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I henceforth announce that we will run the "World CEP2 Challenge" from 6 october 2013 @ 0:00 UTC until 14 october 2013 @ 0:00 UTC, more or less in paralel to the World Solar Challenge 2013, which is by the way not officially affiliated with TPU, The Clean Energy Project nor the World Community Grid.
Further info related to the World CEP2 Challenge
The CEP2 Challenge will be be a CEP2 runtime challenge, to have a small break from the "points" challenges TPU usually participates in. We will assist science to develp the solar cells of the future. Photovoltaic cells made from materials abundantly available to us, Earthlings, that are at least as good at genereting electricity as the current silicon based stuff but is way cheaper to produce. This should make "solar power" within reach of much more people, and hopefully also take away some of the environmental impact of the production procedure of solar cells.
There will be two different prize pools in this challenge; one will be team prizes and one will be internal prizes. TPU is being excluded from the team prizes for diplomatic reasons.
Team prizes:
I will add a small PP donation of €10 for a lucky draw among the lower 50% of the participating teams, as long as they have a runtime of at least 1 day during the challenge. I will leave it up to their respective captains to decide how to divide the money within their team.
The top 50% will be able to win a small PP donation of mine as well, a slightly bigger one than the aforementioned (€15). Once again, I will leave it up to their respective captains to decide how to divide the money within their team.
Summarised: I will exclude TPU from this draw, because we are having a prize draw of our own. I will add €15 and €10 to the prize pot for the top ranks resp. lower ranks draws. If anyone else want to contribute to the "team prizes", let me know.
Internal prizes:
We will use the different prize requirements for the TPU prize draws compared for the Team prizes. With other words, the minimum is 1000 BOINC credits for the duration of the challenge (based on stats provided by Free-DC and BoincStats). This is because there is no way to track individual crunchers' runtime (only team runtime).
The internal prizes will be:
- $25 Paypal gift - provided by Norton
- Windows 7 Pro key (x2) - provided by [Ion]
- Windows 7 Pro key - provided by Bow
- CM Sentinel Advanced 2 (mouse)
--US: free shipping
--Canada/Mexico: winner pays 1/2 shipping
Useful links:
About the World Community Grid
About The CleanEnergy Project
About the BOINC software
How To: Getting BOINC setup for WCG
Want to run 100% CEP2 WUs? Here's how...
World CEP2 Challenge Link
Link to thread over at the WCG Forums
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Further info related to the World CEP2 Challenge
The CEP2 Challenge will be be a CEP2 runtime challenge, to have a small break from the "points" challenges TPU usually participates in. We will assist science to develp the solar cells of the future. Photovoltaic cells made from materials abundantly available to us, Earthlings, that are at least as good at genereting electricity as the current silicon based stuff but is way cheaper to produce. This should make "solar power" within reach of much more people, and hopefully also take away some of the environmental impact of the production procedure of solar cells.
Extra info for my dear fellow TPU crunchers said:It will be a CEP2 runtime challenge, but team members, existing, new, or returning, should be given the option to either run All Projects or CEP2 exclusively. We have seen several discussions going on that address various means of handling more CEP2 work as well as some of the difficulties in doing so. All of these tips (or links) can be found in the OP for the challenge thread.
New/returning members contributing in either format will also enhance our challenge and our WCG performance.
There will be two different prize pools in this challenge; one will be team prizes and one will be internal prizes. TPU is being excluded from the team prizes for diplomatic reasons.
Team prizes:
I will add a small PP donation of €10 for a lucky draw among the lower 50% of the participating teams, as long as they have a runtime of at least 1 day during the challenge. I will leave it up to their respective captains to decide how to divide the money within their team.
The top 50% will be able to win a small PP donation of mine as well, a slightly bigger one than the aforementioned (€15). Once again, I will leave it up to their respective captains to decide how to divide the money within their team.
Summarised: I will exclude TPU from this draw, because we are having a prize draw of our own. I will add €15 and €10 to the prize pot for the top ranks resp. lower ranks draws. If anyone else want to contribute to the "team prizes", let me know.
