Evolution@Home

{{Short description|2001 volunteer computing project}}

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evolution@home was a volunteer computing project for evolutionary biology, launched in 2001.{{cite book |last1=Loewe |first1=L. |title=2nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGRID'02) |chapter=Evolution@home: Experiences with Work Units That Span More than 7 Orders of Magnitude in Computational Complexity |date=2002 |pages=425 |doi=10.1109/CCGRID.2002.1017176|isbn=0-7695-1582-7 |s2cid=16652927 }}{{cite journal |last1=Loewe |first1=Laurence |title=Evolution@home: observations on participant choice, work unit variation and low-effort global computing |journal=Software: Practice and Experience |date=October 2007 |volume=37 |issue=12 |pages=1289–1318 |doi=10.1002/spe.806|s2cid=5143213 }} The aim of evolution@home is to improve understanding of evolutionary processes. This is achieved by simulating individual-based models. The Simulator005 module of evolution@home was designed to better predict the behaviour of Muller's ratchet.{{cite journal |last1=Loewe |first1=Laurence |title=Evolution@home: Global computing quantifies evolution due to Muller's ratchet |journal=BMC Bioinformatics |date=2005 |volume=6 |issue=Suppl 3 |pages=P18 |doi=10.1186/1471-2105-6-S3-P18|doi-access=free }}

The project was operated semi-automatically; participants had to manually download tasks from the webpage and submit results by email using this method of operation. yoyo@home used a BOINC wrapper to completely automate this project by automatically distributing tasks and collecting their results. Therefore, the BOINC version was a complete volunteer computing project. yoyo@home has declared its involvement in this project finished.{{cite web |title=yoyo@home |url=https://www.rechenkraft.net/yoyo/ |website=www.rechenkraft.net |access-date=25 April 2021 |archive-date=20 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420004440/https://www.rechenkraft.net/yoyo/ |url-status=live }}