List of distributed computing projects

A list of distributed computing projects.

Distributed projects directories

• grid.org A grid computing project for large scale research studies (mostly medical) with over two and a half million computers working under it.
• distributedcomputing.info Lists ongoing, future and past projects, edited by Kirk Pearson.

Distributed computing projects

• Amoeba distributed operating system
• Berkeley NOW Project
• Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) [1] a distributed computing infrastructure founded and developed by the SETI@home project ([2])
• Climateprediction.net [3] seeks to forcast the climate of the Earth in the 21st century.
• Condor [4] is a flexible high-throughput distributed computing scheduler
• D2OL [5] works to discover drug candidates against Anthrax, Smallpox, Ebola and SARS and other potentially devastating infectious diseases.
• DHE [6] is a project for automatically designing self-diagnosing hardware.
• Distributed.net [7] has many projects, one of which is a search for optimal Golomb rulers. Some will venture that Distributed.net is not a non-profit project since the main RC5-72 project they do is indeed for a cash prize from RSA Labs.
• Distributed Folding [8] is doing work similar to that of Folding@home, but with a genetic algorithm to attempt to improve the results over time. Distributed Folding closed on October 5, 2004.
• Einstein@Home [9] gravitational wave project
• Electric Sheep Screen-saver for animating and evolving artificial life-forms.
• FAFNER
• Find-a-drug [10] is a non-profit organisation using Internet-based computing for drug discovery. Preliminary results from the Cancer and HIV projects are very promising. More information here.
• Folding@home [11] University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign report on October 22, 2002 states that their distributed simulations of protein folding are demonstrably accurate.
• Genome@home [12] Due to funding, Genome@home was shut down. It now acts as a deadline-less work unit server for Folding@home.
• GIMPS -- Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, dedicated to finding ever larger Mersenne primes.
• JHDC [13] -- Open source programmable Java distributed computing system.
• Lifemapper[14] Attempts to build global archive of biological species distributions.
• LHC@home[15] Helps to build the LHC at CERN using a BOINC based system.
• MD5CRK[16] Attempts to crack the commonly used cryptographic hash function MD5. This project ended August 24, 2004 due to findings by Wang, Feng, Lai, and Yu. Read more at http://eprint.iacr.org/2004/199.pdf
• Muon1 [17] Optimises the design of a particle collider which will be used to measure the mass of neutrinos.
• OurGrid [18] The OurGrid Project aims to deliver grid technology that can be used today by current users to solve present problems. To achieve this goal, OurGrid chooses a different trade-off compared to most grid projects. It forfeits supporting arbitrary applications in favor of supporting only Bag-of-Tasks applications.
• PlanetQuest [19], PlanetQuest is an NPO that was created in order to divine the existence of unknown celestial bodies within our galaxy.
• Predictor@home [20], a project predicting protein structures from their sequences
• Seventeen or Bust [21] Attempts to find prime numbers in 17 sequences, to solve the Sierpinski problem. - So far primes in 7 sequences have been found.
• SETI@home [22], a project searching for signs of extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI).
• DIMES [23] is a distributed computing project which maps the structure and evolution of the Internet infrastructure, allowing users to see how the Internet looks from their home.
• Project Dolphin [24] is a project to track how many keys you type and keep statistics of it, and you can compare yourself to others.
• World Community Grid [25] channels underutilized computer power into selected medical and environmental research programs such as the Human Proteome Folding Project [26].