List of distributed computing projects
Various projects gain the computing capacity required for their implementation by distributing the computing power to individual devices and computer pools that are made available by their owners for this purpose (e.g. via grid computing or volunteer computing ).
Some of these projects are listed in the following overview.
| Surname | description | status | Platf. | Web link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| animation | ||||
| BURP | the B ig and U gly R end ring P roject renders 3D - animations | active (beta test phase) | BOINC | BURP |
| Electric sheep | Calculation of animated fractal images as screensaver | active | Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD | electricsheep.org |
| astrophysics | ||||
| ASRG SETI | searches for signals from extraterrestrial intelligences | unreachable | ASRG SETI | |
| Astropulse | searches for pulsars (part of the SETI project ) | completed | BOINC | Astropulse FAQ at SETI @ home |
| BRaTS @ Home | studied and simulated gravitational lenses | completed | BOINC | BRaTS @ Home |
| Cosmology @ Home | examines the cosmic background radiation | active (beta test phase) | BOINC | Cosmology @ Home |
| Einstein @ home | looks for gravitational waves from pulsars . | active | BOINC | Einstein @ Home |
| Orbit @ home | analyzes the dangers emanating from near-earth objects | active (test phase) | BOINC | Orbit @ home |
| PhotonStar | detects laser pulses while observing space | PhotonStar | ||
| PlanetQuest | looking for new planets | BOINC | PlanetQuest | |
| The Skynet - Pogs | Spectral analysis of galaxies | completed | BOINC | Pogs |
| SETI @ home | searches for signals from extraterrestrial intelligences | completed | BOINC | SETI @ home |
| Galaxy Zoo | classified galaxies | active | Browser | Galaxy Zoo |
| MilkyWay @ home | investigates the gravitational forces of the Milky Way | active | BOINC | Milkyway @ home |
| biochemistry | ||||
| DreamLab | Protein structure prediction | active | iOS and Android smartphones | DreamLab |
| Folding @ home | Protein structure prediction | active | Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Playstation 3, Android | Folding @ home |
| GPUGRID | simulates molecular dynamic processes (former name: PS3GRID) | active | BOINC | GPUGRID |
| Human Proteome Folding Project | Prediction of structures for human proteins (part of the WCG ) | completed | BOINC | Human Proteome Folding Project |
| Hydrogen @ home | tries to make hydrogen production more environmentally friendly | BOINC | Hydrogen @ home | |
| Predictor @ home | tests new methods and algorithms for predicting protein structure | completed | BOINC | Predictor @ home |
| Proteins @ Home | researches protein structures | BOINC | Proteins @ Home | |
| PlayStation 3GRID | simulates ion transport (renamed GPUGRID) | PlayStation 3 | PS3GRID | |
| Rosetta @ home | tests new methods and algorithms for predicting protein structure | active | BOINC | Rosetta @ home |
| Tanpaku | Protein structure prediction | completed | BOINC | Tanpaku |
| XGrid Stanford | models spatial structure changes of a receptor protein | XGrid Stanford | ||
| Bioinformatics | ||||
| BIFI @ home | provides calculation for the Institute of Bioinformatics and Physics of Complex Systems of the University of Zaragoza to | unreachable | BOINC | BIFI @ home |
| The Lattice Project | is a University of Maryland grid project | BOINC | The Lattice Project | |
| POEM @ home | Cell research, prediction of protein structures at the Karlsruhe Research Center | completed | BOINC | POEM @ home |
| RNA World | RNA research | active | BOINC | RNA World |
| SIMAP @ home | looks for similarities in the structure of proteins and tries to create a kind of spatial representation of the function and structure of proteins | completed | BOINC | SIMAP |
| biology | ||||
| BCL @ Home | studies structural biology | completed | BOINC | BCL @ Home |
| MindModeling @ Home | tries to improve cognitive science | BOINC | MindModeling @ Home | |
| Virtual prairie | Agent-based modeling of an ecosystem | BOINC | Virtual prairie | |
| Biomedicine | ||||
| Artificial Intelligence System | Development of a large AI system for reverse engineering of the brain (completed project) | completed | BOINC | |
