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<div class="bs-hero-title">BOINC Projects</div>
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<div class="bs-hero-btn">'''[[BOINC projects|➜ Browse the Complete BOINC Projects Table]]'''</div>
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<div class="bs-stat bs-stat-teal"><div class="bs-stat-number">335</div>
<div class="bs-stat-label">[[BOINC projects|Projects listed]]</div>
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<div class="bs-stat bs-stat-purple"><div class="bs-stat-number">99</div>
<div class="bs-stat-label">Projects documented</div>
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<div class="bs-stat-number">72</div>
<div class="bs-stat-label">[[BOINC project screensavers|Screensavers archived]]</div>
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<div class="bs-stat-number">10+</div>
<div class="bs-stat-label">Research fields</div>
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<div class="bs-stat-number">{{CURRENTYEAR}}</div>
<div class="bs-stat-label">Continuously updated</div>
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<div class="bs-definition">
<span class="bs-definition-label">What is a BOINC project?</span>
'''A BOINC project''' is a website and associated server set up by an individual or group to distribute applications to [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/ BOINC] volunteer computing devices. Those devices deliberately attach to receive, process, and return results for further scientific research at no cost to the researcher, and no cost to the volunteer beyond electricity.

''BOINC'' stands for '''Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing''', developed at the University of California, Berkeley. Any researcher can create a BOINC project; any person can donate their idle CPU or GPU time to one.
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<div class="bs-cta">
<div class="bs-cta-title">📋 The BOINC Projects Master Table</div>
<div class="bs-cta-body">The [[BOINC projects|List of all BOINC projects]] table is the heart of this wiki — a structured, sortable reference covering project name, research field, institution, supported platforms, active status, GPU support, and more. It is the primary reason this resource exists and the most complete registry of BOINC projects available anywhere.</div>
<big>'''[[BOINC projects|View the complete list of BOINC projects →]]'''</big>
</div>


<div class="bs-cta">
<div class="bs-cta-title">📺 BOINC Project Screensaver Archive</div>
<div class="bs-cta-body">Before modern power management made them obsolete, every BOINC project shipped a real-time animated screensaver showing the computation in progress, including protein chains folding, star fields sweeping and climate models spinning. All 71 known screensaver recordings, spanning projects from SETI@home to Pirates@Home, are now preserved in one place — with one exception: the NanoHive@Home screensaver, which survives only as a static image, its animation never recorded.</div>
<big>'''[[BOINC project screensavers|View the BOINC Screensaver Archive →]]'''</big>
</div>


== Local BOINC project wiki pages ==

Each project below has its own dedicated article on this wiki. Projects are grouped by research domain and activity status.

=== ✦ Active BOINC projects ===

<div class="bs-group bs-group-teal mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🔭 Astrophysics, Cosmology & Space</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
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| * [[Einstein@Home]] gravitational wave and pulsar detection
| * [[MilkyWay@home]] mapping the Milky Way's structure
|-
| * [[LHC@home]] CERN particle physics simulations
| * [[Gaia@home]] ESA Gaia mission data reduction
|-
| colspan="2" | * [[SPACIOUS@home]] space situational awareness
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-purple mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🧬 Biology, Medicine & Biochemistry</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[GPUGRID]] GPU-accelerated biomolecular simulations
| * [[TN-Grid]] neurological research
|-
| * [[Rosetta@home]] protein structure prediction
|* [[SiDock@home]] drug candidate screening
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-blue mw-collapsible"><div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🔢 Mathematics, Number Theory & Cryptography</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|* [[Gerasim@home]] multi-project. number field sieve factorisation
|
|-
| * [[PrimeGrid]] prime number searches across many sub-projects
| * [[NFS@Home]] number field sieve factorisation
|-
| * [[SRBase]] Sierpinski-Riesel base search
| * [[NumberFields@Home]] algebraic number field tables
|-
| * [[YAFU]] yet another factorisation utility
| * [[LODA]] integer sequence program synthesis
|-
| * [[Moo! Wrapper]] distributed.net RC5-72 wrapper
| * [[ODLK]] orthogonal diagonal Latin squares
|-
| * [[ODLK1]] ODLK variant 1
| * [[ODLK2025]] ODLK 2025 campaign
|-
| * [[Rakesearch]] Latin square searches
|
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-green mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🌍 Climate, Environment & Earth Sciences</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[Climateprediction.net|climate''prediction''.net]] global climate ensemble modelling
| * [[Asteroids@home]] asteroid orbit determination
|-
| * [[Radioactive@home]] background radiation monitoring
|
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-amber mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🤖 Artificial Intelligence, Computing & Infrastructure</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[BOINC Alpha Test]] test new versions of the BOINC client software on a wide range of hardware and operating systems
| * [[BOINC Central]] BOINC infrastructure project
|-
| * [[IThena.Computational]] computational measurement network
| * [[IThena.Measurements]] network performance metrics
|-
|* [[Yoyo@home]] scientific and mathematical subprojects
|* [[WUProp@Home]] work unit propagation statistics
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-coral mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🧪 Physics, Chemistry & Materials Science</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[USPEX@HOME]] crystal structure prediction
| * [[World Community Grid]] multi-domain humanitarian research
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-gray mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🕹️ Community, Recreation & Miscellaneous</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[Minecraft@Home]] Minecraft world-seed research
| * [[PRIVATE GFN SERVER]] private Generalized Fermat Number server
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-pink mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🧫 Test & Development Projects</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
<div class="bs-group-note">These projects serve as active testing and development platforms for BOINC software and infrastructure rather than primary research goals.</div>
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| colspan="2" | * [[Cpdnboinc dev]] cpdn development and testing server
|}
</div>
</div>

=== ✦ Paused BOINC projects ===

<div class="bs-group bs-group-amber mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">⏯ Paused projects (expand)</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
<div class="bs-group-note">These projects are temporarily suspended but have not formally closed. Work may resume in future.</div>
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[DENIS@home]] cardiac electrophysiology research, currently paused
|
|}
<div class="bs-group-footer">''See the [[BOINC projects|master BOINC projects table]] for the most current status of all projects.''</div>
</div>
</div>

=== ✦ Retired & inactive BOINC projects ===

<div class="bs-group bs-group-gray mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">⏸ Retired projects (expand)</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
<div class="bs-group-note">These projects have suspended operations or are no longer accepting new work units. Their pages are preserved here for historical reference and research continuity.</div>
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[ABC@home]] searched for abc-triples related to the abc conjecture in number theory
| * [[Albert@Home]] developement site for Einstein@Home
|-
|* [[Amicable Numbers]] amicable pair enumeration
|* [[AQUA@home]] model the performance of superconducting adiabatic quantum computers
|-
| * [[Axiom Distributed AI]] distributed AI model training
| * [[BlackHoles@Home]] black hole binary merger waveforms
|-
|* [[Big and Ugly Rendering Project]] distributed video rendering
|* [[BOINC@TACC]] routes computing jobs from TACC supercomputers to volunteer devices
|-
|* [[BRaTS@Home]] perform gravitational lensing ray-tracing simulations of galaxy clusters
|* [[CAS@home]] hosted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, best known for running the TreeThreader protein structure
|-
|* [[Correlizer]] studiy the organization of genomes using long-range correlation analysis of chromosomes
|* [[Chess@Home]] build a labeled dataset intended for training a machine-learned classifier of winning position
|-
|* [[CAS@home|Cels@Home]] hosted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, best known for running the TreeThreader protein structure
|* [[Collatz Conjecture]] testing the 3x+1 conjecture
|-
| * [[Cosmology@Home]] astronomical research
| * [[Distributed Hardware Evolution Project]] synthesize self-checking digital hardware circuits
|-
| * [[Data freezer]] long-term data archival research
| * [[DepSpid]] build a database of dependency relationships between web servers and domain
|-
|* [[Docking@Home]] CHARMM-based protein-ligand docking simulations to search for new pharmaceutical drugs
|* [[EDGeS@Home]] bridged desktop grids and service grids to support scientific applications
|-
|* [[eOn]] simulate long timescale evolution of atomic scale systems in chemistry and materials science
|* [[Enigma@Home]] break unsolved German Kriegsmarine Enigma M4 radio messages from the Second World War
|-
|* [[FreeHAL@home]] generate and convert semantic networks for the self-learning chatbot FreeHAL
|
|-
|* [[GoofyxGrid@Home NCI]] non-covalent interaction analysis
|* [[HashClash]] search for MD5 and SHA-1 hash collisions, culminating in the 2008 rogue certificate authority attack
|-
|* [[GoofyxGrid@Home NCI|Ibercivis]] simulations in nuclear fusion, protein docking, materials science, and number theory
|* [[Kryptos@Home]] attempt to decrypt K4, the unsolved fourth passage of the Kryptos sculpture at CIA headquarters
|-
|* [[Leiden Classical]] submit personal classical mechanics and molecular dynamics simulations
|* [[NanoHive@Home]] used the NanoHive-1 nanospace simulator to search for failure modes in tooltips
|-
|* [[Malariacontrol.net]] simulate the transmission dynamics and health effects of malaria
|* [[MindModeling@Home]] computational cognitive modeling to study human performance and learning
|-
| * [[nanoHUB@Home]] nanotechnology simulation
| * [[Parlea]] RNA 3D structure motif analysis
|-
|* [[POEM@HOME]] all-atom free-energy simulations to predict protein structure and folding
|* [[proteins@home]] tackled the inverse protein folding problem
|-
| * [[Predictor@home]] protein folding and the first BOINC project
| * [[Pirates@Home]] help to develop Einstein@Home screensaver and test BOINC software
|-
| [[Quake-Catcher Network|* Quake-Catcher Network]] used accelerometers in laptops and USB sensors to build an earthquake detection network
| * [[QMC@Home]] develop and apply Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods for use in quantum chemistry
|-
|* [[QuChemPedIA@home]] run density functional theory (DFT) quantum chemistry calculations
|* [[Rectilinear Crossing Number Project]] determine the rectilinear crossing number of the complete graph K18
|-
| * [[RALPH@home]] developement site for Rosetta@home
| * [[Ramanujan Machine]] conjectured mathematical identities
|-
| * [[RNA World (beta)]] RNA folding and molecular evolution
| * [[SETI@home]] search for extraterrestrial intelligence
|-
|* [[SAT@home]] solve hard instances of the Boolean satisfiability problem
|* [[SciLINC]] indexed digitized botanical literature
|-
|* [[SIMAP]] pre-calculated protein sequence similarities for a database used by bioinformaticians
|
|-
|* [[Spinhenge@home]] simulating spin dynamics in nanoscale molecular magnets
|* [[SZTAKI Desktop Grid]] MTA SZTAKI in Budapest, running mathematics, physics, and digital humanities applications
|-
|* [[SPT]] Symmetric Prime Tuples
|* [[Taiwan Desktop Grid]] bridging Taiwanese volunteer computers to European e-Science service grid infrastructure
|-
|* [[TANPAKU]] used a Brownian dynamics method to study protein folding
|* [[Proteins@home|T.Brada Experimental Grid]] the PADLS Total subproject aimed to find new pseudo-associative DLS
|-
|* [[The Lattice Project]] Condor and PBS clusters, chiefly supporting phylogenetic analysis with the GARLI software
|* [[theSkyNet POGS]] measure the resolved stellar mass, star formation rate and dust content of nearby galaxies
|-
|* [[MLC@Home]] understanding and interpreting complex machine learning models
|* [[Universe@Home]] stellar evolution modelling
|-
| * [[Virtual Prairie]] simulations of clonal plant growth to inform the ecological design of sustainable prairie ecosystems
| * [[Volpex@Home]] run communicating parallel programs through process replication and a shared dataspace
|-
|* [[WEP-M+2 Project]] mersenne-related prime search
|* [[uFluids@Home]] support research into satellite propellant management and lab-on-a-chip devices
|}
<div class="bs-group-footer">''See the [[BOINC projects|master BOINC projects table]] for definitive active/inactive status on all documented projects.''</div>
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== How to participate in BOINC projects ==

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<div class="bs-step-title">1. Download BOINC</div>
<div class="bs-step-body">Get the free [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php BOINC client]. Available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android.</div>
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<div class="bs-step-title">2. Choose a project</div>
<div class="bs-step-body">Browse the [[BOINC projects|complete BOINC projects list]] on this wiki. Filter by research field, platform support, or GPU availability.</div>
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<div class="bs-step-title">3. Attach & contribute</div>
<div class="bs-step-body">Attach via the BOINC client, and your idle computer begins processing work units automatically.</div>
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== About this wiki ==

This ''BOINC projects'' MediaWiki is researched, written, and maintained by [https://boincsynergy.ca/ BOINC Synergy] — a volunteer initiative dedicated to documenting the global BOINC ecosystem. The [[BOINC projects|projects table]] is considered the flagship resource: a single, structured, continuously-updated registry of every known BOINC project, past and present.

Corrections, additions, and edits are welcome. If you know of a BOINC project not yet listed, please use the talk page or contact [https://boincsynergy.ca/ BOINC Synergy] directly.

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<small>'''''BOINC projects''''' MediaWiki is developed by [https://boincsynergy.ca/ BOINC Synergy]  ·  Content reflects the state of the BOINC ecosystem as of {{CURRENTYEAR}}  ·  [[BOINC projects|Full projects table →]]</small>
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Al Piskun: add Volpex@Home and Correlizer

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<div class="bs-hero-btn">'''[[BOINC projects|➜ Browse the Complete BOINC Projects Table]]'''</div>
<div class="bs-hero-note">The definitive, community-maintained table documenting every known active and retired BOINC project. The most comprehensive BOINC project list anywhere on the internet.</div>
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<div class="bs-stat bs-stat-teal"><div class="bs-stat-number">335</div>
<div class="bs-stat-label">[[BOINC projects|Projects listed]]</div>
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<div class="bs-stat bs-stat-purple"><div class="bs-stat-number">99</div>
<div class="bs-stat-label">Projects documented</div>
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<div class="bs-stat-number">72</div>
<div class="bs-stat-label">[[BOINC project screensavers|Screensavers archived]]</div>
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<div class="bs-stat bs-stat-coral">
<div class="bs-stat-number">10+</div>
<div class="bs-stat-label">Research fields</div>
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<div class="bs-stat-number">{{CURRENTYEAR}}</div>
<div class="bs-stat-label">Continuously updated</div>
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<div class="bs-definition">
<span class="bs-definition-label">What is a BOINC project?</span>
'''A BOINC project''' is a website and associated server set up by an individual or group to distribute applications to [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/ BOINC] volunteer computing devices. Those devices deliberately attach to receive, process, and return results for further scientific research — at no cost to the researcher, and no cost to the volunteer beyond electricity.

''BOINC'' stands for '''Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing''', developed at the University of California, Berkeley. Any researcher can create a BOINC project; any person can donate their idle CPU or GPU time to one.
</div>


<div class="bs-cta">
<div class="bs-cta-title">📋 The BOINC Projects Master Table</div>
<div class="bs-cta-body">The [[BOINC projects|List of all BOINC projects]] table is the heart of this wiki — a structured, sortable reference covering project name, research field, institution, supported platforms, active status, GPU support, and more. It is the primary reason this resource exists and the most complete registry of BOINC projects available anywhere.</div>
<big>'''[[BOINC projects|View the complete list of BOINC projects →]]'''</big>
</div>


<div class="bs-cta">
<div class="bs-cta-title">📺 BOINC Project Screensaver Archive</div>
<div class="bs-cta-body">Before modern power management made them obsolete, every BOINC project shipped a real-time animated screensaver showing the computation in progress, including protein chains folding, star fields sweeping and climate models spinning. All 71 known screensaver recordings, spanning projects from SETI@home to Pirates@Home, are now preserved in one place.</div>
<big>'''[[BOINC project screensavers|View the BOINC Screensaver Archive →]]'''</big>
</div>


== Local BOINC project wiki pages ==

Each project below has its own dedicated article on this wiki. Projects are grouped by research domain and activity status.

=== ✦ Active BOINC projects ===

<div class="bs-group bs-group-teal mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🔭 Astrophysics, Cosmology & Space</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[Einstein@Home]] gravitational wave and pulsar detection
| * [[MilkyWay@home]] mapping the Milky Way's structure
|-
| * [[LHC@home]] CERN particle physics simulations
| * [[Gaia@home]] ESA Gaia mission data reduction
|-
| colspan="2" | * [[SPACIOUS@home]] space situational awareness
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-purple mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🧬 Biology, Medicine & Biochemistry</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[GPUGRID]] GPU-accelerated biomolecular simulations
| * [[TN-Grid]] neurological research
|-
| * [[Rosetta@home]] protein structure prediction
|* [[SiDock@home]] drug candidate screening
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-blue mw-collapsible"><div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🔢 Mathematics, Number Theory & Cryptography</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|* [[Gerasim@home]] multi-project. number field sieve factorisation
|
|-
| * [[PrimeGrid]] prime number searches across many sub-projects
| * [[NFS@Home]] number field sieve factorisation
|-
| * [[SRBase]] Sierpinski-Riesel base search
| * [[NumberFields@Home]] algebraic number field tables
|-
| * [[YAFU]] yet another factorisation utility
| * [[LODA]] integer sequence program synthesis
|-
| * [[Moo! Wrapper]] distributed.net RC5-72 wrapper
| * [[ODLK]] orthogonal diagonal Latin squares
|-
| * [[ODLK1]] ODLK variant 1
| * [[ODLK2025]] ODLK 2025 campaign
|-
| * [[Rakesearch]] Latin square searches
|
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-green mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🌍 Climate, Environment & Earth Sciences</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[Climateprediction.net|climate''prediction''.net]] global climate ensemble modelling
| * [[Asteroids@home]] asteroid orbit determination
|-
| * [[Radioactive@home]] background radiation monitoring
|
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-amber mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🤖 Artificial Intelligence, Computing & Infrastructure</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[BOINC Alpha Test]] test new versions of the BOINC client software on a wide range of hardware and operating systems
| * [[BOINC Central]] BOINC infrastructure project
|-
| * [[IThena.Computational]] computational measurement network
| * [[IThena.Measurements]] network performance metrics
|-
|* [[Yoyo@home]] scientific and mathematical subprojects
|* [[WUProp@Home]] work unit propagation statistics
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-coral mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🧪 Physics, Chemistry & Materials Science</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[USPEX@HOME]] crystal structure prediction
| * [[World Community Grid]] multi-domain humanitarian research
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-gray mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🕹️ Community, Recreation & Miscellaneous</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
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| * [[Minecraft@Home]] Minecraft world-seed research
| * [[PRIVATE GFN SERVER]] private Generalized Fermat Number server
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-pink mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🧫 Test & Development Projects</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
<div class="bs-group-note">These projects serve as active testing and development platforms for BOINC software and infrastructure rather than primary research goals.</div>
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| colspan="2" | * [[Cpdnboinc dev]] cpdn development and testing server
|}
</div>
</div>

=== ✦ Paused BOINC projects ===

<div class="bs-group bs-group-amber mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">⏯ Paused projects (expand)</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
<div class="bs-group-note">These projects are temporarily suspended but have not formally closed. Work may resume in future.</div>
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[DENIS@home]] cardiac electrophysiology research, currently paused
|
|}
<div class="bs-group-footer">''See the [[BOINC projects|master BOINC projects table]] for the most current status of all projects.''</div>
</div>
</div>

=== ✦ Retired & inactive BOINC projects ===

<div class="bs-group bs-group-gray mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">⏸ Retired projects (expand)</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
<div class="bs-group-note">These projects have suspended operations or are no longer accepting new work units. Their pages are preserved here for historical reference and research continuity.</div>
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[ABC@home]] searched for abc-triples related to the abc conjecture in number theory
| * [[Albert@Home]] developement site for Einstein@Home
|-
|* [[Amicable Numbers]] amicable pair enumeration
|* [[AQUA@home]] model the performance of superconducting adiabatic quantum computers
|-
| * [[Axiom Distributed AI]] distributed AI model training
| * [[BlackHoles@Home]] black hole binary merger waveforms
|-
|* [[Big and Ugly Rendering Project]] distributed video rendering
|* [[BOINC@TACC]] routes computing jobs from TACC supercomputers to volunteer devices
|-
|* [[BRaTS@Home]] perform gravitational lensing ray-tracing simulations of galaxy clusters
|* [[CAS@home]] hosted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, best known for running the TreeThreader protein structure
|-
|* [[Correlizer]] studiy the organization of genomes using long-range correlation analysis of chromosomes
|* [[Chess@Home]] build a labeled dataset intended for training a machine-learned classifier of winning position
|-
|* [[CAS@home|Cels@Home]] hosted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, best known for running the TreeThreader protein structure
|* [[Collatz Conjecture]] testing the 3x+1 conjecture
|-
| * [[Cosmology@Home]] astronomical research
| * [[Distributed Hardware Evolution Project]] synthesize self-checking digital hardware circuits
|-
| * [[Data freezer]] long-term data archival research
| * [[DepSpid]] build a database of dependency relationships between web servers and domain
|-
|* [[Docking@Home]] CHARMM-based protein-ligand docking simulations to search for new pharmaceutical drugs
|* [[EDGeS@Home]] bridged desktop grids and service grids to support scientific applications
|-
|* [[eOn]] simulate long timescale evolution of atomic scale systems in chemistry and materials science
|* [[Enigma@Home]] break unsolved German Kriegsmarine Enigma M4 radio messages from the Second World War
|-
|* [[FreeHAL@home]] generate and convert semantic networks for the self-learning chatbot FreeHAL
|
|-
|* [[GoofyxGrid@Home NCI]] non-covalent interaction analysis
|* [[HashClash]] search for MD5 and SHA-1 hash collisions, culminating in the 2008 rogue certificate authority attack
|-
|* [[GoofyxGrid@Home NCI|Ibercivis]] simulations in nuclear fusion, protein docking, materials science, and number theory
|* [[Kryptos@Home]] attempt to decrypt K4, the unsolved fourth passage of the Kryptos sculpture at CIA headquarters
|-
|* [[Leiden Classical]] submit personal classical mechanics and molecular dynamics simulations
|* [[NanoHive@Home]] used the NanoHive-1 nanospace simulator to search for failure modes in tooltips
|-
|* [[Malariacontrol.net]] simulate the transmission dynamics and health effects of malaria
|* [[MindModeling@Home]] computational cognitive modeling to study human performance and learning
|-
| * [[nanoHUB@Home]] nanotechnology simulation
| * [[Parlea]] RNA 3D structure motif analysis
|-
|* [[POEM@HOME]] all-atom free-energy simulations to predict protein structure and folding
|* [[proteins@home]] tackled the inverse protein folding problem
|-
| * [[Predictor@home]] protein folding and the first BOINC project
| * [[Pirates@Home]] help to develop Einstein@Home screensaver and test BOINC software
|-
| [[Quake-Catcher Network|* Quake-Catcher Network]] used accelerometers in laptops and USB sensors to build an earthquake detection network
| * [[QMC@Home]] develop and apply Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods for use in quantum chemistry
|-
|* [[QuChemPedIA@home]] run density functional theory (DFT) quantum chemistry calculations
|* [[Rectilinear Crossing Number Project]] determine the rectilinear crossing number of the complete graph K18
|-
| * [[RALPH@home]] developement site for Rosetta@home
| * [[Ramanujan Machine]] conjectured mathematical identities
|-
| * [[RNA World (beta)]] RNA folding and molecular evolution
| * [[SETI@home]] search for extraterrestrial intelligence
|-
|* [[SAT@home]] solve hard instances of the Boolean satisfiability problem
|* [[SciLINC]] indexed digitized botanical literature
|-
|* [[SIMAP]] pre-calculated protein sequence similarities for a database used by bioinformaticians
|
|-
|* [[Spinhenge@home]] simulating spin dynamics in nanoscale molecular magnets
|* [[SZTAKI Desktop Grid]] MTA SZTAKI in Budapest, running mathematics, physics, and digital humanities applications
|-
|* [[SPT]] Symmetric Prime Tuples
|* [[Taiwan Desktop Grid]] bridging Taiwanese volunteer computers to European e-Science service grid infrastructure
|-
|* [[TANPAKU]] used a Brownian dynamics method to study protein folding
|* [[Proteins@home|T.Brada Experimental Grid]] the PADLS Total subproject aimed to find new pseudo-associative DLS
|-
|* [[The Lattice Project]] Condor and PBS clusters, chiefly supporting phylogenetic analysis with the GARLI software
|* [[theSkyNet POGS]] measure the resolved stellar mass, star formation rate and dust content of nearby galaxies
|-
|* [[MLC@Home]] understanding and interpreting complex machine learning models
|* [[Universe@Home]] stellar evolution modelling
|-
| * [[Virtual Prairie]] simulations of clonal plant growth to inform the ecological design of sustainable prairie ecosystems
| * [[Volpex@Home]] run communicating parallel programs through process replication and a shared dataspace
|-
|* [[WEP-M+2 Project]] mersenne-related prime search
|* [[uFluids@Home]] support research into satellite propellant management and lab-on-a-chip devices
|}
<div class="bs-group-footer">''See the [[BOINC projects|master BOINC projects table]] for definitive active/inactive status on all documented projects.''</div>
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== How to participate in BOINC projects ==

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<div class="bs-step-title">1. Download BOINC</div>
<div class="bs-step-body">Get the free [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php BOINC client]. Available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android.</div>
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<div class="bs-step-title">2. Choose a project</div>
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<div class="bs-step-body">Attach via the BOINC client, and your idle computer begins processing work units automatically.</div>
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== About this wiki ==

This ''BOINC projects'' MediaWiki is researched, written, and maintained by [https://boincsynergy.ca/ BOINC Synergy] — a volunteer initiative dedicated to documenting the global BOINC ecosystem. The [[BOINC projects|projects table]] is considered the flagship resource: a single, structured, continuously-updated registry of every known BOINC project, past and present.

Corrections, additions, and edits are welcome. If you know of a BOINC project not yet listed, please use the talk page or contact [https://boincsynergy.ca/ BOINC Synergy] directly.

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[[Category:BOINC projects]]
[[Category:Volunteer computing]]
[[Category:Distributed computing]]

BOINC projects

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[[File:Boinc-projects-seo.png|right|frameless|200x200px]]This is a comprehensive and continually updating List of All [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php BOINC projects]

'''''Q - What is a BOINC project?'''''

'''''A - BOINC project definition:''''' A [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/ BOINC] project is a website and server set up by an individual or group to distribute applications (software which is a set of instructions for executing tasks in a computing device) to BOINC volunteer computing devices that are deliberately attached to receive, process and return the results of the application for further research.
====Active BOINC Projects====

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 80%;"
|-
!Project Name
!Publications
!Launched
!Operating System
!GPU App
!Requires
!Screen saver
!Sponsor
!Category
!BOINC Radio
!Research Focus

|-
| [http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/ Asteroids@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Asteroids@home 10]
| 2012-06-18
| [https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS, Free BSD, Android]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU NVIDIA
| {{No}}
|
| Astronomical Institute, Charles University, Prague
| Astronomy
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/asteroids-home/id1492837872?i=1000467560195 Listen]
| Derive shapes and spin for a significant part of the asteroid population. [[Asteroids@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/central/ BOINC Central]
|
| 2023-02-04
|
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, BUDA
|
| University of California, Berkeley
| Multiple applications
|
| Gives scientists access to the power of volunteer computing without having to operate a BOINC project. [[BOINC Central|See more...]]

|-
| [https://www.cpdn.org/cpdnboinc/ climate''prediction''.net]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Climateprediction.net 152]
| 2003-12-09
| [https://www.cpdn.org/cpdnboinc/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| [https://youtu.be/Mae7JfL1giE view]
| Oxford University
| Climate study
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/climate-prediction-dot-net/id1492837872?i=1000465982378 Listen]
| Analyse ways to improve climate prediction models. [[Climateprediction.net|See more...]]

|-
| [https://dev.cpdn.org/ cpdnboinc dev]
|
|
| [https://dev.cpdn.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Oxford University
| Software testing
|
| Test project for [[Climateprediction.net|climate''prediction''.net]]. [[Cpdnboinc dev|See more...]]

|-
| [https://denis.usj.es/denisathome/ DENIS@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#DENIS@home 6]
| 2015-03-16
| [https://480denis.usj.es/denisathome/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Universidad San Jorge, Zaragoza, Spain
| Medical physiology
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boinc-radio-project-brief-denis-home/id1492837872?i=1000576898376 Listen]
| Cardiac electrophysiological simulations, studying the electrical activity of the heart. [[DENIS@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://einsteinathome.org/ Einstein@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Einstein@Home 42]
| 2005-02-19
| [https://einsteinathome.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS, Android]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
| [https://youtu.be/kGWsTnmk1lw view]
| University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Max Planck Institute
| Astrophysics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/einstein-home/id1492837872?i=1000470993092 Listen]
| Search for pulsars using radio signals and gravitational wave data. [[Einstein@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [http://gaiaathome.eu/gaiaathome/ Gaia@home]
|
| 2019-08-21
| [http://150.254.66.104/gaiaathome/apps.php Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Astronomical Observatory Institute, Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
| Astronomy
|
| Provide additional computing power to scientists studying the Gaia spacecraft data releases. [[Gaia@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://gerasim.boinc.ru/ Gerasim@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Publications_by_BOINC_projects#Gerasim.40home 9]
| 2007-02-10
| [https://gerasim.boinc.ru/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
| [https://youtu.be/cw7yBZ_KGGA view]
| Southwest State University (Russia)
| Multiple applications
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gerasim/id1492837872?i=1000515709940 Listen]
| Research in discrete mathematics and logic control systems. [[Gerasim@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090210175851/http://www.ps3grid.net/ PS3GRID] became [https://gpugrid.net/gpugrid/ GPUGRID]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#GPUGrid.net 53]
| 2007-12-05
| [https://www.gpugrid.net/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: cyan; color: black;" | GPU only NVIDIA
| {{No}}
|
| Barcelona Biomedical Research Park
| Molecular biology
|
| Perform full-atom molecular simulations of proteins on Nvidia GPUs for biomedical research. [[GPUGRID|See more...]]

|-
| [https://comp.ithena.net/usr/ iThena.Computational]
|
| [https://comp.ithena.net/usr/forum_thread.php?id=4 2021-10-31]
| [https://comp.ithena.net/usr/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Cyber-Complex Foundation
| Computer science
| See below
| A computational platform for analysis based on data extracted from iThena.Measurements project applications. [[IThena.Computational|See more...]]

|-
| [https://root.ithena.net/usr/ iThena.Measurements]
|
| [https://root.ithena.net/usr/forum_thread.php?id=5#17 2019-09-25]
| [https://einsteinathome.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Cyber-Complex Foundation
| Computer science
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boinc-radio-project-brief-ithena/id1492837872?i=1000580505988 Listen]
| Generate a dynamic topological model of the Internet, based on measurements from distributed devices. [[IThena.Measurements|See more...]]

|-
| [https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/ LHC@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#LHC@home 71]
| 2004-01-09
| [https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS, Free BSD, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, BUDA
| [https://youtu.be/0qbLDbsNO3w view]
| CERN
| Physics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lhc-home/id1492837872?i=1000477722614 Listen]
| Helping physicists compare theory with experiment, in the search for new fundamental particles and answers to questions about the Universe. [[LHC@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/ LHCathome-dev]
|
| 2014-08-01
| [https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS, Free BSD, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, BUDA
|
| CERN
| Software testing
|
| A BOINC server for LHC@home development.

|-
| [https://boinc.loda-lang.org/loda/ LODA]
|
| 2022-05-13
| [https://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, git
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boinc-radio-project-brief-loda-18-6-2022/id1492837872?i=1000570153809 Listen]
| Finds new formulas and more efficient algorithms for a wide range of non-trivial integer sequences. [[LODA|See more...]]

|-
| [https://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/ MilkyWay@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Milkyway@home 35]
| 2007-07-07
| [https://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
| Astronomy
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/milkyway-home/id1492837872?i=1000468872520 Listen]
| Create a highly accurate three-dimensional model of the Milky Way galaxy using data collected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. [[MilkyWay@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://minecraftathome.com/minecrafthome/ Minecraft@Home]
|
| 2020-06-24
| [https://comp.ithena.net/usr/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Games
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/minecraft-home/id1492837872?i=1000491697377 Listen]
| Studies questions related to Minecraft, such as the properties of worlds that can be generated from different random seeds. [[Minecraft@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://moowrap.net/ Moo! Wrapper]
|
| 2011-02-05
| [https://moowrap.net/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Cryptography
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZmTZJBh_D0 Watch]
| Combines BOINC with distributed.net to try to break the RC5 cipher. [[Moo! Wrapper|See more...]]

|-
| [https://escatter11.fullerton.edu/nfs/ NFS@Home]
|
| 2009-09-05
| [https://escatter11.fullerton.edu/nfs/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS, Free BSD]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| California State University, Fullerton
| Integer factorization
|
| Performs parts of the number field sieve in the factorization of large integers. [[NFS@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://numberfields.asu.edu/NumberFields/ NumberFields@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#NumberFields@Home 3]
| 2011-08-12
| [https://numberfields.asu.edu/NumberFields/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Arizona State University's School of Mathematics
| Number theory
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/project-brief-numberfields-home-15-05-2021/id1492837872?i=1000570068591 Listen]
| Search for number fields with special properties to assist with the formulation of mathematical conjectures. [[NumberFields@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.progger.info/odlk/ ODLK]
|
| 2017-04-06
| [https://boinc.progger.info/odlk/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS, Free BSD]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| Compile a database of canonical forms of 10th order diagonal Latin squares (DLS) with orthogonal diagonal Latin squares (ODLS). [[ODLK|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.multi-pool.info/latinsquares/ ODLK1]
|
| 2017-10-22
| [https://boinc.multi-pool.info/latinsquares/apps.php Windows, Linux, Free BSD]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| Generates a database of canonical forms (CF) of diagonal Latin squares (DLS) of order 10 having orthogonal diagonal Latin squares (ODLS). [[ODLK1|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.mak.termit.me/odlk2025/ ODLK2025]
|
| 2024-12-18
| [https://boinc.mak.termit.me/odlk2025/apps.php Windows]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| Find canonical forms of diagonal Latin squares of order 10 with orthogonal diagonal Latin squares, extending the search beyond the ranges covered by ODLK and ODLK1. [[ODLK2025|See more...]]

|-
| [https://www.primegrid.com/ PrimeGrid]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#PrimeGrid 3]
| 2005-06-12
| [https://www.primegrid.com/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
| [https://youtu.be/rhZxqi9x7rI view]
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| Search for world record sized prime numbers, search for particular types of primes such as 321 primes, Cullen-Woodall primes, Proth prime, prime Sierpinski numbers, and Sophie Germain primes. Subprojects also include Seventeen or Bust, and the Riesel problem. [[PrimeGrid|See more...]]

|-
| [https://dev.primegrid.com/ PrimeGrid dev]
|
| 2007-06-06
| [https://dev.primegrid.com/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Software testing
|
| Test project for PrimeGrid.

|-
| [http://boincvm.proxyma.ru:30080/test4vm/ PRIVATE GFN SERVER]
|
| 2016-04-20
| [http://boincvm.proxyma.ru:30080/test4vm/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| This is a PRIVATE SERVER to coordinate distribution of mathematical work on GFN. The server is open for everybody, but some BOINC experience is recommended. [[PRIVATE GFN SERVER|See more...]]

|-
| [http://radioactiveathome.org/boinc/ Radioactive@home]
|
| 2011-10-21
| [http://radioactiveathome.org/boinc/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, Sensor
|
| Independent
| Physics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radioactive-home/id1492837872?i=1000463072395 Listen]
| Real-time radiation monitoring, detected by gamma sensors connected to volunteer computers. [[Radioactive@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://rake.boincfast.ru/rakesearch/ RakeSearch]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Rakesearch 4]
| 2017-08-11
| [https://rake.boincfast.ru/rakesearch/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rakesearch/id1492837872?i=1000496377228 Listen]
| Implement an application that picks up separate pairs of mutually orthogonal DLSs, which allows reconstructing the full graphs of their orthogonality. [[Rakesearch|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/ Rosetta@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Rosetta@home 234]
| 2005-10-06
| [https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, macOS, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| [https://youtu.be/6o5yBfG_vss view]
| University of Washington
| Molecular biology
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rosetta-home/id1492837872?i=1000472931628 Listen]
| Protein structure prediction for disease research. [[Rosetta@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://www.sidock.si/sidock SiDock@home]
|
| 2020-12-19
| [https://www.sidock.si/sidock/apps.php Windows, Linux+OpenWrt, ARM, macOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Russian Academy of Sciences
| Molecular biology
|
| Independent decentralized drug design by volunteer computing. [[SiDock@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://spaciousathome.eu/spaciousathome/ SPACIOUS@home]
|
| 2024-01-01
| [https://spaciousathome.eu/spaciousathome/apps.php Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| European Union
| Astrophysics
|
| Contribute to cutting-edge astronomy by sharing your idle computing time with professional astronomers. Space surveys such as the European Space Agency's Gaia telescope are generating large datasets of unprecedented high quality data. Astronomers need a huge amount of CPU power to model and analyse the data. [[SPACIOUS@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://srbase.my-firewall.org/sr5/ SRBase]
|
| 2013-01-02
| [https://srbase.my-firewall.org/sr5/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| Trying to solve Sierpinski / Riesel Bases up to 1030. [[SRBase|See more...]]

|-
| [https://gene.disi.unitn.it/test/ TN-Grid]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#TN-Grid 8]
| 2014-05-01
| [https://gene.disi.unitn.it/test/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, macOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Research Area of Trento of the National Research Council of Italy, University of Trento
| Genetics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tn-grid/id1492837872?i=1000482396321 Listen]
| ''Gene@home'' is a scientific project belonging to the infrastructure ''TrentoGrid''. It aims to expand networks of genes. [[TN-Grid|See more...]]

|-
| [https://uspex-at-home.ru/prediction/ USPEX@HOME]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#USPEX@HOME 2]
| 2017-04 (Restart 2022-10-23)
| [https://uspex-at-home.ru/prediction/apps.php Windows, Linux, macOS]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, Vbox
|
| [https://uspex-team.org/en uspex-team.org]
|
|
| Research in the field of computational materials design. [[USPEX@HOME|See more...]]

|-
| [https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ World Community Grid]
| [https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/news.s?filterCategory=1_0&filterTags=14&sortBy=&pageNum=1 77]
| 2004-11-16
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php Windows, Linux, ARM, macOS, Android]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
| [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLblxpyGay1Q4PwdIlLTxko7jm9Jedv1ei view]
| Krembil Research Institute
| Multiple applications
|
| Disease research, various worldwide humanitarian problems. Subprojects include(d) GO Fight Against Malaria, Drug Search for Leishmaniasis, Computing for Clean Water, Clean Energy Project, Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together, Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy, Help Fight Childhood Cancer, Help Conquer Cancer, Mapping Cancer Markers, Human Proteome Folding Project, FightAIDS@Home, Uncovering Genome Mysteries, Let's outsmart Ebola together, Help Stop TB, OpenZika, Smash Childhood Cancer, Open Pandemics - COVID-19. [[World Community Grid|See more...]]

|-
| [https://wuprop.boinc-af.org/ WUProp@Home]
|
| 2010-03-27
| [https://wuprop.boinc-af.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Statistics
|
| Collect various statistics about other BOINC projects. [[WUProp@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://yafu.myfirewall.org/yafu YAFU]
|
| 2011-09-01
| [https://yafu.myfirewall.org/yafu/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| [https://youtu.be/vEqImf6mtgE view]
| Independent
| Software testing, Mathematics
|
| Test BOINC server software, integer factorization. [[YAFU|See more...]]

|-
| [https://www.rechenkraft.net/yoyo/ yoyo@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Yoyo@home 9]
| 2007-07-19
| [https://www.rechenkraft.net/yoyo/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, macOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLblxpyGay1Q4C8qBmkKkI0MpKMTof5Dhf view]
| Independent
| Mathematics, physics, evolution
|
| Data structure analysis to help prove a conjecture, elliptic curve factorization, pion creation in a particle accelerator, evolution research, find the shortest optimal Golomb ruler of length 28. [[Yoyo@home|See more...]]
|}

==== Private BOINC Projects====

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 80%;"
|-
!Project Name
!Publications
!Launched
!Operating System
!GPU App
!Requires
!Screen saver
!Sponsor
!Category
!BOINC Radio
!Research Focus

|-
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/alpha/ BOINC Alpha Test]
|
| 2004-02-16
|
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/9rRWAgpfMzg view]
| University of California, Berkeley
| Software testing
|
| BOINC Alpha Test allows volunteers to test new versions of BOINC client software on a wide range of computers, thereby increasing the stability and reliability of the software versions released to the public. [[BOINC Alpha Test|See more...]]

|-
| [http://mq232-80.ararangua.ufsc.br/boincufscara/ AraBOINC]
|
| 2012
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/https://boinc.moisescardona.me/ Distributed Data and Media Processing]
|
| 2018
|
|
|
|
| Independent
| Data processing
|
| A private data processing project where tasks like data compression and audio encoding are performed. The idea is to do data tasks in the background and in a distributed fashion.

|-
| [https://bioinfo.lifl.fr/yass/iedera_dominance/index_additional.html iedera]
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Independent
| Botany
|
| A program to select and design ''subset seed'' and ''vectorized subset seed'' patterns.

|-
| [http://boinc.mmon.co/boincserver/ Common Compute]
|
| 2024-05
|
|
|
|
| Independent
|
|
| Software testing.

|-
| [https://templet.ssau.ru/ Templet Project]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Templet 1]
|
|
|
|
|
| Samara National Research University
| Education
|
| Teach parallel and distributed programming to undergraduate and graduate students of Samara National Research University.
|}

====Completed BOINC Projects ====

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 80%;"
|-
!Project Name
!Publications
!Launched / Completed
!Operating System
!GPU App
!Requires
!Screen saver
!Sponsor
!Category
!BOINC Radio
!Research Focus

|-
| [https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ SETI@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#SETI@home 12]
| 1999-05
| [https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS, Solaris, Other]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
|
| [https://youtu.be/IfeGNAZY92k view] and [https://youtu.be/5r-t8WQicqE view]
| University of California, Berkeley
| Astronomy
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tribute-to-seti-home-part-1/id1492837872?i=1000468003990 Part 1] of three and [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tribute-to-seti-home-part-2-the-history-of-seti-home/id1492837872?i=1000468428937 Part 2]
| In 1995, David Gedye proposed doing radio SETI using a virtual supercomputer composed of large numbers of Internet-connected computers, and he organized the SETI@home project to explore this. The search for extraterrestrial life by analyzing radio frequencies emanating from space. [[SETI@home|See more...]]

|-
| [http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/ SETI@home Beta]
|
| 2006-01-12
| [https://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS, Solaris, Other]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
|
| [https://youtu.be/buLKZnyzOdI view]
| University of California, Berkeley
| Software testing
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rosetta-home-covid19-and-tribute-to-seti-home-part-3/id1492837872?i=1000469085793 Part 3]
| Test project for SETI@home.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20040615010643/http://predictor.scripps.edu/ Predictor@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Predictor@Home 5]
| 2004-05-04
| WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS X (Not Intel)
|
|
|
| The Scripps Research Institute
|
|
| A world-community experiment and effort to use distributed world-wide-web volunteer resources to assemble a supercomputer able to ''predict protein structure from protein sequence''. Our work is aimed at testing and evaluating new algorithms and methods of protein structure prediction in the context of the Sixth Biannual [https://web.archive.org/web/20040610024610/http://predictioncenter.llnl.gov/casp6/Casp6.html CASP] (Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction) experiment. [[Predictor@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://alifeathome.dyndns.org/ ALife@Home]
|
| 2004-07-19
| WinXP-98
|
|
|
|
| Artificial intelligence
| [https://www.youtube.com/live/zstEf1dTm2I?feature=share Watch]
| An effort to conduct scientific experiments regarding neural networks and evolution on the computers of volunteers.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20040829080146/http://pirates.vassar.edu:80/ Pirates@HomeMission1] [https://web.archive.org/web/20060117061652/http://pirates.spy-hill.net/ Pirates@Home] [http://primates.spy-hill.net/ Primates@Home]
|
| 2004 / 2006 / 2008-04-01
| Windows, Linux, MacOS
|
|
| [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLblxpyGay1Q4849w-GB4X7g07FNXTeMBb view]
| Vassar College / Independent / Independent
| Software testing
| [https://www.youtube.com/live/qr-n6FziUeo?feature=share Watch]
| Pirates@Home Mission 1 helped to develop the Einstein@Home screensaver. Pirates@Home tested BOINC's forum software for possible use by ''[http://i2u2.spy-hill.net/ Interactions in Understanding the Universe]''. Primates@Home tested the reaction of [https://web.archive.org/web/20060117061652/http://pirates.spy-hill.net/ Pirates@Home] users to a disturbance in their accustomed environment. [[Pirates@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060215003906/http://autotranslator.net:80/ translator@home]
|
| 2005-03-23
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| translator@home was in the process of creating new software linked to BOINC but never developed.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20051027013808/http://public.shoft.net/ Shoft@Home]
|
| 2005
|  
|
|
|
| Independent
|
|
|

|-
| [http://boinctest.axpr.net/ Break the Forum!]
|
| 2005
|  
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
| Test BOINC forum software.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://fsmtdist.ist.tu-graz.ac.at/dist/ dIST]
|
| 2005
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| A Cape4 project.

|-
| [http://fsmtdist.ist.tu-graz.ac.at/cape4/index.php cape4]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Another Cape4 project.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://grid-devel3.rocksclusters.org/boinc_gamess/ BOINC GAMESS]
|
| 2005
|  
|
|
|
| Independent
|
|
| Project never overcame '''Warning''': mysql_pconnect(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060103125636/http://bifi.unizar.es/research/computing/bah/ BIFI@home]
|
| {{No}}
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Solve calculations that contribute to the research carried out at the Institute of Biocomputing and Physics of Complex Systems at the University of Zaragoza (BIFI).

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.azurite.co.uk/ IMP]
|
| 2005
|  
|
|
|
| The IMP Team
| Software testing
|
| Internet Movie Project. Test Project copyright © 2005 The IMP Team.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://lhcathome-alpha.cern.ch/ LHC@home Alpha]
|
| 2005
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
| Test Project for LHC@home.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071016235617/http://boinc.banaan.org:80/hashclash/ HashClash]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#HashClash 11]
| 2005-11-24
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
|
|
|
| searched for MD5 and SHA-1 hash collisions, culminating in the 2008 rogue certificate authority attack. [[HashClash|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060703095044/http://issofty17.is.noda.tus.ac.jp/index_E.php TANPAKU]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#TANPAKU 2]
| 2005-08-02
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
|
| Tokyo University of Science
|
|
| Used a Brownian dynamics method to study protein folding. [[TANPAKU|See more...]]

|-
| [http://slawoo.homelinux.org/ Nagrzewanie stali@HOME]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://lattice.umiacs.umd.edu/boinc_public_oldschool/ The Lattice Project-original]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#The 16]
| 2006
| WinXP-98
|
|
|
| University of Maryland, College Park
|
|
| Condor and PBS clusters through the Globus Toolkit, chiefly supporting phylogenetic analysis with the GARLI software. [[The Lattice Project|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060916002226/http://fah-boinc.stanford.edu/ Folding@home]
|
| 2006
| WinXP
|
|
|
| Stanford University
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060901142513/http://research.utep.edu/Default.aspx?alias=research.utep.edu/daplds Docking@Home-utep]
|
| {{No}}
|  
|
|
|
| University of Texas at El Paso
|
|
| The goals of the project are to explore the multi-scale nature of algorithmic adaptations in protein-ligand docking and to develop cyber infrastructures based on computational methods and models that efficiently accommodate these adaptations.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://ecc.crypto.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ ECDLP PROJECT]
|
| 2006
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070326165532/http://test.ntbz.com:80/ ntbz Test Project]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://debian.povaddict.com.ar/pov/ Renderfarm]
|
| 2006-08-10
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Another URL for the project: http://renderfarm.povaddict.com.ar/

|-
| [https://www.boincstats.com/stats/33/project/detail/ RenderFarm@Home]
|
| 2006-08-23
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://hashbreaker.com:8700/tmrldrtg/ Distributed Rainbow Table Generator]
|
| 2006
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
| The Minouche Research Laboratories
|
|
| The '''Distributed Rainbow Table Generator''' project of '''The Minouche Research Laboratories'''; a community project dedicated to large scale distributed calculation of huge Rainbow Tables.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://bebeer.dyndns.org:2222/bebeer/ Belgian Beer@Home]
|
| 2006-12-08
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070630030320/http://www.boinc.be/vbulletin BOINC.BE]
|
|
| An effort of people from the [https://web.archive.org/web/20070630030320/http://www.boinc.be/vbulletin BOINC.BE] team.

|-
| [http://www.enigmaathome.net/ Enigma@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Enigma@Home 2]
| 2007-08-24
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| An attempt to break 3 original Enigma messages that were intercepted in 1942. [[Enigma@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080511223553/http://impfarm.imp.org/boinc/ Internet Movie Project]
|
| 2007-07-15
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080724214454/http://impfarm.imp.org/boinc/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
| Setting up a renderfarm to power the [https://web.archive.org/web/20080511223553/http://www.imp.org/ Internet Movie Project]. Note that this project will never export credit stats.

|-
| [http://predictor.chem.lsa.umich.edu/pah/ Predictor@home Alpha]
|
| 2007 / 2009
|
|
|
|
| The Scripps Research Institute
|
|
| Test project for Predictor@home.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071001120117/http://zivis.bifi.unizar.es:80/ Zivis Superordenador Ciudadano]
|
| 2007
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070823192420/http://zivis.bifi.unizar.es/apps.php WinXP, Linux]
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://zebrabrute.ath.cx/zebrabrute/ Zebra RSA Brutforce]
|
| 2007
| WinXP-98
|
|
|
| Darkscout - a Computer Science student.
|
|
| The Project originates from an idea in a forum. An attempt to break the RSA-key for the checksum of RSA-Smart card by Brute-force search.

|-
| [http://web.archive.org/web/20090306065822/http://dist2.ist.tugraz.at/sudoku/ Sudoku project]
|
| 2007-08-27
|
|
|
|
| Graz, University of Technology
|
|
| Uses Internet-connected computers to search for the smallest possible start configuration of Sudoku.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071128150637/http://eternity2.net:80/ Eternity2.net]
|
| 2007
|  
|
|
|
| Dave Clark, Auckland
|
|
| A project to try to solve the Eternity II puzzle™.

|-
| [http://roc.cs.berkeley.edu/projects/boinc/index.html ROC]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
| University of California, Berkeley
|
|
|

|-
| [http://neuron.mine.nu/neuron/ Project Neuron]
|
| 2007-11-25
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
| Independent
|
|
| Provide a trial BOINC environment in which a set of dummy applications will run. The purpose of this being to record, observe and understand BOINC activity and data with a view to developing metrics that will establish or otherwise the quality/reliability/dependability of particular BOINC projects.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071020023328/http://www.gridfinity.com:80/gridfinity/ Gridfinity]
|
| 2007
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://www.scilinc.org/SciLINC/ SciLINC]
|
| 2007-03-22
2009
| WinXP-98
|
|
|
| Missouri Botanical Garden
|
|
| Indexed digitized botanical literature. [[SciLINC|See more...]]

|-
| [http://isaac.ssl.berkeley.edu/sleeper/ Sleeper]
|
| 2007-03
|
|
|
|
| University of California, Berkeley
|
|
| Test project for BOINC Alpha Test.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080901231107/http://www.init1.net:80/pPotTables/ pPot Tables]
|
| 2008
|  
|
|
|
| Independent
|
|
| Computing relative hand strength and 1-card lookahead positive potential for all possible flop, turn and hole card combinations for 2 to 10 players in Texas hold 'em.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20121205084825/http://www.malariacontrol.net/ malariacontrol.net]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Malariacontrol.net 26]
| 2006-03-01
2016-06-21
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/4GAYKw5SakQ view]
|
|
|
| A project with an application that makes use of network computing for stochastic modelling of the clinical epidemiology and natural history of Plasmodium falciparum malaria. [[Malariacontrol.net|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20061206015653/http://biology.polytechnique.fr/proteinsathome/ proteins@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Proteins@home 4]
| 2006-09-15
| WinXP
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/aM6kiaM228Y view]
|
|
|
| A large-scale Protein structure prediction project to contribute to a better understanding of many diseases and pathologies, and to progress in both Medicine and Technology. [[Proteins@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080517170329/http://www.depspid.net:80/ DepSpid]
|
| 2007
| WinXP-98
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Every DepSpid task is processed in two phases: a networking phase (Phase One) in which the DepSpid spider scans a set of web pages and stores results in a temporary database; and a computational phase (Phase Two) which uses the collected data to calculate dependencies between all pages. [[DepSpid|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://bob.myisland.as/tsp/ Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP)]
|
| 2007
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
|
|
|
|
| The Travelling salesman problem (TSP): for a given set of cities, visit each city once and only once and minimize the distance you travel.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060412015807/http://xw01.lri.fr:4320/ XtremLab]
|
| 2005
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Measuring the free resources available on personal computers involved in large-scale distributed computing.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060903103622/http://bbc.cpdn.org/ BBC Climate Change Experiment]
|
|
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090107014341/http://allprojectstats.com/collatz/ 3x+1@home]
|
| 2008-02-18
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| A non-profit project trying to find high 3x+1 conjecture stopping times. The 3x+1 conjecture is also known as the Collatz conjecture.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://edges-local-devbnc-srv.ceta-ciemat.es/appexample/ Uppercase Application]
|
| 2008
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [http://193.144.240.190/nnsimu/ NNSIMU Project]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090204215407/http://boinc.unex.es/extremadurathome/ Extremadura@Home]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090528015437/http://boinc.isa.ru:80/russiadg/ Russian Desktop Grid]
|
| 2009
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110801221116/http://falua.cesfelipesegundo.com/VRS/ Virus Respiratorio Sincitial (VRS)]
| [https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0895717710005595 1]
| 2010
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| VRS (from the Spanish Virus Respiratorio Sincitial) is a BOINC-based project which main aim is to simulate the behaviour of the human Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV).

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20081004231715/http://cels-at-home-dev.dyndns.org:80/test2/ <nowiki>Cels@Home [Second] Test Project</nowiki>]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Research in cell adhesion.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090925001717/http://boinc.vanderbilt.edu:80/test_setup Test Setup Project]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
| Vanderbilt
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://grid.ncssm.edu/ncssm_grid/ NCSSM Grid Computing Project]
|
| 2007-04-04
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20051226054712/http://www.cellcomputing.net/simple/ Cell Computing]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://arcoboinc.unex.es/rnd/ RND@home]
|
| 2007
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Radio Network Design (RND) is a telecommunication problem which consists in covering a geographic area with radio signal using the fewer number of transmitters that cover the maximum area.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://edges-local-testbnc-srv.ceta-ciemat.es/localtest EDGeS Local Test]
|
| 2007
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://sat.math.umu.se/sat/ Satisfaction@Home]
|
| 2007
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070505234056/http://www.nanohive-1.org:80/atHome/ NanoHive@Home]
| [http://openurl.ingenta.com/content/xref?genre=article&issn=1546-1955&volume=8&issue=7&spage=1139 1]
|
| WinXP
|
|
|
| Nanorex, Inc.
|
|
| Used the NanoHive-1 nanospace simulator to search for failure modes in diamondoid mechanosynthesis tooltips. [[NanoHive@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080711074723/http://boinc.iaik.tugraz.at:80/sha1_coll_search SHA 1 Collision Search Graz]
|
| 2007-08-08
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
| Graz University of Technology
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in cryptanalysis.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://dist2.ist.tugraz.at/sudoku/ Project Sudoku]
|
| 2007-08-27
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080307034907/http://dist2.ist.tugraz.at/sudoku/apps.php WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS]
|
|
|
| Graz University of Technology
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to search for the smallest possible start configuration of Sudoku.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071005080915/http://www.apsathome.org:80/ APS@Home]
|
| 2007-08-30
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
| University of Manchester
|
|
| The effects that atmospheric dispersion has on the measurements used in climate prediction.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080806072857/http://dawn.ynet.sk:80/test1/ Reversi]
|
| 2008-05-16
|  
|
|
|
| Independent
|
|
| Determine who wins in Reversi game - first player, second player or if the game is tied.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://www.ramseyathome.com/ramsey/ Ramsey@Home]
|
| 2008-06-14
|  
|
|
|
| Nick Peterson
|
|
| A volunteer computing project designed to find new lower bounds for various Ramsey numbers using a host of different techniques.

|-
| [http://canis.csc.ncsu.edu:8005/anansi/ Anansi]
|
| 2008
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| [https://web.archive.org/http://eaps-at-home-alpha.gotdns.org/eaps/ EAPS@HOME]
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| 2008
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in Artificial Intelligence.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080703141019/http://boinc.vanderbilt.edu/CSB/ CSB@Home] / [https://web.archive.org/web/20080703141019/http://boinc.vanderbilt.edu/CSB/ BCL@Home]
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| 2008-06-05 / 2008
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in '''Computational Structural Biochemistry'''.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080908061532/http://genlife.is-a-geek.org:80/genlife/ Genetic Life]
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| 2008-06-18
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| A not-for-profit research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research into Genetic Algorithms.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090506112112/http://africangridlab.net/ African Grid Lab ALPHA]
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| 2008-10-05
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| An incubation laboratory environment for African based BOINC projects.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090322190553/http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu/brats/ BRaTS@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#BRaTS@Home 2]
| 2007-06-05
| WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS
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| Perform gravitational lensing ray-tracing simulations of galaxy clusters. [[BRaTS@Home|See more....]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090425124851/http://www.intelligencerealm.com/aisystem/system.php Artificial Intelligence System]
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| 2007-09-05
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| The neural network simulator is an application that simulates neurons. Each downloaded work unit generates 500,000 biophysical neurons.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090927062104/http://dynaping.com/ DynaPing]
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| 2009
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| Ensure highest availability of your web services. DynaPing uses computers around the world to monitor your web service availability and alerts you of any downtime.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20091130024643/http://nqueens.ing.udec.cl/ NQueens@Home]
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| 2007-08-10
| Windows
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| University of Concepción
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| This project uses Internet-connected computers to solve the N Queens problem.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20141009194330/http://registro.ibercivis.es/ Ibercivis]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Ibercivis 18]
| 2007-11
2020-08-01
|  
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| [https://youtu.be/RRPMDKPGt3A view]
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| Research in physics, material science and biomedicines and is based at several institutes and universities; Zaragoza, CETA-CIEMAT, CSIC, Coimbra. [[Ibercivis|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20201213215515/https://boinc.ibercivis.es/ibercivis/ Ibercivis BOINC]
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| 2020-10
|  
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| The Biophym Group of the CSIC Institute for the Structure of Matter has proposed to carry out simulations of the interaction of drugs used against Ebola, HIV infection, influenza or hepatitis B with the genome replication machinery of the SARS-Co-V virus.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://evil.podzone.org/decs/ DECS]
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| 2007-10-05
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| The Generic Distributed Exact Cover Solver (DECS) project uses Internet-connected computers to solve exact cover problems. Exact cover is a general type of problem which can be used to solve problems including n-queens, Latin Square puzzles, Sudoku, polyomino tiling, set packing and set partitioning.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://boincsrv01.cern.ch/atlfast/ LHC Atlas Test]
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| 2007-08-14
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| Test project for LHC@home.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070209051807/http://boinc.berkeley.edu/cplan/ Cunning Plan]
|
| 2007
|  
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| Was being used to test account creation.

|-
| [http://pcschmiede.pc.funpic.de/teah/html/user/ Test Project Christian Beer]
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| 2007
|  
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| Software testing
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|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110207203930/http://mapthegap.com/ MAPtheGAP]
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| {{No}}
|  
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| Eliminating racial disparities in health.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://dnahome.cs.rpi.edu/dna/ DNA@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#DNA@Home 2]
| 2010-04-14
|  
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| The new versions allow for different motif types which are different models for how a binding site could look. One is palindromic, where the nucleotides in the beginning of the model have their complement at the end of the model. The other model type is reverse complement, which doesn't assume the model to be palindromic, but looks for either the forward or reverse version of the model.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://edges-local-devbnc-srv.ceta-ciemat.es/3gbp 3g Bridge Project]
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| 2009
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071220210249/http://boincsrv01.cern.ch:80/lhcathome/ LHC@Home Experimental]
|
| 2007
|  
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| Software testing
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| For internal testing only; any workunits issued are for testing and do not yet have any scientific value. Please remain attached to the official LHC@Home server!

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://cbl-link02.cs.technion.ac.il/cplan/ Superlink@EGEE queue]
|
| {{No}}
|  
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|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20100324075245/http://boinc.cs.uct.ac.za:80/malaria/ UCT:malariacontrol.net]
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| 2008-03-31
|  
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| Software testing
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| A test project in collaboration with MalariaControl.net in Switzerland that aims to test the correct operation of our server for future BOINC-based projects.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://dist.ist.tugraz.at/cape5/ Rectilinear Crossing Number]
|
| 2006-06-30
| WinXP, Linux
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| [https://youtu.be/d03IUeQrDLQ view]
|
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| Use sophisticated mathematical methods to determine the rectilinear crossing number for small values of n. [[Rectilinear Crossing Number Project|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20091124095534/http://boinc.vtu.lt:80/vtuathome VTU@home], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090412025420/http://boinc.vgtu.lt/vtuathome/ VGTU@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#VGTU@home 2]
| 2006-04-13
| WinXP, Linux
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|
|
| Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
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|
| The aim of this project is to provide a powerful distributed computing platform for scientists of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU) as well as other Lithuanian academic institutions.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090309055929/http://aqua.dwavesys.com/ AQUA@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#AQUA@home 4]
|2008-12-08
2011-08-01
|  
|
| {{Yes}}, Vbox
| [https://youtu.be/VyQgGkj_Rss view]
| dwavesys
|Quantum Computing
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|Model the performance of superconducting adiabatic quantum computers. [[AQUA@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060702175205/http://www.ufluids.net/ μFluids@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Publications_by_BOINC_projects#.C2.B5Fluids.40Home 3]
| 2005-09-19
| WinXP-98
|
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| Study fluid behavior in microgravity to design satellite propellant management devices. [[UFluids@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110817075110/http://boinc.run.montefiore.ulg.ac.be:80/evo/ Evo@home]
|
| 2010-11-22
|  
|
|
|
| University of Liège
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in Machine Learning. This project uses Evolutionary Algorithms to optimize the parameters of different kind of machine learning algorithms.

|-
| [http://gmdhgrid.com/mgua/index.php GMDHGrid]
|
| 2010
|
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| Kiev Polytechnic Institute
|
|
| Data mining, knowledge discovery, prediction, complex systems modeling, optimization and pattern recognition.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20101025171952/http://project.czechnationalteam.cz/cplan/ Czech National Team project]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
| Czech National Team
| Software testing
|
| A test project for our new BOINC server helping us to find and fix some bugs and create a new project which is being prepared.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.math.ucalgary.ca/sheti/ SHETI]
|
| 2009-01-08
|  
|
|
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|
|
| Sheti is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to solve the [http://www.certicom.com/index.php/the-certicom-ecc-challenge 131-bit Certicom ECC Challenge].

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090331215945/http://mothershipathome.org/ Mothership@Home]
|
| 2008
|  
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|
| Mothership@Home is dedicated in loving memory of my mother Patricia Horner (1942-1987), my husband Joshua Resnick (1965-1999) and all others who have passed away prematurely due to medical conditions.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://dart.cs.georgefox.edu/mcpi/ Monte Carlo Pi]
|
| 2008
|
|
|
|
| George Fox University
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [http://cancergrid.lpds.sztaki.hu/cancergrid/ CancerGrid]
|
| 2008
|
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|

|-
| [http://stuff.povaddict.com.ar:8080/boinctest/ Silly Pi Calculation]
|
| 2008
|
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|
| Nicolas
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|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130823010101/http://www.fpgaathome.org/ FPGA@Home]
|
| {{No}}
|  
|
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|
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|
|
| This is an open collaboration for porting Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) based volunteer computing projects on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs).

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130528155906/http://boinc.hpc.utp.edu.my:80/utpdg/ UTP Desktop Grid]
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|
|  
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|
| Universiti Teknologi Petronas
|
|
| UTP Desktop Grid (UTPDG) is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in various areas of parallel computational problems.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130302052041/http://boinc.ucd.ie/fmah/ FightMalaria@Home]
|
| 2012-07-20
|  
|
|
|
| Dr Anthony Chubb
|
|
| Perform docking simulations on malaria proteins.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://107.21.228.163/VBOINC V-BOINC]
|
|
|  
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| The VBOINC project is the first attempt to use virtual machines with BOINC.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130501160927/http://oproject.info/ OProject@Home]
| [https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.1593 1]
| 2012-08-13
|  
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| Algorithm analysis. OProject@Home based at Olin Library (Rollins College).

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/https://climateathome.info/climateathome/ Climate@Home]
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|
|  
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|
| George Mason University, NASA
|
|
| Research for spatiotemporal computing and climate predictions.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130701032038/http://bigdata.ihep.ac.cn/bigdata/stats.php BigData@home]
|
|
| [https://web.archive.org/http://bigdata.ihep.ac.cn/bigdata/ Windows, Linux]
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Crawl Internet New Media Information.

|-
| [https://quakecatcher.net/sensor/ Quake-Catcher Network]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Quake-Catcher 13]
| 2007-12-05 / 2023-06-01
|
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/SCv_W751m64 view]
| Stanford University, then University of Southern California
|
|
| Used low-cost MEMS accelerometers in laptops, desktops, and USB sensors to build a distributed, community-based earthquake detection network. [[Quake-Catcher Network|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://qcn.emsc-csem.org/sensor/ Quake-Catcher Network EMSC / CSEM]
|
|
|  
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/SCv_W751m64 view]
|
|
|
| Used low-cost MEMS accelerometers in laptops, desktops, and USB sensors to build a distributed, community-based earthquake detection network.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110723205439/http://mersenneathome.net/ Mersenne@home]
|
|
|  
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|

|-
| [http://b25.interix.jp/b25/ B25@Home]
|
|
|  
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|

|-
| [http://boinc.ryanteck.org.uk/boincPi/ boincPi]
|
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|  
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|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://surveill.dei.uc.pt/surveill/ Surveill@home]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
| University of Coimbra
|
|
| Conduct end-to-end fine-grained monitoring of web sites.

|-
| [https://www.chess960athome.org/alpha/ Chess960athome]
|
| 2006-03-20
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Used Stockfish to evaluate tens of millions of chess positions, building a labeled dataset intended for training a machine-learned classifier of winning positions. [[Chess960@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110801052639/http://www.freehal.net/freehal_at_home FreeHAL@home]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
| Tobias Schulz / Powered by SETI.Germany and Planet 3DNow!
|
|
| a completed Artificial intelligence BOINC project that generated and converted semantic networks for the self-learning chatbot FreeHAL. [[FreeHAL@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20100430012556/http://goldbach.pl/ Goldbach's Conjecture Project]
|
| 2009-07-23
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20100505082120/http://goldbach.pl/apps.php Windows, Linux]
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Effectively proving Goldbach's weak conjecture.

|-
| [http://starmageddon.dyndns.org/ninjagrid/ NinjaGrid]
|
| 2009
|
|
|
|
|
| Mathematics
|
| 3x+1.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://physicsathome.tk/physics/ physics@home]
|
| 2013-02-16
|  
|
|
|
| Vasyl Kuzmenko
|
|
| Research in Solid-state physics, Materials science, Optics and Chemistry.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://vcsc.cs.uh.edu/second-computing/ UH Second Computing]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
| University of Houston College of Technology
|
|
| We are in the process to simulate macromolecular interactions in a living cell.

|-
| [http://babel.boinc.povaddict.com.ar/ Babel]
|
|
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|
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|
| Testing translations of BOINC server and forum.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://eon.raunvis.hi.is/EON2v1/ EON2v1@clusters]
|
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|  
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|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://sctr.i3a.uclm.es/prob/ Prob]
|
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|  
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|

|-
| [http://140.110.240.195/bioinfo/ Bioinfo@Home]
|
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|  
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|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/https://boinc.freerainbowtables.com/distrrtgen/ DistrRTgen]
|
|
|  
|
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|
|
| By distributing the generation of rainbow chains, we can generate HUGE rainbow tables that are able to crack longer passwords than ever seen before.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20100526004243/http://boinc.picevolvr.com:80/ Picevolvr]
|
| 2010
|  
|
|
|
| [http://cullen-online.com/ Michael Cullen]
|
|
| Uses Internet-connected computers to generate artwork completely automatically.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://cah.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/ QuantumFIRE alpha]
|
| 2010
|  
|
|
|
| University of Cambridge
|
|
| Quantum foundations and Solid-state physics research.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinctest.codeq.pl/boinctest/ Replace With Project Name]
|
| 2013
|  
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| http://boinctest.codeq.pl/boinctest/

|-
| [http://web.archive.org/web/20131229164437/http://plagiarism.boincpolska.org/plagiarism/ Plagiarism@Home]
|
| 2013
|
|
|
|
| Krzysztof Piszczek
|
|
| Search given text for potential plagiarism in Internet resources.

|-
| [http://boinc.comcute.com/SIM/ Comcute emBOINC]
|
| 2012
|
|
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|

|-
| [http://boinc.comcute.com/cc_boinc/ Comcute Boinc]
|
| 2013
|
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|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://chess.qugate.org/ Chess@Home]
|
| 2014-01-05
2014-03-01
|  
|
|
|
| Michal Stanislaw Wojcik
|
|
| play large numbers of Chess960 (Fischer Random Chess) games, in an effort to build the beginnings of an opening theory for the variant. [[Chess@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://perft.computers-chess.com/ computers-chess]
|
| 2013
|  
|
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|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [http://151.97.53.109/synchronised/ Synchronised]
|
| 2013 / 2014
|
|
|
|
| University of Catania
| Molecular Modelling
|
| Pharmaceutical chemistry research.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090402124145/http://cleanenergy.harvard.edu/ The Clean Energy Project]
|
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|  
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| Harvard University
|
|
| Merged into World Community Grid.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20150522195526/http://www.universeathometest.info/universe/ Universe@Home test project]
|
|
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|
|
|
| University of Warsaw
|
|
| Test project for Universe@Home.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://eon.ices.utexas.edu/eon2/ eOn2]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#EOn 6]
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|  
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| Simulate long timescale evolution of atomic scale systems in chemistry and materials science. [[EOn|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://mmgboinc.unimi.it/ SimOne@home]
| [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000926141300763X 1]
|
|  
|
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|
|
| The project focuses on the osmoprotection phenomenon. In nature there are small molecules that are able to protect proteins from thermal stress. Answering this question could have a major impact in agriculture, e.g. developing plants that require less water intake.

|-
| [http://docking.cis.udel.edu/ Docking@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Docking@home 20]
| 2006-09-11 / 2014-05-23
| WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS X/Intel
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/gC_2zu2efY4 view]
| University of Delaware
|
|
| CHARMM-based protein-ligand docking simulations to search for new pharmaceutical drugs. [[Docking@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [http://boinc01.cern.ch/test4theory/ LHC Test4Theory]
|
| 2011
|  
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|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20150731163559/http://lhcathome2.cern.ch/vLHCathome/ vLHCathome]
|
| 2011
|  
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| This is a project that utilizes the CERN-developed CernVM virtual machine and the BOINC virtualization layer to harness volunteer cloud computing power for full-fledged LHC event physics simulation on volunteer computers.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120102114135/http://ui.hpc.iit.bme.hu/wc/ Web Computing]
|
| 2011
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|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130511025233/http://falua.cesfelipesegundo.com/Ideologias/ Ideologias@Home]
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|  
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| Study how people in a certain region evolve ideologically over time with respect to an idea.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120302132650/http://alfa-bridge.ibercivis.es/puente/ alfa_puente]
|
| 2012
|  
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20121207151627/http://boinc.biruni.upm.my/putra/ DG@Putra]
|
| 2012-02-23
|  
|
|
|
| Universiti Putra Malaysia
|
|
| Putra Desktop Grid is UPM's implementation of a DesktopGrid network. The project is fully supported by the International Desktop Grid Federation (IDGF).

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://qcn.stanford.edu/continual/ QCN Continual Sensor Monitoring]
|
| 2012-04-18
|  
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/SCv_W751m64 view]
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|
| Research, education, and outreach in seismology.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://qcn.twgrid.org/sensor/ QCN Taiwan]
|
| 2012-04-16
|  
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/SCv_W751m64 view]
|
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|
| Research, education, and outreach in seismology.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://www.ras.unam.mx/sensor/ QCN Red Atrapa Sismos]
|
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|  
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/SCv_W751m64 view]
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|
| Research, education, and outreach in seismology.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://bvp6.hpc.iit.bme.hu/w2g/ Web2Grid Development]
|
| 2012
|  
|
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [http://bacalhau.lsd.ufcg.edu.br/table_transcriber/ TABLE TRANSCRIBER]
|
| 2012
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|-
| [http://boinc.rm-hs.de/test/ Replace With Project Name]
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| http://boinc.rm-hs.de/test/

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| [http://150.186.92.236/boinctest/ boinctest]
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| [https://web.archive.org/http://nanomodeling.molsim.ru/nanomodeling/ NanoModeling@home]
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| For designing nanostructures and nanorobots. Our goal is molecular modeling of targeted drug delivery systems, nanorobots and related nanostructures.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120120081734/http://boinc.berkeley.edu:80/vbox/ CERNVM/Vboxwrapper Test Project]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://mishra.lpds.sztaki.hu/atticproxy/ Attic Proxy Project]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [http://95.56.231.137/norlist/view_profile.php?userid=806 NORLIST@HOME]
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| 2014
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| Kazakhstan National Scientific Laboratory
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| Kazakh speech recognition.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.biruni.upm.my/pucbi/ PUCBi Desktop Grid]
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| 2015
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| Perdana University Centre for Bioinformatics (PU-CBi)
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| Provide education and training to support the development and continuity of in-house programmes, in particular to advance the translational bioinformatics skills of the next generation doctors and clinician scientists.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20160315063057/http://finance.gridcoin.us/finance/show_user.php?userid=885357 Gridcoin Finance]
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| 2015
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| [https://wiki.bc-team.org/index.php?title=Gridcoin_Finance/en The project performs financial simulations, analysis of the block chain, consolidate humanitarian reports, calculate marketing strategies, perform stock option analysis, harvest business intelligence, and assimilate top level results for the crowdsourced web pages.]

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20160831173736/http://nanosurf.kr.ua/nanos/ nanosurf]
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| 2016-06-16
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| Oleg Schevchenko
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| Researching surface physics. In particular, the development of optical devices. Theoretical modeling of surface quantum dots makes it possible to provide recommendations to a group of experimenters.

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| [https://www.boincstats.com/stats/167/project/detail/ BMG@Home]
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| 2016-02-25
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| Chemistry
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20170514021753/http://parlea.ru:80/andersonattack AndersonAttack@home]
| [https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/eng-2018-0002/html 1]
| 2017
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| {{Yes}}, Vbox
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| Matrosov Institute for System Dynamics and Control Theory
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| Implement Anderson's attack on A5/1 GSM stream cipher.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20171114233820/http://stop.inferia.ru:80/ Stop@home]
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| 256Ghz
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| Today we can't imagine our life without internet and its services. Our team wants to use distributed computing to solve mathematical tasks and improve algorithms.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130605030952/http://boinc.riojascience.com/ Riojascience@home]
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| Knet Communications and the University of La Rioja
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| A platform for biomedical research.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20141117215322/http://igemathome.org/ iGem@home]
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20160629234412/http://www.bitcoinutopia.net/bitcoinutopia/ Bitcoin Utopia]
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| 2013-06-05
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| Mine cryptocurrencies for incentive awards and science projects.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://59.78.96.61:8082/dhome/ Drug@Home]
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| School of Pharmacy, Ecust China University of Science & Technology
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| This study applied an efficient virtual screening strategy integrating molecular docking with MM-GBSA rescoring to identify diverse human dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (hDHODH) inhibitors.

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| [http://edges-ext-dg.ceta-ciemat.es/3gbp/ Edges Bridge Production]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140913231024/http://boinc.unsads.com/rsals/ RSA Lattice Siever(2.0)]
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| 2009-12-24 / 2012
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| Help other factoring projects such as mersenneforum or XYYXf achieve their academic goals. Merged into [[NFS@Home]].

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120329124047/http://home.edges-grid.eu/home/ EDGeS@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#EDGeS@Home 13]
| 2009-10-28
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| To support the execution of selected and validated scientific applications developed by the EGEE and EDGeS community. [[EDGeS@Home|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20081008031648/http://cels-at-home-dev.dyndns.org:80/cels/ Cels@Home]
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|2008-06-23
2009-09-01
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| [https://youtu.be/mzp2QBwvb2U view]
|University of Texas in Austin
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| 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 is a critical event that makes the disease much harder to treat. [[Cels@Home|See more...]]

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| [http://77.48.48.82/jplan/ jplan]
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| [https://web.archive.org/http://lhcbathome.cern.ch/Beauty/ Beauty@LHC]
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| Based at CERN and is a project of the LHCb experiment.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209200706/http://boinc.biruni.upm.my/putra/ Putra Desktop Grid]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://vcsc.cs.uh.edu/virtual-prairie/ Virtual Prairie]
| [https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0304380010005557 1]
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| University of Houston
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| simulations of clonal plant growth to inform the ecological design of sustainable prairie ecosystems. [[Virtual Prairie|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.med.usherbrooke.ca/nrg/ Najmanovich Research Group]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Najmanovich 3]
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| Research in molecular recognition and computer-aided drug design.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://www.sustainablegrid.org/ Sustainable Grid]
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| 2012-01-11
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| Enterprise Application Development Group at the University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Goerlitz
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| Bundles hardware resources of the university and provides this computational power to the scientists for their research purposes.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120312215655/http://mamarreis.lsd.ufcg.edu.br/ciencia-em-sua-casa/ Ciência Em Sua Casa]
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| Science in Your Home. Search for Wilson prime numbers and DNA sequencing.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120705003101/http://donateathome.org/ Donate@Home]
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| Allows participants to donate towards funding by using their GPU to mine for BitCoins.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://edges-local-devbnc-srv.ceta-ciemat.es/student01/ Student01]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://edges-local-devbnc-srv.ceta-ciemat.es/student02/ Student02]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [http://gf45.mp.tudelft.nl/psdm/ BIoS]
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| TU Delft
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| [https://web.archive.org/http://mishra.lpds.sztaki.hu/edgidemo/ EDGI Demo Project]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://voldemort.cs.cf.ac.uk/attic_proxy/ AtticFS Proxy Application Project on BOINC]
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| The AtticFS Proxy application acts as a translation layer between HTTP and the AtticFS. This allows BOINC Projects to utilise AtticFS easily.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130526001435/http://volunteer.cs.und.edu/subset_sum/ SubsetSum@Home]
| [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7255176/ 1]
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| Computer Science Department of the University of North Dakota
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| See how far we can extend the empirical evidence of the Subset Sum problem. Find better ways to apply volunteer computing to combinatorial problems.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20100313233251/http://www.nicoschlitter.de/DistributedDataMining distributedDataMining]
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| Research in the various fields of Data Analysis and Machine Learning.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20101201205418/http://dnetc.net/ DNETC@HOME]
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| A wrapper between BOINC and distributed.net.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://dg.imp.kiev.ua/slinca/ SLinCA]
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| SLinCA (Scaling Laws in Cluster Aggregation) is involved with research in the field of materials science.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110803231551/http://mishra.lpds.sztaki.hu:80/szdgr/ SZTAKI Desktop Grid Research Facility]
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| WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS X
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| Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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| This project is the test & research facility for SZTAKI Desktop Grid.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20081224080150/http://hydrogenathome.org/ Hydrogen@home]
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120111114110/http://hydrogenathome.org/apps.php WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS X (Not Intel)]
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| Enhance clean energy technology by improving hydrogen production and storage.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://convector.fsv.cvut.cz/ convector@home]
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| Calculate global optimum of 52 bar truss.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070202002920/http://spin.fh-bielefeld.de/ Spinhenge@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Spinhenge@home 3]
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| WinXP-98
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| [https://youtu.be/d-fafmtqE74 view]
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| Support the research of nano-magnetic molecules. In the future these molecules will be used in the local tumor chemotherapy and to develop tiny memory-modules. [[Spinhenge@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140413155515/http://bealathome.com/ Beal@Home]
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| Beal's conjecture is a conjecture in number theory: where A, B, C, x, y, and z are positive integers with x, y, z > 2, then A, B, and C have a common prime factor. Beal initially offered a prize of US $5,000 in 1997, raising it to US $1,000,000.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20150816053811/http://bealf.pl/bealf BealF@Home]
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| Part of the Master Thesis: '''''Testing Beal conjecture using supercomputers and distributed computing platform BOINC'''''. The predecessor of the project was ''Beal@Home''.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://cbl-link02.cs.technion.ac.il/superlinkattechnion/ Superlink@Technion]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Superlink@Technion 4]
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| WinXP-98, Linux
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| Helps geneticists all over the world find disease-provoking genes causing some types of diabetes, hypertension (high blood pressure), cancer, schizophrenia and many others.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110720105948/http://boinc.vanderbilt.edu/bcl/ Biochemical Library]
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| 2011
|  
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| Research in Biochemical Library.

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| [http://falua.cesfelipesegundo.com/jarifa/ Jarifa]
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| [https://web.archive.org/http://netmax.isa.ru/netmax/ NetMax@home]
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| Research in dynamic routing at telecommunication networks.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140804215459/http://gilda117.ihep.ac.cn/ATLAS/ Replace With Project Name]
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| https://web.archive.org/web/20140903030559/http://gilda117.ihep.ac.cn/ATLAS

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| [http://cvmathome.cern.ch/test4theory/ LHC+@Home]
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| [http://isaac.ssl.berkeley.edu/test2/ Replace With Project Name]
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| http://isaac.ssl.berkeley.edu/test2/

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.fiit.stuba.sk/ BOINC@Fiit]
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|  
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| Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava
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| TBA.

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| [https://web.archive.org/https://v8boinc.fer.hr/v8boinc/ v8boinc]
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20101203122655/http://glife.is-a-geek.org:80/ga/view_profile.php?userid=120 GA@home]
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20101109123610/http://www.luxrenderfarm.de/luxfarm Luxrenderfarm@home]
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| Renderfarm for Luxrender.net.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130819173713/http://sudoku.nctu.edu.tw/joomla/ sudoku@vtaiwan]
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| Develop new techniques and use them to modify the program [https://web.archive.org/web/20130819173713/http://www.math.ie/checker.html Checker] (written by Gary McGuire).

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://poseidon.shacknet.nu:8080/MilestoneRSA/ MilestoneRSA]
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| Break a 1024 bit RSA key used by Motorola to sign the boot and recovery partitions on the Motorola Milestone.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc01.uoc.edu/ILS-ESP-2014/ ILS-ESP-2014]
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| Research for solving the permutation FLOW-SHOP problem.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://wordcompatibility.com/words_compatibility/ Russian Words Compatibility]
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| Research in Russian computational linguistics.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110816010257/http://falua.cesfelipesegundo.com/Neurona/ Neurona@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Neurona@Home 2]
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|  
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| Simulating the behavior of a large assembly of cellular automata neurons connected in a complex network.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.isa.ru/dcsdg/ OPTIMA@HOME]
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| Solve challenging large-scale optimization problems.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130525113734/http://svahesrv2.bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de/correlizer/ Correlizer]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Correlizer 5]
|2011-08-03
2015
|  
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|BioQuant Centre, University of Heidelberg
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| Studiy the organization of genomes using long-range correlation analysis of completely sequenced chromosomes. [[Correlizer|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120825055512/http://vbridge.twgrid.org/asgcdg/ Taiwan Desktop Grid]
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|Academia Sinica Grid Computing
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| Bridging Taiwanese volunteer computers to European e-Science service grid infrastructure. [[Taiwan Desktop Grid|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110214000708/http://androinc.net:80/ AndrOINC]
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| To break a 1024 bit RSA key used by Motorola to sign the boot and recovery partitions on the Motorola Milestone.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20141216004540/http://findah.ucd.ie/ FiND@Home]
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| 2012-07-20
|  
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| Dr Anthony Chubb
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| A research project that uses donated CPU time to perform docking simulations on malaria proteins.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140514143657/http://www.primaboinca.com/ Primaboinca]
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| This project concerns itself with two hypotheses in number theory: Agrawal's Conjecture (the basis for the AKS algorithm) and Popovych's conjecture, which adds a further condition and could reduce the time of a deterministic prime test from O(log N)^6 to O(log N)^3.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060723185510/http://attribution.cpdn.org/ Seasonal Attribution Project]
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| WinXP, Linux
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| By comparing the results of climate simulations, half of which will include the effects of human-induced climate change, and half of which will not, we will investigate the possible impact of human activity on extreme weather risk.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://shasta.chem.uh.edu/SolarAtHome/ Solar@home]
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| Make more efficient solar cells.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080828221836/http://kinetic.dnsalias.org/magnetism/ Magnetism@home]
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| Explore the equilibrium, metastable and transient magnetization patterns in nano-scale magnetic elements and their arrays.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://desktopgrid.hiast.edu.sy/hiastdg/ HIAST@HOME]
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| 2013
|  
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140316201231/http://volunteer.cs.und.edu:80/dna/ DNA@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#DNA@Home 2]
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| Discover what regulates the genes in DNA.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120130113228/http://boinc.umiacs.umd.edu/ The Lattice Project]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#The 16]
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| WinXP, Linux, Mac
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| University of Maryland
| Multiple applications
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| Condor and PBS clusters through the Globus Toolkit, chiefly supporting phylogenetic analysis with the GARLI software. [[The Lattice Project|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.fzk.de/poem/ POEM@HOME]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#POEM@HOME 5]
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| Protein structure prediction has been complemented by other nanoscale molecule simulations. Within the scope of polymer crystallography we are researching conformations of organic hydrocarbons. [[POEM@HOME|See more...]]

