Projects

ABC@home - Distributed computing project for finding abc-triples related to the ABC conjecture.
abcathome.com/

Boitho - Boitho distributed crawler (BETA). Goal is to make a general internet search engine with a thumbnail picture of all the pages.
www.boitho.com/dc/

Center for Distributed Computing - Distributed computing projects directory.
www.distcomputing.com/

The ChessBrain Network - Distributed network chess experiment. Intends to create a single playing program using donated time.
www.chessbrain.net

ClimatePrediction.Net - Large-scale simulation where each participant is given one slightly different scenario to run. Those that successfully model past weather patterns will be more likely to accurately predict the future.
www.climateprediction.net/

Compute Against Cancer - Corporate-sponsored project exploring cancer development, prevention and treatment. [Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME]
www.computeagainstcancer.org/

Computing Minimum Equal Sums of Like Power - Includes client software download, computation records, and project description on its research into mathematical problems.
euler.free.fr/

The DBGlobe Project - Aims at developing novel data management techniques to deal with the challenge of global computing.
softsys.cs.uoi.gr/dbglobe/index1.html

Distributed Computing Arcana - A forum for discussing SETI, RC5, F@H, G@H, the UD Cancer Project, and other distributed computing efforts.
episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/frm/f/122097561

Distributed Computing Over P2P Networks - Open framework that will allow P2P file sharing networks to make Distributed Parallel Computing.
www.geocities.com/tiagonmas/

Distributed computing projects - Distributed computing projects links and short descriptions in English and in Finnish.
koti.mbnet.fi/aquarius/links/link_distributedpower.html

Distributed Computing Projects - infoAnarchy Wiki - Long annotated list.
www.infoanarchy.org/en/Distributed_Computing_Projects

Distributed Proofreaders - Founded to support the digitization of public domain books. Originally conceived to assist Project Gutenberg, Distributed Proofreaders is now the main source of PG e-books.
www.pgdp.net/

Distributed Proofreaders Europe - Modeled after the Digital Proofreaders project, this variation focuses on digitization of works considered to be in the public domain in Europe.
dp.rastko.net/

Distributedcomputing.info - Kirk Pearson's directory of current distributed computing projects as well as news articles and related materials.
www.distributedcomputing.info/

Einstein@Home - Uses a computer's idle time to search for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors.
einstein.phys.uwm.edu/

The EON Project - Software for the long time scale simulation of solids. From University of Washington Chemistry Department.
eon.cm.utexas.edu/

Evolution@Home - Distributed computing program for evolutionary biology.
evolutionary-research.net

Globus Project - Research project developing a software infrastructure for distributed computing on a world-wide scale.
www.globus.org/

Gómez PEER Community - Project pays select computer users to run a client that tests internet performance.
peer.gomez.com/

GPU, a Global Processing Unit - GPU is an Open Source Gnutella/Pastella client that allows users to share CPU-resources on a truly P2P based cluster. Applications include a Landscape Generator able to generate movies and an experimental Distributed Search Engine. The client is under development.
gpu.sourceforge.net

Grid.org - A distributed computing effort by the United Devices Global MetaProcessor with the participation of over 2 million PCs worldwide for cancer, anthrax, and smallpox research projects.
www.grid.org/

How to Join Distributed Computing Projects That Benefit Humanity - An annotated directory of projects combined with commentary and illustrations or screenshots.
www.hyper.net/dc-howto.html

The Hunting of the Snark Project - Explores distributed file sharing through BitTorrent and experiments with the GNU Compiler for Java. It also produces a regular BitTorrent client, torrent creator and tracker program.
www.klomp.org/snark/

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Computing Grid - Place to find the grid middleware developed for the future Large Hydron Collider in CERN.
lcg.web.cern.ch/LCG/

Legion: A Worldwide Virtual Computer - Research project homed at the University of Virginia. An open specification and prototype for a worldwide virtual computer.
legion.virginia.edu/

Leiden Classical - BOINC project, dedicated to general classical dynamics for any scientist or science student.
boinc.gorlaeus.net/

Majestic 12 - Distributed Computing Project aimed towards building the largest search engine index on the Internet using Distributed Crawlers.
www.majestic12.co.uk

