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Comprehensive list of volunteer computing projects From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a comprehensive list of volunteer computing projects; a type of distributed computing where volunteers donate computing time to specific causes. The donated computing power comes from idle CPUs and GPUs in personal computers, video game consoles[1] and Android devices.
Each project seeks to utilize the computing power of many internet connected devices to solve problems and perform tedious, repetitive research in a very cost effective manner.
Project | Launched | Sponsor | Category | Research focus | BOINC based | 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] |
Amicable Numbers | 2017-01-05 | Independent | Mathematics | Research project to find new amicable pairs | Yes | 4,663 (Mar 2023)[5] | 1,529.166 (Mar 2023)[5] |
ArchiveTeam Warrior | 2013-12-22[6] | Archive Team | Digital preservation | A virtual archiving appliance that will download sites and upload them to the Archive Team archive. | No | ||
Asteroids@home | 2012-06-18[7] | Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic | Astrophysics | To significantly enlarge our knowledge of the physical properties of asteroids[8] | Yes | 12,055 (Mar 2023)[9] | 55.018 (Mar 2023)[9] |
BOID | 2018-06-20[10] | BOID DAC, decentralized community | Research | The Social Supercomputer for data-driven medical and scientific research involving blockchain technology[11] | No | 212 (Mar 2023)[12] | 53 (Sep 2021)[12] |
climateprediction.net | 2003-12-09[13] | Oxford University[14] | Climate change | Analyse ways to improve climate prediction models[15] | Yes | 418 (Mar 2023)[16] | 10.166 (Mar 2023)[17] |
Collatz Conjecture | 2009-01-06[18] | Independent[14] | Mathematics | Study the Collatz conjecture, an unsolved conjecture in mathematics[19] | Yes | 4,409 (Mar 2020)[20] | 18,532 (Mar 2020)[20] |
DENIS@Home | 2015-04-08 | Universidad San Jorge. Zaragoza, Spain[21] | Medicine and Biology | Simulation of the electrical activity of the cardiac cells[22] | Yes | 1,344 (Mar 2023)[23] | 8.785 (Mar 2023)[23] |
Distributed.net | 1997-01-28[24] | Independent[25] | Cryptography, Mathematics | Crack the RC5-72 cipher[26] | No | 1,146 (Mar 2023)[27] | |
DreamLab | 2015-09-11[28][29] | Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia | Cancer research | Breast, ovarian, prostate and pancreatic cancer; COVID-19[28] | No | 250,000 (Mar 2023)[30] | |
Einstein@Home | 2005-02-19[31] | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Max Planck Institute[14] | Astrophysics | Search for pulsars using radio signals and gravitational wave data[32] | Yes | 20,177 (Mar 2023)[33] | 4,098.577 (Mar 2023)[33] |
Electric Sheep | 1999-09-30[34] | Visual arts | Make computer art with fractal flames | No | 450,000 (May 2015)[35][36] | ||
Fishnet | 2016-03-07[37] | Independent | Chess | Provides server analysis for games played on lichess.org using the Stockfish chess engine | No | 38 (Mar 2023)[38] | |
Fishtest | 2013-02-13 | Independent[39] | 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[39] | No | 228 (Apr 2024)[40] | |
Folding@home | 2000-10-01[41] | Washington University in St. Louis[42] | Molecular biology[41] | Understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases, with a minor emphasis in protein structure prediction.[43][44][45] Computing power also harnessed the power of PlayStation 3s[1] | No | 44,197 (Mar 2023)[46] | 29,838 (Mar 2023)[46] |
Gaia@home | 2019-08-21 | Astronomical Observatory Institute, Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University | Astronomy | Provide additional computing power to scientists studying the Gaia (spacecraft) data releases | Yes | 289 (Mar 2023)[47] | 0.227 (Mar 2023)[47] |