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| [http://int-boinctest.int.kit.edu/poem/ POEM@TEST]
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| Test project for POEM@HOME.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://199.26.254.190/qos/ Spatiotemporal Quality of Service (QoS)]
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| Perform distributed web service evaluation so that more accurate service quality information can be delivered to end users.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070128212119/http://boinc.rieselsieve.com/ RieselSieve]
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| WinXP
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| Mathematics
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| k+2n-1 problem, eventually merged with PrimeGrid.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130806073759/http://mopac.cadaster.eu/ mopac@home]
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| Chemistry
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| Research in quantum chemistry.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140419190153/http://volunteer.cs.und.edu/wildlife/ Wildlife@Home]
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| University of North Dakota
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| Analyze video gathered from various cameras recording wildlife.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20160120043345/http://volpexathome.cs.uh.edu/VolPEx/ Volpex@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Volpex@Home 9]
|2011-12
2017
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| University of Houston
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| Run communicating parallel programs on failure-prone volunteer PCs through process replication and a shared dataspace. [[Volpex@Home|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://mindmodeling.org/palm_project/ MindModeling@Home (Palm)]
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| University of Dayton Research Institute and Wright State University
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| Test project for MindModeling@Home.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080805160334/http://mindmodeling.org:80/beta/ MindModeling@Home (Beta)]
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| [https://youtu.be/3aJmm60Wgl8 view]
| University of Dayton Research Institute and Wright State University
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| Test project for MindModeling@Home.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120215132304/http://boinc.almeregrid.nl/ AlmereGrid]
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090422205514/http://server1.almeregrid.nl/testgrid/ AlmereGrid TestGrid]
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| Test Grid of AlmereGrid.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://server5.almeregrid.nl/almeregrid/ AlmereGrid Boinc testGrid]
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| No independent verification that this was a BOINC project.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20181204215217/http://anthgrid.com/dbnupperbound/ DBN Upper Bound]
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| Polymath project related to the theory of the Riemann zeta function.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130331200159/http://abcathome.com/ ABC@home]
| [https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.2974 1]
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| WinXP-98, Linux
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| Finding abc-triples related to the ABC conjecture. [[ABC@home|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070206065801/http://abcathome.com/beta/ ABC@home beta]
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| WinXP-98, Linux
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| Test project for ABC@home.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc2.cs.hs-rm.de/abclll/ ABC Lattices @Home]
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| Searching for good abc-triples. Unlike ABC@Home, this project is not aiming for a thorough search of a certain range of numbers. Instead, we are trying to find good triples with the help of a specialized algorithm in areas beyond 2^100.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080801101300/http://cpdnbeta.oerc.ox.ac.uk/ CPDN Beta]
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| Test project for climate''prediction''.net.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140703145955/http://atlasathome.cern.ch/ Atlas@home]
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| A research project that uses volunteer computing to run simulations of the ATLAS experiment at CERN.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130302044909/http://boincsimap.org/boincsimap/ SIMAP]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#SIMAP 5]
|
| WinXP, Linux, Mac OS, Other
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|Technical University of Munich, the Helmholtz Zentrum München and the University of Vienna
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| Many computational methods in biology and medicine are based on protein sequence analysis, e.g. to predict the function and structure of genes and proteins. SIMAP facilitates these methods by providing pre-calculated protein similarities and protein domains. [[SIMAP|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120214044716/http://boinc.gorlaeus.net/ Leiden Classical]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Leiden 2]
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| WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS X (Not Intel)
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| [https://youtu.be/co2SkwsvyOk view] and [https://youtu.be/ECAQC1mzMiM view]
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| Dedicated to general Classical Dynamics for any scientist or science student. [[Leiden Classical|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20171217033707/http://szdg.lpds.sztaki.hu/szdg/ SZTAKI Desktop Grid]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#SZTAKI 5]
| 2005-05-26
2018-05-31
| WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS X (Not Intel), Solaris
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| Multiple Applications
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| The SZTAKI Desktop Grid and its applications are partly supported by the DEGISCO and the EDGI projects. The work leading to these results has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreements n° RI-261561 and n° RI-261556. [[SZTAKI Desktop Grid|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080926101459/http://orbit.psi.edu/oah/ Orbit@home]
| [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103516300914 1]
|
| Windows, Linux
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| Produce an optimized search strategy for dedicated astronomical surveys to search for near-Earth asteroids.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130725025029/http://pogs.theskynet.org/pogs/ theSkyNet POGS]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#TheSkyNet 3]
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|  
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| Research in astronomy. Combine the spectral coverage of GALEX, Pan-STARRS1, and WISE to generate a multi-wavelength UV-optical-NIR galaxy atlas for the nearby Universe. [[TheSkyNet POGS|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20180205194455/https://sourcefinder.theskynet.org/duchamp/ theSkyNet Sourcefinder]
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|  
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| Provide a means to test the effectiveness of various astronomical sourcefinding applications.

|-
| [https://nickeycat.net/nic/ Nickeycat]
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| No independent verification that this was a BOINC project.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://xansons4cod.com/xansons4cod/ XANSONS for COD]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#XANSONS 2]
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|  
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| Create an open access database of simulated x-ray and neutron powder diffraction patterns for nanocrystalline phase of the materials presented in the '''Crystallography Open Database (COD)'''.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://aerospaceresearch.net/constellation/ Constellation]
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| Research in various aerospace related sciences and engineering.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20190401042546/http://www.acousticsathome.ru/boinc/ Acoustics@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Acoustics@home 2]
|
|  
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| Matrosov Institute for System Dynamics and Control Theory of SB RAS
|
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| Solving inverse problems in underwater acoustics.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20100427212604/http://boinc.drugdiscoveryathome.com/ Drug Discovery@home]
|
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|  
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| Model the behavior of leading compounds that could be developed into new medicines.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://sat.isa.ru/pdsat/ SAT@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#SAT@home 8]
|
|  
|
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|Russian Academy of Sciences (Siberian Branch)
|Mathematics
|
| Solve hard and practically important problems (discrete functions inversion problems, discrete optimization, bioinformatics, etc) that can be effectively reduced to Boolean satisfiability problem. [[SAT@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20190606103241/https://www.dhep.ga/boinc/ Distributed Hardware Evolution Project]
|
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|  
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| Used island-based coevolutionary genetic algorithm to synthesize self-checking digital hardware circuits. [[Distributed Hardware Evolution Project|See more...]]

|-
| [https://charon.camras.nl/setiatcamras/ SETI@CAMRAS]
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|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20180927092346/http://cpu.goofyxgridathome.net/ GoofyxGrid@Home CPU]
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|  
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| [https://web.archive.org/http://usproteins-at-home.ru/usproteins/ usproteins@home]
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|  
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20131022042932/http://qmcathome.org/ QMC@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#QMC@Home 7]
|
| Windows, Linux
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| [https://youtu.be/fNWUs9jRwSY view]
|
| Multiple applications
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| Quantum-mechanical computations on medically relevant biomolecular systems, to help with developing quantum-mechanics-based approaches for computational drug design; and finding safer and greener materials for e-vehicle batteries. [[QMC@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [http://physiome.lf1.cuni.cz/ident3/physiome/ Physiome@home]
|
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|  
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| Research in human physiology.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://casathome.ihep.ac.cn/ CAS@home]
|
|2010-09-30
2020-04-27
|  
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| [https://youtu.be/e-DUArD38Pw view]
| Chinese Academy of Sciences
|
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| The main application is the TreeThreader which predicts protein structure. [[CAS@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20210417203758/http://boinc.scienterprise.cn/ scienterprise]
|
| 2020
|  
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| Enterprises own a lot of idle computing resources in their private cloud, while research projects are restricted by limited computing power. This project aims to decrease this imbalance by building CloudTides, an elastic platform on idle cloud resources.

|-
| [http://vath.xicp.cn/test/ volunteer@home]
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| 2021
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| [https://youtu.be/a4nO8ki2qR4 view]
|
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| Very small test project, no information.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20191018200437/http://brainstormhome.org/ Brainstorm@home]
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|  
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| Investigate the molecular basis of brain-related diseases.

|-
| [http://hayes.nodium.net:8000/boincserver/ beef@home]
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|  
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| Proof of concept temporary test project.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20170509144906/https://csgrid.org/csg/ Citizen Science Grid]
|
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|  
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| UND's Computational Research Center and Information Technology Systems and Services
| Multiple applications
|
| A wide range of research and educational projects using volunteer computing and citizen science, including DNA@Home, SubsetSum@Home, Climate Tweets, and Wildlife@Home.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20210125080541/https://www.kryptosathome.com/ Kryptos@Home]
|
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|  
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| Solving one of the most famous unsolved puzzles - the three-decade old Kryptos sculpture located on the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency. [[Kryptos@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20200421212107/https://mindmodeling.org/ MindModeling@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Publications_by_BOINC_projects#MindModeling.40Home 6]
| 2007-03-17
|  
|
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| [https://youtu.be/3aJmm60Wgl8 view]
| University of Dayton Research Institute and Wright State University
| Cognitive science
|
| Computational cognitive process modeling to better understand the human mind. [[MindModeling@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20210225002054/http://www.vdwnumbers.org/vdwnumbers/ Van Der Waerden Numbers]
| [https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.03301 1]
| 2021-02-02
|  
|
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| Daniel Monroe
| Mathematics
|
| Van Der Waerden Numbers is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to find better lower bounds for these numbers. Static mirror for this project: https://www.123numbers.org/

|-
| [http://burp.renderfarming.net/ Big and Ugly Rendering Project (BURP)]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Big 2]
|2004-06-17
2020
| Windows, Linux, Mac OS
|
|
|
|Janus Kristensen
|3D rendering
|
| Render animated videos including [http://bbb3d.renderfarming.net/download.html Big Buck Bunny]. [[Big and Ugly Rendering Project|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/test/ BOINC Test project]
|
| 2007-07-24
|  
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/e-DUArD38Pw view]
| University of California, Berkeley
| Software testing
|
| A test project for BOINC development.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20220711171713/https://boinc.tacc.utexas.edu/ BOINC@TACC]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#BOINC@TACC 3]
|
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|
| Texas Advanced Computing Center
| Multiple applications
|
| Aerospace engineering, computational biology, and earthquake engineering. [[BOINC@TACC|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc-dev.tacc.utexas.edu/boincserver/ BOINC@TACC dev]
|
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|  
|
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|
| Texas Advanced Computing Center
| Software testing
|
| Test project for BOINC@TACC.

|-
| [https://www.mlcathome.org/mlcathome/ MLC@Home]
| [https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2104.10555 1]
| 2020-06-30 / 2022-08-02
| [https://www.mlcathome.org/mlcathome/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| University of Maryland, Baltimore County
| Cognitive science
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mlc-home/id1492837872?i=1000499605038 Listen]
| Understanding and interpreting complex machine learning models. [[MLC@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.tbrada.eu/ T.Brada Experimental Grid]
|
| 2019-02-03 / 2022-12-24
|
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| The PADLS Total subproject aims to find new pseudo-associative DLS. [[T.Brada Experimental Grid|See more...]]

|-
| [https://quchempedia.univ-angers.fr/athome/ QuChemPedIA@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#QuChemPedIA@home 4]
| 2019-07-01 / 2022-09-29
| [https://quchempedia.univ-angers.fr/athome/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: olive; color: black;" | Vbox only
|
| Université Angers
| Molecular Chemistry
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/quchempedia/id1492837872?i=1000484760287 Listen]
| Help chemical researchers around the world by building a unique collection of results and also help our AIs to propose much more new targets for the different applications we are addressing than we could do on our own. [[QuChemPedIA@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/ Collatz Conjecture]
| [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11227-020-03368-x 1]
| 2009-01-06
| [https://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| Study the Collatz conjecture, an unsolved conjecture in mathematics. [[Collatz Conjecture|See more...]]

|-
| [http://www.cosmologyathome.org/ Cosmology@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Cosmology@Home 5]
| 2007-06-26 / 2024-01-10
| [http://www.cosmologyathome.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, Vbox
|
| Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
| Astronomy
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/comology-home/id1492837872?i=1000521601975 Listen]
| Find the most accurate models that best describe the universe. [[Cosmology@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20240118183120/http://bearnol.is-a-geek.com/wanless2/ WEP-M+2 Project]
|
| 2006-05-12 / 2024-01-18
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20231126215917/http://bearnol.is-a-geek.com/wanless2/apps.php Linux, macOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| James Wanless, London, England
| Mathematics
| [https://www.youtube.com/live/9QexlknOdb0?feature=share Watch]
| Factorization of Mersenneplustwo numbers. [[WEP-M+2 Project|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.nanohub.org/nanoHUB_at_home/ nanoHUB@Home]
|
| 2012-07-26
| [https://boinc.nanohub.org/nanoHUB_at_home/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: olive; color: black;" | Vbox only
|
| Purdue University
| Nanotechnology
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nanohub/id1492837872?i=1000488157528 Listen]
| Research in nanoscience and nanotechnology. [[NanoHUB@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-540-30208-7_91 Unknown project]
|
|
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|

|-
| [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1488682/ Unknown project]
|
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|-
| [https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jp806269w boinc@duq]
|
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|

|-
| [https://www.comsol.com/paper/comsolgrid-a-framework-for-performing-large-scale-parameter-studies-using-comsol-8288 ComsolGrid]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#ComsolGrid 1]
|
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|-
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#BOINC-MR BOINC-MR]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#BOINC-MR 2]
|
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|

|-
| [https://frostydata.com/0Kdata Data freezer]
|
| 2024-06-11
| [https://frostydata.com/0Kdata/apps.php Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Storage
|
| Build a data warehouse on consumer hardware. [[Data freezer|See more...]]

|-
| [https://albertathome.org/ Albert@Home]
|
| 2011-12-23
| [https://albertathome.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Max Planck Institute
| Software testing
|
| Test project for [[Einstein@Home]]. [[Albert@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://sech.me/boinc/Amicable/ Amicable Numbers]
|
| 2017-01-05
| [https://sech.me/boinc/Amicable/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boinc-radio-project-brief-amicable-numbers/id1492837872?i=1000581365935 Listen]
| Amicable numbers are pairs where the sum of the proper divisors of each is equal to the other number. The goal of this project is to collect all amicable numbers up to a very large limit. [[Amicable Numbers|See more...]]

|-
| [https://blackholesathome.net/ BlackHoles@Home]
|
| {{No}}t yet
|
|
|
|
| University of Idaho
| Astrophysics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boinc-radio-project-brief-blackholes-home/id1492837872?i=1000575215408 Listen]
| Black hole collision simulations to maximize the science gained from gravitational wave observations. [[BlackHoles@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://team.dodoathome.com/dodo/ dodo@home]
|
| 2024-11-07
| [https://team.dodoathome.com/dodo/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
|
|
| We will bring the Dodo back from extinction (well, we will give it a damn good try!). [[Dodo@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://nci.boinc.goofyx.pl/ goofyxGrid@Home NCI]
|
| 1) [https://web.archive.org/web/20191023104620/http://nci.goofyxgridathome.net:80/ 2015-11-09] / 2) 2024-06-20
| [https://nci.boinc.goofyx.pl/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
|
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/goofyxgrid/id1492837872?i=1000490909639 Listen]
| To simulate the infinite monkey theorem which states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type any given text, including the complete works of William Shakespeare. [[GoofyxGrid@Home NCI|See more...]]

|-
| [http://boinc.llmentor.org/LLMentorGrid/ LLMentorGrid]
|
| 2025-01-22
| [http://boinc.llmentor.org/LLMentorGrid/apps.php Linux]
|
|
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| Independent
|
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|

|-
| [http://parlea.ru/boinctest/ Parlea]
|
| 2022-12
| [http://parlea.ru/boinctest/apps.php Windows, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
|
| Mathematics
|
| Investigate the efficiency and behavior of mobile devices as computing nodes on the BOINC platform for solving the Orthogonal Diagonal Latin Squares (ODLS) search problem. [[Parlea|See more...]]

|-
| [https://ralph.bakerlab.org/ RALPH@home]
|
| 2006-02-15
| [https://ralph.bakerlab.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, macOS, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, Vbox
| [https://youtu.be/W9fC5lv76T0 view]
| University of Washington
| Software testing
|
| Test project for [[Rosetta@home]]. [[RALPH@home|See more...]]

|-
| RNA World (computing project) | [https://www.rnaworld.de/rnaworld/ RNA World (beta)]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#RNA 5]
| 2009-05-21
| [https://www.rnaworld.de/rnaworld/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: olive; color: black;" | Vbox only
| [https://youtu.be/GHJ4KBdwVew view]
| Independent research group in Marburg, Germany
| Molecular biology
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rnaworld/id1492837872?i=1000496594043 Listen]
| Uses bioinformatics software to study RNA structure. [[RNA World (beta)|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.termit.me/adsl/ SPT@home]
|
| 2023-06-14
| [https://boinc.termit.me/adsl/ Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
|
| Mathematics
|
| The Symmetric Prime Tuples (SPT) project is a continuation of the T. Brada Experimental Grid project. [[SPT|See more...]]

|-
| [https://universeathome.pl/universe/ Universe@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Publications_by_BOINC_projects#Universe.40home 14]
| 2015-02-19
| [https://universeathome.pl/universe/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences
| Astronomy
|
| Computational astrophysics, computer simulation of stars, galaxies and the Universe. [[Universe@Home|See more...]]

|-
|[https://axiom.heliex.net/ Axiom Distributed AI]
|
|2026-01-30
2026-03-20
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20260319085629/https://axiom.heliex.net/apps.php Windows, Linux, Mac]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
|Axiom Project 2026
|Artificial Intelligence
|
|Distributed neural-network learning techniques influenced by Hebbian learning [[Axiom Distributed AI|See more...]]

|-
| [https://rnma.xyz/boinc/ Ramanujan Machine]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Ramanujan 2]
| 2021-10-14
| [https://rnma.xyz/boinc/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/project-brief-ramanujan-machine-5-2-2022/id1492837872?i=1000570072053 Listen]
| Conjecturing new mathematical formulas. [[Ramanujan Machine|See more...]]
|}

Correlizer

2026-08-30T14:04:47Z

Al Piskun:

{{Infobox software
| name = Correlizer
| logo = logo-Correlizer.png
| logo caption = Correlizer logo (the "Revealing the Mysteries of Genome Organization" project mark)
| screenshot =
| caption =
| description = Correlizer was a BOINC volunteer computing project run from the BioQuant Centre at the University of Heidelberg that studied the sequential and three-dimensional organization of genomes using long-range correlation analysis of completely sequenced chromosomes. It launched in 2011 and was completed around 2015, after its workload was integrated into AlmereGrid.
| status = Completed
| category = Biology
| compute = CPU
| dependencies = None
| developer = Tobias A. Knoch
| author = Tobias A. Knoch
| sponsor = BioQuant Centre, University of Heidelberg (with the German Cancer Research Center and Erasmus MC)
| maintainer = Tobias A. Knoch
| released = {{Start date and age|2011|08|03}}
| completed = c. 2015
| discontinued =
| repository =
| programming language =
| operating system = Windows, Linux, macOS (also ARM/Linux embedded)
| size =
| stats as of = {{Start date|2013|03|27}}
| average performance = 1,160 GFLOPS
| active users = 615
| total users = 1,747
| active hosts = 2,096
| total hosts = 8,349
| rac =
| credit per day =
| gpu performance = None (CPU only)
| cpu performance = 1,160 GFLOPS
| website = {{URL|http://svahesrv2.bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de/correlizer/}}
| license =
}}

'''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130525113734/http://svahesrv2.bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de/correlizer/ Correlizer]''' was a scientific [[wikipedia:Volunteer computing|volunteer computing]] project that ran on the [[wikipedia:BOINC|BOINC]] platform and applied long-range correlation analysis to completely sequenced genomes in order to study the sequential and three-dimensional organization of [[wikipedia:Genome|genome]]s. It was operated from the Biophysical Genomics group at the [https://www.bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de/ BioQuant] Centre of the [[wikipedia:Heidelberg University|University of Heidelberg]] in Germany, and the underlying science was developed by Tobias A. Knoch, a researcher also affiliated with the [[wikipedia:German Cancer Research Center|German Cancer Research Center]] (DKFZ) and the [[wikipedia:Erasmus MC|Erasmus MC]] in Rotterdam. The project began distributing work in August 2011 and is generally regarded as a completed BOINC project, having stopped issuing work units around 2015 after its workload was folded into [http://boinc.almeregrid.nl/ AlmereGrid].<ref name="home">{{cite web |title=Correlizer: Revealing the Mysteries of Genome Organization |url=http://svahesrv2.bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de/correlizer/ |work=Biophysical Genomics |publisher=BioQuant Centre, University of Heidelberg |access-date=30 August 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130525113734/http://svahesrv2.bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de/correlizer/ |archive-date=25 May 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="rechenkraft">{{cite web |title=Correlizer (beendet) |url=https://www.crogramdataboincprojectswww.rechenkraft.net/wiki/Correlizer_(beendet) |work=Rechenkraft |language=German |access-date=30 August 2026}}</ref>

== Background: genome organization ==

The central motivation for Correlizer was a long-standing question in biology: how the informational content of a genome is related to the physical shape in which it is stored. In a human cell the genetic information is carried by a diploid set of DNA molecules, the chromosomes. The total sequence is about <math>3 \times 10^{9}</math> [[wikipedia:Base pair|base pair]]s (bp), which corresponds to roughly <math>2.80\ \text{GB}</math> of data. Laid end to end the molecule would be about <math>2\ \text{m}</math> long, yet it is folded into a cell nucleus with a typical diameter of about <math>10\ \mu\text{m}</math> and a volume of roughly <math>500\ \mu\text{m}^{3}</math>.<ref name="background">{{cite web |title=Background: Approaching the three-Dimensional Organization of the Human Genome |url=http://svahesrv2.bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de/correlizer/background.php |work=Biophysical Genomics |publisher=BioQuant Centre, University of Heidelberg |access-date=30 August 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130430032449/http://svahesrv2.bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de/correlizer/background.php |archive-date=30 April 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="knoch2009">{{cite journal |last1=Knoch |first1=Tobias A. |last2=Göker |first2=Markus |last3=Lohner |first3=Rudolf |last4=Abuseiris |first4=Anis |last5=Grosveld |first5=Frank G. |title=Fine-structured multi-scaling long-range correlations in completely sequenced genomes: features, origin, and classification |journal=European Biophysics Journal |volume=38 |issue=6 |pages=757-779 |year=2009 |doi=10.1007/s00249-009-0489-y |pmc=2701493 |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/s00249-009-0489-y}}</ref>

The sequential organization of a genome, meaning the statistical relations between base pairs that are far apart along the sequence, and the way that sequence relates to the three-dimensional architecture of the chromosomes, remained largely unresolved. Correlizer treated correlation analysis as a kind of "virtual microscope" for this hidden structure. The analysis is based on the concentration profile of single nucleotides along the DNA sequence. If <math>c_{l}</math> is the concentration of a nucleotide in a window of length <math>l</math>, and the concentration in the whole sequence of length <math>L</math> is known, then the concentration-fluctuation function <math>C(l)</math> and the local correlation coefficient <math>\delta(l)</math> can be computed. For a purely random sequence <math>\delta \approx -0.5</math>, whereas values clearly above this threshold indicate positive long-range correlations; a power-law dependence such as <math>C(l) \sim l^{\delta}</math> is the signature of correlations that extend over many length scales.<ref name="knoch2009" />

== What was computed ==

Correlizer distributed this correlation analysis over the volunteer computers of its participants. The application, delivered by the project as "Correlizer Applications" (version 1.09) and an embedded build for ARM/Linux (version 1.10), used the [[wikipedia:BOINC|BOINC]] scheduler to farm out individual analysis jobs.<ref name="apps">{{cite web |title=Applications |url=http://svahesrv2.bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de/correlizer/apps.php |work=Biophysical Genomics |publisher=BioQuant Centre, University of Heidelberg |access-date=30 August 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130430032444/http://svahesrv2.bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de/correlizer/apps.php |archive-date=30 April 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[File:DNA Double Helix by NHGRI.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1|alt=A computer rendering of the DNA double helix|The genomic sequence analysed by Correlizer is carried by the [[wikipedia:DNA|DNA]] double helix.]]

The project found long-range power-law correlations on almost the entire observable scale of 132 completely sequenced chromosomes, ranging in length from <math>0.5 \times 10^{6}</math> to <math>3.0 \times 10^{7}</math> bp and spanning organisms as different as [[wikipedia:Archaea|Archaea]], [[wikipedia:Bacteria|Bacteria]], ''[[wikipedia:Arabidopsis thaliana|Arabidopsis thaliana]]'', ''[[wikipedia:Saccharomyces cerevisiae|Saccharomyces cerevisiae]]'', ''[[wikipedia:Schizosaccharomyces pombe|Schizosaccharomyces pombe]]'', ''[[wikipedia:Drosophila melanogaster|Drosophila melanogaster]]'', and ''[[wikipedia:Human|Homo sapiens]]''. The local correlation coefficients displayed a species-specific multiscaling behavior: correlations were close to random on the scale of a few base pairs, rose to a first maximum between <math>40</math> and <math>3{,}400</math> bp (split into two submaxima for ''Arabidopsis thaliana'' and ''Drosophila melanogaster''), and often showed one or more second maxima in the region from <math>10^{5}</math> to <math>3 \times 10^{5}</math> bp.<ref name="knoch2009" /><ref name="home" />

Within this multiscaling a further fine structure was present, attributable to codon usage in every species except the human sequences, where it instead reflected nucleosomal binding. The study also showed that computer-generated random sequences, designed to assume a block organization of genomes with a particular codon usage and nucleosomal binding, reproduced the observed behavior, while random reshuffling of real sequences destroyed the correlations. This suggested that the stability of the correlations is tightly controlled by evolution and closely connected to the spatial organization of the genome, particularly at large scales.<ref name="knoch2009" />

== Project history ==

Correlizer was announced to the BOINC community in August 2011 and hosted at <code>svahesrv2.bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de/correlizer</code>, with the server running on the BioQuant infrastructure at the [[wikipedia:Heidelberg University|University of Heidelberg]].<ref name="rechenkraft" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Correlizer Project (BOINC message boards) |publisher=University of California, Berkeley |url=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=6806 |access-date=30 August 2026}}</ref> The client application was CPU-based, with builds for [[wikipedia:Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[wikipedia:Linux|Linux]], [[wikipedia:MacOS|macOS]], and an embedded build for ARM-based Linux systems. The software could operate through a proxy and could be configured to run as a screensaver, but no GPU (CUDA or OpenCL) version was provided.<ref name="rechenkraft" /><ref name="apps" />

[[File:Human karyotype diagram showing autosomes and sex chromosomes - NHGRI.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.15|alt=A diagram of the human karyotype|A human karyotype. The 23 pairs of chromosomes carry roughly <math>3 \times 10^{9}</math> base pairs of DNA.]]

By late 2014 the project had gone offline while the system and applications were updated, and the project's message boards noted that much of the older account and forum data had been lost. Volunteers reported over the following months that the project was no longer issuing work units, and by mid-2015 the project was widely considered inactive.<ref>{{cite web |title=Welcome back, Correlizer |publisher=University of California, Berkeley |url=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=9855 |access-date=30 August 2026}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Projects to retire from your site stats that are no longer active |publisher=BOINC Combined Statistics |url=https://boinc.netsoft-online.com/forum/general-discussion/1138/ |access-date=30 August 2026}}</ref> German-language project records list its end date as the point at which it stopped emitting work units because its workload had in the meantime been integrated into [http://boinc.almeregrid.nl/ AlmereGrid], a Dutch volunteer computing project.<ref name="rechenkraft" /> The project is consequently listed among the completed and retired BOINC projects.

=== Statistics at its last active snapshot ===

A server-status snapshot from 27 March 2013 recorded a healthy, running infrastructure. At that point the project reported about 416,000 tasks ready to send, roughly 103,500 tasks in progress, and an average work-unit runtime of about 0.26 hours. The volunteer base was small but steady, and the aggregate processing power reported was about 1,160 [[wikipedia:FLOPS|GFLOPS]], i.e. roughly <math>1.16 \times 10^{12}</math> floating-point operations per second.<ref name="status">{{cite web |title=Project status |url=http://svahesrv2.bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de/correlizer/server_status.php |work=Biophysical Genomics |publisher=BioQuant Centre, University of Heidelberg |access-date=30 August 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130327050036/http://svahesrv2.bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de/correlizer/server_status.php |archive-date=27 March 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

== Scientific publications ==

The following publications are credited to the project on the [[wikipedia:BOINC|BOINC]] publications list.<ref name="boincpubs">{{cite web |title=Publications by BOINC Projects |publisher=University of California, Berkeley |url=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php |access-date=30 August 2026}}</ref>

* {{cite journal |last1=Knoch |first1=Tobias A. |last2=Göker |first2=Markus |last3=Lohner |first3=Rudolf |last4=Abuseiris |first4=Anis |last5=Grosveld |first5=Frank G. |title=Fine-structured multi-scaling long-range correlations in completely sequenced genomes: features, origin, and classification |journal=European Biophysics Journal |volume=38 |issue=6 |pages=757-779 |year=2009 |doi=10.1007/s00249-009-0489-y |pmc=2701493 |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2701493/}} This is the founding paper and the one the project's own publications page highlighted.<ref name="knoch2009" />
* {{cite book |last1=Knoch |first1=Tobias |last2=Baumgärtner |first2=Volkmar |last3=de Zeeuw |first3=Luc |last4=Grosveld |first4=Frank |last5=Egger |first5=Kurt |title=Large-scale resource sharing at public funded organizations: e-Human "Grid" Ecology |year=2009 |hdl=1765/77698 |url=http://hdl.handle.net/1765/77698}} A systems and grid-architecture paper by the same investigators.
* {{cite journal |last1=Knoch |first1=Tobias A. |title=A Guided Protocol for Array Based T2C: A High-Quality Selective High-Resolution High-Throughput Chromosome Interaction Capture |journal=Current Protocols in Human Genetics |volume=99 |issue=1 |year=2018 |doi=10.1002/cphg.55 |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cphg.55}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Knoch |first1=Tobias A. |title=Simulation of different three-dimensional polymer models of interphase chromosomes compared to experiments: An evaluation and review framework of the 3D genome organization |journal=Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology |volume=90 |pages=19-42 |year=2019 |doi=10.1016/j.semcdb.2018.07.012 |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1084952118301058}}

A fifth entry appears under the Correlizer heading on the BOINC list, "ISDEP, a fusion application deployed in the EDGeS project" by Alejandro Rivero and Dario Ferrer (2010). That entry concerns the [https://home.edges-grid.eu/home/ EDGeS@Home] project and appears to be a listing error on the aggregation page rather than a Correlizer result.<ref name="boincpubs" /><ref>{{cite web |last1=Rivero |first1=Alejandro |last2=Ferrer |first2=Dario |title=ISDEP, a fusion application deployed in the EDGeS project |url=https://www.academia.edu/758702/ |year=2010 |access-date=30 August 2026}}</ref>

== Related publications by the project investigators ==

The computational framework used by Correlizer grew out of the same research program, and the project's methods were subsequently extended in further work by its principal investigator and collaborators:

* {{cite journal |last1=Knoch |first1=Tobias A. |last2=Wachsmuth |first2=Malte |last3=Kepper |first3=Nick |last4=Lesnussa |first4=Michael |last5=Abuseiris |first5=Anis |last6=Ali Imam |first6=A. M. |last7=Kolovos |first7=Petros |last8=Zuin |first8=Jessica |last9=Kockx |first9=Christel E. M. |last10=Brouwer |first10=Rutger W. W. |last11=van de Werken |first11=Harmen J. G. |last12=van IJcken |first12=Wilfred F. J. |last13=Wendt |first13=Kerstin S. |last14=Grosveld |first14=Frank G. |title=The detailed 3D multi-loop aggregate/rosette chromatin architecture and functional dynamic organization of the human and mouse genomes |journal=Epigenetics & Chromatin |volume=9 |issue=58 |year=2016 |doi=10.1186/s13072-016-0089-x |url=https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/22432/}}
* {{cite thesis |last1=Knoch |first1=Tobias A. |title=Approaching the three-dimensional organization of the human genome: structural, scaling and dynamic properties in the simulation of interphase chromosomes and cell nuclei, long-range correlations in complete genomes |type=PhD thesis |publisher=Ruperto-Carola University of Heidelberg |year=2002}} The doctoral work that underpinned the correlation method used by the project.<ref name="knoch2009" />

== See also ==

* [[wikipedia:Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing|Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing]] (BOINC)
* [[wikipedia:Volunteer computing|Volunteer computing]]
* [[wikipedia:Genome|Genome]]
* [[wikipedia:Human genome|Human genome]]
* [[wikipedia:Chromosome|Chromosome]]
* [[wikipedia:Chromatin|Chromatin]]
* [[wikipedia:Nucleosome|Nucleosome]]
* [[wikipedia:DNA sequencing|DNA sequencing]]
* [[wikipedia:Distributed computing|Distributed computing]]

== References ==

{{Reflist}}

[[Category:BOINC projects]]
[[Category:Completed BOINC projects]]
[[Category:Volunteer computing projects]]

Correlizer

2026-08-30T14:01:15Z

Al Piskun: first light

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'''Correlizer''' was a scientific [[wikipedia:Volunteer computing|volunteer computing]] project that ran on the [[wikipedia:BOINC|BOINC]] platform and applied long-range correlation analysis to completely sequenced genomes in order to study the sequential and three-dimensional organization of [[wikipedia:Genome|genome]]s. It was operated from the Biophysical Genomics group at the [https://www.bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de/ BioQuant] Centre of the [[wikipedia:Heidelberg University|University of Heidelberg]] in Germany, and the underlying science was developed by Tobias A. Knoch, a researcher also affiliated with the [[wikipedia:German Cancer Research Center|German Cancer Research Center]] (DKFZ) and the [[wikipedia:Erasmus MC|Erasmus MC]] in Rotterdam. The project began distributing work in August 2011 and is generally regarded as a completed BOINC project, having stopped issuing work units around 2015 after its workload was folded into [http://boinc.almeregrid.nl/ AlmereGrid].<ref name="home">{{cite web |title=Correlizer: Revealing the Mysteries of Genome Organization |url=http://svahesrv2.bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de/correlizer/ |work=Biophysical Genomics |publisher=BioQuant Centre, University of Heidelberg |access-date=30 August 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130525113734/http://svahesrv2.bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de/correlizer/ |archive-date=25 May 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="rechenkraft">{{cite web |title=Correlizer (beendet) |url=https://www.crogramdataboincprojectswww.rechenkraft.net/wiki/Correlizer_(beendet) |work=Rechenkraft |language=German |access-date=30 August 2026}}</ref>

== Background: genome organization ==

The central motivation for Correlizer was a long-standing question in biology: how the informational content of a genome is related to the physical shape in which it is stored. In a human cell the genetic information is carried by a diploid set of DNA molecules, the chromosomes. The total sequence is about <math>3 \times 10^{9}</math> [[wikipedia:Base pair|base pair]]s (bp), which corresponds to roughly <math>2.80\ \text{GB}</math> of data. Laid end to end the molecule would be about <math>2\ \text{m}</math> long, yet it is folded into a cell nucleus with a typical diameter of about <math>10\ \mu\text{m}</math> and a volume of roughly <math>500\ \mu\text{m}^{3}</math>.<ref name="background">{{cite web |title=Background: Approaching the three-Dimensional Organization of the Human Genome |url=http://svahesrv2.bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de/correlizer/background.php |work=Biophysical Genomics |publisher=BioQuant Centre, University of Heidelberg |access-date=30 August 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130430032449/http://svahesrv2.bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de/correlizer/background.php |archive-date=30 April 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="knoch2009">{{cite journal |last1=Knoch |first1=Tobias A. |last2=Göker |first2=Markus |last3=Lohner |first3=Rudolf |last4=Abuseiris |first4=Anis |last5=Grosveld |first5=Frank G. |title=Fine-structured multi-scaling long-range correlations in completely sequenced genomes: features, origin, and classification |journal=European Biophysics Journal |volume=38 |issue=6 |pages=757-779 |year=2009 |doi=10.1007/s00249-009-0489-y |pmc=2701493 |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/s00249-009-0489-y}}</ref>

The sequential organization of a genome, meaning the statistical relations between base pairs that are far apart along the sequence, and the way that sequence relates to the three-dimensional architecture of the chromosomes, remained largely unresolved. Correlizer treated correlation analysis as a kind of "virtual microscope" for this hidden structure. The analysis is based on the concentration profile of single nucleotides along the DNA sequence. If <math>c_{l}</math> is the concentration of a nucleotide in a window of length <math>l</math>, and the concentration in the whole sequence of length <math>L</math> is known, then the concentration-fluctuation function <math>C(l)</math> and the local correlation coefficient <math>\delta(l)</math> can be computed. For a purely random sequence <math>\delta \approx -0.5</math>, whereas values clearly above this threshold indicate positive long-range correlations; a power-law dependence such as <math>C(l) \sim l^{\delta}</math> is the signature of correlations that extend over many length scales.<ref name="knoch2009" />

== What was computed ==

Correlizer distributed this correlation analysis over the volunteer computers of its participants. The application, delivered by the project as "Correlizer Applications" (version 1.09) and an embedded build for ARM/Linux (version 1.10), used the [[wikipedia:BOINC|BOINC]] scheduler to farm out individual analysis jobs.<ref name="apps">{{cite web |title=Applications |url=http://svahesrv2.bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de/correlizer/apps.php |work=Biophysical Genomics |publisher=BioQuant Centre, University of Heidelberg |access-date=30 August 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130430032444/http://svahesrv2.bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de/correlizer/apps.php |archive-date=30 April 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[File:DNA Double Helix by NHGRI.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.1|alt=A computer rendering of the DNA double helix|The genomic sequence analysed by Correlizer is carried by the [[wikipedia:DNA|DNA]] double helix.]]

The project found long-range power-law correlations on almost the entire observable scale of 132 completely sequenced chromosomes, ranging in length from <math>0.5 \times 10^{6}</math> to <math>3.0 \times 10^{7}</math> bp and spanning organisms as different as [[wikipedia:Archaea|Archaea]], [[wikipedia:Bacteria|Bacteria]], ''[[wikipedia:Arabidopsis thaliana|Arabidopsis thaliana]]'', ''[[wikipedia:Saccharomyces cerevisiae|Saccharomyces cerevisiae]]'', ''[[wikipedia:Schizosaccharomyces pombe|Schizosaccharomyces pombe]]'', ''[[wikipedia:Drosophila melanogaster|Drosophila melanogaster]]'', and ''[[wikipedia:Human|Homo sapiens]]''. The local correlation coefficients displayed a species-specific multiscaling behavior: correlations were close to random on the scale of a few base pairs, rose to a first maximum between <math>40</math> and <math>3{,}400</math> bp (split into two submaxima for ''Arabidopsis thaliana'' and ''Drosophila melanogaster''), and often showed one or more second maxima in the region from <math>10^{5}</math> to <math>3 \times 10^{5}</math> bp.<ref name="knoch2009" /><ref name="home" />

Within this multiscaling a further fine structure was present, attributable to codon usage in every species except the human sequences, where it instead reflected nucleosomal binding. The study also showed that computer-generated random sequences, designed to assume a block organization of genomes with a particular codon usage and nucleosomal binding, reproduced the observed behavior, while random reshuffling of real sequences destroyed the correlations. This suggested that the stability of the correlations is tightly controlled by evolution and closely connected to the spatial organization of the genome, particularly at large scales.<ref name="knoch2009" />

== Project history ==

Correlizer was announced to the BOINC community in August 2011 and hosted at <code>svahesrv2.bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de/correlizer</code>, with the server running on the BioQuant infrastructure at the [[wikipedia:Heidelberg University|University of Heidelberg]].<ref name="rechenkraft" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Correlizer Project (BOINC message boards) |publisher=University of California, Berkeley |url=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=6806 |access-date=30 August 2026}}</ref> The client application was CPU-based, with builds for [[wikipedia:Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[wikipedia:Linux|Linux]], [[wikipedia:MacOS|macOS]], and an embedded build for ARM-based Linux systems. The software could operate through a proxy and could be configured to run as a screensaver, but no GPU (CUDA or OpenCL) version was provided.<ref name="rechenkraft" /><ref name="apps" />

[[File:Human karyotype diagram showing autosomes and sex chromosomes - NHGRI.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.15|alt=A diagram of the human karyotype|A human karyotype. The 23 pairs of chromosomes carry roughly <math>3 \times 10^{9}</math> base pairs of DNA.]]

By late 2014 the project had gone offline while the system and applications were updated, and the project's message boards noted that much of the older account and forum data had been lost. Volunteers reported over the following months that the project was no longer issuing work units, and by mid-2015 the project was widely considered inactive.<ref>{{cite web |title=Welcome back, Correlizer |publisher=University of California, Berkeley |url=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=9855 |access-date=30 August 2026}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Projects to retire from your site stats that are no longer active |publisher=BOINC Combined Statistics |url=https://boinc.netsoft-online.com/forum/general-discussion/1138/ |access-date=30 August 2026}}</ref> German-language project records list its end date as the point at which it stopped emitting work units because its workload had in the meantime been integrated into [http://boinc.almeregrid.nl/ AlmereGrid], a Dutch volunteer computing project.<ref name="rechenkraft" /> The project is consequently listed among the completed and retired BOINC projects.

=== Statistics at its last active snapshot ===

A server-status snapshot from 27 March 2013 recorded a healthy, running infrastructure. At that point the project reported about 416,000 tasks ready to send, roughly 103,500 tasks in progress, and an average work-unit runtime of about 0.26 hours. The volunteer base was small but steady, and the aggregate processing power reported was about 1,160 [[wikipedia:FLOPS|GFLOPS]], i.e. roughly <math>1.16 \times 10^{12}</math> floating-point operations per second.<ref name="status">{{cite web |title=Project status |url=http://svahesrv2.bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de/correlizer/server_status.php |work=Biophysical Genomics |publisher=BioQuant Centre, University of Heidelberg |access-date=30 August 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130327050036/http://svahesrv2.bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de/correlizer/server_status.php |archive-date=27 March 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

== Scientific publications ==

The following publications are credited to the project on the [[wikipedia:BOINC|BOINC]] publications list.<ref name="boincpubs">{{cite web |title=Publications by BOINC Projects |publisher=University of California, Berkeley |url=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php |access-date=30 August 2026}}</ref>

* {{cite journal |last1=Knoch |first1=Tobias A. |last2=Göker |first2=Markus |last3=Lohner |first3=Rudolf |last4=Abuseiris |first4=Anis |last5=Grosveld |first5=Frank G. |title=Fine-structured multi-scaling long-range correlations in completely sequenced genomes: features, origin, and classification |journal=European Biophysics Journal |volume=38 |issue=6 |pages=757-779 |year=2009 |doi=10.1007/s00249-009-0489-y |pmc=2701493 |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2701493/}} This is the founding paper and the one the project's own publications page highlighted.<ref name="knoch2009" />
* {{cite book |last1=Knoch |first1=Tobias |last2=Baumgärtner |first2=Volkmar |last3=de Zeeuw |first3=Luc |last4=Grosveld |first4=Frank |last5=Egger |first5=Kurt |title=Large-scale resource sharing at public funded organizations: e-Human "Grid" Ecology |year=2009 |hdl=1765/77698 |url=http://hdl.handle.net/1765/77698}} A systems and grid-architecture paper by the same investigators.
* {{cite journal |last1=Knoch |first1=Tobias A. |title=A Guided Protocol for Array Based T2C: A High-Quality Selective High-Resolution High-Throughput Chromosome Interaction Capture |journal=Current Protocols in Human Genetics |volume=99 |issue=1 |year=2018 |doi=10.1002/cphg.55 |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cphg.55}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Knoch |first1=Tobias A. |title=Simulation of different three-dimensional polymer models of interphase chromosomes compared to experiments: An evaluation and review framework of the 3D genome organization |journal=Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology |volume=90 |pages=19-42 |year=2019 |doi=10.1016/j.semcdb.2018.07.012 |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1084952118301058}}

A fifth entry appears under the Correlizer heading on the BOINC list, "ISDEP, a fusion application deployed in the EDGeS project" by Alejandro Rivero and Dario Ferrer (2010). That entry concerns the [https://home.edges-grid.eu/home/ EDGeS@Home] project and appears to be a listing error on the aggregation page rather than a Correlizer result.<ref name="boincpubs" /><ref>{{cite web |last1=Rivero |first1=Alejandro |last2=Ferrer |first2=Dario |title=ISDEP, a fusion application deployed in the EDGeS project |url=https://www.academia.edu/758702/ |year=2010 |access-date=30 August 2026}}</ref>

== Related publications by the project investigators ==

The computational framework used by Correlizer grew out of the same research program, and the project's methods were subsequently extended in further work by its principal investigator and collaborators:

* {{cite journal |last1=Knoch |first1=Tobias A. |last2=Wachsmuth |first2=Malte |last3=Kepper |first3=Nick |last4=Lesnussa |first4=Michael |last5=Abuseiris |first5=Anis |last6=Ali Imam |first6=A. M. |last7=Kolovos |first7=Petros |last8=Zuin |first8=Jessica |last9=Kockx |first9=Christel E. M. |last10=Brouwer |first10=Rutger W. W. |last11=van de Werken |first11=Harmen J. G. |last12=van IJcken |first12=Wilfred F. J. |last13=Wendt |first13=Kerstin S. |last14=Grosveld |first14=Frank G. |title=The detailed 3D multi-loop aggregate/rosette chromatin architecture and functional dynamic organization of the human and mouse genomes |journal=Epigenetics & Chromatin |volume=9 |issue=58 |year=2016 |doi=10.1186/s13072-016-0089-x |url=https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/22432/}}
* {{cite thesis |last1=Knoch |first1=Tobias A. |title=Approaching the three-dimensional organization of the human genome: structural, scaling and dynamic properties in the simulation of interphase chromosomes and cell nuclei, long-range correlations in complete genomes |type=PhD thesis |publisher=Ruperto-Carola University of Heidelberg |year=2002}} The doctoral work that underpinned the correlation method used by the project.<ref name="knoch2009" />

== See also ==

* [[wikipedia:Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing|Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing]] (BOINC)
* [[wikipedia:Volunteer computing|Volunteer computing]]
* [[wikipedia:Genome|Genome]]
* [[wikipedia:Human genome|Human genome]]
* [[wikipedia:Chromosome|Chromosome]]
* [[wikipedia:Chromatin|Chromatin]]
* [[wikipedia:Nucleosome|Nucleosome]]
* [[wikipedia:DNA sequencing|DNA sequencing]]
* [[wikipedia:Distributed computing|Distributed computing]]

== References ==

{{Reflist}}

[[Category:BOINC projects]]
[[Category:Completed BOINC projects]]
[[Category:Volunteer computing projects]]

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== Summary ==
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Volpex@Home

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| status = Completed
| category = Computer science
| compute = CPU
| dependencies = [[BOINC]] client 6.12 or later
| developer = [[wikipedia:University_of_Houston|University of Houston]] Department of Computer Science; Parallel Software Technologies Laboratory (PSTL)
| author = Jaspal Subhlok; Edgar Gabriel
| sponsor = [[wikipedia:National_Science_Foundation|National Science Foundation]] (awards CNS-0834750 and MCB-0919974)
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| completed = 2017
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'''[https://web.archive.org/web/20160120043345/http://volpexathome.cs.uh.edu/VolPEx/ Volpex@Home]''' (originally '''Volpex@UH''') was a [[wikipedia:Volunteer_computing|volunteer computing]] project run by the Department of Computer Science at the [[wikipedia:University_of_Houston|University of Houston]] that used the [[BOINC]] middleware to execute communicating [[wikipedia:Parallel_computing|parallel]] programs on ordinary, Internet-connected personal computers. The name Volpex stands for '''Parallel Execution on Volatile Nodes''', and the project's central goal was to make the idle time of everyday "volatile" desktop machines usable as a virtual [[wikipedia:Computer_cluster|cluster]] for [[wikipedia:Message_passing|message passing]] parallel applications that the standard BOINC model could not run.<ref name="nsf-volpex">{{cite web |title=Award Abstract #0834750: CSR-PSCE, SM: Collaborative Research: VOLPEX: A Framework for Parallel Execution on Volatile Nodes |publisher=National Science Foundation |url=https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0834750 |access-date=2026-08-30}}</ref><ref name="homepage">{{cite web |title=Volpex@Home (archived project homepage) |publisher=University of Houston |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160120043345/http://volpexathome.cs.uh.edu/VolPEx/ |access-date=2026-08-30}}</ref>

The project also hosted a biological application called '''inCell@Home''', which ran [[wikipedia:Parallel_tempering|replica-exchange]] [[wikipedia:Molecular_dynamics|molecular dynamics]] simulations of protein behavior inside a crowded, cell-like environment in support of drug-design research.<ref name="homepage" /> The framework research was funded by two [[wikipedia:National_Science_Foundation|National Science Foundation]] grants, and the project reached about 1,700 volunteers before it was completed and retired in 2017.<ref name="nsf-volpex" /><ref name="nsf-cheung">{{cite web |title=Award Abstract #0919974: Effects of macromolecular crowding on protein structure, folding, and interactions |publisher=National Science Foundation |url=https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0919974 |access-date=2026-08-30}}</ref><ref name="frwiki">{{cite web |title=Liste des projets BOINC (Volpex@UH statistics) |publisher=French Wikipedia |url=https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_projets_BOINC |access-date=2026-08-30}}</ref>

== Overview ==

Most desktop computers sit idle for much of the day, representing a large pool of unused processing, storage, and communication capacity that grows with the spread of [[wikipedia:Multi-core_processor|multi-core]] machines. The difficulty is that these machines are ''volatile'': their owners can switch them off, disconnect them, or reclaim them at any time and without warning.<ref name="about">{{cite web |title=About VOLPEX |publisher=University of Houston (archived) |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524061949/http://volpexathome.cs.uh.edu/VolPEx/volpexinfo.php |access-date=2026-08-30}}</ref> Platforms such as BOINC and [[wikipedia:HTCondor|Condor]] handle this volatility well for independent, non-communicating tasks (the so-called [[wikipedia:Embarrassingly_parallel|"bag-of-tasks" or master-slave]] model), but they do not natively support tightly coupled, message-passing parallel programs in which tasks must exchange data as they run.<ref name="nsf-volpex" /><ref name="faq">{{cite web |title=Volpex@Home Frequently Asked Questions |publisher=University of Houston (archived) |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524023014/http://volpexathome.cs.uh.edu/VolPEx/faq.php |access-date=2026-08-30}}</ref>

Volpex was designed to remove exactly that limitation, so that a broader class of scientific applications could run on volunteer hardware and many more research projects could benefit from free, donated compute time.<ref name="faq" /> Rather than relying only on [[wikipedia:Application_checkpointing|checkpointing]], which the researchers argued is inadequate in environments with very high failure rates, Volpex used managed redundancy: it ran two or more replicas of every parallel process and regenerated failed replicas on demand from healthy ones, so that the application progressed at the rate of the fastest surviving replicas and continued seamlessly as long as at least one replica of each process remained alive.<ref name="nsf-volpex" /><ref name="about" />

== History ==

The Volpex framework began as academic computer-science research. A collaborative [[wikipedia:National_Science_Foundation|National Science Foundation]] grant, "VOLPEX: A Framework for Parallel Execution on Volatile Nodes" (award CNS-0834750), started on 1 September 2008 with Jaspal Subhlok as principal investigator and Rong Zheng and Edgar Gabriel as co-principal investigators at the University of Houston.<ref name="nsf-volpex" /> The associated MPI library, VolpexMPI, was first described in a 2009 paper by Troy LeBlanc, Rakhi Anand, Edgar Gabriel, and Jaspal Subhlok.<ref name="leblanc2009">{{cite journal |last1=LeBlanc |first1=Troy |last2=Anand |first2=Rakhi |last3=Gabriel |first3=Edgar |last4=Subhlok |first4=Jaspal |title=VolpexMPI: An MPI Library for Execution of Parallel Applications on Volatile Nodes |journal=Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface (EuroPVM/MPI 2009), Lecture Notes in Computer Science |volume=5759 |pages=124-133 |date=2009 |publisher=Springer |doi=10.1007/978-3-642-03770-2_19 |url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-03770-2_19}}</ref>

The public BOINC project, initially named Volpex@UH, was online by late 2011, when volunteer teams began joining, and it was announced on the official BOINC news page on 22 December 2012 as a University of Houston project seeking alpha testers for parallel computing across multiple hosts.<ref name="boinc-news">{{cite web |title=BOINC News archive: New project seeks testers (Volpex@UH) |publisher=BOINC, UC Berkeley |date=2012-12-22 |url=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/old_news.php |access-date=2026-08-30}}</ref><ref name="boincstats-early">{{cite web |title=BOINCstats project statistics for Volpex (archived, 5 January 2012) |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120105232519/http://boincstats.com/stats/project_graph.php?pr=volpex |access-date=2026-08-30}}</ref> The project later moved to the address volpexathome.cs.uh.edu and became known as Volpex@Home.<ref name="homepage" />

The team upgraded their BOINC server to a newer release in March 2013 and recovered from a full server disk in April 2015; new work jobs were still being posted as late as June 2015.<ref name="homepage" /> The biological side of the work was supported by a second NSF award to Margaret S. Cheung (MCB-0919974, "Effects of macromolecular crowding on protein structure, folding, and interactions"), which began 1 July 2009 and used the distributed simulations to study proteins in cell-like conditions.<ref name="nsf-cheung" /> The project was completed and retired around 2017, and it is listed among finished BOINC projects.<ref name="frwiki" /><ref name="bcwiki">{{cite web |title=BOINC-Projekte/en, Finished projects: Volpex@UH |publisher=BC-Wiki |url=https://wiki.bc-team.org/index.php?title=BOINC-Projekte/en |access-date=2026-08-30}}</ref>

== Technical design ==

Volpex provided two complementary programming interfaces for application developers, plus a simulation effort to predict performance.<ref name="about" />

=== Volpex Dataspace ===

The central component was the '''Volpex Dataspace''', an abstract global data layer that let tasks exchange data objects asynchronously through anonymous ''Put/Get'' operations. Instead of volunteer machines contacting one another directly, tasks read and wrote data objects through the project's central server, which acted as an intermediary; the project noted that this design meant there was no direct peer-to-peer security exposure for volunteers.<ref name="rohit2011">{{cite conference |last1=Rohit |first1=Eshwar |last2=Nguyen |first2=Hien |last3=Kanna |first3=Nagarajan |last4=Subhlok |first4=Jaspal |last5=Gabriel |first5=Edgar |last6=Wang |first6=Qian |last7=Cheung |first7=Margaret S. |last8=Anderson |first8=David |title=A Robust Communication Framework for Parallel Execution on Volunteer PC Grids |book-title=2011 11th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid) |date=2011 |pages=443-453 |doi=10.1109/CCGrid.2011.72 |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5948604}}</ref><ref name="faq" /> The Dataspace extended BOINC's independent-task model to allow inter-task communication while preserving consistent results even when redundancy or checkpointing caused a single operation to be invoked several times.<ref name="rohit2011" /> The team described this, integrated with BOINC, as the first comprehensive solution for reliably running communicating parallel codes on volunteer nodes.<ref name="ccgrid2011pdf">{{cite web |title=A Robust Communication Framework for Parallel Execution on Volunteer PC Grids (preprint PDF) |publisher=University of Houston |url=https://www2.cs.uh.edu/~jaspal/papers/11ccgrid.pdf |access-date=2026-08-30}}</ref>

=== VolpexMPI ===
[[File:Remd.jpg|alt=inCell@Home is an application of Volpex|thumb|445x445px|inCell@Home is an application of Volpex; this project simulates how proteins behave and make function in a real cell-like environment which can be applied in biological drug design.]]
'''VolpexMPI''' was a subset implementation of the [[wikipedia:Message_Passing_Interface|Message Passing Interface]] (MPI) standard tailored to volatile nodes. Ordinary message-passing exchanges were converted into asynchronous Put/Get operations, and process replication provided robustness. The key fault-tolerance technique was fully distributed, sender-based message logging, which let a restarted or replacement replica reconstruct the messages it needed without a central checkpoint server.<ref name="leblanc2009" /> A later, portable variant called VolpexPyMPI was written in [[wikipedia:Python_(programming_language)|Python]], ran on both Linux and Windows, and accepted user-level MPI programs written in C or [[wikipedia:Fortran|Fortran]], trading some performance for ease of use and portability across heterogeneous hardware and operating systems.<ref name="leblanc2010ccgrid">{{cite conference |last1=LeBlanc |first1=Troy P. |last2=Subhlok |first2=Jaspal |last3=Gabriel |first3=Edgar |title=A High-Level Interpreted MPI Library for Parallel Computing in Volunteer Environments |book-title=2010 10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid) |date=2010 |pages=405-414 |doi=10.1109/CCGRID.2010.85 |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5493405}}</ref>

Because each process had several replicas, a receiving process had to decide which sender replica to contact first. The group developed communication target-selection algorithms for this; a hybrid strategy gave performance close to that of an all-fast-machine configuration, and evaluations used the [[wikipedia:NAS_Parallel_Benchmarks|NAS Parallel Benchmarks]] across heterogeneous network and processor configurations.<ref name="anand2010">{{cite conference |last1=Anand |first1=Rakhi |last2=Gabriel |first2=Edgar |last3=Subhlok |first3=Jaspal |title=Communication Target Selection for Replicated MPI Processes |book-title=Recent Advances in the Message Passing Interface (EuroMPI 2010), Lecture Notes in Computer Science |volume=6305 |date=2010 |pages=181-190 |publisher=Springer |doi=10.1007/978-3-642-15646-5_21 |url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-15646-5_21}}</ref>

=== Volpex Simulation ===

A third thrust, '''Volpex Simulation''', built a virtual model of a real-world desktop grid, complete with realistic node and network characteristics, to estimate how parallel applications would perform under different network parameters and configurations before deployment.<ref name="about" /> Using a measurement and simulation tool chain on the NAS benchmarks, the researchers found that running on a realistic volunteer campus pool produced slowdowns by factors of roughly <math>2</math> to <math>10</math> compared with a dedicated cluster, depending on the benchmark code.<ref name="nandagudi2012">{{cite conference |last1=Nandagudi |first1=Girish |last2=Subhlok |first2=Jaspal |last3=Gabriel |first3=Edgar |last4=Gimenez |first4=Judit |title=Estimation of MPI Application Performance on Volunteer Environments |book-title=Euro-Par 2011: Parallel Processing Workshops, Lecture Notes in Computer Science |volume=7155 |date=2012 |pages=511-520 |publisher=Springer |doi=10.1007/978-3-642-29737-3_56 |url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-29737-3_56}}</ref>

=== Reliability model ===

The central trade-off in the Volpex design is between the cost of redundancy and the probability that a parallel job survives. If each process is replicated <math>r</math> times and an individual volunteer node remains available for the duration of a job with probability <math>p</math>, then a given process group survives only as long as at least one of its replicas is alive. With independent failures, the probability that a job requiring <math>n</math> distinct processes completes is

:<math>P_{\text{job}} = \big(1 - (1-p)^{r}\big)^{n}.</math>

Increasing the replica count <math>r</math> sharply raises survival probability, but it also inflates the total compute demand: the aggregate redundant work relative to a single execution scales approximately as

:<math>W_{\text{total}} \approx r \cdot n \cdot W_{\text{process}}.</math>

Much of the project's research concerned managing this tension efficiently, for example through on-demand regeneration of lost replicas, sender-based message logging, and optimized checkpointing intervals for inter-dependent replicated processes.<ref name="nsf-volpex" /><ref name="leblanc2009" /><ref name="rahman2016">{{cite conference |last1=Rahman |first1=Mohammad Tanvir |last2=Nguyen |first2=Hien |last3=Subhlok |first3=Jaspal |last4=Pandurangan |first4=Gopal |title=Checkpointing to Minimize Completion Time for Inter-Dependent Parallel Processes on Volunteer Grids |book-title=2016 16th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid) |date=2016 |pages=510-519 |doi=10.1109/CCGrid.2016.78 |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7515706}}</ref>

== How volunteers participated ==

[[File:BOINC project architecture.png|thumb|alt=A diagram of the BOINC client-server architecture showing a server feeding work to many volunteer clients over the Internet|The BOINC client-server architecture that Volpex extended with its Dataspace communication layer.<ref name="rohit2011" />|360x360px]]

Volunteers attached their BOINC client to the project's URL, and the BOINC server recruited hosts for each parallel job. Because a communicating job needs a fixed number of processes running at the same time, the server waited until enough hosts had been recruited and then started them together; recruited hosts that were waiting their turn temporarily idled and released the CPU rather than running the task.<ref name="faq" /> Some hosts were designated as spare nodes that stood by to replace a failed node mid-job.<ref name="faq" />

This model produced a few unusual behaviors that the project documented for volunteers: tasks could appear as "Waiting to run (Scheduler wait)" during recruitment, a task could be terminated deliberately once the overall job had finished, and the CPU could sit idle while a process waited for data from another process. Tasks were also given short deadlines and run at high BOINC priority so that all processes of a coordinated job stayed reachable, since one unavailable process could stall a computation involving hundreds of processes.<ref name="faq" /><ref name="rechenkraft">{{cite web |title=Volpex@UH (beendet) |publisher=Rechenkraft.net wiki |url=https://www.rechenkraft.net/wiki/Volpex@UH |access-date=2026-08-30}}</ref> Uniquely for a BOINC project, credit was granted periodically in proportion to the time a host spent on a task, rather than only when a task completed successfully.<ref name="faq" />

Work was available for Windows and Linux machines on x86 and x86-64 CPUs; there was no GPU application, and clients older than BOINC 6.12 were not supported because the project relied on the client reporting its task name for identification.<ref name="apps">{{cite web |title=Volpex@Home Applications (archived) |publisher=University of Houston |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141008180240/http://volpexathome.cs.uh.edu/VolPEx/apps.php |access-date=2026-08-30}}</ref><ref name="faq" />

== Applications ==

[[File:Crowded cytosol.png|thumb|alt=Illustration of a densely packed cell cytosol full of proteins and other macromolecules|The crowded cytosol of a cell: macromolecular crowding alters protein folding and behavior, the phenomenon studied by inCell@Home.<ref name="nsf-cheung" />|360x360px]]

By 2014 the project served two CPU applications, each available for Windows and Linux on Intel x86 (and Linux on x86-64):<ref name="apps" />

* '''REMD Protein Folding''' (version 1.35), the inCell@Home replica-exchange molecular dynamics application; and
* '''Sieve''' (version 1.08), a lightweight test and benchmarking application used to exercise and validate the Volpex framework.

=== inCell@Home ===

'''inCell@Home''' was the flagship scientific application of Volpex and a collaboration with the research group of Margaret S. Cheung at the University of Houston. It simulated how proteins behave and function inside a realistic, crowded cell-like environment rather than in dilute solution, with the results intended to inform biological drug design.<ref name="homepage" /><ref name="nsf-cheung" /> The application ran replica-exchange molecular dynamics (REMD), a method in which many copies (replicas) of a system are simulated at different temperatures and periodically exchange configurations to overcome the kinetic trapping that makes protein folding hard to sample; the loosely coupled, communication-light nature of REMD made it well suited to a replicated, volatile environment and to the Volpex Dataspace.<ref name="ccgrid2011pdf" /><ref name="rohit2011" />

This tied the computer-science framework directly to a biophysics question: experimental and computational work by the Cheung group showed that [[wikipedia:Macromolecular_crowding|macromolecular crowding]] dramatically affects protein structure, folding, and activity, for example compacting the enzyme phosphoglycerate kinase and increasing its activity under crowded conditions that mimic the inside of a cell.<ref name="cheung-research">{{cite web |title=Cheung Group Research: Protein structure, function, and dynamics under cell-like conditions (archived) |publisher=University of Houston |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120303170028/http://mynsm.uh.edu/groups/cheunggroup/wiki/f569a/Research.html |access-date=2026-08-30}}</ref> The crowding research combined coarse-grained and atomistic molecular simulation in a multi-scale approach and was supported by NSF award MCB-0919974.<ref name="nsf-cheung" />

== Funding and statistics ==

The framework research was supported by the National Science Foundation's Computer Systems Research program under award CNS-0834750 (approximately $296,000 awarded to the University of Houston), and the biological crowding research by award MCB-0919974 (approximately $232,000 awarded).<ref name="nsf-volpex" /><ref name="nsf-cheung" />

Volpex remained a small research project throughout its life. In early January 2012 it counted 292 registered users (135 active), 824 hosts (404 active), and 64 teams across 36 countries, with about 1.1 million total credits, a recent average credit of roughly 3,449, and an average throughput of about 17.2 [[wikipedia:FLOPS|GFLOPS]].<ref name="boincstats-early" /> By the time the project was retired, the French Wikipedia's BOINC project table recorded 1,746 users, 6,688 hosts, 252 teams, and 65,282,403 total credits as of 15 October 2017.<ref name="frwiki" />

== Scientific publications ==

The University of California, Berkeley list of publications arising from BOINC projects catalogs nine Volpex@Home papers, spanning the framework, its MPI and Dataspace components, message logging, performance estimation, checkpointing, and a summary journal article.<ref name="boinc-pubs">{{cite web |title=Publications by BOINC Projects: Volpex@Home |publisher=BOINC, UC Berkeley |url=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Volpex@Home |access-date=2026-08-30}}</ref>

# Subhlok, Jaspal; Hien Nguyen; Edgar Gabriel; Mohammad Tanvir Rahman (2018). [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cpe.4478 "Resilient parallel computing on volunteer PC grids"]. ''Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience''. DOI: 10.1002/cpe.4478.
# Rahman, Mohammad Tanvir; Hien Nguyen; Jaspal Subhlok; Gopal Pandurangan (2016). [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7515706 "Checkpointing to Minimize Completion Time for Inter-Dependent Parallel Processes on Volunteer Grids"]. ''2016 16th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid)''. DOI: 10.1109/CCGrid.2016.78.
# Islam, Md Tarikul; Hien Nguyen; Jaspal Subhlok; Edgar Gabriel (2015). [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7284289 "Efficient Message Logging to Support Process Replicas in a Volunteer Computing Environment"]. ''2015 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshop (IPDPSW)''. DOI: 10.1109/IPDPSW.2015.91.
# Nguyen, Hien; Eshwar Pedamallu; Jaspal Subhlok; Edgar Gabriel; Qian Wang; Margaret S. Cheung; David Anderson (2012). [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6337577/ "An Execution Environment for Robust Parallel Computing on Volunteer PC Grids"]. ''2012 41st International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP)''. DOI: 10.1109/ICPP.2012.18.
# Rohit, Eshwar; Hien Nguyen; Nagarajan Kanna; Jaspal Subhlok; Edgar Gabriel; Qian Wang; Margaret S. Cheung; David Anderson (2011). [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5948604 "A Robust Communication Framework for Parallel Execution on Volunteer PC Grids"]. ''2011 11th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid)''. DOI: 10.1109/CCGrid.2011.72.
# Anand, Rakhi; Edgar Gabriel; Jaspal Subhlok (2010). [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-15646-5_21 "Communication Target Selection for Replicated MPI Processes"]. ''Recent Advances in the Message Passing Interface (EuroMPI 2010), Lecture Notes in Computer Science'', vol. 6305, pp. 181-190. Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15646-5_21.
# LeBlanc, Troy P.; Jaspal Subhlok; Edgar Gabriel (2010). [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5493405/ "A High-Level Interpreted MPI Library for Parallel Computing in Volunteer Environments"]. ''2010 10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid)'', pp. 405-414. DOI: 10.1109/CCGRID.2010.85.
# Kanna, Nagarajan; Jaspal Subhlok; Edgar Gabriel; Eshwar Rohit; David Anderson (2010). [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-13374-9_1 "A Communication Framework for Fault-Tolerant Parallel Execution"]. ''Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing (LCPC), Lecture Notes in Computer Science''. Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13374-9_1.
# LeBlanc, Troy; Rakhi Anand; Edgar Gabriel; Jaspal Subhlok (2009). [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-03770-2_19 "VolpexMPI: An MPI Library for Execution of Parallel Applications on Volatile Nodes"]. ''Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface (EuroPVM/MPI 2009), Lecture Notes in Computer Science'', vol. 5759, pp. 124-133. Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03770-2_19.

== Related publications ==

Additional Volpex-related papers not listed in the BOINC publications index include a performance-estimation study and the journal version of the VolpexMPI work reported on the project's NSF award page:<ref name="nsf-volpex" /><ref name="nandagudi2012" />

* Nandagudi, Girish; Jaspal Subhlok; Edgar Gabriel; Judit Gimenez (2012). [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-29737-3_56 "Estimation of MPI Application Performance on Volunteer Environments"]. ''Euro-Par 2011: Parallel Processing Workshops, Lecture Notes in Computer Science'', vol. 7155, pp. 511-520. Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29737-3_56.
* Anand, Rakhi; Troy LeBlanc; Edgar Gabriel; Jaspal Subhlok (2011). [https://doi.org/10.1007/s10723-010-9172-x "A Robust and Efficient Message Passing Library for Volunteer Computing Environments"]. ''Journal of Grid Computing'', vol. 9, no. 3, p. 325. DOI: 10.1007/s10723-010-9172-x.

== See also ==

* [[BOINC]] (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing)
* [[wikipedia:Volunteer_computing|Volunteer computing]]
* [[wikipedia:Distributed_computing|Distributed computing]]
* [[wikipedia:Grid_computing|Grid computing]]
* [[wikipedia:Desktop_grid|Desktop grid]]
* [[wikipedia:Message_Passing_Interface|Message Passing Interface]]
* [[Rosetta@home]]

== References ==

{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Volunteer computing projects]]
[[Category:BOINC projects]]
[[Category:University of Houston]]
[[Category:Computer science projects]]
[[Category:Molecular dynamics software]]

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== Summary ==
how proteins behave

Volpex@Home

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| description = Volpex@Home (Volpex@UH) was a completed volunteer computing project at the University of Houston that used BOINC to run communicating parallel programs on ordinary, failure-prone volunteer PCs through process replication and a shared dataspace.
| status = Completed
| category = Computer science
| compute = CPU
| dependencies = [[BOINC]] client 6.12 or later
| developer = [[wikipedia:University_of_Houston|University of Houston]] Department of Computer Science; Parallel Software Technologies Laboratory (PSTL)
| author = Jaspal Subhlok; Edgar Gabriel
| sponsor = [[wikipedia:National_Science_Foundation|National Science Foundation]] (awards CNS-0834750 and MCB-0919974)
| maintainer = Volpex team
| released = {{Start date and age|2011|12}}
| completed = 2017
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'''[https://web.archive.org/web/20160120043345/http://volpexathome.cs.uh.edu/VolPEx/ Volpex@Home]''' (originally '''Volpex@UH''') was a [[wikipedia:Volunteer_computing|volunteer computing]] project run by the Department of Computer Science at the [[wikipedia:University_of_Houston|University of Houston]] that used the [[BOINC]] middleware to execute communicating [[wikipedia:Parallel_computing|parallel]] programs on ordinary, Internet-connected personal computers. The name Volpex stands for '''Parallel Execution on Volatile Nodes''', and the project's central goal was to make the idle time of everyday "volatile" desktop machines usable as a virtual [[wikipedia:Computer_cluster|cluster]] for [[wikipedia:Message_passing|message passing]] parallel applications that the standard BOINC model could not run.<ref name="nsf-volpex">{{cite web |title=Award Abstract #0834750: CSR-PSCE, SM: Collaborative Research: VOLPEX: A Framework for Parallel Execution on Volatile Nodes |publisher=National Science Foundation |url=https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0834750 |access-date=2026-08-30}}</ref><ref name="homepage">{{cite web |title=Volpex@Home (archived project homepage) |publisher=University of Houston |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160120043345/http://volpexathome.cs.uh.edu/VolPEx/ |access-date=2026-08-30}}</ref>

The project also hosted a biological application called '''inCell@Home''', which ran [[wikipedia:Parallel_tempering|replica-exchange]] [[wikipedia:Molecular_dynamics|molecular dynamics]] simulations of protein behavior inside a crowded, cell-like environment in support of drug-design research.<ref name="homepage" /> The framework research was funded by two [[wikipedia:National_Science_Foundation|National Science Foundation]] grants, and the project reached about 1,700 volunteers before it was completed and retired in 2017.<ref name="nsf-volpex" /><ref name="nsf-cheung">{{cite web |title=Award Abstract #0919974: Effects of macromolecular crowding on protein structure, folding, and interactions |publisher=National Science Foundation |url=https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0919974 |access-date=2026-08-30}}</ref><ref name="frwiki">{{cite web |title=Liste des projets BOINC (Volpex@UH statistics) |publisher=French Wikipedia |url=https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_projets_BOINC |access-date=2026-08-30}}</ref>

== Overview ==

Most desktop computers sit idle for much of the day, representing a large pool of unused processing, storage, and communication capacity that grows with the spread of [[wikipedia:Multi-core_processor|multi-core]] machines. The difficulty is that these machines are ''volatile'': their owners can switch them off, disconnect them, or reclaim them at any time and without warning.<ref name="about">{{cite web |title=About VOLPEX |publisher=University of Houston (archived) |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524061949/http://volpexathome.cs.uh.edu/VolPEx/volpexinfo.php |access-date=2026-08-30}}</ref> Platforms such as BOINC and [[wikipedia:HTCondor|Condor]] handle this volatility well for independent, non-communicating tasks (the so-called [[wikipedia:Embarrassingly_parallel|"bag-of-tasks" or master-slave]] model), but they do not natively support tightly coupled, message-passing parallel programs in which tasks must exchange data as they run.<ref name="nsf-volpex" /><ref name="faq">{{cite web |title=Volpex@Home Frequently Asked Questions |publisher=University of Houston (archived) |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524023014/http://volpexathome.cs.uh.edu/VolPEx/faq.php |access-date=2026-08-30}}</ref>

Volpex was designed to remove exactly that limitation, so that a broader class of scientific applications could run on volunteer hardware and many more research projects could benefit from free, donated compute time.<ref name="faq" /> Rather than relying only on [[wikipedia:Application_checkpointing|checkpointing]], which the researchers argued is inadequate in environments with very high failure rates, Volpex used managed redundancy: it ran two or more replicas of every parallel process and regenerated failed replicas on demand from healthy ones, so that the application progressed at the rate of the fastest surviving replicas and continued seamlessly as long as at least one replica of each process remained alive.<ref name="nsf-volpex" /><ref name="about" />

== History ==

The Volpex framework began as academic computer-science research. A collaborative [[wikipedia:National_Science_Foundation|National Science Foundation]] grant, "VOLPEX: A Framework for Parallel Execution on Volatile Nodes" (award CNS-0834750), started on 1 September 2008 with Jaspal Subhlok as principal investigator and Rong Zheng and Edgar Gabriel as co-principal investigators at the University of Houston.<ref name="nsf-volpex" /> The associated MPI library, VolpexMPI, was first described in a 2009 paper by Troy LeBlanc, Rakhi Anand, Edgar Gabriel, and Jaspal Subhlok.<ref name="leblanc2009">{{cite journal |last1=LeBlanc |first1=Troy |last2=Anand |first2=Rakhi |last3=Gabriel |first3=Edgar |last4=Subhlok |first4=Jaspal |title=VolpexMPI: An MPI Library for Execution of Parallel Applications on Volatile Nodes |journal=Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface (EuroPVM/MPI 2009), Lecture Notes in Computer Science |volume=5759 |pages=124-133 |date=2009 |publisher=Springer |doi=10.1007/978-3-642-03770-2_19 |url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-03770-2_19}}</ref>

The public BOINC project, initially named Volpex@UH, was online by late 2011, when volunteer teams began joining, and it was announced on the official BOINC news page on 22 December 2012 as a University of Houston project seeking alpha testers for parallel computing across multiple hosts.<ref name="boinc-news">{{cite web |title=BOINC News archive: New project seeks testers (Volpex@UH) |publisher=BOINC, UC Berkeley |date=2012-12-22 |url=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/old_news.php |access-date=2026-08-30}}</ref><ref name="boincstats-early">{{cite web |title=BOINCstats project statistics for Volpex (archived, 5 January 2012) |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120105232519/http://boincstats.com/stats/project_graph.php?pr=volpex |access-date=2026-08-30}}</ref> The project later moved to the address volpexathome.cs.uh.edu and became known as Volpex@Home.<ref name="homepage" />

The team upgraded their BOINC server to a newer release in March 2013 and recovered from a full server disk in April 2015; new work jobs were still being posted as late as June 2015.<ref name="homepage" /> The biological side of the work was supported by a second NSF award to Margaret S. Cheung (MCB-0919974, "Effects of macromolecular crowding on protein structure, folding, and interactions"), which began 1 July 2009 and used the distributed simulations to study proteins in cell-like conditions.<ref name="nsf-cheung" /> The project was completed and retired around 2017, and it is listed among finished BOINC projects.<ref name="frwiki" /><ref name="bcwiki">{{cite web |title=BOINC-Projekte/en, Finished projects: Volpex@UH |publisher=BC-Wiki |url=https://wiki.bc-team.org/index.php?title=BOINC-Projekte/en |access-date=2026-08-30}}</ref>

== Technical design ==

Volpex provided two complementary programming interfaces for application developers, plus a simulation effort to predict performance.<ref name="about" />

=== Volpex Dataspace ===

The central component was the '''Volpex Dataspace''', an abstract global data layer that let tasks exchange data objects asynchronously through anonymous ''Put/Get'' operations. Instead of volunteer machines contacting one another directly, tasks read and wrote data objects through the project's central server, which acted as an intermediary; the project noted that this design meant there was no direct peer-to-peer security exposure for volunteers.<ref name="rohit2011">{{cite conference |last1=Rohit |first1=Eshwar |last2=Nguyen |first2=Hien |last3=Kanna |first3=Nagarajan |last4=Subhlok |first4=Jaspal |last5=Gabriel |first5=Edgar |last6=Wang |first6=Qian |last7=Cheung |first7=Margaret S. |last8=Anderson |first8=David |title=A Robust Communication Framework for Parallel Execution on Volunteer PC Grids |book-title=2011 11th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid) |date=2011 |pages=443-453 |doi=10.1109/CCGrid.2011.72 |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5948604}}</ref><ref name="faq" /> The Dataspace extended BOINC's independent-task model to allow inter-task communication while preserving consistent results even when redundancy or checkpointing caused a single operation to be invoked several times.<ref name="rohit2011" /> The team described this, integrated with BOINC, as the first comprehensive solution for reliably running communicating parallel codes on volunteer nodes.<ref name="ccgrid2011pdf">{{cite web |title=A Robust Communication Framework for Parallel Execution on Volunteer PC Grids (preprint PDF) |publisher=University of Houston |url=https://www2.cs.uh.edu/~jaspal/papers/11ccgrid.pdf |access-date=2026-08-30}}</ref>

=== VolpexMPI ===

'''VolpexMPI''' was a subset implementation of the [[wikipedia:Message_Passing_Interface|Message Passing Interface]] (MPI) standard tailored to volatile nodes. Ordinary message-passing exchanges were converted into asynchronous Put/Get operations, and process replication provided robustness. The key fault-tolerance technique was fully distributed, sender-based message logging, which let a restarted or replacement replica reconstruct the messages it needed without a central checkpoint server.<ref name="leblanc2009" /> A later, portable variant called VolpexPyMPI was written in [[wikipedia:Python_(programming_language)|Python]], ran on both Linux and Windows, and accepted user-level MPI programs written in C or [[wikipedia:Fortran|Fortran]], trading some performance for ease of use and portability across heterogeneous hardware and operating systems.<ref name="leblanc2010ccgrid">{{cite conference |last1=LeBlanc |first1=Troy P. |last2=Subhlok |first2=Jaspal |last3=Gabriel |first3=Edgar |title=A High-Level Interpreted MPI Library for Parallel Computing in Volunteer Environments |book-title=2010 10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid) |date=2010 |pages=405-414 |doi=10.1109/CCGRID.2010.85 |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5493405}}</ref>

Because each process had several replicas, a receiving process had to decide which sender replica to contact first. The group developed communication target-selection algorithms for this; a hybrid strategy gave performance close to that of an all-fast-machine configuration, and evaluations used the [[wikipedia:NAS_Parallel_Benchmarks|NAS Parallel Benchmarks]] across heterogeneous network and processor configurations.<ref name="anand2010">{{cite conference |last1=Anand |first1=Rakhi |last2=Gabriel |first2=Edgar |last3=Subhlok |first3=Jaspal |title=Communication Target Selection for Replicated MPI Processes |book-title=Recent Advances in the Message Passing Interface (EuroMPI 2010), Lecture Notes in Computer Science |volume=6305 |date=2010 |pages=181-190 |publisher=Springer |doi=10.1007/978-3-642-15646-5_21 |url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-15646-5_21}}</ref>

=== Volpex Simulation ===

[[File:BOINC project architecture.png|thumb|alt=A diagram of the BOINC client-server architecture showing a server feeding work to many volunteer clients over the Internet|The BOINC client-server architecture that Volpex extended with its Dataspace communication layer.<ref name="rohit2011" />|360x360px]]

A third thrust, '''Volpex Simulation''', built a virtual model of a real-world desktop grid, complete with realistic node and network characteristics, to estimate how parallel applications would perform under different network parameters and configurations before deployment.<ref name="about" /> Using a measurement and simulation tool chain on the NAS benchmarks, the researchers found that running on a realistic volunteer campus pool produced slowdowns by factors of roughly <math>2</math> to <math>10</math> compared with a dedicated cluster, depending on the benchmark code.<ref name="nandagudi2012">{{cite conference |last1=Nandagudi |first1=Girish |last2=Subhlok |first2=Jaspal |last3=Gabriel |first3=Edgar |last4=Gimenez |first4=Judit |title=Estimation of MPI Application Performance on Volunteer Environments |book-title=Euro-Par 2011: Parallel Processing Workshops, Lecture Notes in Computer Science |volume=7155 |date=2012 |pages=511-520 |publisher=Springer |doi=10.1007/978-3-642-29737-3_56 |url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-29737-3_56}}</ref>

=== Reliability model ===

The central trade-off in the Volpex design is between the cost of redundancy and the probability that a parallel job survives. If each process is replicated <math>r</math> times and an individual volunteer node remains available for the duration of a job with probability <math>p</math>, then a given process group survives only as long as at least one of its replicas is alive. With independent failures, the probability that a job requiring <math>n</math> distinct processes completes is

:<math>P_{\text{job}} = \big(1 - (1-p)^{r}\big)^{n}.</math>

Increasing the replica count <math>r</math> sharply raises survival probability, but it also inflates the total compute demand: the aggregate redundant work relative to a single execution scales approximately as

:<math>W_{\text{total}} \approx r \cdot n \cdot W_{\text{process}}.</math>

Much of the project's research concerned managing this tension efficiently, for example through on-demand regeneration of lost replicas, sender-based message logging, and optimized checkpointing intervals for inter-dependent replicated processes.<ref name="nsf-volpex" /><ref name="leblanc2009" /><ref name="rahman2016">{{cite conference |last1=Rahman |first1=Mohammad Tanvir |last2=Nguyen |first2=Hien |last3=Subhlok |first3=Jaspal |last4=Pandurangan |first4=Gopal |title=Checkpointing to Minimize Completion Time for Inter-Dependent Parallel Processes on Volunteer Grids |book-title=2016 16th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid) |date=2016 |pages=510-519 |doi=10.1109/CCGrid.2016.78 |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7515706}}</ref>

== How volunteers participated ==

Volunteers attached their BOINC client to the project's URL, and the BOINC server recruited hosts for each parallel job. Because a communicating job needs a fixed number of processes running at the same time, the server waited until enough hosts had been recruited and then started them together; recruited hosts that were waiting their turn temporarily idled and released the CPU rather than running the task.<ref name="faq" /> Some hosts were designated as spare nodes that stood by to replace a failed node mid-job.<ref name="faq" />

This model produced a few unusual behaviors that the project documented for volunteers: tasks could appear as "Waiting to run (Scheduler wait)" during recruitment, a task could be terminated deliberately once the overall job had finished, and the CPU could sit idle while a process waited for data from another process. Tasks were also given short deadlines and run at high BOINC priority so that all processes of a coordinated job stayed reachable, since one unavailable process could stall a computation involving hundreds of processes.<ref name="faq" /><ref name="rechenkraft">{{cite web |title=Volpex@UH (beendet) |publisher=Rechenkraft.net wiki |url=https://www.rechenkraft.net/wiki/Volpex@UH |access-date=2026-08-30}}</ref> Uniquely for a BOINC project, credit was granted periodically in proportion to the time a host spent on a task, rather than only when a task completed successfully.<ref name="faq" />

Work was available for Windows and Linux machines on x86 and x86-64 CPUs; there was no GPU application, and clients older than BOINC 6.12 were not supported because the project relied on the client reporting its task name for identification.<ref name="apps">{{cite web |title=Volpex@Home Applications (archived) |publisher=University of Houston |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141008180240/http://volpexathome.cs.uh.edu/VolPEx/apps.php |access-date=2026-08-30}}</ref><ref name="faq" />

== Applications ==

[[File:Crowded cytosol.png|thumb|alt=Illustration of a densely packed cell cytosol full of proteins and other macromolecules|The crowded cytosol of a cell: macromolecular crowding alters protein folding and behavior, the phenomenon studied by inCell@Home.<ref name="nsf-cheung" />|360x360px]]

By 2014 the project served two CPU applications, each available for Windows and Linux on Intel x86 (and Linux on x86-64):<ref name="apps" />

* '''REMD Protein Folding''' (version 1.35), the inCell@Home replica-exchange molecular dynamics application; and
* '''Sieve''' (version 1.08), a lightweight test and benchmarking application used to exercise and validate the Volpex framework.

