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This page lists all BOINC-based projects that are active and have real (non-test) applications. BOINC and the University of California do not

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Contents

[edit] Astronomy/Physics/Chemistry

BRaTS@Home

Cosmology@Home

  • URL: http://www.cosmologyathome.org/
  • Institution: Departments of Astronomy and Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Official launch: 31-03-2007
  • Platforms: Linux/x86, Windows, Linux/x86_64
  • Description: 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 and particle physics data.

Einstein@home

  • URL: http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/
  • Institution: Albert Einstein Institute, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
  • Official launch: 19-11-2004
  • Platforms: Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Mac OS X (PowerPC), SPARC Solaris 2.7, Windows
  • Description: Search for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors. Einstein@Home is a World Year of Physics 2005 project supported by the American Physical Society (APS) and by a number of international organizations.

Hydrogen@Home

  • URL: http://hydrogenathome.org/
  • Institution: private
  • Official launch: 11-05-2007
  • Platforms: Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Mac OS X (PowerPC), Windows
  • Description: To enhance clean energy technology by improving hydrogen production and storage.

Leiden Classical

  • URL: http://boinc.gorlaeus.net/
  • Institution: Leiden University
  • Official launch: 05-12-2005
  • Platforms: Unknown
  • Description: Surface science calculations using Classical Dynamics. In contrast to other projects, Leiden Classical allows volunteers, students and other scientists to submit their personal calculations to the grid. Each user has his own personal queue for Classical Dynamics jobs. In this way students have used the grid to simulate liquid argon, or to test the validity of the ideal gas law by actually doing the simulations through the grid.

LHC@home

  • URL: http://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/
  • Institution: CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Official launch: 01-09-2004
  • Platforms: Linux/x86, Windows, Windows/x86_64, Linux/x86_64
  • Description: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator which is being built at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear research, the world's largest particle physics laboratory. When it switches on in 2008, the LHC will be the most powerful instrument ever built to investigate particle properties. LHC@home simulates particles traveling around the LHC to study the stability of their orbits.

MilkyWay@Home

  • URL: http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/
  • Institution: Computer Science Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Official launch: 07-07-2007
  • Platforms: amd64-unknown-freebsd, i386-unknown-freebsd, Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Mac OS X (PowerPC), SPARC Solaris, Windows, Windows/x86_64, Linux/x86_64
  • Description: Research in modeling and determining the evolution of the Milkyway galaxy.

NanoHive@Home

Orbit@Home

  • URL: http://orbit.psi.edu/oah/
  • Institution: Planetary Science Institute
  • Official launch: 04-03-2008
  • Platforms: Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Windows
  • Description: Study Solar System dynamics, at first focusing on Near Earth Asteroid (NEA) research specifically NEA seaarch strategies and NEA impact hazard monitoring.

Quantum Monte Carlo at Home

SETI@home

  • URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/
  • Institution: Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California
  • Official launch: 22-06-2004
  • Platforms: Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Mac OS X (PowerPC), SPARC Solaris, SPARC Solaris 2.7, Windows, Linux/x86_64,
  • Description: SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is a scientific area whose goal is to detect intelligent life outside Earth. One approach, known as radio SETI, uses radio telescopes to listen for narrow-bandwidth radio signals from space. Such signals are not known to occur naturally, so a detection would provide evidence of extraterrestrial technology.

Spinhenge@home

  • URL: http://spin.fh-bielefeld.de/
  • Institution: Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences
  • Official launch: 19-05-2006
  • Platforms: Unknown
  • Description: The study of molecular magnets and controlled nanoscale magnetism. These magnetic molecules may be used to develop tiny magnetic switches, with applications in medicine (such as local tumor chemotherapy) and biotechnology.

uFluids@home

  • URL: http://www.ufluids.net/
  • Institution: Purdue University
  • Official launch: 19-09-2005
  • Platforms: Windows
  • Description: The uFluids project simulates two-phase fluid behavior in microgravity and microfluidics problems. Our goal is to design better satellite propellant management devices and address two-phase flow in microchannel and MEMS devices.

[edit] Biology and Medicine

Cels@Home

  • URL: http://cels-at-home-dev.dyndns.org/cels/
  • Institution: University of Texas at Austin
  • Official launch: 25-02-2008
  • Platforms: Windows
  • Description: Cels@Home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in cell adhesion. One of the many applications of this is in cancer research, as the point at which cancerous cells quit staying in place, and instead break free to move throughout the body, is a critical event that makes the disease much harder to treat.

Docking@Home

  • URL: http://docking.cis.udel.edu/
  • Institution: University of Delaware
  • Official launch: 11-09-2006
  • Platforms: Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Mac OS X (PowerPC), windows_amd64, Windows, Windows/x86_64, Linux/x86_64
  • Description: The project aims to further knowledge of the atomic details of protein-ligand interactions and, by doing so, will search for insights into the discovery of novel pharmaceuticals.

