What is net@home?
net@home is a scientific experiment that uses internet-connected computers to run distributed network calculations for very large networks. You can participate by running a free screensaver tool that downloads and analyzes networks. Running the tool as a screensaver allows to use your unutilized computer time. And, because it's a screensaver you'll also see some pretty pictures from the www.visualcomplexity.com projekt.
What's that in aid of?
What are the next steps?
How to participate?
If you have any problems when installing net@home screensaver (maybe you don't have the privilege) it's also possible ...
If you are using any other operating system:
Attention!
Last modified: 2009-03-01 by Jürgen Pfeffer
Have you ever tried to calculate betweenness-centrality for a network with 500,000 nodes? A lot of important network measures need pretty much time for calculation for larger networks. But the good news is: For a lot of these measures it's possible to portion the calculation to different computers. This is the intent of net@home - solving huge network calculations with many computers.
This beta version of the tool is the first stage of the development. Please send
me your comments. The first outcomes of this experiment will be presented at the Viszards-Session at Sunbelt in San Diego in March 2009. In the future maybe it's possible that everyone can distribute her/his huge network calculation problems around the globe.
If you are using a Windows system follow these steps:
1. Click net@home-install.exe and install
2. Select net@home as your screensaver
Sorry, the first version is just for Windows
You have to know that net@home can cause some internet traffic. So, if you have very short traffic capacity or you pay your internet connection per traffic don't load this tool.