Gerasim@Home | 2007-02-10[48] | Southwest State University, Russia[48][49] | Mathematics | Research in discrete mathematics and logic control systems[49] | Yes | 765 (Mar 2023)[50] | 4.823 (Mar 2023)[50] |
Golem Network | 2016[51] | Independent | Software | Developing a permissionless distributed computing marketplace | No | 664 (Mar 2023)[52] | |
GPUGRID | 2007-12-05[53] | Barcelona Biomedical Research Park[14] | Molecular biology | Perform full-atom molecular simulations of proteins on Nvidia GPUs for biomedical research[54] | Yes | 2,042 (Mar 2023)[55] | 422.397 (Mar 2023)[55] |
Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) | 1996-01-early[56][57] | Independent[56][58] | Mathematics | Searches for Mersenne primes of world record size[58] | No | 18,741 (Mar 2023)[59] | 5,296.905 (Mar 2023)[59] |
iThena.Measurements | 2019-09-25[60] | Cyber-Complex Foundation[61] | Computer science | Generally computer networks[62] | Yes | 9,846 (Mar 2023)[63] | 3.970 (Mar 2023)[64] |
iThena.Computational | 2021-10-31[65] | Cyber-Complex Foundation[61] | Computer science | Generally computer networks[66] | Yes | 155 (Mar 2023)[67] | 1.575 (Mar 2023)[68] |
Leela Chess Zero | 2018-03-04[69] | Software testing, chess | Trains chess neural networks with deep reinforcement learning. Experiments with training parameters and net architectures[70] | No | 19 (Mar 2023)[71] | ||
LHC@home | 2004-01-09[72] | CERN[14] | Physics | Helping physicists compare theory with experiment, in the search for new fundamental particles and answers to questions about the Universe[73] | Yes | 3,862 (Mar 2023)[74] | 40.377 (Mar 2023)[74] |
MilkyWay@home | 2007-07-07[75] | 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[76] | Yes | 31,137 (Mar 2023)[77] | 2,048.233 (Mar 2023)[77] |
Moo! Wrapper | 2011-02-05[78] | Independent[78] | Cryptography | Combines BOINC with distributed.net to try to break the RC5 cipher[79] | Yes | 1,818 (Mar 2023)[80] | 683.872 (Mar 2023)[80] |
nanoHUB@Home | 2015-01-30[81] | Purdue University | Nanoscience | Research in nanoscience and nanotechnology | Yes | 10 (Mar 2023)[82] | 0.000 (Mar 2023)[82] |
NFS@Home | 2009-09-05[83] | California State University, Fullerton[14] | Integer factorization | Performs parts of the number field sieve in the factorization of large integers[84] | Yes | 4,096 (Mar 2023)[85] | 50.552 (Mar 2023)[85] |
NumberFields@Home | 2011-08-12[86] | Arizona State University's School of Mathematics[87] | Number theory | Search for number fields with special properties to assist with the formulation of mathematical conjectures[87] | Yes | 14,974 (Mar 2023)[88] | 127.692 (Mar 2023)[88] |
ODLK | 2017-04-06 | Independent | Mathematics | Yes | 1,165 (Mar 2023)[89] | 3.006 (Mar 2023)[89] | |
ODLK1 | 2017-10-22 | Independent | Mathematics | Yes | 2,011 (Mar 2023)[90] | 10.085 (Mar 2023)[90] | |
PrimeGrid | 2005-06-12[91] | Independent[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.[92] | Yes | 89,193 (Mar 2023)[93] | 2,973.132 (Mar 2023)[93] |
Radioactive@home | 2011-10-21[94] | Poland[95] | Physics | Real-time radiation monitoring, detected by gamma sensors connected to volunteer computers[95] | Yes | 169 (Mar 2023)[94] | 0.089 (Mar 2023)[94] |
RakeSearch | 2017-09-14[96] | Karelian Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences | Mathematics | Search of diagonal Latin squares | Yes | 528 (Mar 2023)[96] | 2.712 (Mar 2023)[96] |
RALPH@home | 2006-02-15[97] | University of Washington[98] | Software testing | Test project for Rosetta@home[98] | Yes | 22 (Mar 2023)[99] | 0.000 (Mar 2023)[100] |
