Hi, OUR IDEA: We want to make web browsers and their javascript engines to act as part of the largest computing grid of the world. If you think of projects like fold...@home or s...@home you know what we are talking about. But our approach is much simpler and way more powerful: Go to a website and you are participating in a huge grid - computing interesting (scientific) stuff. No software installation required.
CURRENT STATUS: We are bioinformaticians from Berlin and San Diego. Naturally we are using scientific tasks from the field. Our first success was to crosscompile a package called biojava (biojava.org) into javascript using Google Web Toolkit. We are now able to calculate protein sequence alignments on the client side. The tasks are distributed by the server. Check out our live demo at: http://js-cloud-computing.appspot.com/. First results and detailed information can be found under: http://code.google.com/p/js-cloud-computing/ WHERE TO GO FROM HERE: First of all this mail is a simple fyi. We would be very happy to get in touch with people which are interested (check out our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/js-cloud-computing-dev). Feedback is great - and of course our source code is freely available at google code ( http://code.google.com/p/js-cloud-computing/source/browse/). The next steps in this project will include the cross-compilation of the structure-package of the biojava package. using GWT. The idea is to align proteins in 3D space on the javascript client side :) We are looking forward hearing from you - and sorry for crosspostings :) Cheers, JSCC Core Team Nico, Güttler, Marcus Schroeder, Raphael Bauer, Andreas Prlić _______________________________________________ Biojava-l mailing list - [email protected] http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l
