This is a list of distributed computing and grid computing projects. For each project, donors volunteer computing time from personal computers to a specific cause. The donated computing power comes typically from CPUs and GPUs in personal computers or video game consoles.[1] Each project seeks to solve a problem which is difficult or infeasible to tackle using other methods.
Project | Launched | Home | Category | Research focus | BOINC based | Active processing units | Performance in TeraFLOPS |
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Albert@home | 2011-12-23[2] | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Max Planck Institute[3] | Astrophysics | Testing project for Einstein@Home[3] | Yes | 12 (Mar 2020)[4] | 0.056 (Mar 2020)[4] |
Golem Network | 2016[5] | Poland | Software | Developing a permissionless distributed computing marketplace. | Yes | 15,682 (Jan 13 2022) | |
Amicable Numbers | Independent | Mathematics | research project to find new amicable pairs | Yes | |||
BOID | 2018-06-20[6] | BOID DAC , decentralized community | Research | The Social Supercomputer for data-driven medical and scientific research involving blockchain technology[7] | Yes | 6,962 (Sep 2021) | 53 (Sep 2021)[8] |
BOINC@TACC | Texas Advanced Computing Center | Multiple | aerospace engineering, computational biology, and earthquake engineering | Yes | |||
Cleanmobility.now | 2013-08[9] | Chemistry | Find safer and greener materials for e-vehicle batteries[10] | Yes | 5,135 (Aug 2013)[11][9][12] | ||
Climate Prediction | 2003-12-09[13] | Oxford University[14] | Climate study | Analyse ways to improve climate prediction models[15] | Yes | 824 (Mar 2020)[16] | 20.0 (Mar 2020)[17] |
Collatz Conjecture | 2009-01-06[18] | Private[14] | Mathematics | Study the Collatz conjecture, an unsolved conjecture in mathematics[19] | Yes | 4,409 (Mar 2020) | 18,532 (Mar 2020)[20] |
Cosmology@Home | 2007-06-26[21] | Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris[22] | Astronomy | Find the most accurate models that best describe the universe[22] | Yes | 10,976 (Mar 2020) | 28.0 (Mar 2020)[23] |
Distributed.net | 1997-01-28[24] | Private[25] | Cryptography, Mathematics | Crack the RC5-72 cipher, find optimal Golomb rulers of length 28[26] | No[27] | 2,391 (Mar 2020)[28][29] | |
DreamLab | 2015-09-11[30][31] | Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia | Cancer research | Breast, ovarian, prostate and pancreatic cancer; COVID-19.[30] | No | ||
Einstein@Home | 2005-02-19[32] | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Max Planck Institute[14] | Astrophysics | Search for pulsars using radio signals and gravitational wave data[33] | Yes | 12,013 (Mar 2020) | 1,725 (Mar 2020)[34] |
Electric Sheep | 1999-09-30[35] | Visual arts | Make computer art with fractal flames | No | 450,000 (May 2015)[36][37] | ||
Fishnet | Independent | Chess | Provides server analysis for games played on lichess.org using the Stockfish chess engine | No | |||
Fishtest | 2013-02-13 | Private[38] | Software testing, chess | Validates patches to the Stockfish chess engine by playing thousands of chess games at fast time controls between different versions of the engine[38] | No | 194 (Mar 2020)[39] | |
Folding@home | 2000-10-01[40] | Washington University in St. Louis[41] | Molecular biology[40] | Understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases, with a minor emphasis in protein structure prediction.[42][43][44] Computing power also harnessed the power of PlayStation 3s.[1] | No[45][46] | 4,630,510 (28 Mar 2020) GPUs: AMD 79,498; Nvidia: 356,065 CPUs: 593,983[47] | 195,596 (08 Feb 2021 x86 TFLOPS)[47] |
