Milkyway@Home – Help Discover the Structures in the Milky Way Galaxy
http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/

The goal of Milkyway@Home is to use the BOINC platform to harness volunteered computing resources in creating a highly accurate three dimensional model of the Milky Way galaxy using data gathered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. This project enables research in both astroinformatics and computer science. In computer science, the project is investigating different optimization methods which are resilient to the fault-prone, heterogeneous and asynchronous nature of Internet computing; such as evolutionary and genetic algorithms, as well as asynchronous newton methods. While in astroinformatics, Milkyway@Home is generating highly accurate three dimensional models of the Sagittarius stream, which provides knowledge about how the Milky Way galaxy was formed and how tidal tails are created when galaxies merge. MilkyWay@Home is a joint effort between Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s departments of Computer Science and Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy. This has been added to Astronomy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Grid, Distributed and Cloud Computing Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.