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First, let us say Welcome!
Here you will find a list of distributed computing projects, most of which TeAm Anandtech participate in. They vary in areas like Astronomy, Mathematics, Medicine and many more. Hopefully these listed here will help you decide which project(s) are the most interesting for you.
If you need help or want more info please ask on the forums and we will do our best find an answer for you.
BOINC Projects
These projects all use the BOINC wrapper.
While most are hard coded into BOINC some may have to have their URL added manually.
Once you have BOINC installed go to the 'Tools' tab and select 'Add project'. Select the project you wish to participate in and follow the prompts. Your project will have been add to BOINC and you are on your way.
To join our TeAm go to the project home page and find the "join or create new team" and click on that. It is easiest to do a search for Anandtech. Click on (usually) TeAm AnandTech, then click on 'Join this team'. WELCOME to the TeAm!!!
Amicable Numbers
Amicable Numbers is an independent research project that uses Internet-connected computers to find new amicable pairs. You can contribute to our research by running a free program on your computer.
Current goal of the project is to find all amicable pairs with smallest member < 264.
All new findings are published regularly on the Amicable pairs list page.
March 2017 Working Project. CPU, NVIDIA and AMD GPU. Windows, Linux, Mac and ARM.
Asteroids@home
The aim of the project is to derive shapes and spin for a significant part of the asteroid population. As input data, we use any asteroid photometry that is available. The results are asteroid convex shape models with the direction of the spin axis and the rotation period.
Jan. 2017 Working Project. CPU and NVIDIA GPU. Windows, Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, and Android.
Citizen Science Grid
The Citizen Science Grid is dedicated to supporting a wide range of research and educational projects using volunteer computing and citizen science.
Jan. 2017 Working Project. CPU only. Windows, Linux and Mac.
Climate Prediction
Investigate the approximations that have to be made in state-of-the-art climate models. By running the model thousands of times we hope to find out how the model responds to slight tweaks to these approximations - slight enough to not make the approximations any less realistic. This will allow us to improve our understanding of how sensitive our models are to small changes and also to things like changes in carbon dioxide and the sulphur cycle. This will allow us to explore how climate may change in the next century under a wide range of different scenarios.
Jan. 2017 Working Project. CPU only. Windows, Linux and Mac.
Collatz Conjecture
Study the Collatz Conjecture, an unsolved conjecture in mathematics
Jan. 2017 Working Project. CPU, NVIDIA, AMD and INTEL GPU. Windows, Linux and Mac.
Cosmology@home
The goal of Cosmology@Home is to search for the model that best describes our Universe and to find the range of models that agree with the available astronomical particle physics data.
May 2017 Working Project. CPU Only, Windows, Linux and Mac.
DENIS@Home
DENIS@Home does cardiac electrophysiological simulations, studying the electrical activity of the heart.
March 2017, Working project. CPU only. Windows, Linux and Mac.
Einstein@home
Search for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors, and from the Arecibo radio observatory. Einstein@Home is a World Year of Physics 2005 project supported by the American Physical Society (APS) and by a number of international organizations.
Jan. 2017 Working Project. CPU, NVIDIA, AMD and Intel GPU. Windows, Linux, Mac and Android.
Gerasim@home
Testing and comparison of heuristic methods for getting separations of parallel algorithms working in the CAD system for designing logic control systems
Jan. 2017 Working Project. CPU, Intel, AMD and NVIDIA GPU. Windows only.
GPUGrid
GPUGrid.net opens novel computational scenarios by the first full-atom molecular dynamics code (CellMD) specially optimized to run on NVIDIA GPUs. New biomedical applications suddenly become possible giving a new role to computational biology for biomedical research.
Jan. 2017 Working Project. NVIDIA GPU, Windows and Linux.
Ibercivis BOINC
Current working app; Covid-Phym, Fight against SARS-CoV-2 replication v0.02
June 2020 Working Project. Windows, Linux and Mac
LHC@home
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the world's largest particle physics laboratory. It is the most powerful instrument ever built to investigate on particles proprieties. LHC@home runs simulations to improve the design of LHC and its detectors.
