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World Community Grid - http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/
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. |
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Einstein@Home - http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/
Uses a computer's idle time to search for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors. |
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Globus Project - http://www.globus.org/
Research project developing a software infrastructure for distributed computing on a world-wide scale. |
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Distributed Proofreaders - http://www.pgdp.net/
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. |
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The NorduGrid Project - http://www.nordugrid.org
Research and Development collaboration aiming at development, maintenance and support of the free Grid middleware known as the Advance Resource Connector (ARC). News, documentation, downloads, and background information. |
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GPU, a Global Processing Unit - http://gpu.sourceforge.net
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. |
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Distributed Computing Arcana - http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/frm/f/122097561
A forum for discussing SETI, RC5, F@H, G@H, the UD Cancer Project, and other distributed computing efforts. |
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Search for Fermat Number Dividers - http://www.fermatsearch.org/
Screensaver program tries to find divisors of Fermat numbers. |
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The Hunting of the Snark Project - http://www.klomp.org/snark/
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. |
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Compute Against Cancer - http://www.computeagainstcancer.org/
Corporate-sponsored project exploring cancer development, prevention and treatment. [Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME] |
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NETI@home - http://www.neti.gatech.edu/
Open-source software package designed to run on end-user machines while collecting various statistics about Internet performance. |
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American Scientist: Collective Wisdom - http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/1998/2/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. |
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Computing Minimum Equal Sums of Like Power - http://euler.free.fr/
Includes client software download, computation records, and project description on its research into mathematical problems. |
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Majestic 12 - http://www.majestic12.co.uk
Distributed Computing Project aimed towards building the largest search engine index on the Internet using Distributed Crawlers. |
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XGrid@Stanford - http://cmgm.stanford.edu/~cparnot/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. |