| 12121 Search: Help this distributed computing project by donating CPU cycles to find primes of the form 121*2^N-1. |
| 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. |
| Boitho: Boitho distributed crawler (BETA). Goal is to make a general internet search engine with a thumbnail picture of all the pages. |
| Center for Distributed Computing: Distributed computing projects directory. |
| 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. |
| Compute Against Cancer: Corporate-sponsored project exploring cancer development, prevention and treatment. [Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME] |
| Computing Minimum Equal Sums of Like Power: Includes client software download, computation records, and project description on its research into mathematical problems. |
| DevChannel: A distributed computing development and knowledge community. Become involved in Open Source distributed computing projects. Read news, articles, papers, guided opinions, or participate in forums. |
| Distributed Computing Arcana: A forum for discussing SETI, RC5, F@H, G@H, the UD Cancer Project, and other distributed computing efforts. |
| Distributed Computing Over P2P Networks: Open framework that will allow P2P file sharing networks to make Distributed Parallel Computing. |
| Distributed computing projects: Distributed computing projects links and short descriptions in English and in Finnish. |
| Distributed Hardware Evolution Project (DHEP): Using a desktop's idle time, arrive at designs of self-diagnosing circuits superior to those produced by conventional design. FAQ, statistics, news, academic papers, forum, and source code. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Distributedcomputing.info: Kirk Pearson's directory of current distributed computing projects as well as news articles and related materials. |
| Evolution@Home: Distributed computing program for evolutionary biology. |
| Gómez PEER Community: Project pays select computer users to run a client that tests internet performance. |
| Globus Project: Research project developing a software infrastructure for distributed computing on a world-wide scale. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Java Grid Project (jCluster Project): Software project investigating the possibilities in creating a distributed computer system - a so called grid - based on the distributed nature of Java and Jini. It is the intension to allow computer resources and data to be shared and to provide a dynamic high availability system for hosting services. |
| Legion: A Worldwide Virtual Computer: Research project homed at the University of Virginia. An open specification and prototype for a worldwide virtual computer. |
| Leiden Classical: BOINC project, dedicated to general Classical Dynamics for any scientist or science student. |
| Majestic 12: Distributed Computing Project aimed towards building the largest search engine index on the Internet using Distributed Crawlers. |
| Mobius: Research project developing tools and middleware components to coherently share and manage data and metadata in a Grid or distributed computing environment. |
| MoneyBee: Generates stock forecasts by application of artificial intelligence with the aid of artificial neural networks. |
| Muon1 Optimisation Project: Uses PC idle time to simulate and design a particle accelerator. |
| NETI@home: Open-source software package designed to run on end-user machines while collecting various statistics about Internet performance. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| P2P Distributed Computing Framework: JNGI is a open-source generic P2P distributed computing framework. |
| PCP@HOME: A distributed project to find short Post Correspondence Problems with large shortest solutions. |
| Power of Supercomputer on a Desktop: Grid computing analogy, meaning, capabilities, uses and limitations. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Repository of Grid Research Projects: News and resources on grid computing. |
| Rosetta@home: BOINC project to predict and design protein structures and protein-protein and protein-ligand interactions. The goal is to develop methods that accurately predict and design protein structures and complexes. |
| 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. |
| Search for Fermat Number Dividers: Screensaver program tries to find divisors of Fermat numbers. |
| The ChessBrain Network: Distributed network chess experiment. Intends to create a single playing program using donated time. |
| The DBGlobe Project: Aims at developing novel data management techniques to deal with the challenge of global computing. |
| The EON Project: Software for the long time scale simulation of solids. From University of Washington Chemistry Department. |
| 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. |
| The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Computing Grid: Place to find the grid middleware developed for the future Large Hydron Collider in CERN. |
| The NorduGrid Project: The Grid middleware development and testbed deployment project in the Nordic countries |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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