VLHCatHome and ATLAS@Home are now part of this project.
March 2017, Working project. CPU Only. Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and FreeBSD
Majestic12
Notice: As of 5 July 2014 Project continued for existing members only
From today we are stopping accepting NEW project members, however the project continues for those who have already joined it!
This software will use your connection to crawl for data and send it back to main server where it will be indexed and made available for actual searches. You will need to have unmetered broadband connection (you can limit the amount of bandwidth to be used), reasonably fast CPU (2000 Mhz+ or better) and 2GB of RAM. Actual usage of memory depends on your settings, with default ones resulting in 50-60Mb usage at any time.
Milkyway@home
The goal of Milkyway@Home is to create a highly accurate three dimensional model of the Milky Way galaxy using data gathered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
MilkyWay@H - Benchmark thread and discussion by Assimilator1
Jan. 2017 Working Project. CPU, AMD and NVIDIA GPU. Windows, Linux, and Mac.
Minecraft@Home
This is a volunteer computing project which allows anyone on the internet to contribute resources to research projects related to Minecraft.
January 2021. Working Project. CPU, NVIDIA, AMD and Intel GPU. Windows and Linux.
MindModeling@home
MindModeling@Home uses computational cognitive process modeling to better understand the human mind, and specifically to study the mechanisms and processes that enable and moderate human performance and learning.
September 2017 Working project. CPU Only. Windows, Linux and Mac.
MLC@Home
MLC@Home is a distributed computing project dedicated to understanding and interpreting complex machine learning models, with an emphasis on neural networks. more...
January 2021. Working Project. CPU, NVIDIA and AMD GPU. Windows and Linux.
Moo! Wrapper
Run applications from distributed.net
March 2017, Working project. CPU, NVIDIA and AMD GPU. Windows, Linux, Mac and Android.
nanoHUB@Home
nanoHUB is a research project, based at nanoHUB.org, that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in nanoscience and nanotechnology. You can contribute to our research by running a free program on your computer.
March 2019. Working Project. CPU only (vbox64_mt). Windows, Linux and Mac.
NFS@home
NFS@Home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do the lattice sieving step in the Number Field Sieve factorization of large integers. As a young school student, you gained your first experience at breaking an integer into prime factors, such as 15 = 3 * 5 or 35 = 5 * 7. NFS@Home is a continuation of that experience, only with integers that are hundreds of digits long.
Jan. 2017 Working Project. CPU only. Windows, Linux, Mac and FreeBSD.
NumberFields@home
NumberFields@home searches for fields with special properties. The primary application of this research is in the realm of algebraic number theory. Number theorists can mine the data for interesting patterns to help them formulate conjectures about number fields. Ultimately, this research will lead to a deeper understanding of the profound properties of numbers, the basic building blocks of all mathematics.
April 2017 Working Project. CPU Only. Windows, Linux and Mac
ODLK
A Latin square project.
Jan. 2018 Working Project. CPU only. Windows, Linux and FreeBSD.
ODLK1
BOINC-project ODLK1 continues to solve the problem of BOINC-project ODLK.
The project generates a database of canonical forms (CF) of diagonal Latin squares (DLS) of order 10 having orthogonal diagonal Latin squares (ODLS).
Jan. 2018, Working Project. CPU Only. Windows, Linux and FreeBSD.
PrimeGrid
Primegrid has multiple projects searching for different forms of very large prime numbers, including searching for the largest known prime number.
PrimeGrid: CPU benchmarks and discussion by StefanR5R
Jan. 2017 Working Project. CPU, NVIDIA and AMD GPU. Windows, Linux and Mac.