Malariacontrol.net

  • URL: http://www.malariacontrol.net
  • Institution: The Swiss Tropical Institute
  • Official launch: 19-12-2006
  • Platforms: Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Windows, Linux/x86_64,
  • Description: Simulation models of the transmission dynamics and health effects of malaria are an important tool for malaria control. They can be used to determine optimal strategies for delivering mosquito nets, chemotherapy, or new vaccines which are currently under development and testing. Such modeling is extremely computer intensive, requiring simulations of large human populations with a diverse set of parameters related to biological and social factors that influence the distribution of the disease.

Poem@Home

Predictor@home

  • URL: http://predictor.chem.lsa.umich.edu/
  • Institution: University of Michigan
  • Official launch: 12-06-2004
  • Platforms: Unknown
  • Description: Protein structure prediction starts from a sequence of amino acids and attempts to predict the folded, functioning, form of the protein. Predicting the structure of an unknown protein is a critical problem in enabling structure-based drug design to treat new and existing diseases.

Proteins@Home

PS3Grid

  • URL: http://www.ps3grid.net/
  • Institution: University Pompeu Fabra
  • Official launch: 12-05-2007
  • Platforms: PlayStation3
  • Description: PS3GRID is a volunteer computing project on the PlayStation3 for full-atom molecular simulations of proteins.Your contribution is very important because our CellMD software runs over an order of magnitude faster on the PlayStation3 opening the way to innovative scientific experiments.

RALPH@Home

  • URL: http://ralph.bakerlab.org/
  • Institution: University of Washington
  • Official launch: 15-02-2006
  • Platforms: Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Mac OS X (PowerPC), Windows, Windows/x86_64, Linux/x86_64
  • Description: 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.

Rosetta@home

  • URL: http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/
  • Institution: University of Washington
  • Official launch: 26-06-2005
  • Platforms: Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Mac OS X (PowerPC), Windows, Windows/x86_64, Linux/x86_64
  • Description: 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.

SIMAP

  • URL: http://boinc.bio.wzw.tum.de/boincsimap/
  • Institution: Technical University of Munich
  • Official launch: 26-04-2006
  • Platforms: Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Mac OS X (PowerPC), Windows, Windows/x86_64, Linux/x86_64,
  • Description: Calculate similarities between proteins. SIMAP provides a public database of the resulting data, which plays a key role in many bioinformatics research projects.

Superlink@Technion

  • URL: http://cbl-link02.cs.technion.ac.il/superlinkattechnion/
  • Institution: Technion
  • Official launch: 05-03-2007
  • Platforms:
  • Description: Superlink@Technion helps geneticists all over the world find disease-provoking genes causing some types of diabetes, hypertension (high blood pressure), cancer, schizophrenia and many others.

Tanpaku

The Lattice Project

[edit] Cognitive Science

Artificial Intelligence System

MindModeling@Home

  • URL: http://MindModeling.org/beta/
  • Institution: Cognitive Engineering Research Institute
  • Official launch: 17-03-2007
  • Platforms: Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Windows, Linux/x86_64
  • Description: The research focuses on utilizing computational cognitive process modeling to better understand the human mind and to improve on the scientific foundations that explain the mechanisms and processes that enable and moderate human performance and learning.

[edit] Earth and Environmental Science

APS@Home

  • URL: http://www.apsathome.org/
  • Institution: Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Manchester
  • Official launch: ?
  • Platforms: alpha-unknown-linux-gnu, i386-unknown-freebsd, Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Mac OS X (PowerPC), SPARC Solaris, windows_ia64, Windows, Windows/x86_64, Linux/x86_64
  • Description: Research into the effects of atmospheric dispersion as it relates to the accuracy of measurements used in climate prediction.

Climateprediction.net

  • URL: http://climateprediction.net/
  • Institution: University of Oxford
  • Official launch: ?
  • Platforms:
  • Description: Investigates 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.

QCN Alpha Test

Virtual Prairie

[edit] Mathematics and Games

3x+1@home

  • URL: http://allprojectstats.com/collatz/
  • Institution: ?
  • Official launch: 18-02-2008
  • Platforms: Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Windows, Windows/x86_64, Linux/x86_64
  • Description: 3x+1@home is a distributed non-profit project trying to find high 3x+1 conjecture stopping times. The 3x+1 conjecture is also known as Collatz conjecture.

ABC@home

  • URL: http://abcathome.com/
  • Institution: Mathematical Institute of Leiden University and Kennislink
  • Official launch: 21-11-2006
  • Platforms: Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Mac OS X (PowerPC), Windows, Windows/x86_64, Linux/x86_64,
  • Description: Search for 'abc-triples': positive integers a,b,c such that a+b=c, a < b < c, a,b,c have no common divisors and c > rad(abc), where rad(n) is the product of the distinct prime factors of n. The ABC conjecture says that there are only finitely many a,b,c such that log(c)/log(rad(abc)) > h for any real h > 1. The ABC conjecture is currently one of the greatest open problems in mathematics. If it is proven to be true, a lot of other open problems can be answered directly from it.

Chess960@home

  • URL: http://www.chess960athome.org/alpha/
  • Institution: Chess-960.org
  • Official launch: 20-03-2006
  • Platforms: Unknown
  • Description: Studies Chess 960, a variant of orthodox chess. In classical chess the starting position of the game never changes. In Chess 960, just before the start of every game, the initial configuration of the chess pieces is determined randomly.