Gaia@home | September 2020 | Astronomy | Provide additional computing power to scientists studying the Gaia (spacecraft) data releases. | Yes | 326 (February 2021) | 0.89 (February 2021) | |
Gerasim@Home | 2007-02-10[48] | Southwest State University (Russia ) [48][49] | Mathematics | Researched in discrete mathematics and logic control systems[49] | Yes | 1,413 (Mar 2020) | 10.4 (Mar 2020)[50] |
Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) | 1996-01-early[51][52] | Private[51][53] | Mathematics | Searches for Mersenne primes of world record size[53] | No[54] | 805,542 (28 Mar 2020) | 1,583.990 (30-day avg, 15 April 2021)[55] |
Ibercivis BOINC | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientifica | Molecular biology | Yes | ||||
iThena.Measurements | 2019-09-25[56] | Cyber-Complex Foundation[57] | Computer science | Generally computer networks[58] | Yes | 72,988 (Dec 2021)[59] | 5,000.97 (Dec 2021)[60] |
iThena.Computational | 2021-10-31[61] | Cyber-Complex Foundation[57] | Computer science | Generally computer networks[62] | Yes | 557 (Dec 2021)[63] | 2,522.3 (Dec 2021)[64] |
Leela Chess Zero | 2018-03-04[65] | Software testing, chess | Trains chess neural networks with deep reinforcement learning. Experiments with training parameters and net architectures.[66] | No | 44 (Mar 2020)[67] | ||
LHC@home | 2004-01-09[68] | CERN[14] | Physics | Helping physicists compare theory with experiment, in the search for new fundamental particles and answers to questions about the Universe.[69] | Yes | 20,587 (May 2020) | 43.8 (May 2020)[70] |
MilkyWay@home | 2007-07-07[71] | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute[14] | Astronomy | Create a highly accurate three-dimensional model of the Milky Way galaxy using data collected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey[72] | Yes | 23,901 (Mar 2020) | 1,439 (Mar 2020)[73] |
MindModeling@Home | 2007-03-17[74] | University of Dayton Research Institute and Wright State University[75] | Cognitive science[75] | Builds cognitive models of the human mind[75] | Yes | 709 (Mar 2020) | 0.7 (Mar 2020)[76] |
Minecraft@Home | 2020-06-24[77] | Independent[78] | Games[78] | Studies questions related to Minecraft, such as the properties of worlds that can be generated from different random seeds.[77] | Yes[77] | 2,500 (August 2020) | 32,000 (August 2020) |
MLC@Home | 2020-06-30 | University of Maryland, Baltimore County | Mathematics | Understanding and interpreting complex machine learning models | Yes | 20,000 (August 2020) | |
Moo! Wrapper | 2011-02-05[79] | Private[79] | Cryptography | Combines BOINC with distributed.net to try to break the RC5 cipher[80] | Yes[80] | 3,103 (Mar 2020) | 397.4 (Mar 2020)[81] |
nanoHUB@Home | Purdue University | Nanoscience | Research in nanoscience and nanotechnology | Yes | |||
NFS@Home | 2009-09-05[82] | California State University, Fullerton[14] | Integer factorization | Performs parts of the number field sieve in the factorization of large integers[83] | Yes | 7,719 (Mar 2020) | 36.9 (Mar 2020)[84] |
NumberFields@Home | 2011-08-12[85] | Arizona State University's School of Mathematics[86] | Number theory | Search for number fields with special properties to assist with the formulation of mathematical conjectures[86] | Yes | 6,249 (Mar 2020) | 16.6 (Mar 2020)[87] |