QuChemPedIA@home
Molecular chemistry is lagging behind in term of open science. Although modelization by quantum mechanics applied to chemistry has become almost mandatory in any major publication, computational raw data is most of the time kept in the labs or destroyed. Furthermore, the software used in this area tend to lack effective quality control and computational details are usually incomplete in the articles and the information may not be reused or reproduced. The first objective of this project is to constitute a large collaborative open platform that will solve and store quantum molecular chemistry results. Original output files will be available to be reused to tackle new chemical studies for different applications. Machine learning and more generally artificial intelligence applied to chemistry data promises to revolutionize this area in the near future, but these methods require a lot of data that this project will be able to provide.
Jan. 2020 Working Project. CPU only, Windows, Linux and Mac.
Quake Catcher Network
Quake-Catcher Network uses sensors attached to computers and smartphones to detect seismic waves.
Radioactive@home
Radioactive@Home is creating a free and continuously updated map of radiation levels using sensors connected to volunteers' computers. You must buy a sensor to participate.
RNA World
RNA World seeks to identify, analyze, structurally predict and design RNA molecules on the basis of established bioinformatics software.
Rosetta@home
Determine the 3-dimensional shapes of proteins in research that may ultimately lead to finding cures for some major human diseases. By running Rosetta@home you will help us speed up and extend our research in ways we couldn't possibly attempt without your help. You will also be helping our efforts at designing new proteins to fight diseases such as HIV, malaria, cancer, and Alzheimer's.
Jan. 2017 Working Project. CPU only. Windows, Linux, Mac and Android.
RALPH@home
RALPH@home is the official alpha test project for Rosetta@home. New application versions, work units, and updates in general will be tested here before being used for production. The goal for RALPH@home is to improve Rosetta@home.
Seti@home
SETI@home is in hiberation.
We are no longer distributing tasks. The SETI@home message boards will continue to operate, and we'll continue working on the back-end data analysis. Maybe we'll even find ET!
Thanks to everyone for your support over the years. We encourage you to keep crunching for science.
March 2017, Working project. CPU, NVIDIA, AMD and Intel GPU. Windows, Linux, Mac and Android.
SiDock@home
COVID.SI is a citizen science project to fight against SARS-CoV-2 by distributed computing.
In our project, we are looking for ligands – small molecules that can successfully bind to protein targets and modulate a specific process that is crucial for the virus biochemistry. Together we have developed software that can be easily installed on your computer to help participants help find the cure for today’s invisible enemy. Based on molecular docking, the ideal ligand should be complementary in shape and properties to the binding site of the target biomolecule. However, the complementarity of small molecules is only one prerequisite for the use of a molecule as a drug. more...
January 2021, Working project. CPU. Windows, Linux, Mac.
SRBase
SRBase is a mathematical research project that uses Internet-connected computers trying to solve Sierpinski / Riesel Bases up to 1030.
September 2017 Working Project. CPU Only. Windows, Linux and Mac.
T.Brada Experiment Grid
This project servers as a development system for the project administrator. Read more about what computation is performed here in the forum.
Jan. 2020 Working Project. CPU only. Windows and Linux.
TN-Grid
TN-Grid is a platform that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in various scientific projects.
March 2017, Working project CPU Only. Windows, Linux and Mac.
Universe@Home
Universe@Home aims to create the first database of the simulated stellar content of the Universe, from the earliest stars to the most exotic black hole binaries.
Jan. 2017 Working Project. CPU and AMD GPU. Windows, Linux and Android.
WEP-M+2 Project
WEP-M+2 (wanless2) is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in number theory. You can participate by downloading and running a free program on your computer.
WEP-M+2 is based at London, UK, and is currently investigating factorization of Mersenneplustwo numbers.
Jan. 2018 Working Project. CPU Only. Linux and Mac.
World Community Grid
To further critical non-profit research on some of humanity's most pressing problems by creating the world's largest volunteer computing grid. Research includes HIV-AIDS, cancer, tropical and neglected diseases, solar energy, clean water and many more.
Jan. 2017 Working Project. CPU Only. Windows, Linux, Mac, and Android.
Yafu
YAFU is a alpha project, which main goal is
to test the latest BOINC server code for bugs, please report any error which you find in the webpages in the forum
to factorize numbers up to 140 digit length which are needed to bring Aliquot Sequences to a size of at least 140.
to test the latest versions of yafu.