Ramanujan machine | 2021-10-14 | Independent | Mathematics | Conjecturing new mathematical formulas | Yes | 1,514 (Mar 2023)[101] | 4.368 (Mar 2023)[101] |
RNA World | 2009-05-21[102] | Independent research group in Marburg, Germany[103] | Molecular biology | Uses bioinformatics software to study RNA structure[103] | Yes | 12 (Mar 2023)[104] | 0.016 (Mar 2023)[104] |
Rosetta@home | 2005-10-06[105] | University of Washington[14] | Molecular biology | Protein structure prediction for disease research[106] | Yes | 34,472 (Mar 2023)[107] | 44,307 (Mar 2023)[107] |
SheepIt Renderfarm | Art | Rendering of 3D Animations | No | 600 (Jun 2023)[108] | |||
SiDock@home | 2020-12-19 | Russian Academy of Sciences | Molecular biology | Citizen science project for independent decentralized drug design by distributed computing | Yes | 4,644 (Mar 2023)[109] | 36.659 (Mar 2023)[109] |
SRBase[110] | 2013-01-02 | Independent | Mathematics | Trying to solve Sierpinski / Riesel Bases up to 1030, the project is Conjecture 'R Us[111] | Yes | 1,267 (Mar 2023)[112] | 617.109 (Mar 2023)[112] |
TN-Grid | 2014-05-01[113] | 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 | 4,666 (Mar 2023)[113] | 26.697 (Mar 2023)[113] |
Twin Prime Search | 2006-04-13[114][115] | Mathematics | Searches for large twin primes[114][115] | No | 34 (Mar 2023)[116][117] | ||
Universe@Home | 2015-02-19[118] | Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences[119] | Astronomy | Computational astrophysics, computer simulation of stars, galaxies and the Universe | Yes | 3,547 (Mar 2023)[120] | 383.863 (Mar 2023)[118] |
WEP-M+2 Project | 2006-05-12[121] | London, England, United Kingdom[122] | Mathematics | Factorization of Mersenne+2 numbers[122] | Yes | 335 (Mar 2023)[123] | 2.254 (Mar 2023)[123] |
World Community Grid | 2004-11-16[124] | Krembil Research Institute[125] | 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.[126] Smash Childhood Cancer, Help Conquer Cancer, Help Defeat Cancer, Mapping Cancer Markers, Human Proteome Folding Project, FightAIDS@Home, Uncovering Genome Mysteries, Let's outsmart Ebola together, Help Stop TB, OpenZika. | Yes | 57,439 (Mar 2023)[127] | 293.196 (Mar 2023)[127] |
WUProp@Home | 2010-03-27[128] | Independent[129] | Statistics | Collect various statistics about other BOINC projects[130] | Yes | 10,564 (Mar 2023)[131] | 1.019 (Mar 2023)[131] |
YAFU | 2011-09-01[132] | Software testing, Mathematics | Test BOINC server software, integer factorization[133] | Yes | 446 (Mar 2023)[134] | 13.668 (Mar 2023)[134] | |
yoyo@home | 2007-07-19[135] | Independent[14] | Mathematics, physics, and evolution | Elliptic curve factorization, Riesel/Sierpinski siever, M queens puzzle[136] | Yes | 2,900 (Mar 2023)[137] | 65.617 (Mar 2023)[137] |
Project | Launched Completed | Sponsor | Category | Research focus | BOINC based | Processing units | Performance in TeraFLOPS |
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ABC@Home | 2006-11-21[138]
2014-06-01[139] |
Mathematical Institute of Leiden University, Kennislink[14][140] | Mathematics | Find triples related to the abc conjecture, one of the greatest open problems in mathematics.[140] | Yes | ||
AlmereGrid | 2006-09-27[141] | Almere, the Netherlands[141] | Multiple applications | A number of applications from local researchers.[142] | Yes | ||
AlmereGrid TestGrid | 2008-02-24[143] | Multiple applications | Test of the AlmereGrid project.[144] | Yes | |||
AndrOINC | Independent[145] | Cryptography | Broke Motorola's 1024-bit RSA key used to sign the boot and recovery partition partitions on the Motorola Milestone smartphone.[145] | Yes | |||
AQUA@home | 2008-12-10
2011-08-23[146] |
