Start-up and the Results of the Volunteer Computing Project RakeSearch

Abstract

In this paper we describe the experience of setting up a computational infrastructure based on BOINC middleware and running a volunteer computing project on its basis. The project is aimed at characterizing the space of diagonal Latin squares of order 9 in the form of an ensemble of orthogonality graphs, previously not addressed. We implement the search for row-permutational squares orthogonal to an initial one, which allows to reconstruct the full graphs. We provide the developed application to search for orthogonal pairs of the squares and describe the obtained results. The results prove the efficiency of volunteer computing in unveiling the structure of the space of diagonal Latin squares.