Jan. 2017 Working Project. CPU only. Windows, Linux and Android.
Yoyo@home
Yoyo@home is an adapter between BOINC and several existing volunteer computing projects: ECM, Muon, Evolution@home, and distributed.net
Jan. 2017 Working Project. CPU only. Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris and Android.
NON BOINC Projects
These are stand alone projects which have their own installers.
distributed.net
To join our TeAm go here and click on 'I Want To Join This Team'.
distributed.net was the Internet's first general-purpose distributed computing project.
Founded in 1997, our network has grown to include thousands of volunteers around the world donating the power of their home computers, cell phones and tablets to academic research and public-interest projects. Join us today in this ground-breaking cloud computing experience! We need your help...
It's very simple to participate in our projects. You only need to download a small program, which will talk to our network and begin to process work immediately. The program uses only the computer's idle time, so when you want to use your computer, it will automatically get out of your way. Plus, there's that cute little cow icon...
Also available as Cruncher ogr under Yoyo@home and RC5-72 is under Moo! Wrapper if you want to contribute and get BOINC credit.
Folding@Home
To join our TeAm use Team ID 198 when setting up your client.
Help Stanford University scientists studying Alzheimer's, Huntington's, Parkinson's, and many cancers by simply running a piece of software on your computer.
Getting the most PPD out of your hardware for F@H and discussion by Markfw
GIMPS
Since it's foundation in 1996, GIMPS has discovered 15 Mersenne primes so far. Could you be next?
Just a few of the major projects, look for more on the Free-DC side menu
Most of the other projects have changed over to the BOINC format, .
Other sources for project info, lots more than listed here.
BOINC at Berkeley
Free-DC
BOINC Stats
I have only listed projects that are currently working.
There are other projects that are viable but don't seem to have much of a TeAm presence.
I will continue to go through some of the projects and list them here as I can.
Please let me know if I have missed any major ones that people are contributing to.
EDITS will be an ongoing thing
Here you will find a list of distributed computing projects, most of which TeAm Anandtech participate in. They vary in areas like Astronomy, Mathematics, Medicine and many more. Hopefully these listed here will help you decide which project(s) are the most interesting for you.
If you need help or want more info please ask on the forums and we will do our best find an answer for you.
BOINC Projects
These projects all use the BOINC wrapper.
While most are hard coded into BOINC some may have to have their URL added manually.
Once you have BOINC installed go to the 'Tools' tab and select 'Add project'. Select the project you wish to participate in and follow the prompts. Your project will have been add to BOINC and you are on your way.
To join our TeAm go to the project home page and find the "join or create new team" and click on that. It is easiest to do a search for Anandtech. Click on (usually) TeAm AnandTech, then click on 'Join this team'. WELCOME to the TeAm!!!
Amicable Numbers
Amicable Numbers is an independent research project that uses Internet-connected computers to find new amicable pairs. You can contribute to our research by running a free program on your computer.
Current goal of the project is to find all amicable pairs with smallest member < 264.
All new findings are published regularly on the Amicable pairs list page.
March 2017 Working Project. CPU, NVIDIA and AMD GPU. Windows, Linux, Mac and ARM.
Asteroids@home
The aim of the project is to derive shapes and spin for a significant part of the asteroid population. As input data, we use any asteroid photometry that is available. The results are asteroid convex shape models with the direction of the spin axis and the rotation period.
Jan. 2017 Working Project. CPU and NVIDIA GPU. Windows, Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, and Android.
Citizen Science Grid
The Citizen Science Grid is dedicated to supporting a wide range of research and educational projects using volunteer computing and citizen science.
Jan. 2017 Working Project. CPU only. Windows, Linux and Mac.
Climate Prediction
Investigate the approximations that have to be made in state-of-the-art climate models. By running the model thousands of times we hope to find out how the model responds to slight tweaks to these approximations - slight enough to not make the approximations any less realistic. This will allow us to improve our understanding of how sensitive our models are to small changes and also to things like changes in carbon dioxide and the sulphur cycle. This will allow us to explore how climate may change in the next century under a wide range of different scenarios.
