I have to say that this is one of the greatest ideas I've ever heard. The best of lucks with it!
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 7:09 AM, Raphael André Bauer < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Web Toolkit" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-web-toolkit%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > > -- Guit: Elegant, beautiful, modular and *production ready* gwt applications. http://code.google.com/p/guit/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