D-Wave Systems, Canada[147] | Quantum computing | Used Quantum Monte Carlo to predict the performance of superconducting adiabatic quantum computers on a variety of problems.[148][149] | Yes | ||
Artificial Intelligence System | Intelligence Realm Inc | Simulate the brain using Hodgkin–Huxley models via an artificial neural network | Yes | ||||
ATLAS@Home | 2014-06-19[150]
2017-04-07[151] |
CERN[14] | Physics | Ran simulations of the ATLAS experiment at CERN.[150] | Yes | ||
Background Pi | Computed decimal digits of pi using digit extraction method.[152] | No | |||||
Biochemical Library | Vanderbilt University[153] | Molecular biology | Performed research using the Biochemical Algorithms Library into proteins and their interactions with small molecules for disease research.[145][153] | Yes | |||
BOINC@TACC | 2018-07-30[154]
2022-09[155] |
Texas Advanced Computing Center | Multiple | aerospace engineering, computational biology, and earthquake engineering | Yes | ||
BURP | 2004-06-17 | Art | Rendering of 3D Animations | Yes | |||
CAS@home | 2010-07-19[156][157] | Chinese Academy of Sciences[14] | Physics, biochemistry, and others| | Provide computing power to Chinese Researchers | Yes | ||
Cell Computing | 2008 | NTT Data | biomedical research | Yes | |||
Chess960@home | 2006-03-20[158] | Independent[14] | Games and Puzzles | Analysis of chess 960.[159] | Yes | ||
Citizen Science Grid | 2012-01-01[160] | University of North Dakota[161] | Multiple applications | Animals, Biology, Birds, Climate and weather, Education, Nature, and outdoors [160] | Yes | ||
Cleanmobility.now | 2013-08[162] | Chemistry | Find safer and greener materials for e-vehicle batteries[163] | Yes | |||
Comcute | 2010
2016[164] |
Gdańsk University of Technology, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics | Mathematics, Artificial intelligence, Physics | No | |||
Compute for Humanity | 2015-08[168]
2017[169] |
Independent[168] | Cryptocurrencies, Charitable Organizations | No | |||
Constellation | Students at the University of Stuttgart, Germany[170] | Aerospace, Engineering[170] | Various aerospace-related science and engineering problems.[170] | Yes | |||
Correlizer | 2011[171] | EpiGenSys Consortium and EraSysBio+, part of the Seventh Framework Program of the European Union[172] | Genetics[173] | The sequential organization of genomes, and its connection to their 3D architectural organization.[173] | Yes | ||
Cosmology@Home | 2007-06-26[174]
2024-01 |
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris[175] | Astronomy | Find the most accurate models that best describe the universe[175] | Yes | 4,083 (Mar 2023)[176] | 17.034 (Mar 2023)[176] |
DIMES | Maps the structure and evolution of the Internet infrastructure, letting users see how the Internet looks from their home | No | |||||
DistributedDataMining | 2010-03-04[177][178][179]
2018-04-20[180] |
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[181] | Yes | |||
DistrRTgen | 2008-01-12[182]
2014-06[183] |
Independent[14] | Cryptography | Analysis of hash strength for password security by developing rainbow tables.[184] | Yes | ||
DNA@home | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute[185] | Discovered what regulates the genes in DNA using statistical algorithms.[185] | Yes | ||||
Docking@Home | 2006-09-11[186]
2014-05-23[187] |
University of Delaware | models protein-ligand docking using the CHARMM program. | Yes | |||
DrugDiscovery@home | Independent[188] | Drug design | Supported in silico drug design of chemical compounds for medicines in the fields of cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.[188] | Yes | |||
Enigma@Home | 2007-09-09[189] | Cryptography | Cryptography | Decode three unbroken Enigma messages from World War II[190] | Yes | ||