Jan. 2017 Working Project. CPU only. Windows, Linux and Mac.
Collatz Conjecture
Study the Collatz Conjecture, an unsolved conjecture in mathematics
Jan. 2017 Working Project. CPU, NVIDIA, AMD and INTEL GPU. Windows, Linux and Mac.
Cosmology@home
The goal of Cosmology@Home is to search for the model that best describes our Universe and to find the range of models that agree with the available astronomical particle physics data.
May 2017 Working Project. CPU Only, Windows, Linux and Mac.
DENIS@Home
DENIS@Home does cardiac electrophysiological simulations, studying the electrical activity of the heart.
March 2017, Working project. CPU only. Windows, Linux and Mac.
Einstein@home
Search for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors, and from the Arecibo radio observatory. Einstein@Home is a World Year of Physics 2005 project supported by the American Physical Society (APS) and by a number of international organizations.
Jan. 2017 Working Project. CPU, NVIDIA, AMD and Intel GPU. Windows, Linux, Mac and Android.
Gerasim@home
Testing and comparison of heuristic methods for getting separations of parallel algorithms working in the CAD system for designing logic control systems
Jan. 2017 Working Project. CPU, Intel, AMD and NVIDIA GPU. Windows only.
GPUGrid
GPUGrid.net opens novel computational scenarios by the first full-atom molecular dynamics code (CellMD) specially optimized to run on NVIDIA GPUs. New biomedical applications suddenly become possible giving a new role to computational biology for biomedical research.
Jan. 2017 Working Project. NVIDIA GPU, Windows and Linux.
Ibercivis BOINC
Current working app; Covid-Phym, Fight against SARS-CoV-2 replication v0.02
June 2020 Working Project. Windows, Linux and Mac
LHC@home
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the world's largest particle physics laboratory. It is the most powerful instrument ever built to investigate on particles proprieties. LHC@home runs simulations to improve the design of LHC and its detectors.
VLHCatHome and ATLAS@Home are now part of this project.
March 2017, Working project. CPU Only. Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and FreeBSD
Majestic12
Notice: As of 5 July 2014 Project continued for existing members only
From today we are stopping accepting NEW project members, however the project continues for those who have already joined it!
This software will use your connection to crawl for data and send it back to main server where it will be indexed and made available for actual searches. You will need to have unmetered broadband connection (you can limit the amount of bandwidth to be used), reasonably fast CPU (2000 Mhz+ or better) and 2GB of RAM. Actual usage of memory depends on your settings, with default ones resulting in 50-60Mb usage at any time.
Milkyway@home
The goal of Milkyway@Home is to create a highly accurate three dimensional model of the Milky Way galaxy using data gathered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
MilkyWay@H - Benchmark thread and discussion by Assimilator1
Jan. 2017 Working Project. CPU, AMD and NVIDIA GPU. Windows, Linux, and Mac.
Minecraft@Home
This is a volunteer computing project which allows anyone on the internet to contribute resources to research projects related to Minecraft.
January 2021. Working Project. CPU, NVIDIA, AMD and Intel GPU. Windows and Linux.
MindModeling@home
MindModeling@Home uses computational cognitive process modeling to better understand the human mind, and specifically to study the mechanisms and processes that enable and moderate human performance and learning.
September 2017 Working project. CPU Only. Windows, Linux and Mac.
MLC@Home
MLC@Home is a distributed computing project dedicated to understanding and interpreting complex machine learning models, with an emphasis on neural networks. more...
January 2021. Working Project. CPU, NVIDIA and AMD GPU. Windows and Linux.
Moo! Wrapper
Run applications from distributed.net
March 2017, Working project. CPU, NVIDIA and AMD GPU. Windows, Linux, Mac and Android.
nanoHUB@Home
nanoHUB is a research project, based at nanoHUB.org, that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in nanoscience and nanotechnology. You can contribute to our research by running a free program on your computer.