ODLK | Independent | Mathematics | Yes | ||||
ODLK1 | Independent | Mathematics | Yes | ||||
QuChemPedIA@home | Université Anger | Molecular Chemistry | Yes | ||||
Radioactive@home | 2011-10-21[88] | Poland[89] | Physics | Real-time radiation monitoring, detected by gamma sensors connected to volunteer computers[89] | Yes | 224 (Mar 2020) | 0.1 (Mar 2020)[88] |
RALPH@home | 2006-02-15[90] | University of Washington[91] | Software testing | Test project for Rosetta@home[91] | Yes | 60 (Mar 2020)[92] | 0.0 (Mar 2020)[93] |
Ramanujan machine | 2021-10-14 | Independent | Mathematics | Conjecturing new mathematical formulas | Yes | 4.059 (Feb 2022) | |
RNA World | 2009-05-21[94] | Private research group in Marburg, Germany[95] | Molecular biology | Uses bioinformatics software to study RNA structure[95] | Yes | 59 (Mar 2020) | 0.03 (Mar 2020)[96] |
Rosetta@home | 2005-10-06[97] | University of Washington[14] | Molecular biology | Protein structure prediction for disease research[98] | Yes | 2,918,435 (Apr 2020)[99] | 1,799 (Apr 2020)[99] |
SETI@home Beta | 2006-01-12[100] | University of California, Berkeley[101] | Software testing | Test project of SETI@home[101] | Yes | 954 (Mar 2020) | 1.2 (Mar 2020)[102] |
SiDock@home | 2020-12-19 | Russian Academy of Sciences | Molecular biology | Citizen science project for independent decentralized drug design by distributed computing. | Yes | 5,169 (February 2021) | 29 (February 2021) |
SRBase | Independent | Mathematics | trying to solve Sierpinski / Riesel Bases up to 1030 | Yes | |||
Stardust@home | 2006-08-01[103] | University of California, Berkeley, NASA, The Planetary Society | Astronomy | Scans/analyzes the collection grid from the NASA Stardust mission to capture particles from the coma of comet Wild 2[104][105] | No | ||
TN-Grid | 2014-05-01 | Research Area of Trento of the National Research Council of Italy, University of Trento | Genetics | Gene@home is a scientific project belonging to the infrastructure TrentoGrid. It aims to expand networks of genes, | Yes | 4,616 (February 2021) | 21.7 (February 2021) |
Twin Prime Search | 2006-04-13[106][107] | Mathematics | Searches for large twin primes[106][107] | No | |||
Universe@Home | 2015-02-19[108] | Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences[109] | Astronomy | Computational astrophysics, computer simulation of stars, galaxies and the Universe | Yes | 3,016 (Mar 2020)[110] | 347.1 (Mar 2020)[108] |
WEP-M+2 Project | 2006-05-12[111] | London, England , United Kingdom [112] | Mathematics | Factorization of Mersenne+2 numbers[112] | Yes | 479 (Mar 2020) | 3.8 (Mar 2020)[113] |
WUProp@Home | 2010-03-27[114] | Private[115] | Statistics | Collect various statistics about other BOINC projects[116] | Yes | 9,372 (Mar 2020)[117] | 1.3 (Mar 2020)[117] |
YAFU | 2011-09-01[118] | Software testing, Mathematics | Test BOINC server software, integer factorization[119] | Yes | 1,504 (Mar 2020) | 10.1 (Mar 2020)[120] | |
Yoyo@home (ru) | 2007-07-19[121] | Private[14] | Mathematics, physics, and evolution | Data structure analysis to help prove a conjecture, elliptic curve factorization, pion creation in a particle accelerator, evolution research, find the shortest optimal Golomb ruler of length 28[122] | Yes | 5,741 (Mar 2020) | 30.3 (Mar 2020)[123] |
Work on these projects was either finished, or the project was discontinued.