=== inCell@Home ===

'''inCell@Home''' was the flagship scientific application of Volpex and a collaboration with the research group of Margaret S. Cheung at the University of Houston. It simulated how proteins behave and function inside a realistic, crowded cell-like environment rather than in dilute solution, with the results intended to inform biological drug design.<ref name="homepage" /><ref name="nsf-cheung" /> The application ran replica-exchange molecular dynamics (REMD), a method in which many copies (replicas) of a system are simulated at different temperatures and periodically exchange configurations to overcome the kinetic trapping that makes protein folding hard to sample; the loosely coupled, communication-light nature of REMD made it well suited to a replicated, volatile environment and to the Volpex Dataspace.<ref name="ccgrid2011pdf" /><ref name="rohit2011" />

This tied the computer-science framework directly to a biophysics question: experimental and computational work by the Cheung group showed that [[wikipedia:Macromolecular_crowding|macromolecular crowding]] dramatically affects protein structure, folding, and activity, for example compacting the enzyme phosphoglycerate kinase and increasing its activity under crowded conditions that mimic the inside of a cell.<ref name="cheung-research">{{cite web |title=Cheung Group Research: Protein structure, function, and dynamics under cell-like conditions (archived) |publisher=University of Houston |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120303170028/http://mynsm.uh.edu/groups/cheunggroup/wiki/f569a/Research.html |access-date=2026-08-30}}</ref> The crowding research combined coarse-grained and atomistic molecular simulation in a multi-scale approach and was supported by NSF award MCB-0919974.<ref name="nsf-cheung" />

== Funding and statistics ==

The framework research was supported by the National Science Foundation's Computer Systems Research program under award CNS-0834750 (approximately $296,000 awarded to the University of Houston), and the biological crowding research by award MCB-0919974 (approximately $232,000 awarded).<ref name="nsf-volpex" /><ref name="nsf-cheung" />

Volpex remained a small research project throughout its life. In early January 2012 it counted 292 registered users (135 active), 824 hosts (404 active), and 64 teams across 36 countries, with about 1.1 million total credits, a recent average credit of roughly 3,449, and an average throughput of about 17.2 [[wikipedia:FLOPS|GFLOPS]].<ref name="boincstats-early" /> By the time the project was retired, the French Wikipedia's BOINC project table recorded 1,746 users, 6,688 hosts, 252 teams, and 65,282,403 total credits as of 15 October 2017.<ref name="frwiki" />

== Scientific publications ==

The University of California, Berkeley list of publications arising from BOINC projects catalogs nine Volpex@Home papers, spanning the framework, its MPI and Dataspace components, message logging, performance estimation, checkpointing, and a summary journal article.<ref name="boinc-pubs">{{cite web |title=Publications by BOINC Projects: Volpex@Home |publisher=BOINC, UC Berkeley |url=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Volpex@Home |access-date=2026-08-30}}</ref>

# Subhlok, Jaspal; Hien Nguyen; Edgar Gabriel; Mohammad Tanvir Rahman (2018). [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cpe.4478 "Resilient parallel computing on volunteer PC grids"]. ''Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience''. DOI: 10.1002/cpe.4478.
# Rahman, Mohammad Tanvir; Hien Nguyen; Jaspal Subhlok; Gopal Pandurangan (2016). [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7515706 "Checkpointing to Minimize Completion Time for Inter-Dependent Parallel Processes on Volunteer Grids"]. ''2016 16th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid)''. DOI: 10.1109/CCGrid.2016.78.
# Islam, Md Tarikul; Hien Nguyen; Jaspal Subhlok; Edgar Gabriel (2015). [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7284289 "Efficient Message Logging to Support Process Replicas in a Volunteer Computing Environment"]. ''2015 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshop (IPDPSW)''. DOI: 10.1109/IPDPSW.2015.91.
# Nguyen, Hien; Eshwar Pedamallu; Jaspal Subhlok; Edgar Gabriel; Qian Wang; Margaret S. Cheung; David Anderson (2012). [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6337577/ "An Execution Environment for Robust Parallel Computing on Volunteer PC Grids"]. ''2012 41st International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP)''. DOI: 10.1109/ICPP.2012.18.
# Rohit, Eshwar; Hien Nguyen; Nagarajan Kanna; Jaspal Subhlok; Edgar Gabriel; Qian Wang; Margaret S. Cheung; David Anderson (2011). [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5948604 "A Robust Communication Framework for Parallel Execution on Volunteer PC Grids"]. ''2011 11th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid)''. DOI: 10.1109/CCGrid.2011.72.
# Anand, Rakhi; Edgar Gabriel; Jaspal Subhlok (2010). [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-15646-5_21 "Communication Target Selection for Replicated MPI Processes"]. ''Recent Advances in the Message Passing Interface (EuroMPI 2010), Lecture Notes in Computer Science'', vol. 6305, pp. 181-190. Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15646-5_21.
# LeBlanc, Troy P.; Jaspal Subhlok; Edgar Gabriel (2010). [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5493405/ "A High-Level Interpreted MPI Library for Parallel Computing in Volunteer Environments"]. ''2010 10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid)'', pp. 405-414. DOI: 10.1109/CCGRID.2010.85.
# Kanna, Nagarajan; Jaspal Subhlok; Edgar Gabriel; Eshwar Rohit; David Anderson (2010). [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-13374-9_1 "A Communication Framework for Fault-Tolerant Parallel Execution"]. ''Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing (LCPC), Lecture Notes in Computer Science''. Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13374-9_1.
# LeBlanc, Troy; Rakhi Anand; Edgar Gabriel; Jaspal Subhlok (2009). [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-03770-2_19 "VolpexMPI: An MPI Library for Execution of Parallel Applications on Volatile Nodes"]. ''Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface (EuroPVM/MPI 2009), Lecture Notes in Computer Science'', vol. 5759, pp. 124-133. Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03770-2_19.

== Related publications ==

Additional Volpex-related papers not listed in the BOINC publications index include a performance-estimation study and the journal version of the VolpexMPI work reported on the project's NSF award page:<ref name="nsf-volpex" /><ref name="nandagudi2012" />

* Nandagudi, Girish; Jaspal Subhlok; Edgar Gabriel; Judit Gimenez (2012). [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-29737-3_56 "Estimation of MPI Application Performance on Volunteer Environments"]. ''Euro-Par 2011: Parallel Processing Workshops, Lecture Notes in Computer Science'', vol. 7155, pp. 511-520. Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29737-3_56.
* Anand, Rakhi; Troy LeBlanc; Edgar Gabriel; Jaspal Subhlok (2011). [https://doi.org/10.1007/s10723-010-9172-x "A Robust and Efficient Message Passing Library for Volunteer Computing Environments"]. ''Journal of Grid Computing'', vol. 9, no. 3, p. 325. DOI: 10.1007/s10723-010-9172-x.

== See also ==

* [[BOINC]] (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing)
* [[wikipedia:Volunteer_computing|Volunteer computing]]
* [[wikipedia:Distributed_computing|Distributed computing]]
* [[wikipedia:Grid_computing|Grid computing]]
* [[wikipedia:Desktop_grid|Desktop grid]]
* [[wikipedia:Message_Passing_Interface|Message Passing Interface]]
* [[Rosetta@home]]

== References ==

{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Volunteer computing projects]]
[[Category:BOINC projects]]
[[Category:University of Houston]]
[[Category:Computer science projects]]
[[Category:Molecular dynamics software]]

Volpex@Home

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'''Volpex@Home''' (originally '''Volpex@UH''') was a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volunteer_computing volunteer computing] project run by the Department of Computer Science at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Houston University of Houston] that used the [[BOINC]] middleware to execute communicating [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_computing parallel] programs on ordinary, Internet-connected personal computers. The name Volpex stands for '''Parallel Execution on Volatile Nodes''', and the project's central goal was to make the idle time of everyday "volatile" desktop machines usable as a virtual [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_cluster cluster] for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_passing message passing] parallel applications that the standard BOINC model could not run.<ref name="nsf-volpex">{{cite web |title=Award Abstract #0834750: CSR-PSCE, SM: Collaborative Research: VOLPEX: A Framework for Parallel Execution on Volatile Nodes |publisher=National Science Foundation |url=https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0834750 |access-date=2026-08-30}}</ref><ref name="homepage">{{cite web |title=Volpex@Home (archived project homepage) |publisher=University of Houston |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160120043345/http://volpexathome.cs.uh.edu/VolPEx/ |access-date=2026-08-30}}</ref>

The project also hosted a biological application called '''inCell@Home''', which ran [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_tempering replica-exchange] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_dynamics molecular dynamics] simulations of protein behavior inside a crowded, cell-like environment in support of drug-design research.<ref name="homepage" /> The framework research was funded by two [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Science_Foundation National Science Foundation] grants, and the project reached about 1,700 volunteers before it was completed and retired in 2017.<ref name="nsf-volpex" /><ref name="nsf-cheung">{{cite web |title=Award Abstract #0919974: Effects of macromolecular crowding on protein structure, folding, and interactions |publisher=National Science Foundation |url=https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0919974 |access-date=2026-08-30}}</ref><ref name="frwiki">{{cite web |title=Liste des projets BOINC (Volpex@UH statistics) |publisher=French Wikipedia |url=https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_projets_BOINC |access-date=2026-08-30}}</ref>

[[File:Volpex concept diagram.jpg|thumb|alt=A diagram captioned VOLPEX showing a scientific application in the center linked by arrows to a volunteer environment, parallel execution, and heterogeneous devices|The Volpex concept: a scientific application runs on a heterogeneous, volunteer, parallel computing environment.<ref name="homepage" />]]

== Overview ==

Most desktop computers sit idle for much of the day, representing a large pool of unused processing, storage, and communication capacity that grows with the spread of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-core_processor multi-core] machines. The difficulty is that these machines are ''volatile'': their owners can switch them off, disconnect them, or reclaim them at any time and without warning.<ref name="about">{{cite web |title=About VOLPEX |publisher=University of Houston (archived) |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524061949/http://volpexathome.cs.uh.edu/VolPEx/volpexinfo.php |access-date=2026-08-30}}</ref> Platforms such as BOINC and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTCondor Condor] handle this volatility well for independent, non-communicating tasks (the so-called [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassingly_parallel "bag-of-tasks" or master-slave] model), but they do not natively support tightly coupled, message-passing parallel programs in which tasks must exchange data as they run.<ref name="nsf-volpex" /><ref name="faq">{{cite web |title=Volpex@Home Frequently Asked Questions |publisher=University of Houston (archived) |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524023014/http://volpexathome.cs.uh.edu/VolPEx/faq.php |access-date=2026-08-30}}</ref>

Volpex was designed to remove exactly that limitation, so that a broader class of scientific applications could run on volunteer hardware and many more research projects could benefit from free, donated compute time.<ref name="faq" /> Rather than relying only on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_checkpointing checkpointing], which the researchers argued is inadequate in environments with very high failure rates, Volpex used managed redundancy: it ran two or more replicas of every parallel process and regenerated failed replicas on demand from healthy ones, so that the application progressed at the rate of the fastest surviving replicas and continued seamlessly as long as at least one replica of each process remained alive.<ref name="nsf-volpex" /><ref name="about" />

== History ==

The Volpex framework began as academic computer-science research. A collaborative [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Science_Foundation National Science Foundation] grant, "VOLPEX: A Framework for Parallel Execution on Volatile Nodes" (award CNS-0834750), started on 1 September 2008 with Jaspal Subhlok as principal investigator and Rong Zheng and Edgar Gabriel as co-principal investigators at the University of Houston.<ref name="nsf-volpex" /> The associated MPI library, VolpexMPI, was first described in a 2009 paper by Troy LeBlanc, Rakhi Anand, Edgar Gabriel, and Jaspal Subhlok.<ref name="leblanc2009">{{cite journal |last1=LeBlanc |first1=Troy |last2=Anand |first2=Rakhi |last3=Gabriel |first3=Edgar |last4=Subhlok |first4=Jaspal |title=VolpexMPI: An MPI Library for Execution of Parallel Applications on Volatile Nodes |journal=Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface (EuroPVM/MPI 2009), Lecture Notes in Computer Science |volume=5759 |pages=124-133 |date=2009 |publisher=Springer |doi=10.1007/978-3-642-03770-2_19 |url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-03770-2_19}}</ref>

The public BOINC project, initially named Volpex@UH, was online by late 2011, when volunteer teams began joining, and it was announced on the official BOINC news page on 22 December 2012 as a University of Houston project seeking alpha testers for parallel computing across multiple hosts.<ref name="boinc-news">{{cite web |title=BOINC News archive: New project seeks testers (Volpex@UH) |publisher=BOINC, UC Berkeley |date=2012-12-22 |url=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/old_news.php |access-date=2026-08-30}}</ref><ref name="boincstats-early">{{cite web |title=BOINCstats project statistics for Volpex (archived, 5 January 2012) |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120105232519/http://boincstats.com/stats/project_graph.php?pr=volpex |access-date=2026-08-30}}</ref> The project later moved to the address volpexathome.cs.uh.edu and became known as Volpex@Home.<ref name="homepage" />

The team upgraded their BOINC server to a newer release in March 2013 and recovered from a full server disk in April 2015; new work jobs were still being posted as late as June 2015.<ref name="homepage" /> The biological side of the work was supported by a second NSF award to Margaret S. Cheung (MCB-0919974, "Effects of macromolecular crowding on protein structure, folding, and interactions"), which began 1 July 2009 and used the distributed simulations to study proteins in cell-like conditions.<ref name="nsf-cheung" /> The project was completed and retired around 2017, and it is listed among finished BOINC projects.<ref name="frwiki" /><ref name="bcwiki">{{cite web |title=BOINC-Projekte/en, Finished projects: Volpex@UH |publisher=BC-Wiki |url=https://wiki.bc-team.org/index.php?title=BOINC-Projekte/en |access-date=2026-08-30}}</ref>

== Technical design ==

Volpex provided two complementary programming interfaces for application developers, plus a simulation effort to predict performance.<ref name="about" />

[[File:Volpex testbeds.jpg|thumb|alt=A network diagram titled Volpex Testbeds showing the Volpex server connected through the UH network and Internet to a Shark cluster, Condor clusters, a NASA virtualized cluster, corporate networks, and home PCs|The Volpex testbeds: campus clusters, a NASA virtualized cluster, and home PCs linked through the University of Houston network and the public Internet.<ref name="about" />]]

=== Volpex Dataspace ===

The central component was the '''Volpex Dataspace''', an abstract global data layer that let tasks exchange data objects asynchronously through anonymous ''Put/Get'' operations. Instead of volunteer machines contacting one another directly, tasks read and wrote data objects through the project's central server, which acted as an intermediary; the project noted that this design meant there was no direct peer-to-peer security exposure for volunteers.<ref name="rohit2011">{{cite conference |last1=Rohit |first1=Eshwar |last2=Nguyen |first2=Hien |last3=Kanna |first3=Nagarajan |last4=Subhlok |first4=Jaspal |last5=Gabriel |first5=Edgar |last6=Wang |first6=Qian |last7=Cheung |first7=Margaret S. |last8=Anderson |first8=David |title=A Robust Communication Framework for Parallel Execution on Volunteer PC Grids |book-title=2011 11th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid) |date=2011 |pages=443-453 |doi=10.1109/CCGrid.2011.72 |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5948604}}</ref><ref name="faq" /> The Dataspace extended BOINC's independent-task model to allow inter-task communication while preserving consistent results even when redundancy or checkpointing caused a single operation to be invoked several times.<ref name="rohit2011" /> The team described this, integrated with BOINC, as the first comprehensive solution for reliably running communicating parallel codes on volunteer nodes.<ref name="ccgrid2011pdf">{{cite web |title=A Robust Communication Framework for Parallel Execution on Volunteer PC Grids (preprint PDF) |publisher=University of Houston |url=https://www2.cs.uh.edu/~jaspal/papers/11ccgrid.pdf |access-date=2026-08-30}}</ref>

=== VolpexMPI ===

'''VolpexMPI''' was a subset implementation of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_Passing_Interface Message Passing Interface] (MPI) standard tailored to volatile nodes. Ordinary message-passing exchanges were converted into asynchronous Put/Get operations, and process replication provided robustness. The key fault-tolerance technique was fully distributed, sender-based message logging, which let a restarted or replacement replica reconstruct the messages it needed without a central checkpoint server.<ref name="leblanc2009" /> A later, portable variant called VolpexPyMPI was written in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language) Python], ran on both Linux and Windows, and accepted user-level MPI programs written in C or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran Fortran], trading some performance for ease of use and portability across heterogeneous hardware and operating systems.<ref name="leblanc2010ccgrid">{{cite conference |last1=LeBlanc |first1=Troy P. |last2=Subhlok |first2=Jaspal |last3=Gabriel |first3=Edgar |title=A High-Level Interpreted MPI Library for Parallel Computing in Volunteer Environments |book-title=2010 10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid) |date=2010 |pages=405-414 |doi=10.1109/CCGRID.2010.85 |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5493405}}</ref>

Because each process had several replicas, a receiving process had to decide which sender replica to contact first. The group developed communication target-selection algorithms for this; a hybrid strategy gave performance close to that of an all-fast-machine configuration, and evaluations used the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAS_Parallel_Benchmarks NAS Parallel Benchmarks] across heterogeneous network and processor configurations.<ref name="anand2010">{{cite conference |last1=Anand |first1=Rakhi |last2=Gabriel |first2=Edgar |last3=Subhlok |first3=Jaspal |title=Communication Target Selection for Replicated MPI Processes |book-title=Recent Advances in the Message Passing Interface (EuroMPI 2010), Lecture Notes in Computer Science |volume=6305 |date=2010 |pages=181-190 |publisher=Springer |doi=10.1007/978-3-642-15646-5_21 |url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-15646-5_21}}</ref>

=== Volpex Simulation ===

A third thrust, '''Volpex Simulation''', built a virtual model of a real-world desktop grid, complete with realistic node and network characteristics, to estimate how parallel applications would perform under different network parameters and configurations before deployment.<ref name="about" /> Using a measurement and simulation tool chain on the NAS benchmarks, the researchers found that running on a realistic volunteer campus pool produced slowdowns by factors of roughly <math>2</math> to <math>10</math> compared with a dedicated cluster, depending on the benchmark code.<ref name="nandagudi2012">{{cite conference |last1=Nandagudi |first1=Girish |last2=Subhlok |first2=Jaspal |last3=Gabriel |first3=Edgar |last4=Gimenez |first4=Judit |title=Estimation of MPI Application Performance on Volunteer Environments |book-title=Euro-Par 2011: Parallel Processing Workshops, Lecture Notes in Computer Science |volume=7155 |date=2012 |pages=511-520 |publisher=Springer |doi=10.1007/978-3-642-29737-3_56 |url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-29737-3_56}}</ref>

=== Reliability model ===

The central trade-off in the Volpex design is between the cost of redundancy and the probability that a parallel job survives. If each process is replicated <math>r</math> times and an individual volunteer node remains available for the duration of a job with probability <math>p</math>, then a given process group survives only as long as at least one of its replicas is alive. With independent failures, the probability that a job requiring <math>n</math> distinct processes completes is

:<math>P_{\text{job}} = \big(1 - (1-p)^{r}\big)^{n}.</math>

Increasing the replica count <math>r</math> sharply raises survival probability, but it also inflates the total compute demand: the aggregate redundant work relative to a single execution scales approximately as

:<math>W_{\text{total}} \approx r \cdot n \cdot W_{\text{process}}.</math>

Much of the project's research concerned managing this tension efficiently, for example through on-demand regeneration of lost replicas, sender-based message logging, and optimized checkpointing intervals for inter-dependent replicated processes.<ref name="nsf-volpex" /><ref name="leblanc2009" /><ref name="rahman2016">{{cite conference |last1=Rahman |first1=Mohammad Tanvir |last2=Nguyen |first2=Hien |last3=Subhlok |first3=Jaspal |last4=Pandurangan |first4=Gopal |title=Checkpointing to Minimize Completion Time for Inter-Dependent Parallel Processes on Volunteer Grids |book-title=2016 16th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid) |date=2016 |pages=510-519 |doi=10.1109/CCGrid.2016.78 |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7515706}}</ref>

== How volunteers participated ==

Volunteers attached their BOINC client to the project's URL, and the BOINC server recruited hosts for each parallel job. Because a communicating job needs a fixed number of processes running at the same time, the server waited until enough hosts had been recruited and then started them together; recruited hosts that were waiting their turn temporarily idled and released the CPU rather than running the task.<ref name="faq" /> Some hosts were designated as spare nodes that stood by to replace a failed node mid-job.<ref name="faq" />

This model produced a few unusual behaviors that the project documented for volunteers: tasks could appear as "Waiting to run (Scheduler wait)" during recruitment, a task could be terminated deliberately once the overall job had finished, and the CPU could sit idle while a process waited for data from another process. Tasks were also given short deadlines and run at high BOINC priority so that all processes of a coordinated job stayed reachable, since one unavailable process could stall a computation involving hundreds of processes.<ref name="faq" /><ref name="rechenkraft">{{cite web |title=Volpex@UH (beendet) |publisher=Rechenkraft.net wiki |url=https://www.rechenkraft.net/wiki/Volpex@UH |access-date=2026-08-30}}</ref> Uniquely for a BOINC project, credit was granted periodically in proportion to the time a host spent on a task, rather than only when a task completed successfully.<ref name="faq" />

Work was available for Windows and Linux machines on x86 and x86-64 CPUs; there was no GPU application, and clients older than BOINC 6.12 were not supported because the project relied on the client reporting its task name for identification.<ref name="apps">{{cite web |title=Volpex@Home Applications (archived) |publisher=University of Houston |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141008180240/http://volpexathome.cs.uh.edu/VolPEx/apps.php |access-date=2026-08-30}}</ref><ref name="faq" />

[[File:BOINC project architecture.png|thumb|alt=A diagram of the BOINC client-server architecture showing a server feeding work to many volunteer clients over the Internet|The BOINC client-server architecture that Volpex extended with its Dataspace communication layer.<ref name="rohit2011" />]]

== Applications ==

By 2014 the project served two CPU applications, each available for Windows and Linux on Intel x86 (and Linux on x86-64):<ref name="apps" />

* '''REMD Protein Folding''' (version 1.35), the inCell@Home replica-exchange molecular dynamics application; and
* '''Sieve''' (version 1.08), a lightweight test and benchmarking application used to exercise and validate the Volpex framework.

=== inCell@Home ===

[[File:inCell REMD crowded environment.jpg|thumb|alt=Molecular visualization of several protein replicas (red, white, and blue structures) surrounded by a dense field of grey spheres representing crowding macromolecules|Replica-exchange molecular dynamics of proteins (colored structures) inside a densely crowded, cell-like environment of macromolecules (grey spheres), as simulated by inCell@Home.<ref name="homepage" />]]

'''inCell@Home''' was the flagship scientific application of Volpex and a collaboration with the research group of Margaret S. Cheung at the University of Houston. It simulated how proteins behave and function inside a realistic, crowded cell-like environment rather than in dilute solution, with the results intended to inform biological drug design.<ref name="homepage" /><ref name="nsf-cheung" /> The application ran replica-exchange molecular dynamics (REMD), a method in which many copies (replicas) of a system are simulated at different temperatures and periodically exchange configurations to overcome the kinetic trapping that makes protein folding hard to sample; the loosely coupled, communication-light nature of REMD made it well suited to a replicated, volatile environment and to the Volpex Dataspace.<ref name="ccgrid2011pdf" /><ref name="rohit2011" />

This tied the computer-science framework directly to a biophysics question: experimental and computational work by the Cheung group showed that [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macromolecular_crowding macromolecular crowding] dramatically affects protein structure, folding, and activity, for example compacting the enzyme phosphoglycerate kinase and increasing its activity under crowded conditions that mimic the inside of a cell.<ref name="cheung-research">{{cite web |title=Cheung Group Research: Protein structure, function, and dynamics under cell-like conditions (archived) |publisher=University of Houston |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120303170028/http://mynsm.uh.edu/groups/cheunggroup/wiki/f569a/Research.html |access-date=2026-08-30}}</ref> The crowding research combined coarse-grained and atomistic molecular simulation in a multi-scale approach and was supported by NSF award MCB-0919974.<ref name="nsf-cheung" />

[[File:Crowded cytosol.png|thumb|alt=Illustration of a densely packed cell cytosol full of proteins and other macromolecules|The crowded cytosol of a cell: macromolecular crowding alters protein folding and behavior, the phenomenon studied by inCell@Home.<ref name="nsf-cheung" />]]

== Funding and statistics ==

The framework research was supported by the National Science Foundation's Computer Systems Research program under award CNS-0834750 (approximately $296,000 awarded to the University of Houston), and the biological crowding research by award MCB-0919974 (approximately $232,000 awarded).<ref name="nsf-volpex" /><ref name="nsf-cheung" />

Volpex remained a small research project throughout its life. In early January 2012 it counted 292 registered users (135 active), 824 hosts (404 active), and 64 teams across 36 countries, with about 1.1 million total credits, a recent average credit of roughly 3,449, and an average throughput of about 17.2 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOPS GFLOPS].<ref name="boincstats-early" /> By the time the project was retired, the French Wikipedia's BOINC project table recorded 1,746 users, 6,688 hosts, 252 teams, and 65,282,403 total credits as of 15 October 2017.<ref name="frwiki" />

== Scientific publications ==

The University of California, Berkeley list of publications arising from BOINC projects catalogs nine Volpex@Home papers, spanning the framework, its MPI and Dataspace components, message logging, performance estimation, checkpointing, and a summary journal article.<ref name="boinc-pubs">{{cite web |title=Publications by BOINC Projects: Volpex@Home |publisher=BOINC, UC Berkeley |url=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Volpex@Home |access-date=2026-08-30}}</ref>

# Subhlok, Jaspal; Hien Nguyen; Edgar Gabriel; Mohammad Tanvir Rahman (2018). [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cpe.4478 "Resilient parallel computing on volunteer PC grids"]. ''Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience''. DOI: 10.1002/cpe.4478.
# Rahman, Mohammad Tanvir; Hien Nguyen; Jaspal Subhlok; Gopal Pandurangan (2016). [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7515706 "Checkpointing to Minimize Completion Time for Inter-Dependent Parallel Processes on Volunteer Grids"]. ''2016 16th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid)''. DOI: 10.1109/CCGrid.2016.78.
# Islam, Md Tarikul; Hien Nguyen; Jaspal Subhlok; Edgar Gabriel (2015). [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7284289 "Efficient Message Logging to Support Process Replicas in a Volunteer Computing Environment"]. ''2015 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshop (IPDPSW)''. DOI: 10.1109/IPDPSW.2015.91.
# Nguyen, Hien; Eshwar Pedamallu; Jaspal Subhlok; Edgar Gabriel; Qian Wang; Margaret S. Cheung; David Anderson (2012). [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6337577/ "An Execution Environment for Robust Parallel Computing on Volunteer PC Grids"]. ''2012 41st International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP)''. DOI: 10.1109/ICPP.2012.18.
# Rohit, Eshwar; Hien Nguyen; Nagarajan Kanna; Jaspal Subhlok; Edgar Gabriel; Qian Wang; Margaret S. Cheung; David Anderson (2011). [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5948604 "A Robust Communication Framework for Parallel Execution on Volunteer PC Grids"]. ''2011 11th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid)''. DOI: 10.1109/CCGrid.2011.72.
# Anand, Rakhi; Edgar Gabriel; Jaspal Subhlok (2010). [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-15646-5_21 "Communication Target Selection for Replicated MPI Processes"]. ''Recent Advances in the Message Passing Interface (EuroMPI 2010), Lecture Notes in Computer Science'', vol. 6305, pp. 181-190. Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15646-5_21.
# LeBlanc, Troy P.; Jaspal Subhlok; Edgar Gabriel (2010). [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5493405/ "A High-Level Interpreted MPI Library for Parallel Computing in Volunteer Environments"]. ''2010 10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid)'', pp. 405-414. DOI: 10.1109/CCGRID.2010.85.
# Kanna, Nagarajan; Jaspal Subhlok; Edgar Gabriel; Eshwar Rohit; David Anderson (2010). [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-13374-9_1 "A Communication Framework for Fault-Tolerant Parallel Execution"]. ''Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing (LCPC), Lecture Notes in Computer Science''. Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13374-9_1.
# LeBlanc, Troy; Rakhi Anand; Edgar Gabriel; Jaspal Subhlok (2009). [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-03770-2_19 "VolpexMPI: An MPI Library for Execution of Parallel Applications on Volatile Nodes"]. ''Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface (EuroPVM/MPI 2009), Lecture Notes in Computer Science'', vol. 5759, pp. 124-133. Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03770-2_19.

== Related publications ==

Additional Volpex-related papers not listed in the BOINC publications index include a performance-estimation study and the journal version of the VolpexMPI work reported on the project's NSF award page:<ref name="nsf-volpex" /><ref name="nandagudi2012" />

* Nandagudi, Girish; Jaspal Subhlok; Edgar Gabriel; Judit Gimenez (2012). [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-29737-3_56 "Estimation of MPI Application Performance on Volunteer Environments"]. ''Euro-Par 2011: Parallel Processing Workshops, Lecture Notes in Computer Science'', vol. 7155, pp. 511-520. Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29737-3_56.
* Anand, Rakhi; Troy LeBlanc; Edgar Gabriel; Jaspal Subhlok (2011). [https://doi.org/10.1007/s10723-010-9172-x "A Robust and Efficient Message Passing Library for Volunteer Computing Environments"]. ''Journal of Grid Computing'', vol. 9, no. 3, p. 325. DOI: 10.1007/s10723-010-9172-x.

== See also ==

* [[BOINC]] (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing)
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volunteer_computing Volunteer computing]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_computing Distributed computing]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_computing Grid computing]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_grid Desktop grid]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_Passing_Interface Message Passing Interface]
* [[Rosetta@home]]

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<div class="bs-cta-body">Before modern power management made them obsolete, every BOINC project shipped a real-time animated screensaver showing the computation in progress, including protein chains folding, star fields sweeping and climate models spinning. All 71 known screensaver recordings, spanning projects from SETI@home to Pirates@Home, are now preserved in one place.</div>
<big>'''[[BOINC project screensavers|View the BOINC Screensaver Archive →]]'''</big>
</div>


== Local BOINC project wiki pages ==

Each project below has its own dedicated article on this wiki. Projects are grouped by research domain and activity status.

=== ✦ Active BOINC projects ===

<div class="bs-group bs-group-teal mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🔭 Astrophysics, Cosmology & Space</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[Einstein@Home]] gravitational wave and pulsar detection
| * [[MilkyWay@home]] mapping the Milky Way's structure
|-
| * [[LHC@home]] CERN particle physics simulations
| * [[Gaia@home]] ESA Gaia mission data reduction
|-
| colspan="2" | * [[SPACIOUS@home]] space situational awareness
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-purple mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🧬 Biology, Medicine & Biochemistry</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[GPUGRID]] GPU-accelerated biomolecular simulations
| * [[TN-Grid]] neurological research
|-
| * [[Rosetta@home]] protein structure prediction
|* [[SiDock@home]] drug candidate screening
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-blue mw-collapsible"><div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🔢 Mathematics, Number Theory & Cryptography</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|* [[Gerasim@home]] multi-project. number field sieve factorisation
|
|-
| * [[PrimeGrid]] prime number searches across many sub-projects
| * [[NFS@Home]] number field sieve factorisation
|-
| * [[SRBase]] Sierpinski-Riesel base search
| * [[NumberFields@Home]] algebraic number field tables
|-
| * [[YAFU]] yet another factorisation utility
| * [[LODA]] integer sequence program synthesis
|-
| * [[Moo! Wrapper]] distributed.net RC5-72 wrapper
| * [[ODLK]] orthogonal diagonal Latin squares
|-
| * [[ODLK1]] ODLK variant 1
| * [[ODLK2025]] ODLK 2025 campaign
|-
| * [[Rakesearch]] Latin square searches
|
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-green mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🌍 Climate, Environment & Earth Sciences</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[Climateprediction.net|climate''prediction''.net]] global climate ensemble modelling
| * [[Asteroids@home]] asteroid orbit determination
|-
| * [[Radioactive@home]] background radiation monitoring
|
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-amber mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🤖 Artificial Intelligence, Computing & Infrastructure</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[BOINC Alpha Test]] test new versions of the BOINC client software on a wide range of hardware and operating systems
| * [[BOINC Central]] BOINC infrastructure project
|-
| * [[IThena.Computational]] computational measurement network
| * [[IThena.Measurements]] network performance metrics
|-
|* [[Yoyo@home]] scientific and mathematical subprojects
|* [[WUProp@Home]] work unit propagation statistics
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-coral mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🧪 Physics, Chemistry & Materials Science</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[USPEX@HOME]] crystal structure prediction
| * [[World Community Grid]] multi-domain humanitarian research
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-gray mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🕹️ Community, Recreation & Miscellaneous</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[Minecraft@Home]] Minecraft world-seed research
| * [[PRIVATE GFN SERVER]] private Generalized Fermat Number server
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-pink mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🧫 Test & Development Projects</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
<div class="bs-group-note">These projects serve as active testing and development platforms for BOINC software and infrastructure rather than primary research goals.</div>
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| colspan="2" | * [[Cpdnboinc dev]] cpdn development and testing server
|}
</div>
</div>

=== ✦ Paused BOINC projects ===

<div class="bs-group bs-group-amber mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">⏯ Paused projects (expand)</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
<div class="bs-group-note">These projects are temporarily suspended but have not formally closed. Work may resume in future.</div>
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[DENIS@home]] cardiac electrophysiology research, currently paused
|
|}
<div class="bs-group-footer">''See the [[BOINC projects|master BOINC projects table]] for the most current status of all projects.''</div>
</div>
</div>

=== ✦ Retired & inactive BOINC projects ===

<div class="bs-group bs-group-gray mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">⏸ Retired projects (expand)</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
<div class="bs-group-note">These projects have suspended operations or are no longer accepting new work units. Their pages are preserved here for historical reference and research continuity.</div>
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[ABC@home]] searched for abc-triples related to the abc conjecture in number theory
| * [[Albert@Home]] developement site for Einstein@Home
|-
|* [[Amicable Numbers]] amicable pair enumeration
|* [[AQUA@home]] model the performance of superconducting adiabatic quantum computers
|-
| * [[Axiom Distributed AI]] distributed AI model training
| * [[BlackHoles@Home]] black hole binary merger waveforms
|-
|* [[Big and Ugly Rendering Project]] distributed video rendering
|* [[BOINC@TACC]] routes computing jobs from TACC supercomputers to volunteer devices
|-
|* [[CAS@home]] hosted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, best known for running the TreeThreader protein structure
|* [[CAS@home]] hosted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, best known for running the TreeThreader protein structure
|-
|* [[BRaTS@Home]] perform gravitational lensing ray-tracing simulations of galaxy clusters
|* [[Chess@Home]] build a labeled dataset intended for training a machine-learned classifier of winning position
|-
|* [[CAS@home|Cels@Home]] hosted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, best known for running the TreeThreader protein structure
|* [[Collatz Conjecture]] testing the 3x+1 conjecture
|-
| * [[Cosmology@Home]] astronomical research
| * [[Distributed Hardware Evolution Project]] synthesize self-checking digital hardware circuits
|-
| * [[Data freezer]] long-term data archival research
| * [[DepSpid]] build a database of dependency relationships between web servers and domain
|-
|* [[Docking@Home]] CHARMM-based protein-ligand docking simulations to search for new pharmaceutical drugs
|* [[EDGeS@Home]] bridged desktop grids and service grids to support scientific applications
|-
|* [[eOn]] simulate long timescale evolution of atomic scale systems in chemistry and materials science
|* [[Enigma@Home]] break unsolved German Kriegsmarine Enigma M4 radio messages from the Second World War
|-
|* [[FreeHAL@home]] generate and convert semantic networks for the self-learning chatbot FreeHAL
|
|-
|* [[GoofyxGrid@Home NCI]] non-covalent interaction analysis
|* [[HashClash]] search for MD5 and SHA-1 hash collisions, culminating in the 2008 rogue certificate authority attack
|-
|* [[GoofyxGrid@Home NCI|Ibercivis]] simulations in nuclear fusion, protein docking, materials science, and number theory
|* [[Kryptos@Home]] attempt to decrypt K4, the unsolved fourth passage of the Kryptos sculpture at CIA headquarters
|-
|* [[Leiden Classical]] submit personal classical mechanics and molecular dynamics simulations
|* [[NanoHive@Home]] used the NanoHive-1 nanospace simulator to search for failure modes in tooltips
|-
|* [[Malariacontrol.net]] simulate the transmission dynamics and health effects of malaria
|* [[MindModeling@Home]] computational cognitive modeling to study human performance and learning
|-
| * [[nanoHUB@Home]] nanotechnology simulation
| * [[Parlea]] RNA 3D structure motif analysis
|-
|* [[POEM@HOME]] all-atom free-energy simulations to predict protein structure and folding
|* [[proteins@home]] tackled the inverse protein folding problem
|-
| * [[Predictor@home]] protein folding and the first BOINC project
| * [[Pirates@Home]] help to develop Einstein@Home screensaver and test BOINC software
|-
| [[Quake-Catcher Network|* Quake-Catcher Network]] used accelerometers in laptops and USB sensors to build an earthquake detection network
| * [[QMC@Home]] develop and apply Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods for use in quantum chemistry
|-
|* [[QuChemPedIA@home]] run density functional theory (DFT) quantum chemistry calculations
|* [[Rectilinear Crossing Number Project]] determine the rectilinear crossing number of the complete graph K18
|-
| * [[RALPH@home]] developement site for Rosetta@home
| * [[Ramanujan Machine]] conjectured mathematical identities
|-
| * [[RNA World (beta)]] RNA folding and molecular evolution
| * [[SETI@home]] search for extraterrestrial intelligence
|-
|* [[SAT@home]] solve hard instances of the Boolean satisfiability problem
|* [[SciLINC]] indexed digitized botanical literature
|-
|* [[SIMAP]] pre-calculated protein sequence similarities for a database used by bioinformaticians
|
|-
|* [[Spinhenge@home]] simulating spin dynamics in nanoscale molecular magnets
|* [[SZTAKI Desktop Grid]] MTA SZTAKI in Budapest, running mathematics, physics, and digital humanities applications
|-
|* [[SPT]] Symmetric Prime Tuples
|* [[Taiwan Desktop Grid]] bridging Taiwanese volunteer computers to European e-Science service grid infrastructure
|-
|* [[TANPAKU]] used a Brownian dynamics method to study protein folding
|* [[Proteins@home|T.Brada Experimental Grid]] the PADLS Total subproject aimed to find new pseudo-associative DLS
|-
|* [[The Lattice Project]] Condor and PBS clusters, chiefly supporting phylogenetic analysis with the GARLI software
|* [[theSkyNet POGS]] measure the resolved stellar mass, star formation rate and dust content of nearby galaxies
|-
|* [[MLC@Home]] understanding and interpreting complex machine learning models
|* [[Universe@Home]] stellar evolution modelling
|-
| * [[Virtual Prairie]] simulations of clonal plant growth to inform the ecological design of sustainable prairie ecosystems
| * [[WEP-M+2 Project]] mersenne-related prime search
|-
|
|* [[uFluids@Home]] support research into satellite propellant management and lab-on-a-chip devices
|}
<div class="bs-group-footer">''See the [[BOINC projects|master BOINC projects table]] for definitive active/inactive status on all documented projects.''</div>
</div>
</div>


== How to participate in BOINC projects ==

<div class="bs-steps">
<div class="bs-step bs-step-purple">
<div class="bs-step-title">1. Download BOINC</div>
<div class="bs-step-body">Get the free [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php BOINC client]. Available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android.</div>
</div>
<div class="bs-step bs-step-teal">
<div class="bs-step-title">2. Choose a project</div>
<div class="bs-step-body">Browse the [[BOINC projects|complete BOINC projects list]] on this wiki. Filter by research field, platform support, or GPU availability.</div>
</div>
<div class="bs-step bs-step-blue">
<div class="bs-step-title">3. Attach & contribute</div>
<div class="bs-step-body">Attach via the BOINC client, and your idle computer begins processing work units automatically.</div>
</div>
</div>


== About this wiki ==

This ''BOINC projects'' MediaWiki is researched, written, and maintained by [https://boincsynergy.ca/ BOINC Synergy] — a volunteer initiative dedicated to documenting the global BOINC ecosystem. The [[BOINC projects|projects table]] is considered the flagship resource: a single, structured, continuously-updated registry of every known BOINC project, past and present.

Corrections, additions, and edits are welcome. If you know of a BOINC project not yet listed, please use the talk page or contact [https://boincsynergy.ca/ BOINC Synergy] directly.

<div class="bs-footer-bar">
<small>'''''BOINC projects''''' MediaWiki is developed by [https://boincsynergy.ca/ BOINC Synergy]  ·  Content reflects the state of the BOINC ecosystem as of {{CURRENTYEAR}}  ·  [[BOINC projects|Full projects table →]]</small>
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[[Category:BOINC projects]]
[[Category:Volunteer computing]]
[[Category:Distributed computing]]

BOINC projects

2026-08-24T13:53:25Z

Al Piskun: add BRaTS@Home and FreeHAL@home

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[[File:Boinc-projects-seo.png|right|frameless|200x200px]]This is a comprehensive and continually updating List of All [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php BOINC projects]

'''''Q - What is a BOINC project?'''''

'''''A - BOINC project definition:''''' A [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/ BOINC] project is a website and server set up by an individual or group to distribute applications (software which is a set of instructions for executing tasks in a computing device) to BOINC volunteer computing devices that are deliberately attached to receive, process and return the results of the application for further research.
====Active BOINC Projects====

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 80%;"
|-
!Project Name
!Publications
!Launched
!Operating System
!GPU App
!Requires
!Screen saver
!Sponsor
!Category
!BOINC Radio
!Research Focus

|-
| [http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/ Asteroids@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Asteroids@home 10]
| 2012-06-18
| [https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS, Free BSD, Android]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU NVIDIA
| {{No}}
|
| Astronomical Institute, Charles University, Prague
| Astronomy
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/asteroids-home/id1492837872?i=1000467560195 Listen]
| Derive shapes and spin for a significant part of the asteroid population. [[Asteroids@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/central/ BOINC Central]
|
| 2023-02-04
|
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, BUDA
|
| University of California, Berkeley
| Multiple applications
|
| Gives scientists access to the power of volunteer computing without having to operate a BOINC project. [[BOINC Central|See more...]]

|-
| [https://www.cpdn.org/cpdnboinc/ climate''prediction''.net]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Climateprediction.net 152]
| 2003-12-09
| [https://www.cpdn.org/cpdnboinc/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| [https://youtu.be/Mae7JfL1giE view]
| Oxford University
| Climate study
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/climate-prediction-dot-net/id1492837872?i=1000465982378 Listen]
| Analyse ways to improve climate prediction models. [[Climateprediction.net|See more...]]

|-
| [https://dev.cpdn.org/ cpdnboinc dev]
|
|
| [https://dev.cpdn.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Oxford University
| Software testing
|
| Test project for [[Climateprediction.net|climate''prediction''.net]]. [[Cpdnboinc dev|See more...]]

|-
| [https://denis.usj.es/denisathome/ DENIS@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#DENIS@home 6]
| 2015-03-16
| [https://480denis.usj.es/denisathome/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Universidad San Jorge, Zaragoza, Spain
| Medical physiology
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boinc-radio-project-brief-denis-home/id1492837872?i=1000576898376 Listen]
| Cardiac electrophysiological simulations, studying the electrical activity of the heart. [[DENIS@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://einsteinathome.org/ Einstein@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Einstein@Home 42]
| 2005-02-19
| [https://einsteinathome.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS, Android]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
| [https://youtu.be/kGWsTnmk1lw view]
| University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Max Planck Institute
| Astrophysics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/einstein-home/id1492837872?i=1000470993092 Listen]
| Search for pulsars using radio signals and gravitational wave data. [[Einstein@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [http://gaiaathome.eu/gaiaathome/ Gaia@home]
|
| 2019-08-21
| [http://150.254.66.104/gaiaathome/apps.php Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Astronomical Observatory Institute, Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
| Astronomy
|
| Provide additional computing power to scientists studying the Gaia spacecraft data releases. [[Gaia@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://gerasim.boinc.ru/ Gerasim@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Publications_by_BOINC_projects#Gerasim.40home 9]
| 2007-02-10
| [https://gerasim.boinc.ru/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
| [https://youtu.be/cw7yBZ_KGGA view]
| Southwest State University (Russia)
| Multiple applications
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gerasim/id1492837872?i=1000515709940 Listen]
| Research in discrete mathematics and logic control systems. [[Gerasim@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090210175851/http://www.ps3grid.net/ PS3GRID] became [https://gpugrid.net/gpugrid/ GPUGRID]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#GPUGrid.net 53]
| 2007-12-05
| [https://www.gpugrid.net/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: cyan; color: black;" | GPU only NVIDIA
| {{No}}
|
| Barcelona Biomedical Research Park
| Molecular biology
|
| Perform full-atom molecular simulations of proteins on Nvidia GPUs for biomedical research. [[GPUGRID|See more...]]

|-
| [https://comp.ithena.net/usr/ iThena.Computational]
|
| [https://comp.ithena.net/usr/forum_thread.php?id=4 2021-10-31]
| [https://comp.ithena.net/usr/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Cyber-Complex Foundation
| Computer science
| See below
| A computational platform for analysis based on data extracted from iThena.Measurements project applications. [[IThena.Computational|See more...]]

|-
| [https://root.ithena.net/usr/ iThena.Measurements]
|
| [https://root.ithena.net/usr/forum_thread.php?id=5#17 2019-09-25]
| [https://einsteinathome.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Cyber-Complex Foundation
| Computer science
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boinc-radio-project-brief-ithena/id1492837872?i=1000580505988 Listen]
| Generate a dynamic topological model of the Internet, based on measurements from distributed devices. [[IThena.Measurements|See more...]]

|-
| [https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/ LHC@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#LHC@home 71]
| 2004-01-09
| [https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS, Free BSD, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, BUDA
| [https://youtu.be/0qbLDbsNO3w view]
| CERN
| Physics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lhc-home/id1492837872?i=1000477722614 Listen]
| Helping physicists compare theory with experiment, in the search for new fundamental particles and answers to questions about the Universe. [[LHC@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/ LHCathome-dev]
|
| 2014-08-01
| [https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS, Free BSD, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, BUDA
|
| CERN
| Software testing
|
| A BOINC server for LHC@home development.

|-
| [https://boinc.loda-lang.org/loda/ LODA]
|
| 2022-05-13
| [https://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, git
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boinc-radio-project-brief-loda-18-6-2022/id1492837872?i=1000570153809 Listen]
| Finds new formulas and more efficient algorithms for a wide range of non-trivial integer sequences. [[LODA|See more...]]

|-
| [https://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/ MilkyWay@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Milkyway@home 35]
| 2007-07-07
| [https://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
| Astronomy
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/milkyway-home/id1492837872?i=1000468872520 Listen]
| Create a highly accurate three-dimensional model of the Milky Way galaxy using data collected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. [[MilkyWay@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://minecraftathome.com/minecrafthome/ Minecraft@Home]
|
| 2020-06-24
| [https://comp.ithena.net/usr/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Games
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/minecraft-home/id1492837872?i=1000491697377 Listen]
| Studies questions related to Minecraft, such as the properties of worlds that can be generated from different random seeds. [[Minecraft@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://moowrap.net/ Moo! Wrapper]
|
| 2011-02-05
| [https://moowrap.net/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Cryptography
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZmTZJBh_D0 Watch]
| Combines BOINC with distributed.net to try to break the RC5 cipher. [[Moo! Wrapper|See more...]]

|-
| [https://escatter11.fullerton.edu/nfs/ NFS@Home]
|
| 2009-09-05
| [https://escatter11.fullerton.edu/nfs/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS, Free BSD]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| California State University, Fullerton
| Integer factorization
|
| Performs parts of the number field sieve in the factorization of large integers. [[NFS@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://numberfields.asu.edu/NumberFields/ NumberFields@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#NumberFields@Home 3]
| 2011-08-12
| [https://numberfields.asu.edu/NumberFields/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Arizona State University's School of Mathematics
| Number theory
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/project-brief-numberfields-home-15-05-2021/id1492837872?i=1000570068591 Listen]
| Search for number fields with special properties to assist with the formulation of mathematical conjectures. [[NumberFields@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.progger.info/odlk/ ODLK]
|
| 2017-04-06
| [https://boinc.progger.info/odlk/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS, Free BSD]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| Compile a database of canonical forms of 10th order diagonal Latin squares (DLS) with orthogonal diagonal Latin squares (ODLS). [[ODLK|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.multi-pool.info/latinsquares/ ODLK1]
|
| 2017-10-22
| [https://boinc.multi-pool.info/latinsquares/apps.php Windows, Linux, Free BSD]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| Generates a database of canonical forms (CF) of diagonal Latin squares (DLS) of order 10 having orthogonal diagonal Latin squares (ODLS). [[ODLK1|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.mak.termit.me/odlk2025/ ODLK2025]
|
| 2024-12-18
| [https://boinc.mak.termit.me/odlk2025/apps.php Windows]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| Find canonical forms of diagonal Latin squares of order 10 with orthogonal diagonal Latin squares, extending the search beyond the ranges covered by ODLK and ODLK1. [[ODLK2025|See more...]]

|-
| [https://www.primegrid.com/ PrimeGrid]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#PrimeGrid 3]
| 2005-06-12
| [https://www.primegrid.com/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
| [https://youtu.be/rhZxqi9x7rI view]
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| Search for world record sized prime numbers, search for particular types of primes such as 321 primes, Cullen-Woodall primes, Proth prime, prime Sierpinski numbers, and Sophie Germain primes. Subprojects also include Seventeen or Bust, and the Riesel problem. [[PrimeGrid|See more...]]

|-
| [https://dev.primegrid.com/ PrimeGrid dev]
|
| 2007-06-06
| [https://dev.primegrid.com/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Software testing
|
| Test project for PrimeGrid.

|-
| [http://boincvm.proxyma.ru:30080/test4vm/ PRIVATE GFN SERVER]
|
| 2016-04-20
| [http://boincvm.proxyma.ru:30080/test4vm/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| This is a PRIVATE SERVER to coordinate distribution of mathematical work on GFN. The server is open for everybody, but some BOINC experience is recommended. [[PRIVATE GFN SERVER|See more...]]

|-
| [http://radioactiveathome.org/boinc/ Radioactive@home]
|
| 2011-10-21
| [http://radioactiveathome.org/boinc/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, Sensor
|
| Independent
| Physics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radioactive-home/id1492837872?i=1000463072395 Listen]
| Real-time radiation monitoring, detected by gamma sensors connected to volunteer computers. [[Radioactive@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://rake.boincfast.ru/rakesearch/ RakeSearch]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Rakesearch 4]
| 2017-08-11
| [https://rake.boincfast.ru/rakesearch/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rakesearch/id1492837872?i=1000496377228 Listen]
| Implement an application that picks up separate pairs of mutually orthogonal DLSs, which allows reconstructing the full graphs of their orthogonality. [[Rakesearch|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/ Rosetta@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Rosetta@home 234]
| 2005-10-06
| [https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, macOS, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| [https://youtu.be/6o5yBfG_vss view]
| University of Washington
| Molecular biology
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rosetta-home/id1492837872?i=1000472931628 Listen]
| Protein structure prediction for disease research. [[Rosetta@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://www.sidock.si/sidock SiDock@home]
|
| 2020-12-19
| [https://www.sidock.si/sidock/apps.php Windows, Linux+OpenWrt, ARM, macOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Russian Academy of Sciences
| Molecular biology
|
| Independent decentralized drug design by volunteer computing. [[SiDock@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://spaciousathome.eu/spaciousathome/ SPACIOUS@home]
|
| 2024-01-01
| [https://spaciousathome.eu/spaciousathome/apps.php Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| European Union
| Astrophysics
|
| Contribute to cutting-edge astronomy by sharing your idle computing time with professional astronomers. Space surveys such as the European Space Agency's Gaia telescope are generating large datasets of unprecedented high quality data. Astronomers need a huge amount of CPU power to model and analyse the data. [[SPACIOUS@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://srbase.my-firewall.org/sr5/ SRBase]
|
| 2013-01-02
| [https://srbase.my-firewall.org/sr5/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| Trying to solve Sierpinski / Riesel Bases up to 1030. [[SRBase|See more...]]

|-
| [https://gene.disi.unitn.it/test/ TN-Grid]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#TN-Grid 8]
| 2014-05-01
| [https://gene.disi.unitn.it/test/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, macOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Research Area of Trento of the National Research Council of Italy, University of Trento
| Genetics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tn-grid/id1492837872?i=1000482396321 Listen]
| ''Gene@home'' is a scientific project belonging to the infrastructure ''TrentoGrid''. It aims to expand networks of genes. [[TN-Grid|See more...]]

|-
| [https://uspex-at-home.ru/prediction/ USPEX@HOME]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#USPEX@HOME 2]
| 2017-04 (Restart 2022-10-23)
| [https://uspex-at-home.ru/prediction/apps.php Windows, Linux, macOS]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, Vbox
|
| [https://uspex-team.org/en uspex-team.org]
|
|
| Research in the field of computational materials design. [[USPEX@HOME|See more...]]

|-
| [https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ World Community Grid]
| [https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/news.s?filterCategory=1_0&filterTags=14&sortBy=&pageNum=1 77]
| 2004-11-16
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php Windows, Linux, ARM, macOS, Android]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
| [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLblxpyGay1Q4PwdIlLTxko7jm9Jedv1ei view]
| Krembil Research Institute
| Multiple applications
|
| Disease research, various worldwide humanitarian problems. Subprojects include(d) GO Fight Against Malaria, Drug Search for Leishmaniasis, Computing for Clean Water, Clean Energy Project, Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together, Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy, Help Fight Childhood Cancer, Help Conquer Cancer, Mapping Cancer Markers, Human Proteome Folding Project, FightAIDS@Home, Uncovering Genome Mysteries, Let's outsmart Ebola together, Help Stop TB, OpenZika, Smash Childhood Cancer, Open Pandemics - COVID-19. [[World Community Grid|See more...]]

|-
| [https://wuprop.boinc-af.org/ WUProp@Home]
|
| 2010-03-27
| [https://wuprop.boinc-af.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Statistics
|
| Collect various statistics about other BOINC projects. [[WUProp@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://yafu.myfirewall.org/yafu YAFU]
|
| 2011-09-01
| [https://yafu.myfirewall.org/yafu/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| [https://youtu.be/vEqImf6mtgE view]
| Independent
| Software testing, Mathematics
|
| Test BOINC server software, integer factorization. [[YAFU|See more...]]

|-
| [https://www.rechenkraft.net/yoyo/ yoyo@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Yoyo@home 9]
| 2007-07-19
| [https://www.rechenkraft.net/yoyo/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, macOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLblxpyGay1Q4C8qBmkKkI0MpKMTof5Dhf view]
| Independent
| Mathematics, physics, evolution
|
| Data structure analysis to help prove a conjecture, elliptic curve factorization, pion creation in a particle accelerator, evolution research, find the shortest optimal Golomb ruler of length 28. [[Yoyo@home|See more...]]
|}

==== Private BOINC Projects====

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 80%;"
|-
!Project Name
!Publications
!Launched
!Operating System
!GPU App
!Requires
!Screen saver
!Sponsor
!Category
!BOINC Radio
!Research Focus

|-
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/alpha/ BOINC Alpha Test]
|
| 2004-02-16
|
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/9rRWAgpfMzg view]
| University of California, Berkeley
| Software testing
|
| BOINC Alpha Test allows volunteers to test new versions of BOINC client software on a wide range of computers, thereby increasing the stability and reliability of the software versions released to the public. [[BOINC Alpha Test|See more...]]

|-
| [http://mq232-80.ararangua.ufsc.br/boincufscara/ AraBOINC]
|
| 2012
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/https://boinc.moisescardona.me/ Distributed Data and Media Processing]
|
| 2018
|
|
|
|
| Independent
| Data processing
|
| A private data processing project where tasks like data compression and audio encoding are performed. The idea is to do data tasks in the background and in a distributed fashion.

|-
| [https://bioinfo.lifl.fr/yass/iedera_dominance/index_additional.html iedera]
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Independent
| Botany
|
| A program to select and design ''subset seed'' and ''vectorized subset seed'' patterns.

|-
| [http://boinc.mmon.co/boincserver/ Common Compute]
|
| 2024-05
|
|
|
|
| Independent
|
|
| Software testing.

|-
| [https://templet.ssau.ru/ Templet Project]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Templet 1]
|
|
|
|
|
| Samara National Research University
| Education
|
| Teach parallel and distributed programming to undergraduate and graduate students of Samara National Research University.
|}

====Completed BOINC Projects ====

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 80%;"
|-
!Project Name
!Publications
!Launched / Completed
!Operating System
!GPU App
!Requires
!Screen saver
!Sponsor
!Category
!BOINC Radio
!Research Focus

|-
| [https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ SETI@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#SETI@home 12]
| 1999-05
| [https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS, Solaris, Other]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
|
| [https://youtu.be/IfeGNAZY92k view] and [https://youtu.be/5r-t8WQicqE view]
| University of California, Berkeley
| Astronomy
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tribute-to-seti-home-part-1/id1492837872?i=1000468003990 Part 1] of three and [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tribute-to-seti-home-part-2-the-history-of-seti-home/id1492837872?i=1000468428937 Part 2]
| In 1995, David Gedye proposed doing radio SETI using a virtual supercomputer composed of large numbers of Internet-connected computers, and he organized the SETI@home project to explore this. The search for extraterrestrial life by analyzing radio frequencies emanating from space. [[SETI@home|See more...]]

|-
| [http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/ SETI@home Beta]
|
| 2006-01-12
| [https://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS, Solaris, Other]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
|
| [https://youtu.be/buLKZnyzOdI view]
| University of California, Berkeley
| Software testing
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rosetta-home-covid19-and-tribute-to-seti-home-part-3/id1492837872?i=1000469085793 Part 3]
| Test project for SETI@home.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20040615010643/http://predictor.scripps.edu/ Predictor@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Predictor@Home 5]
| 2004-05-04
| WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS X (Not Intel)
|
|
|
| The Scripps Research Institute
|
|
| A world-community experiment and effort to use distributed world-wide-web volunteer resources to assemble a supercomputer able to ''predict protein structure from protein sequence''. Our work is aimed at testing and evaluating new algorithms and methods of protein structure prediction in the context of the Sixth Biannual [https://web.archive.org/web/20040610024610/http://predictioncenter.llnl.gov/casp6/Casp6.html CASP] (Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction) experiment. [[Predictor@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://alifeathome.dyndns.org/ ALife@Home]
|
| 2004-07-19
| WinXP-98
|
|
|
|
| Artificial intelligence
| [https://www.youtube.com/live/zstEf1dTm2I?feature=share Watch]
| An effort to conduct scientific experiments regarding neural networks and evolution on the computers of volunteers.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20040829080146/http://pirates.vassar.edu:80/ Pirates@HomeMission1] [https://web.archive.org/web/20060117061652/http://pirates.spy-hill.net/ Pirates@Home] [http://primates.spy-hill.net/ Primates@Home]
|
| 2004 / 2006 / 2008-04-01
| Windows, Linux, MacOS
|
|
| [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLblxpyGay1Q4849w-GB4X7g07FNXTeMBb view]
| Vassar College / Independent / Independent
| Software testing
| [https://www.youtube.com/live/qr-n6FziUeo?feature=share Watch]
| Pirates@Home Mission 1 helped to develop the Einstein@Home screensaver. Pirates@Home tested BOINC's forum software for possible use by ''[http://i2u2.spy-hill.net/ Interactions in Understanding the Universe]''. Primates@Home tested the reaction of [https://web.archive.org/web/20060117061652/http://pirates.spy-hill.net/ Pirates@Home] users to a disturbance in their accustomed environment. [[Pirates@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060215003906/http://autotranslator.net:80/ translator@home]
|
| 2005-03-23
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| translator@home was in the process of creating new software linked to BOINC but never developed.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20051027013808/http://public.shoft.net/ Shoft@Home]
|
| 2005
|  
|
|
|
| Independent
|
|
|

|-
| [http://boinctest.axpr.net/ Break the Forum!]
|
| 2005
|  
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
| Test BOINC forum software.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://fsmtdist.ist.tu-graz.ac.at/dist/ dIST]
|
| 2005
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| A Cape4 project.

|-
| [http://fsmtdist.ist.tu-graz.ac.at/cape4/index.php cape4]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Another Cape4 project.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://grid-devel3.rocksclusters.org/boinc_gamess/ BOINC GAMESS]
|
| 2005
|  
|
|
|
| Independent
|
|
| Project never overcame '''Warning''': mysql_pconnect(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060103125636/http://bifi.unizar.es/research/computing/bah/ BIFI@home]
|
| {{No}}
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Solve calculations that contribute to the research carried out at the Institute of Biocomputing and Physics of Complex Systems at the University of Zaragoza (BIFI).

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.azurite.co.uk/ IMP]
|
| 2005
|  
|
|
|
| The IMP Team
| Software testing
|
| Internet Movie Project. Test Project copyright © 2005 The IMP Team.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://lhcathome-alpha.cern.ch/ LHC@home Alpha]
|
| 2005
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
| Test Project for LHC@home.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071016235617/http://boinc.banaan.org:80/hashclash/ HashClash]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#HashClash 11]
| 2005-11-24
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
|
|
|
| searched for MD5 and SHA-1 hash collisions, culminating in the 2008 rogue certificate authority attack. [[HashClash|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060703095044/http://issofty17.is.noda.tus.ac.jp/index_E.php TANPAKU]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#TANPAKU 2]
| 2005-08-02
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
|
| Tokyo University of Science
|
|
| Used a Brownian dynamics method to study protein folding. [[TANPAKU|See more...]]

|-
| [http://slawoo.homelinux.org/ Nagrzewanie stali@HOME]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://lattice.umiacs.umd.edu/boinc_public_oldschool/ The Lattice Project-original]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#The 16]
| 2006
| WinXP-98
|
|
|
| University of Maryland, College Park
|
|
| Condor and PBS clusters through the Globus Toolkit, chiefly supporting phylogenetic analysis with the GARLI software. [[The Lattice Project|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060916002226/http://fah-boinc.stanford.edu/ Folding@home]
|
| 2006
| WinXP
|
|
|
| Stanford University
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060901142513/http://research.utep.edu/Default.aspx?alias=research.utep.edu/daplds Docking@Home-utep]
|
| {{No}}
|  
|
|
|
| University of Texas at El Paso
|
|
| The goals of the project are to explore the multi-scale nature of algorithmic adaptations in protein-ligand docking and to develop cyber infrastructures based on computational methods and models that efficiently accommodate these adaptations.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://ecc.crypto.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ ECDLP PROJECT]
|
| 2006
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070326165532/http://test.ntbz.com:80/ ntbz Test Project]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://debian.povaddict.com.ar/pov/ Renderfarm]
|
| 2006-08-10
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Another URL for the project: http://renderfarm.povaddict.com.ar/

|-
| [https://www.boincstats.com/stats/33/project/detail/ RenderFarm@Home]
|
| 2006-08-23
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://hashbreaker.com:8700/tmrldrtg/ Distributed Rainbow Table Generator]
|
| 2006
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
| The Minouche Research Laboratories
|
|
| The '''Distributed Rainbow Table Generator''' project of '''The Minouche Research Laboratories'''; a community project dedicated to large scale distributed calculation of huge Rainbow Tables.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://bebeer.dyndns.org:2222/bebeer/ Belgian Beer@Home]
|
| 2006-12-08
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070630030320/http://www.boinc.be/vbulletin BOINC.BE]
|
|
| An effort of people from the [https://web.archive.org/web/20070630030320/http://www.boinc.be/vbulletin BOINC.BE] team.

|-
| [http://www.enigmaathome.net/ Enigma@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Enigma@Home 2]
| 2007-08-24
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| An attempt to break 3 original Enigma messages that were intercepted in 1942. [[Enigma@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080511223553/http://impfarm.imp.org/boinc/ Internet Movie Project]
|
| 2007-07-15
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080724214454/http://impfarm.imp.org/boinc/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
| Setting up a renderfarm to power the [https://web.archive.org/web/20080511223553/http://www.imp.org/ Internet Movie Project]. Note that this project will never export credit stats.

|-
| [http://predictor.chem.lsa.umich.edu/pah/ Predictor@home Alpha]
|
| 2007 / 2009
|
|
|
|
| The Scripps Research Institute
|
|
| Test project for Predictor@home.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071001120117/http://zivis.bifi.unizar.es:80/ Zivis Superordenador Ciudadano]
|
| 2007
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070823192420/http://zivis.bifi.unizar.es/apps.php WinXP, Linux]
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://zebrabrute.ath.cx/zebrabrute/ Zebra RSA Brutforce]
|
| 2007
| WinXP-98
|
|
|
| Darkscout - a Computer Science student.
|
|
| The Project originates from an idea in a forum. An attempt to break the RSA-key for the checksum of RSA-Smart card by Brute-force search.

|-
| [http://web.archive.org/web/20090306065822/http://dist2.ist.tugraz.at/sudoku/ Sudoku project]
|
| 2007-08-27
|
|
|
|
| Graz, University of Technology
|
|
| Uses Internet-connected computers to search for the smallest possible start configuration of Sudoku.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071128150637/http://eternity2.net:80/ Eternity2.net]
|
| 2007
|  
|
|
|
| Dave Clark, Auckland
|
|
| A project to try to solve the Eternity II puzzle™.

|-
| [http://roc.cs.berkeley.edu/projects/boinc/index.html ROC]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
| University of California, Berkeley
|
|
|

|-
| [http://neuron.mine.nu/neuron/ Project Neuron]
|
| 2007-11-25
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
| Independent
|
|
| Provide a trial BOINC environment in which a set of dummy applications will run. The purpose of this being to record, observe and understand BOINC activity and data with a view to developing metrics that will establish or otherwise the quality/reliability/dependability of particular BOINC projects.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071020023328/http://www.gridfinity.com:80/gridfinity/ Gridfinity]
|
| 2007
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://www.scilinc.org/SciLINC/ SciLINC]
|
| 2007-03-22
2009
| WinXP-98
|
|
|
| Missouri Botanical Garden
|
|
| Indexed digitized botanical literature. [[SciLINC|See more...]]

|-
| [http://isaac.ssl.berkeley.edu/sleeper/ Sleeper]
|
| 2007-03
|
|
|
|
| University of California, Berkeley
|
|
| Test project for BOINC Alpha Test.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080901231107/http://www.init1.net:80/pPotTables/ pPot Tables]
|
| 2008
|  
|
|
|
| Independent
|
|
| Computing relative hand strength and 1-card lookahead positive potential for all possible flop, turn and hole card combinations for 2 to 10 players in Texas hold 'em.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20121205084825/http://www.malariacontrol.net/ malariacontrol.net]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Malariacontrol.net 26]
| 2006-03-01
2016-06-21
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/4GAYKw5SakQ view]
|
|
|
| A project with an application that makes use of network computing for stochastic modelling of the clinical epidemiology and natural history of Plasmodium falciparum malaria. [[Malariacontrol.net|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20061206015653/http://biology.polytechnique.fr/proteinsathome/ proteins@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Proteins@home 4]
| 2006-09-15
| WinXP
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/aM6kiaM228Y view]
|
|
|
| A large-scale Protein structure prediction project to contribute to a better understanding of many diseases and pathologies, and to progress in both Medicine and Technology. [[Proteins@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080517170329/http://www.depspid.net:80/ DepSpid]
|
| 2007
| WinXP-98
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Every DepSpid task is processed in two phases: a networking phase (Phase One) in which the DepSpid spider scans a set of web pages and stores results in a temporary database; and a computational phase (Phase Two) which uses the collected data to calculate dependencies between all pages. [[DepSpid|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://bob.myisland.as/tsp/ Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP)]
|
| 2007
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
|
|
|
|
| The Travelling salesman problem (TSP): for a given set of cities, visit each city once and only once and minimize the distance you travel.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060412015807/http://xw01.lri.fr:4320/ XtremLab]
|
| 2005
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Measuring the free resources available on personal computers involved in large-scale distributed computing.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060903103622/http://bbc.cpdn.org/ BBC Climate Change Experiment]
|
|
| WinXP, Linux
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|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090107014341/http://allprojectstats.com/collatz/ 3x+1@home]
|
| 2008-02-18
|  
|
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|
|
|
| A non-profit project trying to find high 3x+1 conjecture stopping times. The 3x+1 conjecture is also known as the Collatz conjecture.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://edges-local-devbnc-srv.ceta-ciemat.es/appexample/ Uppercase Application]
|
| 2008
|  
|
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|
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [http://193.144.240.190/nnsimu/ NNSIMU Project]
|
|
|  
|
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|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090204215407/http://boinc.unex.es/extremadurathome/ Extremadura@Home]
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|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090528015437/http://boinc.isa.ru:80/russiadg/ Russian Desktop Grid]
|
| 2009
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110801221116/http://falua.cesfelipesegundo.com/VRS/ Virus Respiratorio Sincitial (VRS)]
| [https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0895717710005595 1]
| 2010
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| VRS (from the Spanish Virus Respiratorio Sincitial) is a BOINC-based project which main aim is to simulate the behaviour of the human Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV).

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20081004231715/http://cels-at-home-dev.dyndns.org:80/test2/ <nowiki>Cels@Home [Second] Test Project</nowiki>]
|
|
|  
|
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|
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|
|
| Research in cell adhesion.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090925001717/http://boinc.vanderbilt.edu:80/test_setup Test Setup Project]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
| Vanderbilt
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://grid.ncssm.edu/ncssm_grid/ NCSSM Grid Computing Project]
|
| 2007-04-04
|  
|
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|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20051226054712/http://www.cellcomputing.net/simple/ Cell Computing]
|
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|  
|
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|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://arcoboinc.unex.es/rnd/ RND@home]
|
| 2007
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Radio Network Design (RND) is a telecommunication problem which consists in covering a geographic area with radio signal using the fewer number of transmitters that cover the maximum area.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://edges-local-testbnc-srv.ceta-ciemat.es/localtest EDGeS Local Test]
|
| 2007
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://sat.math.umu.se/sat/ Satisfaction@Home]
|
| 2007
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
|
|
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|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070505234056/http://www.nanohive-1.org:80/atHome/ NanoHive@Home]
| [http://openurl.ingenta.com/content/xref?genre=article&issn=1546-1955&volume=8&issue=7&spage=1139 1]
|
| WinXP
|
|
|
| Nanorex, Inc.
|
|
| Used the NanoHive-1 nanospace simulator to search for failure modes in diamondoid mechanosynthesis tooltips. [[NanoHive@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080711074723/http://boinc.iaik.tugraz.at:80/sha1_coll_search SHA 1 Collision Search Graz]
|
| 2007-08-08
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
| Graz University of Technology
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in cryptanalysis.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://dist2.ist.tugraz.at/sudoku/ Project Sudoku]
|
| 2007-08-27
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080307034907/http://dist2.ist.tugraz.at/sudoku/apps.php WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS]
|
|
|
| Graz University of Technology
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to search for the smallest possible start configuration of Sudoku.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071005080915/http://www.apsathome.org:80/ APS@Home]
|
| 2007-08-30
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
| University of Manchester
|
|
| The effects that atmospheric dispersion has on the measurements used in climate prediction.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080806072857/http://dawn.ynet.sk:80/test1/ Reversi]
|
| 2008-05-16
|  
|
|
|
| Independent
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|
| Determine who wins in Reversi game - first player, second player or if the game is tied.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://www.ramseyathome.com/ramsey/ Ramsey@Home]
|
| 2008-06-14
|  
|
|
|
| Nick Peterson
|
|
| A volunteer computing project designed to find new lower bounds for various Ramsey numbers using a host of different techniques.

|-
| [http://canis.csc.ncsu.edu:8005/anansi/ Anansi]
|
| 2008
|  
|
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|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://eaps-at-home-alpha.gotdns.org/eaps/ EAPS@HOME]
|
| 2008
|  
|
|
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|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in Artificial Intelligence.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080703141019/http://boinc.vanderbilt.edu/CSB/ CSB@Home] / [https://web.archive.org/web/20080703141019/http://boinc.vanderbilt.edu/CSB/ BCL@Home]
|
| 2008-06-05 / 2008
|  
|
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|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in '''Computational Structural Biochemistry'''.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080908061532/http://genlife.is-a-geek.org:80/genlife/ Genetic Life]
|
| 2008-06-18
|  
|
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|
| A not-for-profit research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research into Genetic Algorithms.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090506112112/http://africangridlab.net/ African Grid Lab ALPHA]
|
| 2008-10-05
|
|
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|
| An incubation laboratory environment for African based BOINC projects.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090322190553/http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu/brats/ BRaTS@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#BRaTS@Home 2]
| 2007-06-05
| WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Perform gravitational lensing ray-tracing simulations of galaxy clusters. [[BRaTS@Home|See more....]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090425124851/http://www.intelligencerealm.com/aisystem/system.php Artificial Intelligence System]
|
| 2007-09-05
|  
|
|
|
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|
|
| The neural network simulator is an application that simulates neurons. Each downloaded work unit generates 500,000 biophysical neurons.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090927062104/http://dynaping.com/ DynaPing]
|
| 2009
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Ensure highest availability of your web services. DynaPing uses computers around the world to monitor your web service availability and alerts you of any downtime.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20091130024643/http://nqueens.ing.udec.cl/ NQueens@Home]
|
| 2007-08-10
| Windows
|
|
|
| University of Concepción
|
|
| This project uses Internet-connected computers to solve the N Queens problem.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20141009194330/http://registro.ibercivis.es/ Ibercivis]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Ibercivis 18]
| 2007-11
2020-08-01
|  
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/RRPMDKPGt3A view]
|
|
|
| Research in physics, material science and biomedicines and is based at several institutes and universities; Zaragoza, CETA-CIEMAT, CSIC, Coimbra. [[Ibercivis|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20201213215515/https://boinc.ibercivis.es/ibercivis/ Ibercivis BOINC]
|
| 2020-10
|  
|
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|
| The Biophym Group of the CSIC Institute for the Structure of Matter has proposed to carry out simulations of the interaction of drugs used against Ebola, HIV infection, influenza or hepatitis B with the genome replication machinery of the SARS-Co-V virus.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://evil.podzone.org/decs/ DECS]
|
| 2007-10-05
|  
|
|
|
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|
|
| The Generic Distributed Exact Cover Solver (DECS) project uses Internet-connected computers to solve exact cover problems. Exact cover is a general type of problem which can be used to solve problems including n-queens, Latin Square puzzles, Sudoku, polyomino tiling, set packing and set partitioning.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://boincsrv01.cern.ch/atlfast/ LHC Atlas Test]
|
| 2007-08-14
|  
|
|
|
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|
|
| Test project for LHC@home.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070209051807/http://boinc.berkeley.edu/cplan/ Cunning Plan]
|
| 2007
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Was being used to test account creation.

|-
| [http://pcschmiede.pc.funpic.de/teah/html/user/ Test Project Christian Beer]
|
| 2007
|  
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110207203930/http://mapthegap.com/ MAPtheGAP]
|
| {{No}}
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Eliminating racial disparities in health.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://dnahome.cs.rpi.edu/dna/ DNA@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#DNA@Home 2]
| 2010-04-14
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| The new versions allow for different motif types which are different models for how a binding site could look. One is palindromic, where the nucleotides in the beginning of the model have their complement at the end of the model. The other model type is reverse complement, which doesn't assume the model to be palindromic, but looks for either the forward or reverse version of the model.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://edges-local-devbnc-srv.ceta-ciemat.es/3gbp 3g Bridge Project]
|
| 2009
|
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|
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071220210249/http://boincsrv01.cern.ch:80/lhcathome/ LHC@Home Experimental]
|
| 2007
|  
|
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|
| Software testing
|
| For internal testing only; any workunits issued are for testing and do not yet have any scientific value. Please remain attached to the official LHC@Home server!

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://cbl-link02.cs.technion.ac.il/cplan/ Superlink@EGEE queue]
|
| {{No}}
|  
|
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|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20100324075245/http://boinc.cs.uct.ac.za:80/malaria/ UCT:malariacontrol.net]
|
| 2008-03-31
|  
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
| A test project in collaboration with MalariaControl.net in Switzerland that aims to test the correct operation of our server for future BOINC-based projects.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://dist.ist.tugraz.at/cape5/ Rectilinear Crossing Number]
|
| 2006-06-30
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/d03IUeQrDLQ view]
|
|
|
| Use sophisticated mathematical methods to determine the rectilinear crossing number for small values of n. [[Rectilinear Crossing Number Project|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20091124095534/http://boinc.vtu.lt:80/vtuathome VTU@home], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090412025420/http://boinc.vgtu.lt/vtuathome/ VGTU@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#VGTU@home 2]
| 2006-04-13
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
|
| Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
|
|
| The aim of this project is to provide a powerful distributed computing platform for scientists of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU) as well as other Lithuanian academic institutions.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090309055929/http://aqua.dwavesys.com/ AQUA@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#AQUA@home 4]
|2008-12-08
2011-08-01
|  
|
| {{Yes}}, Vbox
| [https://youtu.be/VyQgGkj_Rss view]
| dwavesys
|Quantum Computing
|
|Model the performance of superconducting adiabatic quantum computers. [[AQUA@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060702175205/http://www.ufluids.net/ μFluids@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Publications_by_BOINC_projects#.C2.B5Fluids.40Home 3]
| 2005-09-19
| WinXP-98
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Study fluid behavior in microgravity to design satellite propellant management devices. [[UFluids@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110817075110/http://boinc.run.montefiore.ulg.ac.be:80/evo/ Evo@home]
|
| 2010-11-22
|  
|
|
|
| University of Liège
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in Machine Learning. This project uses Evolutionary Algorithms to optimize the parameters of different kind of machine learning algorithms.

|-
| [http://gmdhgrid.com/mgua/index.php GMDHGrid]
|
| 2010
|
|
|
|
| Kiev Polytechnic Institute
|
|
| Data mining, knowledge discovery, prediction, complex systems modeling, optimization and pattern recognition.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20101025171952/http://project.czechnationalteam.cz/cplan/ Czech National Team project]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
| Czech National Team
| Software testing
|
| A test project for our new BOINC server helping us to find and fix some bugs and create a new project which is being prepared.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.math.ucalgary.ca/sheti/ SHETI]
|
| 2009-01-08
|  
|
|
|
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|
|
| Sheti is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to solve the [http://www.certicom.com/index.php/the-certicom-ecc-challenge 131-bit Certicom ECC Challenge].

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090331215945/http://mothershipathome.org/ Mothership@Home]
|
| 2008
|  
|
|
|
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|
| Mothership@Home is dedicated in loving memory of my mother Patricia Horner (1942-1987), my husband Joshua Resnick (1965-1999) and all others who have passed away prematurely due to medical conditions.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://dart.cs.georgefox.edu/mcpi/ Monte Carlo Pi]
|
| 2008
|
|
|
|
| George Fox University
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [http://cancergrid.lpds.sztaki.hu/cancergrid/ CancerGrid]
|
| 2008
|
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|

|-
| [http://stuff.povaddict.com.ar:8080/boinctest/ Silly Pi Calculation]
|
| 2008
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| Nicolas
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|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130823010101/http://www.fpgaathome.org/ FPGA@Home]
|
| {{No}}
|  
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|
|
|
| This is an open collaboration for porting Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) based volunteer computing projects on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs).

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130528155906/http://boinc.hpc.utp.edu.my:80/utpdg/ UTP Desktop Grid]
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|
|  
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|
| Universiti Teknologi Petronas
|
|
| UTP Desktop Grid (UTPDG) is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in various areas of parallel computational problems.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130302052041/http://boinc.ucd.ie/fmah/ FightMalaria@Home]
|
| 2012-07-20
|  
|
|
|
| Dr Anthony Chubb
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|
| Perform docking simulations on malaria proteins.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://107.21.228.163/VBOINC V-BOINC]
|
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|  
|
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| The VBOINC project is the first attempt to use virtual machines with BOINC.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130501160927/http://oproject.info/ OProject@Home]
| [https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.1593 1]
| 2012-08-13
|  
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| Algorithm analysis. OProject@Home based at Olin Library (Rollins College).

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/https://climateathome.info/climateathome/ Climate@Home]
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|  
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|
| George Mason University, NASA
|
|
| Research for spatiotemporal computing and climate predictions.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130701032038/http://bigdata.ihep.ac.cn/bigdata/stats.php BigData@home]
|
|
| [https://web.archive.org/http://bigdata.ihep.ac.cn/bigdata/ Windows, Linux]
|
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| Crawl Internet New Media Information.

|-
| [https://quakecatcher.net/sensor/ Quake-Catcher Network]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Quake-Catcher 13]
| 2007-12-05 / 2023-06-01
|
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| [https://youtu.be/SCv_W751m64 view]
| Stanford University, then University of Southern California
|
|
| Used low-cost MEMS accelerometers in laptops, desktops, and USB sensors to build a distributed, community-based earthquake detection network. [[Quake-Catcher Network|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://qcn.emsc-csem.org/sensor/ Quake-Catcher Network EMSC / CSEM]
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|  
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| [https://youtu.be/SCv_W751m64 view]
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| Used low-cost MEMS accelerometers in laptops, desktops, and USB sensors to build a distributed, community-based earthquake detection network.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110723205439/http://mersenneathome.net/ Mersenne@home]
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| [http://b25.interix.jp/b25/ B25@Home]
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|  
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|-
| [http://boinc.ryanteck.org.uk/boincPi/ boincPi]
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|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://surveill.dei.uc.pt/surveill/ Surveill@home]
|
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|  
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|
| University of Coimbra
|
|
| Conduct end-to-end fine-grained monitoring of web sites.

|-
| [https://www.chess960athome.org/alpha/ Chess960athome]
|
| 2006-03-20
|  
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| Used Stockfish to evaluate tens of millions of chess positions, building a labeled dataset intended for training a machine-learned classifier of winning positions. [[Chess960@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110801052639/http://www.freehal.net/freehal_at_home FreeHAL@home]
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|  
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| Tobias Schulz / Powered by SETI.Germany and Planet 3DNow!
|
|
| a completed Artificial intelligence BOINC project that generated and converted semantic networks for the self-learning chatbot FreeHAL. [[FreeHAL@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20100430012556/http://goldbach.pl/ Goldbach's Conjecture Project]
|
| 2009-07-23
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20100505082120/http://goldbach.pl/apps.php Windows, Linux]
|
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| Effectively proving Goldbach's weak conjecture.

|-
| [http://starmageddon.dyndns.org/ninjagrid/ NinjaGrid]
|
| 2009
|
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| Mathematics
|
| 3x+1.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://physicsathome.tk/physics/ physics@home]
|
| 2013-02-16
|  
|
|
|
| Vasyl Kuzmenko
|
|
| Research in Solid-state physics, Materials science, Optics and Chemistry.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://vcsc.cs.uh.edu/second-computing/ UH Second Computing]
|
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|  
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|
| University of Houston College of Technology
|
|
| We are in the process to simulate macromolecular interactions in a living cell.

|-
| [http://babel.boinc.povaddict.com.ar/ Babel]
|
|
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| Testing translations of BOINC server and forum.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://eon.raunvis.hi.is/EON2v1/ EON2v1@clusters]
|
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|  
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| [https://web.archive.org/http://sctr.i3a.uclm.es/prob/ Prob]
|
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|-
| [http://140.110.240.195/bioinfo/ Bioinfo@Home]
|
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|-
| [https://web.archive.org/https://boinc.freerainbowtables.com/distrrtgen/ DistrRTgen]
|
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|  
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|
| By distributing the generation of rainbow chains, we can generate HUGE rainbow tables that are able to crack longer passwords than ever seen before.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20100526004243/http://boinc.picevolvr.com:80/ Picevolvr]
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| 2010
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| [http://cullen-online.com/ Michael Cullen]
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| Uses Internet-connected computers to generate artwork completely automatically.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://cah.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/ QuantumFIRE alpha]
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| 2010
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| University of Cambridge
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| Quantum foundations and Solid-state physics research.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinctest.codeq.pl/boinctest/ Replace With Project Name]
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| 2013
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| http://boinctest.codeq.pl/boinctest/

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| [http://web.archive.org/web/20131229164437/http://plagiarism.boincpolska.org/plagiarism/ Plagiarism@Home]
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| 2013
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| Krzysztof Piszczek
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| Search given text for potential plagiarism in Internet resources.