March 2019. Working Project. CPU only (vbox64_mt). Windows, Linux and Mac.
NFS@home
NFS@Home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do the lattice sieving step in the Number Field Sieve factorization of large integers. As a young school student, you gained your first experience at breaking an integer into prime factors, such as 15 = 3 * 5 or 35 = 5 * 7. NFS@Home is a continuation of that experience, only with integers that are hundreds of digits long.
Jan. 2017 Working Project. CPU only. Windows, Linux, Mac and FreeBSD.
NumberFields@home
NumberFields@home searches for fields with special properties. The primary application of this research is in the realm of algebraic number theory. Number theorists can mine the data for interesting patterns to help them formulate conjectures about number fields. Ultimately, this research will lead to a deeper understanding of the profound properties of numbers, the basic building blocks of all mathematics.
April 2017 Working Project. CPU Only. Windows, Linux and Mac
ODLK
A Latin square project.
Jan. 2018 Working Project. CPU only. Windows, Linux and FreeBSD.
ODLK1
BOINC-project ODLK1 continues to solve the problem of BOINC-project ODLK.
The project generates a database of canonical forms (CF) of diagonal Latin squares (DLS) of order 10 having orthogonal diagonal Latin squares (ODLS).
Jan. 2018, Working Project. CPU Only. Windows, Linux and FreeBSD.
PrimeGrid
Primegrid has multiple projects searching for different forms of very large prime numbers, including searching for the largest known prime number.
PrimeGrid: CPU benchmarks and discussion by StefanR5R
Jan. 2017 Working Project. CPU, NVIDIA and AMD GPU. Windows, Linux and Mac.
QuChemPedIA@home
Molecular chemistry is lagging behind in term of open science. Although modelization by quantum mechanics applied to chemistry has become almost mandatory in any major publication, computational raw data is most of the time kept in the labs or destroyed. Furthermore, the software used in this area tend to lack effective quality control and computational details are usually incomplete in the articles and the information may not be reused or reproduced. The first objective of this project is to constitute a large collaborative open platform that will solve and store quantum molecular chemistry results. Original output files will be available to be reused to tackle new chemical studies for different applications. Machine learning and more generally artificial intelligence applied to chemistry data promises to revolutionize this area in the near future, but these methods require a lot of data that this project will be able to provide.
Jan. 2020 Working Project. CPU only, Windows, Linux and Mac.
Quake Catcher Network
Quake-Catcher Network uses sensors attached to computers and smartphones to detect seismic waves.
Radioactive@home
Radioactive@Home is creating a free and continuously updated map of radiation levels using sensors connected to volunteers' computers. You must buy a sensor to participate.
RNA World
RNA World seeks to identify, analyze, structurally predict and design RNA molecules on the basis of established bioinformatics software.
Rosetta@home
Determine the 3-dimensional shapes of proteins in research that may ultimately lead to finding cures for some major human diseases. By running Rosetta@home you will help us speed up and extend our research in ways we couldn't possibly attempt without your help. You will also be helping our efforts at designing new proteins to fight diseases such as HIV, malaria, cancer, and Alzheimer's.
Jan. 2017 Working Project. CPU only. Windows, Linux, Mac and Android.
RALPH@home
RALPH@home is the official alpha test project for Rosetta@home. New application versions, work units, and updates in general will be tested here before being used for production. The goal for RALPH@home is to improve Rosetta@home.
Seti@home
SETI@home is in hiberation.
We are no longer distributing tasks. The SETI@home message boards will continue to operate, and we'll continue working on the back-end data analysis. Maybe we'll even find ET!
Thanks to everyone for your support over the years. We encourage you to keep crunching for science.
March 2017, Working project. CPU, NVIDIA, AMD and Intel GPU. Windows, Linux, Mac and Android.
SiDock@home
COVID.SI is a citizen science project to fight against SARS-CoV-2 by distributed computing.