| botany | ||||
| Nutritious Rice for the World | Rice yield increase (completed project; part of the WCG ) | completed | BOINC | Nutritious Rice for the World |
| chemistry | ||||
| eOn | Simulation of the dynamics of solids on the atomic level | BOINC | ||
| QMC @ home | is a quantum chemistry project at the University of Münster | BOINC | QMC @ Home | |
| The Clean Energy Project | is looking for materials for more efficient solar energy generation and storage (part of the WCG ) | completed | BOINC | The Clean Energy Project |
| Elementary physics | ||||
| Feynman @ home | Improvements to the calculation bases for projects in high energy physics | BOINC | Feynman @ home | |
| HEP @ home | analyzes data from the field of high energy physics | BOINC | ||
| LHC @ home Sixtrack | Simulations to optimize the LHC - particle accelerator at CERN | active | BOINC | LHC @ home Sixtrack |
| LHC @ home Test4Theory | Simulations to optimize the LHC - particle accelerator at CERN | active | BOINC | LHC @ home Test4Theory |
| Muon1 | Optimization of a muon emitter | Windows | Muon | |
| Zivis Superordenador Ciudadano | Nuclear fusion research and urban networking | completed | BOINC | Zivis Superordenador Ciudadano |
| Evolutionary research | ||||
| Evolution @ home | German project for the simulation of evolutionary processes | Windows, Mac OS, Mac OS X | evolution @ home | |
| Factoring numbers | ||||
| ECMNET | factors large numbers | ECMNET | ||
| ElevenSmooth | factored M (3326400) | ElevenSmooth | ||
| Factorizations of Cyclotomic Numbers | factorizes cyclotomic numbers | Factorizations of Cyclotomic Numbers | ||
| Fermat Search | searches for dividers of Fermat numbers | Fermat Search | ||
| Homogeneous Cunningham numbers | factors large numbers | Homogeneous Cunningham numbers | ||
| MM61 | searches for a factor of the number 2 2 61 -1 -1 | MM61 | ||
| NFSNET | factors large numbers | NFSNET | ||
| Number Field Sieve Net | factorized large numbers (completed project) | completed | ||
| Oddperfect | looks for factors of certain numbers to prove an odd perfect number | Oddperfect | ||
| WEP-M + 2 | Factors Mersenne prime numbers + 2 | BOINC | WEP-M + 2 | |
| XYYXF | factors x y + y x | XYYXF | ||
| Finance theory | ||||
| GStock | calculates investment strategies | Windows | GStock | |
| MoneyBee | predicts stock prices , indices and other economic parameters | no longer active | Windows, Linux | MoneyBee |
| Hosting | ||||
| African Grid Lab | provides a BOINC server | canceled before project start | BOINC | African Grid Lab |
| Internet | ||||
| CPUShare | different goals | completed | Linux | |
| DepSpid | is a kind of web crawler that u. a. examines the dependencies of websites | completed | BOINC | DepSpid |
| DIMES | examines the structure and topology of the Internet | Windows, Mac OS X, Linux | DIMES | |
| Findlinks - Netlinks | analyzes links and shows similar results | Findlinks - Netlinks | ||
| NETI @ home | collects statistics about internet performance | Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris | NETI @ home | |
| climatology | ||||
| AfricanClimate @ Home | develops climate models for Africa (part of the WCG ) | BOINC | AfricanClimate @ Home | |
| APS @ Home | Analysis and prediction of the climate | completed | BOINC | APS @ Home |
| BBC Climate Change Experiment | simulated the climate of 160 years | completed | BOINC | BBC CCE |
| ClimatePrediction.net | creates climate forecasts up to 2080 | active | BOINC | ClimatePrediction.net |
| Disease control | ||||
| Africa @ HOME | looks for solutions to humanitarian and medical problems in Africa | BOINC | Africa @ home | |
| BOLEROplus | studied the evolution of a peptide | completed | BOLEROplus | |
| Cancer Research Project | Investigation of cancer-relevant proteins | completed | BOINC | |
| Cels @ Home | simulates metastasis | completed | BOINC | Cels @ Home |
| CommunityTSC | is looking for drugs for tuberous sclerosis | Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris, Linux | CommunityTSC | |
| Compute Against Cancer | is looking for anticancer drugs | Windows, Mac OS X, Linux | Compute against Cancer | |
| Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together | is looking for drugs against the flavivirus family (part of the WCG ) | active | BOINC | Discovering Dengue Drug - Together |
| Docking @ Home | improves the Dynamically Adaptive Protein-Ligand Docking System | BOINC | Docking @ home | |
| Drug Design and Optimization Lab | was looking for drugs against bioweapons | completed | Drug Design Optimization Lab | |
| FightAIDS @ Home | is looking for new drugs to treat people infected with HIV . (Part of the WCG ) | active | BOINC | FAAH |
| FightMalaria @ Home | is looking for new drugs to treat malaria | active | BOINC | fight-malaria.org |
| Find-a-Drug | was looking for new drugs | completed | find-a-drug.org | |
| Folding @ home | is looking for drugs against cancer and other diseases | active | Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Playstation 3, Android | Folding @ Home |
| Help Conquer Cancer | is looking for ways to identify cancer subtypes more quickly (part of the WCG ) | active | BOINC | Help Conquer Cancer |
| Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy | seeks medication for muscular dystrophy (part of the WCG ) | Phase 2 completed | Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy | |
| Help Defeat Cancer | looked for ways to more quickly identify cancer subtypes (part of the WCG ) | completed | BOINC | Help Defeat Cancer |
| Malaria Control | simulates the spread of malaria and the effectiveness of non-drug countermeasures (mosquito nets, etc.) in order to be able to help those affected | BOINC | malariacontrol.net | |
| Influenza Antiviral Drug Search | is looking for new drugs against influenza | BOINC | Influenza Antiviral Drug Search | |
| Superlink @ Technion | looks for disease genes | BOINC | Superlink @ Technion | |
| World Community Grid | various non-commercial computing projects: e.g. B. Cancer research (Help Conquer Cancer), AIDS research (FightAIDS @ Home), AfricanClimate @ Home, Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together, protein folding in humans (Human Proteome Folding). List of all projects | active | BOINC | worldcommunitygrid.org |
| Cryptography | ||||
| CSC | was looking for a 56-bit key for a message encrypted with CS Cipher | completed | CSC | |
| DES II-1 | looked for the key of a 56-bit DES message | completed | DES II-1 | |
| DES II-2 | looked for the key of a 56-bit DES message | completed | DES II-2 | |
| DES III | looked for the key of a 56-bit DES message | completed | DES III | |
| DESCHALL | looked for the key of a 56-bit DES message | completed | DESCHALL | |
| Distributed Rainbow Table Generator | created rainbow tables | completed | BOINC | |
| ECC2K-108 | tried to crack an encryption in the Certicom competition | completed | ECC2K-108 | |
| Enigma @ Home | integrated M4 applications under BOINC | active | BOINC | Enigma @ Home |
| Free rainbow tables | creates rainbow tables | BOINC | Free rainbow tables | |
| HashClash | searched for MD5 collisions (two texts with the same MD5 hash) | completed | BOINC | HashClash |
| M4 Message Breaking Project | tried to decipher three Enigma M4 messages (two broken so far ) | BOINC , Windows, Linux | M4 Message Breaking Project | |
| RC5-56 | looked for the key of an RC5-56-encoded message | completed | RC5-56 | |
| RC5-64 | looked for the key of an RC5-64 encoded message | completed | RC5-64 | |
| RC5-72 | searches for the key of an RC5-72 encoded message | active | RC5-72 | |
| RSA-576 | factored a 576 bit number | completed | RSA factoring challenge | |
| SHA-1 Collision Search Graz | searched for SHA-1 collisions (two texts with the same SHA-1 hash) | completed | BOINC | SHA-1 Collision Search |
| TivoCrack | looked for the password of a video recorder software | completed | TivoCrack | |
| Zebra RSA Bruteforce | tried to crack the RSA encryption of a smart card | completed | BOINC | Zebra RSA Bruteforce |
| mathematics | ||||
| 3x + 1 @ home | looked for stop records related to the Collatz Conjecture | completed | BOINC | |
| ABC @ Home | the abc presumption should be confirmed | active | BOINC | ABC @ home |
| Collatz Conjecture | tries to refute the Collatz conjecture | active | BOINC | Collatz Conjecture |