Project | Launched | Terminated | Home | Category | Research focus | BOINC based | |
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ABC@Home | 2006-11-21[124] | 2014-06-01[125] | Mathematical Institute of Leiden University, Kennislink[14][126] | Mathematics | Find triples related to the abc conjecture, one of the greatest open problems in mathematics.[126] | Yes | |
Asteroids@home | 2012-06-20[127] | Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic | Astrophysics | To significantly enlarge our knowledge of the physical properties of asteroids[128]| style="background:#9F9;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes"|Yes | 25,543 (Mar 2020) | 323.8 (Mar 2020)[129] | |
AlmereGrid | 2006-09-27[130] | Almere, the Netherlands[130] | A number of applications from local researchers.[131] | Yes | |||
AlmereGrid TestGrid | 2008-02-24[132] | Test of the AlmereGrid project.[133] | Yes | ||||
AndrOINC | Private[134] | Cryptography | Broke Motorola's 1024-bit RSA key used to sign the boot and recovery partition partitions on the Motorola Milestone smartphone.[134] | Yes | |||
AQUA@home | 2008-12-10 | 2011-08-23[135] | D-Wave Systems, Canada [136] | Quantum computing | Used Quantum Monte Carlo to predict the performance of superconducting adiabatic quantum computers on a variety of problems.[137][138] | Yes[137][139] | |
ATLAS@Home | 2014-06-19[140] | 2017-04-07[141] | CERN[14] | Physics | Ran simulations of the ATLAS experiment at CERN.[140] | Yes | |
Background Pi | Computed decimal digits of pi using digit extraction method.[142] | No | |||||
Biochemical Library | Vanderbilt University[143] | Molecular biology | Performed research using the Biochemical Algorithms Library into proteins and their interactions with small molecules for disease research.[134][143] | Yes | |||
BURP | 2004-06-17 | Unknown | Art | Rendering of 3D Animations | Yes | ||
CAS@home | 2010-07-19[144][145] | Chinese Academy of Sciences[14] | Physics, biochemistry, and others| | Provide computing power to Chinese Researchers | Yes | ||
Chess960@home | 2006-03-20[146] | Private[14] | Games and Puzzles | Analysis of chess 960.[147] | Yes | ||
Citizen Science Grid | 2012-01-01[148] | University of North Dakota[149] | Multiple | Animals, Biology, Birds, Climate and weather, Education, Nature, and outdoors [148] | Yes | ||
Comcute | 2010 | 2016[150] | Gdańsk University of Technology, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics | Mathematics, Artificial intelligence, Physics | No | ||
Compute for Humanity | 2015-08[154] | 2017[155] | Private[154] | Cryptocurrencies, Charitable Organizations | No | ||
Constellation | Students at the University of Stuttgart, Germany [156] | Aerospace, Engineering[156] | Various aerospace-related science and engineering problems.[156] | Yes | |||
Correlizer | EpiGenSys Consortium and EraSysBio+, part of the Seventh Framework Program of the European Union[157] | Genetics[158] | The sequential organization of genomes, and its connection to their 3D architectural organization.[158] | Yes | |||
DENIS@Home | 2015-04-08 | 2018-05[159] | San Jorge University[160] | Medicine and Biology | Yes | ||
DistributedDataMining | 2010-03-04[162][163][164] | 2018-04-20[165] | Data analysis, machine learning | Research in the various fields of data analysis and machine learning, such as stock market prediction and analysis of medical data[166] | Yes | ||
DistrRTgen | 2008-01-12[167] | 2014-06[168] | Private[14] | Cryptography | Analysis of hash strength for password security by developing rainbow tables.[169] | Yes | |
DNA@home | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute[170] | Discovered what regulates the genes in DNA using statistical algorithms.[170] | Yes | ||||
DrugDiscovery@home | Private[171] | Drug design | Supported in silico drug design of chemical compounds for medicines in the fields of cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.[171] | Yes | |||
Enigma@Home | 2007-09-09[172] | Cryptography | Cryptography | Decode three unbroken Enigma messages from World War II[173] | Yes | ||
eOn | 2014-05-08[174] | University of Texas at Austin[14] | Chemistry | Calculated the evolution of an atomic-scale system over time, such as a chemical reaction or diffusion.[175] | Yes | ||
Evolution@Home | 2001-04-03[176] | Uses evolutionary algorithms to optimize the parameters of different kinds of machine learning algorithms[177] | No | ||||
FreeHAL | 2006[178] | 2012[179] | Private[14] | Artificial intelligence | Compute essential information for software which seeks to imitate human conversation.[178] | Yes | |