In our project, we are looking for ligands – small molecules that can successfully bind to protein targets and modulate a specific process that is crucial for the virus biochemistry. Together we have developed software that can be easily installed on your computer to help participants help find the cure for today’s invisible enemy. Based on molecular docking, the ideal ligand should be complementary in shape and properties to the binding site of the target biomolecule. However, the complementarity of small molecules is only one prerequisite for the use of a molecule as a drug. more...
January 2021, Working project. CPU. Windows, Linux, Mac.
SRBase
SRBase is a mathematical research project that uses Internet-connected computers trying to solve Sierpinski / Riesel Bases up to 1030.
September 2017 Working Project. CPU Only. Windows, Linux and Mac.
T.Brada Experiment Grid
This project servers as a development system for the project administrator. Read more about what computation is performed here in the forum.
Jan. 2020 Working Project. CPU only. Windows and Linux.
TN-Grid
TN-Grid is a platform that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in various scientific projects.
March 2017, Working project CPU Only. Windows, Linux and Mac.
Universe@Home
Universe@Home aims to create the first database of the simulated stellar content of the Universe, from the earliest stars to the most exotic black hole binaries.
Jan. 2017 Working Project. CPU and AMD GPU. Windows, Linux and Android.
WEP-M+2 Project
WEP-M+2 (wanless2) is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in number theory. You can participate by downloading and running a free program on your computer.
WEP-M+2 is based at London, UK, and is currently investigating factorization of Mersenneplustwo numbers.
Jan. 2018 Working Project. CPU Only. Linux and Mac.
World Community Grid
To further critical non-profit research on some of humanity's most pressing problems by creating the world's largest volunteer computing grid. Research includes HIV-AIDS, cancer, tropical and neglected diseases, solar energy, clean water and many more.
Jan. 2017 Working Project. CPU Only. Windows, Linux, Mac, and Android.
Yafu
YAFU is a alpha project, which main goal is
to test the latest BOINC server code for bugs, please report any error which you find in the webpages in the forum
to factorize numbers up to 140 digit length which are needed to bring Aliquot Sequences to a size of at least 140.
to test the latest versions of yafu.
Jan. 2017 Working Project. CPU only. Windows, Linux and Android.
Yoyo@home
Yoyo@home is an adapter between BOINC and several existing volunteer computing projects: ECM, Muon, Evolution@home, and distributed.net
Jan. 2017 Working Project. CPU only. Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris and Android.
NON BOINC Projects
These are stand alone projects which have their own installers.
distributed.net
To join our TeAm go here and click on 'I Want To Join This Team'.
distributed.net was the Internet's first general-purpose distributed computing project.
Founded in 1997, our network has grown to include thousands of volunteers around the world donating the power of their home computers, cell phones and tablets to academic research and public-interest projects. Join us today in this ground-breaking cloud computing experience! We need your help...
It's very simple to participate in our projects. You only need to download a small program, which will talk to our network and begin to process work immediately. The program uses only the computer's idle time, so when you want to use your computer, it will automatically get out of your way. Plus, there's that cute little cow icon...
Also available as Cruncher ogr under Yoyo@home and RC5-72 is under Moo! Wrapper if you want to contribute and get BOINC credit.
Folding@Home
To join our TeAm use Team ID 198 when setting up your client.
Help Stanford University scientists studying Alzheimer's, Huntington's, Parkinson's, and many cancers by simply running a piece of software on your computer.
Getting the most PPD out of your hardware for F@H and discussion by Markfw
GIMPS
Since it's foundation in 1996, GIMPS has discovered 15 Mersenne primes so far. Could you be next?
Just a few of the major projects, look for more on the Free-DC side menu
Most of the other projects have changed over to the BOINC format, .
Other sources for project info, lots more than listed here.
BOINC at Berkeley
Free-DC
BOINC Stats
I have only listed projects that are currently working.
There are other projects that are viable but don't seem to have much of a TeAm presence.
I will continue to go through some of the projects and list them here as I can.
Please let me know if I have missed any major ones that people are contributing to.
EDITS will be an ongoing thing
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