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| [http://boinc.comcute.com/SIM/ Comcute emBOINC]
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| 2012
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| [http://boinc.comcute.com/cc_boinc/ Comcute Boinc]
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| 2013
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| [https://web.archive.org/http://chess.qugate.org/ Chess@Home]
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| 2014-01-05
2014-03-01
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| Michal Stanislaw Wojcik
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| play large numbers of Chess960 (Fischer Random Chess) games, in an effort to build the beginnings of an opening theory for the variant. [[Chess@Home|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://perft.computers-chess.com/ computers-chess]
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| 2013
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [http://151.97.53.109/synchronised/ Synchronised]
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| 2013 / 2014
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| University of Catania
| Molecular Modelling
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| Pharmaceutical chemistry research.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090402124145/http://cleanenergy.harvard.edu/ The Clean Energy Project]
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| Harvard University
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| Merged into World Community Grid.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20150522195526/http://www.universeathometest.info/universe/ Universe@Home test project]
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| University of Warsaw
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| Test project for Universe@Home.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://eon.ices.utexas.edu/eon2/ eOn2]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#EOn 6]
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| Simulate long timescale evolution of atomic scale systems in chemistry and materials science. [[EOn|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://mmgboinc.unimi.it/ SimOne@home]
| [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000926141300763X 1]
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| The project focuses on the osmoprotection phenomenon. In nature there are small molecules that are able to protect proteins from thermal stress. Answering this question could have a major impact in agriculture, e.g. developing plants that require less water intake.

|-
| [http://docking.cis.udel.edu/ Docking@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Docking@home 20]
| 2006-09-11 / 2014-05-23
| WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS X/Intel
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| [https://youtu.be/gC_2zu2efY4 view]
| University of Delaware
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| CHARMM-based protein-ligand docking simulations to search for new pharmaceutical drugs. [[Docking@Home|See more...]]

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| [http://boinc01.cern.ch/test4theory/ LHC Test4Theory]
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| 2011
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20150731163559/http://lhcathome2.cern.ch/vLHCathome/ vLHCathome]
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| 2011
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| This is a project that utilizes the CERN-developed CernVM virtual machine and the BOINC virtualization layer to harness volunteer cloud computing power for full-fledged LHC event physics simulation on volunteer computers.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120102114135/http://ui.hpc.iit.bme.hu/wc/ Web Computing]
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| 2011
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130511025233/http://falua.cesfelipesegundo.com/Ideologias/ Ideologias@Home]
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| Study how people in a certain region evolve ideologically over time with respect to an idea.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120302132650/http://alfa-bridge.ibercivis.es/puente/ alfa_puente]
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| 2012
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20121207151627/http://boinc.biruni.upm.my/putra/ DG@Putra]
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| 2012-02-23
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| Universiti Putra Malaysia
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| Putra Desktop Grid is UPM's implementation of a DesktopGrid network. The project is fully supported by the International Desktop Grid Federation (IDGF).

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://qcn.stanford.edu/continual/ QCN Continual Sensor Monitoring]
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| 2012-04-18
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| [https://youtu.be/SCv_W751m64 view]
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| Research, education, and outreach in seismology.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://qcn.twgrid.org/sensor/ QCN Taiwan]
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| 2012-04-16
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| [https://youtu.be/SCv_W751m64 view]
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| Research, education, and outreach in seismology.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://www.ras.unam.mx/sensor/ QCN Red Atrapa Sismos]
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| [https://youtu.be/SCv_W751m64 view]
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| Research, education, and outreach in seismology.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://bvp6.hpc.iit.bme.hu/w2g/ Web2Grid Development]
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| 2012
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [http://bacalhau.lsd.ufcg.edu.br/table_transcriber/ TABLE TRANSCRIBER]
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| 2012
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| [http://boinc.rm-hs.de/test/ Replace With Project Name]
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| http://boinc.rm-hs.de/test/

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| [http://150.186.92.236/boinctest/ boinctest]
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| [https://web.archive.org/http://nanomodeling.molsim.ru/nanomodeling/ NanoModeling@home]
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| 2012-05-03
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| For designing nanostructures and nanorobots. Our goal is molecular modeling of targeted drug delivery systems, nanorobots and related nanostructures.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120120081734/http://boinc.berkeley.edu:80/vbox/ CERNVM/Vboxwrapper Test Project]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://mishra.lpds.sztaki.hu/atticproxy/ Attic Proxy Project]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [http://95.56.231.137/norlist/view_profile.php?userid=806 NORLIST@HOME]
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| 2014
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| Kazakhstan National Scientific Laboratory
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| Kazakh speech recognition.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.biruni.upm.my/pucbi/ PUCBi Desktop Grid]
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| 2015
|  
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| Perdana University Centre for Bioinformatics (PU-CBi)
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| Provide education and training to support the development and continuity of in-house programmes, in particular to advance the translational bioinformatics skills of the next generation doctors and clinician scientists.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20160315063057/http://finance.gridcoin.us/finance/show_user.php?userid=885357 Gridcoin Finance]
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| 2015
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| [https://wiki.bc-team.org/index.php?title=Gridcoin_Finance/en The project performs financial simulations, analysis of the block chain, consolidate humanitarian reports, calculate marketing strategies, perform stock option analysis, harvest business intelligence, and assimilate top level results for the crowdsourced web pages.]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20160831173736/http://nanosurf.kr.ua/nanos/ nanosurf]
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| 2016-06-16
|  
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| Oleg Schevchenko
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| Researching surface physics. In particular, the development of optical devices. Theoretical modeling of surface quantum dots makes it possible to provide recommendations to a group of experimenters.

|-
| [https://www.boincstats.com/stats/167/project/detail/ BMG@Home]
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| 2016-02-25
|  
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| Chemistry
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|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20170514021753/http://parlea.ru:80/andersonattack AndersonAttack@home]
| [https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/eng-2018-0002/html 1]
| 2017
|  
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| {{Yes}}, Vbox
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| Matrosov Institute for System Dynamics and Control Theory
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| Implement Anderson's attack on A5/1 GSM stream cipher.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20171114233820/http://stop.inferia.ru:80/ Stop@home]
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| 2017-09-17
|  
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| 256Ghz
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| Today we can't imagine our life without internet and its services. Our team wants to use distributed computing to solve mathematical tasks and improve algorithms.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130605030952/http://boinc.riojascience.com/ Riojascience@home]
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|  
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| Knet Communications and the University of La Rioja
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| A platform for biomedical research.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20141117215322/http://igemathome.org/ iGem@home]
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| {{No}}
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20160629234412/http://www.bitcoinutopia.net/bitcoinutopia/ Bitcoin Utopia]
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| 2013-06-05
|  
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| Mine cryptocurrencies for incentive awards and science projects.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://59.78.96.61:8082/dhome/ Drug@Home]
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|  
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| School of Pharmacy, Ecust China University of Science & Technology
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| This study applied an efficient virtual screening strategy integrating molecular docking with MM-GBSA rescoring to identify diverse human dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (hDHODH) inhibitors.

|-
| [http://edges-ext-dg.ceta-ciemat.es/3gbp/ Edges Bridge Production]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140913231024/http://boinc.unsads.com/rsals/ RSA Lattice Siever(2.0)]
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| 2009-12-24 / 2012
|  
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| Help other factoring projects such as mersenneforum or XYYXf achieve their academic goals. Merged into [[NFS@Home]].

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120329124047/http://home.edges-grid.eu/home/ EDGeS@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#EDGeS@Home 13]
| 2009-10-28
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| To support the execution of selected and validated scientific applications developed by the EGEE and EDGeS community. [[EDGeS@Home|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20081008031648/http://cels-at-home-dev.dyndns.org:80/cels/ Cels@Home]
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|2008-06-23
2009-09-01
|  
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| [https://youtu.be/mzp2QBwvb2U view]
|University of Texas in Austin
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| 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 is a critical event that makes the disease much harder to treat. [[Cels@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [http://77.48.48.82/jplan/ jplan]
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| [https://web.archive.org/http://lhcbathome.cern.ch/Beauty/ Beauty@LHC]
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| Based at CERN and is a project of the LHCb experiment.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209200706/http://boinc.biruni.upm.my/putra/ Putra Desktop Grid]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://vcsc.cs.uh.edu/virtual-prairie/ Virtual Prairie]
| [https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0304380010005557 1]
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| University of Houston
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| simulations of clonal plant growth to inform the ecological design of sustainable prairie ecosystems. [[Virtual Prairie|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.med.usherbrooke.ca/nrg/ Najmanovich Research Group]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Najmanovich 3]
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| Research in molecular recognition and computer-aided drug design.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://www.sustainablegrid.org/ Sustainable Grid]
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| 2012-01-11
|  
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| Enterprise Application Development Group at the University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Goerlitz
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| Bundles hardware resources of the university and provides this computational power to the scientists for their research purposes.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120312215655/http://mamarreis.lsd.ufcg.edu.br/ciencia-em-sua-casa/ Ciência Em Sua Casa]
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| Science in Your Home. Search for Wilson prime numbers and DNA sequencing.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120705003101/http://donateathome.org/ Donate@Home]
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| Allows participants to donate towards funding by using their GPU to mine for BitCoins.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://edges-local-devbnc-srv.ceta-ciemat.es/student01/ Student01]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://edges-local-devbnc-srv.ceta-ciemat.es/student02/ Student02]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [http://gf45.mp.tudelft.nl/psdm/ BIoS]
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| TU Delft
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| [https://web.archive.org/http://mishra.lpds.sztaki.hu/edgidemo/ EDGI Demo Project]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://voldemort.cs.cf.ac.uk/attic_proxy/ AtticFS Proxy Application Project on BOINC]
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| The AtticFS Proxy application acts as a translation layer between HTTP and the AtticFS. This allows BOINC Projects to utilise AtticFS easily.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130526001435/http://volunteer.cs.und.edu/subset_sum/ SubsetSum@Home]
| [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7255176/ 1]
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|  
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| Computer Science Department of the University of North Dakota
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| See how far we can extend the empirical evidence of the Subset Sum problem. Find better ways to apply volunteer computing to combinatorial problems.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20100313233251/http://www.nicoschlitter.de/DistributedDataMining distributedDataMining]
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| Research in the various fields of Data Analysis and Machine Learning.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20101201205418/http://dnetc.net/ DNETC@HOME]
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| A wrapper between BOINC and distributed.net.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://dg.imp.kiev.ua/slinca/ SLinCA]
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| SLinCA (Scaling Laws in Cluster Aggregation) is involved with research in the field of materials science.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110803231551/http://mishra.lpds.sztaki.hu:80/szdgr/ SZTAKI Desktop Grid Research Facility]
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| WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS X
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| Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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| This project is the test & research facility for SZTAKI Desktop Grid.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20081224080150/http://hydrogenathome.org/ Hydrogen@home]
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120111114110/http://hydrogenathome.org/apps.php WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS X (Not Intel)]
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| Enhance clean energy technology by improving hydrogen production and storage.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://convector.fsv.cvut.cz/ convector@home]
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| Calculate global optimum of 52 bar truss.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070202002920/http://spin.fh-bielefeld.de/ Spinhenge@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Spinhenge@home 3]
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| WinXP-98
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| [https://youtu.be/d-fafmtqE74 view]
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| Support the research of nano-magnetic molecules. In the future these molecules will be used in the local tumor chemotherapy and to develop tiny memory-modules. [[Spinhenge@home|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140413155515/http://bealathome.com/ Beal@Home]
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| Beal's conjecture is a conjecture in number theory: where A, B, C, x, y, and z are positive integers with x, y, z > 2, then A, B, and C have a common prime factor. Beal initially offered a prize of US $5,000 in 1997, raising it to US $1,000,000.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20150816053811/http://bealf.pl/bealf BealF@Home]
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| Part of the Master Thesis: '''''Testing Beal conjecture using supercomputers and distributed computing platform BOINC'''''. The predecessor of the project was ''Beal@Home''.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://cbl-link02.cs.technion.ac.il/superlinkattechnion/ Superlink@Technion]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Superlink@Technion 4]
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| WinXP-98, Linux
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| Helps geneticists all over the world find disease-provoking genes causing some types of diabetes, hypertension (high blood pressure), cancer, schizophrenia and many others.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110720105948/http://boinc.vanderbilt.edu/bcl/ Biochemical Library]
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| 2011
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| Research in Biochemical Library.

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| [http://falua.cesfelipesegundo.com/jarifa/ Jarifa]
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| [https://web.archive.org/http://netmax.isa.ru/netmax/ NetMax@home]
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| Research in dynamic routing at telecommunication networks.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140804215459/http://gilda117.ihep.ac.cn/ATLAS/ Replace With Project Name]
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| https://web.archive.org/web/20140903030559/http://gilda117.ihep.ac.cn/ATLAS

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| [http://cvmathome.cern.ch/test4theory/ LHC+@Home]
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| [http://isaac.ssl.berkeley.edu/test2/ Replace With Project Name]
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| http://isaac.ssl.berkeley.edu/test2/

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.fiit.stuba.sk/ BOINC@Fiit]
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| Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava
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| TBA.

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| [https://web.archive.org/https://v8boinc.fer.hr/v8boinc/ v8boinc]
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20101203122655/http://glife.is-a-geek.org:80/ga/view_profile.php?userid=120 GA@home]
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20101109123610/http://www.luxrenderfarm.de/luxfarm Luxrenderfarm@home]
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| Renderfarm for Luxrender.net.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130819173713/http://sudoku.nctu.edu.tw/joomla/ sudoku@vtaiwan]
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| Develop new techniques and use them to modify the program [https://web.archive.org/web/20130819173713/http://www.math.ie/checker.html Checker] (written by Gary McGuire).

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://poseidon.shacknet.nu:8080/MilestoneRSA/ MilestoneRSA]
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| Break a 1024 bit RSA key used by Motorola to sign the boot and recovery partitions on the Motorola Milestone.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc01.uoc.edu/ILS-ESP-2014/ ILS-ESP-2014]
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| Research for solving the permutation FLOW-SHOP problem.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://wordcompatibility.com/words_compatibility/ Russian Words Compatibility]
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| Research in Russian computational linguistics.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110816010257/http://falua.cesfelipesegundo.com/Neurona/ Neurona@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Neurona@Home 2]
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| Simulating the behavior of a large assembly of cellular automata neurons connected in a complex network.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.isa.ru/dcsdg/ OPTIMA@HOME]
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| Solve challenging large-scale optimization problems.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130525113734/http://svahesrv2.bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de/correlizer/ Correlizer]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Correlizer 5]
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| Revealing the mysteries of genome organization.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120825055512/http://vbridge.twgrid.org/asgcdg/ Taiwan Desktop Grid]
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|Academia Sinica Grid Computing
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| Bridging Taiwanese volunteer computers to European e-Science service grid infrastructure. [[Taiwan Desktop Grid|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110214000708/http://androinc.net:80/ AndrOINC]
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| To break a 1024 bit RSA key used by Motorola to sign the boot and recovery partitions on the Motorola Milestone.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20141216004540/http://findah.ucd.ie/ FiND@Home]
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| 2012-07-20
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| Dr Anthony Chubb
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| A research project that uses donated CPU time to perform docking simulations on malaria proteins.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140514143657/http://www.primaboinca.com/ Primaboinca]
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| This project concerns itself with two hypotheses in number theory: Agrawal's Conjecture (the basis for the AKS algorithm) and Popovych's conjecture, which adds a further condition and could reduce the time of a deterministic prime test from O(log N)^6 to O(log N)^3.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060723185510/http://attribution.cpdn.org/ Seasonal Attribution Project]
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| WinXP, Linux
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| By comparing the results of climate simulations, half of which will include the effects of human-induced climate change, and half of which will not, we will investigate the possible impact of human activity on extreme weather risk.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://shasta.chem.uh.edu/SolarAtHome/ Solar@home]
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| Make more efficient solar cells.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080828221836/http://kinetic.dnsalias.org/magnetism/ Magnetism@home]
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| Explore the equilibrium, metastable and transient magnetization patterns in nano-scale magnetic elements and their arrays.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://desktopgrid.hiast.edu.sy/hiastdg/ HIAST@HOME]
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| 2013
|  
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140316201231/http://volunteer.cs.und.edu:80/dna/ DNA@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#DNA@Home 2]
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| Discover what regulates the genes in DNA.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120130113228/http://boinc.umiacs.umd.edu/ The Lattice Project]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#The 16]
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| WinXP, Linux, Mac
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| University of Maryland
| Multiple applications
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| Condor and PBS clusters through the Globus Toolkit, chiefly supporting phylogenetic analysis with the GARLI software. [[The Lattice Project|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.fzk.de/poem/ POEM@HOME]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#POEM@HOME 5]
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| Protein structure prediction has been complemented by other nanoscale molecule simulations. Within the scope of polymer crystallography we are researching conformations of organic hydrocarbons. [[POEM@HOME|See more...]]

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| [http://int-boinctest.int.kit.edu/poem/ POEM@TEST]
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| Test project for POEM@HOME.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://199.26.254.190/qos/ Spatiotemporal Quality of Service (QoS)]
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| Perform distributed web service evaluation so that more accurate service quality information can be delivered to end users.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070128212119/http://boinc.rieselsieve.com/ RieselSieve]
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| WinXP
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| Mathematics
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| k+2n-1 problem, eventually merged with PrimeGrid.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130806073759/http://mopac.cadaster.eu/ mopac@home]
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| Chemistry
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| Research in quantum chemistry.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140419190153/http://volunteer.cs.und.edu/wildlife/ Wildlife@Home]
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| University of North Dakota
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| Analyze video gathered from various cameras recording wildlife.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20160120043345/http://volpexathome.cs.uh.edu/VolPEx/ Volpex@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Volpex@Home 9]
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| University of Houston
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| Research in creating effective parallel computing on multiple volatile nodes.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://mindmodeling.org/palm_project/ MindModeling@Home (Palm)]
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| University of Dayton Research Institute and Wright State University
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| Test project for MindModeling@Home.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080805160334/http://mindmodeling.org:80/beta/ MindModeling@Home (Beta)]
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|  
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| [https://youtu.be/3aJmm60Wgl8 view]
| University of Dayton Research Institute and Wright State University
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| Test project for MindModeling@Home.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120215132304/http://boinc.almeregrid.nl/ AlmereGrid]
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090422205514/http://server1.almeregrid.nl/testgrid/ AlmereGrid TestGrid]
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| Test Grid of AlmereGrid.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://server5.almeregrid.nl/almeregrid/ AlmereGrid Boinc testGrid]
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| No independent verification that this was a BOINC project.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20181204215217/http://anthgrid.com/dbnupperbound/ DBN Upper Bound]
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| Polymath project related to the theory of the Riemann zeta function.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130331200159/http://abcathome.com/ ABC@home]
| [https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.2974 1]
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| WinXP-98, Linux
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| Finding abc-triples related to the ABC conjecture. [[ABC@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070206065801/http://abcathome.com/beta/ ABC@home beta]
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| WinXP-98, Linux
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| Test project for ABC@home.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc2.cs.hs-rm.de/abclll/ ABC Lattices @Home]
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| Searching for good abc-triples. Unlike ABC@Home, this project is not aiming for a thorough search of a certain range of numbers. Instead, we are trying to find good triples with the help of a specialized algorithm in areas beyond 2^100.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080801101300/http://cpdnbeta.oerc.ox.ac.uk/ CPDN Beta]
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| Test project for climate''prediction''.net.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140703145955/http://atlasathome.cern.ch/ Atlas@home]
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| A research project that uses volunteer computing to run simulations of the ATLAS experiment at CERN.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130302044909/http://boincsimap.org/boincsimap/ SIMAP]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#SIMAP 5]
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| WinXP, Linux, Mac OS, Other
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|Technical University of Munich, the Helmholtz Zentrum München and the University of Vienna
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| Many computational methods in biology and medicine are based on protein sequence analysis, e.g. to predict the function and structure of genes and proteins. SIMAP facilitates these methods by providing pre-calculated protein similarities and protein domains. [[SIMAP|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120214044716/http://boinc.gorlaeus.net/ Leiden Classical]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Leiden 2]
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| WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS X (Not Intel)
|
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| [https://youtu.be/co2SkwsvyOk view] and [https://youtu.be/ECAQC1mzMiM view]
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| Dedicated to general Classical Dynamics for any scientist or science student. [[Leiden Classical|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20171217033707/http://szdg.lpds.sztaki.hu/szdg/ SZTAKI Desktop Grid]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#SZTAKI 5]
| 2005-05-26
2018-05-31
| WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS X (Not Intel), Solaris
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| Multiple Applications
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| The SZTAKI Desktop Grid and its applications are partly supported by the DEGISCO and the EDGI projects. The work leading to these results has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreements n° RI-261561 and n° RI-261556. [[SZTAKI Desktop Grid|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080926101459/http://orbit.psi.edu/oah/ Orbit@home]
| [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103516300914 1]
|
| Windows, Linux
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| Produce an optimized search strategy for dedicated astronomical surveys to search for near-Earth asteroids.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130725025029/http://pogs.theskynet.org/pogs/ theSkyNet POGS]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#TheSkyNet 3]
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| Research in astronomy. Combine the spectral coverage of GALEX, Pan-STARRS1, and WISE to generate a multi-wavelength UV-optical-NIR galaxy atlas for the nearby Universe. [[TheSkyNet POGS|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20180205194455/https://sourcefinder.theskynet.org/duchamp/ theSkyNet Sourcefinder]
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| Provide a means to test the effectiveness of various astronomical sourcefinding applications.

|-
| [https://nickeycat.net/nic/ Nickeycat]
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| No independent verification that this was a BOINC project.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://xansons4cod.com/xansons4cod/ XANSONS for COD]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#XANSONS 2]
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| Create an open access database of simulated x-ray and neutron powder diffraction patterns for nanocrystalline phase of the materials presented in the '''Crystallography Open Database (COD)'''.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://aerospaceresearch.net/constellation/ Constellation]
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| Research in various aerospace related sciences and engineering.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20190401042546/http://www.acousticsathome.ru/boinc/ Acoustics@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Acoustics@home 2]
|
|  
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| Matrosov Institute for System Dynamics and Control Theory of SB RAS
|
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| Solving inverse problems in underwater acoustics.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20100427212604/http://boinc.drugdiscoveryathome.com/ Drug Discovery@home]
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| Model the behavior of leading compounds that could be developed into new medicines.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://sat.isa.ru/pdsat/ SAT@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#SAT@home 8]
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|  
|
|
|
|Russian Academy of Sciences (Siberian Branch)
|Mathematics
|
| Solve hard and practically important problems (discrete functions inversion problems, discrete optimization, bioinformatics, etc) that can be effectively reduced to Boolean satisfiability problem. [[SAT@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20190606103241/https://www.dhep.ga/boinc/ Distributed Hardware Evolution Project]
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|  
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| Used island-based coevolutionary genetic algorithm to synthesize self-checking digital hardware circuits. [[Distributed Hardware Evolution Project|See more...]]

|-
| [https://charon.camras.nl/setiatcamras/ SETI@CAMRAS]
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20180927092346/http://cpu.goofyxgridathome.net/ GoofyxGrid@Home CPU]
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| [https://web.archive.org/http://usproteins-at-home.ru/usproteins/ usproteins@home]
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|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20131022042932/http://qmcathome.org/ QMC@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#QMC@Home 7]
|
| Windows, Linux
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| [https://youtu.be/fNWUs9jRwSY view]
|
| Multiple applications
|
| Quantum-mechanical computations on medically relevant biomolecular systems, to help with developing quantum-mechanics-based approaches for computational drug design; and finding safer and greener materials for e-vehicle batteries. [[QMC@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [http://physiome.lf1.cuni.cz/ident3/physiome/ Physiome@home]
|
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|  
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| Research in human physiology.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://casathome.ihep.ac.cn/ CAS@home]
|
|2010-09-30
2020-04-27
|  
|
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| [https://youtu.be/e-DUArD38Pw view]
| Chinese Academy of Sciences
|
|
| The main application is the TreeThreader which predicts protein structure. [[CAS@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20210417203758/http://boinc.scienterprise.cn/ scienterprise]
|
| 2020
|  
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| Enterprises own a lot of idle computing resources in their private cloud, while research projects are restricted by limited computing power. This project aims to decrease this imbalance by building CloudTides, an elastic platform on idle cloud resources.

|-
| [http://vath.xicp.cn/test/ volunteer@home]
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| 2021
|
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| [https://youtu.be/a4nO8ki2qR4 view]
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| Very small test project, no information.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20191018200437/http://brainstormhome.org/ Brainstorm@home]
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|  
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| Investigate the molecular basis of brain-related diseases.

|-
| [http://hayes.nodium.net:8000/boincserver/ beef@home]
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|  
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| Proof of concept temporary test project.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20170509144906/https://csgrid.org/csg/ Citizen Science Grid]
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|  
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| UND's Computational Research Center and Information Technology Systems and Services
| Multiple applications
|
| A wide range of research and educational projects using volunteer computing and citizen science, including DNA@Home, SubsetSum@Home, Climate Tweets, and Wildlife@Home.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20210125080541/https://www.kryptosathome.com/ Kryptos@Home]
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|  
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| Solving one of the most famous unsolved puzzles - the three-decade old Kryptos sculpture located on the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency. [[Kryptos@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20200421212107/https://mindmodeling.org/ MindModeling@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Publications_by_BOINC_projects#MindModeling.40Home 6]
| 2007-03-17
|  
|
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| [https://youtu.be/3aJmm60Wgl8 view]
| University of Dayton Research Institute and Wright State University
| Cognitive science
|
| Computational cognitive process modeling to better understand the human mind. [[MindModeling@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20210225002054/http://www.vdwnumbers.org/vdwnumbers/ Van Der Waerden Numbers]
| [https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.03301 1]
| 2021-02-02
|  
|
|
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| Daniel Monroe
| Mathematics
|
| Van Der Waerden Numbers is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to find better lower bounds for these numbers. Static mirror for this project: https://www.123numbers.org/

|-
| [http://burp.renderfarming.net/ Big and Ugly Rendering Project (BURP)]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Big 2]
|2004-06-17
2020
| Windows, Linux, Mac OS
|
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|Janus Kristensen
|3D rendering
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| Render animated videos including [http://bbb3d.renderfarming.net/download.html Big Buck Bunny]. [[Big and Ugly Rendering Project|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/test/ BOINC Test project]
|
| 2007-07-24
|  
|
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| [https://youtu.be/e-DUArD38Pw view]
| University of California, Berkeley
| Software testing
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| A test project for BOINC development.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20220711171713/https://boinc.tacc.utexas.edu/ BOINC@TACC]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#BOINC@TACC 3]
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| Texas Advanced Computing Center
| Multiple applications
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| Aerospace engineering, computational biology, and earthquake engineering. [[BOINC@TACC|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc-dev.tacc.utexas.edu/boincserver/ BOINC@TACC dev]
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|  
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| Texas Advanced Computing Center
| Software testing
|
| Test project for BOINC@TACC.

|-
| [https://www.mlcathome.org/mlcathome/ MLC@Home]
| [https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2104.10555 1]
| 2020-06-30 / 2022-08-02
| [https://www.mlcathome.org/mlcathome/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| University of Maryland, Baltimore County
| Cognitive science
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mlc-home/id1492837872?i=1000499605038 Listen]
| Understanding and interpreting complex machine learning models. [[MLC@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.tbrada.eu/ T.Brada Experimental Grid]
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| 2019-02-03 / 2022-12-24
|
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
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| Independent
| Mathematics
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| The PADLS Total subproject aims to find new pseudo-associative DLS. [[T.Brada Experimental Grid|See more...]]

|-
| [https://quchempedia.univ-angers.fr/athome/ QuChemPedIA@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#QuChemPedIA@home 4]
| 2019-07-01 / 2022-09-29
| [https://quchempedia.univ-angers.fr/athome/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: olive; color: black;" | Vbox only
|
| Université Angers
| Molecular Chemistry
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/quchempedia/id1492837872?i=1000484760287 Listen]
| Help chemical researchers around the world by building a unique collection of results and also help our AIs to propose much more new targets for the different applications we are addressing than we could do on our own. [[QuChemPedIA@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/ Collatz Conjecture]
| [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11227-020-03368-x 1]
| 2009-01-06
| [https://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| Study the Collatz conjecture, an unsolved conjecture in mathematics. [[Collatz Conjecture|See more...]]

|-
| [http://www.cosmologyathome.org/ Cosmology@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Cosmology@Home 5]
| 2007-06-26 / 2024-01-10
| [http://www.cosmologyathome.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, Vbox
|
| Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
| Astronomy
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/comology-home/id1492837872?i=1000521601975 Listen]
| Find the most accurate models that best describe the universe. [[Cosmology@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20240118183120/http://bearnol.is-a-geek.com/wanless2/ WEP-M+2 Project]
|
| 2006-05-12 / 2024-01-18
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20231126215917/http://bearnol.is-a-geek.com/wanless2/apps.php Linux, macOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| James Wanless, London, England
| Mathematics
| [https://www.youtube.com/live/9QexlknOdb0?feature=share Watch]
| Factorization of Mersenneplustwo numbers. [[WEP-M+2 Project|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.nanohub.org/nanoHUB_at_home/ nanoHUB@Home]
|
| 2012-07-26
| [https://boinc.nanohub.org/nanoHUB_at_home/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: olive; color: black;" | Vbox only
|
| Purdue University
| Nanotechnology
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nanohub/id1492837872?i=1000488157528 Listen]
| Research in nanoscience and nanotechnology. [[NanoHUB@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-540-30208-7_91 Unknown project]
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| [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1488682/ Unknown project]
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| [https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jp806269w boinc@duq]
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| [https://www.comsol.com/paper/comsolgrid-a-framework-for-performing-large-scale-parameter-studies-using-comsol-8288 ComsolGrid]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#ComsolGrid 1]
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| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#BOINC-MR BOINC-MR]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#BOINC-MR 2]
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| [https://frostydata.com/0Kdata Data freezer]
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| 2024-06-11
| [https://frostydata.com/0Kdata/apps.php Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Storage
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| Build a data warehouse on consumer hardware. [[Data freezer|See more...]]

|-
| [https://albertathome.org/ Albert@Home]
|
| 2011-12-23
| [https://albertathome.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Max Planck Institute
| Software testing
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| Test project for [[Einstein@Home]]. [[Albert@Home|See more...]]

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| [https://sech.me/boinc/Amicable/ Amicable Numbers]
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| 2017-01-05
| [https://sech.me/boinc/Amicable/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boinc-radio-project-brief-amicable-numbers/id1492837872?i=1000581365935 Listen]
| Amicable numbers are pairs where the sum of the proper divisors of each is equal to the other number. The goal of this project is to collect all amicable numbers up to a very large limit. [[Amicable Numbers|See more...]]

|-
| [https://blackholesathome.net/ BlackHoles@Home]
|
| {{No}}t yet
|
|
|
|
| University of Idaho
| Astrophysics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boinc-radio-project-brief-blackholes-home/id1492837872?i=1000575215408 Listen]
| Black hole collision simulations to maximize the science gained from gravitational wave observations. [[BlackHoles@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://team.dodoathome.com/dodo/ dodo@home]
|
| 2024-11-07
| [https://team.dodoathome.com/dodo/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
|
|
| We will bring the Dodo back from extinction (well, we will give it a damn good try!). [[Dodo@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://nci.boinc.goofyx.pl/ goofyxGrid@Home NCI]
|
| 1) [https://web.archive.org/web/20191023104620/http://nci.goofyxgridathome.net:80/ 2015-11-09] / 2) 2024-06-20
| [https://nci.boinc.goofyx.pl/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
|
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/goofyxgrid/id1492837872?i=1000490909639 Listen]
| To simulate the infinite monkey theorem which states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type any given text, including the complete works of William Shakespeare. [[GoofyxGrid@Home NCI|See more...]]

|-
| [http://boinc.llmentor.org/LLMentorGrid/ LLMentorGrid]
|
| 2025-01-22
| [http://boinc.llmentor.org/LLMentorGrid/apps.php Linux]
|
|
|
| Independent
|
|
|

|-
| [http://parlea.ru/boinctest/ Parlea]
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| 2022-12
| [http://parlea.ru/boinctest/apps.php Windows, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
|
| Mathematics
|
| Investigate the efficiency and behavior of mobile devices as computing nodes on the BOINC platform for solving the Orthogonal Diagonal Latin Squares (ODLS) search problem. [[Parlea|See more...]]

|-
| [https://ralph.bakerlab.org/ RALPH@home]
|
| 2006-02-15
| [https://ralph.bakerlab.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, macOS, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, Vbox
| [https://youtu.be/W9fC5lv76T0 view]
| University of Washington
| Software testing
|
| Test project for [[Rosetta@home]]. [[RALPH@home|See more...]]

|-
| RNA World (computing project) | [https://www.rnaworld.de/rnaworld/ RNA World (beta)]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#RNA 5]
| 2009-05-21
| [https://www.rnaworld.de/rnaworld/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: olive; color: black;" | Vbox only
| [https://youtu.be/GHJ4KBdwVew view]
| Independent research group in Marburg, Germany
| Molecular biology
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rnaworld/id1492837872?i=1000496594043 Listen]
| Uses bioinformatics software to study RNA structure. [[RNA World (beta)|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.termit.me/adsl/ SPT@home]
|
| 2023-06-14
| [https://boinc.termit.me/adsl/ Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
|
| Mathematics
|
| The Symmetric Prime Tuples (SPT) project is a continuation of the T. Brada Experimental Grid project. [[SPT|See more...]]

|-
| [https://universeathome.pl/universe/ Universe@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Publications_by_BOINC_projects#Universe.40home 14]
| 2015-02-19
| [https://universeathome.pl/universe/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences
| Astronomy
|
| Computational astrophysics, computer simulation of stars, galaxies and the Universe. [[Universe@Home|See more...]]

|-
|[https://axiom.heliex.net/ Axiom Distributed AI]
|
|2026-01-30
2026-03-20
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20260319085629/https://axiom.heliex.net/apps.php Windows, Linux, Mac]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
|Axiom Project 2026
|Artificial Intelligence
|
|Distributed neural-network learning techniques influenced by Hebbian learning [[Axiom Distributed AI|See more...]]

|-
| [https://rnma.xyz/boinc/ Ramanujan Machine]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Ramanujan 2]
| 2021-10-14
| [https://rnma.xyz/boinc/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/project-brief-ramanujan-machine-5-2-2022/id1492837872?i=1000570072053 Listen]
| Conjecturing new mathematical formulas. [[Ramanujan Machine|See more...]]
|}

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{{Infobox software
| name = FreeHAL@home
| logo = FreeHAL_logo.png
| logo caption = FreeHAL logo
| screenshot = Freehal.png
| caption = FreeHAL graphical interface
| description = FreeHAL@home was a completed Artificial intelligence BOINC project that generated and converted semantic networks for the self-learning chatbot FreeHAL, developed by Tobias Schulz.
| status = Completed
| category = Artificial intelligence
| compute = CPU
| dependencies = None
| developer = Tobias Schulz
| author = Tobias Schulz
| sponsor = CloudSigma (2010–2011); volunteer server donors including SETI.Germany and Planet 3DNow!
| maintainer = Tobias Schulz
| released = {{Start date and age|2008|09|26}}
| completed = {{Start date and age|2012}}
| discontinued = {{Start date and age|2013|04|07}}
| repository = {{URL|https://github.com/freehal}}
| programming language = Java, Perl, C++, Python, PHP
| operating system = Windows, Linux, Unix, BSD, macOS, Android
| size = ~6.8 MB (JEliza 2.2.2)
| stats as of = {{Start date and age|2013|04|07}}
| average performance = 12.24 TFLOPS (May 2012 peak reported)
| active users = 0
| total users = 18006
| active hosts = 0
| total hosts = 63407
| rac = 0
| credit per day = 0
| gpu performance = N/A (CPU only)
| cpu performance = 12.24 TFLOPS (May 2012)
| website = {{URL|https://freehal.github.io/}}
| license = GPL-3.0-or-later
}}

'''FreeHAL@home''' (also written '''FreeHAL@Home''' or listed in statistics as '''FreeHAL''') was a completed [[BOINC]] volunteer computing project that generated and converted fact and relationship databases ([[semantic network]]s) for '''FreeHAL''', an open-source self-learning [[chatbot]].<ref name="wayback2011">{{cite web |title=FreeHAL@home |url=http://www.freehal.net/freehal_at_home/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110801052639/http://www.freehal.net/freehal_at_home |archive-date=1 August 2011 |website=freehal.net |access-date=24 August 2026}}</ref><ref name="enwiki">{{cite web |title=FreeHAL |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeHAL |website=Wikipedia |access-date=24 August 2026}}</ref> The desktop program (originally named '''JEliza''') was written to imitate human conversation in German and English. After more than six years of mostly active development, the software project was discontinued in 2012; the BOINC servers last published statistics in April 2013 and never recovered from a database crash.<ref name="githubio">{{cite web |title=About FreeHAL |url=https://freehal.github.io/ |website=freehal.github.io |access-date=24 August 2026}}</ref><ref name="boincstats">{{cite web |title=FreeHAL - Detailed stats |url=https://www.boincstats.com/stats/78/project/detail |website=BOINCstats/BAM! |access-date=24 August 2026}}</ref>

== History ==

The program began around 2006 as '''JEliza'''. The name combined '''J'''ava, the first implementation language, with [[ELIZA]], Joseph Weizenbaum's 1966 conversation simulator.<ref name="linuxmag">{{cite magazine |last=Schnober |first=Carsten |title=Projects on the Move |magazine=Linux Magazine |issue=97 |date=December 2008 |pages=94–95 |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224065526/http://www.linux-magazine.com/w3/issue/97/094-095_projects.pdf |access-date=24 August 2026}}</ref><ref name="enwiki" /> Early releases (including Python, Perl, and Qt builds) were hosted at Gna!.<ref name="githubio" /> Heise listed JEliza 2.2.2 as a 6.77 MB GNU-GPL download for Windows and Linux.<ref name="heise">{{cite web |title=JEliza 2.2.2 |url=http://freehal.github.io/mirrors/www.heise.de/download/jeliza-1155680.html |website=Heise (project mirror) |access-date=24 August 2026}}</ref>

In May 2008 the project was renamed '''FreeHAL''' after the language mix no longer matched the leading "J", and in homage to HAL 9000 from the film ''2001: A Space Odyssey''.<ref name="enwiki" /><ref name="dewiki">{{cite web |title=FreeHAL |url=https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeHAL |website=German Wikipedia |access-date=24 August 2026}}</ref> Lead developer [[Tobias Schulz]] remained the principal author, maintainer, and BOINC administrator throughout the project's life.<ref name="enwiki" /><ref name="wayback2011" />

[[BOINC]] first listed FreeHAL@home on 26 September 2008.<ref name="boincstats" /> Volunteers attached with the project URL <code>http://www.freehal.net/freehal_at_home/</code> (participants were warned to avoid the alternate host <code>boinc.freehal.org</code> during launch).<ref name="boincaf">{{cite web |title=Les sites des projets |url=https://www.boinc-af.org/les-sites-des-projets.html |website=BOINC-AF |access-date=24 August 2026}}</ref>

From August 2010 the Swiss cloud provider CloudSigma donated servers used for both the chatbot and the BOINC project. On 27 February 2011 Schulz announced that CloudSigma would continue that support for another twelve months; on 1 May 2011 he reported that CloudSigma would not extend the agreement. SETI.Germany and Planet 3DNow! members had also sponsored servers, and Elton Chung of ReactOS donated a download mirror.<ref name="wayback2011" /><ref name="freehalnet">{{cite web |title=FreeHAL@home |url=https://freehal.net/freehal_at_home |website=freehal.net |access-date=24 August 2026}}</ref>

The last numbered desktop release commonly cited is '''Step 6''' (8 April 2011).<ref name="enwiki" /> German Wikipedia records source revision 1447 dated 2 June 2012.<ref name="dewiki" /> An Android client appeared on Google Play in June 2012 (answers computed on remote servers). A Java port intended for Android and desktop was started in September 2012.<ref name="githubio" /> The official site later stated that after more than six years of mostly active development the project had been discontinued in 2012.<ref name="githubio" />

On 7 April 2013 a database server crash took FreeHAL@home offline. An offline notice said there was no way to access the project while recovery was attempted with the server donors.<ref name="wuprop">{{cite web |title=Freehal: Really? |url=https://wuprop.boinc-af.org/forum_thread.php?id=192 |website=WUProp@Home forums |date=12 June 2013 |access-date=24 August 2026}}</ref> BOINCstats last ingested user and team XML on 7 April 2013 and host XML on 6 April 2013.<ref name="boincstats" /> Combined-statistics maintainers later retired the listing after the servers had been offline for nearly a year.<ref name="netsoft">{{cite web |title=FreeHal@Home |url=https://boinc.netsoft-online.com/forum/suggestions/1016/freehalhome/ |website=BOINC Combined Statistics |access-date=24 August 2026}}</ref>

== Goals ==

The FreeHAL project's mission was to develop an open-source program that "very closely imitates human conversation."<ref name="wayback2011" /><ref name="githubio" /> FreeHAL@home existed so that large public semantic nets could be parsed and converted into the fact and relationship graphs used by that program. Those conversions were described as time-consuming and embarrassingly parallel, so they were packaged as BOINC workunits for volunteer hosts.<ref name="wayback2011" /><ref name="live2010">{{cite web |title=FreeHAL - free software artificial intelligence |url=https://freehal.net/freehal_at_home/index.php |website=freehal.net |access-date=24 August 2026}}</ref>

Unlike scripted commercial chatbots of the period, FreeHAL was advertised as learning on its own while talking to people over the keyboard, growing a knowledge database rather than only matching canned patterns.<ref name="enwiki" /><ref name="ars">{{cite web |title=FreeHAL@home |url=https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=37134 |website=Ars Technica OpenForum |date=January 2010 |access-date=24 August 2026}}</ref>

== Software architecture ==

FreeHAL was a client–server system. A server (called the '''kernel''' in project documentation) handled understanding and generation. Front ends included a cross-platform [[Qt (software)|Qt]] graphical user interface, a text client, a PHP web interface used on the project homepage, and later the Android app.<ref name="linuxmag" /><ref name="wayback2011" /> Several users could train one shared installation over the network.<ref name="linuxmag" />

Licensing was [[GNU General Public License|GNU GPL]] version 3 or later.<ref name="githubio" /> Supported operating systems included Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, Unix, BSD, and Mac OS X, with Android added in 2012.<ref name="enwiki" /><ref name="githubio" /> Implementation languages shifted over time from Java to Perl and then C++, with Python and PHP used for earlier and web components; a later Java port was begun in 2012.<ref name="linuxmag" /><ref name="dewiki" /><ref name="githubio" /> Knowledge was stored in an [[SQLite]] database.<ref name="linuxmag" /> Speech synthesis used MPlayer for playback and an online synthesizer operated by Schulz.<ref name="linuxmag" /> Source code, issue tracking, and later documentation live under the [https://github.com/freehal freehal] GitHub organization and Schulz's personal GitHub account.<ref name="githubio" />

== How conversation worked ==

From the computer's point of view a turn had three repeating stages: understand the human input, retrieve or infer an answer, and emit natural language.<ref name="linuxmag" /> The stack combined:

* a '''stemmer''' to reduce inflected forms to stems;
* a '''part-of-speech tagger''' to label grammatical roles;
* '''pattern recognition''' over the resulting tokens;
* '''part-of-speech databases''';
* a '''semantic network''' of facts and relations;
* [[Hidden Markov model]]s for statistical interpretation.<ref name="enwiki" /><ref name="linuxmag" />

A simple first-order HMM used for tagging or sequence interpretation can be written with hidden states <math>q_t</math>, observations <math>o_t</math>, transitions <math>a_{ij}</math>, and emissions <math>b_j(o)</math>:

<math>
P(q_1,\ldots,q_T,o_1,\ldots,o_T)
= P(q_1)\,b_{q_1}(o_1)
\prod_{t=2}^{T} a_{q_{t-1}q_t}\,b_{q_t}(o_t).
</math>

The Viterbi recurrence that recovers the most likely tag or dialog-state path is

<math>
V_t(j) = \max_i \bigl(V_{t-1}(i)\,a_{ij}\bigr)\,b_j(o_t).
</math>

Facts learned in conversation were stored as nodes and edges so the kernel could draw conclusions that had not been typed in as isolated sentences.<ref name="linuxmag" /> By late 2008 the public German demo already held more than 800,000 German terms and almost 200,000 relations, versus about 20,000 English words and 80,000 English relations; German remained the only language with a large semantic net.<ref name="linuxmag" /><ref name="dewiki" />

Linux Magazine noted typical limits of the era: confused word order, tense, number, and case; occasional infinite loops while learning that required wiping the database; and crashes, though day-to-day reliability was described as fairly good.<ref name="linuxmag" />

== FreeHAL@home on BOINC ==

Workunits converted open semantic-net dumps into FreeHAL's internal fact/relation format.<ref name="live2010" /> Because the application often used only a small fraction of one CPU (community reports put the useful work at a few seconds, then a long sleep so a unit lasted on the order of 90 minutes plus a random extra interval averaging about 10 minutes), it was commonly run '''alongside''' other BOINC projects. A relatively new BOINC Manager was required so non-CPU-intensive FreeHAL tasks could run concurrently with ordinary CPU work. Typical reported memory use was about 11–12 MB per instance (ranging roughly 1–65 MB). Community analysis of <code>hal2009-boinc.cpp</code> described a grant on the order of 12 credits per completed unit.<ref name="ars" /><ref name="berkeley">{{cite web |title=Thread 'Free Hal project.' |url=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=6761 |website=BOINC forums |date=24 July 2011 |access-date=24 August 2026}}</ref>

In June 2009 Schulz posted server messages explaining that simultaneous in-flight work had jumped from 10,000–30,000 units in May to almost 200,000, overwhelming the project server.<ref name="statsforum">{{cite web |title=Forum::The Projects::FreeHAL@home |url=https://www.boincstats.com/forum/10/4606 |website=BOINCstats |date=2009 |access-date=24 August 2026}}</ref> Monthly hosting was later said to cost about 80 currency units for bandwidth and traffic, and the project appealed for donations.<ref name="live2010" />

Applications were CPU-only. Platforms advertised over the project's life included Windows, Linux, and other Unix-like systems used by the chatbot itself.<ref name="enwiki" />

== Project statistics ==

[[File:parsetree.png|thumb|Example FreeHAL parse tree from the official project site|400x400px]]

BOINCstats classifies the project under Artificial intelligence and records these lifetime figures after the final XML export of April 2013:<ref name="boincstats" />

{| class="wikitable"
! Metric !! Value
|-
| First seen || 26 September 2008
|-
| Total credit || 3,680,102,220
|-
| Users (all time) || 18,006
|-
| Hosts (all time) || 63,407
|-
| Teams || 798
|-
| Active users / hosts (today) || 0 / 0
|-
| RAC || 0
|-
| Contribution to combined BOINC credit || about 0.0077%
|}

A May 2012 snapshot (while the project was still granting credit) listed about 14,600 users (2,763 active), 52,331 hosts (6,878 active), 680 teams, RAC of 2,448,500, and about 12.24 TFLOPS of equivalent throughput.<ref name="boincstats2012">{{cite web |title=BOINCstats FreeHAL graph |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120501220035/http://boincstats.com/stats/project_graph.php?pr=freehal |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120501220035/http://boincstats.com/stats/project_graph.php?pr=freehal |archive-date=1 May 2012 |website=BOINCstats |access-date=24 August 2026}}</ref>

== Awards and reception ==

In 2008 FreeHAL won first prize in the '''Most Popular''' category of the international [[Chatterbox Challenge]].<ref name="enwiki" /><ref name="cbc">{{cite web |title=The Chatterbox Challenge |url=http://www.daniellechuchran.com/contest_history.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100924042534/http://www.daniellechuchran.com/contest_history.html |archive-date=24 September 2010 |access-date=24 August 2026}}</ref>

As JEliza it appeared on the cover CD/DVD of the German magazine ''com! Das Computer-Magazin'' in issues 4/2008 and 5/2008 and was listed among that month's Top-10 open-source programs.<ref name="dewiki" /><ref name="com4">{{cite web |title=Top-10 des Monats |url=http://www.com-magazin.de/hefte/artikelarchiv/com-artikel/top-10-des-monats-8.html |website=com! |access-date=24 August 2026}}</ref> ''Linux Magazine'' issue 97 (December 2008) devoted a projects column to FreeHAL, placing it in the lineage of the [[Turing test]] and describing stemmers, taggers, HMMs, SQLite storage, and the BOINC subproject.<ref name="linuxmag" /> LinuxCommunity likewise highlighted the 2008 Chatterbox win and the research aim of simulating linguistic intelligence.<ref name="linuxcomm">{{cite web |title=FreeHAL - Die neue Gattung maschineller Intelligenz |url=https://www.linux-community.de/nachrichten/FreeHAL-Die-neue-Gattung-maschineller-Intelligenz/ |website=LinuxCommunity |date=1 September 2008 |access-date=24 August 2026}}</ref>

Volunteer forums (Ars Technica, BOINC, SETI.Germany, Planet 3DNow!) treated FreeHAL@home as a light "sidecar" project. Some crunchers liked the credit-to-CPU ratio; others questioned whether the sleep-padded workunits did useful science.<ref name="ars" />

== Publications ==

No peer-reviewed paper authored by the FreeHAL team was located in major indexes. Contemporary and later publications that discuss the program include:

* Carsten Schnober, "Projects on the Move," ''Linux Magazine'' 97 (December 2008), pp. 94–95. Feature on FreeHAL's NLP pipeline, knowledge sizes, client–server design, and FreeHAL@home.<ref name="linuxmag" />
* ''com! Das Computer-Magazin'', issues 4/2008 and 5/2008: JEliza on the magazine disc and in the monthly Top-10 open-source list.<ref name="dewiki" />
* Mikic, Burguillo, Peleteiro, and Rey-López, "Using Tags In An AIML-based Chatterbot To Improve Its Knowledge," ''Computer Science'' 13 (2) 2012, pp. 123 ff. Cited in the German Wikipedia literature list for FreeHAL.<ref name="dewiki" />
* English and German [[Wikipedia]] articles, and the DBpedia extraction of the English article.<ref name="enwiki" /><ref name="dbpedia">{{cite web |title=About: FreeHAL |url=https://dbpedia.org/page/FreeHAL |website=DBpedia |access-date=24 August 2026}}</ref>

== Legacy ==

Code, old Gna! homepage mirrors, 2008 screenshots (Ubuntu 7.04 and OS X 10.4.10), and historical downloads remain on [https://freehal.github.io/ freehal.github.io].<ref name="githubio" /> The BOINC attach URL and live servers are gone. Lifetime credit and host counts are preserved at [[BOINCstats]].<ref name="boincstats" /> FreeHAL is still listed among historical volunteer-computing and chatbot projects on Wikipedia's lists of AI and BOINC-related software.<ref name="enwiki" />

== See also ==

* [[BOINC projects]]
* [[Main Page]]
* [[Axiom Distributed AI]]
* [[MindModeling@Home]]
* [[MLC@Home]]
* [[Chess@Home]]
* [[Yoyo@home]]
* [[WUProp@Home]]
* [[BOINC Central]]
* [[BOINC Alpha Test]]
* [[SciLINC]]

== External links ==

* [https://freehal.github.io/ Official archival site]
* [https://github.com/freehal Source repositories]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110801052639/http://www.freehal.net/freehal_at_home/ Wayback Machine: FreeHAL@home (1 August 2011)]
* [https://www.boincstats.com/stats/78/project/detail BOINCstats project page]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeHAL English Wikipedia]
* [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeHAL German Wikipedia]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120224065526/http://www.linux-magazine.com/w3/issue/97/094-095_projects.pdf Linux Magazine 97 PDF (archive)]

== References ==

{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Completed BOINC projects]]
[[Category:Artificial intelligence]]
[[Category:Chatbots]]
[[Category:Volunteer computing projects]]
[[Category:Free software]]
[[Category:Software using the GPL license]]

FreeHAL

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{{Infobox software
| name = FreeHAL@home
| logo = FreeHAL_logo.png
| logo caption = FreeHAL logo
| screenshot = Freehal.png
| caption = FreeHAL graphical interface
| description = FreeHAL@home was a completed Artificial intelligence BOINC project that generated and converted semantic networks for the self-learning chatbot FreeHAL, developed by Tobias Schulz.
| status = Completed
| category = Artificial intelligence
| compute = CPU
| dependencies = None
| developer = Tobias Schulz
| author = Tobias Schulz
| sponsor = CloudSigma (2010–2011); volunteer server donors including SETI.Germany and Planet 3DNow!
| maintainer = Tobias Schulz
| released = {{Start date and age|2008|09|26}}
| completed = {{Start date and age|2012}}
| discontinued = {{Start date and age|2013|04|07}}
| repository = {{URL|https://github.com/freehal}}
| programming language = Java, Perl, C++, Python, PHP
| operating system = Windows, Linux, Unix, BSD, macOS, Android
| size = ~6.8 MB (JEliza 2.2.2)
| stats as of = {{Start date and age|2013|04|07}}
| average performance = 12.24 TFLOPS (May 2012 peak reported)
| active users = 0
| total users = 18006
| active hosts = 0
| total hosts = 63407
| rac = 0
| credit per day = 0
| gpu performance = N/A (CPU only)
| cpu performance = 12.24 TFLOPS (May 2012)
| website = {{URL|https://freehal.github.io/}}
| license = GPL-3.0-or-later
}}

'''FreeHAL@home''' (also written '''FreeHAL@Home''' or listed in statistics as '''FreeHAL''') was a completed [[BOINC]] volunteer computing project that generated and converted fact and relationship databases ([[semantic network]]s) for '''FreeHAL''', an open-source self-learning [[chatbot]].<ref name="wayback2011">{{cite web |title=FreeHAL@home |url=http://www.freehal.net/freehal_at_home/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110801052639/http://www.freehal.net/freehal_at_home |archive-date=1 August 2011 |website=freehal.net |access-date=24 August 2026}}</ref><ref name="enwiki">{{cite web |title=FreeHAL |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeHAL |website=Wikipedia |access-date=24 August 2026}}</ref> The desktop program (originally named '''JEliza''') was written to imitate human conversation in German and English. After more than six years of mostly active development, the software project was discontinued in 2012; the BOINC servers last published statistics in April 2013 and never recovered from a database crash.<ref name="githubio">{{cite web |title=About FreeHAL |url=https://freehal.github.io/ |website=freehal.github.io |access-date=24 August 2026}}</ref><ref name="boincstats">{{cite web |title=FreeHAL - Detailed stats |url=https://www.boincstats.com/stats/78/project/detail |website=BOINCstats/BAM! |access-date=24 August 2026}}</ref>

[[File:FreeHAL_logo.png|thumb|FreeHAL project logo (Wikimedia Commons)]]

== History ==

The program began around 2006 as '''JEliza'''. The name combined '''J'''ava, the first implementation language, with [[ELIZA]], Joseph Weizenbaum's 1966 conversation simulator.<ref name="linuxmag">{{cite magazine |last=Schnober |first=Carsten |title=Projects on the Move |magazine=Linux Magazine |issue=97 |date=December 2008 |pages=94–95 |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224065526/http://www.linux-magazine.com/w3/issue/97/094-095_projects.pdf |access-date=24 August 2026}}</ref><ref name="enwiki" /> Early releases (including Python, Perl, and Qt builds) were hosted at Gna!.<ref name="githubio" /> Heise listed JEliza 2.2.2 as a 6.77 MB GNU-GPL download for Windows and Linux.<ref name="heise">{{cite web |title=JEliza 2.2.2 |url=http://freehal.github.io/mirrors/www.heise.de/download/jeliza-1155680.html |website=Heise (project mirror) |access-date=24 August 2026}}</ref>

In May 2008 the project was renamed '''FreeHAL''' after the language mix no longer matched the leading "J", and in homage to HAL 9000 from the film ''2001: A Space Odyssey''.<ref name="enwiki" /><ref name="dewiki">{{cite web |title=FreeHAL |url=https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeHAL |website=German Wikipedia |access-date=24 August 2026}}</ref> Lead developer [[Tobias Schulz]] remained the principal author, maintainer, and BOINC administrator throughout the project's life.<ref name="enwiki" /><ref name="wayback2011" />

[[BOINC]] first listed FreeHAL@home on 26 September 2008.<ref name="boincstats" /> Volunteers attached with the project URL <code>http://www.freehal.net/freehal_at_home/</code> (participants were warned to avoid the alternate host <code>boinc.freehal.org</code> during launch).<ref name="boincaf">{{cite web |title=Les sites des projets |url=https://www.boinc-af.org/les-sites-des-projets.html |website=BOINC-AF |access-date=24 August 2026}}</ref>

From August 2010 the Swiss cloud provider CloudSigma donated servers used for both the chatbot and the BOINC project. On 27 February 2011 Schulz announced that CloudSigma would continue that support for another twelve months; on 1 May 2011 he reported that CloudSigma would not extend the agreement. SETI.Germany and Planet 3DNow! members had also sponsored servers, and Elton Chung of ReactOS donated a download mirror.<ref name="wayback2011" /><ref name="freehalnet">{{cite web |title=FreeHAL@home |url=https://freehal.net/freehal_at_home |website=freehal.net |access-date=24 August 2026}}</ref>

The last numbered desktop release commonly cited is '''Step 6''' (8 April 2011).<ref name="enwiki" /> German Wikipedia records source revision 1447 dated 2 June 2012.<ref name="dewiki" /> An Android client appeared on Google Play in June 2012 (answers computed on remote servers). A Java port intended for Android and desktop was started in September 2012.<ref name="githubio" /> The official site later stated that after more than six years of mostly active development the project had been discontinued in 2012.<ref name="githubio" />

On 7 April 2013 a database server crash took FreeHAL@home offline. An offline notice said there was no way to access the project while recovery was attempted with the server donors.<ref name="wuprop">{{cite web |title=Freehal: Really? |url=https://wuprop.boinc-af.org/forum_thread.php?id=192 |website=WUProp@Home forums |date=12 June 2013 |access-date=24 August 2026}}</ref> BOINCstats last ingested user and team XML on 7 April 2013 and host XML on 6 April 2013.<ref name="boincstats" /> Combined-statistics maintainers later retired the listing after the servers had been offline for nearly a year.<ref name="netsoft">{{cite web |title=FreeHal@Home |url=https://boinc.netsoft-online.com/forum/suggestions/1016/freehalhome/ |website=BOINC Combined Statistics |access-date=24 August 2026}}</ref>

== Goals ==

The FreeHAL project's mission was to develop an open-source program that "very closely imitates human conversation."<ref name="wayback2011" /><ref name="githubio" /> FreeHAL@home existed so that large public semantic nets could be parsed and converted into the fact and relationship graphs used by that program. Those conversions were described as time-consuming and embarrassingly parallel, so they were packaged as BOINC workunits for volunteer hosts.<ref name="wayback2011" /><ref name="live2010">{{cite web |title=FreeHAL - free software artificial intelligence |url=https://freehal.net/freehal_at_home/index.php |website=freehal.net |access-date=24 August 2026}}</ref>

Unlike scripted commercial chatbots of the period, FreeHAL was advertised as learning on its own while talking to people over the keyboard, growing a knowledge database rather than only matching canned patterns.<ref name="enwiki" /><ref name="ars">{{cite web |title=FreeHAL@home |url=https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=37134 |website=Ars Technica OpenForum |date=January 2010 |access-date=24 August 2026}}</ref>

== Software architecture ==

FreeHAL was a client–server system. A server (called the '''kernel''' in project documentation) handled understanding and generation. Front ends included a cross-platform [[Qt (software)|Qt]] graphical user interface, a text client, a PHP web interface used on the project homepage, and later the Android app.<ref name="linuxmag" /><ref name="wayback2011" /> Several users could train one shared installation over the network.<ref name="linuxmag" />

[[File:Freehal.png|thumb|FreeHAL screenshot from Wikimedia Commons]]

Licensing was [[GNU General Public License|GNU GPL]] version 3 or later.<ref name="githubio" /> Supported operating systems included Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, Unix, BSD, and Mac OS X, with Android added in 2012.<ref name="enwiki" /><ref name="githubio" /> Implementation languages shifted over time from Java to Perl and then C++, with Python and PHP used for earlier and web components; a later Java port was begun in 2012.<ref name="linuxmag" /><ref name="dewiki" /><ref name="githubio" /> Knowledge was stored in an [[SQLite]] database.<ref name="linuxmag" /> Speech synthesis used MPlayer for playback and an online synthesizer operated by Schulz.<ref name="linuxmag" /> Source code, issue tracking, and later documentation live under the [https://github.com/freehal freehal] GitHub organization and Schulz's personal GitHub account.<ref name="githubio" />

== How conversation worked ==

From the computer's point of view a turn had three repeating stages: understand the human input, retrieve or infer an answer, and emit natural language.<ref name="linuxmag" /> The stack combined:

* a '''stemmer''' to reduce inflected forms to stems;
* a '''part-of-speech tagger''' to label grammatical roles;
* '''pattern recognition''' over the resulting tokens;
* '''part-of-speech databases''';
* a '''semantic network''' of facts and relations;
* [[Hidden Markov model]]s for statistical interpretation.<ref name="enwiki" /><ref name="linuxmag" />

A simple first-order HMM used for tagging or sequence interpretation can be written with hidden states <math>q_t</math>, observations <math>o_t</math>, transitions <math>a_{ij}</math>, and emissions <math>b_j(o)</math>:

<math>
P(q_1,\ldots,q_T,o_1,\ldots,o_T)
= P(q_1)\,b_{q_1}(o_1)
\prod_{t=2}^{T} a_{q_{t-1}q_t}\,b_{q_t}(o_t).
</math>

The Viterbi recurrence that recovers the most likely tag or dialog-state path is

<math>
V_t(j) = \max_i \bigl(V_{t-1}(i)\,a_{ij}\bigr)\,b_j(o_t).
</math>

Facts learned in conversation were stored as nodes and edges so the kernel could draw conclusions that had not been typed in as isolated sentences.<ref name="linuxmag" /> By late 2008 the public German demo already held more than 800,000 German terms and almost 200,000 relations, versus about 20,000 English words and 80,000 English relations; German remained the only language with a large semantic net.<ref name="linuxmag" /><ref name="dewiki" />

Linux Magazine noted typical limits of the era: confused word order, tense, number, and case; occasional infinite loops while learning that required wiping the database; and crashes, though day-to-day reliability was described as fairly good.<ref name="linuxmag" />

[[File:parsetree.png|thumb|Example FreeHAL parse tree from the official project site]]

== FreeHAL@home on BOINC ==

Workunits converted open semantic-net dumps into FreeHAL's internal fact/relation format.<ref name="live2010" /> Because the application often used only a small fraction of one CPU (community reports put the useful work at a few seconds, then a long sleep so a unit lasted on the order of 90 minutes plus a random extra interval averaging about 10 minutes), it was commonly run '''alongside''' other BOINC projects. A relatively new BOINC Manager was required so non-CPU-intensive FreeHAL tasks could run concurrently with ordinary CPU work. Typical reported memory use was about 11–12 MB per instance (ranging roughly 1–65 MB). Community analysis of <code>hal2009-boinc.cpp</code> described a grant on the order of 12 credits per completed unit.<ref name="ars" /><ref name="berkeley">{{cite web |title=Thread 'Free Hal project.' |url=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=6761 |website=BOINC forums |date=24 July 2011 |access-date=24 August 2026}}</ref>

In June 2009 Schulz posted server messages explaining that simultaneous in-flight work had jumped from 10,000–30,000 units in May to almost 200,000, overwhelming the project server.<ref name="statsforum">{{cite web |title=Forum::The Projects::FreeHAL@home |url=https://www.boincstats.com/forum/10/4606 |website=BOINCstats |date=2009 |access-date=24 August 2026}}</ref> Monthly hosting was later said to cost about 80 currency units for bandwidth and traffic, and the project appealed for donations.<ref name="live2010" />

Applications were CPU-only. Platforms advertised over the project's life included Windows, Linux, and other Unix-like systems used by the chatbot itself.<ref name="enwiki" />

== Project statistics ==

BOINCstats classifies the project under Artificial intelligence and records these lifetime figures after the final XML export of April 2013:<ref name="boincstats" />

{| class="wikitable"
! Metric !! Value
|-
| First seen || 26 September 2008
|-
| Total credit || 3,680,102,220
|-
| Users (all time) || 18,006
|-
| Hosts (all time) || 63,407
|-
| Teams || 798
|-
| Active users / hosts (today) || 0 / 0
|-
| RAC || 0
|-
| Contribution to combined BOINC credit || about 0.0077%
|}

A May 2012 snapshot (while the project was still granting credit) listed about 14,600 users (2,763 active), 52,331 hosts (6,878 active), 680 teams, RAC of 2,448,500, and about 12.24 TFLOPS of equivalent throughput.<ref name="boincstats2012">{{cite web |title=BOINCstats FreeHAL graph |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120501220035/http://boincstats.com/stats/project_graph.php?pr=freehal |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120501220035/http://boincstats.com/stats/project_graph.php?pr=freehal |archive-date=1 May 2012 |website=BOINCstats |access-date=24 August 2026}}</ref>

== Awards and reception ==

In 2008 FreeHAL won first prize in the '''Most Popular''' category of the international [[Chatterbox Challenge]].<ref name="enwiki" /><ref name="cbc">{{cite web |title=The Chatterbox Challenge |url=http://www.daniellechuchran.com/contest_history.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100924042534/http://www.daniellechuchran.com/contest_history.html |archive-date=24 September 2010 |access-date=24 August 2026}}</ref>

As JEliza it appeared on the cover CD/DVD of the German magazine ''com! Das Computer-Magazin'' in issues 4/2008 and 5/2008 and was listed among that month's Top-10 open-source programs.<ref name="dewiki" /><ref name="com4">{{cite web |title=Top-10 des Monats |url=http://www.com-magazin.de/hefte/artikelarchiv/com-artikel/top-10-des-monats-8.html |website=com! |access-date=24 August 2026}}</ref> ''Linux Magazine'' issue 97 (December 2008) devoted a projects column to FreeHAL, placing it in the lineage of the [[Turing test]] and describing stemmers, taggers, HMMs, SQLite storage, and the BOINC subproject.<ref name="linuxmag" /> LinuxCommunity likewise highlighted the 2008 Chatterbox win and the research aim of simulating linguistic intelligence.<ref name="linuxcomm">{{cite web |title=FreeHAL - Die neue Gattung maschineller Intelligenz |url=https://www.linux-community.de/nachrichten/FreeHAL-Die-neue-Gattung-maschineller-Intelligenz/ |website=LinuxCommunity |date=1 September 2008 |access-date=24 August 2026}}</ref>

Volunteer forums (Ars Technica, BOINC, SETI.Germany, Planet 3DNow!) treated FreeHAL@home as a light "sidecar" project. Some crunchers liked the credit-to-CPU ratio; others questioned whether the sleep-padded workunits did useful science.<ref name="ars" />

== Publications ==

No peer-reviewed paper authored by the FreeHAL team was located in major indexes. Contemporary and later publications that discuss the program include:

* Carsten Schnober, "Projects on the Move," ''Linux Magazine'' 97 (December 2008), pp. 94–95. Feature on FreeHAL's NLP pipeline, knowledge sizes, client–server design, and FreeHAL@home.<ref name="linuxmag" />
* ''com! Das Computer-Magazin'', issues 4/2008 and 5/2008: JEliza on the magazine disc and in the monthly Top-10 open-source list.<ref name="dewiki" />
* Mikic, Burguillo, Peleteiro, and Rey-López, "Using Tags In An AIML-based Chatterbot To Improve Its Knowledge," ''Computer Science'' 13 (2) 2012, pp. 123 ff. Cited in the German Wikipedia literature list for FreeHAL.<ref name="dewiki" />
* English and German [[Wikipedia]] articles, and the DBpedia extraction of the English article.<ref name="enwiki" /><ref name="dbpedia">{{cite web |title=About: FreeHAL |url=https://dbpedia.org/page/FreeHAL |website=DBpedia |access-date=24 August 2026}}</ref>

== Legacy ==

Code, old Gna! homepage mirrors, 2008 screenshots (Ubuntu 7.04 and OS X 10.4.10), and historical downloads remain on [https://freehal.github.io/ freehal.github.io].<ref name="githubio" /> The BOINC attach URL and live servers are gone. Lifetime credit and host counts are preserved at [[BOINCstats]].<ref name="boincstats" /> FreeHAL is still listed among historical volunteer-computing and chatbot projects on Wikipedia's lists of AI and BOINC-related software.<ref name="enwiki" />

== See also ==

* [[BOINC projects]]
* [[Main Page]]
* [[Axiom Distributed AI]]
* [[MindModeling@Home]]
* [[MLC@Home]]
* [[Chess@Home]]
* [[Yoyo@home]]
* [[WUProp@Home]]
* [[BOINC Central]]
* [[BOINC Alpha Test]]
* [[SciLINC]]

== External links ==

* [https://freehal.github.io/ Official archival site]
* [https://github.com/freehal Source repositories]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110801052639/http://www.freehal.net/freehal_at_home/ Wayback Machine: FreeHAL@home (1 August 2011)]
* [https://www.boincstats.com/stats/78/project/detail BOINCstats project page]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeHAL English Wikipedia]
* [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeHAL German Wikipedia]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120224065526/http://www.linux-magazine.com/w3/issue/97/094-095_projects.pdf Linux Magazine 97 PDF (archive)]

== References ==

{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Completed BOINC projects]]
[[Category:Artificial intelligence]]
[[Category:Chatbots]]
[[Category:Volunteer computing projects]]
[[Category:Free software]]
[[Category:Software using the GPL license]]

BRaTS@Home

2026-08-20T19:44:21Z

Al Piskun: images

{{Infobox software
| name = BRaTS@Home
| logo =
| logo caption =
| screenshot =
| caption = A simulated lensed image of M31 produced with BRaTS ray tracing
| description = BRaTS@Home was a completed Astrophysics BOINC project that used volunteer computers to perform gravitational lensing ray-tracing simulations of galaxy clusters, developed by David Coss and sponsored by the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
| status = Completed
| category = Astrophysics
| compute = CPU
| dependencies = [[wikipedia:BOINC|BOINC]] client
| developer = David Coss
| author = David Coss
| sponsor = University of Missouri-St. Louis
| maintainer = None (project completed 2010)
| released = {{Start date and age|2007|06|05}}
| completed = {{Start date and age|2010|04|13}} (scheduler shut down; website offline by mid-May 2010)
| discontinued =
| repository = {{URL|https://github.com/kd0kfo/cosmology}}
| programming language = C++
| operating system = Windows, Linux
| size =
| stats as of = April 12, 2010 (final statistics export)
| average performance = ~1.1 GFLOPS (average, June 2007 to April 2008)
| active users = 0 (at final export)
| total users = 115
| active hosts = 0 (at final export)
| total hosts = 492
| rac = 0 (at final export)
| credit per day =
| gpu performance = Not applicable (CPU only)
| cpu performance = ~1.1 GFLOPS average (June 2007 to April 2008)
| website = {{URL|http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu/brats/}} (offline; archived)
| license = GPL-3.0 (successor CosApps code)
}}

'''BRaTS@Home''' was a [[wikipedia:Volunteer computing|volunteer computing]] project built on the [[wikipedia:BOINC|BOINC]] (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) platform that performed [[wikipedia:Gravitational lensing|gravitational lensing]] ray-tracing simulations. The name is a [[wikipedia:Recursive acronym|recursive acronym]]: '''BRaTS''' stands for ''BRaTS Ray Trace Simulator''.<ref name=home2009>{{cite web |url=http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu/brats/ |title=BRaTS@Home homepage (capture of 22 March 2009) |publisher=University of Missouri-St. Louis |access-date=August 20, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090322190553/http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu/brats/ |archive-date=March 22, 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The project simulated the way [[wikipedia:Dark matter|dark matter]] in [[wikipedia:Galaxy cluster|galaxy clusters]] and other foreground mass concentrations distorts the images of more distant background objects, work that formed the computational core of developer David Coss's doctoral research at the [[wikipedia:University of Missouri-St. Louis|University of Missouri-St. Louis]] (UMSL).<ref name=thesis>{{cite thesis |last1=Coss |first1=David |title=Weak shear study of galaxy clusters by simulated gravitational lensing |type=Ph.D. thesis |institution=University of Missouri-St. Louis |date=2010 |bibcode=2010PhDT.......285C |url=https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010PhDT.......285C/abstract |access-date=August 20, 2026}}</ref>

BRaTS@Home went online on June 5, 2007 and ran for almost three years, attracting volunteers from 26 countries before being retired in April 2010 upon the successful defense of Coss's dissertation.<ref name=aas>{{cite conference |last1=Coss |first1=David Raymond |last2=Flores |first2=R. |title=BRaTS@Home and BOINC Distributed Computing for Parallel Computation |conference=212th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society |location=St. Louis, Missouri |date=June 2-5, 2008 |bibcode=2008AAS...212.2410C |url=https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008AAS...212.2410C/abstract |access-date=August 20, 2026}}</ref><ref name=wind-down>{{cite web |url=http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu/brats/forum_thread.php?id=182 |title=Project Status (project news forum thread, capture of 27 March 2010) |publisher=BRaTS@Home message boards |access-date=August 20, 2026 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20100327131814/http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu:80/brats/forum_thread.php?id=182 |archive-date=March 27, 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref> It is remembered as a small, personable project: run single-handedly by a graduate student from a lab computer, invitation-only for most of its life, and famous among its participants for the occasional campus power outage that briefly silenced the server.<ref name=home2009/><ref name=poweroutage>{{cite web |url=http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu/brats/forum_thread.php?id=179 |title=Power Outage (news thread, capture of 27 March 2010) |publisher=BRaTS@Home message boards |access-date=August 20, 2026 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20100327131545/http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu:80/brats/forum_thread.php?id=179 |archive-date=March 27, 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

== History ==

=== Origins and launch (2007) ===

BRaTS@Home was created by David Coss, a physics graduate student at UMSL working under professor Ricardo Flores on the simulation of gravitational lensing.<ref name=nasa2008>{{cite conference |last1=Coss |first1=David |title=Simulation of Gravitational Lensing |conference=NASA Missouri Space Grant Consortium Annual Meeting |location=Missouri, USA |date=April 2008 |publisher=NASA Missouri Space Grant Consortium |url=http://research.davecoss.com/nasa_mo_paper.pdf |access-date=August 20, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080827225312/http://research.davecoss.com/nasa_mo_paper.pdf |archive-date=August 27, 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Computing deflection angles by direct integration for realistic cluster mass distributions is computationally expensive, so rather than buy time on a conventional cluster, Coss turned to [[wikipedia:BOINC|BOINC]], which "allows scientists to build a computer cluster at the price of one server" by harvesting the idle time of volunteers' computers.<ref name=aas/>

The project came online on June 5, 2007, initially offering work for [[wikipedia:Linux|Linux]] on x86 computers only.<ref name=oldnews>{{cite web |url=http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu/brats/old_news.php |title=BRaTS@Home news archive (capture of 22 October 2007) |publisher=BRaTS@Home |access-date=August 20, 2026 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20071022170116/http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu:80/brats/old_news.php |archive-date=October 22, 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The first successful work unit was completed the following day.<ref name=oldnews/> The project carried an "alpha testing" label from June 13, 2007, and the first small [[wikipedia:Microsoft Windows|Windows]] (Windows XP) work units went out on June 18.<ref name=oldnews/> On July 17, 2007, Coss removed the beta label, writing that "things are running smoothly and I am at a point where science can be done."<ref name=oldnews/> The statistics service BOINCstats first recorded the project on June 25, 2007.<ref name=boincstats>{{cite web |url=https://www.boincstats.com/stats/48/project/detail |title=BRaTS@Home - Detailed stats |website=BOINCstats/BAM! |access-date=August 20, 2026}}</ref>

From early on, enrollment was restricted: new accounts required an invitation code, a state of affairs still in effect as late as 2009.<ref name=home2009/> The demand for codes grew so heavy that Coss removed his email address from the front page, directing volunteers to the message boards instead.<ref name=allnews>{{cite web |url=http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu/brats/all_news.php |title=BRaTS@Home news archive (capture of 2 February 2008) |publisher=BRaTS@Home |access-date=August 20, 2026 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20080202130300/http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu:80/brats/all_news.php |archive-date=February 2, 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

=== Operation (2007 to 2010) ===

The project was hosted on a computer named ''maxwell'' in a UMSL lab, reachable at the address <code>http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu/brats/</code>.<ref name=home2010>{{cite web |url=http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu/brats/index.php |title=BRaTS@Home homepage (capture of 25 March 2010) |publisher=University of Missouri-St. Louis |access-date=August 20, 2026 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20100325212718/http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu:80/brats/index.php |archive-date=March 25, 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Being tied to a campus network had its hazards, and the news archive chronicles a colorful series of interruptions: campus-wide power outages, a router and firewall failure that removed the whole campus from the Internet, an unannounced firewall change that forced a hiatus in early 2008 (used as an opportunity to upgrade to a newer BOINC server), and backbone upgrades by the campus Internet provider.<ref name=oldnews/><ref name=allnews/><ref name=home2009/>

In June 2008, Coss presented the project at the 212th meeting of the [[wikipedia:American Astronomical Society|American Astronomical Society]] in St. Louis, reporting that 182 users in 26 countries had joined, that 795 computers had connected to the server between June 2007 and April 2008, and that the volunteers supplied an average computing power of 1.1 billion [[wikipedia:FLOPS|floating point operations per second]] (GFLOPS). At the time, the BOINC platform as a whole averaged more than 1,000 [[wikipedia:FLOPS|teraFLOPS]], putting the scale of the small academic project in perspective.<ref name=aas/>

The project had an active community life for its size, with [[wikipedia:Internet forum|message boards]], participant profiles, a playful "BRaT of the day" profile feature, team competition (45 teams were registered over the project's life), certificates, and an RSS news feed.<ref name=home2009/><ref name=boincstats/> On January 23, 2010, Coss held an online discussion and question-and-answer session with volunteers about the project's results.<ref name=home2010/>

=== Completion (2010) ===

BRaTS@Home was, by design, a finite project: it existed to produce the simulations for Coss's dissertation. On March 24, 2010, he announced that he would defend his dissertation on April 9, 2010, and that the project would therefore come to an end. He thanked the volunteers, noting that the dissertation images combined data sets produced on multiple computers, so that "if you have been granted credit... it is likely your computer contributed to part of that."<ref name=wind-down/>

The scheduler was shut down on April 13, 2010, and volunteers were asked to detach from the project by mid-May 2010, when the university was expected to switch off the server.<ref name=shutdown>{{cite web |url=http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu/brats/forum_thread.php?id=183 |title=Scheduler Shutdown (news thread, capture of 17 April 2010) |publisher=BRaTS@Home message boards |access-date=August 20, 2026 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20100417122439/http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu:80/brats/forum_thread.php?id=183 |archive-date=April 17, 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The final statistics export seen by BOINCstats is dated April 12, 2010, and records 79,464 total credits granted to 115 users and 492 host computers, with 45 teams.<ref name=boincstats/> Coss received his Ph.D. in physics in 2010,<ref name=cv>{{cite web |url=http://davecoss.com/cv.pdf |title=Curriculum Vitae of David Coss, Ph.D. |website=davecoss.com |access-date=August 20, 2026}}</ref> and mirrored the site's content at research.davecoss.com as a keepsake before the original server went dark.<ref name=wind-down/>

[[File:UMSL 01.jpg|thumb|The University of Missouri-St. Louis, which hosted BRaTS@Home in a physics department lab.|alt=Aerial view of a university campus with modern buildings and ponds|350x350px]]

== Science ==

=== Gravitational lensing ===

[[wikipedia:Gravitational lensing|Gravitational lensing]] is the deflection of light by gravity. A point mass <math>M</math> deflects a light ray passing at impact parameter <math>b</math> by the angle

:<math>\hat{\alpha} = \frac{4GM}{c^{2}b},</math>

where <math>G</math> is the gravitational constant and <math>c</math> the speed of light. In the thin-lens approximation, a mass distribution between a distant source and the observer maps the source position <math>\boldsymbol{\beta}</math> to the image position <math>\boldsymbol{\theta}</math> through the lens equation

:<math>\boldsymbol{\beta} = \boldsymbol{\theta} - \boldsymbol{\alpha}(\boldsymbol{\theta}), \qquad \boldsymbol{\alpha} = \frac{D_{ds}}{D_{s}}\, \hat{\boldsymbol{\alpha}},</math>

where <math>D_{ds}</math> and <math>D_s</math> are angular-diameter distances and <math>\boldsymbol{\alpha}</math> is the reduced deflection angle.<ref name=nasa2008/> Because the deflection depends only on the projected mass distribution, lensing offers a way to "see" [[wikipedia:Dark matter|dark matter]], which makes up most of the mass of galaxy clusters but emits no light.<ref name=nasa2009>{{cite conference |last1=Coss |first1=David |title=Gravitational Lensing Shear Simulations Using Fast Fourier Transform |conference=NASA Missouri Space Grant Consortium Annual Meeting |location=Missouri, USA |date=April 2009 |publisher=NASA Missouri Space Grant Consortium |url=http://research.davecoss.com/Coss_MOSGCpaper.pdf |access-date=August 20, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200712022454/http://research.davecoss.com/Coss_MOSGCpaper.pdf |archive-date=July 12, 2020 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

In the weak-lensing regime the distortion is subtle: the shapes of background galaxies are stretched (shear) and magnified (convergence) by small amounts. Both are derived from the two-dimensional lensing potential <math>\psi</math>:

:<math>\kappa = \tfrac{1}{2}(\psi_{,11} + \psi_{,22}), \qquad
\gamma_{1} = \tfrac{1}{2}(\psi_{,11} - \psi_{,22}), \qquad
\gamma_{2} = \psi_{,12},</math>

which combine into the complex shear <math>\gamma = \gamma_{1} + i\,\gamma_{2}</math>. Measuring the statistical alignment of many background galaxies (cosmic shear) reveals the projected mass distribution of the foreground cluster.<ref name=nasa2009/>

=== The BRaTS approach ===

BRaTS@Home attacked the problem by brute-force [[wikipedia:Ray tracing|ray tracing]]: each work unit traced light rays through a model mass distribution, integrating the deflection they accumulate along the line of sight, and computing the resulting deflection angles on a grid.<ref name=aas/><ref name=thesis/> The project's main science application was named <code>ray_trace_ellipse</code>, and at its height it was issued for Windows 98 and later on x86 CPUs (version 3.00) and Linux on x86 CPUs (version 5.00), both installed on August 14, 2007; auxiliary applications named <code>test_app</code> and <code>deflector</code> were used for testing.<ref name=apps>{{cite web |url=http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu/brats/apps.php |title=BRaTS@Home Applications (capture of 22 October 2007) |publisher=BRaTS@Home |access-date=August 20, 2026 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20071022170037/http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu:80/brats/apps.php |archive-date=October 22, 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The project's logo was itself a demonstration of the code: a ray-traced, gravitationally lensed image of the [[wikipedia:Andromeda Galaxy|Andromeda Galaxy]] (M31), based on an original astrophoto by Rob Gendler.<ref name=aboutimage>{{cite web |url=http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu/brats/about_image.php |title=About the Image (capture of 23 July 2008) |publisher=BRaTS@Home |access-date=August 20, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080723193054/http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu/brats/about_image.php |archive-date=July 23, 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

For his dissertation, Coss simulated gravitational lensing of realistic galaxy clusters using six high-resolution Adaptive Refinement Tree [[wikipedia:N-body simulation|N-body]] simulations of clusters (including hydrodynamics), plus a simulation of one group undergoing a merger. Each cluster's three-dimensional particle distribution was projected along three orthogonal lines of sight, yielding 21 projected mass density maps with representative masses and concentrations for the concordance cosmology.<ref name=thesis/>

Two simulation methods were compared. The first was the direct-integration ray tracing performed by BRaTS@Home's volunteers; the second computed shear maps with the [[wikipedia:Fast Fourier transform|fast Fourier transform]] (FFT), a technique also used in observational mass reconstructions. In Fourier space the convergence and shear are related by the Kaiser-Squires relation,

:<math>\hat{\gamma}(\boldsymbol{\ell}) = \hat{\kappa}(\boldsymbol{\ell})\, e^{2i\phi_{\ell}},</math>

where <math>\phi_\ell</math> is the polar angle of the Fourier mode <math>\boldsymbol{\ell}</math>; Coss's 2009 consortium paper examined the limitations and artifacts inherent in such FFT-based convolution calculations.<ref name=nasa2009/>

[[File:Bullet cluster lensing.jpg|thumb|Weak gravitational lensing maps the invisible: in the Bullet Cluster, lensing-derived mass (blue) is offset from the hot gas (red), evidence that most of the cluster's mass is dark matter. BRaTS@Home studied how cluster shape and substructure affect weak-lensing shear signals.|alt=Astronomical image of two colliding galaxy clusters with overlaid mass contours|350x350px]]

=== Results ===

The analysis showed that average shear measured inside and outside half the [[wikipedia:Virial radius|virial radius]] of the simulated clusters displays a distinct dispersion, varying by 24 percent from the mean across the 21 maps, while the estimated numerical error is of order 5 percent, meaning the dispersion is a reliable physical consequence of the clusters' shape differences. It correlates most strongly with the ratio of smallest-to-largest principal axis lengths of a cluster's isodensity shell. Image ellipticities, important for mass reconstruction, showed very little variance, but the tangential alignment of the average image distortion was strong enough that the locations of mass density peaks were easily resolvable.<ref name=thesis/> In short, the volunteers' computers helped establish how the shapes and substructure of dark matter halos imprint themselves on weak-lensing observables.