Enigma@Home

  • URL: http://www.enigmaathome.net/
  • Institution: unknown
  • Official launch: 09-09-2007
  • Platforms: Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Mac OS X (PowerPC), Windows
  • Description: Enigma@Home is a wrapper between BOINC and Stefan Krah's M4 Project. The M4 Project is an effort to break 3 original Enigma messages with the help of distributed computing. The signals were intercepted in the North Atlantic in 1942 and are believed to be unbroken.

NQueens Project

  • URL: http://nqueens.ing.udec.cl/
  • Institution: Unidad de Servicios Informáticos, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de Concepción
  • Official launch: 07-09-2007
  • Platforms: Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Mac OS X (PowerPC), Windows, Linux/x86_64
  • Description: To solve the N Queens problem.

PrimeGrid

  • URL: http://www.primegrid.com/
  • Institution: Private
  • Official launch: July 12, 2005
  • Platforms: Linux/x86, Windows, Windows/x86_64, Linux/x86_64
  • Description: Primegrid is generating a public sequential prime number database, and is searching for large twin primes of the form k*2n+1 and k*2n-1

Ramsey@Home

  • URL: http://ramseyathome.com/ramsey/
  • Institution: Private
  • Official launch: 5-7-08
  • Platforms: Windows, Windows/x86_64
  • Description: Ramsey numbers describe the least number of nodes needed to insure that certain types of patterns exist in graphs made up of nodes and colored edges. Ramsey@Home hopes to raise the lower bounds of R(3,3,3,3,3) or R(4,4,4,4,4). More information about Ramsey Numbers can be found at wikipedia:Ramsey's theorem.

Rectilinear Crossing Number

  • URL: http://dist.ist.tugraz.at/cape5/
  • Institution: Graz University of Technology
  • Official launch: 30-06-2006
  • Platforms: Unknown
  • Description: What is the least number of crossings a straight-edge drawing of the complete graph on top of a set of n points in the plane obtains? From very recent (not even published yet) mathematical considerations the rectilinear crossing numbers for n=19 and n=21 are also known. So the most tantalizing problem now is to determine the true value for n=18, which is the main focus of this project.

SHA-1 Collision Search Graz

Riesel Sieve

  • URL: http://boinc.rieselsieve.com/
  • Institution: Riesel Sieve community
  • Official launch: 28-10-2007
  • Platforms: Linux/x86, Linux/PowerPC64, , windows_amd64, Windows, Windows/x86_64, Linux/x86_64
  • Description: Find prime numbers of the form k*2n-1

SZTAKI Desktop Grid

WEP-M+2 Project

  • URL: http://bearnol.is-a-geek.com/wanless2/
  • Institution: ?
  • Official launch: 05-12-2006
  • Platforms: Linux/x86, Mac OS X (PowerPC), Linux/x86_64,
  • Description: WEP-M+2 (wanless2) is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in number theory.

[edit] Multi-Application Projects

World Community Grid

  • URL: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/
  • Institution: IBM Corporate Community Relations
  • Official launch: ? 2005 ?
  • Platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac
  • Description: 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, muscular dystrophy, dengue fever, and many more.

Yoyo@home

  • URL: http://www.rechenkraft.net/yoyo/
  • Institution: Rechenkraft.net
  • Official launch: 19-07-2007
  • Platforms: Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Mac OS X (PowerPC), Playstation3/Linux, SPARC Solaris, Windows, Linux/x86_64
  • Description: Yoyo@home brings existing distributed computing projects to the Boinc world using the Boinc Wrapper technology.

[edit] Miscellaneous and Unclassified

DepSpid

  • URL: http://www.depspid.net/
  • Institution: ?
  • Official launch: 10-12-2006
  • Platforms:
  • Description: Builds up a database containing the dependencies between individual web sites and groups of web sites, and collects statistical data about the structure of the World Wide Web.

Gerasim@Home

  • URL: http://gerasim.boinc.ru/gerasim/
  • Institution: based in Russia, further details unavailable
  • Official launch: 02-10-2007
  • Platforms: Windows, Windows/x86_64
  • Description: As of May 2008, Gerasim is in the development stage and lacks a specific scence goal. Apparently project administrators are setting up the essentials of a BOINC project with the intention of finding a researcher to use the project.

Pirates@Home

  • URL: http://pirates.spy-hill.net/
  • Institution: Spy Hill Research (under contract to LIGO)
  • Official launch: 02-06-2004
  • Platforms:
  • Description: Originally set up as a prototype for Einstein@Home. The name was chosen to make it clear that it was only a test project, not the beginning of Einstein@Home. The original Pirates@Home was shut down in June 2005 after Einstein@Home was underway. The project reappeared in January 2006 on a different server to act as a test stand for another LIGO-related project, called Interactions in Understanding the Universe.

RND@home

  • URL: http://arcoboinc.unex.es/rnd/
  • Institution: Universidad de Extremadura
  • Official launch: ?
  • Platforms:
  • Description: Radio Network Design (RND) is a telecommunication problem which consists of covering a geographic area with radio signal using the fewer number of transmitters.