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Retired BOINC Projects => MALARIA CONTROL.net => Topic started by: Cruncher Pete on May 18, 2009, 11:57:25 AM

Title: Project Overview
Post by: Cruncher Pete on May 18, 2009, 11:57:25 AM
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Project Summary
Simulation models of the transmission dynamics and health effects of malaria are an important tool for malaria control. They can be used to determine optimal strategies for delivering mosquito nets, chemotherapy, or new vaccines which are currently under development and testing.

Such modeling is extremely computer intensive, requiring simulations of large human populations with a diverse set of parameters related to biological and social factors that influence the distribution of the disease.

The Swiss Tropical Institute has developed a computer model for malaria epidemiology and harnessed its in-house PC capacity, about 40 machines, to do preliminary studies. But far more computing power is required to validate such models and to adequately simulate the full range of interventions and transmission patterns relevant for malaria control in Africa.

This is why MalariaControl.net has been created - to harness the volunteer computing power of thousands of people around the world, to help improve the ability of researchers to predict, and hence control, the spread of malaria in Africa.

Based on prior experience, it is expected that the MalariaControl.net application will complete in a few months - using thousands of volunteer PCs - a volume of computing that would normally take up to 40 years to complete on the computing power otherwise available to the scientists who developed the application.

Also based on prior experience, most of this volunteer computing power will come from the developed world - North America and Europe in particular. However, it is a main objective of AFRICA@home to involve African Universities and institutions in developing and running the applications that will run on the volunteer computers

Applications
The following applications are supported:

Microsoft Windows X86  (32bit)
Linux X86                      (32bit)
Linux X86_64                (64bit)
Mac OS X

Connecting to Malariacontrol.net
The project's Home Page is at: http://www.malariacontrol.net/ (http://www.malariacontrol.net/)
Malariacontrol.net is also listed in the various Boinc Account Managers and you can join this project through them directly.

Statistics
View our Team Members List and their current score here (http://www.malariacontrol.net/team_members.php?teamid=68&offset=0&sort_by=expavg_credit)
View BOINCStats detailed stats for our Malariacontrol.net Team here (http://boincstats.com/stats/team_graph.php?pr=mcp&id=68)