| Collatz problem | tries to prove the Collatz conjecture | Collatz problem | ||
| DECS | tests an algorithm for exact coverage problems | BOINC | DECS | |
| Distributed.net | calculates optimal Golomb rulers and tries to crack a 72-bit RC5 encryption | active | u. a. Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, BSD | distributed.net |
| EulerNet | deals with sums of powers with equal exponents | EulerNet | ||
| OGR-24 | looked for optimal Golomb rulers with 24 markings | completed | OGR-24 | |
| OGR-25 | looked for optimal Golomb rulers with 25 marks | completed | OGR-25 | |
| OGR-26 | looked for optimal Golomb rulers with 26 marks | completed | OGR-26 | |
| OGR-27 | looked for optimal Golomb rulers with 27 marks | completed | OGR-27 | |
| OGR-28 | looks for optimal Golomb rulers with 28 marks | active | OGR-28 | |
| OProject @ Home | Research in the areas of number theory , quantum computing and artificial intelligence | OProject @ Home | ||
| PiHex | calculated decimal places of pi | completed | PiHex | |
| Primitive trinomials | searches for trinomials without a polynomial factor | Primitive trinomials | ||
| Ramsey @ Home | minimizes Ramsey numbers | BOINC | Ramsey @ Home | |
| Rectilinear Crossing Number | deals with questions of computational and combinatorial geometry on finite sets of points in the Euclidean plane based | BOINC | RCN | |
| SZTAKI Desktop Grid | seeks generalized binary number systems | BOINC | SZTAKI Desktop Grid | |
| TSP | tries to solve a traveling salesman problem | BOINC | ||
| yoyo @ home | integrates non- BOINC projects under BOINC | active | BOINC | yoyo @ home |
| meteorology | ||||
| Seasonal Attribution Project | explores the possible influence of man-made global warming on local weather extremes based on the record rainfall over England and Wales in 2000 | active temp offline from 02/14/18 | BOINC | Seasonal Attribution Project |
| nanotechnology | ||||
| GRobots | replicating machines develop with evolutionary software (ended) | |||
| NanoHive @ Home | wants to create a software simulation that exactly represents the physical world in the nanocosmos | BOINC | nano-hive.org | |
| Spinhenge @ home | is a project of the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, which investigates the spin dynamics in magnetic molecules | completed | BOINC | Spinhenge @ Home |
| physics | ||||
| AQUA @ home | Analysis and design of quantum computer algorithms | completed | BOINC | AQUA @ home |
| Constellation (platform) | Solves aerospace engineering problems . Planned as a platform for further sub-projects | active | BOINC | Constellation |
| Ibercivis | Nuclear fusion , docking , materials (follow-up project to Zivis Superordenador Ciudadano) | Alpha testing phase | BOINC | Ibercivis |
| Suffering Classical | provides a computing platform for scientists | BOINC | Suffering Classical | |
| Magnetism @ home | examines magnetism | BOINC | ||
| NNSIMU Project | simulates neural networks | completed | BOINC | NNSIMU |
| Radioactive @ Home | creates a constantly updated radiation map for everyone, including the measured values by a gamma ray detector, which is connected to the computer via USB | active | BOINC | Radioactive @ Home |
| RND @ Home | tried to optimize radio networks | completed | BOINC | RND @ Home |
| µFluids @ home | is a project for microgravity and microfluid research | completed | BOINC | µFluids |
| Prime number search | ||||
| 12121 search | searches for prime numbers of the form 121 · 2 n - 1 | 12121 search | ||
| 15 k 2 n - 1 | looks for prime numbers of a certain form | 15 k 2 n - 1 | ||
| 3 * 2 ^ n-1 Search | searches for prime numbers of the form 3 · 2 n - 1 | 3 * 2 ^ n-1 Search | ||
| Factorial Search | looks for prime numbers of a certain form | Factorial Search | ||
| Generalized Fermat Prime Search | searches for general Fermat primes | Windows, Linux | Generalized Fermat Prime Search | |
| GIMPS | Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search - Search for Mersenne prime numbers | active | Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, OS / 2 | GIMPS |
| Multifactorial Prime Search | looks for multifactorial prime numbers | Multifactorial Prime Search ( Memento from March 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) | ||
