Malaria Control Project
| Initial release | December 19, 2006[1] |
|---|---|
| Development status | Inactive since 21 June 2016 |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Platform | BOINC |
| Website | www |
Malaria Control is a volunteer distributed computing project. The project simulate the transmission dynamics and health effects of malaria. It is part of the Africa@home project.[2]
History
The malariacontrol.net domain name was first registered on 19 May 2005 under Swiss Tropical Institute.[3] This project was under Africa@home where the latter was conceived and developed by European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Malariacontrol was the first project to use distributed computing to model diseases. The model simulates malaria infection in 50,000 to 100,000 people. Each work unit will last for an hour in average personal computers and the results will be returned to University of Geneva for evaluation by researchers.[2]
On 21 June 2016, malariacontrol.net announced that the project has been terminated due to financial constrains in upgrading their servers for further volunteer computing operations.[4]
Reception
As of 2010, malariacontrol.net had about 10,000 active users with 37,002 registered members. Similar to the general BOINC users, malariacontrol.net mainly had a volunteer base of males ranged from 20 to 50 years old, mostly staying in European countries and North America. Most of them learned about this project through BOINC website and their main motivation were to do something good and for self-satisfaction.[5]
References
- ^ Maire (19 December 2016). "Migration to new server". malariacontrol.net. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
- ^ a b Lovgren, Stefan (8 August 2006). "Malaria Battlers Enlist Power of Your PC". National Geographic. Archived from the original on 2 September 2014. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
- ^ "Malariacontrol.net domain information". whois.com. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
- ^ Maire (21 June 2016). "Status and plans as of June 2016". malariacontrol.net. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
- ^ Krebs, Viola (1 February 2010). "Motivations of cybervolunteers in applied distributed computing environment: Malariacontrol.net as an example". First Monday (journal). 15 (2). Retrieved 11 June 2017.
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