Genome@home | 2001-02-01 | 2004-03-08[180] | Stanford University | Molecular biology | Designed new genes that can form working proteins in the cell that have not been found in nature. | No | |
Goldbach's Conjecture | 2009-11-09[181] | 2011-06[182] | Tests Goldbach's weak conjecture.[183] | Yes | |||
Golem@home | 2000 | 2001-09-03[184] | Brandeis University | Robotics | Used evolutionary computation to design robotic locomotion systems.[185] | No | |
Graceful Tree Verification Project | 2008-11-22 | 2010-02-21 | Private[186] | Mathematics | Used a computational approach to the graceful tree conjecture, proving that every tree with at most 35 vertices is graceful[187] | No | |
Hydrogen@Home | 2007-10-22[188] | 2011-02[189] | Searches for the most efficient method of hydrogen production[190] | Yes | |||
IBERCIVIS | 2008-06-22[191] | 2016-07[192] | Spanish universities and research centers[193] | Various Spanish projects | Yes | ||
Ideologias@home | 2011-05-19[195] | Complutense University of Madrid, Spain[196] | Society | Used social networking mathematical models to study the ideological evolution of a group of people over time.[196] | Yes | ||
Leiden Classical | 2005-05-12[197] | 2018-06-05[198] | Leiden University, the Netherlands[193] | Chemistry | General classical mechanics for students or scientists[199] | Yes | |
vLHCathome (not to be confused with LHC@home above) |
2011-08-01[200] | 2017-03[201] | CERN[202] | Physics[202] | Run simulations of high-energy particle collisions in a computational search for new fundamental particles for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN[202][203] | Yes | |
M4 Project | 2006-01-09[204] | 2009-11-15[205] | History | Decrypts Enigma messages from World War II[206] | No | ||
Magnetism@home | 2008-06-09[207] | Donetsk Institute for Physics and Technology, Ukraine [208] | Magnetism, nanotechnology | Explored magnetization patterns.[208] | Yes | ||
Malaria Control | 2006-12-19[209] | 2016-01-28[210] | Swiss Tropical Institute[14] | Epidemiology | Simulate the transmission dynamics and health effects of malaria.[211] | Yes | |
Mersenne@home | 2012 | Private[14] | Mathematics | Searched for Mersenne primes.[212] Discontinued because the creator lacked time to administer it[213] | Yes | ||
MoneyBee | 2000-09[214] | 2010 | Finance | No | |||
Muon1 Distributed Particle Accelerator Design | 2017[215] | Physics | Simulate and design parts of the Neutrino Factory particle accelerator[216][217] | No | |||
Najmanovich Research Group | Université de Sherbrooke[218] | Molecular biology[218] | Research in molecular recognition[218] | Yes | |||
Neurona@home | 2011-06-14[219] | Complutense University of Madrid, Spain[220] | Neural network | Simulating the behavior of a large and complex network of cellular automata neurons.[220] | Yes | ||
NFSNET | 2010 | Integer factorization | Used the general number field sieve to factor increasingly large integers. Discontinued and replaced by NFS@Home.[221] | No | |||
NNGenerator | 2014-10-20[222] | 2016[223] | Private | Mathematics, finance, and artificial neural networks | Distributed system based on neural networks for analysis and forecasting time series | No | |
Optima@home | Institute for Systems Analysis, Russian Academy of Sciences[224] | Optimization[224] | Solve various large-scale optimization problems. Currently finding molecular conformations which have minimal potential energy.[224] | Yes | |||
Orbit@home | 2008-04-03[225] | 2013-02-16[226] | Planetary Science Institute[14] | Astronomy | Monitored and studied the hazards posed by near-earth asteroids.[227] | Yes | |
Pi Segment | 2006 | Independent project | Mathematics | Looked for specific digits (in binary) of Pi and make volunteer computing more popular in China[228] | No | ||
Pirates@home | 2004-02-06[229] | Spy Hill Research[229] | Software testing | Test of BOINC, no current scientific computation.[230] | Yes | ||
POEM@Home | 2007-13-11[231] | 2016-10-04[232] | University of Karlsruhe, Germany[14] | Molecular biology | Protein structure prediction, cellular signaling, protein aggregation, and drug design[233] | Yes | |
Primaboinca | 2010-07-30[234] | 2020-05-31[235] | RheinMain University of Applied Sciences[14] | Mathematics | Search for counterexamples to Agrawal's conjecture and Popovych's conjecture, which relate to the identification of prime numbers[236] | Yes | |
QMC@Home | 2006-03-03[237] | 2013-01[238] | University of Münster, Germany[193] | Chemistry | Study the structure and reactivity of molecules using quantum chemistry and Monte Carlo techniques[239] | Yes | |
