[Cdd-commits] r1323 - projects/science/trunk/debian-science/tasks

[CDD Subversion Commit]

Author: tille
Date: Fri Jan 23 07:13:22 2009
New Revision: 1323

Modified:
   projects/science/trunk/debian-science/tasks/astronomy
Log:
Added boinc-app-milkyway


Modified: projects/science/trunk/debian-science/tasks/astronomy
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--- projects/science/trunk/debian-science/tasks/astronomy	(original)
+++ projects/science/trunk/debian-science/tasks/astronomy	Fri Jan 23 07:13:22 2009
@@ -139,3 +139,23 @@
  available under the GNU General Public License (GPL), and can be 
  implemented on OpenVMS and UNIX (Linux) systems.
 
+Depends: boinc-app-milkyway
+Homepage: http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/
+License: GPLv3
+WNPP: 512705
+Responsible: Thibaut VARENE <varenet at debian.org>
+Pkg-Description: Help discover structures in the MilkyWay Galaxy
+ The goal of Milkyway at 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 at 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.