eOn | 2014-05-08[191] | University of Texas at Austin[14] | Chemistry | Calculated the evolution of an atomic-scale system over time, such as a chemical reaction or diffusion.[192] | Yes | ||
Evolution@Home | 2001-04-03[193] | Uses evolutionary algorithms to optimize the parameters of different kinds of machine learning algorithms[194] | No | ||||
Five or Bust[195] | 2011-02 | Find a prime or probable prime of the form 2n+k for all odd k < 78557, the last probable prime found is 29092392+40291, and this project stopped when this probable prime was found. | No | ||||
FreeHAL | 2006[196]
2012[197] |
Independent[14] | Artificial intelligence | Compute essential information for software which seeks to imitate human conversation.[196] | Yes | ||
Genome@home | 2001-02-01
2004-03-08[198] |
Stanford University | Molecular biology | Designed new genes that can form working proteins in the cell that have not been found in nature. | No | ||
GoofyxGrid@Home | 2016 | Independent | Mathematics | Look for Infinite monkey theorem | Yes | ||
Goldbach's Conjecture | 2009-11-09[199]
2011-06[200] |
Tests Goldbach's weak conjecture.[201] | Yes | ||||
Golem@home | 2000
2001-09-03[202] |
Brandeis University | Robotics | Used evolutionary computation to design robotic locomotion systems.[203] | No | ||
Graceful Tree Verification Project[204] | 2008-11-22
2010-02-21 |
Independent[205] | Mathematics | Used a computational approach to the graceful tree conjecture, proving that every tree with at most 35 vertices is graceful[206] | No | ||
HashClash | 2005-11-24 | Cryptography | Find collisions in the MD5 hash algorithm | Yes | |||
Hydrogen@Home | 2007-10-22[207]
2011-02[208] |
Searches for the most efficient method of hydrogen production[209] | Yes | ||||
Ibercivis | 2008-06-22[210]
2016-07[211] |
Spanish universities and research centers[212] | Multiple applications | Yes | |||
Ideologias@home | 2011-05-19[214] | Complutense University of Madrid, Spain[215] | Society | Used social networking mathematical models to study the ideological evolution of a group of people over time.[215] | Yes | ||
Leiden Classical | 2005-05-12[216]
2018-06-05[217] |
Leiden University, the Netherlands[212] | Chemistry | General classical mechanics for students or scientists[218] | Yes | ||
vLHCathome (not to be confused with LHC@home above) |
2011-08-01[219]
2017-03[220] |
CERN[221] | Physics[221] | Run simulations of high-energy particle collisions in a computational search for new fundamental particles for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN[221][222] | Yes | ||
M4 Project | 2006-01-09[223]
2009-11-15[224] |
History | Decrypts Enigma messages from World War II[225] | No | |||
Majestic-12 | Uses a distributed web crawler program to index web sites for a distributed search engine[226] | No | |||||
Magnetism@home | 2008-06-09[227] | Donetsk Institute for Physics and Technology, Ukraine[228] | Magnetism, nanotechnology | Explored magnetization patterns.[228] | Yes | ||
Malaria Control Project | 2006-12-19[229]
2016-01-28[230] |
Swiss Tropical Institute[14] | Epidemiology | Simulate the transmission dynamics and health effects of malaria.[231] | Yes | ||
Mersenne@home | 2012 | Independent[14] | Mathematics | Searched for Mersenne primes.[232] Discontinued because the creator lacked time to administer it[233] | Yes | ||
MindModeling@Home | 2007-03-17[234] | University of Dayton Research Institute and Wright State University[235] | Cognitive science[235] | Builds cognitive models of the human mind[235] | Yes | ||
Minecraft@Home | 2020-06-24[236] | Independent[237] | Games[237] | Studies questions related to Minecraft, such as the properties of worlds that can be generated from different random seeds[236] | Yes | ||