Mobius - Research project developing tools and middleware components to coherently share and manage data and metadata in a Grid or distributed computing environment.
projectmobius.osu.edu

MoneyBee - Generates stock forecasts by application of artificial intelligence with the aid of artificial neural networks.
www.moneybee.net/

Muon1 Optimisation Project - Uses PC idle time to simulate and design a particle accelerator.
www.stephenbrooks.org/muon1/

NETI@home - Open-source software package designed to run on end-user machines while collecting various statistics about Internet performance.
www.neti.gatech.edu/

NGrid - NGrid is a .Net open source grid computing framework written in C#. NGrid provides a transparent multithread and garbage collected programming model for grid programming.
ngrid.sourceforge.net

The NorduGrid Project - The Grid middleware development and testbed deployment project in the Nordic countries
www.nordugrid.org

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Distributed Computing Project - Project goal is a single run-time environment that ties together several networked supercomputers. Intended users are the community of scientists and engineers addressing "grand challenge" computations.
www.csm.ornl.gov/cs/DistComp.html

PCP@HOME - A distributed project to find short Post Correspondence Problems with large shortest solutions.
www.theory.informatik.uni-kassel.de/~stamer/pcp/pcpcontest_en.html

Power of Supercomputer on a Desktop - Grid computing analogy, meaning, capabilities, uses and limitations.
www.geocities.com/bhupeshreddy/grid.html

Quite Advanced Distributed Parallel Zystem (QADPZ) - The system allows the management/use of the computational power of idle computers in a network. Based on a client-master-slave architecture, using message based communication.
qadpz.sourceforge.net

Repdigit Prime Problems, The - Distributed Computing Project aimed towards finding prime numbers of the form n*k. This project uses the software Primeform to test workunits.
www.freewebs.com/dries5/prime_problems.htm

Repository of Grid Research Projects - News and resources on grid computing.
www.enterthegrid.com/

SDSC Matrix Project for P2P Grid Workflows - The SDSC Matrix Project performs research and open-sourced development to deliver the grid workflow protocols and workflow language descriptions necessary to build a peer-to- peer infrastructure for Grid Workflow Management Systems.
www.npaci.edu/DICE/SRB/matrix/

12121 Search - Help this distributed computing project by donating CPU cycles to find primes of the form 121*2^N-1.
12121.vocabulate.com/

Search for Fermat Number Dividers - Screensaver program tries to find divisors of Fermat numbers.
www.fermatsearch.org/

Similarity Matrix of Proteins (SIMAP) - SIMAP is a public database of pre-calculated protein similarities that plays a key role in many bioinformatics methods. It contains about all currently published protein sequences and is continuously updated.
boinc.bio.wzw.tum.de/boincsimap/

SZTAKI Desktop Grid - Currently searches for generalized binary number systems.
szdg.lpds.sztaki.hu/szdg/

The Virtual Laboratory Project - Engaged in research, design, and development of Grid technologies that help in solving large-scale compute and data intensive science applications in the area of molecular biology.
www.gridbus.org/vlab/

World Community Grid - Mission is to create the largest public computing grid benefiting humanity. Currently supporting the Human Proteome Folding project to provide scientists with data that predicts the shape of a very large number of human proteins.
www.worldcommunitygrid.org/

XGrid@Stanford - Project of a postdoctoral fellow in Brian Kobilka's lab, in the Molecular and Cellular Physiology department, Stanford University running large calculations, the purpose being to modelize the conformational changes of the beta 2 adrenergic receptor and have a better understanding of its pharmacology. Runs through Mac OSX-only software called XGrid. How to install and configure the software, news about the project, and a FAQ.
cmgm.stanford.edu/~cparnot/xgrid-stanford/

3x+1@home - Distributed mathematical project trying to find high stopping times for the Collatz conjecture.
allprojectstats.com/collatz/

American Scientist: Collective Wisdom - Article discusses the "early days" (pre-1998) of distributed computing projects, explains the basics of how they work and how to get them to work well, describes some early successes, and considers how CPU cycles may someday become a commodity to be bought, sold or traded. <small>(March, 1998)</small>
www.americanscientist.org/amsci/issues/Comsci98/compsci1998-03.html