| Prime Internet Eisenstein Search | seeks general Eisenstein-Fermat numbers | Windows, DOS, Linux, FreeBSD, AIX, Irix | Prime Internet Eisenstein Search | |
| PrimeGrid |
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active | BOINC | PrimeGrid |
| Primesearch | searches for prime numbers of the form k · 2 n - 1 | Primesearch | ||
| Proth Search | looks for prime numbers that confirm the Proth theorem | Proth Search | ||
| PSearch | searches for prime numbers of a certain form | PSearch | ||
| Trickle Sieve | tries to prove the Riesel conjecture | Trickle Sieve | ||
| Riesel Sieve Boinc | tries to prove the Riesel conjecture | BOINC | ||
| Seventeen or Bust | tries to solve the Sierpinski problem | active | Windows, Mac OS X, Linux | Seventeen or Bust |
| The Small Internet GFN Prime Search | searches for Fermat primes | SIGPS | ||
| Wieferich @ Home | is looking for new Wieferich prime numbers | Windows | Wieferich @ Home | |
| chess | ||||
| Chess960 @ home | Basic research on Chess960 problems | completed | BOINC | Chess960 @ home |
| NQueens @ home | looks for a solution to the nxn - queens problem for n> 25 | completed | BOINC | NQueens @ Home |
| Stockfish | Further development of the open source Stockfish engine | active | Windows, Linux, MacOS, AWS Cloud, others from source code | Stockfish get involved |
| seismology | ||||
| Quake-Catcher Network | captures earthquakes | active | BOINC | Quake Catcher Network |
| Games | ||||
| PPot tables | calculated poker probabilities | completed | BOINC | PPot tables |
| Reversi | is looking for a weak solution to the game Reversi | BOINC | Reversi | |
| Sudoku | was looking for a minimal sudoku | completed | BOINC | Sudoku |
| Sudoku @ vtaiwan | searches for a Sudoku with a unique solution for 16 given digits | completed | BOINC | Sudoku |
| Search engine | ||||
| Boitho | created a search engine | Windows | Boitho | |
| Majestic 12 | creates a search engine index | Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X | Majestic 12 | |
| YaCy | creates a search engine index and enables searches on it | active | http://yacy.net/ | |
| File sharing networks | ||||
| PeerFactor | provides an exchange platform with free content | PeerFactor | ||
| test | ||||
| AlmereGrid alpha | tests future applications from AlmereGrid | BOINC | AlmereGrid alpha | |
| BOINC alpha test | checks new BOINC software | active | BOINC | BOINC alpha test |
| CPDN Beta | Alpha test of clients for ClimatePrediction.net | active | BOINC | Climateprediction.net |
| Gerasim @ Home | tests the BOINC software | BOINC | Gerasim @ Home | |
| Pirates @ home | tests the BOINC infrastructure | BOINC | Pirates @ home | |
| Predictor Alpha | Alpha test of clients for Predictor @ home | completed | BOINC | Predictor Alpha |
| RALPH @ home | Alpha test of clients for Rosetta @ home | active | BOINC | RALPH @ home |
| Second computing | builds a DC platform | BOINC | Second computing | |
| SETI @ home / AstroPulse Beta | Beta tests of clients for SETI @ home | active | BOINC | SETI @ home / AstroPulse Beta |
| UCT Malaria Control | tests future applications of Malaria Control | BOINC | UCT Malaria Control | |
| XtremLab | tried to improve the efficiency of distributed computing projects | completed | BOINC | XtremLab |
| Website checks | ||||
| CapCal | tests the capacities of the websites of large companies | CapCal | ||
| GIGRIB | checks the up / downtime of websites | Windows | GIGRIB | |
| Gomez PEER | checks the availability of websites | no longer active | Gomez PEER | |
| Grub | indexes websites on the respective web server | Grub | ||
| Other projects | ||||
| AlmereGrid | Construction of a city computer grid for the Dutch city of Almere | BOINC | AlmereGrid | |
| FreeHAL | builds semantic networks on | no longer active | BOINC | FreeHAL @ home |
| Tiles @ Home | rendered maps for the openstreetmap.org project | completed | Windows , macOS , Linux | |
Web links
- Comprehensive project list
- List of BOINC projects
- Distribution of computing power over the individual projects
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b SETI @ home_hibernation. Retrieved March 17, 2020 .
- ↑ theSkyNet. Retrieved September 13, 2018 .