Quake Catcher Network | 2008-02-03[240] | 2018-04[241] | Stanford University[242][243] | Seismology[242][243] | Uses accelerometers connected to personal computers to detect earthquakes and to educate about seismology[242][243] | Yes | |
Renderfarm.fi | 2009-summer[244] | Private (Finnish)[245][246] | Art | 2D and 3D rendering for animation artists.[247] | Yes | ||
RakeSearch | Karelian Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences | Mathematics | search of diagonal Latin squares | Yes | |||
RSA Lattice Siever | 2009[248] | 2012-08 | Integer factorization | Assisted other factoring projects to achieve their academic goals.[249] Merged into NFS@Home because its server was outdated[250] | Yes | ||
SAT@home | 2011-09-29 | 2017-02[251] | Russian Academy of Sciences | Cryptanalysis, Mathematics | Various applications related to the boolean satisfiability problem, inversion of specific stream cipher functions[252] | Yes | |
Second Computing | 2008-04-10[253] | 2012-08[254] | Assesses biopolymer dynamics, and models the behavior of clonal colonies in a prairie ecosystem[255] | Yes | |||
SETI@home | 1999-05-17[256][257][258] | 2020-03-31[259] | University of California, Berkeley[14] | Astrobiology | Search for extraterrestrial life by analyzing specific radio frequencies emanating from space[260] | Yes | |
SETI@home Beta | 2006-01-12[100] | 2020-03-31[259] | University of California, Berkeley[101] | Software testing | Test project of SETI@home[101] | Yes | |
SIMAP | 2006-04-26[261] | 2014-05-30 | University of Vienna[14] | Molecular biology | Calculated similarities between proteins.[262] | Yes | |
SLinCA | G.V.Kurdyumov Institute for Metal Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine[263] | Materials science[263] | Studies scaling laws in cluster aggregation.[263] | Yes | |||
Spinhenge@home | 2006-05-19[264] | 2011-09-28[265] | Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences[14] | Nanotechnology | Studied nano-magnetic molecules for research into localized tumor chemotherapy and micro-memory.[266] | Yes | |
Stop@home | 2017-02-28[267] | 2018-01[268] | Private | Mathematics | Looking for prime k-tuples | Yes | |
Sudoku@vtaiwan[269] | 2011-01-05 | 2013-09-05 | National Center for High-performance Computing (NCHC), Hsinchu Science and Industrial Park, Hsinchu City, Taiwan. | Games and Puzzles | Confirmed solution to the "Minimum Sudoku Problem." After running for more than 2½ years, the project was completed - it was confirmed that no 16-clue Sudoku exists, and so the fewest clues possible is 17. | Yes | |
Superlink@Technion | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology[14] | Genetic linkage analysis | Uses genetic linkage analysis to help find disease-provoking genes.[270] | Yes | |||
theSkyNet POGS | 2011-09-13[271] | 2018-05-02[272] | International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research[273] | Astronomy | Analysis of radio astronomy data from telescopes such as the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder and The Square Kilometre Array[274][275] | No | |
µFluids@home | 2005-09-19[276] | 2010-11[277] | Purdue University[14] | Physics, Aeronautics | Simulated microfluidics problems and two-phase flows in microgravity.[278] | Yes | |
USPEX@Home | 2017-04-04[279] | 2019-03[280] | Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russian Academy of Science, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology | Chemistry, Physics, Materials science | Computational prediction of structure and properties of new chemical compounds (crystals, nanoparticles etc.) for various applications | Yes | |
Virtual Prairie | 2008[281] | University of Houston[14] | Botanical ecosystems | Provided ecological guidelines on the design of prairies with the best potential for water purification.[282] | Yes | ||
VTU@home | Vilnius Gediminas Technical University and Kaunas University of Technology[14] | Software testing[14] | Supported various research projects at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University.[283] | Yes[284] | |||
Wieferich@Home | 2007-12-29[285] | 2017[286] | Mathematics | Searches for new Wieferich primes[287] | No[288][289] |
While distributed computing functions by dividing a complex problem among diverse and independent computer systems and then combine the result, grid computing works by utilizing a network of large pools of high-powered computing resources.[290] These are typically "umbrella" projects that have a number of sub-projects underneath them, with multiple research areas.
