers with more computationally intensive analyses and "a better credit-reward ratio (and nicer screensaver)".<ref name="june22"/> Internal testing continued at the end of June, with the scheduler briefly unavailable to Internet users on June 27, 2007.<ref name="june22"/>

Public participation wound down quickly after that. BOINCstats, which had last imported SciLINC's statistics on July 24, 2007, later labelled the project "no longer active" with its statistics "frozen on the day of the last update".<ref name="boincstats"/> The website, still bearing the June 2007 news, remained online through 2009, and was gone by the late 2010s.<ref name="oldnews"/>

== Data economics and the end of public computing ==

The June 22, 2007 update explained in unusual detail why text indexing was a poor fit for volunteer computing. The team calculated that SciLINC would have needed to transfer roughly 250 MiB of compressed data to occupy a modern CPU for one day; this would expand to nearly 660 MiB of input data, and the client would then upload about 44 MiB of results, which would compress to 17 MiB. The input data therefore expanded by a factor of

<math>660/250 = 2.64</math>

while the results compressed by a similar factor,

<math>44/17 \approx 2.59</math>

These numbers, the team said, "have only grown as SciLINC has been improved and made more efficient", and they were "not acceptable to the average BOINC user". The project lead's working rule, stated in the same update, was that from a technological and economic standpoint it makes sense to use public-resource computing in place of an internal grid architecture whenever less than a gigabyte of data is required per CPU-day of computation, that is

<math>D < 1\ \text{GiB per CPU-day}</math>

For a volunteer on dial-up giving SciLINC just 1% of their BOINC time, the daily computation would last

<math>0.01 \times 24 \times 60 = 14.4</math>

minutes, about 15 minutes, during which roughly 2.5 MiB would have to be downloaded; the team observed that for dial-up users "the transfer time would exceed the computation time". Even setting transfer concerns aside, the Garden simply did not have enough text to "realistically occupy hundred or thousands of BOINC enthusiasts for a lengthy period of time", and the work itself, "text-indexing and taxonomic analysis", had "a relatively low mathematical complexity". Freeland later summarized the experience: "we ran out of jobs in about 2 days because text indexing isn't processor intensive; the best BOINC projects take small inputs that require lots of computing resources."<ref name="june22"/><ref name="freeland2011"/>

== Project statistics ==

The following figures are the final values recorded by BOINCstats before the project's statistics were frozen on July 24, 2007:<ref name="boincstats"/>

{| class="wikitable"
|+ SciLINC statistics at BOINCstats (frozen)
! Metric !! Value
|-
| Total users || 150
|-
| Active users || 0
|-
| Total hosts || 217
|-
| Active hosts || 0
|-
| Teams || 35
|-
| Countries || 23
|-
| Total credit || 2,093
|-
| Recent average credit || 0
|-
| Average performance || 0.0 GigaFLOPS
|}

== Results and legacy ==

SciLINC's principal scientific output was the indexing of digitized botanical literature that fed the Garden's Botanicus portal, where full text searching and name-based discovery were integrated beginning in June 2007.<ref name="oldnews"/> By December 2008 Botanicus reported 577 titles (books and journals), 2,548 volumes and 1,079,660 pages online, along with 184,750 links to protologues (original species descriptions).<ref name="botanicus"/>

The project's longest lasting influence was methodological. Freeland wrote that SciLINC preceded the team's work on TaxonFinder, the algorithm and service, provided by uBio, that the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) incorporated into its portal to identify and verify taxonomic name strings across its digitized corpus.<ref name="freeland2011"/><ref name="idealstnr"/> The experience also taught the team how jobs are packaged for distribution to volunteers "and the kinds of inputs and outputs that are successful in an asynchronous computing environment", a lesson Freeland later applied to proposals for "purposeful gaming" for the BHL, where human spare cycles, rather than CPU cycles, would improve digitized library metadata.<ref name="freeland2011"/> That idea grew into BHL's Purposeful Gaming project, funded by IMLS and run by the Garden's Center for Biodiversity Informatics from 2013 to 2015.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://about.biodiversitylibrary.org/projects/past-projects/purposeful-gaming/ |title=Purposeful Gaming |publisher=Biodiversity Heritage Library |access-date=August 14, 2026}}</ref> The team's lessons were collected in the unpublished IMLS final report, "SciLINC Final Report", with an appendix, linked from Freeland's 2011 blog post.<ref name="freeland2011"/>

[[File:Curtis's botanical magazine (Plate 3709) (8386433065).jpg|thumb|upright=0.75|A hand coloured plate from ''Curtis's Botanical Magazine'', typical of the historical botanical literature that Botanicus digitizes and that SciLINC indexed.]]

== Related publications ==

SciLINC itself did not publish scientific papers; its findings were reported to the funding agency and in blog posts. The techniques and systems it demonstrated appear in the following works. The first describes TaxonGrab, a rule-based technique for extracting taxonomic names from text; SciLINC's Windows volunteer application carried the same name.

* {{cite journal |last1=Koning |first1=Drew |last2=Sarkar |first2=Indra Neil |last3=Moritz |first3=Thomas |year=2005 |title=TaxonGrab: Extracting taxonomic names from text |journal=Biodiversity Informatics |volume=2 |pages=79-82 |doi=10.17161/bi.v2i0.17}}
* {{cite web |url=http://precedings.nature.com/documents/3372/version/1 |title=An evaluation of taxonomic name finding & next steps in Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) developments |first=Chris |last=Freeland |publisher=Nature Precedings |year=2009 |access-date=August 14, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090723202516/http://precedings.nature.com/documents/3372/version/1 |archive-date=July 23, 2009 |url-status=dead}}
* {{cite web |url=https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/9140 |title=Taxonomic Name Recognition in Biodiversity Heritage Library |first1=Qin |last1=Wei |first2=Chris |last2=Freeland |first3=P. Bryan |last3=Heidorn |publisher=University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IDEALS |date=October 17, 2008 |access-date=August 14, 2026}}
* {{cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/41492665 |title=Name Matters: Taxonomic Name Recognition (TNR) in Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) |first1=Qin |last1=Wei |first2=P. Bryan |last2=Heidorn |first3=Chris |last3=Freeland |publisher=ResearchGate |date=February 2010 |access-date=August 14, 2026}}
* {{cite web |url=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/grid_paper_04.pdf |title=BOINC: A System for Public-Resource Computing and Storage |first=David P. |last=Anderson |work=5th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing |date=November 8, 2004 |access-date=August 14, 2026}}

The Anderson paper is included because it was the description of BOINC recommended by the SciLINC development blog as background reading for the project.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://scilincdev.blogspot.com/2006/10/boinc.html |title=SciLINC, Scientific Literature Indexing on Networked Computers |first=Ron |last=Parker |work=SciLINC Dev |date=October 3, 2006 |access-date=August 14, 2026}}</ref>

== See also ==

* [[BOINC]]
* [[BOINC Manager]]
* [[BOINCstats]]
* [[SETI@home]]
* [[World Community Grid]]

== References ==

{{Reflist}}

== External links ==

* [http://www.botanicus.org/Scilinc.aspx SciLINC project description] at Botanicus.org
* [https://scilincdev.blogspot.com/ SciLINC Dev] development blog by Ron Parker
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071023063008/http://www.scilinc.org/ SciLINC website] at the Wayback Machine
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20111012020502/http://boincstats.com/stats/project_graph.php?pr=scilinc SciLINC statistics] at BOINCstats via the Wayback Machine

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