MLC@Home | 2020-06-30
2022-10-02[238] |
University of Maryland, Baltimore County | Mathematics | Understanding and interpreting complex machine learning models | Yes | ||
MoneyBee | 2000-09[239]
2010 |
Finance | No | ||||
Muon1 Distributed Particle Accelerator Design | 2017[240] | Physics | Simulate and design parts of the Neutrino Factory particle accelerator[241][242] | No | |||
Najmanovich Research Group | Université de Sherbrooke[243] | Molecular biology[243] | Research in molecular recognition[243] | Yes | |||
Neurona@home | 2011-06-14[244] | Complutense University of Madrid, Spain[245] | Neural network | Simulating the behavior of a large and complex network of cellular automata neurons.[245] | Yes | ||
NFSNET | 2010 | Integer factorization | Used the general number field sieve to factor increasingly large integers. Discontinued and replaced by NFS@Home.[246] | No | |||
NNGenerator | 2014-10-20[247]
2016[248] |
Independent | Mathematics, finance, and artificial neural networks | Distributed system based on neural networks for analysis and forecasting time series | No | ||
OProject@Home | 2012-08-13 | Olin Library, Rollins College | Mathematics | Algorithm analysis. The library is open and available in the Code.google.com SVN repository. | Yes | ||
Optima@home | Institute for Systems Analysis, Russian Academy of Sciences[249] | Optimization[249] | Solve various large-scale optimization problems. Currently finding molecular conformations which have minimal potential energy.[249] | Yes | |||
orbit@home | 2008-04-03[250]
2013-02-16[251] |
Planetary Science Institute[14] | Astronomy | Monitored and studied the hazards posed by near-earth asteroids.[252] | Yes | ||
Pi Segment | 2006 | Independent project | Mathematics | Looked for specific digits (in binary) of Pi and make volunteer computing more popular in China[253] | No | ||
Pirates@Home | 2004-02-06[254] | 1 Vassar College
2 Spy Hill Research[254] |
Software testing | Mission 1 helped to develop the Einstein@Home screensaver[255]
Tested BOINC's forum software for possible use by Interactions in Understanding the Universe[256] |
Yes | ||
POEM@Home | 2007-13-11[257]
2016-10-04[258] |
University of Karlsruhe, Germany[14] | Molecular biology | Protein structure prediction, cellular signaling, protein aggregation, and drug design[259] | Yes | ||
Predictor@home | 2004-05-04[260] | The Scripps Research Institute | Molecular biology | Test and evaluate new algorithms and methods of protein structure prediction in the context of the Sixth Biannual CASP[261] experiment[262] | Yes | ||
Primaboinca | 2010-07-30[263]
2020-05-31[264] |
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[265] | Yes | ||
Proteins@home | 2006-09-15[266] | École polytechnique | Protein structure prediction | Contribute to a better understanding of many diseases and pathologies and to progress in Medicine and Technology[266] | Yes | ||
QMC@Home | 2006-03-03[267]
2013-01 |
University of Münster, Germany[212] | Chemistry | Study the structure and reactivity of molecules using quantum chemistry and Monte Carlo techniques[268] | Yes | ||
Quake Catcher Network | 2008-02-03[269]
2023-06-01[270] |
Stanford University[271][272] | Seismology[271][272] | Uses accelerometers connected to personal computers to detect earthquakes and to educate about seismology[271][272] | Yes | 215 (Mar 2023)[270] | 0.000 (Mar 2023)[270] |
QuChemPedIA@home | 2019-07-01
2022-09-29 |
Université Anger | Molecular Chemistry | Help for chemical researchers | Yes | 26 (Mar 2023)[273] | 0.000 (Mar 2023)[273] |
Riesel Sieve | Mathematics | Prove that 509,203 is the smallest Riesel number, by finding a prime of the form k × 2n − 1 for all odd k smaller than 509,203.
