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- 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.
- The ChessBrain Network - Distributed network chess experiment. Intends to create a single playing program using donated time.
- 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.
- The DBGlobe Project - Aims at developing novel data management techniques to deal with the challenge of global computing.
- 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 Computing Projects - infoAnarchy Wiki - Long annotated list.
- 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.
- The EON Project - Software for the long time scale simulation of solids. From University of Washington Chemistry Department.
- Evolution@Home - Distributed computing program for evolutionary biology.
- 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.
- Gómez PEER Community - Project pays select computer users to run a client that tests internet performance.
- How to Join Distributed Computing Projects That Benefit Humanity - An annotated directory of projects combined with commentary and illustrations or screenshots.
- 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.
- 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.
- The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Computing Grid - Place to find the grid middleware developed for the future Large Hydron Collider in CERN.
- 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.
- The NorduGrid Project - The Grid middleware development and testbed deployment project in the Nordic countries
- 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.
- 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.
- P2P Distributed Computing Framework - JNGI is a open-source generic P2P distributed computing framework.
- 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.
- 12121 Search - Help this distributed computing project by donating CPU cycles to find primes of the form 121*2^N-1.
- Search for Fermat Number Dividers - Screensaver program tries to find divisors of Fermat numbers.
- SZTAKI Desktop Grid - Project based on the Public Resource Computing model, aiming to support computation intensive research tasks with supercomputing-like performance.
- 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.
- 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. (March, 1998)
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