== Legacy ==

The project's ray-tracing and shear software was later packaged by Coss as ''CosApps'' (Cosmology Applications) and released as [[wikipedia:Free and open-source software|open source]] under the [[wikipedia:GPL-3.0|GNU General Public License v3]] on [[wikipedia:GitHub|GitHub]] in November 2012. The package provides <code>ray_trace_ellipse</code>, which can compute deflections in parallel across network-connected computers using [[wikipedia:MPI|MPI]], and <code>physcalc</code>, which calculates lensing shear from the coupled partial differential equations relating convergence and shear.<ref name=github>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/kd0kfo/cosmology |title=kd0kfo/cosmology |website=GitHub |access-date=August 20, 2026}}</ref> The code was registered with the [[wikipedia:Astrophysics Source Code Library|Astrophysics Source Code Library]] in December 2017 as ascl:1712.008.<ref name=ascl>{{cite web |url=http://ascl.net/1712.008 |title=CosApps: Simulate gravitational lensing through ray tracing and shear calculation |website=Astrophysics Source Code Library |date=December 2017 |bibcode=2017ascl.soft12008C |access-date=August 20, 2026}}</ref> Coss went on to a career in high-performance computing, including building a BOINC-based grid computing system at [[wikipedia:St. Jude Children's Research Hospital|St. Jude Children's Research Hospital]].<ref name=cv/>

The project is also a good early example of a BOINC project that ran to completion and delivered its promised science, wrapping up cleanly with a dissertation, a public results discussion, and a farewell archive for its participants.<ref name=wind-down/><ref name=shutdown/>

== Publications ==

=== Papers listed on the BOINC publications page ===

The BOINC project maintains a list of scientific publications arising from BOINC-based computing; the following entries are listed there for BRaTS@Home.<ref name=pubs>{{cite web |url=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php |title=Publications by BOINC Projects |website=boinc.berkeley.edu |access-date=August 20, 2026}}</ref>

* {{cite thesis |last1=Coss |first1=David |title=Weak shear study of galaxy clusters by simulated gravitational lensing |type=Ph.D. thesis |institution=University of Missouri-St. Louis |date=2010 |bibcode=2010PhDT.......285C |url=https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010PhDT.......285C/abstract |access-date=August 20, 2026}}
* {{cite conference |last1=Coss |first1=David Raymond |last2=Flores |first2=R. |title=BRaTS@Home and BOINC Distributed Computing for Parallel Computation |conference=212th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Poster 24.10 |location=St. Louis, Missouri |date=June 2-5, 2008 |bibcode=2008AAS...212.2410C |url=https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008AAS...212.2410C/abstract |access-date=August 20, 2026}}

=== Other publications and presentations ===

Additional papers and presentations by the project author, hosted on the project's research site and documented in the author's curriculum vitae:<ref name=paperspage>{{cite web |url=http://research.davecoss.com/papers.html |title=Presentations of David Coss (capture of 12 July 2020) |website=research.davecoss.com |access-date=August 20, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200712022414/http://research.davecoss.com/papers.html |archive-date=July 12, 2020 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=cv/>

* {{cite conference |last1=Coss |first1=David |title=Simulation of Gravitational Lensing |conference=NASA Missouri Space Grant Consortium Annual Meeting (conference proceedings) |date=April 2008 |publisher=NASA Missouri Space Grant Consortium |url=http://research.davecoss.com/nasa_mo_paper.pdf |access-date=August 20, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080827225312/http://research.davecoss.com/nasa_mo_paper.pdf |archive-date=August 27, 2008 |url-status=dead}}
* {{cite conference |last1=Coss |first1=David |title=Gravitational Lensing Shear Simulations Using Fast Fourier Transform |conference=NASA Missouri Space Grant Consortium Annual Meeting (conference proceedings) |date=April 2009 |publisher=NASA Missouri Space Grant Consortium |url=http://research.davecoss.com/Coss_MOSGCpaper.pdf |access-date=August 20, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200712022454/http://research.davecoss.com/Coss_MOSGCpaper.pdf |archive-date=July 12, 2020 |url-status=dead}}
* {{cite conference |last1=Coss |first1=David |title=Effects of Dark Matter Halo Shape Variations on Weak Gravitational Lensing |conference=NASA Missouri Space Grant Consortium Annual Meeting (talk) |date=April 23-24, 2010 |publisher=NASA Missouri Space Grant Consortium}} (conference talk; results incorporated in the Ph.D. thesis)
* {{cite web |last1=Coss |first1=David |title=BRaTS@Home and BOINC Distributed Computing for Parallel Computation (poster abstract, author's copy) |website=research.davecoss.com |date=2008 |url=http://research.davecoss.com/AAS_abstract.pdf |access-date=August 20, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200712022452/http://research.davecoss.com/AAS_abstract.pdf |archive-date=July 12, 2020 |url-status=dead}}
* {{cite web |last1=Coss |first1=David |title=CosApps: Simulate gravitational lensing through ray tracing and shear calculation (source code release) |website=Astrophysics Source Code Library |date=December 2017 |bibcode=2017ascl.soft12008C |url=http://ascl.net/1712.008 |access-date=August 20, 2026}}

== See also ==

* [[wikipedia:BOINC|BOINC]]
* [[BOINC projects]] (local project registry)
* [[wikipedia:Volunteer computing|Volunteer computing]]
* [[wikipedia:Gravitational lensing|Gravitational lensing]]
* [[wikipedia:Weak gravitational lensing|Weak gravitational lensing]]
* [[wikipedia:Dark matter|Dark matter]]
* [[Cosmology@Home]], a contemporary astrophysics BOINC project that also launched in June 2007
* [[Einstein@Home]]

==References==

{{Reflist}}

== External links ==

* {{URL|https://web.archive.org/web/20090322190553/http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu/brats/|BRaTS@Home homepage (archived by the Wayback Machine)}}
* {{URL|https://www.boincstats.com/stats/48/project/detail|BRaTS@Home final statistics at BOINCstats}}
* {{URL|https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010PhDT.......285C/abstract|Ph.D. thesis record at NASA ADS}}
* {{URL|https://github.com/kd0kfo/cosmology|CosApps source code (successor software) on GitHub}}
* {{URL|http://ascl.net/1712.008|CosApps record at the Astrophysics Source Code Library}}

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BRaTS@Home

2026-08-20T19:38:37Z

Al Piskun: Created page with "{{Infobox software | name = BRaTS@Home | logo = | logo caption = | screenshot = | caption = A simulated lensed image of M31 produced with BRaTS ray tracing | description = BRaTS@Home was a completed Astrophysics BOINC project that used volunteer computers to perform gravitational lensing ray-tracing simulations of galaxy clusters, developed by David Coss and sponsored by the University of Missouri..."

{{Infobox software
| name = BRaTS@Home
| logo =
| logo caption =
| screenshot =
| caption = A simulated lensed image of M31 produced with BRaTS ray tracing
| description = BRaTS@Home was a completed Astrophysics BOINC project that used volunteer computers to perform gravitational lensing ray-tracing simulations of galaxy clusters, developed by David Coss and sponsored by the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
| status = Completed
| category = Astrophysics
| compute = CPU
| dependencies = [[wikipedia:BOINC|BOINC]] client
| developer = David Coss
| author = David Coss
| sponsor = University of Missouri-St. Louis
| maintainer = None (project completed 2010)
| released = {{Start date and age|2007|06|05}}
| completed = {{Start date and age|2010|04|13}} (scheduler shut down; website offline by mid-May 2010)
| discontinued =
| repository = {{URL|https://github.com/kd0kfo/cosmology}}
| programming language = C++
| operating system = Windows, Linux
| size =
| stats as of = April 12, 2010 (final statistics export)
| average performance = ~1.1 GFLOPS (average, June 2007 to April 2008)
| active users = 0 (at final export)
| total users = 115
| active hosts = 0 (at final export)
| total hosts = 492
| rac = 0 (at final export)
| credit per day =
| gpu performance = Not applicable (CPU only)
| cpu performance = ~1.1 GFLOPS average (June 2007 to April 2008)
| website = {{URL|http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu/brats/}} (offline; archived)
| license = GPL-3.0 (successor CosApps code)
}}

'''BRaTS@Home''' was a [[wikipedia:Volunteer computing|volunteer computing]] project built on the [[wikipedia:BOINC|BOINC]] (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) platform that performed [[wikipedia:Gravitational lensing|gravitational lensing]] ray-tracing simulations. The name is a [[wikipedia:Recursive acronym|recursive acronym]]: '''BRaTS''' stands for ''BRaTS Ray Trace Simulator''.<ref name=home2009>{{cite web |url=http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu/brats/ |title=BRaTS@Home homepage (capture of 22 March 2009) |publisher=University of Missouri-St. Louis |access-date=August 20, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090322190553/http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu/brats/ |archive-date=March 22, 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The project simulated the way [[wikipedia:Dark matter|dark matter]] in [[wikipedia:Galaxy cluster|galaxy clusters]] and other foreground mass concentrations distorts the images of more distant background objects, work that formed the computational core of developer David Coss's doctoral research at the [[wikipedia:University of Missouri-St. Louis|University of Missouri-St. Louis]] (UMSL).<ref name=thesis>{{cite thesis |last1=Coss |first1=David |title=Weak shear study of galaxy clusters by simulated gravitational lensing |type=Ph.D. thesis |institution=University of Missouri-St. Louis |date=2010 |bibcode=2010PhDT.......285C |url=https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010PhDT.......285C/abstract |access-date=August 20, 2026}}</ref>

BRaTS@Home went online on June 5, 2007 and ran for almost three years, attracting volunteers from 26 countries before being retired in April 2010 upon the successful defense of Coss's dissertation.<ref name=aas>{{cite conference |last1=Coss |first1=David Raymond |last2=Flores |first2=R. |title=BRaTS@Home and BOINC Distributed Computing for Parallel Computation |conference=212th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society |location=St. Louis, Missouri |date=June 2-5, 2008 |bibcode=2008AAS...212.2410C |url=https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008AAS...212.2410C/abstract |access-date=August 20, 2026}}</ref><ref name=wind-down>{{cite web |url=http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu/brats/forum_thread.php?id=182 |title=Project Status (project news forum thread, capture of 27 March 2010) |publisher=BRaTS@Home message boards |access-date=August 20, 2026 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20100327131814/http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu:80/brats/forum_thread.php?id=182 |archive-date=March 27, 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref> It is remembered as a small, personable project: run single-handedly by a graduate student from a lab computer, invitation-only for most of its life, and famous among its participants for the occasional campus power outage that briefly silenced the server.<ref name=home2009/><ref name=poweroutage>{{cite web |url=http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu/brats/forum_thread.php?id=179 |title=Power Outage (news thread, capture of 27 March 2010) |publisher=BRaTS@Home message boards |access-date=August 20, 2026 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20100327131545/http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu:80/brats/forum_thread.php?id=179 |archive-date=March 27, 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

== History ==

=== Origins and launch (2007) ===

[[File:UMSL 01.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|right|The University of Missouri-St. Louis, which hosted BRaTS@Home in a physics department lab.|alt=Aerial view of a university campus with modern buildings and ponds]]

BRaTS@Home was created by David Coss, a physics graduate student at UMSL working under professor Ricardo Flores on the simulation of gravitational lensing.<ref name=nasa2008>{{cite conference |last1=Coss |first1=David |title=Simulation of Gravitational Lensing |conference=NASA Missouri Space Grant Consortium Annual Meeting |location=Missouri, USA |date=April 2008 |publisher=NASA Missouri Space Grant Consortium |url=http://research.davecoss.com/nasa_mo_paper.pdf |access-date=August 20, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080827225312/http://research.davecoss.com/nasa_mo_paper.pdf |archive-date=August 27, 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Computing deflection angles by direct integration for realistic cluster mass distributions is computationally expensive, so rather than buy time on a conventional cluster, Coss turned to [[wikipedia:BOINC|BOINC]], which "allows scientists to build a computer cluster at the price of one server" by harvesting the idle time of volunteers' computers.<ref name=aas/>

The project came online on June 5, 2007, initially offering work for [[wikipedia:Linux|Linux]] on x86 computers only.<ref name=oldnews>{{cite web |url=http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu/brats/old_news.php |title=BRaTS@Home news archive (capture of 22 October 2007) |publisher=BRaTS@Home |access-date=August 20, 2026 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20071022170116/http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu:80/brats/old_news.php |archive-date=October 22, 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The first successful work unit was completed the following day.<ref name=oldnews/> The project carried an "alpha testing" label from June 13, 2007, and the first small [[wikipedia:Microsoft Windows|Windows]] (Windows XP) work units went out on June 18.<ref name=oldnews/> On July 17, 2007, Coss removed the beta label, writing that "things are running smoothly and I am at a point where science can be done."<ref name=oldnews/> The statistics service BOINCstats first recorded the project on June 25, 2007.<ref name=boincstats>{{cite web |url=https://www.boincstats.com/stats/48/project/detail |title=BRaTS@Home - Detailed stats |website=BOINCstats/BAM! |access-date=August 20, 2026}}</ref>

From early on, enrollment was restricted: new accounts required an invitation code, a state of affairs still in effect as late as 2009.<ref name=home2009/> The demand for codes grew so heavy that Coss removed his email address from the front page, directing volunteers to the message boards instead.<ref name=allnews>{{cite web |url=http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu/brats/all_news.php |title=BRaTS@Home news archive (capture of 2 February 2008) |publisher=BRaTS@Home |access-date=August 20, 2026 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20080202130300/http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu:80/brats/all_news.php |archive-date=February 2, 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

=== Operation (2007 to 2010) ===

[[File:BOINC_manager_screenshot.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|left|A BOINC client attaching to projects; BRaTS@Home participants attached by entering the project URL in the BOINC manager.|alt=Screenshot of BOINC manager software]]

The project was hosted on a computer named ''maxwell'' in a UMSL lab, reachable at the address <code>http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu/brats/</code>.<ref name=home2010>{{cite web |url=http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu/brats/index.php |title=BRaTS@Home homepage (capture of 25 March 2010) |publisher=University of Missouri-St. Louis |access-date=August 20, 2026 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20100325212718/http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu:80/brats/index.php |archive-date=March 25, 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Being tied to a campus network had its hazards, and the news archive chronicles a colorful series of interruptions: campus-wide power outages, a router and firewall failure that removed the whole campus from the Internet, an unannounced firewall change that forced a hiatus in early 2008 (used as an opportunity to upgrade to a newer BOINC server), and backbone upgrades by the campus Internet provider.<ref name=oldnews/><ref name=allnews/><ref name=home2009/>

In June 2008, Coss presented the project at the 212th meeting of the [[wikipedia:American Astronomical Society|American Astronomical Society]] in St. Louis, reporting that 182 users in 26 countries had joined, that 795 computers had connected to the server between June 2007 and April 2008, and that the volunteers supplied an average computing power of 1.1 billion [[wikipedia:FLOPS|floating point operations per second]] (GFLOPS). At the time, the BOINC platform as a whole averaged more than 1,000 [[wikipedia:FLOPS|teraFLOPS]], putting the scale of the small academic project in perspective.<ref name=aas/>

The project had an active community life for its size, with [[wikipedia:Internet forum|message boards]], participant profiles, a playful "BRaT of the day" profile feature, team competition (45 teams were registered over the project's life), certificates, and an RSS news feed.<ref name=home2009/><ref name=boincstats/> On January 23, 2010, Coss held an online discussion and question-and-answer session with volunteers about the project's results.<ref name=home2010/>

=== Completion (2010) ===

BRaTS@Home was, by design, a finite project: it existed to produce the simulations for Coss's dissertation. On March 24, 2010, he announced that he would defend his dissertation on April 9, 2010, and that the project would therefore come to an end. He thanked the volunteers, noting that the dissertation images combined data sets produced on multiple computers, so that "if you have been granted credit... it is likely your computer contributed to part of that."<ref name=wind-down/>

The scheduler was shut down on April 13, 2010, and volunteers were asked to detach from the project by mid-May 2010, when the university was expected to switch off the server.<ref name=shutdown>{{cite web |url=http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu/brats/forum_thread.php?id=183 |title=Scheduler Shutdown (news thread, capture of 17 April 2010) |publisher=BRaTS@Home message boards |access-date=August 20, 2026 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20100417122439/http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu:80/brats/forum_thread.php?id=183 |archive-date=April 17, 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The final statistics export seen by BOINCstats is dated April 12, 2010, and records 79,464 total credits granted to 115 users and 492 host computers, with 45 teams.<ref name=boincstats/> Coss received his Ph.D. in physics in 2010,<ref name=cv>{{cite web |url=http://davecoss.com/cv.pdf |title=Curriculum Vitae of David Coss, Ph.D. |website=davecoss.com |access-date=August 20, 2026}}</ref> and mirrored the site's content at research.davecoss.com as a keepsake before the original server went dark.<ref name=wind-down/>

== Science ==

=== Gravitational lensing ===

[[File:Horseshoe_Einstein_Ring_from_Hubble.jpg|thumb|upright=1.25|right|Gravitational lensing in the real universe: the Hubble Space Telescope imaged a distant galaxy (blue) bent into a near-complete ring by the gravity of a foreground red galaxy.|alt=Hubble telescope image of a blue galaxy forming a horseshoe-shaped ring around a red galaxy]]

[[wikipedia:Gravitational lensing|Gravitational lensing]] is the deflection of light by gravity. A point mass <math>M</math> deflects a light ray passing at impact parameter <math>b</math> by the angle

:<math>\hat{\alpha} = \frac{4GM}{c^{2}b},</math>

where <math>G</math> is the gravitational constant and <math>c</math> the speed of light. In the thin-lens approximation, a mass distribution between a distant source and the observer maps the source position <math>\boldsymbol{\beta}</math> to the image position <math>\boldsymbol{\theta}</math> through the lens equation

:<math>\boldsymbol{\beta} = \boldsymbol{\theta} - \boldsymbol{\alpha}(\boldsymbol{\theta}), \qquad \boldsymbol{\alpha} = \frac{D_{ds}}{D_{s}}\, \hat{\boldsymbol{\alpha}},</math>

where <math>D_{ds}</math> and <math>D_s</math> are angular-diameter distances and <math>\boldsymbol{\alpha}</math> is the reduced deflection angle.<ref name=nasa2008/> Because the deflection depends only on the projected mass distribution, lensing offers a way to "see" [[wikipedia:Dark matter|dark matter]], which makes up most of the mass of galaxy clusters but emits no light.<ref name=nasa2009>{{cite conference |last1=Coss |first1=David |title=Gravitational Lensing Shear Simulations Using Fast Fourier Transform |conference=NASA Missouri Space Grant Consortium Annual Meeting |location=Missouri, USA |date=April 2009 |publisher=NASA Missouri Space Grant Consortium |url=http://research.davecoss.com/Coss_MOSGCpaper.pdf |access-date=August 20, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200712022454/http://research.davecoss.com/Coss_MOSGCpaper.pdf |archive-date=July 12, 2020 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

In the weak-lensing regime the distortion is subtle: the shapes of background galaxies are stretched (shear) and magnified (convergence) by small amounts. Both are derived from the two-dimensional lensing potential <math>\psi</math>:

:<math>\kappa = \tfrac{1}{2}(\psi_{,11} + \psi_{,22}), \qquad
\gamma_{1} = \tfrac{1}{2}(\psi_{,11} - \psi_{,22}), \qquad
\gamma_{2} = \psi_{,12},</math>

which combine into the complex shear <math>\gamma = \gamma_{1} + i\,\gamma_{2}</math>. Measuring the statistical alignment of many background galaxies (cosmic shear) reveals the projected mass distribution of the foreground cluster.<ref name=nasa2009/>

=== The BRaTS approach ===

BRaTS@Home attacked the problem by brute-force [[wikipedia:Ray tracing|ray tracing]]: each work unit traced light rays through a model mass distribution, integrating the deflection they accumulate along the line of sight, and computing the resulting deflection angles on a grid.<ref name=aas/><ref name=thesis/> The project's main science application was named <code>ray_trace_ellipse</code>, and at its height it was issued for Windows 98 and later on x86 CPUs (version 3.00) and Linux on x86 CPUs (version 5.00), both installed on August 14, 2007; auxiliary applications named <code>test_app</code> and <code>deflector</code> were used for testing.<ref name=apps>{{cite web |url=http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu/brats/apps.php |title=BRaTS@Home Applications (capture of 22 October 2007) |publisher=BRaTS@Home |access-date=August 20, 2026 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20071022170037/http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu:80/brats/apps.php |archive-date=October 22, 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The project's logo was itself a demonstration of the code: a ray-traced, gravitationally lensed image of the [[wikipedia:Andromeda Galaxy|Andromeda Galaxy]] (M31), based on an original astrophoto by Rob Gendler.<ref name=aboutimage>{{cite web |url=http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu/brats/about_image.php |title=About the Image (capture of 23 July 2008) |publisher=BRaTS@Home |access-date=August 20, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080723193054/http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu/brats/about_image.php |archive-date=July 23, 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

For his dissertation, Coss simulated gravitational lensing of realistic galaxy clusters using six high-resolution Adaptive Refinement Tree [[wikipedia:N-body simulation|N-body]] simulations of clusters (including hydrodynamics), plus a simulation of one group undergoing a merger. Each cluster's three-dimensional particle distribution was projected along three orthogonal lines of sight, yielding 21 projected mass density maps with representative masses and concentrations for the concordance cosmology.<ref name=thesis/>

Two simulation methods were compared. The first was the direct-integration ray tracing performed by BRaTS@Home's volunteers; the second computed shear maps with the [[wikipedia:Fast Fourier transform|fast Fourier transform]] (FFT), a technique also used in observational mass reconstructions. In Fourier space the convergence and shear are related by the Kaiser-Squires relation,

:<math>\hat{\gamma}(\boldsymbol{\ell}) = \hat{\kappa}(\boldsymbol{\ell})\, e^{2i\phi_{\ell}},</math>

where <math>\phi_\ell</math> is the polar angle of the Fourier mode <math>\boldsymbol{\ell}</math>; Coss's 2009 consortium paper examined the limitations and artifacts inherent in such FFT-based convolution calculations.<ref name=nasa2009/>

=== Results ===

[[File:Bullet cluster lensing.jpg|thumb|upright=1.25|left|Weak gravitational lensing maps the invisible: in the Bullet Cluster, lensing-derived mass (blue) is offset from the hot gas (red), evidence that most of the cluster's mass is dark matter. BRaTS@Home studied how cluster shape and substructure affect weak-lensing shear signals.|alt=Astronomical image of two colliding galaxy clusters with overlaid mass contours]]

The analysis showed that average shear measured inside and outside half the [[wikipedia:Virial radius|virial radius]] of the simulated clusters displays a distinct dispersion, varying by 24 percent from the mean across the 21 maps, while the estimated numerical error is of order 5 percent, meaning the dispersion is a reliable physical consequence of the clusters' shape differences. It correlates most strongly with the ratio of smallest-to-largest principal axis lengths of a cluster's isodensity shell. Image ellipticities, important for mass reconstruction, showed very little variance, but the tangential alignment of the average image distortion was strong enough that the locations of mass density peaks were easily resolvable.<ref name=thesis/> In short, the volunteers' computers helped establish how the shapes and substructure of dark matter halos imprint themselves on weak-lensing observables.

== Legacy ==

The project's ray-tracing and shear software was later packaged by Coss as ''CosApps'' (Cosmology Applications) and released as [[wikipedia:Free and open-source software|open source]] under the [[wikipedia:GPL-3.0|GNU General Public License v3]] on [[wikipedia:GitHub|GitHub]] in November 2012. The package provides <code>ray_trace_ellipse</code>, which can compute deflections in parallel across network-connected computers using [[wikipedia:MPI|MPI]], and <code>physcalc</code>, which calculates lensing shear from the coupled partial differential equations relating convergence and shear.<ref name=github>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/kd0kfo/cosmology |title=kd0kfo/cosmology |website=GitHub |access-date=August 20, 2026}}</ref> The code was registered with the [[wikipedia:Astrophysics Source Code Library|Astrophysics Source Code Library]] in December 2017 as ascl:1712.008.<ref name=ascl>{{cite web |url=http://ascl.net/1712.008 |title=CosApps: Simulate gravitational lensing through ray tracing and shear calculation |website=Astrophysics Source Code Library |date=December 2017 |bibcode=2017ascl.soft12008C |access-date=August 20, 2026}}</ref> Coss went on to a career in high-performance computing, including building a BOINC-based grid computing system at [[wikipedia:St. Jude Children's Research Hospital|St. Jude Children's Research Hospital]].<ref name=cv/>

The project is also a good early example of a BOINC project that ran to completion and delivered its promised science, wrapping up cleanly with a dissertation, a public results discussion, and a farewell archive for its participants.<ref name=wind-down/><ref name=shutdown/>

== Publications ==

=== Papers listed on the BOINC publications page ===

The BOINC project maintains a list of scientific publications arising from BOINC-based computing; the following entries are listed there for BRaTS@Home.<ref name=pubs>{{cite web |url=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php |title=Publications by BOINC Projects |website=boinc.berkeley.edu |access-date=August 20, 2026}}</ref>

* {{cite thesis |last1=Coss |first1=David |title=Weak shear study of galaxy clusters by simulated gravitational lensing |type=Ph.D. thesis |institution=University of Missouri-St. Louis |date=2010 |bibcode=2010PhDT.......285C |url=https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010PhDT.......285C/abstract |access-date=August 20, 2026}}
* {{cite conference |last1=Coss |first1=David Raymond |last2=Flores |first2=R. |title=BRaTS@Home and BOINC Distributed Computing for Parallel Computation |conference=212th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Poster 24.10 |location=St. Louis, Missouri |date=June 2-5, 2008 |bibcode=2008AAS...212.2410C |url=https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008AAS...212.2410C/abstract |access-date=August 20, 2026}}

=== Other publications and presentations ===

Additional papers and presentations by the project author, hosted on the project's research site and documented in the author's curriculum vitae:<ref name=paperspage>{{cite web |url=http://research.davecoss.com/papers.html |title=Presentations of David Coss (capture of 12 July 2020) |website=research.davecoss.com |access-date=August 20, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200712022414/http://research.davecoss.com/papers.html |archive-date=July 12, 2020 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=cv/>

* {{cite conference |last1=Coss |first1=David |title=Simulation of Gravitational Lensing |conference=NASA Missouri Space Grant Consortium Annual Meeting (conference proceedings) |date=April 2008 |publisher=NASA Missouri Space Grant Consortium |url=http://research.davecoss.com/nasa_mo_paper.pdf |access-date=August 20, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080827225312/http://research.davecoss.com/nasa_mo_paper.pdf |archive-date=August 27, 2008 |url-status=dead}}
* {{cite conference |last1=Coss |first1=David |title=Gravitational Lensing Shear Simulations Using Fast Fourier Transform |conference=NASA Missouri Space Grant Consortium Annual Meeting (conference proceedings) |date=April 2009 |publisher=NASA Missouri Space Grant Consortium |url=http://research.davecoss.com/Coss_MOSGCpaper.pdf |access-date=August 20, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200712022454/http://research.davecoss.com/Coss_MOSGCpaper.pdf |archive-date=July 12, 2020 |url-status=dead}}
* {{cite conference |last1=Coss |first1=David |title=Effects of Dark Matter Halo Shape Variations on Weak Gravitational Lensing |conference=NASA Missouri Space Grant Consortium Annual Meeting (talk) |date=April 23-24, 2010 |publisher=NASA Missouri Space Grant Consortium}} (conference talk; results incorporated in the Ph.D. thesis)
* {{cite web |last1=Coss |first1=David |title=BRaTS@Home and BOINC Distributed Computing for Parallel Computation (poster abstract, author's copy) |website=research.davecoss.com |date=2008 |url=http://research.davecoss.com/AAS_abstract.pdf |access-date=August 20, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200712022452/http://research.davecoss.com/AAS_abstract.pdf |archive-date=July 12, 2020 |url-status=dead}}
* {{cite web |last1=Coss |first1=David |title=CosApps: Simulate gravitational lensing through ray tracing and shear calculation (source code release) |website=Astrophysics Source Code Library |date=December 2017 |bibcode=2017ascl.soft12008C |url=http://ascl.net/1712.008 |access-date=August 20, 2026}}

== See also ==

* [[wikipedia:BOINC|BOINC]]
* [[BOINC projects]] (local project registry)
* [[wikipedia:Volunteer computing|Volunteer computing]]
* [[wikipedia:Gravitational lensing|Gravitational lensing]]
* [[wikipedia:Weak gravitational lensing|Weak gravitational lensing]]
* [[wikipedia:Dark matter|Dark matter]]
* [[Cosmology@Home]], a contemporary astrophysics BOINC project that also launched in June 2007
* [[Einstein@Home]]

==References==

{{Reflist}}

== External links ==

* {{URL|https://web.archive.org/web/20090322190553/http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu/brats/|BRaTS@Home homepage (archived by the Wayback Machine)}}
* {{URL|https://www.boincstats.com/stats/48/project/detail|BRaTS@Home final statistics at BOINCstats}}
* {{URL|https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010PhDT.......285C/abstract|Ph.D. thesis record at NASA ADS}}
* {{URL|https://github.com/kd0kfo/cosmology|CosApps source code (successor software) on GitHub}}
* {{URL|http://ascl.net/1712.008|CosApps record at the Astrophysics Source Code Library}}

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== About this wiki ==

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[[Category:BOINC projects]]
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[[Category:Distributed computing]]

BOINC projects

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[[File:Boinc-projects-seo.png|right|frameless|200x200px]]This is a comprehensive and continually updating List of All [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php BOINC projects]

'''''Q - What is a BOINC project?'''''

'''''A - BOINC project definition:''''' A [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/ BOINC] project is a website and server set up by an individual or group to distribute applications (software which is a set of instructions for executing tasks in a computing device) to BOINC volunteer computing devices that are deliberately attached to receive, process and return the results of the application for further research.
====Active BOINC Projects====

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 80%;"
|-
!Project Name
!Publications
!Launched
!Operating System
!GPU App
!Requires
!Screen saver
!Sponsor
!Category
!BOINC Radio
!Research Focus

|-
| [http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/ Asteroids@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Asteroids@home 10]
| 2012-06-18
| [https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS, Free BSD, Android]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU NVIDIA
| {{No}}
|
| Astronomical Institute, Charles University, Prague
| Astronomy
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/asteroids-home/id1492837872?i=1000467560195 Listen]
| Derive shapes and spin for a significant part of the asteroid population. [[Asteroids@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/central/ BOINC Central]
|
| 2023-02-04
|
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, BUDA
|
| University of California, Berkeley
| Multiple applications
|
| Gives scientists access to the power of volunteer computing without having to operate a BOINC project. [[BOINC Central|See more...]]

|-
| [https://www.cpdn.org/cpdnboinc/ climate''prediction''.net]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Climateprediction.net 152]
| 2003-12-09
| [https://www.cpdn.org/cpdnboinc/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| [https://youtu.be/Mae7JfL1giE view]
| Oxford University
| Climate study
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/climate-prediction-dot-net/id1492837872?i=1000465982378 Listen]
| Analyse ways to improve climate prediction models. [[Climateprediction.net|See more...]]

|-
| [https://dev.cpdn.org/ cpdnboinc dev]
|
|
| [https://dev.cpdn.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Oxford University
| Software testing
|
| Test project for [[Climateprediction.net|climate''prediction''.net]]. [[Cpdnboinc dev|See more...]]

|-
| [https://denis.usj.es/denisathome/ DENIS@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#DENIS@home 6]
| 2015-03-16
| [https://480denis.usj.es/denisathome/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Universidad San Jorge, Zaragoza, Spain
| Medical physiology
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boinc-radio-project-brief-denis-home/id1492837872?i=1000576898376 Listen]
| Cardiac electrophysiological simulations, studying the electrical activity of the heart. [[DENIS@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://einsteinathome.org/ Einstein@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Einstein@Home 42]
| 2005-02-19
| [https://einsteinathome.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS, Android]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
| [https://youtu.be/kGWsTnmk1lw view]
| University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Max Planck Institute
| Astrophysics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/einstein-home/id1492837872?i=1000470993092 Listen]
| Search for pulsars using radio signals and gravitational wave data. [[Einstein@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [http://gaiaathome.eu/gaiaathome/ Gaia@home]
|
| 2019-08-21
| [http://150.254.66.104/gaiaathome/apps.php Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Astronomical Observatory Institute, Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
| Astronomy
|
| Provide additional computing power to scientists studying the Gaia spacecraft data releases. [[Gaia@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://gerasim.boinc.ru/ Gerasim@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Publications_by_BOINC_projects#Gerasim.40home 9]
| 2007-02-10
| [https://gerasim.boinc.ru/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
| [https://youtu.be/cw7yBZ_KGGA view]
| Southwest State University (Russia)
| Multiple applications
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gerasim/id1492837872?i=1000515709940 Listen]
| Research in discrete mathematics and logic control systems. [[Gerasim@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090210175851/http://www.ps3grid.net/ PS3GRID] became [https://gpugrid.net/gpugrid/ GPUGRID]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#GPUGrid.net 53]
| 2007-12-05
| [https://www.gpugrid.net/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: cyan; color: black;" | GPU only NVIDIA
| {{No}}
|
| Barcelona Biomedical Research Park
| Molecular biology
|
| Perform full-atom molecular simulations of proteins on Nvidia GPUs for biomedical research. [[GPUGRID|See more...]]

|-
| [https://comp.ithena.net/usr/ iThena.Computational]
|
| [https://comp.ithena.net/usr/forum_thread.php?id=4 2021-10-31]
| [https://comp.ithena.net/usr/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Cyber-Complex Foundation
| Computer science
| See below
| A computational platform for analysis based on data extracted from iThena.Measurements project applications. [[IThena.Computational|See more...]]

|-
| [https://root.ithena.net/usr/ iThena.Measurements]
|
| [https://root.ithena.net/usr/forum_thread.php?id=5#17 2019-09-25]
| [https://einsteinathome.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Cyber-Complex Foundation
| Computer science
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boinc-radio-project-brief-ithena/id1492837872?i=1000580505988 Listen]
| Generate a dynamic topological model of the Internet, based on measurements from distributed devices. [[IThena.Measurements|See more...]]

|-
| [https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/ LHC@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#LHC@home 71]
| 2004-01-09
| [https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS, Free BSD, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, BUDA
| [https://youtu.be/0qbLDbsNO3w view]
| CERN
| Physics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lhc-home/id1492837872?i=1000477722614 Listen]
| Helping physicists compare theory with experiment, in the search for new fundamental particles and answers to questions about the Universe. [[LHC@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/ LHCathome-dev]
|
| 2014-08-01
| [https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS, Free BSD, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, BUDA
|
| CERN
| Software testing
|
| A BOINC server for LHC@home development.

|-
| [https://boinc.loda-lang.org/loda/ LODA]
|
| 2022-05-13
| [https://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, git
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boinc-radio-project-brief-loda-18-6-2022/id1492837872?i=1000570153809 Listen]
| Finds new formulas and more efficient algorithms for a wide range of non-trivial integer sequences. [[LODA|See more...]]

|-
| [https://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/ MilkyWay@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Milkyway@home 35]
| 2007-07-07
| [https://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
| Astronomy
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/milkyway-home/id1492837872?i=1000468872520 Listen]
| Create a highly accurate three-dimensional model of the Milky Way galaxy using data collected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. [[MilkyWay@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://minecraftathome.com/minecrafthome/ Minecraft@Home]
|
| 2020-06-24
| [https://comp.ithena.net/usr/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Games
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/minecraft-home/id1492837872?i=1000491697377 Listen]
| Studies questions related to Minecraft, such as the properties of worlds that can be generated from different random seeds. [[Minecraft@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://moowrap.net/ Moo! Wrapper]
|
| 2011-02-05
| [https://moowrap.net/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Cryptography
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZmTZJBh_D0 Watch]
| Combines BOINC with distributed.net to try to break the RC5 cipher. [[Moo! Wrapper|See more...]]

|-
| [https://escatter11.fullerton.edu/nfs/ NFS@Home]
|
| 2009-09-05
| [https://escatter11.fullerton.edu/nfs/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS, Free BSD]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| California State University, Fullerton
| Integer factorization
|
| Performs parts of the number field sieve in the factorization of large integers. [[NFS@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://numberfields.asu.edu/NumberFields/ NumberFields@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#NumberFields@Home 3]
| 2011-08-12
| [https://numberfields.asu.edu/NumberFields/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Arizona State University's School of Mathematics
| Number theory
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/project-brief-numberfields-home-15-05-2021/id1492837872?i=1000570068591 Listen]
| Search for number fields with special properties to assist with the formulation of mathematical conjectures. [[NumberFields@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.progger.info/odlk/ ODLK]
|
| 2017-04-06
| [https://boinc.progger.info/odlk/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS, Free BSD]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| Compile a database of canonical forms of 10th order diagonal Latin squares (DLS) with orthogonal diagonal Latin squares (ODLS). [[ODLK|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.multi-pool.info/latinsquares/ ODLK1]
|
| 2017-10-22
| [https://boinc.multi-pool.info/latinsquares/apps.php Windows, Linux, Free BSD]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| Generates a database of canonical forms (CF) of diagonal Latin squares (DLS) of order 10 having orthogonal diagonal Latin squares (ODLS). [[ODLK1|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.mak.termit.me/odlk2025/ ODLK2025]
|
| 2024-12-18
| [https://boinc.mak.termit.me/odlk2025/apps.php Windows]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| Find canonical forms of diagonal Latin squares of order 10 with orthogonal diagonal Latin squares, extending the search beyond the ranges covered by ODLK and ODLK1. [[ODLK2025|See more...]]

|-
| [https://www.primegrid.com/ PrimeGrid]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#PrimeGrid 3]
| 2005-06-12
| [https://www.primegrid.com/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
| [https://youtu.be/rhZxqi9x7rI view]
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| Search for world record sized prime numbers, search for particular types of primes such as 321 primes, Cullen-Woodall primes, Proth prime, prime Sierpinski numbers, and Sophie Germain primes. Subprojects also include Seventeen or Bust, and the Riesel problem. [[PrimeGrid|See more...]]

|-
| [https://dev.primegrid.com/ PrimeGrid dev]
|
| 2007-06-06
| [https://dev.primegrid.com/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Software testing
|
| Test project for PrimeGrid.

|-
| [http://boincvm.proxyma.ru:30080/test4vm/ PRIVATE GFN SERVER]
|
| 2016-04-20
| [http://boincvm.proxyma.ru:30080/test4vm/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| This is a PRIVATE SERVER to coordinate distribution of mathematical work on GFN. The server is open for everybody, but some BOINC experience is recommended. [[PRIVATE GFN SERVER|See more...]]

|-
| [http://radioactiveathome.org/boinc/ Radioactive@home]
|
| 2011-10-21
| [http://radioactiveathome.org/boinc/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, Sensor
|
| Independent
| Physics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radioactive-home/id1492837872?i=1000463072395 Listen]
| Real-time radiation monitoring, detected by gamma sensors connected to volunteer computers. [[Radioactive@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://rake.boincfast.ru/rakesearch/ RakeSearch]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Rakesearch 4]
| 2017-08-11
| [https://rake.boincfast.ru/rakesearch/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rakesearch/id1492837872?i=1000496377228 Listen]
| Implement an application that picks up separate pairs of mutually orthogonal DLSs, which allows reconstructing the full graphs of their orthogonality. [[Rakesearch|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/ Rosetta@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Rosetta@home 234]
| 2005-10-06
| [https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, macOS, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| [https://youtu.be/6o5yBfG_vss view]
| University of Washington
| Molecular biology
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rosetta-home/id1492837872?i=1000472931628 Listen]
| Protein structure prediction for disease research. [[Rosetta@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://www.sidock.si/sidock SiDock@home]
|
| 2020-12-19
| [https://www.sidock.si/sidock/apps.php Windows, Linux+OpenWrt, ARM, macOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Russian Academy of Sciences
| Molecular biology
|
| Independent decentralized drug design by volunteer computing. [[SiDock@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://spaciousathome.eu/spaciousathome/ SPACIOUS@home]
|
| 2024-01-01
| [https://spaciousathome.eu/spaciousathome/apps.php Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| European Union
| Astrophysics
|
| Contribute to cutting-edge astronomy by sharing your idle computing time with professional astronomers. Space surveys such as the European Space Agency's Gaia telescope are generating large datasets of unprecedented high quality data. Astronomers need a huge amount of CPU power to model and analyse the data. [[SPACIOUS@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://srbase.my-firewall.org/sr5/ SRBase]
|
| 2013-01-02
| [https://srbase.my-firewall.org/sr5/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| Trying to solve Sierpinski / Riesel Bases up to 1030. [[SRBase|See more...]]

|-
| [https://gene.disi.unitn.it/test/ TN-Grid]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#TN-Grid 8]
| 2014-05-01
| [https://gene.disi.unitn.it/test/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, macOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Research Area of Trento of the National Research Council of Italy, University of Trento
| Genetics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tn-grid/id1492837872?i=1000482396321 Listen]
| ''Gene@home'' is a scientific project belonging to the infrastructure ''TrentoGrid''. It aims to expand networks of genes. [[TN-Grid|See more...]]

|-
| [https://uspex-at-home.ru/prediction/ USPEX@HOME]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#USPEX@HOME 2]
| 2017-04 (Restart 2022-10-23)
| [https://uspex-at-home.ru/prediction/apps.php Windows, Linux, macOS]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, Vbox
|
| [https://uspex-team.org/en uspex-team.org]
|
|
| Research in the field of computational materials design. [[USPEX@HOME|See more...]]

|-
| [https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ World Community Grid]
| [https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/news.s?filterCategory=1_0&filterTags=14&sortBy=&pageNum=1 77]
| 2004-11-16
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php Windows, Linux, ARM, macOS, Android]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
| [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLblxpyGay1Q4PwdIlLTxko7jm9Jedv1ei view]
| Krembil Research Institute
| Multiple applications
|
| Disease research, various worldwide humanitarian problems. Subprojects include(d) GO Fight Against Malaria, Drug Search for Leishmaniasis, Computing for Clean Water, Clean Energy Project, Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together, Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy, Help Fight Childhood Cancer, Help Conquer Cancer, Mapping Cancer Markers, Human Proteome Folding Project, FightAIDS@Home, Uncovering Genome Mysteries, Let's outsmart Ebola together, Help Stop TB, OpenZika, Smash Childhood Cancer, Open Pandemics - COVID-19. [[World Community Grid|See more...]]

|-
| [https://wuprop.boinc-af.org/ WUProp@Home]
|
| 2010-03-27
| [https://wuprop.boinc-af.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Statistics
|
| Collect various statistics about other BOINC projects. [[WUProp@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://yafu.myfirewall.org/yafu YAFU]
|
| 2011-09-01
| [https://yafu.myfirewall.org/yafu/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| [https://youtu.be/vEqImf6mtgE view]
| Independent
| Software testing, Mathematics
|
| Test BOINC server software, integer factorization. [[YAFU|See more...]]

|-
| [https://www.rechenkraft.net/yoyo/ yoyo@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Yoyo@home 9]
| 2007-07-19
| [https://www.rechenkraft.net/yoyo/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, macOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLblxpyGay1Q4C8qBmkKkI0MpKMTof5Dhf view]
| Independent
| Mathematics, physics, evolution
|
| Data structure analysis to help prove a conjecture, elliptic curve factorization, pion creation in a particle accelerator, evolution research, find the shortest optimal Golomb ruler of length 28. [[Yoyo@home|See more...]]
|}

==== Private BOINC Projects====

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 80%;"
|-
!Project Name
!Publications
!Launched
!Operating System
!GPU App
!Requires
!Screen saver
!Sponsor
!Category
!BOINC Radio
!Research Focus

|-
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/alpha/ BOINC Alpha Test]
|
| 2004-02-16
|
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/9rRWAgpfMzg view]
| University of California, Berkeley
| Software testing
|
| BOINC Alpha Test allows volunteers to test new versions of BOINC client software on a wide range of computers, thereby increasing the stability and reliability of the software versions released to the public. [[BOINC Alpha Test|See more...]]

|-
| [http://mq232-80.ararangua.ufsc.br/boincufscara/ AraBOINC]
|
| 2012
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/https://boinc.moisescardona.me/ Distributed Data and Media Processing]
|
| 2018
|
|
|
|
| Independent
| Data processing
|
| A private data processing project where tasks like data compression and audio encoding are performed. The idea is to do data tasks in the background and in a distributed fashion.

|-
| [https://bioinfo.lifl.fr/yass/iedera_dominance/index_additional.html iedera]
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Independent
| Botany
|
| A program to select and design ''subset seed'' and ''vectorized subset seed'' patterns.

|-
| [http://boinc.mmon.co/boincserver/ Common Compute]
|
| 2024-05
|
|
|
|
| Independent
|
|
| Software testing.

|-
| [https://templet.ssau.ru/ Templet Project]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Templet 1]
|
|
|
|
|
| Samara National Research University
| Education
|
| Teach parallel and distributed programming to undergraduate and graduate students of Samara National Research University.
|}

====Completed BOINC Projects ====

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 80%;"
|-
!Project Name
!Publications
!Launched / Completed
!Operating System
!GPU App
!Requires
!Screen saver
!Sponsor
!Category
!BOINC Radio
!Research Focus

|-
| [https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ SETI@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#SETI@home 12]
| 1999-05
| [https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS, Solaris, Other]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
|
| [https://youtu.be/IfeGNAZY92k view] and [https://youtu.be/5r-t8WQicqE view]
| University of California, Berkeley
| Astronomy
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tribute-to-seti-home-part-1/id1492837872?i=1000468003990 Part 1] of three and [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tribute-to-seti-home-part-2-the-history-of-seti-home/id1492837872?i=1000468428937 Part 2]
| In 1995, David Gedye proposed doing radio SETI using a virtual supercomputer composed of large numbers of Internet-connected computers, and he organized the SETI@home project to explore this. The search for extraterrestrial life by analyzing radio frequencies emanating from space. [[SETI@home|See more...]]

|-
| [http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/ SETI@home Beta]
|
| 2006-01-12
| [https://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS, Solaris, Other]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
|
| [https://youtu.be/buLKZnyzOdI view]
| University of California, Berkeley
| Software testing
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rosetta-home-covid19-and-tribute-to-seti-home-part-3/id1492837872?i=1000469085793 Part 3]
| Test project for SETI@home.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20040615010643/http://predictor.scripps.edu/ Predictor@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Predictor@Home 5]
| 2004-05-04
| WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS X (Not Intel)
|
|
|
| The Scripps Research Institute
|
|
| A world-community experiment and effort to use distributed world-wide-web volunteer resources to assemble a supercomputer able to ''predict protein structure from protein sequence''. Our work is aimed at testing and evaluating new algorithms and methods of protein structure prediction in the context of the Sixth Biannual [https://web.archive.org/web/20040610024610/http://predictioncenter.llnl.gov/casp6/Casp6.html CASP] (Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction) experiment. [[Predictor@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://alifeathome.dyndns.org/ ALife@Home]
|
| 2004-07-19
| WinXP-98
|
|
|
|
| Artificial intelligence
| [https://www.youtube.com/live/zstEf1dTm2I?feature=share Watch]
| An effort to conduct scientific experiments regarding neural networks and evolution on the computers of volunteers.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20040829080146/http://pirates.vassar.edu:80/ Pirates@HomeMission1] [https://web.archive.org/web/20060117061652/http://pirates.spy-hill.net/ Pirates@Home] [http://primates.spy-hill.net/ Primates@Home]
|
| 2004 / 2006 / 2008-04-01
| Windows, Linux, MacOS
|
|
| [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLblxpyGay1Q4849w-GB4X7g07FNXTeMBb view]
| Vassar College / Independent / Independent
| Software testing
| [https://www.youtube.com/live/qr-n6FziUeo?feature=share Watch]
| Pirates@Home Mission 1 helped to develop the Einstein@Home screensaver. Pirates@Home tested BOINC's forum software for possible use by ''[http://i2u2.spy-hill.net/ Interactions in Understanding the Universe]''. Primates@Home tested the reaction of [https://web.archive.org/web/20060117061652/http://pirates.spy-hill.net/ Pirates@Home] users to a disturbance in their accustomed environment. [[Pirates@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060215003906/http://autotranslator.net:80/ translator@home]
|
| 2005-03-23
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| translator@home was in the process of creating new software linked to BOINC but never developed.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20051027013808/http://public.shoft.net/ Shoft@Home]
|
| 2005
|  
|
|
|
| Independent
|
|
|

|-
| [http://boinctest.axpr.net/ Break the Forum!]
|
| 2005
|  
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
| Test BOINC forum software.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://fsmtdist.ist.tu-graz.ac.at/dist/ dIST]
|
| 2005
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| A Cape4 project.

|-
| [http://fsmtdist.ist.tu-graz.ac.at/cape4/index.php cape4]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Another Cape4 project.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://grid-devel3.rocksclusters.org/boinc_gamess/ BOINC GAMESS]
|
| 2005
|  
|
|
|
| Independent
|
|
| Project never overcame '''Warning''': mysql_pconnect(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060103125636/http://bifi.unizar.es/research/computing/bah/ BIFI@home]
|
| {{No}}
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Solve calculations that contribute to the research carried out at the Institute of Biocomputing and Physics of Complex Systems at the University of Zaragoza (BIFI).

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.azurite.co.uk/ IMP]
|
| 2005
|  
|
|
|
| The IMP Team
| Software testing
|
| Internet Movie Project. Test Project copyright © 2005 The IMP Team.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://lhcathome-alpha.cern.ch/ LHC@home Alpha]
|
| 2005
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
| Test Project for LHC@home.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071016235617/http://boinc.banaan.org:80/hashclash/ HashClash]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#HashClash 11]
| 2005-11-24
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
|
|
|
| searched for MD5 and SHA-1 hash collisions, culminating in the 2008 rogue certificate authority attack. [[HashClash|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060703095044/http://issofty17.is.noda.tus.ac.jp/index_E.php TANPAKU]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#TANPAKU 2]
| 2005-08-02
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
|
| Tokyo University of Science
|
|
| Used a Brownian dynamics method to study protein folding. [[TANPAKU|See more...]]

|-
| [http://slawoo.homelinux.org/ Nagrzewanie stali@HOME]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://lattice.umiacs.umd.edu/boinc_public_oldschool/ The Lattice Project-original]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#The 16]
| 2006
| WinXP-98
|
|
|
| University of Maryland, College Park
|
|
| Condor and PBS clusters through the Globus Toolkit, chiefly supporting phylogenetic analysis with the GARLI software. [[The Lattice Project|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060916002226/http://fah-boinc.stanford.edu/ Folding@home]
|
| 2006
| WinXP
|
|
|
| Stanford University
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060901142513/http://research.utep.edu/Default.aspx?alias=research.utep.edu/daplds Docking@Home-utep]
|
| {{No}}
|  
|
|
|
| University of Texas at El Paso
|
|
| The goals of the project are to explore the multi-scale nature of algorithmic adaptations in protein-ligand docking and to develop cyber infrastructures based on computational methods and models that efficiently accommodate these adaptations.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://ecc.crypto.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ ECDLP PROJECT]
|
| 2006
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070326165532/http://test.ntbz.com:80/ ntbz Test Project]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://debian.povaddict.com.ar/pov/ Renderfarm]
|
| 2006-08-10
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Another URL for the project: http://renderfarm.povaddict.com.ar/

|-
| [https://www.boincstats.com/stats/33/project/detail/ RenderFarm@Home]
|
| 2006-08-23
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://hashbreaker.com:8700/tmrldrtg/ Distributed Rainbow Table Generator]
|
| 2006
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
| The Minouche Research Laboratories
|
|
| The '''Distributed Rainbow Table Generator''' project of '''The Minouche Research Laboratories'''; a community project dedicated to large scale distributed calculation of huge Rainbow Tables.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://bebeer.dyndns.org:2222/bebeer/ Belgian Beer@Home]
|
| 2006-12-08
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070630030320/http://www.boinc.be/vbulletin BOINC.BE]
|
|
| An effort of people from the [https://web.archive.org/web/20070630030320/http://www.boinc.be/vbulletin BOINC.BE] team.

|-
| [http://www.enigmaathome.net/ Enigma@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Enigma@Home 2]
| 2007-08-24
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| An attempt to break 3 original Enigma messages that were intercepted in 1942. [[Enigma@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080511223553/http://impfarm.imp.org/boinc/ Internet Movie Project]
|
| 2007-07-15
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080724214454/http://impfarm.imp.org/boinc/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
| Setting up a renderfarm to power the [https://web.archive.org/web/20080511223553/http://www.imp.org/ Internet Movie Project]. Note that this project will never export credit stats.

|-
| [http://predictor.chem.lsa.umich.edu/pah/ Predictor@home Alpha]
|
| 2007 / 2009
|
|
|
|
| The Scripps Research Institute
|
|
| Test project for Predictor@home.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071001120117/http://zivis.bifi.unizar.es:80/ Zivis Superordenador Ciudadano]
|
| 2007
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070823192420/http://zivis.bifi.unizar.es/apps.php WinXP, Linux]
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://zebrabrute.ath.cx/zebrabrute/ Zebra RSA Brutforce]
|
| 2007
| WinXP-98
|
|
|
| Darkscout - a Computer Science student.
|
|
| The Project originates from an idea in a forum. An attempt to break the RSA-key for the checksum of RSA-Smart card by Brute-force search.

|-
| [http://web.archive.org/web/20090306065822/http://dist2.ist.tugraz.at/sudoku/ Sudoku project]
|
| 2007-08-27
|
|
|
|
| Graz, University of Technology
|
|
| Uses Internet-connected computers to search for the smallest possible start configuration of Sudoku.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071128150637/http://eternity2.net:80/ Eternity2.net]
|
| 2007
|  
|
|
|
| Dave Clark, Auckland
|
|
| A project to try to solve the Eternity II puzzle™.

|-
| [http://roc.cs.berkeley.edu/projects/boinc/index.html ROC]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
| University of California, Berkeley
|
|
|

|-
| [http://neuron.mine.nu/neuron/ Project Neuron]
|
| 2007-11-25
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
| Independent
|
|
| Provide a trial BOINC environment in which a set of dummy applications will run. The purpose of this being to record, observe and understand BOINC activity and data with a view to developing metrics that will establish or otherwise the quality/reliability/dependability of particular BOINC projects.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071020023328/http://www.gridfinity.com:80/gridfinity/ Gridfinity]
|
| 2007
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://www.scilinc.org/SciLINC/ SciLINC]
|
| 2007-03-22
2009
| WinXP-98
|
|
|
| Missouri Botanical Garden
|
|
| Indexed digitized botanical literature. [[SciLINC|See more...]]

|-
| [http://isaac.ssl.berkeley.edu/sleeper/ Sleeper]
|
| 2007-03
|
|
|
|
| University of California, Berkeley
|
|
| Test project for BOINC Alpha Test.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080901231107/http://www.init1.net:80/pPotTables/ pPot Tables]
|
| 2008
|  
|
|
|
| Independent
|
|
| Computing relative hand strength and 1-card lookahead positive potential for all possible flop, turn and hole card combinations for 2 to 10 players in Texas hold 'em.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20121205084825/http://www.malariacontrol.net/ malariacontrol.net]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Malariacontrol.net 26]
| 2006-03-01
2016-06-21
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/4GAYKw5SakQ view]
|
|
|
| A project with an application that makes use of network computing for stochastic modelling of the clinical epidemiology and natural history of Plasmodium falciparum malaria. [[Malariacontrol.net|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20061206015653/http://biology.polytechnique.fr/proteinsathome/ proteins@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Proteins@home 4]
| 2006-09-15
| WinXP
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/aM6kiaM228Y view]
|
|
|
| A large-scale Protein structure prediction project to contribute to a better understanding of many diseases and pathologies, and to progress in both Medicine and Technology. [[Proteins@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080517170329/http://www.depspid.net:80/ DepSpid]
|
| 2007
| WinXP-98
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Every DepSpid task is processed in two phases: a networking phase (Phase One) in which the DepSpid spider scans a set of web pages and stores results in a temporary database; and a computational phase (Phase Two) which uses the collected data to calculate dependencies between all pages. [[DepSpid|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://bob.myisland.as/tsp/ Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP)]
|
| 2007
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
|
|
|
|
| The Travelling salesman problem (TSP): for a given set of cities, visit each city once and only once and minimize the distance you travel.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060412015807/http://xw01.lri.fr:4320/ XtremLab]
|
| 2005
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Measuring the free resources available on personal computers involved in large-scale distributed computing.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060903103622/http://bbc.cpdn.org/ BBC Climate Change Experiment]
|
|
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090107014341/http://allprojectstats.com/collatz/ 3x+1@home]
|
| 2008-02-18
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| A non-profit project trying to find high 3x+1 conjecture stopping times. The 3x+1 conjecture is also known as the Collatz conjecture.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://edges-local-devbnc-srv.ceta-ciemat.es/appexample/ Uppercase Application]
|
| 2008
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [http://193.144.240.190/nnsimu/ NNSIMU Project]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090204215407/http://boinc.unex.es/extremadurathome/ Extremadura@Home]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090528015437/http://boinc.isa.ru:80/russiadg/ Russian Desktop Grid]
|
| 2009
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110801221116/http://falua.cesfelipesegundo.com/VRS/ Virus Respiratorio Sincitial (VRS)]
| [https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0895717710005595 1]
| 2010
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| VRS (from the Spanish Virus Respiratorio Sincitial) is a BOINC-based project which main aim is to simulate the behaviour of the human Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV).

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20081004231715/http://cels-at-home-dev.dyndns.org:80/test2/ <nowiki>Cels@Home [Second] Test Project</nowiki>]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Research in cell adhesion.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090925001717/http://boinc.vanderbilt.edu:80/test_setup Test Setup Project]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
| Vanderbilt
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://grid.ncssm.edu/ncssm_grid/ NCSSM Grid Computing Project]
|
| 2007-04-04
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20051226054712/http://www.cellcomputing.net/simple/ Cell Computing]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://arcoboinc.unex.es/rnd/ RND@home]
|
| 2007
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Radio Network Design (RND) is a telecommunication problem which consists in covering a geographic area with radio signal using the fewer number of transmitters that cover the maximum area.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://edges-local-testbnc-srv.ceta-ciemat.es/localtest EDGeS Local Test]
|
| 2007
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://sat.math.umu.se/sat/ Satisfaction@Home]
|
| 2007
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070505234056/http://www.nanohive-1.org:80/atHome/ NanoHive@Home]
| [http://openurl.ingenta.com/content/xref?genre=article&issn=1546-1955&volume=8&issue=7&spage=1139 1]
|
| WinXP
|
|
|
| Nanorex, Inc.
|
|
| Used the NanoHive-1 nanospace simulator to search for failure modes in diamondoid mechanosynthesis tooltips. [[NanoHive@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080711074723/http://boinc.iaik.tugraz.at:80/sha1_coll_search SHA 1 Collision Search Graz]
|
| 2007-08-08
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
| Graz University of Technology
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in cryptanalysis.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://dist2.ist.tugraz.at/sudoku/ Project Sudoku]
|
| 2007-08-27
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080307034907/http://dist2.ist.tugraz.at/sudoku/apps.php WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS]
|
|
|
| Graz University of Technology
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to search for the smallest possible start configuration of Sudoku.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071005080915/http://www.apsathome.org:80/ APS@Home]
|
| 2007-08-30
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
| University of Manchester
|
|
| The effects that atmospheric dispersion has on the measurements used in climate prediction.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080806072857/http://dawn.ynet.sk:80/test1/ Reversi]
|
| 2008-05-16
|  
|
|
|
| Independent
|
|
| Determine who wins in Reversi game - first player, second player or if the game is tied.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://www.ramseyathome.com/ramsey/ Ramsey@Home]
|
| 2008-06-14
|  
|
|
|
| Nick Peterson
|
|
| A volunteer computing project designed to find new lower bounds for various Ramsey numbers using a host of different techniques.

|-
| [http://canis.csc.ncsu.edu:8005/anansi/ Anansi]
|
| 2008
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://eaps-at-home-alpha.gotdns.org/eaps/ EAPS@HOME]
|
| 2008
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in Artificial Intelligence.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080703141019/http://boinc.vanderbilt.edu/CSB/ CSB@Home] / [https://web.archive.org/web/20080703141019/http://boinc.vanderbilt.edu/CSB/ BCL@Home]
|
| 2008-06-05 / 2008
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in '''Computational Structural Biochemistry'''.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080908061532/http://genlife.is-a-geek.org:80/genlife/ Genetic Life]
|
| 2008-06-18
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| A not-for-profit research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research into Genetic Algorithms.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090506112112/http://africangridlab.net/ African Grid Lab ALPHA]
|
| 2008-10-05
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| An incubation laboratory environment for African based BOINC projects.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090322190553/http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu/brats/ BRaTS@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#BRaTS@Home 2]
| 2007-06-05
| WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS
|
|
|
|
|
|
| BRaTS@Home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do various calculations in Gravitational Ray Tracing. ''BRaTS'' stands for ''BRaTS Ray Trace Simulator''.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090425124851/http://www.intelligencerealm.com/aisystem/system.php Artificial Intelligence System]
|
| 2007-09-05
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| The neural network simulator is an application that simulates neurons. Each downloaded work unit generates 500,000 biophysical neurons.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090927062104/http://dynaping.com/ DynaPing]
|
| 2009
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Ensure highest availability of your web services. DynaPing uses computers around the world to monitor your web service availability and alerts you of any downtime.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20091130024643/http://nqueens.ing.udec.cl/ NQueens@Home]
|
| 2007-08-10
| Windows
|
|
|
| University of Concepción
|
|
| This project uses Internet-connected computers to solve the N Queens problem.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20141009194330/http://registro.ibercivis.es/ Ibercivis]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Ibercivis 18]
| 2007-11
2020-08-01
|  
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/RRPMDKPGt3A view]
|
|
|
| Research in physics, material science and biomedicines and is based at several institutes and universities; Zaragoza, CETA-CIEMAT, CSIC, Coimbra. [[Ibercivis|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20201213215515/https://boinc.ibercivis.es/ibercivis/ Ibercivis BOINC]
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| 2020-10
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| The Biophym Group of the CSIC Institute for the Structure of Matter has proposed to carry out simulations of the interaction of drugs used against Ebola, HIV infection, influenza or hepatitis B with the genome replication machinery of the SARS-Co-V virus.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://evil.podzone.org/decs/ DECS]
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| 2007-10-05
|  
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| The Generic Distributed Exact Cover Solver (DECS) project uses Internet-connected computers to solve exact cover problems. Exact cover is a general type of problem which can be used to solve problems including n-queens, Latin Square puzzles, Sudoku, polyomino tiling, set packing and set partitioning.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://boincsrv01.cern.ch/atlfast/ LHC Atlas Test]
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| 2007-08-14
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| Test project for LHC@home.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070209051807/http://boinc.berkeley.edu/cplan/ Cunning Plan]
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| 2007
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| Was being used to test account creation.

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| [http://pcschmiede.pc.funpic.de/teah/html/user/ Test Project Christian Beer]
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| 2007
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| Software testing
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|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110207203930/http://mapthegap.com/ MAPtheGAP]
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| {{No}}
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| Eliminating racial disparities in health.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://dnahome.cs.rpi.edu/dna/ DNA@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#DNA@Home 2]
| 2010-04-14
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| The new versions allow for different motif types which are different models for how a binding site could look. One is palindromic, where the nucleotides in the beginning of the model have their complement at the end of the model. The other model type is reverse complement, which doesn't assume the model to be palindromic, but looks for either the forward or reverse version of the model.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://edges-local-devbnc-srv.ceta-ciemat.es/3gbp 3g Bridge Project]
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| 2009
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071220210249/http://boincsrv01.cern.ch:80/lhcathome/ LHC@Home Experimental]
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| 2007
|  
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| Software testing
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| For internal testing only; any workunits issued are for testing and do not yet have any scientific value. Please remain attached to the official LHC@Home server!

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://cbl-link02.cs.technion.ac.il/cplan/ Superlink@EGEE queue]
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| {{No}}
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|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20100324075245/http://boinc.cs.uct.ac.za:80/malaria/ UCT:malariacontrol.net]
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| 2008-03-31
|  
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| Software testing
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| A test project in collaboration with MalariaControl.net in Switzerland that aims to test the correct operation of our server for future BOINC-based projects.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://dist.ist.tugraz.at/cape5/ Rectilinear Crossing Number]
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| 2006-06-30
| WinXP, Linux
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| [https://youtu.be/d03IUeQrDLQ view]
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| Use sophisticated mathematical methods to determine the rectilinear crossing number for small values of n. [[Rectilinear Crossing Number Project|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20091124095534/http://boinc.vtu.lt:80/vtuathome VTU@home], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090412025420/http://boinc.vgtu.lt/vtuathome/ VGTU@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#VGTU@home 2]
| 2006-04-13
| WinXP, Linux
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| Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
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|
| The aim of this project is to provide a powerful distributed computing platform for scientists of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU) as well as other Lithuanian academic institutions.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090309055929/http://aqua.dwavesys.com/ AQUA@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#AQUA@home 4]
|2008-12-08
2011-08-01
|  
|
| {{Yes}}, Vbox
| [https://youtu.be/VyQgGkj_Rss view]
| dwavesys
|Quantum Computing
|
|Model the performance of superconducting adiabatic quantum computers. [[AQUA@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060702175205/http://www.ufluids.net/ μFluids@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Publications_by_BOINC_projects#.C2.B5Fluids.40Home 3]
| 2005-09-19
| WinXP-98
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| Study fluid behavior in microgravity to design satellite propellant management devices. [[UFluids@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110817075110/http://boinc.run.montefiore.ulg.ac.be:80/evo/ Evo@home]
|
| 2010-11-22
|  
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| University of Liège
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|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in Machine Learning. This project uses Evolutionary Algorithms to optimize the parameters of different kind of machine learning algorithms.

|-
| [http://gmdhgrid.com/mgua/index.php GMDHGrid]
|
| 2010
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| Kiev Polytechnic Institute
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|
| Data mining, knowledge discovery, prediction, complex systems modeling, optimization and pattern recognition.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20101025171952/http://project.czechnationalteam.cz/cplan/ Czech National Team project]
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|  
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| Czech National Team
| Software testing
|
| A test project for our new BOINC server helping us to find and fix some bugs and create a new project which is being prepared.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.math.ucalgary.ca/sheti/ SHETI]
|
| 2009-01-08
|  
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| Sheti is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to solve the [http://www.certicom.com/index.php/the-certicom-ecc-challenge 131-bit Certicom ECC Challenge].

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090331215945/http://mothershipathome.org/ Mothership@Home]
|
| 2008
|  
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|
| Mothership@Home is dedicated in loving memory of my mother Patricia Horner (1942-1987), my husband Joshua Resnick (1965-1999) and all others who have passed away prematurely due to medical conditions.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://dart.cs.georgefox.edu/mcpi/ Monte Carlo Pi]
|
| 2008
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| George Fox University
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|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [http://cancergrid.lpds.sztaki.hu/cancergrid/ CancerGrid]
|
| 2008
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|

|-
| [http://stuff.povaddict.com.ar:8080/boinctest/ Silly Pi Calculation]
|
| 2008
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| Nicolas
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|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130823010101/http://www.fpgaathome.org/ FPGA@Home]
|
| {{No}}
|  
|
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|
|
| This is an open collaboration for porting Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) based volunteer computing projects on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs).

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130528155906/http://boinc.hpc.utp.edu.my:80/utpdg/ UTP Desktop Grid]
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|  
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| Universiti Teknologi Petronas
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|
| UTP Desktop Grid (UTPDG) is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in various areas of parallel computational problems.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130302052041/http://boinc.ucd.ie/fmah/ FightMalaria@Home]
|
| 2012-07-20
|  
|
|
|
| Dr Anthony Chubb
|
|
| Perform docking simulations on malaria proteins.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://107.21.228.163/VBOINC V-BOINC]
|
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|  
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|
| The VBOINC project is the first attempt to use virtual machines with BOINC.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130501160927/http://oproject.info/ OProject@Home]
| [https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.1593 1]
| 2012-08-13
|  
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| Algorithm analysis. OProject@Home based at Olin Library (Rollins College).

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/https://climateathome.info/climateathome/ Climate@Home]
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|  
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|
| George Mason University, NASA
|
|
| Research for spatiotemporal computing and climate predictions.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130701032038/http://bigdata.ihep.ac.cn/bigdata/stats.php BigData@home]
|
|
| [https://web.archive.org/http://bigdata.ihep.ac.cn/bigdata/ Windows, Linux]
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Crawl Internet New Media Information.

|-
| [https://quakecatcher.net/sensor/ Quake-Catcher Network]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Quake-Catcher 13]
| 2007-12-05 / 2023-06-01
|
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/SCv_W751m64 view]
| Stanford University, then University of Southern California
|
|
| Used low-cost MEMS accelerometers in laptops, desktops, and USB sensors to build a distributed, community-based earthquake detection network. [[Quake-Catcher Network|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://qcn.emsc-csem.org/sensor/ Quake-Catcher Network EMSC / CSEM]
|
|
|  
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/SCv_W751m64 view]
|
|
|
| Used low-cost MEMS accelerometers in laptops, desktops, and USB sensors to build a distributed, community-based earthquake detection network.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110723205439/http://mersenneathome.net/ Mersenne@home]
|
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|  
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|

|-
| [http://b25.interix.jp/b25/ B25@Home]
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|  
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|

|-
| [http://boinc.ryanteck.org.uk/boincPi/ boincPi]
|
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|  
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|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://surveill.dei.uc.pt/surveill/ Surveill@home]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
| University of Coimbra
|
|
| Conduct end-to-end fine-grained monitoring of web sites.

|-
| [https://www.chess960athome.org/alpha/ Chess960athome]
|
| 2006-03-20
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| used Stockfish to evaluate tens of millions of chess positions, building a labeled dataset intended for training a machine-learned classifier of winning positions. [[Chess960@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110801052639/http://www.freehal.net/freehal_at_home FreeHAL]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
| Tobias Schulz / Powered by SETI.Germany and Planet 3DNow!
|
|
| FreeHAL@home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to parse and convert big open source semantic nets for use in FreeHAL.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20100430012556/http://goldbach.pl/ Goldbach's Conjecture Project]
|
| 2009-07-23
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20100505082120/http://goldbach.pl/apps.php Windows, Linux]
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Effectively proving Goldbach's weak conjecture.

|-
| [http://starmageddon.dyndns.org/ninjagrid/ NinjaGrid]
|
| 2009
|
|
|
|
|
| Mathematics
|
| 3x+1.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://physicsathome.tk/physics/ physics@home]
|
| 2013-02-16
|  
|
|
|
| Vasyl Kuzmenko
|
|
| Research in Solid-state physics, Materials science, Optics and Chemistry.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://vcsc.cs.uh.edu/second-computing/ UH Second Computing]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
| University of Houston College of Technology
|
|
| We are in the process to simulate macromolecular interactions in a living cell.

|-
| [http://babel.boinc.povaddict.com.ar/ Babel]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Testing translations of BOINC server and forum.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://eon.raunvis.hi.is/EON2v1/ EON2v1@clusters]
|
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|  
|
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|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://sctr.i3a.uclm.es/prob/ Prob]
|
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|  
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|

|-
| [http://140.110.240.195/bioinfo/ Bioinfo@Home]
|
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|  
|
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|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/https://boinc.freerainbowtables.com/distrrtgen/ DistrRTgen]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| By distributing the generation of rainbow chains, we can generate HUGE rainbow tables that are able to crack longer passwords than ever seen before.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20100526004243/http://boinc.picevolvr.com:80/ Picevolvr]
|
| 2010
|  
|
|
|
| [http://cullen-online.com/ Michael Cullen]
|
|
| Uses Internet-connected computers to generate artwork completely automatically.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://cah.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/ QuantumFIRE alpha]
|
| 2010
|  
|
|
|
| University of Cambridge
|
|
| Quantum foundations and Solid-state physics research.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinctest.codeq.pl/boinctest/ Replace With Project Name]
|
| 2013
|  
|
|
|
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|
|
| http://boinctest.codeq.pl/boinctest/

|-
| [http://web.archive.org/web/20131229164437/http://plagiarism.boincpolska.org/plagiarism/ Plagiarism@Home]
|
| 2013
|
|
|
|
| Krzysztof Piszczek
|
|
| Search given text for potential plagiarism in Internet resources.

|-
| [http://boinc.comcute.com/SIM/ Comcute emBOINC]
|
| 2012
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|

|-
| [http://boinc.comcute.com/cc_boinc/ Comcute Boinc]
|
| 2013
|
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|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://chess.qugate.org/ Chess@Home]
|
| 2014-01-05
2014-03-01
|  
|
|
|
| Michal Stanislaw Wojcik
|
|
| play large numbers of Chess960 (Fischer Random Chess) games, in an effort to build the beginnings of an opening theory for the variant. [[Chess@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://perft.computers-chess.com/ computers-chess]
|
| 2013
|  
|
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|
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [http://151.97.53.109/synchronised/ Synchronised]
|
| 2013 / 2014
|
|
|
|
| University of Catania
| Molecular Modelling
|
| Pharmaceutical chemistry research.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090402124145/http://cleanenergy.harvard.edu/ The Clean Energy Project]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
| Harvard University
|
|
| Merged into World Community Grid.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20150522195526/http://www.universeathometest.info/universe/ Universe@Home test project]
|
|
|
|
|
|
| University of Warsaw
|
|
| Test project for Universe@Home.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://eon.ices.utexas.edu/eon2/ eOn2]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#EOn 6]
|
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Simulate long timescale evolution of atomic scale systems in chemistry and materials science. [[EOn|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://mmgboinc.unimi.it/ SimOne@home]
| [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000926141300763X 1]
|
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| The project focuses on the osmoprotection phenomenon. In nature there are small molecules that are able to protect proteins from thermal stress. Answering this question could have a major impact in agriculture, e.g. developing plants that require less water intake.

|-
| [http://docking.cis.udel.edu/ Docking@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Docking@home 20]
| 2006-09-11 / 2014-05-23
| WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS X/Intel
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/gC_2zu2efY4 view]
| University of Delaware
|
|
| CHARMM-based protein-ligand docking simulations to search for new pharmaceutical drugs. [[Docking@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [http://boinc01.cern.ch/test4theory/ LHC Test4Theory]
|
| 2011
|  
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|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20150731163559/http://lhcathome2.cern.ch/vLHCathome/ vLHCathome]
|
| 2011
|  
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|
| This is a project that utilizes the CERN-developed CernVM virtual machine and the BOINC virtualization layer to harness volunteer cloud computing power for full-fledged LHC event physics simulation on volunteer computers.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120102114135/http://ui.hpc.iit.bme.hu/wc/ Web Computing]
|
| 2011
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130511025233/http://falua.cesfelipesegundo.com/Ideologias/ Ideologias@Home]
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|  
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|
| Study how people in a certain region evolve ideologically over time with respect to an idea.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120302132650/http://alfa-bridge.ibercivis.es/puente/ alfa_puente]
|
| 2012
|  
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|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20121207151627/http://boinc.biruni.upm.my/putra/ DG@Putra]
|
| 2012-02-23
|  
|
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|
| Universiti Putra Malaysia
|
|
| Putra Desktop Grid is UPM's implementation of a DesktopGrid network. The project is fully supported by the International Desktop Grid Federation (IDGF).

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://qcn.stanford.edu/continual/ QCN Continual Sensor Monitoring]
|
| 2012-04-18
|  
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/SCv_W751m64 view]
|
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|
| Research, education, and outreach in seismology.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://qcn.twgrid.org/sensor/ QCN Taiwan]
|
| 2012-04-16
|  
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/SCv_W751m64 view]
|
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|
| Research, education, and outreach in seismology.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://www.ras.unam.mx/sensor/ QCN Red Atrapa Sismos]
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|  
|
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| [https://youtu.be/SCv_W751m64 view]
|
|
|
| Research, education, and outreach in seismology.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://bvp6.hpc.iit.bme.hu/w2g/ Web2Grid Development]
|
| 2012
|  
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [http://bacalhau.lsd.ufcg.edu.br/table_transcriber/ TABLE TRANSCRIBER]
|
| 2012
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|-
| [http://boinc.rm-hs.de/test/ Replace With Project Name]
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|  
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| http://boinc.rm-hs.de/test/

|-
| [http://150.186.92.236/boinctest/ boinctest]
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|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://nanomodeling.molsim.ru/nanomodeling/ NanoModeling@home]
|
| 2012-05-03
|  
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| For designing nanostructures and nanorobots. Our goal is molecular modeling of targeted drug delivery systems, nanorobots and related nanostructures.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120120081734/http://boinc.berkeley.edu:80/vbox/ CERNVM/Vboxwrapper Test Project]
|
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|  
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://mishra.lpds.sztaki.hu/atticproxy/ Attic Proxy Project]
|
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|  
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [http://95.56.231.137/norlist/view_profile.php?userid=806 NORLIST@HOME]
|
| 2014
|
|
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|
| Kazakhstan National Scientific Laboratory
|
|
| Kazakh speech recognition.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.biruni.upm.my/pucbi/ PUCBi Desktop Grid]
|
| 2015
|  
|
|
|
| Perdana University Centre for Bioinformatics (PU-CBi)
|
|
| Provide education and training to support the development and continuity of in-house programmes, in particular to advance the translational bioinformatics skills of the next generation doctors and clinician scientists.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20160315063057/http://finance.gridcoin.us/finance/show_user.php?userid=885357 Gridcoin Finance]
|
| 2015
|  
|
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|
| [https://wiki.bc-team.org/index.php?title=Gridcoin_Finance/en The project performs financial simulations, analysis of the block chain, consolidate humanitarian reports, calculate marketing strategies, perform stock option analysis, harvest business intelligence, and assimilate top level results for the crowdsourced web pages.]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20160831173736/http://nanosurf.kr.ua/nanos/ nanosurf]
|
| 2016-06-16
|  
|
|
|
| Oleg Schevchenko
|
|
| Researching surface physics. In particular, the development of optical devices. Theoretical modeling of surface quantum dots makes it possible to provide recommendations to a group of experimenters.

|-
| [https://www.boincstats.com/stats/167/project/detail/ BMG@Home]
|
| 2016-02-25
|  
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| Chemistry
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20170514021753/http://parlea.ru:80/andersonattack AndersonAttack@home]
| [https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/eng-2018-0002/html 1]
| 2017
|  
|
| {{Yes}}, Vbox
|
| Matrosov Institute for System Dynamics and Control Theory
|
|
| Implement Anderson's attack on A5/1 GSM stream cipher.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20171114233820/http://stop.inferia.ru:80/ Stop@home]
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| Today we can't imagine our life without internet and its services. Our team wants to use distributed computing to solve mathematical tasks and improve algorithms.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130605030952/http://boinc.riojascience.com/ Riojascience@home]
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| Knet Communications and the University of La Rioja
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| A platform for biomedical research.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20141117215322/http://igemathome.org/ iGem@home]
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20160629234412/http://www.bitcoinutopia.net/bitcoinutopia/ Bitcoin Utopia]
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| Mine cryptocurrencies for incentive awards and science projects.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://59.78.96.61:8082/dhome/ Drug@Home]
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| School of Pharmacy, Ecust China University of Science & Technology
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| This study applied an efficient virtual screening strategy integrating molecular docking with MM-GBSA rescoring to identify diverse human dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (hDHODH) inhibitors.

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| [http://edges-ext-dg.ceta-ciemat.es/3gbp/ Edges Bridge Production]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140913231024/http://boinc.unsads.com/rsals/ RSA Lattice Siever(2.0)]
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| Help other factoring projects such as mersenneforum or XYYXf achieve their academic goals. Merged into [[NFS@Home]].

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120329124047/http://home.edges-grid.eu/home/ EDGeS@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#EDGeS@Home 13]
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| To support the execution of selected and validated scientific applications developed by the EGEE and EDGeS community. [[EDGeS@Home|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20081008031648/http://cels-at-home-dev.dyndns.org:80/cels/ Cels@Home]
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| [https://youtu.be/mzp2QBwvb2U view]
|University of Texas in Austin
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| 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 is a critical event that makes the disease much harder to treat. [[Cels@Home|See more...]]

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| [http://77.48.48.82/jplan/ jplan]
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| [https://web.archive.org/http://lhcbathome.cern.ch/Beauty/ Beauty@LHC]
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| Based at CERN and is a project of the LHCb experiment.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209200706/http://boinc.biruni.upm.my/putra/ Putra Desktop Grid]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://vcsc.cs.uh.edu/virtual-prairie/ Virtual Prairie]
| [https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0304380010005557 1]
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| University of Houston
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| simulations of clonal plant growth to inform the ecological design of sustainable prairie ecosystems. [[Virtual Prairie|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.med.usherbrooke.ca/nrg/ Najmanovich Research Group]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Najmanovich 3]
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| Research in molecular recognition and computer-aided drug design.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://www.sustainablegrid.org/ Sustainable Grid]
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| Enterprise Application Development Group at the University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Goerlitz
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| Bundles hardware resources of the university and provides this computational power to the scientists for their research purposes.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120312215655/http://mamarreis.lsd.ufcg.edu.br/ciencia-em-sua-casa/ Ciência Em Sua Casa]
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| Science in Your Home. Search for Wilson prime numbers and DNA sequencing.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120705003101/http://donateathome.org/ Donate@Home]
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| Allows participants to donate towards funding by using their GPU to mine for BitCoins.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://edges-local-devbnc-srv.ceta-ciemat.es/student01/ Student01]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://edges-local-devbnc-srv.ceta-ciemat.es/student02/ Student02]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [http://gf45.mp.tudelft.nl/psdm/ BIoS]
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| TU Delft
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| [https://web.archive.org/http://mishra.lpds.sztaki.hu/edgidemo/ EDGI Demo Project]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://voldemort.cs.cf.ac.uk/attic_proxy/ AtticFS Proxy Application Project on BOINC]
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| The AtticFS Proxy application acts as a translation layer between HTTP and the AtticFS. This allows BOINC Projects to utilise AtticFS easily.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130526001435/http://volunteer.cs.und.edu/subset_sum/ SubsetSum@Home]
| [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7255176/ 1]
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| Computer Science Department of the University of North Dakota
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| See how far we can extend the empirical evidence of the Subset Sum problem. Find better ways to apply volunteer computing to combinatorial problems.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20100313233251/http://www.nicoschlitter.de/DistributedDataMining distributedDataMining]
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| Research in the various fields of Data Analysis and Machine Learning.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20101201205418/http://dnetc.net/ DNETC@HOME]
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| A wrapper between BOINC and distributed.net.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://dg.imp.kiev.ua/slinca/ SLinCA]
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| SLinCA (Scaling Laws in Cluster Aggregation) is involved with research in the field of materials science.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110803231551/http://mishra.lpds.sztaki.hu:80/szdgr/ SZTAKI Desktop Grid Research Facility]
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| Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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| This project is the test & research facility for SZTAKI Desktop Grid.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20081224080150/http://hydrogenathome.org/ Hydrogen@home]
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120111114110/http://hydrogenathome.org/apps.php WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS X (Not Intel)]
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| Enhance clean energy technology by improving hydrogen production and storage.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://convector.fsv.cvut.cz/ convector@home]
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| Calculate global optimum of 52 bar truss.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070202002920/http://spin.fh-bielefeld.de/ Spinhenge@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Spinhenge@home 3]
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| WinXP-98
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| [https://youtu.be/d-fafmtqE74 view]
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| Support the research of nano-magnetic molecules. In the future these molecules will be used in the local tumor chemotherapy and to develop tiny memory-modules. [[Spinhenge@home|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140413155515/http://bealathome.com/ Beal@Home]
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| Beal's conjecture is a conjecture in number theory: where A, B, C, x, y, and z are positive integers with x, y, z > 2, then A, B, and C have a common prime factor. Beal initially offered a prize of US $5,000 in 1997, raising it to US $1,000,000.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20150816053811/http://bealf.pl/bealf BealF@Home]
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| Part of the Master Thesis: '''''Testing Beal conjecture using supercomputers and distributed computing platform BOINC'''''. The predecessor of the project was ''Beal@Home''.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://cbl-link02.cs.technion.ac.il/superlinkattechnion/ Superlink@Technion]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Superlink@Technion 4]
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| WinXP-98, Linux
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| Helps geneticists all over the world find disease-provoking genes causing some types of diabetes, hypertension (high blood pressure), cancer, schizophrenia and many others.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110720105948/http://boinc.vanderbilt.edu/bcl/ Biochemical Library]
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| 2011
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| Research in Biochemical Library.

