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 either 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 18,878,687 17,454,823 10,197,508 76,986,961 41,550,338 34,397,712 1,712,576 1,655,769 1,547,900
  • 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]
gollark: TOML is kind of like INI with an actual standard and some nice features, so I'd recommend using that if you have the option.
gollark: Modern video codecs are really impressive.
gollark: It's the Shrek movie, in very bad but viewable quality, small enough to upload to Discord.
gollark: https://www.reddit.com/r/AV1/comments/hb039t/8mib_shrek_is_back/Insanity but also very cool.
gollark: I read that it couldn't actually be unambiguously parsed because parsing some construct required solving the halting problem because the syntax is different depending on some information or other only available at runtime.

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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