The Scottish Boinc Team

Back with us and crunching like a good un. They actually have a proper boinc application this time around. No longer just a test project. Details are below.

application description

This application was developed in collaboration between Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (prof. Raimondas Čiegis, dr. Vadimas Starikovičius) and Kaunas University of Technology (prof. Minvydas Ragulskis, dr. Rita Palivonaitė). Our colleagues from KTU are developing methods of chaotic dynamic visual cryptography and image hiding techniques based on moiré interference effects.

See summaries of doctoral dissertations ([1], [2]) for more information on that research.

This distributed computing application presents an attempt to employ more significant computational resources in their scientific research.

Current version of application is not using replication. Application-specific validation is done for single job results

and we are ramping up the computing power.

Dear VGTU@Home users,

We start solving the new problem. The problem size has been increased. First problem of our new dynamic visual cryptography application was essentially solved in one week. We have reached the speed of 625 GigaFLOPS. Using 4 nodes of our computer cluster http://vilkas.vgtu.lt/ganglia, the same problem would be solved in around 180 days.

At this point, we would like to thank our users for not abandoning the project and active participation, especially our top users, who currently make a major contribution to the project! Our current top contributor is Ralfy from the BOINC Synergy team, which also our current top team.

Our problem is a global optimization problem from the mathematical point of view. So, we will always have a user, who will be lucky to find the optimal solution. This time the lucky workunit was solved by Bazooka_CZ from the Czech National Team. Congratulations!

We use this opportunity to wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

With best regards,
The Project Team.

Pity it's not listed on Formula Boinc.