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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.
  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.
  Globus Project http://www.globus.org/
Research project developing a software infrastructure for distributed computing on a world-wide scale.
  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.
  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.
  ClimatePrediction.Net http://www.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.
  Grid.org http://www.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.
  Distributed Proofreaders Europe http://dp.rastko.net/
Modeled after the Digital Proofreaders project, this variation focuses on digitization of works considered to be in the public domain in Europe.
  Repository of Grid Research Projects http://www.enterthegrid.com/
News and resources on grid computing.
  How to Join Distributed Computing Projects That Benefit Humanity http://www.hyper.net/dc-howto.html
An annotated directory of projects combined with commentary and illustrations or screenshots.
  ABC@home http://abcathome.com/
Distributed computing project for finding abc-triples related to the mathematical A+B=C, or ABC conjecture.
  The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Computing Grid http://lcg.web.cern.ch/LCG/
Place to find the grid middleware developed for the future Large Hydron Collider in CERN.
  Legion: A Worldwide Virtual Computer http://legion.virginia.edu/
Research project homed at the University of Virginia. An open specification and prototype for a worldwide virtual computer.
  Leiden Classical http://boinc.gorlaeus.net/
BOINC project, dedicated to general classical dynamics for any scientist or science student.
  Evolution@Home http://www.evolutionary-research.net
Distributed computing program for evolutionary biology.
  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.
  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.
  Search for Fermat Number Dividers http://www.fermatsearch.org/
Screensaver program tries to find divisors of Fermat numbers.
  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.
  Compute Against Cancer http://www.computeagainstcancer.org/
Corporate-sponsored project exploring cancer development, prevention and treatment. [Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME]
  Distributedcomputing.info http://www.distributedcomputing.info/
Kirk Pearson's directory of current distributed computing projects as well as news articles and related materials.
  The Virtual Laboratory Project http://www.gridbus.org/vlab/
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.
  Muon1 Optimisation Project http://www.stephenbrooks.org/muon1/
Uses PC idle time to simulate and design a particle accelerator.
  The DBGlobe Project http://softsys.cs.uoi.gr/dbglobe/index1.html
Aims at developing novel data management techniques to deal with the challenge of global computing.
  The ChessBrain Network http://www.chessbrain.net
Distributed network chess experiment. Intends to create a single playing program using donated time.
  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.
  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.
  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.
  Majestic 12 http://www.majestic12.co.uk
Distributed Computing Project aimed towards building the largest search engine index on the Internet using Distributed Crawlers.
  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.
  The EON Project http://eon.cm.utexas.edu/
Software for the long time scale simulation of solids. From University of Washington Chemistry Department.
  http://ngrid.sourceforge.net http://ngrid.sourceforge.net
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.
  http://projectmobius.osu.edu http://projectmobius.osu.edu
Research project developing tools and middleware components to coherently share and manage data and metadata in a Grid or distributed computing environment.
  PCP@HOME http://www.theory.informatik.uni-kassel.de/~stamer/pcp/pcpcontest_en.html
A distributed project to find short Post Correspondence Problems with large shortest solutions.
  Gómez PEER Community http://www.gomezpeerzone.com/
Project pays select computer users to run a client that tests internet performance.
  3x+1@home http://allprojectstats.com/collatz/
Distributed mathematical project trying to find high stopping times for the Collatz conjecture.
  SZTAKI Desktop Grid http://szdg.lpds.sztaki.hu/szdg/
Currently searches for generalized binary number systems.
  Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Distributed Computing Project http://www.csm.ornl.gov/cs/DistComp.html
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.
  Quite Advanced Distributed Parallel Zystem (QADPZ) http://qadpz.sourceforge.net
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.
  MoneyBee http://www.moneybee.net/
Generates stock forecasts by application of artificial intelligence with the aid of artificial neural networks.
  Similarity Matrix of Proteins (SIMAP) http://boinc.bio.wzw.tum.de/boincsimap/
SIMAP is a public database of pre-calculated protein similarities that plays a key role in many bioinformatics methods. It contains about all currently published protein sequences and is continuously updated.
  Distributed Computing Projects - infoAnarchy Wiki http://www.infoanarchy.org/en/Distributed_Computing_Projects
Long annotated list.
  SDSC Matrix Project for P2P Grid Workflows http://www.npaci.edu/DICE/SRB/matrix/
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.
  Distributed computing projects http://koti.mbnet.fi/aquarius/links/link_distributedpower.html
Distributed computing projects links and short descriptions in English and in Finnish.
  http://www.boitho.com/dc/ http://www.boitho.com/dc/
Boitho distributed crawler (BETA). Goal is to make a general internet search engine with a thumbnail picture of all the pages.

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