DENIS@home is a
volunteer computing
Volunteer computing is a type of distributed computing in which people donate their computers' unused resources to a research-oriented project, and sometimes in exchange for credit points. The fundamental idea behind it is that a modern desktop co ...
project hosted by
Universidad San Jorge (
Zaragoza
Zaragoza, also known in English as Saragossa,''Encyclopædia Britannica'"Zaragoza (conventional Saragossa)" is the capital city of the Zaragoza Province and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It lies by the Ebro river and its tributari ...
,Spain) and running on the
Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) software platform.
The primary goal of DENIS@home is to compute large amounts of
cardiac electrophysiological simulations.
Development
DENIS@home was initially released on March 20, 2015.
Since then, it has been developed by a team of three people aided by four undergraduate students. All members of the development team are a part of the
Biomedical Signal Interpretation and Computational Simulation research group.
See also
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List of volunteer computing projects
This is a comprehensive list of volunteer computing projects; a type of distributed computing where volunteers donate computing time to specific causes. The donated computing power comes from idle CPUs and GPUs in personal computers, video game co ...
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