Volunteer Contributions
Rosetta@home depends on computing power donated by individual project members for its research. As of October 18, 2011, about 40,000 users from 150 countries were active members of Rosetta@home, together contributing idle processor time from about 60,000 computers for a combined average performance of over 62 teraFLOPS.
Users are granted BOINC credits as a measure of their contribution. The credit granted for each workunit is the number of decoys produced for that workunit multiplied by the average claimed credit for the decoys submitted by all computer hosts for that workunit. This custom system was designed to address significant differences between credit granted to users with the standard BOINC client and an optimized BOINC client, and credit differences between users running Rosetta@home on Windows and Linux operating systems. The amount of credit granted per second of CPU work is lower for Rosetta@home than most other BOINC projects. Despite this disadvantage to BOINC users competing for rank, Rosetta@home is fifth out of over 40 BOINC projects in terms of total credit.
Rosetta@home users who predict protein structures submitted for the CASP experiment are acknowledged in scientific publications regarding their results. Users who predict the lowest energy structure for a given workunit are featured on the Rosetta@home homepage as 'Predictor of the Day', along with any team of which they are a member. A 'User of the Day' is chosen at random each day to be on the homepage as well from users who have made a Rosetta@home profile.
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