Project | Launched | Home | Category | Research focus | BOINC based | Active processing units | Performance in TeraFLOPS |
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EDGeS@Home | 2009-10[291] | MTA SZTAKI Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Hungary[14] | European research | Support the execution of selected scientific applications developed by the EGEE and EDGeS community[292] | Yes | 285 (Jan 2016) | 0.01 (Jan 2016)[293] |
GPUGRID | 2007-12-05[294] | Barcelona Biomedical Research Park[14] | Molecular biology | Perform full-atom molecular simulations of proteins on Nvidia GPUs for biomedical research[295] | Yes | 4,217 (Mar 2018)[296] | 1,965 (Mar 2018)[296] |
PrimeGrid | 2005-06-12[297] | Private[14] | Mathematics | Search for world record sized prime numbers, search for particular types of primes, such as 321 primes, Cullen-Woodall primes, Proth prime, prime Sierpinski numbers, and Sophie Germain primes. Subprojects also include Seventeen or Bust, and the Riesel problem.[298] | Yes | 14,429 (Mar 2018) | 1,883 (Mar 2018)[299] |
SZTAKI Desktop Grid | 2005-05-26[300] | MTA SZTAKI Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Hungary[14] | Mathematics | Find all the generalized binary number systems (in which bases are matrices and digits are vectors) up to dimension 11, understand basic universality classes of nonequilibrium system[301] | Yes | 2,270 (Jan 2016) | 0.7 (Jan 2016)[302] |
The Lattice Project | 2003-late[303][304] | University of Maryland Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology[14] | Life science | Various scientific analysis projects[305][306] | Yes | 2,016 (Jan 2016) | 0.6 (Jan 2016)[307] |
World Community Grid | 2004-11-16[308] | Krembil Research Institute[309] | Humanitarian research on disease, natural disasters, and hunger | Disease research, various worldwide humanitarian problems. Subprojects include(d) GO Fight Against Malaria, Drug Search for Leishmaniasis, Computing for Clean Water, Clean Energy Project, Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together, Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy, Help Fight Childhood Cancer, Help Conquer Cancer, Mapping Cancer Markers, Human Proteome Folding Project, FightAIDS@Home, Uncovering Genome Mysteries, Let's outsmart Ebola together, Help Stop TB, OpenZika, Smash Childhood Cancer.[310] | Yes | 195,649 (Jan 2016) | 471.6 (Jan 2016)[311] |
Project | Status | Launched | Home | Category | Research focus | BOINC based | Active processing units |
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DIMES | Maps the structure and evolution of the Internet infrastructure, letting users see how the Internet looks from their home | ||||||
Majestic-12 | Uses a distributed web crawler program to index web sites for a distributed search engine[318] | ||||||
NESSI-GRID | Aims to provide a unified view for European research in service architectures and software infrastructures that will define technologies, strategies and deployment policies fostering new, open, industrial solutions and societal applications that enhance the safety, security and well-being of citizens[319] | ||||||
OMII-UK | Provides free open source software and support to enable a sustained future for the UK e-research community | ||||||
Storage@home | Distributed storage infrastructure developed to solve the problem of backing up and sharing petabytes of scientific results using a distributed model of volunteer managed hosts. Data is maintained by a mixture of replication and monitoring, with repairs done as needed. | ||||||
StrataGenie | Searches for trading strategies in intraday stock market data and distributes trading signals to subscribers[320] | ||||||
Surveill@Home | Active, Alpha[321] | University of Coimbra, Portugal[14] | Web performance | Monitor and test websites for failure rates and overall performance (minimal CPU work)[322] | Yes | 1,657 (Feb 2012)[323] |
These projects attempt to make large physical computation infrastructures available for researchers to use:
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