List of distributed computing projects

Active Projects

* Biology
o Malaria Control — for stochastic modelling of the clinical epidemiology and natural history of malaria.
o POEM@Home — models protein folding using Anfinsen's dogma.[1]
o Predictor@home — uses homology modeling to compare proteins of known structure with similar, but lesser known, proteins, and then constructs predictions for those proteins.
o Proteins@home — deduces DNA sequence, given a protein.
o Rosetta@home — tests the assembly of specific proteins, using appropriate fragments of better-known proteins.
o SIMAP — compiles a database of protein similarities using the FASTA algorithm, and protein domains using InterPro.
o TANPAKU — to predict protein structures from amino acid sequence.

* Earth Sciences
o Climateprediction.net — tries to produce a forecast of the climate in the 21st century.

* Physics and Astronomy
o Einstein@Home — search for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO and GEO 600 gravitational wave detectors.
o LHC@home — simulates particles travelling in the Large Hadron Collider.
o SETI@home — Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence
o BRaTS@Home — to study gravitational lensing.[2]

* Mathematics
o ABC@Home — attempt to solve the ABC conjecture problem.[3]
o SZTAKI Desktop Grid — searches for generalized binary number systems.
o TSP - studies the Traveling Salesman Problem.[4]

Upcoming Projects

These projects are considered to be in the Alpha or Beta development stages.

* Mathematics
o Distributed Exact Cover Solver - solves exact cover problems using a version of the Dancing Links algorithm.[5] (Alpha)
o PrimeGrid — searches for titanic primes. (Alpha)
o Rectilinear Crossing Number — finds the lowest crossing number for a given array of points on a graph.[6] (Beta)
o Riesel Sieve — attempts to solve the Riesel problem. (Beta)
o 3x+1@home - studies the Collatz conjecture.[7] (Alpha)
o WEP-M+2 - investigates the factorization of Mersenne prime numbers. (Alpha)
o Yoyo@home - finds optimal Golomb rulers using the OGR application from distributed.net.[8] (Beta)

* Internet
o DepSpid — builds up a database containing the dependencies between individual web sites and groups of web sites, and collects statistical data about the structure of the World Wide Web.[9] (Alpha)
o Project Neuron — records, observes and analyzes BOINC activity and data with a view to developing metrics.[10] (Beta)
o XtremLab — measures the free resources available on desktop PC's involved in large-scale distributed computing. Results will be used to improve the design of systems, such as BOINC. (Alpha)

* Cryptography
o HashClash@home — extends both theoretical and experimental results on collision generation for the MD5 and SHA1 hash functions. (Closed-Beta)
o SHA-1 Collision Search - searches for a collision in the SHA1 hash function.[11] (Alpha)

* Games
o Chess960@Home — studies Chess960 in order to develop some basics of theory in this chess variant. (Alpha)
o NQueens@Home - simulates the eight queens puzzle.[12] (Alpha)
o Project Sudoku - searches for the smallest possible start configuration of Sudoku.[13] (Alpha)
o Eternity2.net - searches for a solution to the Eternity II puzzle.[14] (Alpha)

* Art
o BURP — to develop a publicly distributed system for rendering 3D animations. (Alpha)
o RenderFarm@Home — a publicly distributed system for rendering.[15] (Alpha)

* Biology
o Artificial Intelligence System — simulates the human brain, complete with artificial consciousness and artificial general intelligence. (Alpha)
o Cels@Home - studies cell adhesion.[16] (Alpha)
o Docking@Home — models protein-ligand docking.[17] (Closed alpha)
o Hydrogen@Home - searches for the most efficient method of producing biohydrogen.[18] (Alpha)
o The Lattice Project — studies a variety of problems in biology. (Beta)
o MindModeling@Home - builds cognitive models of the human mind.[19] (Beta)
o PS3GRID — Full-atom molecular biology simulations, specially optimized for the Cell microprocessor in PlayStation 3.[20] (Beta)
o RALPH@home — Rosetta@home official alpha test project.
o SciLINC — indexes a digitised library of plant species.[21][22] (Alpha)
o Superlink@Technion — uses genetic linkage analysis to identify genes that are responsible for genetic disorders.[23] (Beta)

* Astronomy
o Cosmology@Home — searches for the model that best describes our Universe and finds the range of physical cosmology models that agree with the available data. (Beta)
o Milkyway@home — Research in the gravitational potential of the Milkyway galaxy using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.[24] (Alpha)
o Orbit@home — monitoring the impact hazard posed by near-Earth objects. (Alpha)
o SETI@home beta — is currently the test environment for SETI@home programs destined for public use.

* Physics
o Leiden Classical — General Classical Dynamics Grid for any scientist or science student.[25] (Alpha)
o LHC@home Alpha — LHC@Home official alpha test project.[26] (Closed Alpha)
o Nano-Hive@Home — simulates large-scale nanotech systems. (Alpha)
o Pirates@home — currently being used to test BOINC's forum software for possible use by another project: Interactions in Understanding the Universe.
o QMC@Home — study the structure and reactivity of molecules using Quantum Monte Carlo. (Beta)
o RND@home - calculates the most efficient arrangement of radio antennae, treating it as an NP-hard optimization problem, and using the population-based incremental learning algorithm.[27] (Alpha)
o Spinhenge@Home — models the spin of elementary particles using the principles of quantum mechanics. (Beta)
o μFluids@Home — simulates two-phase flow in microgravity and microfluidics problems. (Alpha)

* Earth Sciences
o APS@Home — examines the effects of atmospheric dispersion as it relates to the accuracy of measurements used in climate prediction.[28] (Alpha)
o Quake Catcher Network — uses accelerometers in, or attached to, internet-connected computers to detect earthquakes.[29] (Alpha)

Performance of BOINC projects:

* over 1,300,000 participants
* over 2,800,000 computers
* over 960 TeraFLOPS (more than supercomputer Blue Gene) [1]
* over 12 Petabytes of free disk space
* SETI@home: 3.4 million years of computing time (January 2008)

Distributed.net

Main article: Distributed.net

Distributed.net runs several projects:

* Search for optimal Golomb rulers
* Try to break RC5-72 encryption.

Parabon Computation

Main article: Parabon Computation

The Parabon Computation client uses a Java VM technology, and is commercial in nature.

* Compute Against Cancer — cancer research