Merged with PrimeGrid. |
Yes | ||||
Renderfarm.fi | 2009-summer[274] | Independent (Finnish)[275][276] | Rendering | 2D and 3D rendering for animation artists[277] | Yes | ||
RSA Lattice Siever | 2009[278]
2012-08 |
Integer factorization | Assisted other factoring projects to achieve their academic goals.[279] Merged into NFS@Home because its server was outdated[280] | Yes | |||
SAT@home | 2011-09-29
2017-02[281] |
Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences | Cryptanalysis, Mathematics | Various applications related to the boolean satisfiability problem, inversion of specific stream cipher functions[282] | Yes | ||
Second Computing | 2008-04-10[283]
2012-08[284] |
Assesses biopolymer dynamics, and models the behavior of clonal colonies in a prairie ecosystem[285] | Yes | ||||
SETI@home | 1999-05-17[286][287][288]
2020-03-31[289] |
University of California, Berkeley[14] | Astrobiology | Search for extraterrestrial life by analyzing specific radio frequencies emanating from space[290] | Yes | ||
SETI@home beta | 2006-01-12[291]
2020-03-31[289] |
University of California, Berkeley[292] | Software testing | Test project of SETI@home[292] | Yes | ||
SIMAP | 2006-04-26[293]
2014-05-30 |
University of Vienna[14] | Molecular biology | Calculated similarities between proteins[294] | Yes | ||
SLinCA@Home | G.V.Kurdyumov Institute for Metal Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine[295] | Materials science[295] | Studies scaling laws in cluster aggregation[295] | Yes | |||
Spinhenge@home | 2006-05-19[296]
2011-09-28[297] |
Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences[14] | Nanotechnology | Studied nano-magnetic molecules for research into localized tumor chemotherapy and micro-memory.[298] | Yes | ||
Stop@home | 2017-02-28[299]
2018-01[300] |
Independent | Mathematics | Looking for prime k-tuples | Yes | ||
Sudoku@vtaiwan[301] | 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 | 2007-05-03[302] | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology[14] | Genetic linkage analysis | Uses genetic linkage analysis to help find disease-provoking genes.[303] | Yes | ||
Surveill@Home | University of Coimbra | Monitor and test websites for failure rates and overall performance[304] | Yes | ||||
theSkyNet | 2011-09-13[305]
2018-05-02[306] |
International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research[307] | Astronomy | Analysis of radio astronomy data from telescopes such as the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder and The Square Kilometre Array[308][309] | Yes | ||
uFluids@Home | 2005-09-19[310]
2010-11[311] |
Purdue University[14] | Physics, Aeronautics | Simulated microfluidics problems and two-phase flows in microgravity[312] | Yes | ||
USPEX@Home | 2017-04-04[313]
2019-03[314] |
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[315]
2019-03[314] |
University of Houston[14] | Botanical ecosystems | Provided ecological guidelines on the design of prairies with the best potential for water purification[316] | 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[317] | Yes | |||
Wieferich@Home | 2007-12-29[318]
2017[319] |
Mathematics | Searches for new Wieferich primes[320] | No | |||
EDGeS@Home | 2009-10[321] | MTA SZTAKI Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Hungary[14] | Multiple applications | Support the execution of selected scientific applications developed by the EGEE and EDGeS community[322] | Yes | ||
SZTAKI Desktop Grid | 2005-05-26[323] | 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[324] | Yes | ||
TANPAKU | 2005-08-02[325] | Tokyo University of Science | Molecular biology | Protein structure prediction using the Brownian dynamics method | Yes | ||
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