Internal prizes:
We will use the different prize requirements for the TPU prize draws compared for the Team prizes. With other words, the minimum is 1000 BOINC credits for the duration of the challenge (based on stats provided by Free-DC and BoincStats). This is because there is no way to track individual crunchers' runtime (only team runtime).
The internal prizes will be:
- $25 Paypal gift - provided by Norton
- Windows 7 Pro key (x2) - provided by [Ion]
- Windows 7 Pro key - provided by Bow
- CM Sentinel Advanced 2 (mouse)
--US: free shipping
--Canada/Mexico: winner pays 1/2 shipping
Useful links:
About the World Community Grid
About The CleanEnergy Project
About the BOINC software
How To: Getting BOINC setup for WCG
Want to run 100% CEP2 WUs? Here's how...
World CEP2 Challenge Link
Link to thread over at the WCG Forums
About "The Clean Energy Project - Phase 2" said:Project Status and Findings:
Researchers at Harvard have published a free database (www.molecularspace.org) cataloguing the electronic properties of over 2 million organic, carbon-based compounds and their potential for converting sunlight into electricity. These compounds were screened by volunteers on World Community Grid and this initiative is believed to be the most extensive investigation of quantum chemicals ever performed.
About 36,000 of the compounds analyzed show potential to perform at approximately double the efficiency of most current organic solar cells in production. Scientists can use this information to continue investigating the most promising candidates for use in cheaper, more efficient and more flexible solar cells. Thanks to World Community Grid volunteers, the computations for this project, which would have required 17,000 years on a single PC, were carried out in only three years, and the results are now available to stimulate research in the next generation of solar energy solutions.
The research project is ongoing, and new compounds will be added to the database as they are analyzed.
Additional information on The Clean Energy Project can be found on these pages, including the project's News & Update page. You may also visit The Clean Energy Project website to learn more about the project and read the latest status updates. To discuss or ask questions about this project, please visit The Clean Energy - Phase 2 Project Forum.
Mission
The mission of The Clean Energy Project is to find new materials for the next generation of solar cells and later, energy storage devices. By harnessing the immense power of World Community Grid, researchers can calculate the electronic properties of hundreds of thousands of organic materials – thousands of times more than could ever be tested in a lab – and determine which candidates are most promising for developing affordable solar energy technology.
Significance
We are living in the Age of Energy. The fossil fuel based economy of the present must give way to the renewable energy based economy of the future, but getting there is one of the greatest challenge humanity faces. Chemistry can help meet this challenge by discovering new materials that efficiently harvest solar radiation, store energy for later use, and reconvert the stored energy when needed.
The Clean Energy Project uses computational chemistry and the willingness of people to help look for the best molecules possible for: organic photovoltaics to provide inexpensive solar cells, polymers for the membranes used in fuel cells for electricity generation, and how best to assemble the molecules to make those devices. By helping search combinatorially among thousands of potential systems, World Community Grid volunteers are contributing to this effort.
Approach
Researchers are employing molecular mechanics and electronic structure calculations to predict the optical and transport properties of molecules that could become the next generation of solar cell materials.
a) Phase 1 performed molecular mechanics calculations: In the first phase of the project, the computations focused on understanding how hypothetical candidate molecules pack together to form a solid (either crystal, film, polymer...) and to predict if that solid would have the right electronic properties to possibly be used in solar cells. These calculations were carried out in phase 1 of the project using CHARMM, a molecular mechanics software package developed by the Karplus group at Harvard University. For more information, please see The Clean Energy Project - Phase 1.
b) Phase 2 is performing electronic structure calculations: To obtain more accurate optical, electronic and other physical properties of the candidate solar materials, quantum mechanics calculations are being performed for each of the candidates. These calculations will be performed with the Q-Chem quantum chemistry software, developed by Q-Chem, Inc. This work will result in a useful database of information about the properties of a large number of compounds. This phase will also provide direct input to experimental groups to aid in their design of improved solar cells.
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