Evolution@Home

Evolution@Home

Evolution@Home is the firstFact|date=March 2007 parallel computing project for evolutionary biology. The aim of Evolution@Home is to improve understanding of evolutionary processes. This is achieved by simulating individual-based models. The first such model targets the accumulation of mutations in asexual populations and is implemented in Simulator005. The software of Evolution@Home is not the first to simulate this, but previous simulations were hampered by lack of memory (needed for looking at large populations) and lack of computing power (needed for observing long-term evolution and many different parameter combinations). The possibility of parallel computing has allowed Evolution@Home to move the realism of simulated parameter combinations significantly towards observed reality.

Currently the project is operated semi-automatically, which means that a participant has to manually download tasks from the webpage and submit results by email. Development of a fully automated version is under wayFact|date=March 2007, but has repeatedly been delayed for a number of reasons. A network connecting the individual systems is required to be truly classified under "distributed computing"

ee also

*Artificial life
*Digital organism
*Evolutionary computation
*Folding@home
*List of distributed computing projects

External links

* [http://www.evolutionary-research.net/ Project Info Page]


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