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| [http://falua.cesfelipesegundo.com/jarifa/ Jarifa]
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| [https://web.archive.org/http://netmax.isa.ru/netmax/ NetMax@home]
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| Research in dynamic routing at telecommunication networks.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140804215459/http://gilda117.ihep.ac.cn/ATLAS/ Replace With Project Name]
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| https://web.archive.org/web/20140903030559/http://gilda117.ihep.ac.cn/ATLAS

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| [http://cvmathome.cern.ch/test4theory/ LHC+@Home]
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| [http://isaac.ssl.berkeley.edu/test2/ Replace With Project Name]
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| http://isaac.ssl.berkeley.edu/test2/

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.fiit.stuba.sk/ BOINC@Fiit]
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| Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava
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| TBA.

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| [https://web.archive.org/https://v8boinc.fer.hr/v8boinc/ v8boinc]
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20101203122655/http://glife.is-a-geek.org:80/ga/view_profile.php?userid=120 GA@home]
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20101109123610/http://www.luxrenderfarm.de/luxfarm Luxrenderfarm@home]
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| Renderfarm for Luxrender.net.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130819173713/http://sudoku.nctu.edu.tw/joomla/ sudoku@vtaiwan]
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| Develop new techniques and use them to modify the program [https://web.archive.org/web/20130819173713/http://www.math.ie/checker.html Checker] (written by Gary McGuire).

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://poseidon.shacknet.nu:8080/MilestoneRSA/ MilestoneRSA]
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| Break a 1024 bit RSA key used by Motorola to sign the boot and recovery partitions on the Motorola Milestone.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc01.uoc.edu/ILS-ESP-2014/ ILS-ESP-2014]
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| Research for solving the permutation FLOW-SHOP problem.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://wordcompatibility.com/words_compatibility/ Russian Words Compatibility]
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| Research in Russian computational linguistics.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110816010257/http://falua.cesfelipesegundo.com/Neurona/ Neurona@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Neurona@Home 2]
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| Simulating the behavior of a large assembly of cellular automata neurons connected in a complex network.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.isa.ru/dcsdg/ OPTIMA@HOME]
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| Solve challenging large-scale optimization problems.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130525113734/http://svahesrv2.bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de/correlizer/ Correlizer]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Correlizer 5]
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| Revealing the mysteries of genome organization.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120825055512/http://vbridge.twgrid.org/asgcdg/ Taiwan Desktop Grid]
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|Academia Sinica Grid Computing
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| Bridging Taiwanese volunteer computers to European e-Science service grid infrastructure. [[Taiwan Desktop Grid|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110214000708/http://androinc.net:80/ AndrOINC]
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| To break a 1024 bit RSA key used by Motorola to sign the boot and recovery partitions on the Motorola Milestone.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20141216004540/http://findah.ucd.ie/ FiND@Home]
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| 2012-07-20
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| Dr Anthony Chubb
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| A research project that uses donated CPU time to perform docking simulations on malaria proteins.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140514143657/http://www.primaboinca.com/ Primaboinca]
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| This project concerns itself with two hypotheses in number theory: Agrawal's Conjecture (the basis for the AKS algorithm) and Popovych's conjecture, which adds a further condition and could reduce the time of a deterministic prime test from O(log N)^6 to O(log N)^3.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060723185510/http://attribution.cpdn.org/ Seasonal Attribution Project]
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| WinXP, Linux
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| By comparing the results of climate simulations, half of which will include the effects of human-induced climate change, and half of which will not, we will investigate the possible impact of human activity on extreme weather risk.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://shasta.chem.uh.edu/SolarAtHome/ Solar@home]
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| Make more efficient solar cells.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080828221836/http://kinetic.dnsalias.org/magnetism/ Magnetism@home]
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| Explore the equilibrium, metastable and transient magnetization patterns in nano-scale magnetic elements and their arrays.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://desktopgrid.hiast.edu.sy/hiastdg/ HIAST@HOME]
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| 2013
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140316201231/http://volunteer.cs.und.edu:80/dna/ DNA@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#DNA@Home 2]
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| Discover what regulates the genes in DNA.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120130113228/http://boinc.umiacs.umd.edu/ The Lattice Project]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#The 16]
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| University of Maryland
| Multiple applications
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| Condor and PBS clusters through the Globus Toolkit, chiefly supporting phylogenetic analysis with the GARLI software. [[The Lattice Project|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.fzk.de/poem/ POEM@HOME]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#POEM@HOME 5]
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| Protein structure prediction has been complemented by other nanoscale molecule simulations. Within the scope of polymer crystallography we are researching conformations of organic hydrocarbons. [[POEM@HOME|See more...]]

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| [http://int-boinctest.int.kit.edu/poem/ POEM@TEST]
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| Test project for POEM@HOME.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://199.26.254.190/qos/ Spatiotemporal Quality of Service (QoS)]
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| Perform distributed web service evaluation so that more accurate service quality information can be delivered to end users.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070128212119/http://boinc.rieselsieve.com/ RieselSieve]
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| Mathematics
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| k+2n-1 problem, eventually merged with PrimeGrid.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130806073759/http://mopac.cadaster.eu/ mopac@home]
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| Chemistry
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| Research in quantum chemistry.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140419190153/http://volunteer.cs.und.edu/wildlife/ Wildlife@Home]
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| University of North Dakota
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| Analyze video gathered from various cameras recording wildlife.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20160120043345/http://volpexathome.cs.uh.edu/VolPEx/ Volpex@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Volpex@Home 9]
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| University of Houston
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| Research in creating effective parallel computing on multiple volatile nodes.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://mindmodeling.org/palm_project/ MindModeling@Home (Palm)]
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| University of Dayton Research Institute and Wright State University
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| Test project for MindModeling@Home.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080805160334/http://mindmodeling.org:80/beta/ MindModeling@Home (Beta)]
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| [https://youtu.be/3aJmm60Wgl8 view]
| University of Dayton Research Institute and Wright State University
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| Test project for MindModeling@Home.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120215132304/http://boinc.almeregrid.nl/ AlmereGrid]
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090422205514/http://server1.almeregrid.nl/testgrid/ AlmereGrid TestGrid]
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| Test Grid of AlmereGrid.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://server5.almeregrid.nl/almeregrid/ AlmereGrid Boinc testGrid]
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| No independent verification that this was a BOINC project.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20181204215217/http://anthgrid.com/dbnupperbound/ DBN Upper Bound]
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| Polymath project related to the theory of the Riemann zeta function.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130331200159/http://abcathome.com/ ABC@home]
| [https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.2974 1]
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| Finding abc-triples related to the ABC conjecture. [[ABC@home|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070206065801/http://abcathome.com/beta/ ABC@home beta]
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| Test project for ABC@home.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc2.cs.hs-rm.de/abclll/ ABC Lattices @Home]
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| Searching for good abc-triples. Unlike ABC@Home, this project is not aiming for a thorough search of a certain range of numbers. Instead, we are trying to find good triples with the help of a specialized algorithm in areas beyond 2^100.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080801101300/http://cpdnbeta.oerc.ox.ac.uk/ CPDN Beta]
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| Test project for climate''prediction''.net.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140703145955/http://atlasathome.cern.ch/ Atlas@home]
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| A research project that uses volunteer computing to run simulations of the ATLAS experiment at CERN.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130302044909/http://boincsimap.org/boincsimap/ SIMAP]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#SIMAP 5]
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|Technical University of Munich, the Helmholtz Zentrum München and the University of Vienna
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| Many computational methods in biology and medicine are based on protein sequence analysis, e.g. to predict the function and structure of genes and proteins. SIMAP facilitates these methods by providing pre-calculated protein similarities and protein domains. [[SIMAP|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120214044716/http://boinc.gorlaeus.net/ Leiden Classical]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Leiden 2]
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| WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS X (Not Intel)
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| [https://youtu.be/co2SkwsvyOk view] and [https://youtu.be/ECAQC1mzMiM view]
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| Dedicated to general Classical Dynamics for any scientist or science student. [[Leiden Classical|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20171217033707/http://szdg.lpds.sztaki.hu/szdg/ SZTAKI Desktop Grid]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#SZTAKI 5]
| 2005-05-26
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| WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS X (Not Intel), Solaris
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| Multiple Applications
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| The SZTAKI Desktop Grid and its applications are partly supported by the DEGISCO and the EDGI projects. The work leading to these results has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreements n° RI-261561 and n° RI-261556. [[SZTAKI Desktop Grid|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080926101459/http://orbit.psi.edu/oah/ Orbit@home]
| [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103516300914 1]
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| Produce an optimized search strategy for dedicated astronomical surveys to search for near-Earth asteroids.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130725025029/http://pogs.theskynet.org/pogs/ theSkyNet POGS]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#TheSkyNet 3]
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| Research in astronomy. Combine the spectral coverage of GALEX, Pan-STARRS1, and WISE to generate a multi-wavelength UV-optical-NIR galaxy atlas for the nearby Universe. [[TheSkyNet POGS|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20180205194455/https://sourcefinder.theskynet.org/duchamp/ theSkyNet Sourcefinder]
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| Provide a means to test the effectiveness of various astronomical sourcefinding applications.

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| [https://nickeycat.net/nic/ Nickeycat]
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| No independent verification that this was a BOINC project.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://xansons4cod.com/xansons4cod/ XANSONS for COD]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#XANSONS 2]
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| Create an open access database of simulated x-ray and neutron powder diffraction patterns for nanocrystalline phase of the materials presented in the '''Crystallography Open Database (COD)'''.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://aerospaceresearch.net/constellation/ Constellation]
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| Research in various aerospace related sciences and engineering.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20190401042546/http://www.acousticsathome.ru/boinc/ Acoustics@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Acoustics@home 2]
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|  
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| Matrosov Institute for System Dynamics and Control Theory of SB RAS
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| Solving inverse problems in underwater acoustics.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20100427212604/http://boinc.drugdiscoveryathome.com/ Drug Discovery@home]
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| Model the behavior of leading compounds that could be developed into new medicines.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://sat.isa.ru/pdsat/ SAT@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#SAT@home 8]
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|  
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|Russian Academy of Sciences (Siberian Branch)
|Mathematics
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| Solve hard and practically important problems (discrete functions inversion problems, discrete optimization, bioinformatics, etc) that can be effectively reduced to Boolean satisfiability problem. [[SAT@home|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20190606103241/https://www.dhep.ga/boinc/ Distributed Hardware Evolution Project]
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| Used island-based coevolutionary genetic algorithm to synthesize self-checking digital hardware circuits. [[Distributed Hardware Evolution Project|See more...]]

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| [https://charon.camras.nl/setiatcamras/ SETI@CAMRAS]
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20180927092346/http://cpu.goofyxgridathome.net/ GoofyxGrid@Home CPU]
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|  
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| [https://web.archive.org/http://usproteins-at-home.ru/usproteins/ usproteins@home]
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|  
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20131022042932/http://qmcathome.org/ QMC@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#QMC@Home 7]
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| Windows, Linux
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| [https://youtu.be/fNWUs9jRwSY view]
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| Multiple applications
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| Quantum-mechanical computations on medically relevant biomolecular systems, to help with developing quantum-mechanics-based approaches for computational drug design; and finding safer and greener materials for e-vehicle batteries. [[QMC@Home|See more...]]

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| [http://physiome.lf1.cuni.cz/ident3/physiome/ Physiome@home]
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|  
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| Research in human physiology.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://casathome.ihep.ac.cn/ CAS@home]
|
|2010-09-30
2020-04-27
|  
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| [https://youtu.be/e-DUArD38Pw view]
| Chinese Academy of Sciences
|
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| The main application is the TreeThreader which predicts protein structure. [[CAS@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20210417203758/http://boinc.scienterprise.cn/ scienterprise]
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| 2020
|  
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| Enterprises own a lot of idle computing resources in their private cloud, while research projects are restricted by limited computing power. This project aims to decrease this imbalance by building CloudTides, an elastic platform on idle cloud resources.

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| [http://vath.xicp.cn/test/ volunteer@home]
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| 2021
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| [https://youtu.be/a4nO8ki2qR4 view]
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| Very small test project, no information.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20191018200437/http://brainstormhome.org/ Brainstorm@home]
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|  
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| Investigate the molecular basis of brain-related diseases.

|-
| [http://hayes.nodium.net:8000/boincserver/ beef@home]
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|  
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| Proof of concept temporary test project.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20170509144906/https://csgrid.org/csg/ Citizen Science Grid]
|
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|  
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| UND's Computational Research Center and Information Technology Systems and Services
| Multiple applications
|
| A wide range of research and educational projects using volunteer computing and citizen science, including DNA@Home, SubsetSum@Home, Climate Tweets, and Wildlife@Home.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20210125080541/https://www.kryptosathome.com/ Kryptos@Home]
|
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|  
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| Solving one of the most famous unsolved puzzles - the three-decade old Kryptos sculpture located on the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency. [[Kryptos@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20200421212107/https://mindmodeling.org/ MindModeling@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Publications_by_BOINC_projects#MindModeling.40Home 6]
| 2007-03-17
|  
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/3aJmm60Wgl8 view]
| University of Dayton Research Institute and Wright State University
| Cognitive science
|
| Computational cognitive process modeling to better understand the human mind. [[MindModeling@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20210225002054/http://www.vdwnumbers.org/vdwnumbers/ Van Der Waerden Numbers]
| [https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.03301 1]
| 2021-02-02
|  
|
|
|
| Daniel Monroe
| Mathematics
|
| Van Der Waerden Numbers is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to find better lower bounds for these numbers. Static mirror for this project: https://www.123numbers.org/

|-
| [http://burp.renderfarming.net/ Big and Ugly Rendering Project (BURP)]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Big 2]
|2004-06-17
2020
| Windows, Linux, Mac OS
|
|
|
|Janus Kristensen
|3D rendering
|
| Render animated videos including [http://bbb3d.renderfarming.net/download.html Big Buck Bunny]. [[Big and Ugly Rendering Project|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/test/ BOINC Test project]
|
| 2007-07-24
|  
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/e-DUArD38Pw view]
| University of California, Berkeley
| Software testing
|
| A test project for BOINC development.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20220711171713/https://boinc.tacc.utexas.edu/ BOINC@TACC]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#BOINC@TACC 3]
|
|
|
|
|
| Texas Advanced Computing Center
| Multiple applications
|
| Aerospace engineering, computational biology, and earthquake engineering. [[BOINC@TACC|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc-dev.tacc.utexas.edu/boincserver/ BOINC@TACC dev]
|
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|  
|
|
|
| Texas Advanced Computing Center
| Software testing
|
| Test project for BOINC@TACC.

|-
| [https://www.mlcathome.org/mlcathome/ MLC@Home]
| [https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2104.10555 1]
| 2020-06-30 / 2022-08-02
| [https://www.mlcathome.org/mlcathome/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| University of Maryland, Baltimore County
| Cognitive science
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mlc-home/id1492837872?i=1000499605038 Listen]
| Understanding and interpreting complex machine learning models. [[MLC@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.tbrada.eu/ T.Brada Experimental Grid]
|
| 2019-02-03 / 2022-12-24
|
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| The PADLS Total subproject aims to find new pseudo-associative DLS. [[T.Brada Experimental Grid|See more...]]

|-
| [https://quchempedia.univ-angers.fr/athome/ QuChemPedIA@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#QuChemPedIA@home 4]
| 2019-07-01 / 2022-09-29
| [https://quchempedia.univ-angers.fr/athome/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: olive; color: black;" | Vbox only
|
| Université Angers
| Molecular Chemistry
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/quchempedia/id1492837872?i=1000484760287 Listen]
| Help chemical researchers around the world by building a unique collection of results and also help our AIs to propose much more new targets for the different applications we are addressing than we could do on our own. [[QuChemPedIA@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/ Collatz Conjecture]
| [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11227-020-03368-x 1]
| 2009-01-06
| [https://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| Study the Collatz conjecture, an unsolved conjecture in mathematics. [[Collatz Conjecture|See more...]]

|-
| [http://www.cosmologyathome.org/ Cosmology@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Cosmology@Home 5]
| 2007-06-26 / 2024-01-10
| [http://www.cosmologyathome.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, Vbox
|
| Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
| Astronomy
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/comology-home/id1492837872?i=1000521601975 Listen]
| Find the most accurate models that best describe the universe. [[Cosmology@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20240118183120/http://bearnol.is-a-geek.com/wanless2/ WEP-M+2 Project]
|
| 2006-05-12 / 2024-01-18
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20231126215917/http://bearnol.is-a-geek.com/wanless2/apps.php Linux, macOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| James Wanless, London, England
| Mathematics
| [https://www.youtube.com/live/9QexlknOdb0?feature=share Watch]
| Factorization of Mersenneplustwo numbers. [[WEP-M+2 Project|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.nanohub.org/nanoHUB_at_home/ nanoHUB@Home]
|
| 2012-07-26
| [https://boinc.nanohub.org/nanoHUB_at_home/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: olive; color: black;" | Vbox only
|
| Purdue University
| Nanotechnology
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nanohub/id1492837872?i=1000488157528 Listen]
| Research in nanoscience and nanotechnology. [[NanoHUB@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-540-30208-7_91 Unknown project]
|
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|

|-
| [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1488682/ Unknown project]
|
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|-
| [https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jp806269w boinc@duq]
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|

|-
| [https://www.comsol.com/paper/comsolgrid-a-framework-for-performing-large-scale-parameter-studies-using-comsol-8288 ComsolGrid]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#ComsolGrid 1]
|
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|

|-
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#BOINC-MR BOINC-MR]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#BOINC-MR 2]
|
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|

|-
| [https://frostydata.com/0Kdata Data freezer]
|
| 2024-06-11
| [https://frostydata.com/0Kdata/apps.php Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Storage
|
| Build a data warehouse on consumer hardware. [[Data freezer|See more...]]

|-
| [https://albertathome.org/ Albert@Home]
|
| 2011-12-23
| [https://albertathome.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Max Planck Institute
| Software testing
|
| Test project for [[Einstein@Home]]. [[Albert@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://sech.me/boinc/Amicable/ Amicable Numbers]
|
| 2017-01-05
| [https://sech.me/boinc/Amicable/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boinc-radio-project-brief-amicable-numbers/id1492837872?i=1000581365935 Listen]
| Amicable numbers are pairs where the sum of the proper divisors of each is equal to the other number. The goal of this project is to collect all amicable numbers up to a very large limit. [[Amicable Numbers|See more...]]

|-
| [https://blackholesathome.net/ BlackHoles@Home]
|
| {{No}}t yet
|
|
|
|
| University of Idaho
| Astrophysics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boinc-radio-project-brief-blackholes-home/id1492837872?i=1000575215408 Listen]
| Black hole collision simulations to maximize the science gained from gravitational wave observations. [[BlackHoles@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://team.dodoathome.com/dodo/ dodo@home]
|
| 2024-11-07
| [https://team.dodoathome.com/dodo/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
|
|
| We will bring the Dodo back from extinction (well, we will give it a damn good try!). [[Dodo@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://nci.boinc.goofyx.pl/ goofyxGrid@Home NCI]
|
| 1) [https://web.archive.org/web/20191023104620/http://nci.goofyxgridathome.net:80/ 2015-11-09] / 2) 2024-06-20
| [https://nci.boinc.goofyx.pl/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
|
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/goofyxgrid/id1492837872?i=1000490909639 Listen]
| To simulate the infinite monkey theorem which states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type any given text, including the complete works of William Shakespeare. [[GoofyxGrid@Home NCI|See more...]]

|-
| [http://boinc.llmentor.org/LLMentorGrid/ LLMentorGrid]
|
| 2025-01-22
| [http://boinc.llmentor.org/LLMentorGrid/apps.php Linux]
|
|
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| Independent
|
|
|

|-
| [http://parlea.ru/boinctest/ Parlea]
|
| 2022-12
| [http://parlea.ru/boinctest/apps.php Windows, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
|
| Mathematics
|
| Investigate the efficiency and behavior of mobile devices as computing nodes on the BOINC platform for solving the Orthogonal Diagonal Latin Squares (ODLS) search problem. [[Parlea|See more...]]

|-
| [https://ralph.bakerlab.org/ RALPH@home]
|
| 2006-02-15
| [https://ralph.bakerlab.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, macOS, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, Vbox
| [https://youtu.be/W9fC5lv76T0 view]
| University of Washington
| Software testing
|
| Test project for [[Rosetta@home]]. [[RALPH@home|See more...]]

|-
| RNA World (computing project) | [https://www.rnaworld.de/rnaworld/ RNA World (beta)]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#RNA 5]
| 2009-05-21
| [https://www.rnaworld.de/rnaworld/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: olive; color: black;" | Vbox only
| [https://youtu.be/GHJ4KBdwVew view]
| Independent research group in Marburg, Germany
| Molecular biology
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rnaworld/id1492837872?i=1000496594043 Listen]
| Uses bioinformatics software to study RNA structure. [[RNA World (beta)|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.termit.me/adsl/ SPT@home]
|
| 2023-06-14
| [https://boinc.termit.me/adsl/ Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
|
| Mathematics
|
| The Symmetric Prime Tuples (SPT) project is a continuation of the T. Brada Experimental Grid project. [[SPT|See more...]]

|-
| [https://universeathome.pl/universe/ Universe@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Publications_by_BOINC_projects#Universe.40home 14]
| 2015-02-19
| [https://universeathome.pl/universe/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences
| Astronomy
|
| Computational astrophysics, computer simulation of stars, galaxies and the Universe. [[Universe@Home|See more...]]

|-
|[https://axiom.heliex.net/ Axiom Distributed AI]
|
|2026-01-30
2026-03-20
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20260319085629/https://axiom.heliex.net/apps.php Windows, Linux, Mac]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
|Axiom Project 2026
|Artificial Intelligence
|
|Distributed neural-network learning techniques influenced by Hebbian learning [[Axiom Distributed AI|See more...]]

|-
| [https://rnma.xyz/boinc/ Ramanujan Machine]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Ramanujan 2]
| 2021-10-14
| [https://rnma.xyz/boinc/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/project-brief-ramanujan-machine-5-2-2022/id1492837872?i=1000570072053 Listen]
| Conjecturing new mathematical formulas. [[Ramanujan Machine|See more...]]
|}

EDGeS@Home

2026-08-19T09:37:17Z

Al Piskun: arrange pubs

{{Infobox software
| name = EDGeS@Home
| logo = Edges logo.png
| logo caption = EDGeS@Home project logo
| screenshot =
| caption =
| description = EDGeS@Home was a completed BOINC-based volunteer computing project that bridged desktop grids and service grids to support scientific applications, primarily the ISDEP plasma fusion simulation code, developed by MTA SZTAKI and sponsored by the European Union Seventh Framework Programme.

| status = Completed
| category = Plasma physics, Grid computing
| compute = CPU
| dependencies =

| developer = MTA SZTAKI Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems
| author = Péter Kacsuk, Zoltán Farkas
| sponsor = European Union FP7 (grant 211727); DEGISCO (grant 261556)
| maintainer = EDGeS team
| released = {{Start date and age|2009|10|28}}
| completed = May 2011 (ISDEP phase)
| discontinued = ca. 2015
| repository =

| programming language = C
| operating system = Windows, Linux, macOS
| size = ~70 MB (ISDEP application)

| stats as of = {{Start date and age|2015|11|28}}
| average performance = 1.35 GFLOPS
| active users = 0
| total users = 11486
| active hosts = 0
| total hosts = 32308

| rac = 0
| credit per day = 0
| gpu performance =
| cpu performance = 1.35 GFLOPS

| website = {{URL|http://home.edges-grid.eu/home/}}
| license =
}}

'''EDGeS@Home''' ('''E'''nabling '''D'''esktop '''G'''rids for '''e'''-'''S'''cience) was a [[wikipedia:BOINC|BOINC]]-based [[wikipedia:Volunteer computing|volunteer computing]] project that aimed to bridge desktop grid (DG) and service grid (SG) infrastructures, enabling the execution of scientific applications developed by the [[wikipedia:EGEE|EGEE]] and EDGeS community on volunteer-contributed computing resources.<ref name="edgeshome">{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329124047/http://home.edges-grid.eu/home/ |title=EDGeS@Home |publisher=EDGeS |accessdate=2026-08-16 |via=Wayback Machine}}</ref> The project was coordinated by the [[wikipedia:SZTAKI|MTA SZTAKI]] Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems in Hungary and was part of the broader EDGeS [[wikipedia:European Union|European Union]] [[wikipedia:Seventh Framework Programme|Seventh Framework Programme]] (FP7) project.<ref name="boincwiki">{{cite web |url=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/EDGeS@Home |title=EDGeS@Home |publisher=BOINC |accessdate=2026-08-16}}</ref>

The project's primary production-level application was '''ISDEP''' (Integrator of Stochastic Differential Equations for Plasmas), a [[wikipedia:Monte Carlo method|Monte Carlo]] code that simulates [[wikipedia:Ion|ion]] transport in magnetized plasmas for [[wikipedia:Fusion power|fusion energy]] research.<ref name="velasco2012">{{cite journal |last1=Velasco |first1=J.L. |last2=Bustos |first2=A. |last3=Castejón |first3=F. |last4=Fernández |first4=L.A. |last5=Martin-Mayor |first5=V. |last6=Tarancón |first6=A. |title=ISDEP: Integrator of stochastic differential equations for plasmas |journal=Computer Physics Communications |volume=183 |issue=9 |pages=1877–1883 |year=2012 |doi=10.1016/j.cpc.2012.04.004}}</ref> EDGeS@Home also hosted several other applications at the beta (experimental) level.<ref name="edgeshome" />

== History ==

The EDGeS (Enabling Desktop Grids for e-Science) project was an [[wikipedia:European Union|European Union]] FP7 infrastructure project (grant agreement no. 211727) that ran from 2008 to 2010, with the goal of building technological bridges to facilitate [[wikipedia:Interoperability|interoperability]] between desktop grids and service grids.<ref name="urbah2009">{{cite journal |last1=Urbah |first1=E. |last2=Kacsuk |first2=P. |last3=Farkas |first3=Z. |display-authors=etal |title=EDGeS: Bridging EGEE to BOINC and XtremWeb |journal=Journal of Grid Computing |volume=7 |pages=335–354 |year=2009 |doi=10.1007/s10723-009-9137-0}}</ref> The EDGeS@Home BOINC project was launched on '''28 October 2009''' as the volunteer computing component of this infrastructure.<ref name="boincwiki" />

The EDGeS@Home desktop grid and its applications were partly supported by the follow-on '''DEGISCO''' project (Desktop Grid Initiatives for Scientific Collaboration), funded under EU FP7 grant agreement no. 261556.<ref name="edgeshome" /> The experts of the '''International Desktop Grid Federation''' (IDGF) provided further support for the EDGeS@Home infrastructure, its applications, and its integration into the DEGISCO infrastructure.<ref name="edgeshome" />

A server upgrade was performed in April 2011, after which the project continued operating.<ref name="edgeshome" /> The ISDEP computation phase was completed on '''21 May 2011'''.<ref name="boincruforum">{{cite web |url=https://boinc.ru/forum/topic/proekt-edgeshome-on-zhe-ibercivis/ |title=EDGeS@Home |publisher=BOINC.RU |accessdate=2026-08-16 |language=Russian}}</ref> After the ISDEP phase ended, the project briefly hosted an [[wikipedia:AutoDock|AutoDock]] application for [[wikipedia:Molecular docking|molecular docking]] computations at the beta level.<ref name="boincruforum" /> The project became inactive by approximately 2015, with the last statistics export occurring on 28 November 2015.<ref name="boincstats">{{cite web |url=https://www.boincstats.com/stats/89/project/detail |title=EDGeS@Home – Detailed stats |publisher=BOINCstats |accessdate=2026-08-16}}</ref>

== Scientific objectives ==

The aim of the EDGeS@Home project was to support the execution of selected and validated scientific applications developed by the EGEE and EDGeS community on [[wikipedia:Volunteer computing|volunteer computing]] resources.<ref name="edgeshome" /> The project served as a practical demonstration of the EDGeS bridging technology, which connected [[wikipedia:BOINC|BOINC]]-based and XtremWeb-based desktop grids with the EGEE service grid infrastructure, creating a seamless pool of over 250,000 processors from desktop grids combined with approximately 150,000 processors from service grids.<ref name="degisco">{{cite web |url=https://sztaki.hu/en/projects/degisco |title=DEGISCO |publisher=MTA SZTAKI |accessdate=2026-08-16}}</ref>

=== ISDEP ===

The principal application hosted on EDGeS@Home was '''ISDEP''' (Integrator of Stochastic Differential Equations for Plasmas), a Monte Carlo code developed under the collaboration between the '''National Fusion Laboratory''' at [[wikipedia:CIEMAT|CIEMAT]] (Madrid), the '''Institute of Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems''' (BIFI) at the [[wikipedia:University of Zaragoza|University of Zaragoza]], and the [[wikipedia:Complutense University of Madrid|Complutense University of Madrid]].<ref name="velasco2012" />

ISDEP solves the dynamics of a minority population of ions in a complex 3D fusion device, computing the [[wikipedia:Distribution function|distribution function]] by numerically integrating the [[wikipedia:Langevin equation|Langevin equation]]s equivalent to the [[wikipedia:Fokker–Planck equation|Fokker–Planck equation]].<ref name="velasco2012" /> The code takes into account:

* The full three-dimensional structure of fusion devices, avoiding common approximations such as Boozer coordinates and the neoclassical ordering
* The confining [[wikipedia:Electromagnetic field|electromagnetic field]]
* [[wikipedia:Collision|Collision]]s with other [[wikipedia:Plasma (physics)|plasma]] species (ions and electrons) using the Boozer–Kuo-Petravic collision operator
* The [[wikipedia:Electric potential|electrostatic potential]]

The Monte Carlo method used by ISDEP is based on the equivalence between the [[wikipedia:Fokker–Planck equation|Fokker–Planck]] and [[wikipedia:Langevin equation|Langevin equation]]s, which allows the code to run on [[wikipedia:Distributed computing|distributed computing]] platforms without [[wikipedia:Inter-process communication|communication between nodes]], achieving near-linear scaling.<ref name="velasco2012" /> Each computing node integrates one or more ion trajectories independently, with statistical independence guaranteed by reading the [[wikipedia:Random seed|random seed]] locally.<ref name="velasco2012" />

The primary fusion device studied with ISDEP on EDGeS@Home was the [[wikipedia:TJ-II|TJ-II]] [[wikipedia:Stellarator|stellarator]] at CIEMAT.<ref name="castejon2007">{{cite journal |last1=Castejón |first1=F. |last2=Fernández |first2=L.A. |last3=Guasp |first3=J. |last4=Martin-Mayor |first4=V. |last5=Tarancón |first5=A. |last6=Velasco |first6=J.L. |title=Ion kinetic transport in the presence of collisions and electric field in TJ-II ECRH plasmas |journal=Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion |volume=49 |issue=6 |pages=753 |year=2007 |doi=10.1088/0741-3335/49/6/006}}</ref> ISDEP was also applied to study ion transport in [[wikipedia:ITER|ITER]]<ref name="bustos2010">{{cite journal |last1=Bustos |first1=A. |last2=Castejón |first2=F. |last3=Fernández |first3=L.A. |display-authors=etal |title=Impact of 3D features on ion collisional transport in ITER |journal=Nuclear Fusion |volume=50 |issue=12 |pages=125007 |year=2010 |doi=10.1088/0029-5515/50/12/125007}}</ref> and the [[wikipedia:Large Helical Device|Large Helical Device]] (LHD) stellarator.<ref name="velasco2012" />

ISDEP was programmed in [[wikipedia:C (programming language)|C]] to maximize performance and portability, and was designed from the outset to run on [[wikipedia:Grid computing|grid computing]] and volunteer computing platforms.<ref name="velasco2012" /> The application download size was approximately 70 MB, with input data per workunit of 212 bytes and output data of 500–700 KB.<ref name="ruwiki">{{cite web |url=https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDGeS@Home |title=EDGeS@Home |publisher=Wikipedia |accessdate=2026-08-16 |language=Russian}}</ref>

=== Other applications ===

In addition to ISDEP at production level, EDGeS@Home hosted several other applications at the beta (experimental) level:<ref name="edgeshome" />

* '''AutoDock''' – a [[wikipedia:Molecular docking|molecular docking]] application used in [[wikipedia:Biomedicine|biomedical]] research, which became the sole active application after the ISDEP phase ended in May 2011<ref name="boincruforum" />
* Applications from the broader EDGeS infrastructure, including those bridged from EGEE service grids via the 3G Bridge technology

The ISDEP application was also available through the Spanish volunteer computing project [[wikipedia:Ibercivis|Ibercivis]] and its predecessor ZIVIS (Zaragoza Institutional Volunteer Computing for Investigative Science), a city-wide computing platform deployed in [[wikipedia:Zaragoza|Zaragoza]], Spain.<ref name="zivis">{{cite conference |last1=Antolí |first1=B. |last2=Castejón |first2=F. |last3=Giner |first3=A. |display-authors=etal |title=ZIVIS: A City Computing Platform Based on Volunteer Computing |year=2007 |booktitle=International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing}}</ref>

== Bridging technology ==
[[File:Enabling Desktop Grids for e-Science.jpg|thumb|The EDGeS 3G Bridge architecture connecting BOINC desktop grids with the EGEE service grid, enabling bidirectional job execution.]]
The core technical contribution of the EDGeS project was the development of '''3G Bridge''' (Generic Grid-to-Grid Bridge), a middleware-independent framework that enabled [[wikipedia:Interoperability|interoperability]] between desktop grids and service grids.<ref name="urbah2009" /> The bridge operated in two directions:

* '''BOINC → EGEE bridge''': A modified [[wikipedia:BOINC|BOINC]] client that represented itself as a powerful desktop PC with many CPU cores to the EGEE Workload Management System (WMS), pulling workunits from the BOINC server and executing them on EGEE resources. This was based on the super-worker approach.<ref name="fedak2008">{{cite conference |last1=Fedak |first1=Gilles |last2=He |first2=Haiwu |last3=Lodygensky |first3=Oleg |display-authors=etal |title=EDGeS: A Bridge between Desktop Grids and Service Grids |booktitle=2008 Third ChinaGrid Annual Conference (CHINAGRID) |year=2008 |doi=10.1109/ChinaGrid.2008.44}}</ref>
* '''EGEE → BOINC bridge''': Allowed EGEE users to submit jobs that were transparently forwarded to and executed on connected desktop grid systems, extending the capacity of EGEE [[wikipedia:Virtual organization|Virtual Organization]]s (VOs) with volunteer resources.<ref name="kacsuk2011">{{cite book |last1=Kacsuk |first1=P. |last2=Farkas |first2=Z. |last3=Balaton |first3=Z. |title=EDGeS Bridge Technologies to Interconnect Service and Desktop Grids |booktitle=Remote Instrumentation Services on the e-Infrastructure |year=2011 |publisher=Springer |doi=10.1007/978-1-4419-5574-6_5}}</ref>

The production infrastructure included the SZTAKI Desktop Grid, the Extremadura Desktop Grid, and the AlmereGrid, connected to EGEE service grids through the 3G Bridge.<ref name="urbah2009" />

== Volunteer participation ==

[[File:TJ-II model including plasma, coils and vacuum vessel.jpg|thumb|The [[wikipedia:TJ-II|TJ-II]] [[wikipedia:Stellarator|stellarator]] at [[wikipedia:CIEMAT|CIEMAT]], Madrid, the primary fusion device studied using ISDEP on EDGeS@Home.|alt=The TJ-II stellarator device]]

Volunteers participated in EDGeS@Home by installing the [[wikipedia:BOINC|BOINC]] client and attaching to the project URL <code>http://home.edges-grid.eu/home/</code>.<ref name="edgeshome" /> At its peak, the project reached approximately:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Metric !! Value
|-
| Total users || 11,486
|-
| Total hosts || 32,308
|-
| Total credit || 460,481,463
|-
| Peak estimated performance (48 h) || ~1.57 [[wikipedia:FLOPS|TFLOPS]]
|-
| Number of countries || 84
|-
| Number of teams || 684
|-
|}

As of March 2012, over 7,000 users from 84 countries had contributed more than 17,000 computers, providing an integrated performance of approximately 2.6 [[wikipedia:FLOPS|TFLOPS]].<ref name="boincruforum" /> The project had 11,032 users and 16,385 hosts as of March 2012, with an estimated 48-hour performance of 1,352.6 GFLOPS.<ref name="edgeshome" />

== Relationship to other projects ==

EDGeS@Home was closely related to several other grid and volunteer computing initiatives:

* '''[[wikipedia:Ibercivis|Ibercivis]]''' – A Spanish volunteer computing project that also hosted the ISDEP application. EDGeS@Home served as part of a unified European grid infrastructure that included Ibercivis as a sub-grid.<ref name="boincruforum" />
* '''SZTAKI Desktop Grid''' – A BOINC-based desktop grid developed at MTA SZTAKI using the DC-API (Distributed Computing Application Programming Interface), which was a foundational component of the EDGeS infrastructure.<ref name="urbah2009" />
* '''ZIVIS''' – A city-wide volunteer computing platform in Zaragoza, Spain, that served as a precursor to Ibercivis and hosted ISDEP as its pilot application.<ref name="zivis" />
* '''AlmereGrid''' – A Dutch desktop grid that was part of the EDGeS production infrastructure.<ref name="urbah2009" />
* '''DEGISCO''' – The follow-on project (FP7 grant 261556) that supported the EDGeS@Home infrastructure and promoted interoperation between desktop grid and service grid infrastructures on a global scale.<ref name="degisco" />

== Mathematical formulation ==

ISDEP solves the [[wikipedia:Fokker–Planck equation|Fokker–Planck equation]] for a minority ion population in a magnetized plasma:

:<math>\frac{\partial f}{\partial t} + \dot{\mathbf{x}} \cdot \nabla f + \dot{\mathbf{v}} \cdot \nabla_v f = C(f)</math>

where <math>f(\mathbf{x}, \mathbf{v}, t)</math> is the [[wikipedia:Distribution function|ion distribution function]], <math>\mathbf{x}</math> and <math>\mathbf{v}</math> are position and velocity in [[wikipedia:Cartesian coordinate system|Cartesian coordinates]], and <math>C(f)</math> is the collision operator (Boozer–Kuo-Petravic).<ref name="velasco2012" />

By exploiting the equivalence between the Fokker–Planck equation and the [[wikipedia:Langevin equation|Langevin equation]]s, ISDEP integrates the [[wikipedia:Stochastic differential equation|stochastic differential equation]]s:

:<math>d\mathbf{X} = \mathbf{a}(\mathbf{X}, t)\,dt + \mathbf{b}(\mathbf{X}, t)\,d\mathbf{W}</math>

where <math>\mathbf{a}</math> is the drift term (deterministic motion in the electromagnetic field), <math>\mathbf{b}</math> is the diffusion coefficient (collisional effects), and <math>\mathbf{W}</math> is a [[wikipedia:Wiener process|Wiener process]].<ref name="velasco2012" /> The numerical integration uses a [[wikipedia:Runge–Kutta method|Runge–Kutta method]] upgraded to handle [[wikipedia:Gaussian noise|Gaussian noise]] from collisional effects.<ref name="zivis" />

Since individual particle trajectories are statistically independent, no inter-node communication is required during computation, making the problem [[wikipedia:Embarrassingly parallel|embarrassingly parallel]] and well-suited for [[wikipedia:Volunteer computing|volunteer computing]] platforms.<ref name="velasco2012" />

== Publications ==

=== BOINC-listed publications ===

The following 12 publications are listed on the [[wikipedia:BOINC|BOINC]] publications page for EDGeS@Home:<ref name="boincpubs">{{cite web |url=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#EDGeS@Home |title=Publications by BOINC Projects – EDGeS@Home |publisher=BOINC |accessdate=2026-08-16}}</ref>

# Kacsuk, P., Z. Farkas, J. Kovács ''et al''. [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/296885066_Desktop_grid_in_the_era_of_cloud_computing Desktop grid in the era of cloud computing]. (2015).
# Fedak, Gilles. [https://hal.inria.fr/tel-01158462 Contributions to Desktop Grid Computing]. (2015). Habilitation à diriger des recherches.
# Delamare, Simon, Gilles Fedak, Derrick Kondo and Oleg Lodygensky. [http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10586-013-0283-6 SpeQuloS: a QoS service for hybrid and elastic computing infrastructures]. ''Cluster Computing'' (2014). DOI: 10.1007/s10586-013-0283-6.
# Visegrádi, Ádám, J. Kovács and P. Kacsuk. [https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0167739X1300229X Efficient extension of gLite VOs with BOINC based desktop grids]. ''Future Generation Computer Systems'' (2014). DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2013.10.012.
# Marosi, Attila, J. Kovács and P. Kacsuk. [https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0167739X12000660 Towards a volunteer cloud system]. ''Future Generation Computer Systems'' (2013). DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2012.03.013.
# Delamare, Simon, Gilles Fedak, Derrick Kondo, O. Lodygensky, P. Kacsuk, J. Kovács and F. Araujo. [https://hal.inria.fr/hal-00819907 Advanced QoS Prototype for the EDGI Infrastructure]. (2013).
# Delamare, Simon, Gilles Fedak, Derrick Kondo, O. Lodygensky, P. Kacsuk, J. Kovács and F. Araujo. [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/278629554_Intermediate_QoS_Prototype_for_the_EDGI_Infrastructure Intermediate QoS Prototype for the EDGI Infrastructure]. (2013).
# Terstyanszky, Gabor, Tamas Kiss, Tamas Kukla, Zsolt Lichtenberger, Stephen Winter, Pamela Greenwell, Sharron McEldowney and Hans Heindl. [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22942006/ Application repository and science gateway for running molecular docking and dynamics simulations]. ''Studies in Health Technology and Informatics'' (2012).
# Velasco, J.L., A. Bustos, F. Castejón, L.A. Fernández, V. Martín-Mayor and A. Tarancón. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2012.04.005 ISDEP: Integrator of stochastic differential equations for plasmas]. ''Computer Physics Communications'' '''183'''(9), 1877–1883 (2012). DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2012.04.005.
# Kacsuk, P., Z. Farkas and Z. Balaton. [http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-1-4419-5574-6_5 EDGeS Bridge Technologies to Interconnect Service and Desktop Grids]. ''Remote Instrumentation Services on the e-Infrastructure'' (2011).
# Velasco, J. L., F. Castejón and A. Tarancón. [http://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.3126583 Finite orbit width effect in ion collisional transport in TJ-II]. ''Physics of Plasmas'' (2009). DOI: 10.1063/1.3126583.
# Fedak, Gilles, Haiwu He, Oleg Lodygensky ''et al''. [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4624461/ EDGeS: A Bridge between Desktop Grids and Service Grids]. ''2008 Third ChinaGrid Annual Conference'' (2008). DOI: 10.1109/ChinaGrid.2008.44.
# Antolí, B., F. Castejón, A. Giner ''et al''. [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/242126353_ZIVIS_A_City_Computing_Platform_Based_on_Volunteer_Computing ZIVIS: A City Computing Platform Based on Volunteer Computing]. (2007).

=== Additional publications ===

The following additional publications are related to the ISDEP application and the EDGeS project but are not listed on the BOINC publications page:

# Urbah, E., P. Kacsuk, Z. Farkas ''et al''. [https://doi.org/10.1007/s10723-009-9137-0 EDGeS: Bridging EGEE to BOINC and XtremWeb]. ''Journal of Grid Computing'' '''7''', 335–354 (2009). DOI: 10.1007/s10723-009-9137-0.
# Bustos, A., J.M. Fontdecaba, F. Castejón, J.L. Velasco, M. Tereshchenko and J. Arévalo. [https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4793731 Studies of the fast ion energy spectra in TJ-II]. ''Physics of Plasmas'' '''20'''(2), 022507 (2013). DOI: 10.1063/1.4793731.
# Castejón, F., L.A. Fernández, J. Guasp, V. Martín-Mayor, A. Tarancón and J.L. Velasco. [https://doi.org/10.1088/0741-3335/49/6/006 Ion kinetic transport in the presence of collisions and electric field in TJ-II ECRH plasmas]. ''Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion'' '''49'''(6), 753 (2007). DOI: 10.1088/0741-3335/49/6/006.
# Rivero, A. and D. Ferrer. [https://www.academia.edu/758702/ISDEP_a_fusion_application_deployed_in_the_EDGeS_project ISDEP, a fusion application deployed in the EDGeS project]. EGEE User Forum, ''EnterTheGrid'' workshop (2010).
# Cárdenas-Montes, M., A. Emmen, A.C. Marosi ''et al''. EDGeS: bridging Desktop and Service Grids. ''EGEE User Forum'' (2008).

== See also ==

* [[wikipedia:BOINC|BOINC]]
* [[wikipedia:Volunteer computing|Volunteer computing]]
* [[wikipedia:Ibercivis|Ibercivis]]
* [[wikipedia:TJ-II|TJ-II stellarator]]
* [[wikipedia:ITER|ITER]]
* [[wikipedia:Stellarator|Stellarator]]
* [[wikipedia:Plasma (physics)|Plasma (physics)]]

==References==

{{Reflist}}

[[Category:BOINC projects]]
[[Category:Completed BOINC projects]]
[[Category:Volunteer computing]]
[[Category:Grid computing]]
[[Category:Plasma physics]]
[[Category:Fusion research]]
[[Category:European Union research projects]]

EDGeS@Home

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{{Infobox software
| name = EDGeS@Home
| logo = Edges logo.png
| logo caption = EDGeS@Home project logo
| screenshot =
| caption =
| description = EDGeS@Home was a completed BOINC-based volunteer computing project that bridged desktop grids and service grids to support scientific applications, primarily the ISDEP plasma fusion simulation code, developed by MTA SZTAKI and sponsored by the European Union Seventh Framework Programme.

| status = Completed
| category = Plasma physics, Grid computing
| compute = CPU
| dependencies =

| developer = MTA SZTAKI Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems
| author = Péter Kacsuk, Zoltán Farkas
| sponsor = European Union FP7 (grant 211727); DEGISCO (grant 261556)
| maintainer = EDGeS team
| released = {{Start date and age|2009|10|28}}
| completed = May 2011 (ISDEP phase)
| discontinued = ca. 2015
| repository =

| programming language = C
| operating system = Windows, Linux, macOS
| size = ~70 MB (ISDEP application)

| stats as of = {{Start date and age|2015|11|28}}
| average performance = 1.35 GFLOPS
| active users = 0
| total users = 11486
| active hosts = 0
| total hosts = 32308

| rac = 0
| credit per day = 0
| gpu performance =
| cpu performance = 1.35 GFLOPS

| website = {{URL|http://home.edges-grid.eu/home/}}
| license =
}}

'''EDGeS@Home''' ('''E'''nabling '''D'''esktop '''G'''rids for '''e'''-'''S'''cience) was a [[wikipedia:BOINC|BOINC]]-based [[wikipedia:Volunteer computing|volunteer computing]] project that aimed to bridge desktop grid (DG) and service grid (SG) infrastructures, enabling the execution of scientific applications developed by the [[wikipedia:EGEE|EGEE]] and EDGeS community on volunteer-contributed computing resources.<ref name="edgeshome">{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329124047/http://home.edges-grid.eu/home/ |title=EDGeS@Home |publisher=EDGeS |accessdate=2026-08-16 |via=Wayback Machine}}</ref> The project was coordinated by the [[wikipedia:SZTAKI|MTA SZTAKI]] Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems in Hungary and was part of the broader EDGeS [[wikipedia:European Union|European Union]] [[wikipedia:Seventh Framework Programme|Seventh Framework Programme]] (FP7) project.<ref name="boincwiki">{{cite web |url=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/EDGeS@Home |title=EDGeS@Home |publisher=BOINC |accessdate=2026-08-16}}</ref>

The project's primary production-level application was '''ISDEP''' (Integrator of Stochastic Differential Equations for Plasmas), a [[wikipedia:Monte Carlo method|Monte Carlo]] code that simulates [[wikipedia:Ion|ion]] transport in magnetized plasmas for [[wikipedia:Fusion power|fusion energy]] research.<ref name="velasco2012">{{cite journal |last1=Velasco |first1=J.L. |last2=Bustos |first2=A. |last3=Castejón |first3=F. |last4=Fernández |first4=L.A. |last5=Martin-Mayor |first5=V. |last6=Tarancón |first6=A. |title=ISDEP: Integrator of stochastic differential equations for plasmas |journal=Computer Physics Communications |volume=183 |issue=9 |pages=1877–1883 |year=2012 |doi=10.1016/j.cpc.2012.04.004}}</ref> EDGeS@Home also hosted several other applications at the beta (experimental) level.<ref name="edgeshome" />

== History ==

The EDGeS (Enabling Desktop Grids for e-Science) project was an [[wikipedia:European Union|European Union]] FP7 infrastructure project (grant agreement no. 211727) that ran from 2008 to 2010, with the goal of building technological bridges to facilitate [[wikipedia:Interoperability|interoperability]] between desktop grids and service grids.<ref name="urbah2009">{{cite journal |last1=Urbah |first1=E. |last2=Kacsuk |first2=P. |last3=Farkas |first3=Z. |display-authors=etal |title=EDGeS: Bridging EGEE to BOINC and XtremWeb |journal=Journal of Grid Computing |volume=7 |pages=335–354 |year=2009 |doi=10.1007/s10723-009-9137-0}}</ref> The EDGeS@Home BOINC project was launched on '''28 October 2009''' as the volunteer computing component of this infrastructure.<ref name="boincwiki" />

The EDGeS@Home desktop grid and its applications were partly supported by the follow-on '''DEGISCO''' project (Desktop Grid Initiatives for Scientific Collaboration), funded under EU FP7 grant agreement no. 261556.<ref name="edgeshome" /> The experts of the '''International Desktop Grid Federation''' (IDGF) provided further support for the EDGeS@Home infrastructure, its applications, and its integration into the DEGISCO infrastructure.<ref name="edgeshome" />

A server upgrade was performed in April 2011, after which the project continued operating.<ref name="edgeshome" /> The ISDEP computation phase was completed on '''21 May 2011'''.<ref name="boincruforum">{{cite web |url=https://boinc.ru/forum/topic/proekt-edgeshome-on-zhe-ibercivis/ |title=EDGeS@Home |publisher=BOINC.RU |accessdate=2026-08-16 |language=Russian}}</ref> After the ISDEP phase ended, the project briefly hosted an [[wikipedia:AutoDock|AutoDock]] application for [[wikipedia:Molecular docking|molecular docking]] computations at the beta level.<ref name="boincruforum" /> The project became inactive by approximately 2015, with the last statistics export occurring on 28 November 2015.<ref name="boincstats">{{cite web |url=https://www.boincstats.com/stats/89/project/detail |title=EDGeS@Home – Detailed stats |publisher=BOINCstats |accessdate=2026-08-16}}</ref>

== Scientific objectives ==

The aim of the EDGeS@Home project was to support the execution of selected and validated scientific applications developed by the EGEE and EDGeS community on [[wikipedia:Volunteer computing|volunteer computing]] resources.<ref name="edgeshome" /> The project served as a practical demonstration of the EDGeS bridging technology, which connected [[wikipedia:BOINC|BOINC]]-based and XtremWeb-based desktop grids with the EGEE service grid infrastructure, creating a seamless pool of over 250,000 processors from desktop grids combined with approximately 150,000 processors from service grids.<ref name="degisco">{{cite web |url=https://sztaki.hu/en/projects/degisco |title=DEGISCO |publisher=MTA SZTAKI |accessdate=2026-08-16}}</ref>

=== ISDEP ===

The principal application hosted on EDGeS@Home was '''ISDEP''' (Integrator of Stochastic Differential Equations for Plasmas), a Monte Carlo code developed under the collaboration between the '''National Fusion Laboratory''' at [[wikipedia:CIEMAT|CIEMAT]] (Madrid), the '''Institute of Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems''' (BIFI) at the [[wikipedia:University of Zaragoza|University of Zaragoza]], and the [[wikipedia:Complutense University of Madrid|Complutense University of Madrid]].<ref name="velasco2012" />

ISDEP solves the dynamics of a minority population of ions in a complex 3D fusion device, computing the [[wikipedia:Distribution function|distribution function]] by numerically integrating the [[wikipedia:Langevin equation|Langevin equation]]s equivalent to the [[wikipedia:Fokker–Planck equation|Fokker–Planck equation]].<ref name="velasco2012" /> The code takes into account:

* The full three-dimensional structure of fusion devices, avoiding common approximations such as Boozer coordinates and the neoclassical ordering
* The confining [[wikipedia:Electromagnetic field|electromagnetic field]]
* [[wikipedia:Collision|Collision]]s with other [[wikipedia:Plasma (physics)|plasma]] species (ions and electrons) using the Boozer–Kuo-Petravic collision operator
* The [[wikipedia:Electric potential|electrostatic potential]]

The Monte Carlo method used by ISDEP is based on the equivalence between the [[wikipedia:Fokker–Planck equation|Fokker–Planck]] and [[wikipedia:Langevin equation|Langevin equation]]s, which allows the code to run on [[wikipedia:Distributed computing|distributed computing]] platforms without [[wikipedia:Inter-process communication|communication between nodes]], achieving near-linear scaling.<ref name="velasco2012" /> Each computing node integrates one or more ion trajectories independently, with statistical independence guaranteed by reading the [[wikipedia:Random seed|random seed]] locally.<ref name="velasco2012" />

The primary fusion device studied with ISDEP on EDGeS@Home was the [[wikipedia:TJ-II|TJ-II]] [[wikipedia:Stellarator|stellarator]] at CIEMAT.<ref name="castejon2007">{{cite journal |last1=Castejón |first1=F. |last2=Fernández |first2=L.A. |last3=Guasp |first3=J. |last4=Martin-Mayor |first4=V. |last5=Tarancón |first5=A. |last6=Velasco |first6=J.L. |title=Ion kinetic transport in the presence of collisions and electric field in TJ-II ECRH plasmas |journal=Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion |volume=49 |issue=6 |pages=753 |year=2007 |doi=10.1088/0741-3335/49/6/006}}</ref> ISDEP was also applied to study ion transport in [[wikipedia:ITER|ITER]]<ref name="bustos2010">{{cite journal |last1=Bustos |first1=A. |last2=Castejón |first2=F. |last3=Fernández |first3=L.A. |display-authors=etal |title=Impact of 3D features on ion collisional transport in ITER |journal=Nuclear Fusion |volume=50 |issue=12 |pages=125007 |year=2010 |doi=10.1088/0029-5515/50/12/125007}}</ref> and the [[wikipedia:Large Helical Device|Large Helical Device]] (LHD) stellarator.<ref name="velasco2012" />

ISDEP was programmed in [[wikipedia:C (programming language)|C]] to maximize performance and portability, and was designed from the outset to run on [[wikipedia:Grid computing|grid computing]] and volunteer computing platforms.<ref name="velasco2012" /> The application download size was approximately 70 MB, with input data per workunit of 212 bytes and output data of 500–700 KB.<ref name="ruwiki">{{cite web |url=https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDGeS@Home |title=EDGeS@Home |publisher=Wikipedia |accessdate=2026-08-16 |language=Russian}}</ref>

=== Other applications ===

In addition to ISDEP at production level, EDGeS@Home hosted several other applications at the beta (experimental) level:<ref name="edgeshome" />

* '''AutoDock''' – a [[wikipedia:Molecular docking|molecular docking]] application used in [[wikipedia:Biomedicine|biomedical]] research, which became the sole active application after the ISDEP phase ended in May 2011<ref name="boincruforum" />
* Applications from the broader EDGeS infrastructure, including those bridged from EGEE service grids via the 3G Bridge technology

The ISDEP application was also available through the Spanish volunteer computing project [[wikipedia:Ibercivis|Ibercivis]] and its predecessor ZIVIS (Zaragoza Institutional Volunteer Computing for Investigative Science), a city-wide computing platform deployed in [[wikipedia:Zaragoza|Zaragoza]], Spain.<ref name="zivis">{{cite conference |last1=Antolí |first1=B. |last2=Castejón |first2=F. |last3=Giner |first3=A. |display-authors=etal |title=ZIVIS: A City Computing Platform Based on Volunteer Computing |year=2007 |booktitle=International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing}}</ref>

== Bridging technology ==
[[File:Enabling Desktop Grids for e-Science.jpg|thumb|The EDGeS 3G Bridge architecture connecting BOINC desktop grids with the EGEE service grid, enabling bidirectional job execution.]]
The core technical contribution of the EDGeS project was the development of '''3G Bridge''' (Generic Grid-to-Grid Bridge), a middleware-independent framework that enabled [[wikipedia:Interoperability|interoperability]] between desktop grids and service grids.<ref name="urbah2009" /> The bridge operated in two directions:

* '''BOINC → EGEE bridge''': A modified [[wikipedia:BOINC|BOINC]] client that represented itself as a powerful desktop PC with many CPU cores to the EGEE Workload Management System (WMS), pulling workunits from the BOINC server and executing them on EGEE resources. This was based on the super-worker approach.<ref name="fedak2008">{{cite conference |last1=Fedak |first1=Gilles |last2=He |first2=Haiwu |last3=Lodygensky |first3=Oleg |display-authors=etal |title=EDGeS: A Bridge between Desktop Grids and Service Grids |booktitle=2008 Third ChinaGrid Annual Conference (CHINAGRID) |year=2008 |doi=10.1109/ChinaGrid.2008.44}}</ref>
* '''EGEE → BOINC bridge''': Allowed EGEE users to submit jobs that were transparently forwarded to and executed on connected desktop grid systems, extending the capacity of EGEE [[wikipedia:Virtual organization|Virtual Organization]]s (VOs) with volunteer resources.<ref name="kacsuk2011">{{cite book |last1=Kacsuk |first1=P. |last2=Farkas |first2=Z. |last3=Balaton |first3=Z. |title=EDGeS Bridge Technologies to Interconnect Service and Desktop Grids |booktitle=Remote Instrumentation Services on the e-Infrastructure |year=2011 |publisher=Springer |doi=10.1007/978-1-4419-5574-6_5}}</ref>

The production infrastructure included the SZTAKI Desktop Grid, the Extremadura Desktop Grid, and the AlmereGrid, connected to EGEE service grids through the 3G Bridge.<ref name="urbah2009" />

== Volunteer participation ==

[[File:TJ-II model including plasma, coils and vacuum vessel.jpg|thumb|The [[wikipedia:TJ-II|TJ-II]] [[wikipedia:Stellarator|stellarator]] at [[wikipedia:CIEMAT|CIEMAT]], Madrid, the primary fusion device studied using ISDEP on EDGeS@Home.|alt=The TJ-II stellarator device]]

Volunteers participated in EDGeS@Home by installing the [[wikipedia:BOINC|BOINC]] client and attaching to the project URL <code>http://home.edges-grid.eu/home/</code>.<ref name="edgeshome" /> At its peak, the project reached approximately:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Metric !! Value
|-
| Total users || 11,486
|-
| Total hosts || 32,308
|-
| Total credit || 460,481,463
|-
| Peak estimated performance (48 h) || ~1.57 [[wikipedia:FLOPS|TFLOPS]]
|-
| Number of countries || 84
|-
| Number of teams || 684
|-
|}

As of March 2012, over 7,000 users from 84 countries had contributed more than 17,000 computers, providing an integrated performance of approximately 2.6 [[wikipedia:FLOPS|TFLOPS]].<ref name="boincruforum" /> The project had 11,032 users and 16,385 hosts as of March 2012, with an estimated 48-hour performance of 1,352.6 GFLOPS.<ref name="edgeshome" />

== Relationship to other projects ==

EDGeS@Home was closely related to several other grid and volunteer computing initiatives:

* '''[[wikipedia:Ibercivis|Ibercivis]]''' – A Spanish volunteer computing project that also hosted the ISDEP application. EDGeS@Home served as part of a unified European grid infrastructure that included Ibercivis as a sub-grid.<ref name="boincruforum" />
* '''SZTAKI Desktop Grid''' – A BOINC-based desktop grid developed at MTA SZTAKI using the DC-API (Distributed Computing Application Programming Interface), which was a foundational component of the EDGeS infrastructure.<ref name="urbah2009" />
* '''ZIVIS''' – A city-wide volunteer computing platform in Zaragoza, Spain, that served as a precursor to Ibercivis and hosted ISDEP as its pilot application.<ref name="zivis" />
* '''AlmereGrid''' – A Dutch desktop grid that was part of the EDGeS production infrastructure.<ref name="urbah2009" />
* '''DEGISCO''' – The follow-on project (FP7 grant 261556) that supported the EDGeS@Home infrastructure and promoted interoperation between desktop grid and service grid infrastructures on a global scale.<ref name="degisco" />

== Mathematical formulation ==

ISDEP solves the [[wikipedia:Fokker–Planck equation|Fokker–Planck equation]] for a minority ion population in a magnetized plasma:

:<math>\frac{\partial f}{\partial t} + \dot{\mathbf{x}} \cdot \nabla f + \dot{\mathbf{v}} \cdot \nabla_v f = C(f)</math>

where <math>f(\mathbf{x}, \mathbf{v}, t)</math> is the [[wikipedia:Distribution function|ion distribution function]], <math>\mathbf{x}</math> and <math>\mathbf{v}</math> are position and velocity in [[wikipedia:Cartesian coordinate system|Cartesian coordinates]], and <math>C(f)</math> is the collision operator (Boozer–Kuo-Petravic).<ref name="velasco2012" />

By exploiting the equivalence between the Fokker–Planck equation and the [[wikipedia:Langevin equation|Langevin equation]]s, ISDEP integrates the [[wikipedia:Stochastic differential equation|stochastic differential equation]]s:

:<math>d\mathbf{X} = \mathbf{a}(\mathbf{X}, t)\,dt + \mathbf{b}(\mathbf{X}, t)\,d\mathbf{W}</math>

where <math>\mathbf{a}</math> is the drift term (deterministic motion in the electromagnetic field), <math>\mathbf{b}</math> is the diffusion coefficient (collisional effects), and <math>\mathbf{W}</math> is a [[wikipedia:Wiener process|Wiener process]].<ref name="velasco2012" /> The numerical integration uses a [[wikipedia:Runge–Kutta method|Runge–Kutta method]] upgraded to handle [[wikipedia:Gaussian noise|Gaussian noise]] from collisional effects.<ref name="zivis" />

Since individual particle trajectories are statistically independent, no inter-node communication is required during computation, making the problem [[wikipedia:Embarrassingly parallel|embarrassingly parallel]] and well-suited for [[wikipedia:Volunteer computing|volunteer computing]] platforms.<ref name="velasco2012" />

== Publications ==

=== BOINC-listed publications ===

The following 12 publications are listed on the [[wikipedia:BOINC|BOINC]] publications page for EDGeS@Home:<ref name="boincpubs">{{cite web |url=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#EDGeS@Home |title=Publications by BOINC Projects – EDGeS@Home |publisher=BOINC |accessdate=2026-08-16}}</ref>

# Kacsuk, P., Z. Farkas, J. Kovács ''et al''. [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/296885066_Desktop_grid_in_the_era_of_cloud_computing Desktop grid in the era of cloud computing]. (2015).
# Fedak, Gilles. [https://hal.inria.fr/tel-01158462 Contributions to Desktop Grid Computing]. (2015). Habilitation à diriger des recherches.
# Delamare, Simon, Gilles Fedak, Derrick Kondo and Oleg Lodygensky. [http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10586-013-0283-6 SpeQuloS: a QoS service for hybrid and elastic computing infrastructures]. ''Cluster Computing'' (2014). DOI: 10.1007/s10586-013-0283-6.
# Visegrádi, Ádám, J. Kovács and P. Kacsuk. [https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0167739X1300229X Efficient extension of gLite VOs with BOINC based desktop grids]. ''Future Generation Computer Systems'' (2014). DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2013.10.012.
# Marosi, Attila, J. Kovács and P. Kacsuk. [https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0167739X12000660 Towards a volunteer cloud system]. ''Future Generation Computer Systems'' (2013). DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2012.03.013.
# Delamare, Simon, Gilles Fedak, Derrick Kondo, O. Lodygensky, P. Kacsuk, J. Kovács and F. Araujo. [https://hal.inria.fr/hal-00819907 Advanced QoS Prototype for the EDGI Infrastructure]. (2013).
# Delamare, Simon, Gilles Fedak, Derrick Kondo, O. Lodygensky, P. Kacsuk, J. Kovács and F. Araujo. [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/278629554_Intermediate_QoS_Prototype_for_the_EDGI_Infrastructure Intermediate QoS Prototype for the EDGI Infrastructure]. (2013).
# Terstyanszky, Gabor, Tamas Kiss, Tamas Kukla, Zsolt Lichtenberger, Stephen Winter, Pamela Greenwell, Sharron McEldowney and Hans Heindl. [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22942006/ Application repository and science gateway for running molecular docking and dynamics simulations]. ''Studies in Health Technology and Informatics'' (2012).
# Kacsuk, P., Z. Farkas and Z. Balaton. [http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-1-4419-5574-6_5 EDGeS Bridge Technologies to Interconnect Service and Desktop Grids]. ''Remote Instrumentation Services on the e-Infrastructure'' (2011).
# Velasco, J. L., F. Castejón and A. Tarancón. [http://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.3126583 Finite orbit width effect in ion collisional transport in TJ-II]. ''Physics of Plasmas'' (2009). DOI: 10.1063/1.3126583.
# Fedak, Gilles, Haiwu He, Oleg Lodygensky ''et al''. [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4624461/ EDGeS: A Bridge between Desktop Grids and Service Grids]. ''2008 Third ChinaGrid Annual Conference'' (2008). DOI: 10.1109/ChinaGrid.2008.44.
# Antolí, B., F. Castejón, A. Giner ''et al''. [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/242126353_ZIVIS_A_City_Computing_Platform_Based_on_Volunteer_Computing ZIVIS: A City Computing Platform Based on Volunteer Computing]. (2007).

=== Additional publications ===

The following additional publications are related to the ISDEP application and the EDGeS project but are not listed on the BOINC publications page:

# Urbah, E., P. Kacsuk, Z. Farkas ''et al''. [https://doi.org/10.1007/s10723-009-9137-0 EDGeS: Bridging EGEE to BOINC and XtremWeb]. ''Journal of Grid Computing'' '''7''', 335–354 (2009). DOI: 10.1007/s10723-009-9137-0.
# Velasco, J.L., A. Bustos, F. Castejón, L.A. Fernández, V. Martín-Mayor and A. Tarancón. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2012.04.004 ISDEP: Integrator of stochastic differential equations for plasmas]. ''Computer Physics Communications'' '''183'''(9), 1877–1883 (2012). DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2012.04.004.
# Bustos, A., F. Castejón, L.A. Fernández, J. García, V. Martín-Mayor, J.M. Reynolds, R. Seki and J.L. Velasco. [https://doi.org/10.1088/0029-5515/50/12/125007 Impact of 3D features on ion collisional transport in ITER]. ''Nuclear Fusion'' '''50'''(12), 125007 (2010). DOI: 10.1088/0029-5515/50/12/125007.
# Bustos, A., J.M. Fontdecaba, F. Castejón, J.L. Velasco, M. Tereshchenko and J. Arévalo. [https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4793731 Studies of the fast ion energy spectra in TJ-II]. ''Physics of Plasmas'' '''20'''(2), 022507 (2013). DOI: 10.1063/1.4793731.
# Castejón, F., L.A. Fernández, J. Guasp, V. Martín-Mayor, A. Tarancón and J.L. Velasco. [https://doi.org/10.1088/0741-3335/49/6/006 Ion kinetic transport in the presence of collisions and electric field in TJ-II ECRH plasmas]. ''Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion'' '''49'''(6), 753 (2007). DOI: 10.1088/0741-3335/49/6/006.
# Rivero, A. and D. Ferrer. [https://www.academia.edu/758702/ISDEP_a_fusion_application_deployed_in_the_EDGeS_project ISDEP, a fusion application deployed in the EDGeS project]. EGEE User Forum, ''EnterTheGrid'' workshop (2010).
# Cárdenas-Montes, M., A. Emmen, A.C. Marosi ''et al''. EDGeS: bridging Desktop and Service Grids. ''EGEE User Forum'' (2008).

== See also ==

* [[wikipedia:BOINC|BOINC]]
* [[wikipedia:Volunteer computing|Volunteer computing]]
* [[wikipedia:Ibercivis|Ibercivis]]
* [[wikipedia:TJ-II|TJ-II stellarator]]
* [[wikipedia:ITER|ITER]]
* [[wikipedia:Stellarator|Stellarator]]
* [[wikipedia:Plasma (physics)|Plasma (physics)]]

==References==

{{Reflist}}

[[Category:BOINC projects]]
[[Category:Completed BOINC projects]]
[[Category:Volunteer computing]]
[[Category:Grid computing]]
[[Category:Plasma physics]]
[[Category:Fusion research]]
[[Category:European Union research projects]]

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Al Piskun: Enabling Desktop Grids for e-Science

== Summary ==
Enabling Desktop Grids for e-Science

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Al Piskun: EDGeS@Home logo

== Summary ==
EDGeS@Home logo

EDGeS@Home

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Al Piskun: first light

{{Infobox software
| name = EDGeS@Home
| logo = EDGeS logo.png
| logo caption = EDGeS@Home project logo
| screenshot = EDGeS@Home screenshot.png
| caption = EDGeS@Home project homepage (archived)
| description = EDGeS@Home was a completed BOINC-based volunteer computing project that bridged desktop grids and service grids to support scientific applications, primarily the ISDEP plasma fusion simulation code, developed by MTA SZTAKI and sponsored by the European Union Seventh Framework Programme.

| status = Completed
| category = Plasma physics, Grid computing
| compute = CPU
| dependencies = BOINC client

| developer = MTA SZTAKI Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems
| author = Péter Kacsuk, Zoltán Farkas
| sponsor = European Union FP7 (grant 211727); DEGISCO (grant 261556)
| maintainer = EDGeS team
| released = {{Start date and age|2009|10|28}}
| completed = May 2011 (ISDEP phase)
| discontinued = ca. 2015
| repository =

| programming language = C
| operating system = Windows, Linux, macOS
| size = ~70 MB (ISDEP application)

| stats as of = {{Start date and age|2015|11|28}}
| average performance = 1.35 GFLOPS
| active users = 0
| total users = 11486
| active hosts = 0
| total hosts = 32308

| rac = 0
| credit per day = 0
| gpu performance =
| cpu performance = 1.35 GFLOPS

| website = {{URL|http://home.edges-grid.eu/home/}}
| license =
}}

'''EDGeS@Home''' ('''E'''nabling '''D'''esktop '''G'''rids for '''e'''-'''S'''cience) was a [[wikipedia:BOINC|BOINC]]-based [[wikipedia:Volunteer computing|volunteer computing]] project that aimed to bridge desktop grid (DG) and service grid (SG) infrastructures, enabling the execution of scientific applications developed by the [[wikipedia:EGEE|EGEE]] and EDGeS community on volunteer-contributed computing resources.<ref name="edgeshome">{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329124047/http://home.edges-grid.eu/home/ |title=EDGeS@Home |publisher=EDGeS |accessdate=2026-08-16 |via=Wayback Machine}}</ref> The project was coordinated by the [[wikipedia:SZTAKI|MTA SZTAKI]] Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems in Hungary and was part of the broader EDGeS [[wikipedia:European Union|European Union]] [[wikipedia:Seventh Framework Programme|Seventh Framework Programme]] (FP7) project.<ref name="boincwiki">{{cite web |url=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/EDGeS@Home |title=EDGeS@Home |publisher=BOINC |accessdate=2026-08-16}}</ref>

The project's primary production-level application was '''ISDEP''' (Integrator of Stochastic Differential Equations for Plasmas), a [[wikipedia:Monte Carlo method|Monte Carlo]] code that simulates [[wikipedia:Ion|ion]] transport in magnetized plasmas for [[wikipedia:Fusion power|fusion energy]] research.<ref name="velasco2012">{{cite journal |last1=Velasco |first1=J.L. |last2=Bustos |first2=A. |last3=Castejón |first3=F. |last4=Fernández |first4=L.A. |last5=Martin-Mayor |first5=V. |last6=Tarancón |first6=A. |title=ISDEP: Integrator of stochastic differential equations for plasmas |journal=Computer Physics Communications |volume=183 |issue=9 |pages=1877–1883 |year=2012 |doi=10.1016/j.cpc.2012.04.004}}</ref> EDGeS@Home also hosted several other applications at the beta (experimental) level.<ref name="edgeshome" />

== History ==

The EDGeS (Enabling Desktop Grids for e-Science) project was an [[wikipedia:European Union|European Union]] FP7 infrastructure project (grant agreement no. 211727) that ran from 2008 to 2010, with the goal of building technological bridges to facilitate [[wikipedia:Interoperability|interoperability]] between desktop grids and service grids.<ref name="urbah2009">{{cite journal |last1=Urbah |first1=E. |last2=Kacsuk |first2=P. |last3=Farkas |first3=Z. |display-authors=etal |title=EDGeS: Bridging EGEE to BOINC and XtremWeb |journal=Journal of Grid Computing |volume=7 |pages=335–354 |year=2009 |doi=10.1007/s10723-009-9137-0}}</ref> The EDGeS@Home BOINC project was launched on '''28 October 2009''' as the volunteer computing component of this infrastructure.<ref name="boincwiki" />

[[File:TJ-II model including plasma, coils and vacuum vessel.jpg|thumb|The [[wikipedia:TJ-II|TJ-II]] [[wikipedia:Stellarator|stellarator]] at [[wikipedia:CIEMAT|CIEMAT]], Madrid, the primary fusion device studied using ISDEP on EDGeS@Home.|alt=The TJ-II stellarator device]]

The EDGeS@Home desktop grid and its applications were partly supported by the follow-on '''DEGISCO''' project (Desktop Grid Initiatives for Scientific Collaboration), funded under EU FP7 grant agreement no. 261556.<ref name="edgeshome" /> The experts of the '''International Desktop Grid Federation''' (IDGF) provided further support for the EDGeS@Home infrastructure, its applications, and its integration into the DEGISCO infrastructure.<ref name="edgeshome" />

A server upgrade was performed in April 2011, after which the project continued operating.<ref name="edgeshome" /> The ISDEP computation phase was completed on '''21 May 2011'''.<ref name="boincruforum">{{cite web |url=https://boinc.ru/forum/topic/proekt-edgeshome-on-zhe-ibercivis/ |title=EDGeS@Home |publisher=BOINC.RU |accessdate=2026-08-16 |language=Russian}}</ref> After the ISDEP phase ended, the project briefly hosted an [[wikipedia:AutoDock|AutoDock]] application for [[wikipedia:Molecular docking|molecular docking]] computations at the beta level.<ref name="boincruforum" /> The project became inactive by approximately 2015, with the last statistics export occurring on 28 November 2015.<ref name="boincstats">{{cite web |url=https://www.boincstats.com/stats/89/project/detail |title=EDGeS@Home – Detailed stats |publisher=BOINCstats |accessdate=2026-08-16}}</ref>

== Scientific objectives ==

The aim of the EDGeS@Home project was to support the execution of selected and validated scientific applications developed by the EGEE and EDGeS community on [[wikipedia:Volunteer computing|volunteer computing]] resources.<ref name="edgeshome" /> The project served as a practical demonstration of the EDGeS bridging technology, which connected [[wikipedia:BOINC|BOINC]]-based and XtremWeb-based desktop grids with the EGEE service grid infrastructure, creating a seamless pool of over 250,000 processors from desktop grids combined with approximately 150,000 processors from service grids.<ref name="degisco">{{cite web |url=https://sztaki.hu/en/projects/degisco |title=DEGISCO |publisher=MTA SZTAKI |accessdate=2026-08-16}}</ref>

=== ISDEP ===

[[File:EDGeS Bridge diagram.jpg|thumb|The EDGeS 3G Bridge architecture connecting BOINC desktop grids with the EGEE service grid, enabling bidirectional job execution.|alt=EDGeS 3G Bridge architecture diagram]]

The principal application hosted on EDGeS@Home was '''ISDEP''' (Integrator of Stochastic Differential Equations for Plasmas), a Monte Carlo code developed under the collaboration between the '''National Fusion Laboratory''' at [[wikipedia:CIEMAT|CIEMAT]] (Madrid), the '''Institute of Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems''' (BIFI) at the [[wikipedia:University of Zaragoza|University of Zaragoza]], and the [[wikipedia:Complutense University of Madrid|Complutense University of Madrid]].<ref name="velasco2012" />

ISDEP solves the dynamics of a minority population of ions in a complex 3D fusion device, computing the [[wikipedia:Distribution function|distribution function]] by numerically integrating the [[wikipedia:Langevin equation|Langevin equation]]s equivalent to the [[wikipedia:Fokker–Planck equation|Fokker–Planck equation]].<ref name="velasco2012" /> The code takes into account:

* The full three-dimensional structure of fusion devices, avoiding common approximations such as Boozer coordinates and the neoclassical ordering
* The confining [[wikipedia:Electromagnetic field|electromagnetic field]]
* [[wikipedia:Collision|Collision]]s with other [[wikipedia:Plasma (physics)|plasma]] species (ions and electrons) using the Boozer–Kuo-Petravic collision operator
* The [[wikipedia:Electric potential|electrostatic potential]]

The Monte Carlo method used by ISDEP is based on the equivalence between the [[wikipedia:Fokker–Planck equation|Fokker–Planck]] and [[wikipedia:Langevin equation|Langevin equation]]s, which allows the code to run on [[wikipedia:Distributed computing|distributed computing]] platforms without [[wikipedia:Inter-process communication|communication between nodes]], achieving near-linear scaling.<ref name="velasco2012" /> Each computing node integrates one or more ion trajectories independently, with statistical independence guaranteed by reading the [[wikipedia:Random seed|random seed]] locally.<ref name="velasco2012" />

The primary fusion device studied with ISDEP on EDGeS@Home was the [[wikipedia:TJ-II|TJ-II]] [[wikipedia:Stellarator|stellarator]] at CIEMAT.<ref name="castejon2007">{{cite journal |last1=Castejón |first1=F. |last2=Fernández |first2=L.A. |last3=Guasp |first3=J. |last4=Martin-Mayor |first4=V. |last5=Tarancón |first5=A. |last6=Velasco |first6=J.L. |title=Ion kinetic transport in the presence of collisions and electric field in TJ-II ECRH plasmas |journal=Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion |volume=49 |issue=6 |pages=753 |year=2007 |doi=10.1088/0741-3335/49/6/006}}</ref> ISDEP was also applied to study ion transport in [[wikipedia:ITER|ITER]]<ref name="bustos2010">{{cite journal |last1=Bustos |first1=A. |last2=Castejón |first2=F. |last3=Fernández |first3=L.A. |display-authors=etal |title=Impact of 3D features on ion collisional transport in ITER |journal=Nuclear Fusion |volume=50 |issue=12 |pages=125007 |year=2010 |doi=10.1088/0029-5515/50/12/125007}}</ref> and the [[wikipedia:Large Helical Device|Large Helical Device]] (LHD) stellarator.<ref name="velasco2012" />

ISDEP was programmed in [[wikipedia:C (programming language)|C]] to maximize performance and portability, and was designed from the outset to run on [[wikipedia:Grid computing|grid computing]] and volunteer computing platforms.<ref name="velasco2012" /> The application download size was approximately 70 MB, with input data per workunit of 212 bytes and output data of 500–700 KB.<ref name="ruwiki">{{cite web |url=https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDGeS@Home |title=EDGeS@Home |publisher=Wikipedia |accessdate=2026-08-16 |language=Russian}}</ref>

=== Other applications ===

In addition to ISDEP at production level, EDGeS@Home hosted several other applications at the beta (experimental) level:<ref name="edgeshome" />

* '''AutoDock''' – a [[wikipedia:Molecular docking|molecular docking]] application used in [[wikipedia:Biomedicine|biomedical]] research, which became the sole active application after the ISDEP phase ended in May 2011<ref name="boincruforum" />
* Applications from the broader EDGeS infrastructure, including those bridged from EGEE service grids via the 3G Bridge technology

The ISDEP application was also available through the Spanish volunteer computing project [[wikipedia:Ibercivis|Ibercivis]] and its predecessor ZIVIS (Zaragoza Institutional Volunteer Computing for Investigative Science), a city-wide computing platform deployed in [[wikipedia:Zaragoza|Zaragoza]], Spain.<ref name="zivis">{{cite conference |last1=Antolí |first1=B. |last2=Castejón |first2=F. |last3=Giner |first3=A. |display-authors=etal |title=ZIVIS: A City Computing Platform Based on Volunteer Computing |year=2007 |booktitle=International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing}}</ref>

== Bridging technology ==

The core technical contribution of the EDGeS project was the development of '''3G Bridge''' (Generic Grid-to-Grid Bridge), a middleware-independent framework that enabled [[wikipedia:Interoperability|interoperability]] between desktop grids and service grids.<ref name="urbah2009" /> The bridge operated in two directions:

* '''BOINC → EGEE bridge''': A modified [[wikipedia:BOINC|BOINC]] client that represented itself as a powerful desktop PC with many CPU cores to the EGEE Workload Management System (WMS), pulling workunits from the BOINC server and executing them on EGEE resources. This was based on the super-worker approach.<ref name="fedak2008">{{cite conference |last1=Fedak |first1=Gilles |last2=He |first2=Haiwu |last3=Lodygensky |first3=Oleg |display-authors=etal |title=EDGeS: A Bridge between Desktop Grids and Service Grids |booktitle=2008 Third ChinaGrid Annual Conference (CHINAGRID) |year=2008 |doi=10.1109/ChinaGrid.2008.44}}</ref>
* '''EGEE → BOINC bridge''': Allowed EGEE users to submit jobs that were transparently forwarded to and executed on connected desktop grid systems, extending the capacity of EGEE [[wikipedia:Virtual organization|Virtual Organization]]s (VOs) with volunteer resources.<ref name="kacsuk2011">{{cite book |last1=Kacsuk |first1=P. |last2=Farkas |first2=Z. |last3=Balaton |first3=Z. |title=EDGeS Bridge Technologies to Interconnect Service and Desktop Grids |booktitle=Remote Instrumentation Services on the e-Infrastructure |year=2011 |publisher=Springer |doi=10.1007/978-1-4419-5574-6_5}}</ref>

The production infrastructure included the SZTAKI Desktop Grid, the Extremadura Desktop Grid, and the AlmereGrid, connected to EGEE service grids through the 3G Bridge.<ref name="urbah2009" />

== Volunteer participation ==

Volunteers participated in EDGeS@Home by installing the [[wikipedia:BOINC|BOINC]] client and attaching to the project URL <code>http://home.edges-grid.eu/home/</code>.<ref name="edgeshome" /> At its peak, the project reached approximately:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Metric !! Value
|-
| Total users || 11,486
|-
| Total hosts || 32,308
|-
| Total credit || 460,481,463
|-
| Peak estimated performance (48 h) || ~1.57 [[wikipedia:FLOPS|TFLOPS]]
|-
| Number of countries || 84
|-
| Number of teams || 684
|-
|}

As of March 2012, over 7,000 users from 84 countries had contributed more than 17,000 computers, providing an integrated performance of approximately 2.6 [[wikipedia:FLOPS|TFLOPS]].<ref name="boincruforum" /> The project had 11,032 users and 16,385 hosts as of March 2012, with an estimated 48-hour performance of 1,352.6 GFLOPS.<ref name="edgeshome" />

== Relationship to other projects ==

EDGeS@Home was closely related to several other grid and volunteer computing initiatives:

* '''[[wikipedia:Ibercivis|Ibercivis]]''' – A Spanish volunteer computing project that also hosted the ISDEP application. EDGeS@Home served as part of a unified European grid infrastructure that included Ibercivis as a sub-grid.<ref name="boincruforum" />
* '''SZTAKI Desktop Grid''' – A BOINC-based desktop grid developed at MTA SZTAKI using the DC-API (Distributed Computing Application Programming Interface), which was a foundational component of the EDGeS infrastructure.<ref name="urbah2009" />
* '''ZIVIS''' – A city-wide volunteer computing platform in Zaragoza, Spain, that served as a precursor to Ibercivis and hosted ISDEP as its pilot application.<ref name="zivis" />
* '''AlmereGrid''' – A Dutch desktop grid that was part of the EDGeS production infrastructure.<ref name="urbah2009" />
* '''DEGISCO''' – The follow-on project (FP7 grant 261556) that supported the EDGeS@Home infrastructure and promoted interoperation between desktop grid and service grid infrastructures on a global scale.<ref name="degisco" />

== Mathematical formulation ==

ISDEP solves the [[wikipedia:Fokker–Planck equation|Fokker–Planck equation]] for a minority ion population in a magnetized plasma:

:<math>\frac{\partial f}{\partial t} + \dot{\mathbf{x}} \cdot \nabla f + \dot{\mathbf{v}} \cdot \nabla_v f = C(f)</math>

where <math>f(\mathbf{x}, \mathbf{v}, t)</math> is the [[wikipedia:Distribution function|ion distribution function]], <math>\mathbf{x}</math> and <math>\mathbf{v}</math> are position and velocity in [[wikipedia:Cartesian coordinate system|Cartesian coordinates]], and <math>C(f)</math> is the collision operator (Boozer–Kuo-Petravic).<ref name="velasco2012" />

By exploiting the equivalence between the Fokker–Planck equation and the [[wikipedia:Langevin equation|Langevin equation]]s, ISDEP integrates the [[wikipedia:Stochastic differential equation|stochastic differential equation]]s:

:<math>d\mathbf{X} = \mathbf{a}(\mathbf{X}, t)\,dt + \mathbf{b}(\mathbf{X}, t)\,d\mathbf{W}</math>

where <math>\mathbf{a}</math> is the drift term (deterministic motion in the electromagnetic field), <math>\mathbf{b}</math> is the diffusion coefficient (collisional effects), and <math>\mathbf{W}</math> is a [[wikipedia:Wiener process|Wiener process]].<ref name="velasco2012" /> The numerical integration uses a [[wikipedia:Runge–Kutta method|Runge–Kutta method]] upgraded to handle [[wikipedia:Gaussian noise|Gaussian noise]] from collisional effects.<ref name="zivis" />

Since individual particle trajectories are statistically independent, no inter-node communication is required during computation, making the problem [[wikipedia:Embarrassingly parallel|embarrassingly parallel]] and well-suited for [[wikipedia:Volunteer computing|volunteer computing]] platforms.<ref name="velasco2012" />

== Publications ==

=== BOINC-listed publications ===

The following 12 publications are listed on the [[wikipedia:BOINC|BOINC]] publications page for EDGeS@Home:<ref name="boincpubs">{{cite web |url=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#EDGeS@Home |title=Publications by BOINC Projects – EDGeS@Home |publisher=BOINC |accessdate=2026-08-16}}</ref>

# Kacsuk, P., Z. Farkas, J. Kovács ''et al''. [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/296885066_Desktop_grid_in_the_era_of_cloud_computing Desktop grid in the era of cloud computing]. (2015).
# Fedak, Gilles. [https://hal.inria.fr/tel-01158462 Contributions to Desktop Grid Computing]. (2015). Habilitation à diriger des recherches.
# Delamare, Simon, Gilles Fedak, Derrick Kondo and Oleg Lodygensky. [http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10586-013-0283-6 SpeQuloS: a QoS service for hybrid and elastic computing infrastructures]. ''Cluster Computing'' (2014). DOI: 10.1007/s10586-013-0283-6.
# Visegrádi, Ádám, J. Kovács and P. Kacsuk. [https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0167739X1300229X Efficient extension of gLite VOs with BOINC based desktop grids]. ''Future Generation Computer Systems'' (2014). DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2013.10.012.
# Marosi, Attila, J. Kovács and P. Kacsuk. [https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0167739X12000660 Towards a volunteer cloud system]. ''Future Generation Computer Systems'' (2013). DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2012.03.013.
# Delamare, Simon, Gilles Fedak, Derrick Kondo, O. Lodygensky, P. Kacsuk, J. Kovács and F. Araujo. [https://hal.inria.fr/hal-00819907 Advanced QoS Prototype for the EDGI Infrastructure]. (2013).
# Delamare, Simon, Gilles Fedak, Derrick Kondo, O. Lodygensky, P. Kacsuk, J. Kovács and F. Araujo. [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/278629554_Intermediate_QoS_Prototype_for_the_EDGI_Infrastructure Intermediate QoS Prototype for the EDGI Infrastructure]. (2013).
# Terstyanszky, Gabor, Tamas Kiss, Tamas Kukla, Zsolt Lichtenberger, Stephen Winter, Pamela Greenwell, Sharron McEldowney and Hans Heindl. [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22942006/ Application repository and science gateway for running molecular docking and dynamics simulations]. ''Studies in Health Technology and Informatics'' (2012).
# Kacsuk, P., Z. Farkas and Z. Balaton. [http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-1-4419-5574-6_5 EDGeS Bridge Technologies to Interconnect Service and Desktop Grids]. ''Remote Instrumentation Services on the e-Infrastructure'' (2011).
# Velasco, J. L., F. Castejón and A. Tarancón. [http://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.3126583 Finite orbit width effect in ion collisional transport in TJ-II]. ''Physics of Plasmas'' (2009). DOI: 10.1063/1.3126583.
# Fedak, Gilles, Haiwu He, Oleg Lodygensky ''et al''. [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4624461/ EDGeS: A Bridge between Desktop Grids and Service Grids]. ''2008 Third ChinaGrid Annual Conference'' (2008). DOI: 10.1109/ChinaGrid.2008.44.
# Antolí, B., F. Castejón, A. Giner ''et al''. [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/242126353_ZIVIS_A_City_Computing_Platform_Based_on_Volunteer_Computing ZIVIS: A City Computing Platform Based on Volunteer Computing]. (2007).

