Yoyo@home

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Yoyo@home is a volunteer distributed computing project that uses BOINC and needs your help to bring existing volunteer computing projects to the BOINC world using the BOINC Wrapper technology.

MediaWiki page

https://www.rechenkraft.net/wiki/Yoyo@home

Why Yoyo@home?

• why this topic/object of study?

Goal

• summarize the objectives and challenges which the project addresses, before jumping into details

Methods

• always including "why BOINC"?

• Evolution@Home screensaver

  Evolution@Home screensaver

• impactful final statement

Project team / Sponsors

yoyo, project admin. Rebirther, graphics and logos. scsimodo, compiling and testing the Mac version. Cody, enhancements and testing for the Windows version. Dotsch, compiling and testing on Linux 64, Solaris, PS3, FreeBSD, AIX. Alderan, development of openGL screensaver.

Scientific results

• external links

Scientific publications

Yoyo@home (Evolution@home)

1. Waxman, D. and L. Loewe. A stochastic model for a single click of Muller's ratchet. Journal of Theoretical Biology (2010). DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.03.014.
2. Loewe, Laurence and Asher D Cutter. On the potential for extinction by Muller's Ratchet in Caenorhabditis elegans. BMC Evolutionary Biology (2008). DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-125.
3. Loewe, Laurence and Dunja K Lamatsch. Quantifying the threat of extinction from Muller's ratchet in the diploid Amazon molly (Poecilia formosa). BMC Evolutionary Biology (2008). DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-88.
4. Loewe, Laurence. Evolution@home: observations on participant choice, work unit variation and low-effort global computing. Software: Practice and Experience (2007). DOI: 10.1002/spe.806.
5. Loewe, Laurence. Quantifying the genomic decay paradox due to Muller's ratchet in human mitochondrial DNA. Genetical Research (2006). DOI: 10.1017/S0016672306008123.
6. Loewe, Laurence. Evolution@home: Global computing quantifies evolution due to Muller's ratchet. BMC Bioinformatics (2005). DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-6-S3-P18.

Yoyo@home (Harmonious Trees)

1. Fang, Wenjie and Uwe Beckert. Parallel Tree Search in Volunteer Computing: a Case Study. Journal of Grid Computing (2018). DOI: 10.1007/s10723-017-9411-5.

Yoyo@home (Muon)

1. Brooks, S. Muon capture schemes for the neutrino factory. (2010).

Yoyo@home (ORG)

1. Gerbicz, Robert, Jean-Charles Meyrignac and Uwe Beckert. All solutions of the Diophantine equation a^6+b^6=c^6+d^6+e^6+f^6+g^6 for a,b,c,d,e,f,g < 250000 found with a distributed Boinc project. (2011). DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.1108.0462.