MindModeling@Home

MindModeling@Home is a non-profit, volunteer-based research project for the advancement of cognitive science. MindModeling@Home is hosted by Wright State University and the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio.

MindModeling@Home
Initial releaseMarch 17, 2007 (2007-03-17)
Development statusActive
Operating systemCross-platform
PlatformBOINC
Average performance1,800 GFLOPS,[1]
Active users1,900
Total users8,600
Active hosts2,800
Total hosts24,500
Websitemindmodeling.org

In BOINC, it is in the area of "Cognitive Science" and category called "Cognitive science and artificial intelligence".[2] It can only operate on a 64-bit operating system, preferably on a computer with multiple cores, running a Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux operating system. This project is not compatible with mobile devices, unlike other projects on BOINC.

Research focus
  • N-2 Repetition: understanding how people have a harder time returning to a task from another one
  • Observing how people read through their eye movement for the purpose of helping people reduce eye strain and processing what they read better and faster.
  • Modeling decision-making: resolving around decisions made from visual processing (focus and filtering)
  • Integrated Learning Models (ILM) to create algorithms based on how people learn and make decisions
  • How the brain performs tasks sequentially and simultaneously by measuring its blood flow[3]

Participants
  • Jack Harris – Project administrator, developer, and scientist
  • Tom Mielke – Inactive, volunteer, moderator
  • Brandon Nolan – Volunteer, project administrator, developer, and tester
Top three participants (as of July 12, 2019)
Group Name Total credits Source
Participants cvsrEngineer

Mumps [MM]

tempo666

 18,878,687

17,454,823

10,197,508

[4]
Teams Gridcoin

L'Alliance Francophone

SETI.USA

 76,986,961

41,550,338

34,397,712

[5]
Hosts [SG-FC] oki

Anonymous

Anonymous

 1,712,576

1,655,769

1,547,900

 [6]

Problems
  • Its status is inactive.[7] However, it is "not down or closed,"[8] as its servers are still running.[9]
  • The projects are long; prolonged amounts of computing time can overheat a computer. The solution is to stop work on the project until the computer cools down.[10]
  • It is subject to power outages, as seen on October 7, 2018[11]
  • When the website will be out of beta mode is unresolved, as it has been going like this since 2007[12]

See also

References
  1. de Zutter W. "MindModeling@Home: Credit overview". boincstats.com. Retrieved 2014-01-21.
  2. "Choosing BOINC projects". boinc.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2019-07-13.
  3. "Projects Overview". mindmodeling.org. Retrieved 2019-07-13.
  4. "Top participants". mindmodeling.org. Retrieved 2019-07-13.
  5. "Top teams". mindmodeling.org. Retrieved 2019-07-13.
  6. "Top hosts". mindmodeling.org. Retrieved 2019-07-13.
  7. "MindModeling@Home - BOINC". boinc.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2019-07-13.
  8. "Hails and Farewells". mindmodeling.org. Retrieved 2019-07-13.
  9. "Project status". mindmodeling.org. Retrieved 2019-07-13.
  10. "Read our rules and policies". mindmodeling.org. Retrieved 2019-07-13.
  11. "MindModeling@Home (Beta)". mindmodeling.org. Retrieved 2019-07-13.
  12. "When will mindmodeling@home be out of beta". mindmodeling.org. Retrieved 2019-07-13.


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