=== Additional publications ===

The following additional publications are related to the ISDEP application and the EDGeS project but are not listed on the BOINC publications page:

# Urbah, E., P. Kacsuk, Z. Farkas ''et al''. [https://doi.org/10.1007/s10723-009-9137-0 EDGeS: Bridging EGEE to BOINC and XtremWeb]. ''Journal of Grid Computing'' '''7''', 335–354 (2009). DOI: 10.1007/s10723-009-9137-0.
# Velasco, J.L., A. Bustos, F. Castejón, L.A. Fernández, V. Martín-Mayor and A. Tarancón. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2012.04.004 ISDEP: Integrator of stochastic differential equations for plasmas]. ''Computer Physics Communications'' '''183'''(9), 1877–1883 (2012). DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2012.04.004.
# Bustos, A., F. Castejón, L.A. Fernández, J. García, V. Martín-Mayor, J.M. Reynolds, R. Seki and J.L. Velasco. [https://doi.org/10.1088/0029-5515/50/12/125007 Impact of 3D features on ion collisional transport in ITER]. ''Nuclear Fusion'' '''50'''(12), 125007 (2010). DOI: 10.1088/0029-5515/50/12/125007.
# Bustos, A., J.M. Fontdecaba, F. Castejón, J.L. Velasco, M. Tereshchenko and J. Arévalo. [https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4793731 Studies of the fast ion energy spectra in TJ-II]. ''Physics of Plasmas'' '''20'''(2), 022507 (2013). DOI: 10.1063/1.4793731.
# Castejón, F., L.A. Fernández, J. Guasp, V. Martín-Mayor, A. Tarancón and J.L. Velasco. [https://doi.org/10.1088/0741-3335/49/6/006 Ion kinetic transport in the presence of collisions and electric field in TJ-II ECRH plasmas]. ''Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion'' '''49'''(6), 753 (2007). DOI: 10.1088/0741-3335/49/6/006.
# Rivero, A. and D. Ferrer. [https://www.academia.edu/758702/ISDEP_a_fusion_application_deployed_in_the_EDGeS_project ISDEP, a fusion application deployed in the EDGeS project]. EGEE User Forum, ''EnterTheGrid'' workshop (2010).
# Cárdenas-Montes, M., A. Emmen, A.C. Marosi ''et al''. EDGeS: bridging Desktop and Service Grids. ''EGEE User Forum'' (2008).

== See also ==

* [[wikipedia:BOINC|BOINC]]
* [[wikipedia:Volunteer computing|Volunteer computing]]
* [[wikipedia:Ibercivis|Ibercivis]]
* [[wikipedia:TJ-II|TJ-II stellarator]]
* [[wikipedia:ITER|ITER]]
* [[wikipedia:Stellarator|Stellarator]]
* [[wikipedia:Plasma (physics)|Plasma (physics)]]

==References==

{{Reflist}}

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[[Category:Completed BOINC projects]]
[[Category:Volunteer computing]]
[[Category:Grid computing]]
[[Category:Plasma physics]]
[[Category:Fusion research]]
[[Category:European Union research projects]]

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[[File:Boinc-projects-seo.png|right|frameless|200x200px]]This is a comprehensive and continually updating List of All [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php BOINC projects]

'''''Q - What is a BOINC project?'''''

'''''A - BOINC project definition:''''' A [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/ BOINC] project is a website and server set up by an individual or group to distribute applications (software which is a set of instructions for executing tasks in a computing device) to BOINC volunteer computing devices that are deliberately attached to receive, process and return the results of the application for further research.
====Active BOINC Projects====

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 80%;"
|-
!Project Name
!Publications
!Launched
!Operating System
!GPU App
!Requires
!Screen saver
!Sponsor
!Category
!BOINC Radio
!Research Focus

|-
| [http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/ Asteroids@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Asteroids@home 10]
| 2012-06-18
| [https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS, Free BSD, Android]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU NVIDIA
| {{No}}
|
| Astronomical Institute, Charles University, Prague
| Astronomy
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/asteroids-home/id1492837872?i=1000467560195 Listen]
| Derive shapes and spin for a significant part of the asteroid population. [[Asteroids@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/central/ BOINC Central]
|
| 2023-02-04
|
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, BUDA
|
| University of California, Berkeley
| Multiple applications
|
| Gives scientists access to the power of volunteer computing without having to operate a BOINC project. [[BOINC Central|See more...]]

|-
| [https://www.cpdn.org/cpdnboinc/ climate''prediction''.net]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Climateprediction.net 152]
| 2003-12-09
| [https://www.cpdn.org/cpdnboinc/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| [https://youtu.be/Mae7JfL1giE view]
| Oxford University
| Climate study
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/climate-prediction-dot-net/id1492837872?i=1000465982378 Listen]
| Analyse ways to improve climate prediction models. [[Climateprediction.net|See more...]]

|-
| [https://dev.cpdn.org/ cpdnboinc dev]
|
|
| [https://dev.cpdn.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Oxford University
| Software testing
|
| Test project for [[Climateprediction.net|climate''prediction''.net]]. [[Cpdnboinc dev|See more...]]

|-
| [https://denis.usj.es/denisathome/ DENIS@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#DENIS@home 6]
| 2015-03-16
| [https://480denis.usj.es/denisathome/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Universidad San Jorge, Zaragoza, Spain
| Medical physiology
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boinc-radio-project-brief-denis-home/id1492837872?i=1000576898376 Listen]
| Cardiac electrophysiological simulations, studying the electrical activity of the heart. [[DENIS@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://einsteinathome.org/ Einstein@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Einstein@Home 42]
| 2005-02-19
| [https://einsteinathome.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS, Android]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
| [https://youtu.be/kGWsTnmk1lw view]
| University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Max Planck Institute
| Astrophysics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/einstein-home/id1492837872?i=1000470993092 Listen]
| Search for pulsars using radio signals and gravitational wave data. [[Einstein@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [http://gaiaathome.eu/gaiaathome/ Gaia@home]
|
| 2019-08-21
| [http://150.254.66.104/gaiaathome/apps.php Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Astronomical Observatory Institute, Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
| Astronomy
|
| Provide additional computing power to scientists studying the Gaia spacecraft data releases. [[Gaia@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://gerasim.boinc.ru/ Gerasim@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Publications_by_BOINC_projects#Gerasim.40home 9]
| 2007-02-10
| [https://gerasim.boinc.ru/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
| [https://youtu.be/cw7yBZ_KGGA view]
| Southwest State University (Russia)
| Multiple applications
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gerasim/id1492837872?i=1000515709940 Listen]
| Research in discrete mathematics and logic control systems. [[Gerasim@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090210175851/http://www.ps3grid.net/ PS3GRID] became [https://gpugrid.net/gpugrid/ GPUGRID]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#GPUGrid.net 53]
| 2007-12-05
| [https://www.gpugrid.net/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: cyan; color: black;" | GPU only NVIDIA
| {{No}}
|
| Barcelona Biomedical Research Park
| Molecular biology
|
| Perform full-atom molecular simulations of proteins on Nvidia GPUs for biomedical research. [[GPUGRID|See more...]]

|-
| [https://comp.ithena.net/usr/ iThena.Computational]
|
| [https://comp.ithena.net/usr/forum_thread.php?id=4 2021-10-31]
| [https://comp.ithena.net/usr/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Cyber-Complex Foundation
| Computer science
| See below
| A computational platform for analysis based on data extracted from iThena.Measurements project applications. [[IThena.Computational|See more...]]

|-
| [https://root.ithena.net/usr/ iThena.Measurements]
|
| [https://root.ithena.net/usr/forum_thread.php?id=5#17 2019-09-25]
| [https://einsteinathome.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Cyber-Complex Foundation
| Computer science
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boinc-radio-project-brief-ithena/id1492837872?i=1000580505988 Listen]
| Generate a dynamic topological model of the Internet, based on measurements from distributed devices. [[IThena.Measurements|See more...]]

|-
| [https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/ LHC@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#LHC@home 71]
| 2004-01-09
| [https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS, Free BSD, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, BUDA
| [https://youtu.be/0qbLDbsNO3w view]
| CERN
| Physics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lhc-home/id1492837872?i=1000477722614 Listen]
| Helping physicists compare theory with experiment, in the search for new fundamental particles and answers to questions about the Universe. [[LHC@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/ LHCathome-dev]
|
| 2014-08-01
| [https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS, Free BSD, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, BUDA
|
| CERN
| Software testing
|
| A BOINC server for LHC@home development.

|-
| [https://boinc.loda-lang.org/loda/ LODA]
|
| 2022-05-13
| [https://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, git
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boinc-radio-project-brief-loda-18-6-2022/id1492837872?i=1000570153809 Listen]
| Finds new formulas and more efficient algorithms for a wide range of non-trivial integer sequences. [[LODA|See more...]]

|-
| [https://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/ MilkyWay@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Milkyway@home 35]
| 2007-07-07
| [https://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
| Astronomy
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/milkyway-home/id1492837872?i=1000468872520 Listen]
| Create a highly accurate three-dimensional model of the Milky Way galaxy using data collected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. [[MilkyWay@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://minecraftathome.com/minecrafthome/ Minecraft@Home]
|
| 2020-06-24
| [https://comp.ithena.net/usr/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Games
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/minecraft-home/id1492837872?i=1000491697377 Listen]
| Studies questions related to Minecraft, such as the properties of worlds that can be generated from different random seeds. [[Minecraft@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://moowrap.net/ Moo! Wrapper]
|
| 2011-02-05
| [https://moowrap.net/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Cryptography
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZmTZJBh_D0 Watch]
| Combines BOINC with distributed.net to try to break the RC5 cipher. [[Moo! Wrapper|See more...]]

|-
| [https://escatter11.fullerton.edu/nfs/ NFS@Home]
|
| 2009-09-05
| [https://escatter11.fullerton.edu/nfs/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS, Free BSD]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| California State University, Fullerton
| Integer factorization
|
| Performs parts of the number field sieve in the factorization of large integers. [[NFS@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://numberfields.asu.edu/NumberFields/ NumberFields@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#NumberFields@Home 3]
| 2011-08-12
| [https://numberfields.asu.edu/NumberFields/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Arizona State University's School of Mathematics
| Number theory
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/project-brief-numberfields-home-15-05-2021/id1492837872?i=1000570068591 Listen]
| Search for number fields with special properties to assist with the formulation of mathematical conjectures. [[NumberFields@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.progger.info/odlk/ ODLK]
|
| 2017-04-06
| [https://boinc.progger.info/odlk/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS, Free BSD]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| Compile a database of canonical forms of 10th order diagonal Latin squares (DLS) with orthogonal diagonal Latin squares (ODLS). [[ODLK|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.multi-pool.info/latinsquares/ ODLK1]
|
| 2017-10-22
| [https://boinc.multi-pool.info/latinsquares/apps.php Windows, Linux, Free BSD]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| Generates a database of canonical forms (CF) of diagonal Latin squares (DLS) of order 10 having orthogonal diagonal Latin squares (ODLS). [[ODLK1|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.mak.termit.me/odlk2025/ ODLK2025]
|
| 2024-12-18
| [https://boinc.mak.termit.me/odlk2025/apps.php Windows]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| Find canonical forms of diagonal Latin squares of order 10 with orthogonal diagonal Latin squares, extending the search beyond the ranges covered by ODLK and ODLK1. [[ODLK2025|See more...]]

|-
| [https://www.primegrid.com/ PrimeGrid]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#PrimeGrid 3]
| 2005-06-12
| [https://www.primegrid.com/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
| [https://youtu.be/rhZxqi9x7rI view]
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| Search for world record sized prime numbers, search for particular types of primes such as 321 primes, Cullen-Woodall primes, Proth prime, prime Sierpinski numbers, and Sophie Germain primes. Subprojects also include Seventeen or Bust, and the Riesel problem. [[PrimeGrid|See more...]]

|-
| [https://dev.primegrid.com/ PrimeGrid dev]
|
| 2007-06-06
| [https://dev.primegrid.com/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Software testing
|
| Test project for PrimeGrid.

|-
| [http://boincvm.proxyma.ru:30080/test4vm/ PRIVATE GFN SERVER]
|
| 2016-04-20
| [http://boincvm.proxyma.ru:30080/test4vm/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| This is a PRIVATE SERVER to coordinate distribution of mathematical work on GFN. The server is open for everybody, but some BOINC experience is recommended. [[PRIVATE GFN SERVER|See more...]]

|-
| [http://radioactiveathome.org/boinc/ Radioactive@home]
|
| 2011-10-21
| [http://radioactiveathome.org/boinc/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, Sensor
|
| Independent
| Physics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radioactive-home/id1492837872?i=1000463072395 Listen]
| Real-time radiation monitoring, detected by gamma sensors connected to volunteer computers. [[Radioactive@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://rake.boincfast.ru/rakesearch/ RakeSearch]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Rakesearch 4]
| 2017-08-11
| [https://rake.boincfast.ru/rakesearch/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rakesearch/id1492837872?i=1000496377228 Listen]
| Implement an application that picks up separate pairs of mutually orthogonal DLSs, which allows reconstructing the full graphs of their orthogonality. [[Rakesearch|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/ Rosetta@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Rosetta@home 234]
| 2005-10-06
| [https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, macOS, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| [https://youtu.be/6o5yBfG_vss view]
| University of Washington
| Molecular biology
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rosetta-home/id1492837872?i=1000472931628 Listen]
| Protein structure prediction for disease research. [[Rosetta@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://www.sidock.si/sidock SiDock@home]
|
| 2020-12-19
| [https://www.sidock.si/sidock/apps.php Windows, Linux+OpenWrt, ARM, macOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Russian Academy of Sciences
| Molecular biology
|
| Independent decentralized drug design by volunteer computing. [[SiDock@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://spaciousathome.eu/spaciousathome/ SPACIOUS@home]
|
| 2024-01-01
| [https://spaciousathome.eu/spaciousathome/apps.php Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| European Union
| Astrophysics
|
| Contribute to cutting-edge astronomy by sharing your idle computing time with professional astronomers. Space surveys such as the European Space Agency's Gaia telescope are generating large datasets of unprecedented high quality data. Astronomers need a huge amount of CPU power to model and analyse the data. [[SPACIOUS@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://srbase.my-firewall.org/sr5/ SRBase]
|
| 2013-01-02
| [https://srbase.my-firewall.org/sr5/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| Trying to solve Sierpinski / Riesel Bases up to 1030. [[SRBase|See more...]]

|-
| [https://gene.disi.unitn.it/test/ TN-Grid]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#TN-Grid 8]
| 2014-05-01
| [https://gene.disi.unitn.it/test/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, macOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Research Area of Trento of the National Research Council of Italy, University of Trento
| Genetics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tn-grid/id1492837872?i=1000482396321 Listen]
| ''Gene@home'' is a scientific project belonging to the infrastructure ''TrentoGrid''. It aims to expand networks of genes. [[TN-Grid|See more...]]

|-
| [https://uspex-at-home.ru/prediction/ USPEX@HOME]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#USPEX@HOME 2]
| 2017-04 (Restart 2022-10-23)
| [https://uspex-at-home.ru/prediction/apps.php Windows, Linux, macOS]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, Vbox
|
| [https://uspex-team.org/en uspex-team.org]
|
|
| Research in the field of computational materials design. [[USPEX@HOME|See more...]]

|-
| [https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ World Community Grid]
| [https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/news.s?filterCategory=1_0&filterTags=14&sortBy=&pageNum=1 77]
| 2004-11-16
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php Windows, Linux, ARM, macOS, Android]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
| [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLblxpyGay1Q4PwdIlLTxko7jm9Jedv1ei view]
| Krembil Research Institute
| Multiple applications
|
| Disease research, various worldwide humanitarian problems. Subprojects include(d) GO Fight Against Malaria, Drug Search for Leishmaniasis, Computing for Clean Water, Clean Energy Project, Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together, Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy, Help Fight Childhood Cancer, Help Conquer Cancer, Mapping Cancer Markers, Human Proteome Folding Project, FightAIDS@Home, Uncovering Genome Mysteries, Let's outsmart Ebola together, Help Stop TB, OpenZika, Smash Childhood Cancer, Open Pandemics - COVID-19. [[World Community Grid|See more...]]

|-
| [https://wuprop.boinc-af.org/ WUProp@Home]
|
| 2010-03-27
| [https://wuprop.boinc-af.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Statistics
|
| Collect various statistics about other BOINC projects. [[WUProp@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://yafu.myfirewall.org/yafu YAFU]
|
| 2011-09-01
| [https://yafu.myfirewall.org/yafu/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| [https://youtu.be/vEqImf6mtgE view]
| Independent
| Software testing, Mathematics
|
| Test BOINC server software, integer factorization. [[YAFU|See more...]]

|-
| [https://www.rechenkraft.net/yoyo/ yoyo@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Yoyo@home 9]
| 2007-07-19
| [https://www.rechenkraft.net/yoyo/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, macOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLblxpyGay1Q4C8qBmkKkI0MpKMTof5Dhf view]
| Independent
| Mathematics, physics, evolution
|
| Data structure analysis to help prove a conjecture, elliptic curve factorization, pion creation in a particle accelerator, evolution research, find the shortest optimal Golomb ruler of length 28. [[Yoyo@home|See more...]]
|}

==== Private BOINC Projects====

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 80%;"
|-
!Project Name
!Publications
!Launched
!Operating System
!GPU App
!Requires
!Screen saver
!Sponsor
!Category
!BOINC Radio
!Research Focus

|-
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/alpha/ BOINC Alpha Test]
|
| 2004-02-16
|
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/9rRWAgpfMzg view]
| University of California, Berkeley
| Software testing
|
| BOINC Alpha Test allows volunteers to test new versions of BOINC client software on a wide range of computers, thereby increasing the stability and reliability of the software versions released to the public. [[BOINC Alpha Test|See more...]]

|-
| [http://mq232-80.ararangua.ufsc.br/boincufscara/ AraBOINC]
|
| 2012
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/https://boinc.moisescardona.me/ Distributed Data and Media Processing]
|
| 2018
|
|
|
|
| Independent
| Data processing
|
| A private data processing project where tasks like data compression and audio encoding are performed. The idea is to do data tasks in the background and in a distributed fashion.

|-
| [https://bioinfo.lifl.fr/yass/iedera_dominance/index_additional.html iedera]
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Independent
| Botany
|
| A program to select and design ''subset seed'' and ''vectorized subset seed'' patterns.

|-
| [http://boinc.mmon.co/boincserver/ Common Compute]
|
| 2024-05
|
|
|
|
| Independent
|
|
| Software testing.

|-
| [https://templet.ssau.ru/ Templet Project]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Templet 1]
|
|
|
|
|
| Samara National Research University
| Education
|
| Teach parallel and distributed programming to undergraduate and graduate students of Samara National Research University.
|}

====Completed BOINC Projects ====

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 80%;"
|-
!Project Name
!Publications
!Launched / Completed
!Operating System
!GPU App
!Requires
!Screen saver
!Sponsor
!Category
!BOINC Radio
!Research Focus

|-
| [https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ SETI@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#SETI@home 12]
| 1999-05
| [https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS, Solaris, Other]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
|
| [https://youtu.be/IfeGNAZY92k view] and [https://youtu.be/5r-t8WQicqE view]
| University of California, Berkeley
| Astronomy
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tribute-to-seti-home-part-1/id1492837872?i=1000468003990 Part 1] of three and [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tribute-to-seti-home-part-2-the-history-of-seti-home/id1492837872?i=1000468428937 Part 2]
| In 1995, David Gedye proposed doing radio SETI using a virtual supercomputer composed of large numbers of Internet-connected computers, and he organized the SETI@home project to explore this. The search for extraterrestrial life by analyzing radio frequencies emanating from space. [[SETI@home|See more...]]

|-
| [http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/ SETI@home Beta]
|
| 2006-01-12
| [https://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS, Solaris, Other]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
|
| [https://youtu.be/buLKZnyzOdI view]
| University of California, Berkeley
| Software testing
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rosetta-home-covid19-and-tribute-to-seti-home-part-3/id1492837872?i=1000469085793 Part 3]
| Test project for SETI@home.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20040615010643/http://predictor.scripps.edu/ Predictor@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Predictor@Home 5]
| 2004-05-04
| WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS X (Not Intel)
|
|
|
| The Scripps Research Institute
|
|
| A world-community experiment and effort to use distributed world-wide-web volunteer resources to assemble a supercomputer able to ''predict protein structure from protein sequence''. Our work is aimed at testing and evaluating new algorithms and methods of protein structure prediction in the context of the Sixth Biannual [https://web.archive.org/web/20040610024610/http://predictioncenter.llnl.gov/casp6/Casp6.html CASP] (Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction) experiment. [[Predictor@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://alifeathome.dyndns.org/ ALife@Home]
|
| 2004-07-19
| WinXP-98
|
|
|
|
| Artificial intelligence
| [https://www.youtube.com/live/zstEf1dTm2I?feature=share Watch]
| An effort to conduct scientific experiments regarding neural networks and evolution on the computers of volunteers.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20040829080146/http://pirates.vassar.edu:80/ Pirates@HomeMission1] [https://web.archive.org/web/20060117061652/http://pirates.spy-hill.net/ Pirates@Home] [http://primates.spy-hill.net/ Primates@Home]
|
| 2004 / 2006 / 2008-04-01
| Windows, Linux, MacOS
|
|
| [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLblxpyGay1Q4849w-GB4X7g07FNXTeMBb view]
| Vassar College / Independent / Independent
| Software testing
| [https://www.youtube.com/live/qr-n6FziUeo?feature=share Watch]
| Pirates@Home Mission 1 helped to develop the Einstein@Home screensaver. Pirates@Home tested BOINC's forum software for possible use by ''[http://i2u2.spy-hill.net/ Interactions in Understanding the Universe]''. Primates@Home tested the reaction of [https://web.archive.org/web/20060117061652/http://pirates.spy-hill.net/ Pirates@Home] users to a disturbance in their accustomed environment. [[Pirates@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060215003906/http://autotranslator.net:80/ translator@home]
|
| 2005-03-23
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| translator@home was in the process of creating new software linked to BOINC but never developed.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20051027013808/http://public.shoft.net/ Shoft@Home]
|
| 2005
|  
|
|
|
| Independent
|
|
|

|-
| [http://boinctest.axpr.net/ Break the Forum!]
|
| 2005
|  
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
| Test BOINC forum software.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://fsmtdist.ist.tu-graz.ac.at/dist/ dIST]
|
| 2005
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| A Cape4 project.

|-
| [http://fsmtdist.ist.tu-graz.ac.at/cape4/index.php cape4]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Another Cape4 project.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://grid-devel3.rocksclusters.org/boinc_gamess/ BOINC GAMESS]
|
| 2005
|  
|
|
|
| Independent
|
|
| Project never overcame '''Warning''': mysql_pconnect(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060103125636/http://bifi.unizar.es/research/computing/bah/ BIFI@home]
|
| {{No}}
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Solve calculations that contribute to the research carried out at the Institute of Biocomputing and Physics of Complex Systems at the University of Zaragoza (BIFI).

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.azurite.co.uk/ IMP]
|
| 2005
|  
|
|
|
| The IMP Team
| Software testing
|
| Internet Movie Project. Test Project copyright © 2005 The IMP Team.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://lhcathome-alpha.cern.ch/ LHC@home Alpha]
|
| 2005
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
| Test Project for LHC@home.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071016235617/http://boinc.banaan.org:80/hashclash/ HashClash]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#HashClash 11]
| 2005-11-24
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
|
|
|
| searched for MD5 and SHA-1 hash collisions, culminating in the 2008 rogue certificate authority attack. [[HashClash|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060703095044/http://issofty17.is.noda.tus.ac.jp/index_E.php TANPAKU]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#TANPAKU 2]
| 2005-08-02
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
|
| Tokyo University of Science
|
|
| Used a Brownian dynamics method to study protein folding. [[TANPAKU|See more...]]

|-
| [http://slawoo.homelinux.org/ Nagrzewanie stali@HOME]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://lattice.umiacs.umd.edu/boinc_public_oldschool/ The Lattice Project-original]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#The 16]
| 2006
| WinXP-98
|
|
|
| University of Maryland, College Park
|
|
| Condor and PBS clusters through the Globus Toolkit, chiefly supporting phylogenetic analysis with the GARLI software. [[The Lattice Project|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060916002226/http://fah-boinc.stanford.edu/ Folding@home]
|
| 2006
| WinXP
|
|
|
| Stanford University
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060901142513/http://research.utep.edu/Default.aspx?alias=research.utep.edu/daplds Docking@Home-utep]
|
| {{No}}
|  
|
|
|
| University of Texas at El Paso
|
|
| The goals of the project are to explore the multi-scale nature of algorithmic adaptations in protein-ligand docking and to develop cyber infrastructures based on computational methods and models that efficiently accommodate these adaptations.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://ecc.crypto.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ ECDLP PROJECT]
|
| 2006
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070326165532/http://test.ntbz.com:80/ ntbz Test Project]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://debian.povaddict.com.ar/pov/ Renderfarm]
|
| 2006-08-10
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Another URL for the project: http://renderfarm.povaddict.com.ar/

|-
| [https://www.boincstats.com/stats/33/project/detail/ RenderFarm@Home]
|
| 2006-08-23
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://hashbreaker.com:8700/tmrldrtg/ Distributed Rainbow Table Generator]
|
| 2006
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
| The Minouche Research Laboratories
|
|
| The '''Distributed Rainbow Table Generator''' project of '''The Minouche Research Laboratories'''; a community project dedicated to large scale distributed calculation of huge Rainbow Tables.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://bebeer.dyndns.org:2222/bebeer/ Belgian Beer@Home]
|
| 2006-12-08
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070630030320/http://www.boinc.be/vbulletin BOINC.BE]
|
|
| An effort of people from the [https://web.archive.org/web/20070630030320/http://www.boinc.be/vbulletin BOINC.BE] team.

|-
| [http://www.enigmaathome.net/ Enigma@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Enigma@Home 2]
| 2007-08-24
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| An attempt to break 3 original Enigma messages that were intercepted in 1942. [[Enigma@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080511223553/http://impfarm.imp.org/boinc/ Internet Movie Project]
|
| 2007-07-15
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080724214454/http://impfarm.imp.org/boinc/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
| Setting up a renderfarm to power the [https://web.archive.org/web/20080511223553/http://www.imp.org/ Internet Movie Project]. Note that this project will never export credit stats.

|-
| [http://predictor.chem.lsa.umich.edu/pah/ Predictor@home Alpha]
|
| 2007 / 2009
|
|
|
|
| The Scripps Research Institute
|
|
| Test project for Predictor@home.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071001120117/http://zivis.bifi.unizar.es:80/ Zivis Superordenador Ciudadano]
|
| 2007
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070823192420/http://zivis.bifi.unizar.es/apps.php WinXP, Linux]
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://zebrabrute.ath.cx/zebrabrute/ Zebra RSA Brutforce]
|
| 2007
| WinXP-98
|
|
|
| Darkscout - a Computer Science student.
|
|
| The Project originates from an idea in a forum. An attempt to break the RSA-key for the checksum of RSA-Smart card by Brute-force search.

|-
| [http://web.archive.org/web/20090306065822/http://dist2.ist.tugraz.at/sudoku/ Sudoku project]
|
| 2007-08-27
|
|
|
|
| Graz, University of Technology
|
|
| Uses Internet-connected computers to search for the smallest possible start configuration of Sudoku.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071128150637/http://eternity2.net:80/ Eternity2.net]
|
| 2007
|  
|
|
|
| Dave Clark, Auckland
|
|
| A project to try to solve the Eternity II puzzle™.

|-
| [http://roc.cs.berkeley.edu/projects/boinc/index.html ROC]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
| University of California, Berkeley
|
|
|

|-
| [http://neuron.mine.nu/neuron/ Project Neuron]
|
| 2007-11-25
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
| Independent
|
|
| Provide a trial BOINC environment in which a set of dummy applications will run. The purpose of this being to record, observe and understand BOINC activity and data with a view to developing metrics that will establish or otherwise the quality/reliability/dependability of particular BOINC projects.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071020023328/http://www.gridfinity.com:80/gridfinity/ Gridfinity]
|
| 2007
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://www.scilinc.org/SciLINC/ SciLINC]
|
| 2007-03-22
2009
| WinXP-98
|
|
|
| Missouri Botanical Garden
|
|
| Indexed digitized botanical literature. [[SciLINC|See more...]]

|-
| [http://isaac.ssl.berkeley.edu/sleeper/ Sleeper]
|
| 2007-03
|
|
|
|
| University of California, Berkeley
|
|
| Test project for BOINC Alpha Test.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080901231107/http://www.init1.net:80/pPotTables/ pPot Tables]
|
| 2008
|  
|
|
|
| Independent
|
|
| Computing relative hand strength and 1-card lookahead positive potential for all possible flop, turn and hole card combinations for 2 to 10 players in Texas hold 'em.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20121205084825/http://www.malariacontrol.net/ malariacontrol.net]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Malariacontrol.net 26]
| 2006-03-01
2016-06-21
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/4GAYKw5SakQ view]
|
|
|
| A project with an application that makes use of network computing for stochastic modelling of the clinical epidemiology and natural history of Plasmodium falciparum malaria. [[Malariacontrol.net|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20061206015653/http://biology.polytechnique.fr/proteinsathome/ proteins@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Proteins@home 4]
| 2006-09-15
| WinXP
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/aM6kiaM228Y view]
|
|
|
| A large-scale Protein structure prediction project to contribute to a better understanding of many diseases and pathologies, and to progress in both Medicine and Technology. [[Proteins@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080517170329/http://www.depspid.net:80/ DepSpid]
|
| 2007
| WinXP-98
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Every DepSpid task is processed in two phases: a networking phase (Phase One) in which the DepSpid spider scans a set of web pages and stores results in a temporary database; and a computational phase (Phase Two) which uses the collected data to calculate dependencies between all pages. [[DepSpid|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://bob.myisland.as/tsp/ Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP)]
|
| 2007
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
|
|
|
|
| The Travelling salesman problem (TSP): for a given set of cities, visit each city once and only once and minimize the distance you travel.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060412015807/http://xw01.lri.fr:4320/ XtremLab]
|
| 2005
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Measuring the free resources available on personal computers involved in large-scale distributed computing.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060903103622/http://bbc.cpdn.org/ BBC Climate Change Experiment]
|
|
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090107014341/http://allprojectstats.com/collatz/ 3x+1@home]
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| 2008-02-18
|  
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| A non-profit project trying to find high 3x+1 conjecture stopping times. The 3x+1 conjecture is also known as the Collatz conjecture.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://edges-local-devbnc-srv.ceta-ciemat.es/appexample/ Uppercase Application]
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| 2008
|  
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [http://193.144.240.190/nnsimu/ NNSIMU Project]
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|  
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|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090204215407/http://boinc.unex.es/extremadurathome/ Extremadura@Home]
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|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090528015437/http://boinc.isa.ru:80/russiadg/ Russian Desktop Grid]
|
| 2009
|  
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110801221116/http://falua.cesfelipesegundo.com/VRS/ Virus Respiratorio Sincitial (VRS)]
| [https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0895717710005595 1]
| 2010
|  
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| VRS (from the Spanish Virus Respiratorio Sincitial) is a BOINC-based project which main aim is to simulate the behaviour of the human Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV).

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20081004231715/http://cels-at-home-dev.dyndns.org:80/test2/ <nowiki>Cels@Home [Second] Test Project</nowiki>]
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|  
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| Research in cell adhesion.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090925001717/http://boinc.vanderbilt.edu:80/test_setup Test Setup Project]
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|  
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| Vanderbilt
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://grid.ncssm.edu/ncssm_grid/ NCSSM Grid Computing Project]
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| 2007-04-04
|  
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|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20051226054712/http://www.cellcomputing.net/simple/ Cell Computing]
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|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://arcoboinc.unex.es/rnd/ RND@home]
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| 2007
| WinXP, Linux
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| Radio Network Design (RND) is a telecommunication problem which consists in covering a geographic area with radio signal using the fewer number of transmitters that cover the maximum area.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://edges-local-testbnc-srv.ceta-ciemat.es/localtest EDGeS Local Test]
|
| 2007
|  
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://sat.math.umu.se/sat/ Satisfaction@Home]
|
| 2007
| WinXP, Linux
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|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070505234056/http://www.nanohive-1.org:80/atHome/ NanoHive@Home]
| [http://openurl.ingenta.com/content/xref?genre=article&issn=1546-1955&volume=8&issue=7&spage=1139 1]
|
| WinXP
|
|
|
| Nanorex, Inc.
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|
| Used the NanoHive-1 nanospace simulator to search for failure modes in diamondoid mechanosynthesis tooltips. [[NanoHive@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080711074723/http://boinc.iaik.tugraz.at:80/sha1_coll_search SHA 1 Collision Search Graz]
|
| 2007-08-08
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
| Graz University of Technology
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in cryptanalysis.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://dist2.ist.tugraz.at/sudoku/ Project Sudoku]
|
| 2007-08-27
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080307034907/http://dist2.ist.tugraz.at/sudoku/apps.php WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS]
|
|
|
| Graz University of Technology
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to search for the smallest possible start configuration of Sudoku.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071005080915/http://www.apsathome.org:80/ APS@Home]
|
| 2007-08-30
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
| University of Manchester
|
|
| The effects that atmospheric dispersion has on the measurements used in climate prediction.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080806072857/http://dawn.ynet.sk:80/test1/ Reversi]
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| 2008-05-16
|  
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| Independent
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| Determine who wins in Reversi game - first player, second player or if the game is tied.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://www.ramseyathome.com/ramsey/ Ramsey@Home]
|
| 2008-06-14
|  
|
|
|
| Nick Peterson
|
|
| A volunteer computing project designed to find new lower bounds for various Ramsey numbers using a host of different techniques.

|-
| [http://canis.csc.ncsu.edu:8005/anansi/ Anansi]
|
| 2008
|  
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|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://eaps-at-home-alpha.gotdns.org/eaps/ EAPS@HOME]
|
| 2008
|  
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|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in Artificial Intelligence.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080703141019/http://boinc.vanderbilt.edu/CSB/ CSB@Home] / [https://web.archive.org/web/20080703141019/http://boinc.vanderbilt.edu/CSB/ BCL@Home]
|
| 2008-06-05 / 2008
|  
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in '''Computational Structural Biochemistry'''.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080908061532/http://genlife.is-a-geek.org:80/genlife/ Genetic Life]
|
| 2008-06-18
|  
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| A not-for-profit research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research into Genetic Algorithms.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090506112112/http://africangridlab.net/ African Grid Lab ALPHA]
|
| 2008-10-05
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|
| An incubation laboratory environment for African based BOINC projects.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090322190553/http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu/brats/ BRaTS@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#BRaTS@Home 2]
| 2007-06-05
| WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS
|
|
|
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|
|
| BRaTS@Home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do various calculations in Gravitational Ray Tracing. ''BRaTS'' stands for ''BRaTS Ray Trace Simulator''.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090425124851/http://www.intelligencerealm.com/aisystem/system.php Artificial Intelligence System]
|
| 2007-09-05
|  
|
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|
| The neural network simulator is an application that simulates neurons. Each downloaded work unit generates 500,000 biophysical neurons.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090927062104/http://dynaping.com/ DynaPing]
|
| 2009
|  
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| Ensure highest availability of your web services. DynaPing uses computers around the world to monitor your web service availability and alerts you of any downtime.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20091130024643/http://nqueens.ing.udec.cl/ NQueens@Home]
|
| 2007-08-10
| Windows
|
|
|
| University of Concepción
|
|
| This project uses Internet-connected computers to solve the N Queens problem.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20141009194330/http://registro.ibercivis.es/ Ibercivis]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Ibercivis 18]
| 2007-11
2020-08-01
|  
|
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| [https://youtu.be/RRPMDKPGt3A view]
|
|
|
| Research in physics, material science and biomedicines and is based at several institutes and universities; Zaragoza, CETA-CIEMAT, CSIC, Coimbra. [[Ibercivis|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20201213215515/https://boinc.ibercivis.es/ibercivis/ Ibercivis BOINC]
|
| 2020-10
|  
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|
| The Biophym Group of the CSIC Institute for the Structure of Matter has proposed to carry out simulations of the interaction of drugs used against Ebola, HIV infection, influenza or hepatitis B with the genome replication machinery of the SARS-Co-V virus.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://evil.podzone.org/decs/ DECS]
|
| 2007-10-05
|  
|
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|
|
| The Generic Distributed Exact Cover Solver (DECS) project uses Internet-connected computers to solve exact cover problems. Exact cover is a general type of problem which can be used to solve problems including n-queens, Latin Square puzzles, Sudoku, polyomino tiling, set packing and set partitioning.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://boincsrv01.cern.ch/atlfast/ LHC Atlas Test]
|
| 2007-08-14
|  
|
|
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| Test project for LHC@home.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070209051807/http://boinc.berkeley.edu/cplan/ Cunning Plan]
|
| 2007
|  
|
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|
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|
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| Was being used to test account creation.

|-
| [http://pcschmiede.pc.funpic.de/teah/html/user/ Test Project Christian Beer]
|
| 2007
|  
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110207203930/http://mapthegap.com/ MAPtheGAP]
|
| {{No}}
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Eliminating racial disparities in health.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://dnahome.cs.rpi.edu/dna/ DNA@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#DNA@Home 2]
| 2010-04-14
|  
|
|
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|
|
| The new versions allow for different motif types which are different models for how a binding site could look. One is palindromic, where the nucleotides in the beginning of the model have their complement at the end of the model. The other model type is reverse complement, which doesn't assume the model to be palindromic, but looks for either the forward or reverse version of the model.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://edges-local-devbnc-srv.ceta-ciemat.es/3gbp 3g Bridge Project]
|
| 2009
|
|
|
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|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071220210249/http://boincsrv01.cern.ch:80/lhcathome/ LHC@Home Experimental]
|
| 2007
|  
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
| For internal testing only; any workunits issued are for testing and do not yet have any scientific value. Please remain attached to the official LHC@Home server!

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://cbl-link02.cs.technion.ac.il/cplan/ Superlink@EGEE queue]
|
| {{No}}
|  
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|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20100324075245/http://boinc.cs.uct.ac.za:80/malaria/ UCT:malariacontrol.net]
|
| 2008-03-31
|  
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
| A test project in collaboration with MalariaControl.net in Switzerland that aims to test the correct operation of our server for future BOINC-based projects.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://dist.ist.tugraz.at/cape5/ Rectilinear Crossing Number]
|
| 2006-06-30
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/d03IUeQrDLQ view]
|
|
|
| Use sophisticated mathematical methods to determine the rectilinear crossing number for small values of n. [[Rectilinear Crossing Number Project|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20091124095534/http://boinc.vtu.lt:80/vtuathome VTU@home], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090412025420/http://boinc.vgtu.lt/vtuathome/ VGTU@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#VGTU@home 2]
| 2006-04-13
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
|
| Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
|
|
| The aim of this project is to provide a powerful distributed computing platform for scientists of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU) as well as other Lithuanian academic institutions.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090309055929/http://aqua.dwavesys.com/ AQUA@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#AQUA@home 4]
|2008-12-08
2011-08-01
|  
|
| {{Yes}}, Vbox
| [https://youtu.be/VyQgGkj_Rss view]
| dwavesys
|Quantum Computing
|
|Model the performance of superconducting adiabatic quantum computers. [[AQUA@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060702175205/http://www.ufluids.net/ μFluids@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Publications_by_BOINC_projects#.C2.B5Fluids.40Home 3]
| 2005-09-19
| WinXP-98
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Study fluid behavior in microgravity to design satellite propellant management devices. [[UFluids@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110817075110/http://boinc.run.montefiore.ulg.ac.be:80/evo/ Evo@home]
|
| 2010-11-22
|  
|
|
|
| University of Liège
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in Machine Learning. This project uses Evolutionary Algorithms to optimize the parameters of different kind of machine learning algorithms.

|-
| [http://gmdhgrid.com/mgua/index.php GMDHGrid]
|
| 2010
|
|
|
|
| Kiev Polytechnic Institute
|
|
| Data mining, knowledge discovery, prediction, complex systems modeling, optimization and pattern recognition.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20101025171952/http://project.czechnationalteam.cz/cplan/ Czech National Team project]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
| Czech National Team
| Software testing
|
| A test project for our new BOINC server helping us to find and fix some bugs and create a new project which is being prepared.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.math.ucalgary.ca/sheti/ SHETI]
|
| 2009-01-08
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Sheti is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to solve the [http://www.certicom.com/index.php/the-certicom-ecc-challenge 131-bit Certicom ECC Challenge].

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090331215945/http://mothershipathome.org/ Mothership@Home]
|
| 2008
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Mothership@Home is dedicated in loving memory of my mother Patricia Horner (1942-1987), my husband Joshua Resnick (1965-1999) and all others who have passed away prematurely due to medical conditions.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://dart.cs.georgefox.edu/mcpi/ Monte Carlo Pi]
|
| 2008
|
|
|
|
| George Fox University
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [http://cancergrid.lpds.sztaki.hu/cancergrid/ CancerGrid]
|
| 2008
|
|
|
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|
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|
|

|-
| [http://stuff.povaddict.com.ar:8080/boinctest/ Silly Pi Calculation]
|
| 2008
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|
|
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| Nicolas
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|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130823010101/http://www.fpgaathome.org/ FPGA@Home]
|
| {{No}}
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| This is an open collaboration for porting Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) based volunteer computing projects on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs).

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130528155906/http://boinc.hpc.utp.edu.my:80/utpdg/ UTP Desktop Grid]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
| Universiti Teknologi Petronas
|
|
| UTP Desktop Grid (UTPDG) is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in various areas of parallel computational problems.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130302052041/http://boinc.ucd.ie/fmah/ FightMalaria@Home]
|
| 2012-07-20
|  
|
|
|
| Dr Anthony Chubb
|
|
| Perform docking simulations on malaria proteins.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://107.21.228.163/VBOINC V-BOINC]
|
|
|  
|
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| The VBOINC project is the first attempt to use virtual machines with BOINC.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130501160927/http://oproject.info/ OProject@Home]
| [https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.1593 1]
| 2012-08-13
|  
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| Algorithm analysis. OProject@Home based at Olin Library (Rollins College).

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/https://climateathome.info/climateathome/ Climate@Home]
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|  
|
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|
| George Mason University, NASA
|
|
| Research for spatiotemporal computing and climate predictions.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130701032038/http://bigdata.ihep.ac.cn/bigdata/stats.php BigData@home]
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|
| [https://web.archive.org/http://bigdata.ihep.ac.cn/bigdata/ Windows, Linux]
|
|
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| Crawl Internet New Media Information.

|-
| [https://quakecatcher.net/sensor/ Quake-Catcher Network]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Quake-Catcher 13]
| 2007-12-05 / 2023-06-01
|
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| [https://youtu.be/SCv_W751m64 view]
| Stanford University, then University of Southern California
|
|
| Used low-cost MEMS accelerometers in laptops, desktops, and USB sensors to build a distributed, community-based earthquake detection network. [[Quake-Catcher Network|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://qcn.emsc-csem.org/sensor/ Quake-Catcher Network EMSC / CSEM]
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|  
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| [https://youtu.be/SCv_W751m64 view]
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|
|
| Used low-cost MEMS accelerometers in laptops, desktops, and USB sensors to build a distributed, community-based earthquake detection network.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110723205439/http://mersenneathome.net/ Mersenne@home]
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|-
| [http://b25.interix.jp/b25/ B25@Home]
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|  
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|-
| [http://boinc.ryanteck.org.uk/boincPi/ boincPi]
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|  
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|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://surveill.dei.uc.pt/surveill/ Surveill@home]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
| University of Coimbra
|
|
| Conduct end-to-end fine-grained monitoring of web sites.

|-
| [https://www.chess960athome.org/alpha/ Chess960athome]
|
| 2006-03-20
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| used Stockfish to evaluate tens of millions of chess positions, building a labeled dataset intended for training a machine-learned classifier of winning positions. [[Chess960@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110801052639/http://www.freehal.net/freehal_at_home FreeHAL]
|
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|  
|
|
|
| Tobias Schulz / Powered by SETI.Germany and Planet 3DNow!
|
|
| FreeHAL@home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to parse and convert big open source semantic nets for use in FreeHAL.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20100430012556/http://goldbach.pl/ Goldbach's Conjecture Project]
|
| 2009-07-23
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20100505082120/http://goldbach.pl/apps.php Windows, Linux]
|
|
|
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|
|
| Effectively proving Goldbach's weak conjecture.

|-
| [http://starmageddon.dyndns.org/ninjagrid/ NinjaGrid]
|
| 2009
|
|
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|
| Mathematics
|
| 3x+1.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://physicsathome.tk/physics/ physics@home]
|
| 2013-02-16
|  
|
|
|
| Vasyl Kuzmenko
|
|
| Research in Solid-state physics, Materials science, Optics and Chemistry.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://vcsc.cs.uh.edu/second-computing/ UH Second Computing]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
| University of Houston College of Technology
|
|
| We are in the process to simulate macromolecular interactions in a living cell.

|-
| [http://babel.boinc.povaddict.com.ar/ Babel]
|
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| Testing translations of BOINC server and forum.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://eon.raunvis.hi.is/EON2v1/ EON2v1@clusters]
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|  
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|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://sctr.i3a.uclm.es/prob/ Prob]
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|  
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|-
| [http://140.110.240.195/bioinfo/ Bioinfo@Home]
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|  
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|-
| [https://web.archive.org/https://boinc.freerainbowtables.com/distrrtgen/ DistrRTgen]
|
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|  
|
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|
|
| By distributing the generation of rainbow chains, we can generate HUGE rainbow tables that are able to crack longer passwords than ever seen before.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20100526004243/http://boinc.picevolvr.com:80/ Picevolvr]
|
| 2010
|  
|
|
|
| [http://cullen-online.com/ Michael Cullen]
|
|
| Uses Internet-connected computers to generate artwork completely automatically.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://cah.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/ QuantumFIRE alpha]
|
| 2010
|  
|
|
|
| University of Cambridge
|
|
| Quantum foundations and Solid-state physics research.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinctest.codeq.pl/boinctest/ Replace With Project Name]
|
| 2013
|  
|
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| http://boinctest.codeq.pl/boinctest/

|-
| [http://web.archive.org/web/20131229164437/http://plagiarism.boincpolska.org/plagiarism/ Plagiarism@Home]
|
| 2013
|
|
|
|
| Krzysztof Piszczek
|
|
| Search given text for potential plagiarism in Internet resources.

|-
| [http://boinc.comcute.com/SIM/ Comcute emBOINC]
|
| 2012
|
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|

|-
| [http://boinc.comcute.com/cc_boinc/ Comcute Boinc]
|
| 2013
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| Michal Stanislaw Wojcik
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| play large numbers of Chess960 (Fischer Random Chess) games, in an effort to build the beginnings of an opening theory for the variant. [[Chess@Home|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://perft.computers-chess.com/ computers-chess]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [http://151.97.53.109/synchronised/ Synchronised]
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| 2013 / 2014
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| University of Catania
| Molecular Modelling
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| Pharmaceutical chemistry research.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090402124145/http://cleanenergy.harvard.edu/ The Clean Energy Project]
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| Harvard University
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| Merged into World Community Grid.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20150522195526/http://www.universeathometest.info/universe/ Universe@Home test project]
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| University of Warsaw
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| Test project for Universe@Home.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://eon.ices.utexas.edu/eon2/ eOn2]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#EOn 6]
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| Simulate long timescale evolution of atomic scale systems in chemistry and materials science. [[EOn|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://mmgboinc.unimi.it/ SimOne@home]
| [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000926141300763X 1]
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| The project focuses on the osmoprotection phenomenon. In nature there are small molecules that are able to protect proteins from thermal stress. Answering this question could have a major impact in agriculture, e.g. developing plants that require less water intake.

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| [http://docking.cis.udel.edu/ Docking@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Docking@home 20]
| 2006-09-11 / 2014-05-23
| WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS X/Intel
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| [https://youtu.be/gC_2zu2efY4 view]
| University of Delaware
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| CHARMM-based protein-ligand docking simulations to search for new pharmaceutical drugs. [[Docking@Home|See more...]]

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| [http://boinc01.cern.ch/test4theory/ LHC Test4Theory]
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| 2011
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20150731163559/http://lhcathome2.cern.ch/vLHCathome/ vLHCathome]
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| 2011
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| This is a project that utilizes the CERN-developed CernVM virtual machine and the BOINC virtualization layer to harness volunteer cloud computing power for full-fledged LHC event physics simulation on volunteer computers.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120102114135/http://ui.hpc.iit.bme.hu/wc/ Web Computing]
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| 2011
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130511025233/http://falua.cesfelipesegundo.com/Ideologias/ Ideologias@Home]
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| Study how people in a certain region evolve ideologically over time with respect to an idea.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120302132650/http://alfa-bridge.ibercivis.es/puente/ alfa_puente]
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| 2012
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20121207151627/http://boinc.biruni.upm.my/putra/ DG@Putra]
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| 2012-02-23
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| Universiti Putra Malaysia
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| Putra Desktop Grid is UPM's implementation of a DesktopGrid network. The project is fully supported by the International Desktop Grid Federation (IDGF).

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://qcn.stanford.edu/continual/ QCN Continual Sensor Monitoring]
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| 2012-04-18
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| [https://youtu.be/SCv_W751m64 view]
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| Research, education, and outreach in seismology.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://qcn.twgrid.org/sensor/ QCN Taiwan]
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| 2012-04-16
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| [https://youtu.be/SCv_W751m64 view]
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| Research, education, and outreach in seismology.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://www.ras.unam.mx/sensor/ QCN Red Atrapa Sismos]
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| [https://youtu.be/SCv_W751m64 view]
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| Research, education, and outreach in seismology.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://bvp6.hpc.iit.bme.hu/w2g/ Web2Grid Development]
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| 2012
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [http://bacalhau.lsd.ufcg.edu.br/table_transcriber/ TABLE TRANSCRIBER]
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| 2012
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| http://boinc.rm-hs.de/test/

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| [http://150.186.92.236/boinctest/ boinctest]
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| [https://web.archive.org/http://nanomodeling.molsim.ru/nanomodeling/ NanoModeling@home]
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| For designing nanostructures and nanorobots. Our goal is molecular modeling of targeted drug delivery systems, nanorobots and related nanostructures.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120120081734/http://boinc.berkeley.edu:80/vbox/ CERNVM/Vboxwrapper Test Project]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://mishra.lpds.sztaki.hu/atticproxy/ Attic Proxy Project]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [http://95.56.231.137/norlist/view_profile.php?userid=806 NORLIST@HOME]
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| 2014
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| Kazakhstan National Scientific Laboratory
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| Kazakh speech recognition.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.biruni.upm.my/pucbi/ PUCBi Desktop Grid]
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| 2015
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| Perdana University Centre for Bioinformatics (PU-CBi)
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| Provide education and training to support the development and continuity of in-house programmes, in particular to advance the translational bioinformatics skills of the next generation doctors and clinician scientists.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20160315063057/http://finance.gridcoin.us/finance/show_user.php?userid=885357 Gridcoin Finance]
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| 2015
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| [https://wiki.bc-team.org/index.php?title=Gridcoin_Finance/en The project performs financial simulations, analysis of the block chain, consolidate humanitarian reports, calculate marketing strategies, perform stock option analysis, harvest business intelligence, and assimilate top level results for the crowdsourced web pages.]

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20160831173736/http://nanosurf.kr.ua/nanos/ nanosurf]
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| 2016-06-16
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| Oleg Schevchenko
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| Researching surface physics. In particular, the development of optical devices. Theoretical modeling of surface quantum dots makes it possible to provide recommendations to a group of experimenters.

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| [https://www.boincstats.com/stats/167/project/detail/ BMG@Home]
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| 2016-02-25
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| Chemistry
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20170514021753/http://parlea.ru:80/andersonattack AndersonAttack@home]
| [https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/eng-2018-0002/html 1]
| 2017
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| {{Yes}}, Vbox
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| Matrosov Institute for System Dynamics and Control Theory
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| Implement Anderson's attack on A5/1 GSM stream cipher.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20171114233820/http://stop.inferia.ru:80/ Stop@home]
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| 2017-09-17
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| 256Ghz
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| Today we can't imagine our life without internet and its services. Our team wants to use distributed computing to solve mathematical tasks and improve algorithms.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130605030952/http://boinc.riojascience.com/ Riojascience@home]
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| Knet Communications and the University of La Rioja
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| A platform for biomedical research.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20141117215322/http://igemathome.org/ iGem@home]
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20160629234412/http://www.bitcoinutopia.net/bitcoinutopia/ Bitcoin Utopia]
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| 2013-06-05
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| Mine cryptocurrencies for incentive awards and science projects.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://59.78.96.61:8082/dhome/ Drug@Home]
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| School of Pharmacy, Ecust China University of Science & Technology
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| This study applied an efficient virtual screening strategy integrating molecular docking with MM-GBSA rescoring to identify diverse human dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (hDHODH) inhibitors.

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| [http://edges-ext-dg.ceta-ciemat.es/3gbp/ Edges Bridge Production]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140913231024/http://boinc.unsads.com/rsals/ RSA Lattice Siever(2.0)]
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| 2009-12-24 / 2012
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| Help other factoring projects such as mersenneforum or XYYXf achieve their academic goals. Merged into [[NFS@Home]].

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120329124047/http://home.edges-grid.eu/home/ EDGeS@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#EDGeS@Home 12]
| 2009-10-28
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| To support the execution of selected and validated scientific applications developed by the EGEE and EDGeS community.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20081008031648/http://cels-at-home-dev.dyndns.org:80/cels/ Cels@Home]
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|2008-06-23
2009-09-01
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| [https://youtu.be/mzp2QBwvb2U view]
|University of Texas in Austin
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| 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 is a critical event that makes the disease much harder to treat. [[Cels@Home|See more...]]

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| [http://77.48.48.82/jplan/ jplan]
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| [https://web.archive.org/http://lhcbathome.cern.ch/Beauty/ Beauty@LHC]
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| Based at CERN and is a project of the LHCb experiment.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209200706/http://boinc.biruni.upm.my/putra/ Putra Desktop Grid]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://vcsc.cs.uh.edu/virtual-prairie/ Virtual Prairie]
| [https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0304380010005557 1]
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| University of Houston
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| simulations of clonal plant growth to inform the ecological design of sustainable prairie ecosystems. [[Virtual Prairie|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.med.usherbrooke.ca/nrg/ Najmanovich Research Group]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Najmanovich 3]
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| Research in molecular recognition and computer-aided drug design.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://www.sustainablegrid.org/ Sustainable Grid]
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| 2012-01-11
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| Enterprise Application Development Group at the University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Goerlitz
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| Bundles hardware resources of the university and provides this computational power to the scientists for their research purposes.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120312215655/http://mamarreis.lsd.ufcg.edu.br/ciencia-em-sua-casa/ Ciência Em Sua Casa]
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| Science in Your Home. Search for Wilson prime numbers and DNA sequencing.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120705003101/http://donateathome.org/ Donate@Home]
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| Allows participants to donate towards funding by using their GPU to mine for BitCoins.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://edges-local-devbnc-srv.ceta-ciemat.es/student01/ Student01]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://edges-local-devbnc-srv.ceta-ciemat.es/student02/ Student02]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [http://gf45.mp.tudelft.nl/psdm/ BIoS]
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| TU Delft
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| [https://web.archive.org/http://mishra.lpds.sztaki.hu/edgidemo/ EDGI Demo Project]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://voldemort.cs.cf.ac.uk/attic_proxy/ AtticFS Proxy Application Project on BOINC]
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| The AtticFS Proxy application acts as a translation layer between HTTP and the AtticFS. This allows BOINC Projects to utilise AtticFS easily.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130526001435/http://volunteer.cs.und.edu/subset_sum/ SubsetSum@Home]
| [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7255176/ 1]
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| Computer Science Department of the University of North Dakota
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| See how far we can extend the empirical evidence of the Subset Sum problem. Find better ways to apply volunteer computing to combinatorial problems.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20100313233251/http://www.nicoschlitter.de/DistributedDataMining distributedDataMining]
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| Research in the various fields of Data Analysis and Machine Learning.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20101201205418/http://dnetc.net/ DNETC@HOME]
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| A wrapper between BOINC and distributed.net.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://dg.imp.kiev.ua/slinca/ SLinCA]
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| SLinCA (Scaling Laws in Cluster Aggregation) is involved with research in the field of materials science.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110803231551/http://mishra.lpds.sztaki.hu:80/szdgr/ SZTAKI Desktop Grid Research Facility]
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| WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS X
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| Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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| This project is the test & research facility for SZTAKI Desktop Grid.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20081224080150/http://hydrogenathome.org/ Hydrogen@home]
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120111114110/http://hydrogenathome.org/apps.php WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS X (Not Intel)]
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| Enhance clean energy technology by improving hydrogen production and storage.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://convector.fsv.cvut.cz/ convector@home]
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| Calculate global optimum of 52 bar truss.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070202002920/http://spin.fh-bielefeld.de/ Spinhenge@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Spinhenge@home 3]
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| WinXP-98
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| [https://youtu.be/d-fafmtqE74 view]
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| Support the research of nano-magnetic molecules. In the future these molecules will be used in the local tumor chemotherapy and to develop tiny memory-modules. [[Spinhenge@home|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140413155515/http://bealathome.com/ Beal@Home]
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| Beal's conjecture is a conjecture in number theory: where A, B, C, x, y, and z are positive integers with x, y, z > 2, then A, B, and C have a common prime factor. Beal initially offered a prize of US $5,000 in 1997, raising it to US $1,000,000.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20150816053811/http://bealf.pl/bealf BealF@Home]
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| Part of the Master Thesis: '''''Testing Beal conjecture using supercomputers and distributed computing platform BOINC'''''. The predecessor of the project was ''Beal@Home''.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://cbl-link02.cs.technion.ac.il/superlinkattechnion/ Superlink@Technion]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Superlink@Technion 4]
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| WinXP-98, Linux
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| Helps geneticists all over the world find disease-provoking genes causing some types of diabetes, hypertension (high blood pressure), cancer, schizophrenia and many others.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110720105948/http://boinc.vanderbilt.edu/bcl/ Biochemical Library]
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| 2011
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| Research in Biochemical Library.

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| [http://falua.cesfelipesegundo.com/jarifa/ Jarifa]
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| [https://web.archive.org/http://netmax.isa.ru/netmax/ NetMax@home]
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| Research in dynamic routing at telecommunication networks.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140804215459/http://gilda117.ihep.ac.cn/ATLAS/ Replace With Project Name]
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| https://web.archive.org/web/20140903030559/http://gilda117.ihep.ac.cn/ATLAS

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| [http://cvmathome.cern.ch/test4theory/ LHC+@Home]
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| [http://isaac.ssl.berkeley.edu/test2/ Replace With Project Name]
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| http://isaac.ssl.berkeley.edu/test2/

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.fiit.stuba.sk/ BOINC@Fiit]
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| Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava
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| TBA.

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| [https://web.archive.org/https://v8boinc.fer.hr/v8boinc/ v8boinc]
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20101203122655/http://glife.is-a-geek.org:80/ga/view_profile.php?userid=120 GA@home]
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20101109123610/http://www.luxrenderfarm.de/luxfarm Luxrenderfarm@home]
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| Renderfarm for Luxrender.net.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130819173713/http://sudoku.nctu.edu.tw/joomla/ sudoku@vtaiwan]
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| Develop new techniques and use them to modify the program [https://web.archive.org/web/20130819173713/http://www.math.ie/checker.html Checker] (written by Gary McGuire).

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://poseidon.shacknet.nu:8080/MilestoneRSA/ MilestoneRSA]
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| Break a 1024 bit RSA key used by Motorola to sign the boot and recovery partitions on the Motorola Milestone.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc01.uoc.edu/ILS-ESP-2014/ ILS-ESP-2014]
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| Research for solving the permutation FLOW-SHOP problem.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://wordcompatibility.com/words_compatibility/ Russian Words Compatibility]
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| Research in Russian computational linguistics.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110816010257/http://falua.cesfelipesegundo.com/Neurona/ Neurona@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Neurona@Home 2]
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| Simulating the behavior of a large assembly of cellular automata neurons connected in a complex network.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.isa.ru/dcsdg/ OPTIMA@HOME]
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| Solve challenging large-scale optimization problems.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130525113734/http://svahesrv2.bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de/correlizer/ Correlizer]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Correlizer 5]
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| Revealing the mysteries of genome organization.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120825055512/http://vbridge.twgrid.org/asgcdg/ Taiwan Desktop Grid]
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|Academia Sinica Grid Computing
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| Bridging Taiwanese volunteer computers to European e-Science service grid infrastructure. [[Taiwan Desktop Grid|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110214000708/http://androinc.net:80/ AndrOINC]
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| To break a 1024 bit RSA key used by Motorola to sign the boot and recovery partitions on the Motorola Milestone.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20141216004540/http://findah.ucd.ie/ FiND@Home]
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| 2012-07-20
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| Dr Anthony Chubb
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| A research project that uses donated CPU time to perform docking simulations on malaria proteins.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140514143657/http://www.primaboinca.com/ Primaboinca]
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| This project concerns itself with two hypotheses in number theory: Agrawal's Conjecture (the basis for the AKS algorithm) and Popovych's conjecture, which adds a further condition and could reduce the time of a deterministic prime test from O(log N)^6 to O(log N)^3.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060723185510/http://attribution.cpdn.org/ Seasonal Attribution Project]
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| WinXP, Linux
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| By comparing the results of climate simulations, half of which will include the effects of human-induced climate change, and half of which will not, we will investigate the possible impact of human activity on extreme weather risk.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://shasta.chem.uh.edu/SolarAtHome/ Solar@home]
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| Make more efficient solar cells.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080828221836/http://kinetic.dnsalias.org/magnetism/ Magnetism@home]
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|  
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| Explore the equilibrium, metastable and transient magnetization patterns in nano-scale magnetic elements and their arrays.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://desktopgrid.hiast.edu.sy/hiastdg/ HIAST@HOME]
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| 2013
|  
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140316201231/http://volunteer.cs.und.edu:80/dna/ DNA@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#DNA@Home 2]
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| Discover what regulates the genes in DNA.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120130113228/http://boinc.umiacs.umd.edu/ The Lattice Project]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#The 16]
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| WinXP, Linux, Mac
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| University of Maryland
| Multiple applications
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| Condor and PBS clusters through the Globus Toolkit, chiefly supporting phylogenetic analysis with the GARLI software. [[The Lattice Project|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.fzk.de/poem/ POEM@HOME]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#POEM@HOME 5]
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| Protein structure prediction has been complemented by other nanoscale molecule simulations. Within the scope of polymer crystallography we are researching conformations of organic hydrocarbons. [[POEM@HOME|See more...]]

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| [http://int-boinctest.int.kit.edu/poem/ POEM@TEST]
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| Test project for POEM@HOME.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://199.26.254.190/qos/ Spatiotemporal Quality of Service (QoS)]
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| Perform distributed web service evaluation so that more accurate service quality information can be delivered to end users.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070128212119/http://boinc.rieselsieve.com/ RieselSieve]
|
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| WinXP
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| Mathematics
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| k+2n-1 problem, eventually merged with PrimeGrid.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130806073759/http://mopac.cadaster.eu/ mopac@home]
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| Chemistry
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| Research in quantum chemistry.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140419190153/http://volunteer.cs.und.edu/wildlife/ Wildlife@Home]
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| University of North Dakota
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| Analyze video gathered from various cameras recording wildlife.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20160120043345/http://volpexathome.cs.uh.edu/VolPEx/ Volpex@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Volpex@Home 9]
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| University of Houston
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| Research in creating effective parallel computing on multiple volatile nodes.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://mindmodeling.org/palm_project/ MindModeling@Home (Palm)]
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| University of Dayton Research Institute and Wright State University
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| Test project for MindModeling@Home.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080805160334/http://mindmodeling.org:80/beta/ MindModeling@Home (Beta)]
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|  
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| [https://youtu.be/3aJmm60Wgl8 view]
| University of Dayton Research Institute and Wright State University
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| Test project for MindModeling@Home.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120215132304/http://boinc.almeregrid.nl/ AlmereGrid]
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090422205514/http://server1.almeregrid.nl/testgrid/ AlmereGrid TestGrid]
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| Test Grid of AlmereGrid.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://server5.almeregrid.nl/almeregrid/ AlmereGrid Boinc testGrid]
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| No independent verification that this was a BOINC project.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20181204215217/http://anthgrid.com/dbnupperbound/ DBN Upper Bound]
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| Polymath project related to the theory of the Riemann zeta function.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130331200159/http://abcathome.com/ ABC@home]
| [https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.2974 1]
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| WinXP-98, Linux
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| Finding abc-triples related to the ABC conjecture. [[ABC@home|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070206065801/http://abcathome.com/beta/ ABC@home beta]
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| WinXP-98, Linux
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| Test project for ABC@home.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc2.cs.hs-rm.de/abclll/ ABC Lattices @Home]
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| Searching for good abc-triples. Unlike ABC@Home, this project is not aiming for a thorough search of a certain range of numbers. Instead, we are trying to find good triples with the help of a specialized algorithm in areas beyond 2^100.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080801101300/http://cpdnbeta.oerc.ox.ac.uk/ CPDN Beta]
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| Test project for climate''prediction''.net.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140703145955/http://atlasathome.cern.ch/ Atlas@home]
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| A research project that uses volunteer computing to run simulations of the ATLAS experiment at CERN.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130302044909/http://boincsimap.org/boincsimap/ SIMAP]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#SIMAP 5]
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| WinXP, Linux, Mac OS, Other
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|Technical University of Munich, the Helmholtz Zentrum München and the University of Vienna
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| Many computational methods in biology and medicine are based on protein sequence analysis, e.g. to predict the function and structure of genes and proteins. SIMAP facilitates these methods by providing pre-calculated protein similarities and protein domains. [[SIMAP|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120214044716/http://boinc.gorlaeus.net/ Leiden Classical]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Leiden 2]
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| WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS X (Not Intel)
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| [https://youtu.be/co2SkwsvyOk view] and [https://youtu.be/ECAQC1mzMiM view]
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| Dedicated to general Classical Dynamics for any scientist or science student. [[Leiden Classical|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20171217033707/http://szdg.lpds.sztaki.hu/szdg/ SZTAKI Desktop Grid]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#SZTAKI 5]
| 2005-05-26
2018-05-31
| WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS X (Not Intel), Solaris
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| Multiple Applications
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| The SZTAKI Desktop Grid and its applications are partly supported by the DEGISCO and the EDGI projects. The work leading to these results has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreements n° RI-261561 and n° RI-261556. [[SZTAKI Desktop Grid|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080926101459/http://orbit.psi.edu/oah/ Orbit@home]
| [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103516300914 1]
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| Windows, Linux
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| Produce an optimized search strategy for dedicated astronomical surveys to search for near-Earth asteroids.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130725025029/http://pogs.theskynet.org/pogs/ theSkyNet POGS]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#TheSkyNet 3]
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| Research in astronomy. Combine the spectral coverage of GALEX, Pan-STARRS1, and WISE to generate a multi-wavelength UV-optical-NIR galaxy atlas for the nearby Universe. [[TheSkyNet POGS|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20180205194455/https://sourcefinder.theskynet.org/duchamp/ theSkyNet Sourcefinder]
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| Provide a means to test the effectiveness of various astronomical sourcefinding applications.

|-
| [https://nickeycat.net/nic/ Nickeycat]
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| No independent verification that this was a BOINC project.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://xansons4cod.com/xansons4cod/ XANSONS for COD]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#XANSONS 2]
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| Create an open access database of simulated x-ray and neutron powder diffraction patterns for nanocrystalline phase of the materials presented in the '''Crystallography Open Database (COD)'''.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://aerospaceresearch.net/constellation/ Constellation]
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| Research in various aerospace related sciences and engineering.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20190401042546/http://www.acousticsathome.ru/boinc/ Acoustics@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Acoustics@home 2]
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| Matrosov Institute for System Dynamics and Control Theory of SB RAS
|
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| Solving inverse problems in underwater acoustics.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20100427212604/http://boinc.drugdiscoveryathome.com/ Drug Discovery@home]
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| Model the behavior of leading compounds that could be developed into new medicines.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://sat.isa.ru/pdsat/ SAT@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#SAT@home 8]
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|Russian Academy of Sciences (Siberian Branch)
|Mathematics
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| Solve hard and practically important problems (discrete functions inversion problems, discrete optimization, bioinformatics, etc) that can be effectively reduced to Boolean satisfiability problem. [[SAT@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20190606103241/https://www.dhep.ga/boinc/ Distributed Hardware Evolution Project]
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| Used island-based coevolutionary genetic algorithm to synthesize self-checking digital hardware circuits. [[Distributed Hardware Evolution Project|See more...]]

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| [https://charon.camras.nl/setiatcamras/ SETI@CAMRAS]
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20180927092346/http://cpu.goofyxgridathome.net/ GoofyxGrid@Home CPU]
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| [https://web.archive.org/http://usproteins-at-home.ru/usproteins/ usproteins@home]
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20131022042932/http://qmcathome.org/ QMC@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#QMC@Home 7]
|
| Windows, Linux
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| [https://youtu.be/fNWUs9jRwSY view]
|
| Multiple applications
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| Quantum-mechanical computations on medically relevant biomolecular systems, to help with developing quantum-mechanics-based approaches for computational drug design; and finding safer and greener materials for e-vehicle batteries. [[QMC@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [http://physiome.lf1.cuni.cz/ident3/physiome/ Physiome@home]
|
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|  
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| Research in human physiology.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://casathome.ihep.ac.cn/ CAS@home]
|
|2010-09-30
2020-04-27
|  
|
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| [https://youtu.be/e-DUArD38Pw view]
| Chinese Academy of Sciences
|
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| The main application is the TreeThreader which predicts protein structure. [[CAS@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20210417203758/http://boinc.scienterprise.cn/ scienterprise]
|
| 2020
|  
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| Enterprises own a lot of idle computing resources in their private cloud, while research projects are restricted by limited computing power. This project aims to decrease this imbalance by building CloudTides, an elastic platform on idle cloud resources.

|-
| [http://vath.xicp.cn/test/ volunteer@home]
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| 2021
|
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| [https://youtu.be/a4nO8ki2qR4 view]
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| Very small test project, no information.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20191018200437/http://brainstormhome.org/ Brainstorm@home]
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| Investigate the molecular basis of brain-related diseases.

|-
| [http://hayes.nodium.net:8000/boincserver/ beef@home]
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| Proof of concept temporary test project.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20170509144906/https://csgrid.org/csg/ Citizen Science Grid]
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|  
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| UND's Computational Research Center and Information Technology Systems and Services
| Multiple applications
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| A wide range of research and educational projects using volunteer computing and citizen science, including DNA@Home, SubsetSum@Home, Climate Tweets, and Wildlife@Home.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20210125080541/https://www.kryptosathome.com/ Kryptos@Home]
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| Solving one of the most famous unsolved puzzles - the three-decade old Kryptos sculpture located on the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency. [[Kryptos@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20200421212107/https://mindmodeling.org/ MindModeling@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Publications_by_BOINC_projects#MindModeling.40Home 6]
| 2007-03-17
|  
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| [https://youtu.be/3aJmm60Wgl8 view]
| University of Dayton Research Institute and Wright State University
| Cognitive science
|
| Computational cognitive process modeling to better understand the human mind. [[MindModeling@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20210225002054/http://www.vdwnumbers.org/vdwnumbers/ Van Der Waerden Numbers]
| [https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.03301 1]
| 2021-02-02
|  
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| Daniel Monroe
| Mathematics
|
| Van Der Waerden Numbers is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to find better lower bounds for these numbers. Static mirror for this project: https://www.123numbers.org/

|-
| [http://burp.renderfarming.net/ Big and Ugly Rendering Project (BURP)]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Big 2]
|2004-06-17
2020
| Windows, Linux, Mac OS
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|Janus Kristensen
|3D rendering
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| Render animated videos including [http://bbb3d.renderfarming.net/download.html Big Buck Bunny]. [[Big and Ugly Rendering Project|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/test/ BOINC Test project]
|
| 2007-07-24
|  
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| [https://youtu.be/e-DUArD38Pw view]
| University of California, Berkeley
| Software testing
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| A test project for BOINC development.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20220711171713/https://boinc.tacc.utexas.edu/ BOINC@TACC]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#BOINC@TACC 3]
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| Texas Advanced Computing Center
| Multiple applications
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| Aerospace engineering, computational biology, and earthquake engineering. [[BOINC@TACC|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc-dev.tacc.utexas.edu/boincserver/ BOINC@TACC dev]
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| Texas Advanced Computing Center
| Software testing
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| Test project for BOINC@TACC.

|-
| [https://www.mlcathome.org/mlcathome/ MLC@Home]
| [https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2104.10555 1]
| 2020-06-30 / 2022-08-02
| [https://www.mlcathome.org/mlcathome/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| University of Maryland, Baltimore County
| Cognitive science
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mlc-home/id1492837872?i=1000499605038 Listen]
| Understanding and interpreting complex machine learning models. [[MLC@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.tbrada.eu/ T.Brada Experimental Grid]
|
| 2019-02-03 / 2022-12-24
|
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
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| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| The PADLS Total subproject aims to find new pseudo-associative DLS. [[T.Brada Experimental Grid|See more...]]

|-
| [https://quchempedia.univ-angers.fr/athome/ QuChemPedIA@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#QuChemPedIA@home 4]
| 2019-07-01 / 2022-09-29
| [https://quchempedia.univ-angers.fr/athome/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: olive; color: black;" | Vbox only
|
| Université Angers
| Molecular Chemistry
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/quchempedia/id1492837872?i=1000484760287 Listen]
| Help chemical researchers around the world by building a unique collection of results and also help our AIs to propose much more new targets for the different applications we are addressing than we could do on our own. [[QuChemPedIA@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/ Collatz Conjecture]
| [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11227-020-03368-x 1]
| 2009-01-06
| [https://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| Study the Collatz conjecture, an unsolved conjecture in mathematics. [[Collatz Conjecture|See more...]]

|-
| [http://www.cosmologyathome.org/ Cosmology@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Cosmology@Home 5]
| 2007-06-26 / 2024-01-10
| [http://www.cosmologyathome.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, Vbox
|
| Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
| Astronomy
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/comology-home/id1492837872?i=1000521601975 Listen]
| Find the most accurate models that best describe the universe. [[Cosmology@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20240118183120/http://bearnol.is-a-geek.com/wanless2/ WEP-M+2 Project]
|
| 2006-05-12 / 2024-01-18
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20231126215917/http://bearnol.is-a-geek.com/wanless2/apps.php Linux, macOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| James Wanless, London, England
| Mathematics
| [https://www.youtube.com/live/9QexlknOdb0?feature=share Watch]
| Factorization of Mersenneplustwo numbers. [[WEP-M+2 Project|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.nanohub.org/nanoHUB_at_home/ nanoHUB@Home]
|
| 2012-07-26
| [https://boinc.nanohub.org/nanoHUB_at_home/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: olive; color: black;" | Vbox only
|
| Purdue University
| Nanotechnology
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nanohub/id1492837872?i=1000488157528 Listen]
| Research in nanoscience and nanotechnology. [[NanoHUB@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-540-30208-7_91 Unknown project]
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| [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1488682/ Unknown project]
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| [https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jp806269w boinc@duq]
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| [https://www.comsol.com/paper/comsolgrid-a-framework-for-performing-large-scale-parameter-studies-using-comsol-8288 ComsolGrid]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#ComsolGrid 1]
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| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#BOINC-MR BOINC-MR]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#BOINC-MR 2]
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| [https://frostydata.com/0Kdata Data freezer]
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| 2024-06-11
| [https://frostydata.com/0Kdata/apps.php Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Storage
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| Build a data warehouse on consumer hardware. [[Data freezer|See more...]]

|-
| [https://albertathome.org/ Albert@Home]
|
| 2011-12-23
| [https://albertathome.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Max Planck Institute
| Software testing
|
| Test project for [[Einstein@Home]]. [[Albert@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://sech.me/boinc/Amicable/ Amicable Numbers]
|
| 2017-01-05
| [https://sech.me/boinc/Amicable/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boinc-radio-project-brief-amicable-numbers/id1492837872?i=1000581365935 Listen]
| Amicable numbers are pairs where the sum of the proper divisors of each is equal to the other number. The goal of this project is to collect all amicable numbers up to a very large limit. [[Amicable Numbers|See more...]]

|-
| [https://blackholesathome.net/ BlackHoles@Home]
|
| {{No}}t yet
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| University of Idaho
| Astrophysics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boinc-radio-project-brief-blackholes-home/id1492837872?i=1000575215408 Listen]
| Black hole collision simulations to maximize the science gained from gravitational wave observations. [[BlackHoles@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://team.dodoathome.com/dodo/ dodo@home]
|
| 2024-11-07
| [https://team.dodoathome.com/dodo/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
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| Independent
|
|
| We will bring the Dodo back from extinction (well, we will give it a damn good try!). [[Dodo@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://nci.boinc.goofyx.pl/ goofyxGrid@Home NCI]
|
| 1) [https://web.archive.org/web/20191023104620/http://nci.goofyxgridathome.net:80/ 2015-11-09] / 2) 2024-06-20
| [https://nci.boinc.goofyx.pl/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
|
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/goofyxgrid/id1492837872?i=1000490909639 Listen]
| To simulate the infinite monkey theorem which states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type any given text, including the complete works of William Shakespeare. [[GoofyxGrid@Home NCI|See more...]]

|-
| [http://boinc.llmentor.org/LLMentorGrid/ LLMentorGrid]
|
| 2025-01-22
| [http://boinc.llmentor.org/LLMentorGrid/apps.php Linux]
|
|
|
| Independent
|
|
|

|-
| [http://parlea.ru/boinctest/ Parlea]
|
| 2022-12
| [http://parlea.ru/boinctest/apps.php Windows, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
|
| Mathematics
|
| Investigate the efficiency and behavior of mobile devices as computing nodes on the BOINC platform for solving the Orthogonal Diagonal Latin Squares (ODLS) search problem. [[Parlea|See more...]]

|-
| [https://ralph.bakerlab.org/ RALPH@home]
|
| 2006-02-15
| [https://ralph.bakerlab.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, macOS, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, Vbox
| [https://youtu.be/W9fC5lv76T0 view]
| University of Washington
| Software testing
|
| Test project for [[Rosetta@home]]. [[RALPH@home|See more...]]

|-
| RNA World (computing project) | [https://www.rnaworld.de/rnaworld/ RNA World (beta)]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#RNA 5]
| 2009-05-21
| [https://www.rnaworld.de/rnaworld/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: olive; color: black;" | Vbox only
| [https://youtu.be/GHJ4KBdwVew view]
| Independent research group in Marburg, Germany
| Molecular biology
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rnaworld/id1492837872?i=1000496594043 Listen]
| Uses bioinformatics software to study RNA structure. [[RNA World (beta)|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.termit.me/adsl/ SPT@home]
|
| 2023-06-14
| [https://boinc.termit.me/adsl/ Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
|
| Mathematics
|
| The Symmetric Prime Tuples (SPT) project is a continuation of the T. Brada Experimental Grid project. [[SPT|See more...]]

|-
| [https://universeathome.pl/universe/ Universe@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Publications_by_BOINC_projects#Universe.40home 14]
| 2015-02-19
| [https://universeathome.pl/universe/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences
| Astronomy
|
| Computational astrophysics, computer simulation of stars, galaxies and the Universe. [[Universe@Home|See more...]]

|-
|[https://axiom.heliex.net/ Axiom Distributed AI]
|
|2026-01-30
2026-03-20
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20260319085629/https://axiom.heliex.net/apps.php Windows, Linux, Mac]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
|Axiom Project 2026
|Artificial Intelligence
|
|Distributed neural-network learning techniques influenced by Hebbian learning [[Axiom Distributed AI|See more...]]

|-
| [https://rnma.xyz/boinc/ Ramanujan Machine]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Ramanujan 2]
| 2021-10-14
| [https://rnma.xyz/boinc/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/project-brief-ramanujan-machine-5-2-2022/id1492837872?i=1000570072053 Listen]
| Conjecturing new mathematical formulas. [[Ramanujan Machine|See more...]]
|}

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<div class="bs-stats">
<div class="bs-stat bs-stat-teal"><div class="bs-stat-number">335</div>
<div class="bs-stat-label">[[BOINC projects|Projects listed]]</div>
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<div class="bs-stat bs-stat-purple"><div class="bs-stat-number">94</div>
<div class="bs-stat-label">Projects documented</div>
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<span class="bs-definition-label">What is a BOINC project?</span>
'''A BOINC project''' is a website and associated server set up by an individual or group to distribute applications to [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/ BOINC] volunteer computing devices. Those devices deliberately attach to receive, process, and return results for further scientific research — at no cost to the researcher, and no cost to the volunteer beyond electricity.

''BOINC'' stands for '''Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing''', developed at the University of California, Berkeley. Any researcher can create a BOINC project; any person can donate their idle CPU or GPU time to one.
</div>


<div class="bs-cta">
<div class="bs-cta-title">📋 The BOINC Projects Master Table</div>
<div class="bs-cta-body">The [[BOINC projects|List of all BOINC projects]] table is the heart of this wiki — a structured, sortable reference covering project name, research field, institution, supported platforms, active status, GPU support, and more. It is the primary reason this resource exists and the most complete registry of BOINC projects available anywhere.</div>
<big>'''[[BOINC projects|View the complete list of BOINC projects →]]'''</big>
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<div class="bs-cta">
<div class="bs-cta-title">📺 BOINC Project Screensaver Archive</div>
<div class="bs-cta-body">Before modern power management made them obsolete, every BOINC project shipped a real-time animated screensaver showing the computation in progress, including protein chains folding, star fields sweeping and climate models spinning. All 71 known screensaver recordings, spanning projects from SETI@home to Pirates@Home, are now preserved in one place.</div>
<big>'''[[BOINC project screensavers|View the BOINC Screensaver Archive →]]'''</big>
</div>


== Local BOINC project wiki pages ==

Each project below has its own dedicated article on this wiki. Projects are grouped by research domain and activity status.

=== ✦ Active BOINC projects ===

<div class="bs-group bs-group-teal mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🔭 Astrophysics, Cosmology & Space</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[Einstein@Home]] gravitational wave and pulsar detection
| * [[MilkyWay@home]] mapping the Milky Way's structure
|-
| * [[LHC@home]] CERN particle physics simulations
| * [[Gaia@home]] ESA Gaia mission data reduction
|-
| colspan="2" | * [[SPACIOUS@home]] space situational awareness
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-purple mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🧬 Biology, Medicine & Biochemistry</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[GPUGRID]] GPU-accelerated biomolecular simulations
| * [[TN-Grid]] neurological research
|-
| * [[Rosetta@home]] protein structure prediction
|* [[SiDock@home]] drug candidate screening
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-blue mw-collapsible"><div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🔢 Mathematics, Number Theory & Cryptography</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|* [[Gerasim@home]] multi-project. number field sieve factorisation
|
|-
| * [[PrimeGrid]] prime number searches across many sub-projects
| * [[NFS@Home]] number field sieve factorisation
|-
| * [[SRBase]] Sierpinski-Riesel base search
| * [[NumberFields@Home]] algebraic number field tables
|-
| * [[YAFU]] yet another factorisation utility
| * [[LODA]] integer sequence program synthesis
|-
| * [[Moo! Wrapper]] distributed.net RC5-72 wrapper
| * [[ODLK]] orthogonal diagonal Latin squares
|-
| * [[ODLK1]] ODLK variant 1
| * [[ODLK2025]] ODLK 2025 campaign
|-
| * [[Rakesearch]] Latin square searches
|
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-green mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🌍 Climate, Environment & Earth Sciences</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[Climateprediction.net|climate''prediction''.net]] global climate ensemble modelling
| * [[Asteroids@home]] asteroid orbit determination
|-
| * [[Radioactive@home]] background radiation monitoring
|
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-amber mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🤖 Artificial Intelligence, Computing & Infrastructure</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[BOINC Alpha Test]] test new versions of the BOINC client software on a wide range of hardware and operating systems
| * [[BOINC Central]] BOINC infrastructure project
|-
| * [[IThena.Computational]] computational measurement network
| * [[IThena.Measurements]] network performance metrics
|-
|* [[Yoyo@home]] scientific and mathematical subprojects
|* [[WUProp@Home]] work unit propagation statistics
|}
</div>
</div>

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<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🧪 Physics, Chemistry & Materials Science</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[USPEX@HOME]] crystal structure prediction
| * [[World Community Grid]] multi-domain humanitarian research
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-gray mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🕹️ Community, Recreation & Miscellaneous</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[Minecraft@Home]] Minecraft world-seed research
| * [[PRIVATE GFN SERVER]] private Generalized Fermat Number server
|}
</div>
</div>

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<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🧫 Test & Development Projects</div>
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<div class="bs-group-note">These projects serve as active testing and development platforms for BOINC software and infrastructure rather than primary research goals.</div>
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| colspan="2" | * [[Cpdnboinc dev]] cpdn development and testing server
|}
</div>
</div>

=== ✦ Paused BOINC projects ===

<div class="bs-group bs-group-amber mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">⏯ Paused projects (expand)</div>
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<div class="bs-group-note">These projects are temporarily suspended but have not formally closed. Work may resume in future.</div>
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[DENIS@home]] cardiac electrophysiology research, currently paused
|
|}
<div class="bs-group-footer">''See the [[BOINC projects|master BOINC projects table]] for the most current status of all projects.''</div>
</div>
</div>

=== ✦ Retired & inactive BOINC projects ===

<div class="bs-group bs-group-gray mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">⏸ Retired projects (expand)</div>
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<div class="bs-group-note">These projects have suspended operations or are no longer accepting new work units. Their pages are preserved here for historical reference and research continuity.</div>
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[ABC@home]] searched for abc-triples related to the abc conjecture in number theory
| * [[Albert@Home]] developement site for Einstein@Home
|-
|* [[Amicable Numbers]] amicable pair enumeration
|* [[AQUA@home]] model the performance of superconducting adiabatic quantum computers
|-
| * [[Axiom Distributed AI]] distributed AI model training
| * [[BlackHoles@Home]] black hole binary merger waveforms
|-
|* [[Big and Ugly Rendering Project]] distributed video rendering
|* [[BOINC@TACC]] routes computing jobs from TACC supercomputers to volunteer devices
|-
|* [[CAS@home]] hosted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, best known for running the TreeThreader protein structure
|
|-
|* [[Chess960@home]] an effort to build the beginnings of an opening theory for the variant
|* [[Chess@Home]] build a labeled dataset intended for training a machine-learned classifier of winning position
|-
|* [[CAS@home|Cels@Home]] hosted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, best known for running the TreeThreader protein structure
|* [[Collatz Conjecture]] testing the 3x+1 conjecture
|-
| * [[Cosmology@Home]] astronomical research
| * [[Distributed Hardware Evolution Project]] synthesize self-checking digital hardware circuits
|-
| * [[Data freezer]] long-term data archival research
| * [[DepSpid]] build a database of dependency relationships between web servers and domain
|-
|* [[Docking@Home]] CHARMM-based protein-ligand docking simulations to search for new pharmaceutical drugs
|
|-
|* [[eOn]] simulate long timescale evolution of atomic scale systems in chemistry and materials science
|* [[Enigma@Home]] break unsolved German Kriegsmarine Enigma M4 radio messages from the Second World War
|-
|* [[GoofyxGrid@Home NCI]] non-covalent interaction analysis
|* [[HashClash]] search for MD5 and SHA-1 hash collisions, culminating in the 2008 rogue certificate authority attack
|-
|* [[GoofyxGrid@Home NCI|Ibercivis]] simulations in nuclear fusion, protein docking, materials science, and number theory
|* [[Kryptos@Home]] attempt to decrypt K4, the unsolved fourth passage of the Kryptos sculpture at CIA headquarters
|-
|* [[Leiden Classical]] submit personal classical mechanics and molecular dynamics simulations
|* [[NanoHive@Home]] used the NanoHive-1 nanospace simulator to search for failure modes in tooltips
|-
|* [[Malariacontrol.net]] simulate the transmission dynamics and health effects of malaria
|* [[MindModeling@Home]] computational cognitive modeling to study human performance and learning
|-
| * [[nanoHUB@Home]] nanotechnology simulation
| * [[Parlea]] RNA 3D structure motif analysis
|-
|* [[POEM@HOME]] all-atom free-energy simulations to predict protein structure and folding
|* [[proteins@home]] tackled the inverse protein folding problem
|-
| * [[Predictor@home]] protein folding and the first BOINC project
| * [[Pirates@Home]] help to develop Einstein@Home screensaver and test BOINC software
|-
| [[Quake-Catcher Network|* Quake-Catcher Network]] used accelerometers in laptops and USB sensors to build a distributed earthquake detection network
| * [[QMC@Home]] develop and apply Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods for use in quantum chemistry
|-
|* [[QuChemPedIA@home]] run density functional theory (DFT) quantum chemistry calculations
|* [[Rectilinear Crossing Number Project]] determine the rectilinear crossing number of the complete graph K18
|-
| * [[RALPH@home]] developement site for Rosetta@home
| * [[Ramanujan Machine]] conjectured mathematical identities
|-
| * [[RNA World (beta)]] RNA folding and molecular evolution
| * [[SETI@home]] search for extraterrestrial intelligence
|-
|* [[SAT@home]] solve hard instances of the Boolean satisfiability problem
|* [[SciLINC]] indexed digitized botanical literature
|-
|* [[SIMAP]] pre-calculated protein sequence similarities for a database used by bioinformaticians
|
|-
|* [[Spinhenge@home]] simulating spin dynamics in nanoscale molecular magnets
|* [[SZTAKI Desktop Grid]] MTA SZTAKI in Budapest, running mathematics, physics, and digital humanities applications
|-
|* [[SPT]] Symmetric Prime Tuples
|* [[Taiwan Desktop Grid]] bridging Taiwanese volunteer computers to European e-Science service grid infrastructure
|-
|* [[TANPAKU]] used a Brownian dynamics method to study protein folding
|* [[Proteins@home|T.Brada Experimental Grid]] the PADLS Total subproject aimed to find new pseudo-associative DLS
|-
|* [[The Lattice Project]] Condor and PBS clusters, chiefly supporting phylogenetic analysis with the GARLI software
|* [[theSkyNet POGS]] measure the resolved stellar mass, star formation rate and dust content of nearby galaxies
|-
|* [[MLC@Home]] understanding and interpreting complex machine learning models
|* [[Universe@Home]] stellar evolution modelling
|-
| * [[Virtual Prairie]] simulations of clonal plant growth to inform the ecological design of sustainable prairie ecosystems
| * [[WEP-M+2 Project]] mersenne-related prime search
|-
|
|* [[uFluids@Home]] support research into satellite propellant management and lab-on-a-chip devices
|}
<div class="bs-group-footer">''See the [[BOINC projects|master BOINC projects table]] for definitive active/inactive status on all documented projects.''</div>
</div>
</div>


== How to participate in BOINC projects ==

<div class="bs-steps">
<div class="bs-step bs-step-purple">
<div class="bs-step-title">1. Download BOINC</div>
<div class="bs-step-body">Get the free [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php BOINC client]. Available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android.</div>
</div>
<div class="bs-step bs-step-teal">
<div class="bs-step-title">2. Choose a project</div>
<div class="bs-step-body">Browse the [[BOINC projects|complete BOINC projects list]] on this wiki. Filter by research field, platform support, or GPU availability.</div>
</div>
<div class="bs-step bs-step-blue">
<div class="bs-step-title">3. Attach & contribute</div>
<div class="bs-step-body">Attach via the BOINC client, and your idle computer begins processing work units automatically.</div>
</div>
</div>


== About this wiki ==

This ''BOINC projects'' MediaWiki is researched, written, and maintained by [https://boincsynergy.ca/ BOINC Synergy] — a volunteer initiative dedicated to documenting the global BOINC ecosystem. The [[BOINC projects|projects table]] is considered the flagship resource: a single, structured, continuously-updated registry of every known BOINC project, past and present.

Corrections, additions, and edits are welcome. If you know of a BOINC project not yet listed, please use the talk page or contact [https://boincsynergy.ca/ BOINC Synergy] directly.

<div class="bs-footer-bar">
<small>'''''BOINC projects''''' MediaWiki is developed by [https://boincsynergy.ca/ BOINC Synergy]  ·  Content reflects the state of the BOINC ecosystem as of {{CURRENTYEAR}}  ·  [[BOINC projects|Full projects table →]]</small>
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Al Piskun:

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<div class="bs-stat-number">335</div>
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<div class="bs-stat-number">93</div>
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<div class="bs-definition">
<span class="bs-definition-label">What is a BOINC project?</span>
'''A BOINC project''' is a website and associated server set up by an individual or group to distribute applications to [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/ BOINC] volunteer computing devices. Those devices deliberately attach to receive, process, and return results for further scientific research — at no cost to the researcher, and no cost to the volunteer beyond electricity.

''BOINC'' stands for '''Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing''', developed at the University of California, Berkeley. Any researcher can create a BOINC project; any person can donate their idle CPU or GPU time to one.
</div>


<div class="bs-cta">
<div class="bs-cta-title">📋 The BOINC Projects Master Table</div>
<div class="bs-cta-body">The [[BOINC projects|List of all BOINC projects]] table is the heart of this wiki — a structured, sortable reference covering project name, research field, institution, supported platforms, active status, GPU support, and more. It is the primary reason this resource exists and the most complete registry of BOINC projects available anywhere.</div>
<big>'''[[BOINC projects|View the complete list of BOINC projects →]]'''</big>
</div>


<div class="bs-cta">
<div class="bs-cta-title">📺 BOINC Project Screensaver Archive</div>
<div class="bs-cta-body">Before modern power management made them obsolete, every BOINC project shipped a real-time animated screensaver showing the computation in progress, including protein chains folding, star fields sweeping and climate models spinning. All 71 known screensaver recordings, spanning projects from SETI@home to Pirates@Home, are now preserved in one place.</div>
<big>'''[[BOINC project screensavers|View the BOINC Screensaver Archive →]]'''</big>
</div>


== Local BOINC project wiki pages ==

Each project below has its own dedicated article on this wiki. Projects are grouped by research domain and activity status.

=== ✦ Active BOINC projects ===

<div class="bs-group bs-group-teal mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🔭 Astrophysics, Cosmology & Space</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[Einstein@Home]] gravitational wave and pulsar detection
| * [[MilkyWay@home]] mapping the Milky Way's structure
|-
| * [[LHC@home]] CERN particle physics simulations
| * [[Gaia@home]] ESA Gaia mission data reduction
|-
| colspan="2" | * [[SPACIOUS@home]] space situational awareness
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-purple mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🧬 Biology, Medicine & Biochemistry</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[GPUGRID]] GPU-accelerated biomolecular simulations
| * [[TN-Grid]] neurological research
|-
| * [[Rosetta@home]] protein structure prediction
|* [[SiDock@home]] drug candidate screening
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-blue mw-collapsible"><div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🔢 Mathematics, Number Theory & Cryptography</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|* [[Gerasim@home]] multi-project. number field sieve factorisation
|
|-
| * [[PrimeGrid]] prime number searches across many sub-projects
| * [[NFS@Home]] number field sieve factorisation
|-
| * [[SRBase]] Sierpinski-Riesel base search
| * [[NumberFields@Home]] algebraic number field tables
|-
| * [[YAFU]] yet another factorisation utility
| * [[LODA]] integer sequence program synthesis
|-
| * [[Moo! Wrapper]] distributed.net RC5-72 wrapper
| * [[ODLK]] orthogonal diagonal Latin squares
|-
| * [[ODLK1]] ODLK variant 1
| * [[ODLK2025]] ODLK 2025 campaign
|-
| * [[Rakesearch]] Latin square searches
|
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-green mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🌍 Climate, Environment & Earth Sciences</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[Climateprediction.net|climate''prediction''.net]] global climate ensemble modelling
| * [[Asteroids@home]] asteroid orbit determination
|-
| * [[Radioactive@home]] background radiation monitoring
|
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-amber mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🤖 Artificial Intelligence, Computing & Infrastructure</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[BOINC Alpha Test]] test new versions of the BOINC client software on a wide range of hardware and operating systems
| * [[BOINC Central]] BOINC infrastructure project
|-
| * [[IThena.Computational]] computational measurement network
| * [[IThena.Measurements]] network performance metrics
|-
|* [[Yoyo@home]] scientific and mathematical subprojects
|* [[WUProp@Home]] work unit propagation statistics
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-coral mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🧪 Physics, Chemistry & Materials Science</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[USPEX@HOME]] crystal structure prediction
| * [[World Community Grid]] multi-domain humanitarian research
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-gray mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🕹️ Community, Recreation & Miscellaneous</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[Minecraft@Home]] Minecraft world-seed research
| * [[PRIVATE GFN SERVER]] private Generalized Fermat Number server
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-pink mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🧫 Test & Development Projects</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
<div class="bs-group-note">These projects serve as active testing and development platforms for BOINC software and infrastructure rather than primary research goals.</div>
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| colspan="2" | * [[Cpdnboinc dev]] cpdn development and testing server
|}
</div>
</div>

=== ✦ Paused BOINC projects ===

<div class="bs-group bs-group-amber mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">⏯ Paused projects (expand)</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
<div class="bs-group-note">These projects are temporarily suspended but have not formally closed. Work may resume in future.</div>
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[DENIS@home]] cardiac electrophysiology research, currently paused
|
|}
<div class="bs-group-footer">''See the [[BOINC projects|master BOINC projects table]] for the most current status of all projects.''</div>
</div>
</div>

=== ✦ Retired & inactive BOINC projects ===

<div class="bs-group bs-group-gray mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">⏸ Retired projects (expand)</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
<div class="bs-group-note">These projects have suspended operations or are no longer accepting new work units. Their pages are preserved here for historical reference and research continuity.</div>
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[ABC@home]] searched for abc-triples related to the abc conjecture in number theory
| * [[Albert@Home]] developement site for Einstein@Home
|-
|* [[Amicable Numbers]] amicable pair enumeration
|* [[AQUA@home]] model the performance of superconducting adiabatic quantum computers
|-
| * [[Axiom Distributed AI]] distributed AI model training
| * [[BlackHoles@Home]] black hole binary merger waveforms
|-
|* [[Big and Ugly Rendering Project]] distributed video rendering
|* [[BOINC@TACC]] routes computing jobs from TACC supercomputers to volunteer devices
|-
|* [[CAS@home]] hosted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, best known for running the TreeThreader protein structure
|
|-
|* [[Chess960@home]] an effort to build the beginnings of an opening theory for the variant
|* [[Chess@Home]] build a labeled dataset intended for training a machine-learned classifier of winning position
|-
|* [[CAS@home|Cels@Home]] hosted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, best known for running the TreeThreader protein structure
|* [[Collatz Conjecture]] testing the 3x+1 conjecture
|-
| * [[Cosmology@Home]] astronomical research
| * [[Distributed Hardware Evolution Project]] synthesize self-checking digital hardware circuits
|-
| * [[Data freezer]] long-term data archival research
| * [[DepSpid]] build a database of dependency relationships between web servers and domain
|-
|* [[Docking@Home]] CHARMM-based protein-ligand docking simulations to search for new pharmaceutical drugs
|
|-
|* [[eOn]] simulate long timescale evolution of atomic scale systems in chemistry and materials science
|* [[Enigma@Home]] break unsolved German Kriegsmarine Enigma M4 radio messages from the Second World War
|-
|* [[GoofyxGrid@Home NCI]] non-covalent interaction analysis
|* [[HashClash]] search for MD5 and SHA-1 hash collisions, culminating in the 2008 rogue certificate authority attack
|-
|* [[GoofyxGrid@Home NCI|Ibercivis]] simulations in nuclear fusion, protein docking, materials science, and number theory
|* [[Kryptos@Home]] attempt to decrypt K4, the unsolved fourth passage of the Kryptos sculpture at CIA headquarters
|-
|* [[Leiden Classical]] submit personal classical mechanics and molecular dynamics simulations
|* [[NanoHive@Home]] used the NanoHive-1 nanospace simulator to search for failure modes in tooltips
|-
| * [[nanoHUB@Home]] nanotechnology simulation
| * [[Parlea]] RNA 3D structure motif analysis
|-
|* [[POEM@HOME]] all-atom free-energy simulations to predict protein structure and folding
|
|-
|* [[Malariacontrol.net]] simulate the transmission dynamics and health effects of malaria
|* [[MindModeling@Home]] computational cognitive modeling to study human performance and learning
|-
| * [[Predictor@home]] protein folding and the first BOINC project
| * [[Pirates@Home]] help to develop Einstein@Home screensaver and test BOINC software
|-
| * [[proteins@home]] tackled the inverse protein folding problem
| * [[QMC@Home]] develop and apply Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods for use in quantum chemistry
|-
|* [[QuChemPedIA@home]] run density functional theory (DFT) quantum chemistry calculations
|* [[Rectilinear Crossing Number Project]] determine the rectilinear crossing number of the complete graph K18
|-
| * [[RALPH@home]] developement site for Rosetta@home
| * [[Ramanujan Machine]] conjectured mathematical identities
|-
| * [[RNA World (beta)]] RNA folding and molecular evolution
| * [[SETI@home]] search for extraterrestrial intelligence
|-
|* [[SAT@home]] solve hard instances of the Boolean satisfiability problem
|* [[SciLINC]] indexed digitized botanical literature
|-
|* [[SIMAP]] pre-calculated protein sequence similarities for a database used by bioinformaticians
|
|-
|* [[Spinhenge@home]] simulating spin dynamics in nanoscale molecular magnets
|* [[SZTAKI Desktop Grid]] MTA SZTAKI in Budapest, running mathematics, physics, and digital humanities applications
|-
|* [[SPT]] Symmetric Prime Tuples
|* [[Taiwan Desktop Grid]] bridging Taiwanese volunteer computers to European e-Science service grid infrastructure
|-
|* [[TANPAKU]] used a Brownian dynamics method to study protein folding
|* [[Proteins@home|T.Brada Experimental Grid]] the PADLS Total subproject aimed to find new pseudo-associative DLS
|-
|* [[The Lattice Project]] Condor and PBS clusters, chiefly supporting phylogenetic analysis with the GARLI software
|* [[theSkyNet POGS]] measure the resolved stellar mass, star formation rate and dust content of nearby galaxies
|-
|* [[MLC@Home]] understanding and interpreting complex machine learning models
|* [[Universe@Home]] stellar evolution modelling
|-
| * [[Virtual Prairie]] simulations of clonal plant growth to inform the ecological design of sustainable prairie ecosystems
| * [[WEP-M+2 Project]] mersenne-related prime search
|-
|
|* [[uFluids@Home]] support research into satellite propellant management and lab-on-a-chip devices
|}
<div class="bs-group-footer">''See the [[BOINC projects|master BOINC projects table]] for definitive active/inactive status on all documented projects.''</div>
</div>
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== How to participate in BOINC projects ==

<div class="bs-steps">
<div class="bs-step bs-step-purple">
<div class="bs-step-title">1. Download BOINC</div>
<div class="bs-step-body">Get the free [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php BOINC client]. Available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android.</div>
</div>
<div class="bs-step bs-step-teal">
<div class="bs-step-title">2. Choose a project</div>
<div class="bs-step-body">Browse the [[BOINC projects|complete BOINC projects list]] on this wiki. Filter by research field, platform support, or GPU availability.</div>
</div>
<div class="bs-step bs-step-blue">
<div class="bs-step-title">3. Attach & contribute</div>
<div class="bs-step-body">Attach via the BOINC client, and your idle computer begins processing work units automatically.</div>
</div>
</div>


== About this wiki ==

This ''BOINC projects'' MediaWiki is researched, written, and maintained by [https://boincsynergy.ca/ BOINC Synergy] — a volunteer initiative dedicated to documenting the global BOINC ecosystem. The [[BOINC projects|projects table]] is considered the flagship resource: a single, structured, continuously-updated registry of every known BOINC project, past and present.

Corrections, additions, and edits are welcome. If you know of a BOINC project not yet listed, please use the talk page or contact [https://boincsynergy.ca/ BOINC Synergy] directly.

<div class="bs-footer-bar">
<small>'''''BOINC projects''''' MediaWiki is developed by [https://boincsynergy.ca/ BOINC Synergy]  ·  Content reflects the state of the BOINC ecosystem as of {{CURRENTYEAR}}  ·  [[BOINC projects|Full projects table →]]</small>
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'''A BOINC project''' is a website and associated server set up by an individual or group to distribute applications to [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/ BOINC] volunteer computing devices. Those devices deliberately attach to receive, process, and return results for further scientific research — at no cost to the researcher, and no cost to the volunteer beyond electricity.

''BOINC'' stands for '''Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing''', developed at the University of California, Berkeley. Any researcher can create a BOINC project; any person can donate their idle CPU or GPU time to one.
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<big>'''[[BOINC projects|View the complete list of BOINC projects →]]'''</big>
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<div class="bs-cta-title">📺 BOINC Project Screensaver Archive</div>
<div class="bs-cta-body">Before modern power management made them obsolete, every BOINC project shipped a real-time animated screensaver showing the computation in progress, including protein chains folding, star fields sweeping and climate models spinning. All 71 known screensaver recordings, spanning projects from SETI@home to Pirates@Home, are now preserved in one place.</div>
<big>'''[[BOINC project screensavers|View the BOINC Screensaver Archive →]]'''</big>
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== Local BOINC project wiki pages ==

Each project below has its own dedicated article on this wiki. Projects are grouped by research domain and activity status.

=== ✦ Active BOINC projects ===

<div class="bs-group bs-group-teal mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🔭 Astrophysics, Cosmology & Space</div>
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{| class="bs-project-table"
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| * [[Einstein@Home]] gravitational wave and pulsar detection
| * [[MilkyWay@home]] mapping the Milky Way's structure
|-
| * [[LHC@home]] CERN particle physics simulations
| * [[Gaia@home]] ESA Gaia mission data reduction
|-
| colspan="2" | * [[SPACIOUS@home]] space situational awareness
|}
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<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🧬 Biology, Medicine & Biochemistry</div>
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{| class="bs-project-table"
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| * [[GPUGRID]] GPU-accelerated biomolecular simulations
| * [[TN-Grid]] neurological research
|-
| * [[Rosetta@home]] protein structure prediction
|* [[SiDock@home]] drug candidate screening
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-blue mw-collapsible"><div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🔢 Mathematics, Number Theory & Cryptography</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|* [[Gerasim@home]] multi-project. number field sieve factorisation
|
|-
| * [[PrimeGrid]] prime number searches across many sub-projects
| * [[NFS@Home]] number field sieve factorisation
|-
| * [[SRBase]] Sierpinski-Riesel base search
| * [[NumberFields@Home]] algebraic number field tables
|-
| * [[YAFU]] yet another factorisation utility
| * [[LODA]] integer sequence program synthesis
|-
| * [[Moo! Wrapper]] distributed.net RC5-72 wrapper
| * [[ODLK]] orthogonal diagonal Latin squares
|-
| * [[ODLK1]] ODLK variant 1
| * [[ODLK2025]] ODLK 2025 campaign
|-
| * [[Rakesearch]] Latin square searches
|
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-green mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🌍 Climate, Environment & Earth Sciences</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[Climateprediction.net|climate''prediction''.net]] global climate ensemble modelling
| * [[Asteroids@home]] asteroid orbit determination
|-
| * [[Radioactive@home]] background radiation monitoring
|
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-amber mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🤖 Artificial Intelligence, Computing & Infrastructure</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[BOINC Alpha Test]] test new versions of the BOINC client software on a wide range of hardware and operating systems
| * [[BOINC Central]] BOINC infrastructure project
|-
| * [[IThena.Computational]] computational measurement network
| * [[IThena.Measurements]] network performance metrics
|-
|* [[Yoyo@home]] scientific and mathematical subprojects
|* [[WUProp@Home]] work unit propagation statistics
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-coral mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🧪 Physics, Chemistry & Materials Science</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[USPEX@HOME]] crystal structure prediction
| * [[World Community Grid]] multi-domain humanitarian research
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-gray mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🕹️ Community, Recreation & Miscellaneous</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[Minecraft@Home]] Minecraft world-seed research
| * [[PRIVATE GFN SERVER]] private Generalized Fermat Number server
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-pink mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🧫 Test & Development Projects</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
<div class="bs-group-note">These projects serve as active testing and development platforms for BOINC software and infrastructure rather than primary research goals.</div>
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| colspan="2" | * [[Cpdnboinc dev]] cpdn development and testing server
|}
</div>
</div>

=== ✦ Paused BOINC projects ===

<div class="bs-group bs-group-amber mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">⏯ Paused projects (expand)</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
<div class="bs-group-note">These projects are temporarily suspended but have not formally closed. Work may resume in future.</div>
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[DENIS@home]] cardiac electrophysiology research, currently paused
|
|}
<div class="bs-group-footer">''See the [[BOINC projects|master BOINC projects table]] for the most current status of all projects.''</div>
</div>
</div>

=== ✦ Retired & inactive BOINC projects ===

<div class="bs-group bs-group-gray mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">⏸ Retired projects (expand)</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
<div class="bs-group-note">These projects have suspended operations or are no longer accepting new work units. Their pages are preserved here for historical reference and research continuity.</div>
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[ABC@home]] searched for abc-triples related to the abc conjecture in number theory
| * [[Albert@Home]] developement site for Einstein@Home
|-
|* [[Amicable Numbers]] amicable pair enumeration
|* [[AQUA@home]] model the performance of superconducting adiabatic quantum computers
|-
| * [[Axiom Distributed AI]] distributed AI model training
| * [[BlackHoles@Home]] black hole binary merger waveforms
|-
|* [[Big and Ugly Rendering Project]] distributed video rendering
|* [[BOINC@TACC]] routes computing jobs from TACC supercomputers to volunteer devices
|-
|* [[CAS@home]] hosted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, best known for running the TreeThreader protein structure
|
|-
|* [[Chess960@home]] an effort to build the beginnings of an opening theory for the variant
|* [[Chess@Home]] build a labeled dataset intended for training a machine-learned classifier of winning position
|-
|* [[CAS@home|Cels@Home]] hosted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, best known for running the TreeThreader protein structure
|* [[Collatz Conjecture]] testing the 3x+1 conjecture
|-
| * [[Cosmology@Home]] astronomical research
| * [[Distributed Hardware Evolution Project]] synthesize self-checking digital hardware circuits
|-
| * [[Data freezer]] long-term data archival research
| * [[DepSpid]] build a database of dependency relationships between web servers and domain
|-
|* [[Docking@Home]] CHARMM-based protein-ligand docking simulations to search for new pharmaceutical drugs
|
|-
|* [[eOn]] simulate long timescale evolution of atomic scale systems in chemistry and materials science
|* [[Enigma@Home]] break unsolved German Kriegsmarine Enigma M4 radio messages from the Second World War
|-
|* [[GoofyxGrid@Home NCI]] non-covalent interaction analysis
|* [[HashClash]] search for MD5 and SHA-1 hash collisions, culminating in the 2008 rogue certificate authority attack
|-
|* [[GoofyxGrid@Home NCI|Ibercivis]] simulations in nuclear fusion, protein docking, materials science, and number theory
|* [[Kryptos@Home]] attempt to decrypt K4, the unsolved fourth passage of the Kryptos sculpture at CIA headquarters
|-
|* [[Leiden Classical]] submit personal classical mechanics and molecular dynamics simulations
|* [[nanoHive@Home]] used the NanoHive-1 nanospace simulator to search for failure modes in tooltips
|-
| * [[nanoHUB@Home]] nanotechnology simulation
| * [[Parlea]] RNA 3D structure motif analysis
|-
|* [[POEM@HOME]] all-atom free-energy simulations to predict protein structure and folding
|
|-
|* [[Malariacontrol.net]] simulate the transmission dynamics and health effects of malaria
|* [[MindModeling@Home]] computational cognitive modeling to study human performance and learning
|-
| * [[Predictor@home]] protein folding and the first BOINC project
| * [[Pirates@Home]] help to develop Einstein@Home screensaver and test BOINC software
|-
| * [[proteins@home]] tackled the inverse protein folding problem
| * [[QMC@Home]] develop and apply Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods for use in quantum chemistry
|-
|* [[QuChemPedIA@home]] run density functional theory (DFT) quantum chemistry calculations
|* [[Rectilinear Crossing Number Project]] determine the rectilinear crossing number of the complete graph K18
|-
| * [[RALPH@home]] developement site for Rosetta@home
| * [[Ramanujan Machine]] conjectured mathematical identities
|-
| * [[RNA World (beta)]] RNA folding and molecular evolution
| * [[SETI@home]] search for extraterrestrial intelligence
|-
|* [[SAT@home]] solve hard instances of the Boolean satisfiability problem
|* [[SciLINC]] indexed digitized botanical literature
|-
|* [[SIMAP]] pre-calculated protein sequence similarities for a database used by bioinformaticians
|
|-
|* [[Spinhenge@home]] simulating spin dynamics in nanoscale molecular magnets
|* [[SZTAKI Desktop Grid]] MTA SZTAKI in Budapest, running mathematics, physics, and digital humanities applications
|-
|* [[SPT]] Symmetric Prime Tuples
|* [[Taiwan Desktop Grid]] bridging Taiwanese volunteer computers to European e-Science service grid infrastructure
|-
|* [[TANPAKU]] used a Brownian dynamics method to study protein folding
|* [[Proteins@home|T.Brada Experimental Grid]] the PADLS Total subproject aimed to find new pseudo-associative DLS
|-
|* [[The Lattice Project]] Condor and PBS clusters, chiefly supporting phylogenetic analysis with the GARLI software
|* [[theSkyNet POGS]] measure the resolved stellar mass, star formation rate and dust content of nearby galaxies
|-
|* [[MLC@Home]] understanding and interpreting complex machine learning models
|* [[Universe@Home]] stellar evolution modelling
|-
| * [[Virtual Prairie]] simulations of clonal plant growth to inform the ecological design of sustainable prairie ecosystems
| * [[WEP-M+2 Project]] mersenne-related prime search
|-
|
|* [[uFluids@Home]] support research into satellite propellant management and lab-on-a-chip devices
|}
<div class="bs-group-footer">''See the [[BOINC projects|master BOINC projects table]] for definitive active/inactive status on all documented projects.''</div>
</div>
</div>


== How to participate in BOINC projects ==

<div class="bs-steps">
<div class="bs-step bs-step-purple">
<div class="bs-step-title">1. Download BOINC</div>
<div class="bs-step-body">Get the free [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php BOINC client]. Available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android.</div>
</div>
<div class="bs-step bs-step-teal">
<div class="bs-step-title">2. Choose a project</div>
<div class="bs-step-body">Browse the [[BOINC projects|complete BOINC projects list]] on this wiki. Filter by research field, platform support, or GPU availability.</div>
</div>
<div class="bs-step bs-step-blue">
<div class="bs-step-title">3. Attach & contribute</div>
<div class="bs-step-body">Attach via the BOINC client, and your idle computer begins processing work units automatically.</div>
</div>
</div>


== About this wiki ==

This ''BOINC projects'' MediaWiki is researched, written, and maintained by [https://boincsynergy.ca/ BOINC Synergy] — a volunteer initiative dedicated to documenting the global BOINC ecosystem. The [[BOINC projects|projects table]] is considered the flagship resource: a single, structured, continuously-updated registry of every known BOINC project, past and present.

Corrections, additions, and edits are welcome. If you know of a BOINC project not yet listed, please use the talk page or contact [https://boincsynergy.ca/ BOINC Synergy] directly.

<div class="bs-footer-bar">
<small>'''''BOINC projects''''' MediaWiki is developed by [https://boincsynergy.ca/ BOINC Synergy]  ·  Content reflects the state of the BOINC ecosystem as of {{CURRENTYEAR}}  ·  [[BOINC projects|Full projects table →]]</small>
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Al Piskun: add NanoHive@Home and SciLINC

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<div class="bs-stat-number">{{CURRENTYEAR}}</div>
<div class="bs-stat-label">Continuously updated</div>
</div>
</div>


<div class="bs-definition">
<span class="bs-definition-label">What is a BOINC project?</span>
'''A BOINC project''' is a website and associated server set up by an individual or group to distribute applications to [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/ BOINC] volunteer computing devices. Those devices deliberately attach to receive, process, and return results for further scientific research — at no cost to the researcher, and no cost to the volunteer beyond electricity.

''BOINC'' stands for '''Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing''', developed at the University of California, Berkeley. Any researcher can create a BOINC project; any person can donate their idle CPU or GPU time to one.
</div>


<div class="bs-cta">
<div class="bs-cta-title">📋 The BOINC Projects Master Table</div>
<div class="bs-cta-body">The [[BOINC projects|List of all BOINC projects]] table is the heart of this wiki — a structured, sortable reference covering project name, research field, institution, supported platforms, active status, GPU support, and more. It is the primary reason this resource exists and the most complete registry of BOINC projects available anywhere.</div>
<big>'''[[BOINC projects|View the complete list of BOINC projects →]]'''</big>
</div>


<div class="bs-cta">
<div class="bs-cta-title">📺 BOINC Project Screensaver Archive</div>
<div class="bs-cta-body">Before modern power management made them obsolete, every BOINC project shipped a real-time animated screensaver showing the computation in progress, including protein chains folding, star fields sweeping and climate models spinning. All 71 known screensaver recordings, spanning projects from SETI@home to Pirates@Home, are now preserved in one place.</div>
<big>'''[[BOINC project screensavers|View the BOINC Screensaver Archive →]]'''</big>
</div>


== Local BOINC project wiki pages ==

Each project below has its own dedicated article on this wiki. Projects are grouped by research domain and activity status.

=== ✦ Active BOINC projects ===

<div class="bs-group bs-group-teal mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🔭 Astrophysics, Cosmology & Space</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[Einstein@Home]] gravitational wave and pulsar detection
| * [[MilkyWay@home]] mapping the Milky Way's structure
|-
| * [[LHC@home]] CERN particle physics simulations
| * [[Gaia@home]] ESA Gaia mission data reduction
|-
| colspan="2" | * [[SPACIOUS@home]] space situational awareness
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-purple mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🧬 Biology, Medicine & Biochemistry</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[GPUGRID]] GPU-accelerated biomolecular simulations
| * [[TN-Grid]] neurological research
|-
| * [[Rosetta@home]] protein structure prediction
|* [[SiDock@home]] drug candidate screening
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-blue mw-collapsible"><div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🔢 Mathematics, Number Theory & Cryptography</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|* [[Gerasim@home]] multi-project. number field sieve factorisation
|
|-
| * [[PrimeGrid]] prime number searches across many sub-projects
| * [[NFS@Home]] number field sieve factorisation
|-
| * [[SRBase]] Sierpinski-Riesel base search
| * [[NumberFields@Home]] algebraic number field tables
|-
| * [[YAFU]] yet another factorisation utility
| * [[LODA]] integer sequence program synthesis
|-
| * [[Moo! Wrapper]] distributed.net RC5-72 wrapper
| * [[ODLK]] orthogonal diagonal Latin squares
|-
| * [[ODLK1]] ODLK variant 1
| * [[ODLK2025]] ODLK 2025 campaign
|-
| * [[Rakesearch]] Latin square searches
|
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-green mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🌍 Climate, Environment & Earth Sciences</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[Climateprediction.net|climate''prediction''.net]] global climate ensemble modelling
| * [[Asteroids@home]] asteroid orbit determination
|-
| * [[Radioactive@home]] background radiation monitoring
|
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-amber mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🤖 Artificial Intelligence, Computing & Infrastructure</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[BOINC Alpha Test]] test new versions of the BOINC client software on a wide range of hardware and operating systems
| * [[BOINC Central]] BOINC infrastructure project
|-
| * [[IThena.Computational]] computational measurement network
| * [[IThena.Measurements]] network performance metrics
|-
|* [[Yoyo@home]] scientific and mathematical subprojects
|* [[WUProp@Home]] work unit propagation statistics
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-coral mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🧪 Physics, Chemistry & Materials Science</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[USPEX@HOME]] crystal structure prediction
| * [[World Community Grid]] multi-domain humanitarian research
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-gray mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🕹️ Community, Recreation & Miscellaneous</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[Minecraft@Home]] Minecraft world-seed research
| * [[PRIVATE GFN SERVER]] private Generalized Fermat Number server
|}
</div>
</div>

<div class="bs-group bs-group-pink mw-collapsible">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">🧫 Test & Development Projects</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
<div class="bs-group-note">These projects serve as active testing and development platforms for BOINC software and infrastructure rather than primary research goals.</div>
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| colspan="2" | * [[Cpdnboinc dev]] cpdn development and testing server
|}
</div>
</div>

=== ✦ Paused BOINC projects ===

<div class="bs-group bs-group-amber mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">⏯ Paused projects (expand)</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
<div class="bs-group-note">These projects are temporarily suspended but have not formally closed. Work may resume in future.</div>
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[DENIS@home]] cardiac electrophysiology research, currently paused
|
|}
<div class="bs-group-footer">''See the [[BOINC projects|master BOINC projects table]] for the most current status of all projects.''</div>
</div>
</div>

=== ✦ Retired & inactive BOINC projects ===

<div class="bs-group bs-group-gray mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
<div class="bs-group-toggle mw-collapsible-toggle">⏸ Retired projects (expand)</div>
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
<div class="bs-group-note">These projects have suspended operations or are no longer accepting new work units. Their pages are preserved here for historical reference and research continuity.</div>
{| class="bs-project-table"
|-
| * [[ABC@home]] searched for abc-triples related to the abc conjecture in number theory
| * [[Albert@Home]] developement site for Einstein@Home
|-
|* [[Amicable Numbers]] amicable pair enumeration
|* [[AQUA@home]] model the performance of superconducting adiabatic quantum computers
|-
| * [[Axiom Distributed AI]] distributed AI model training
| * [[BlackHoles@Home]] black hole binary merger waveforms
|-
|* [[Big and Ugly Rendering Project]] distributed video rendering
|* [[BOINC@TACC]] routes computing jobs from TACC supercomputers to volunteer devices
|-
|* [[CAS@home]] hosted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, best known for running the TreeThreader protein structure
|
|-
|* [[Chess960@home]] an effort to build the beginnings of an opening theory for the variant
|* [[Chess@Home]] build a labeled dataset intended for training a machine-learned classifier of winning position
|-
|* [[CAS@home|Cels@Home]] hosted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, best known for running the TreeThreader protein structure
|* [[Collatz Conjecture]] testing the 3x+1 conjecture
|-
| * [[Cosmology@Home]] astronomical research
| * [[Distributed Hardware Evolution Project]] synthesize self-checking digital hardware circuits
|-
| * [[Data freezer]] long-term data archival research
| * [[DepSpid]] build a database of dependency relationships between web servers and domain
|-
|* [[Docking@Home]] CHARMM-based protein-ligand docking simulations to search for new pharmaceutical drugs
|
|-
|* [[eOn]] simulate long timescale evolution of atomic scale systems in chemistry and materials science
|* [[Enigma@Home]] break unsolved German Kriegsmarine Enigma M4 radio messages from the Second World War
|-
|* [[GoofyxGrid@Home NCI]] non-covalent interaction analysis
|* [[HashClash]] search for MD5 and SHA-1 hash collisions, culminating in the 2008 rogue certificate authority attack
|-
|* [[GoofyxGrid@Home NCI|Ibercivis]] simulations in nuclear fusion, protein docking, materials science, and number theory
|* [[Kryptos@Home]] attempt to decrypt K4, the unsolved fourth passage of the Kryptos sculpture at CIA headquarters
|-
|* [[Leiden Classical]] submit personal classical mechanics and molecular dynamics simulations
|* [[nanoHive@Home]] used the NanoHive-1 nanospace simulator to search for failure modes in tooltips
|-
| * [[nanoHUB@Home]] nanotechnology simulation
| * [[Parlea]] RNA 3D structure motif analysis
|-
|* [[POEM@HOME]] all-atom free-energy simulations to predict protein structure and folding
|
|-
|* [[Malariacontrol.net]] simulate the transmission dynamics and health effects of malaria
|* [[MindModeling@Home]] computational cognitive modeling to study human performance and learning
|-
| * [[Predictor@home]] protein folding and the first BOINC project
| * [[Pirates@Home]] help to develop Einstein@Home screensaver and test BOINC software
|-
| * [[proteins@home]] tackled the inverse protein folding problem
| * [[QMC@Home]] develop and apply Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods for use in quantum chemistry
|-
|* [[QuChemPedIA@home]] run density functional theory (DFT) quantum chemistry calculations
|* [[Rectilinear Crossing Number Project]] determine the rectilinear crossing number of the complete graph K18
|-
| * [[RALPH@home]] developement site for Rosetta@home
| * [[Ramanujan Machine]] conjectured mathematical identities
|-
| * [[RNA World (beta)]] RNA folding and molecular evolution
| * [[SETI@home]] search for extraterrestrial intelligence
|-
|* [[SAT@home]] solve hard instances of the Boolean satisfiability problem
|* [[SciLINC]] indexed digitized botanical literature
|-
|* [[SIMAP]] pre-calculated protein sequence similarities for a database used by bioinformaticians
|
|-
|* [[Spinhenge@home]] simulating spin dynamics in nanoscale molecular magnets
|* [[SZTAKI Desktop Grid]] MTA SZTAKI in Budapest, running mathematics, physics, and digital humanities applications
|-
|* [[SPT]] Symmetric Prime Tuples
|* [[Taiwan Desktop Grid]] bridging Taiwanese volunteer computers to European e-Science service grid infrastructure
|-
|* [[TANPAKU]] used a Brownian dynamics method to study protein folding
|* [[Proteins@home|T.Brada Experimental Grid]] the PADLS Total subproject aimed to find new pseudo-associative DLS
|-
|* [[The Lattice Project]] Condor and PBS clusters, chiefly supporting phylogenetic analysis with the GARLI software
|* [[theSkyNet POGS]] measure the resolved stellar mass, star formation rate and dust content of nearby galaxies
|-
|* [[MLC@Home]] understanding and interpreting complex machine learning models
|* [[Universe@Home]] stellar evolution modelling
|-
| * [[Virtual Prairie]] simulations of clonal plant growth to inform the ecological design of sustainable prairie ecosystems
| * [[WEP-M+2 Project]] mersenne-related prime search
|-
|
|* [[uFluids@Home]] support research into satellite propellant management and lab-on-a-chip devices
|}
<div class="bs-group-footer">''See the [[BOINC projects|master BOINC projects table]] for definitive active/inactive status on all documented projects.''</div>
</div>
</div>


== How to participate in BOINC projects ==

<div class="bs-steps">
<div class="bs-step bs-step-purple">
<div class="bs-step-title">1. Download BOINC</div>
<div class="bs-step-body">Get the free [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php BOINC client]. Available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android.</div>
</div>
<div class="bs-step bs-step-teal">
<div class="bs-step-title">2. Choose a project</div>
<div class="bs-step-body">Browse the [[BOINC projects|complete BOINC projects list]] on this wiki. Filter by research field, platform support, or GPU availability.</div>
</div>
<div class="bs-step bs-step-blue">
<div class="bs-step-title">3. Attach & contribute</div>
<div class="bs-step-body">Attach via the BOINC client, and your idle computer begins processing work units automatically.</div>
</div>
</div>


== About this wiki ==

This ''BOINC projects'' MediaWiki is researched, written, and maintained by [https://boincsynergy.ca/ BOINC Synergy] — a volunteer initiative dedicated to documenting the global BOINC ecosystem. The [[BOINC projects|projects table]] is considered the flagship resource: a single, structured, continuously-updated registry of every known BOINC project, past and present.

Corrections, additions, and edits are welcome. If you know of a BOINC project not yet listed, please use the talk page or contact [https://boincsynergy.ca/ BOINC Synergy] directly.

<div class="bs-footer-bar">
<small>'''''BOINC projects''''' MediaWiki is developed by [https://boincsynergy.ca/ BOINC Synergy]  ·  Content reflects the state of the BOINC ecosystem as of {{CURRENTYEAR}}  ·  [[BOINC projects|Full projects table →]]</small>
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[[File:Boinc-projects-seo.png|right|frameless|200x200px]]This is a comprehensive and continually updating List of All [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php BOINC projects]

'''''Q - What is a BOINC project?'''''

'''''A - BOINC project definition:''''' A [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/ BOINC] project is a website and server set up by an individual or group to distribute applications (software which is a set of instructions for executing tasks in a computing device) to BOINC volunteer computing devices that are deliberately attached to receive, process and return the results of the application for further research.
====Active BOINC Projects====

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 80%;"
|-
!Project Name
!Publications
!Launched
!Operating System
!GPU App
!Requires
!Screen saver
!Sponsor
!Category
!BOINC Radio
!Research Focus

|-
| [http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/ Asteroids@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Asteroids@home 10]
| 2012-06-18
| [https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS, Free BSD, Android]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU NVIDIA
| {{No}}
|
| Astronomical Institute, Charles University, Prague
| Astronomy
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/asteroids-home/id1492837872?i=1000467560195 Listen]
| Derive shapes and spin for a significant part of the asteroid population. [[Asteroids@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/central/ BOINC Central]
|
| 2023-02-04
|
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, BUDA
|
| University of California, Berkeley
| Multiple applications
|
| Gives scientists access to the power of volunteer computing without having to operate a BOINC project. [[BOINC Central|See more...]]

|-
| [https://www.cpdn.org/cpdnboinc/ climate''prediction''.net]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Climateprediction.net 152]
| 2003-12-09
| [https://www.cpdn.org/cpdnboinc/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| [https://youtu.be/Mae7JfL1giE view]
| Oxford University
| Climate study
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/climate-prediction-dot-net/id1492837872?i=1000465982378 Listen]
| Analyse ways to improve climate prediction models. [[Climateprediction.net|See more...]]

|-
| [https://dev.cpdn.org/ cpdnboinc dev]
|
|
| [https://dev.cpdn.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Oxford University
| Software testing
|
| Test project for [[Climateprediction.net|climate''prediction''.net]]. [[Cpdnboinc dev|See more...]]

|-
| [https://denis.usj.es/denisathome/ DENIS@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#DENIS@home 6]
| 2015-03-16
| [https://480denis.usj.es/denisathome/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Universidad San Jorge, Zaragoza, Spain
| Medical physiology
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boinc-radio-project-brief-denis-home/id1492837872?i=1000576898376 Listen]
| Cardiac electrophysiological simulations, studying the electrical activity of the heart. [[DENIS@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://einsteinathome.org/ Einstein@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Einstein@Home 42]
| 2005-02-19
| [https://einsteinathome.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS, Android]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
| [https://youtu.be/kGWsTnmk1lw view]
| University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Max Planck Institute
| Astrophysics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/einstein-home/id1492837872?i=1000470993092 Listen]
| Search for pulsars using radio signals and gravitational wave data. [[Einstein@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [http://gaiaathome.eu/gaiaathome/ Gaia@home]
|
| 2019-08-21
| [http://150.254.66.104/gaiaathome/apps.php Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Astronomical Observatory Institute, Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
| Astronomy
|
| Provide additional computing power to scientists studying the Gaia spacecraft data releases. [[Gaia@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://gerasim.boinc.ru/ Gerasim@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Publications_by_BOINC_projects#Gerasim.40home 9]
| 2007-02-10
| [https://gerasim.boinc.ru/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
| [https://youtu.be/cw7yBZ_KGGA view]
| Southwest State University (Russia)
| Multiple applications
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gerasim/id1492837872?i=1000515709940 Listen]
| Research in discrete mathematics and logic control systems. [[Gerasim@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090210175851/http://www.ps3grid.net/ PS3GRID] became [https://gpugrid.net/gpugrid/ GPUGRID]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#GPUGrid.net 53]
| 2007-12-05
| [https://www.gpugrid.net/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: cyan; color: black;" | GPU only NVIDIA
| {{No}}
|
| Barcelona Biomedical Research Park
| Molecular biology
|
| Perform full-atom molecular simulations of proteins on Nvidia GPUs for biomedical research. [[GPUGRID|See more...]]

|-
| [https://comp.ithena.net/usr/ iThena.Computational]
|
| [https://comp.ithena.net/usr/forum_thread.php?id=4 2021-10-31]
| [https://comp.ithena.net/usr/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Cyber-Complex Foundation
| Computer science
| See below
| A computational platform for analysis based on data extracted from iThena.Measurements project applications. [[IThena.Computational|See more...]]

|-
| [https://root.ithena.net/usr/ iThena.Measurements]
|
| [https://root.ithena.net/usr/forum_thread.php?id=5#17 2019-09-25]
| [https://einsteinathome.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Cyber-Complex Foundation
| Computer science
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boinc-radio-project-brief-ithena/id1492837872?i=1000580505988 Listen]
| Generate a dynamic topological model of the Internet, based on measurements from distributed devices. [[IThena.Measurements|See more...]]

|-
| [https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/ LHC@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#LHC@home 71]
| 2004-01-09
| [https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS, Free BSD, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, BUDA
| [https://youtu.be/0qbLDbsNO3w view]
| CERN
| Physics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lhc-home/id1492837872?i=1000477722614 Listen]
| Helping physicists compare theory with experiment, in the search for new fundamental particles and answers to questions about the Universe. [[LHC@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/ LHCathome-dev]
|
| 2014-08-01
| [https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS, Free BSD, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, BUDA
|
| CERN
| Software testing
|
| A BOINC server for LHC@home development.

|-
| [https://boinc.loda-lang.org/loda/ LODA]
|
| 2022-05-13
| [https://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, git
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boinc-radio-project-brief-loda-18-6-2022/id1492837872?i=1000570153809 Listen]
| Finds new formulas and more efficient algorithms for a wide range of non-trivial integer sequences. [[LODA|See more...]]

|-
| [https://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/ MilkyWay@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Milkyway@home 35]
| 2007-07-07
| [https://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
| Astronomy
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/milkyway-home/id1492837872?i=1000468872520 Listen]
| Create a highly accurate three-dimensional model of the Milky Way galaxy using data collected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. [[MilkyWay@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://minecraftathome.com/minecrafthome/ Minecraft@Home]
|
| 2020-06-24
| [https://comp.ithena.net/usr/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Games
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/minecraft-home/id1492837872?i=1000491697377 Listen]
| Studies questions related to Minecraft, such as the properties of worlds that can be generated from different random seeds. [[Minecraft@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://moowrap.net/ Moo! Wrapper]
|
| 2011-02-05
| [https://moowrap.net/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Cryptography
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZmTZJBh_D0 Watch]
| Combines BOINC with distributed.net to try to break the RC5 cipher. [[Moo! Wrapper|See more...]]

|-
| [https://escatter11.fullerton.edu/nfs/ NFS@Home]
|
| 2009-09-05
| [https://escatter11.fullerton.edu/nfs/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS, Free BSD]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| California State University, Fullerton
| Integer factorization
|
| Performs parts of the number field sieve in the factorization of large integers. [[NFS@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://numberfields.asu.edu/NumberFields/ NumberFields@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#NumberFields@Home 3]
| 2011-08-12
| [https://numberfields.asu.edu/NumberFields/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Arizona State University's School of Mathematics
| Number theory
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/project-brief-numberfields-home-15-05-2021/id1492837872?i=1000570068591 Listen]
| Search for number fields with special properties to assist with the formulation of mathematical conjectures. [[NumberFields@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.progger.info/odlk/ ODLK]
|
| 2017-04-06
| [https://boinc.progger.info/odlk/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS, Free BSD]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| Compile a database of canonical forms of 10th order diagonal Latin squares (DLS) with orthogonal diagonal Latin squares (ODLS). [[ODLK|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.multi-pool.info/latinsquares/ ODLK1]
|
| 2017-10-22
| [https://boinc.multi-pool.info/latinsquares/apps.php Windows, Linux, Free BSD]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| Generates a database of canonical forms (CF) of diagonal Latin squares (DLS) of order 10 having orthogonal diagonal Latin squares (ODLS). [[ODLK1|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.mak.termit.me/odlk2025/ ODLK2025]
|
| 2024-12-18
| [https://boinc.mak.termit.me/odlk2025/apps.php Windows]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| Find canonical forms of diagonal Latin squares of order 10 with orthogonal diagonal Latin squares, extending the search beyond the ranges covered by ODLK and ODLK1. [[ODLK2025|See more...]]

|-
| [https://www.primegrid.com/ PrimeGrid]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#PrimeGrid 3]
| 2005-06-12
| [https://www.primegrid.com/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
| [https://youtu.be/rhZxqi9x7rI view]
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| Search for world record sized prime numbers, search for particular types of primes such as 321 primes, Cullen-Woodall primes, Proth prime, prime Sierpinski numbers, and Sophie Germain primes. Subprojects also include Seventeen or Bust, and the Riesel problem. [[PrimeGrid|See more...]]

|-
| [https://dev.primegrid.com/ PrimeGrid dev]
|
| 2007-06-06
| [https://dev.primegrid.com/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Software testing
|
| Test project for PrimeGrid.

|-
| [http://boincvm.proxyma.ru:30080/test4vm/ PRIVATE GFN SERVER]
|
| 2016-04-20
| [http://boincvm.proxyma.ru:30080/test4vm/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| This is a PRIVATE SERVER to coordinate distribution of mathematical work on GFN. The server is open for everybody, but some BOINC experience is recommended. [[PRIVATE GFN SERVER|See more...]]

|-
| [http://radioactiveathome.org/boinc/ Radioactive@home]
|
| 2011-10-21
| [http://radioactiveathome.org/boinc/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, Sensor
|
| Independent
| Physics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radioactive-home/id1492837872?i=1000463072395 Listen]
| Real-time radiation monitoring, detected by gamma sensors connected to volunteer computers. [[Radioactive@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://rake.boincfast.ru/rakesearch/ RakeSearch]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Rakesearch 4]
| 2017-08-11
| [https://rake.boincfast.ru/rakesearch/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rakesearch/id1492837872?i=1000496377228 Listen]
| Implement an application that picks up separate pairs of mutually orthogonal DLSs, which allows reconstructing the full graphs of their orthogonality. [[Rakesearch|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/ Rosetta@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Rosetta@home 234]
| 2005-10-06
| [https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, macOS, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| [https://youtu.be/6o5yBfG_vss view]
| University of Washington
| Molecular biology
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rosetta-home/id1492837872?i=1000472931628 Listen]
| Protein structure prediction for disease research. [[Rosetta@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://www.sidock.si/sidock SiDock@home]
|
| 2020-12-19
| [https://www.sidock.si/sidock/apps.php Windows, Linux+OpenWrt, ARM, macOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Russian Academy of Sciences
| Molecular biology
|
| Independent decentralized drug design by volunteer computing. [[SiDock@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://spaciousathome.eu/spaciousathome/ SPACIOUS@home]
|
| 2024-01-01
| [https://spaciousathome.eu/spaciousathome/apps.php Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| European Union
| Astrophysics
|
| Contribute to cutting-edge astronomy by sharing your idle computing time with professional astronomers. Space surveys such as the European Space Agency's Gaia telescope are generating large datasets of unprecedented high quality data. Astronomers need a huge amount of CPU power to model and analyse the data. [[SPACIOUS@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://srbase.my-firewall.org/sr5/ SRBase]
|
| 2013-01-02
| [https://srbase.my-firewall.org/sr5/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| Trying to solve Sierpinski / Riesel Bases up to 1030. [[SRBase|See more...]]

|-
| [https://gene.disi.unitn.it/test/ TN-Grid]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#TN-Grid 8]
| 2014-05-01
| [https://gene.disi.unitn.it/test/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, macOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Research Area of Trento of the National Research Council of Italy, University of Trento
| Genetics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tn-grid/id1492837872?i=1000482396321 Listen]
| ''Gene@home'' is a scientific project belonging to the infrastructure ''TrentoGrid''. It aims to expand networks of genes. [[TN-Grid|See more...]]

|-
| [https://uspex-at-home.ru/prediction/ USPEX@HOME]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#USPEX@HOME 2]
| 2017-04 (Restart 2022-10-23)
| [https://uspex-at-home.ru/prediction/apps.php Windows, Linux, macOS]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, Vbox
|
| [https://uspex-team.org/en uspex-team.org]
|
|
| Research in the field of computational materials design. [[USPEX@HOME|See more...]]

|-
| [https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ World Community Grid]
| [https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/news.s?filterCategory=1_0&filterTags=14&sortBy=&pageNum=1 77]
| 2004-11-16
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php Windows, Linux, ARM, macOS, Android]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
| [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLblxpyGay1Q4PwdIlLTxko7jm9Jedv1ei view]
| Krembil Research Institute
| Multiple applications
|
| Disease research, various worldwide humanitarian problems. Subprojects include(d) GO Fight Against Malaria, Drug Search for Leishmaniasis, Computing for Clean Water, Clean Energy Project, Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together, Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy, Help Fight Childhood Cancer, Help Conquer Cancer, Mapping Cancer Markers, Human Proteome Folding Project, FightAIDS@Home, Uncovering Genome Mysteries, Let's outsmart Ebola together, Help Stop TB, OpenZika, Smash Childhood Cancer, Open Pandemics - COVID-19. [[World Community Grid|See more...]]

|-
| [https://wuprop.boinc-af.org/ WUProp@Home]
|
| 2010-03-27
| [https://wuprop.boinc-af.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Statistics
|
| Collect various statistics about other BOINC projects. [[WUProp@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://yafu.myfirewall.org/yafu YAFU]
|
| 2011-09-01
| [https://yafu.myfirewall.org/yafu/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| [https://youtu.be/vEqImf6mtgE view]
| Independent
| Software testing, Mathematics
|
| Test BOINC server software, integer factorization. [[YAFU|See more...]]

|-
| [https://www.rechenkraft.net/yoyo/ yoyo@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Yoyo@home 9]
| 2007-07-19
| [https://www.rechenkraft.net/yoyo/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, macOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLblxpyGay1Q4C8qBmkKkI0MpKMTof5Dhf view]
| Independent
| Mathematics, physics, evolution
|
| Data structure analysis to help prove a conjecture, elliptic curve factorization, pion creation in a particle accelerator, evolution research, find the shortest optimal Golomb ruler of length 28. [[Yoyo@home|See more...]]
|}

==== Private BOINC Projects====

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 80%;"
|-
!Project Name
!Publications
!Launched
!Operating System
!GPU App
!Requires
!Screen saver
!Sponsor
!Category
!BOINC Radio
!Research Focus

|-
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/alpha/ BOINC Alpha Test]
|
| 2004-02-16
|
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/9rRWAgpfMzg view]
| University of California, Berkeley
| Software testing
|
| BOINC Alpha Test allows volunteers to test new versions of BOINC client software on a wide range of computers, thereby increasing the stability and reliability of the software versions released to the public. [[BOINC Alpha Test|See more...]]

|-
| [http://mq232-80.ararangua.ufsc.br/boincufscara/ AraBOINC]
|
| 2012
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/https://boinc.moisescardona.me/ Distributed Data and Media Processing]
|
| 2018
|
|
|
|
| Independent
| Data processing
|
| A private data processing project where tasks like data compression and audio encoding are performed. The idea is to do data tasks in the background and in a distributed fashion.

|-
| [https://bioinfo.lifl.fr/yass/iedera_dominance/index_additional.html iedera]
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Independent
| Botany
|
| A program to select and design ''subset seed'' and ''vectorized subset seed'' patterns.

|-
| [http://boinc.mmon.co/boincserver/ Common Compute]
|
| 2024-05
|
|
|
|
| Independent
|
|
| Software testing.

|-
| [https://templet.ssau.ru/ Templet Project]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Templet 1]
|
|
|
|
|
| Samara National Research University
| Education
|
| Teach parallel and distributed programming to undergraduate and graduate students of Samara National Research University.
|}

====Completed BOINC Projects ====

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 80%;"
|-
!Project Name
!Publications
!Launched / Completed
!Operating System
!GPU App
!Requires
!Screen saver
!Sponsor
!Category
!BOINC Radio
!Research Focus

|-
| [https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ SETI@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#SETI@home 12]
| 1999-05
| [https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS, Solaris, Other]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
|
| [https://youtu.be/IfeGNAZY92k view] and [https://youtu.be/5r-t8WQicqE view]
| University of California, Berkeley
| Astronomy
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tribute-to-seti-home-part-1/id1492837872?i=1000468003990 Part 1] of three and [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tribute-to-seti-home-part-2-the-history-of-seti-home/id1492837872?i=1000468428937 Part 2]
| In 1995, David Gedye proposed doing radio SETI using a virtual supercomputer composed of large numbers of Internet-connected computers, and he organized the SETI@home project to explore this. The search for extraterrestrial life by analyzing radio frequencies emanating from space. [[SETI@home|See more...]]

|-
| [http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/ SETI@home Beta]
|
| 2006-01-12
| [https://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS, Solaris, Other]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
|
| [https://youtu.be/buLKZnyzOdI view]
| University of California, Berkeley
| Software testing
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rosetta-home-covid19-and-tribute-to-seti-home-part-3/id1492837872?i=1000469085793 Part 3]
| Test project for SETI@home.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20040615010643/http://predictor.scripps.edu/ Predictor@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Predictor@Home 5]
| 2004-05-04
| WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS X (Not Intel)
|
|
|
| The Scripps Research Institute
|
|
| A world-community experiment and effort to use distributed world-wide-web volunteer resources to assemble a supercomputer able to ''predict protein structure from protein sequence''. Our work is aimed at testing and evaluating new algorithms and methods of protein structure prediction in the context of the Sixth Biannual [https://web.archive.org/web/20040610024610/http://predictioncenter.llnl.gov/casp6/Casp6.html CASP] (Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction) experiment. [[Predictor@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://alifeathome.dyndns.org/ ALife@Home]
|
| 2004-07-19
| WinXP-98
|
|
|
|
| Artificial intelligence
| [https://www.youtube.com/live/zstEf1dTm2I?feature=share Watch]
| An effort to conduct scientific experiments regarding neural networks and evolution on the computers of volunteers.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20040829080146/http://pirates.vassar.edu:80/ Pirates@HomeMission1] [https://web.archive.org/web/20060117061652/http://pirates.spy-hill.net/ Pirates@Home] [http://primates.spy-hill.net/ Primates@Home]
|
| 2004 / 2006 / 2008-04-01
| Windows, Linux, MacOS
|
|
| [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLblxpyGay1Q4849w-GB4X7g07FNXTeMBb view]
| Vassar College / Independent / Independent
| Software testing
| [https://www.youtube.com/live/qr-n6FziUeo?feature=share Watch]
| Pirates@Home Mission 1 helped to develop the Einstein@Home screensaver. Pirates@Home tested BOINC's forum software for possible use by ''[http://i2u2.spy-hill.net/ Interactions in Understanding the Universe]''. Primates@Home tested the reaction of [https://web.archive.org/web/20060117061652/http://pirates.spy-hill.net/ Pirates@Home] users to a disturbance in their accustomed environment. [[Pirates@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060215003906/http://autotranslator.net:80/ translator@home]
|
| 2005-03-23
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| translator@home was in the process of creating new software linked to BOINC but never developed.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20051027013808/http://public.shoft.net/ Shoft@Home]
|
| 2005
|  
|
|
|
| Independent
|
|
|

|-
| [http://boinctest.axpr.net/ Break the Forum!]
|
| 2005
|  
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
| Test BOINC forum software.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://fsmtdist.ist.tu-graz.ac.at/dist/ dIST]
|
| 2005
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| A Cape4 project.

|-
| [http://fsmtdist.ist.tu-graz.ac.at/cape4/index.php cape4]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Another Cape4 project.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://grid-devel3.rocksclusters.org/boinc_gamess/ BOINC GAMESS]
|
| 2005
|  
|
|
|
| Independent
|
|
| Project never overcame '''Warning''': mysql_pconnect(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060103125636/http://bifi.unizar.es/research/computing/bah/ BIFI@home]
|
| {{No}}
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Solve calculations that contribute to the research carried out at the Institute of Biocomputing and Physics of Complex Systems at the University of Zaragoza (BIFI).

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.azurite.co.uk/ IMP]
|
| 2005
|  
|
|
|
| The IMP Team
| Software testing
|
| Internet Movie Project. Test Project copyright © 2005 The IMP Team.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://lhcathome-alpha.cern.ch/ LHC@home Alpha]
|
| 2005
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
| Test Project for LHC@home.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071016235617/http://boinc.banaan.org:80/hashclash/ HashClash]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#HashClash 11]
| 2005-11-24
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
|
|
|
| searched for MD5 and SHA-1 hash collisions, culminating in the 2008 rogue certificate authority attack. [[HashClash|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060703095044/http://issofty17.is.noda.tus.ac.jp/index_E.php TANPAKU]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#TANPAKU 2]
| 2005-08-02
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
|
| Tokyo University of Science
|
|
| Used a Brownian dynamics method to study protein folding. [[TANPAKU|See more...]]

|-
| [http://slawoo.homelinux.org/ Nagrzewanie stali@HOME]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://lattice.umiacs.umd.edu/boinc_public_oldschool/ The Lattice Project-original]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#The 16]
| 2006
| WinXP-98
|
|
|
| University of Maryland, College Park
|
|
| Condor and PBS clusters through the Globus Toolkit, chiefly supporting phylogenetic analysis with the GARLI software. [[The Lattice Project|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060916002226/http://fah-boinc.stanford.edu/ Folding@home]
|
| 2006
| WinXP
|
|
|
| Stanford University
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060901142513/http://research.utep.edu/Default.aspx?alias=research.utep.edu/daplds Docking@Home-utep]
|
| {{No}}
|  
|
|
|
| University of Texas at El Paso
|
|
| The goals of the project are to explore the multi-scale nature of algorithmic adaptations in protein-ligand docking and to develop cyber infrastructures based on computational methods and models that efficiently accommodate these adaptations.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://ecc.crypto.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ ECDLP PROJECT]
|
| 2006
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070326165532/http://test.ntbz.com:80/ ntbz Test Project]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://debian.povaddict.com.ar/pov/ Renderfarm]
|
| 2006-08-10
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Another URL for the project: http://renderfarm.povaddict.com.ar/

|-
| [https://www.boincstats.com/stats/33/project/detail/ RenderFarm@Home]
|
| 2006-08-23
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://hashbreaker.com:8700/tmrldrtg/ Distributed Rainbow Table Generator]
|
| 2006
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
| The Minouche Research Laboratories
|
|
| The '''Distributed Rainbow Table Generator''' project of '''The Minouche Research Laboratories'''; a community project dedicated to large scale distributed calculation of huge Rainbow Tables.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://bebeer.dyndns.org:2222/bebeer/ Belgian Beer@Home]
|
| 2006-12-08
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070630030320/http://www.boinc.be/vbulletin BOINC.BE]
|
|
| An effort of people from the [https://web.archive.org/web/20070630030320/http://www.boinc.be/vbulletin BOINC.BE] team.

|-
| [http://www.enigmaathome.net/ Enigma@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Enigma@Home 2]
| 2007-08-24
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| An attempt to break 3 original Enigma messages that were intercepted in 1942. [[Enigma@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080511223553/http://impfarm.imp.org/boinc/ Internet Movie Project]
|
| 2007-07-15
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080724214454/http://impfarm.imp.org/boinc/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
| Setting up a renderfarm to power the [https://web.archive.org/web/20080511223553/http://www.imp.org/ Internet Movie Project]. Note that this project will never export credit stats.

|-
| [http://predictor.chem.lsa.umich.edu/pah/ Predictor@home Alpha]
|
| 2007 / 2009
|
|
|
|
| The Scripps Research Institute
|
|
| Test project for Predictor@home.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071001120117/http://zivis.bifi.unizar.es:80/ Zivis Superordenador Ciudadano]
|
| 2007
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070823192420/http://zivis.bifi.unizar.es/apps.php WinXP, Linux]
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://zebrabrute.ath.cx/zebrabrute/ Zebra RSA Brutforce]
|
| 2007
| WinXP-98
|
|
|
| Darkscout - a Computer Science student.
|
|
| The Project originates from an idea in a forum. An attempt to break the RSA-key for the checksum of RSA-Smart card by Brute-force search.

|-
| [http://web.archive.org/web/20090306065822/http://dist2.ist.tugraz.at/sudoku/ Sudoku project]
|
| 2007-08-27
|
|
|
|
| Graz, University of Technology
|
|
| Uses Internet-connected computers to search for the smallest possible start configuration of Sudoku.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071128150637/http://eternity2.net:80/ Eternity2.net]
|
| 2007
|  
|
|
|
| Dave Clark, Auckland
|
|
| A project to try to solve the Eternity II puzzle™.

|-
| [http://roc.cs.berkeley.edu/projects/boinc/index.html ROC]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
| University of California, Berkeley
|
|
|

|-
| [http://neuron.mine.nu/neuron/ Project Neuron]
|
| 2007-11-25
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
| Independent
|
|
| Provide a trial BOINC environment in which a set of dummy applications will run. The purpose of this being to record, observe and understand BOINC activity and data with a view to developing metrics that will establish or otherwise the quality/reliability/dependability of particular BOINC projects.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071020023328/http://www.gridfinity.com:80/gridfinity/ Gridfinity]
|
| 2007
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://www.scilinc.org/SciLINC/ SciLINC]
|
| 2007-03-22
2009
| WinXP-98
|
|
|
| Missouri Botanical Garden
|
|
| Indexed digitized botanical literature. [[SciLINC|See more...]]

|-
| [http://isaac.ssl.berkeley.edu/sleeper/ Sleeper]
|
| 2007-03
|
|
|
|
| University of California, Berkeley
|
|
| Test project for BOINC Alpha Test.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080901231107/http://www.init1.net:80/pPotTables/ pPot Tables]
|
| 2008
|  
|
|
|
| Independent
|
|
| Computing relative hand strength and 1-card lookahead positive potential for all possible flop, turn and hole card combinations for 2 to 10 players in Texas hold 'em.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20121205084825/http://www.malariacontrol.net/ malariacontrol.net]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Malariacontrol.net 26]
| 2006-03-01
2016-06-21
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/4GAYKw5SakQ view]
|
|
|
| A project with an application that makes use of network computing for stochastic modelling of the clinical epidemiology and natural history of Plasmodium falciparum malaria. [[Malariacontrol.net|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20061206015653/http://biology.polytechnique.fr/proteinsathome/ proteins@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Proteins@home 4]
| 2006-09-15
| WinXP
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/aM6kiaM228Y view]
|
|
|
| A large-scale Protein structure prediction project to contribute to a better understanding of many diseases and pathologies, and to progress in both Medicine and Technology. [[Proteins@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080517170329/http://www.depspid.net:80/ DepSpid]
|
| 2007
| WinXP-98
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Every DepSpid task is processed in two phases: a networking phase (Phase One) in which the DepSpid spider scans a set of web pages and stores results in a temporary database; and a computational phase (Phase Two) which uses the collected data to calculate dependencies between all pages. [[DepSpid|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://bob.myisland.as/tsp/ Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP)]
|
| 2007
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
|
|
|
|
| The Travelling salesman problem (TSP): for a given set of cities, visit each city once and only once and minimize the distance you travel.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060412015807/http://xw01.lri.fr:4320/ XtremLab]
|
| 2005
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Measuring the free resources available on personal computers involved in large-scale distributed computing.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060903103622/http://bbc.cpdn.org/ BBC Climate Change Experiment]
|
|
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
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|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090107014341/http://allprojectstats.com/collatz/ 3x+1@home]
|
| 2008-02-18
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| A non-profit project trying to find high 3x+1 conjecture stopping times. The 3x+1 conjecture is also known as the Collatz conjecture.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://edges-local-devbnc-srv.ceta-ciemat.es/appexample/ Uppercase Application]
|
| 2008
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [http://193.144.240.190/nnsimu/ NNSIMU Project]
|
|
|  
|
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|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090204215407/http://boinc.unex.es/extremadurathome/ Extremadura@Home]
|
|
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|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090528015437/http://boinc.isa.ru:80/russiadg/ Russian Desktop Grid]
|
| 2009
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110801221116/http://falua.cesfelipesegundo.com/VRS/ Virus Respiratorio Sincitial (VRS)]
| [https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0895717710005595 1]
| 2010
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| VRS (from the Spanish Virus Respiratorio Sincitial) is a BOINC-based project which main aim is to simulate the behaviour of the human Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV).

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20081004231715/http://cels-at-home-dev.dyndns.org:80/test2/ <nowiki>Cels@Home [Second] Test Project</nowiki>]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Research in cell adhesion.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090925001717/http://boinc.vanderbilt.edu:80/test_setup Test Setup Project]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
| Vanderbilt
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://grid.ncssm.edu/ncssm_grid/ NCSSM Grid Computing Project]
|
| 2007-04-04
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20051226054712/http://www.cellcomputing.net/simple/ Cell Computing]
|
|
|  
|
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|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://arcoboinc.unex.es/rnd/ RND@home]
|
| 2007
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Radio Network Design (RND) is a telecommunication problem which consists in covering a geographic area with radio signal using the fewer number of transmitters that cover the maximum area.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://edges-local-testbnc-srv.ceta-ciemat.es/localtest EDGeS Local Test]
|
| 2007
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://sat.math.umu.se/sat/ Satisfaction@Home]
|
| 2007
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070505234056/http://www.nanohive-1.org:80/atHome/ NanoHive@Home]
| [http://openurl.ingenta.com/content/xref?genre=article&issn=1546-1955&volume=8&issue=7&spage=1139 1]
|
| WinXP
|
|
|
| Nanorex, Inc.
|
|
| Used the NanoHive-1 nanospace simulator to search for failure modes in diamondoid mechanosynthesis tooltips. [[NanoHive@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080711074723/http://boinc.iaik.tugraz.at:80/sha1_coll_search SHA 1 Collision Search Graz]
|
| 2007-08-08
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
| Graz University of Technology
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in cryptanalysis.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://dist2.ist.tugraz.at/sudoku/ Project Sudoku]
|
| 2007-08-27
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080307034907/http://dist2.ist.tugraz.at/sudoku/apps.php WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS]
|
|
|
| Graz University of Technology
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to search for the smallest possible start configuration of Sudoku.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071005080915/http://www.apsathome.org:80/ APS@Home]
|
| 2007-08-30
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
| University of Manchester
|
|
| The effects that atmospheric dispersion has on the measurements used in climate prediction.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080806072857/http://dawn.ynet.sk:80/test1/ Reversi]
|
| 2008-05-16
|  
|
|
|
| Independent
|
|
| Determine who wins in Reversi game - first player, second player or if the game is tied.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://www.ramseyathome.com/ramsey/ Ramsey@Home]
|
| 2008-06-14
|  
|
|
|
| Nick Peterson
|
|
| A volunteer computing project designed to find new lower bounds for various Ramsey numbers using a host of different techniques.

|-
| [http://canis.csc.ncsu.edu:8005/anansi/ Anansi]
|
| 2008
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://eaps-at-home-alpha.gotdns.org/eaps/ EAPS@HOME]
|
| 2008
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in Artificial Intelligence.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080703141019/http://boinc.vanderbilt.edu/CSB/ CSB@Home] / [https://web.archive.org/web/20080703141019/http://boinc.vanderbilt.edu/CSB/ BCL@Home]
|
| 2008-06-05 / 2008
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in '''Computational Structural Biochemistry'''.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080908061532/http://genlife.is-a-geek.org:80/genlife/ Genetic Life]
|
| 2008-06-18
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| A not-for-profit research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research into Genetic Algorithms.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090506112112/http://africangridlab.net/ African Grid Lab ALPHA]
|
| 2008-10-05
|
|
|
|
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|
|
| An incubation laboratory environment for African based BOINC projects.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090322190553/http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu/brats/ BRaTS@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#BRaTS@Home 2]
| 2007-06-05
| WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS
|
|
|
|
|
|
| BRaTS@Home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do various calculations in Gravitational Ray Tracing. ''BRaTS'' stands for ''BRaTS Ray Trace Simulator''.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090425124851/http://www.intelligencerealm.com/aisystem/system.php Artificial Intelligence System]
|
| 2007-09-05
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| The neural network simulator is an application that simulates neurons. Each downloaded work unit generates 500,000 biophysical neurons.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090927062104/http://dynaping.com/ DynaPing]
|
| 2009
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Ensure highest availability of your web services. DynaPing uses computers around the world to monitor your web service availability and alerts you of any downtime.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20091130024643/http://nqueens.ing.udec.cl/ NQueens@Home]
|
| 2007-08-10
| Windows
|
|
|
| University of Concepción
|
|
| This project uses Internet-connected computers to solve the N Queens problem.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20141009194330/http://registro.ibercivis.es/ Ibercivis]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Ibercivis 18]
| 2007-11
2020-08-01
|  
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/RRPMDKPGt3A view]
|
|
|
| Research in physics, material science and biomedicines and is based at several institutes and universities; Zaragoza, CETA-CIEMAT, CSIC, Coimbra. [[Ibercivis|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20201213215515/https://boinc.ibercivis.es/ibercivis/ Ibercivis BOINC]
|
| 2020-10
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| The Biophym Group of the CSIC Institute for the Structure of Matter has proposed to carry out simulations of the interaction of drugs used against Ebola, HIV infection, influenza or hepatitis B with the genome replication machinery of the SARS-Co-V virus.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://evil.podzone.org/decs/ DECS]
|
| 2007-10-05
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| The Generic Distributed Exact Cover Solver (DECS) project uses Internet-connected computers to solve exact cover problems. Exact cover is a general type of problem which can be used to solve problems including n-queens, Latin Square puzzles, Sudoku, polyomino tiling, set packing and set partitioning.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://boincsrv01.cern.ch/atlfast/ LHC Atlas Test]
|
| 2007-08-14
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Test project for LHC@home.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070209051807/http://boinc.berkeley.edu/cplan/ Cunning Plan]
|
| 2007
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Was being used to test account creation.

|-
| [http://pcschmiede.pc.funpic.de/teah/html/user/ Test Project Christian Beer]
|
| 2007
|  
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110207203930/http://mapthegap.com/ MAPtheGAP]
|
| {{No}}
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Eliminating racial disparities in health.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://dnahome.cs.rpi.edu/dna/ DNA@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#DNA@Home 2]
| 2010-04-14
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| The new versions allow for different motif types which are different models for how a binding site could look. One is palindromic, where the nucleotides in the beginning of the model have their complement at the end of the model. The other model type is reverse complement, which doesn't assume the model to be palindromic, but looks for either the forward or reverse version of the model.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://edges-local-devbnc-srv.ceta-ciemat.es/3gbp 3g Bridge Project]
|
| 2009
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071220210249/http://boincsrv01.cern.ch:80/lhcathome/ LHC@Home Experimental]
|
| 2007
|  
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
| For internal testing only; any workunits issued are for testing and do not yet have any scientific value. Please remain attached to the official LHC@Home server!

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://cbl-link02.cs.technion.ac.il/cplan/ Superlink@EGEE queue]
|
| {{No}}
|  
|
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|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20100324075245/http://boinc.cs.uct.ac.za:80/malaria/ UCT:malariacontrol.net]
|
| 2008-03-31
|  
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
| A test project in collaboration with MalariaControl.net in Switzerland that aims to test the correct operation of our server for future BOINC-based projects.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://dist.ist.tugraz.at/cape5/ Rectilinear Crossing Number]
|
| 2006-06-30
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/d03IUeQrDLQ view]
|
|
|
| Use sophisticated mathematical methods to determine the rectilinear crossing number for small values of n. [[Rectilinear Crossing Number Project|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20091124095534/http://boinc.vtu.lt:80/vtuathome VTU@home], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090412025420/http://boinc.vgtu.lt/vtuathome/ VGTU@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#VGTU@home 2]
| 2006-04-13
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
|
| Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
|
|
| The aim of this project is to provide a powerful distributed computing platform for scientists of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU) as well as other Lithuanian academic institutions.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090309055929/http://aqua.dwavesys.com/ AQUA@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#AQUA@home 4]
|2008-12-08
2011-08-01
|  
|
| {{Yes}}, Vbox
| [https://youtu.be/VyQgGkj_Rss view]
| dwavesys
|Quantum Computing
|
|Model the performance of superconducting adiabatic quantum computers. [[AQUA@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060702175205/http://www.ufluids.net/ μFluids@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Publications_by_BOINC_projects#.C2.B5Fluids.40Home 3]
| 2005-09-19
| WinXP-98
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Study fluid behavior in microgravity to design satellite propellant management devices. [[UFluids@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110817075110/http://boinc.run.montefiore.ulg.ac.be:80/evo/ Evo@home]
|
| 2010-11-22
|  
|
|
|
| University of Liège
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in Machine Learning. This project uses Evolutionary Algorithms to optimize the parameters of different kind of machine learning algorithms.

|-
| [http://gmdhgrid.com/mgua/index.php GMDHGrid]
|
| 2010
|
|
|
|
| Kiev Polytechnic Institute
|
|
| Data mining, knowledge discovery, prediction, complex systems modeling, optimization and pattern recognition.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20101025171952/http://project.czechnationalteam.cz/cplan/ Czech National Team project]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
| Czech National Team
| Software testing
|
| A test project for our new BOINC server helping us to find and fix some bugs and create a new project which is being prepared.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.math.ucalgary.ca/sheti/ SHETI]
|
| 2009-01-08
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Sheti is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to solve the [http://www.certicom.com/index.php/the-certicom-ecc-challenge 131-bit Certicom ECC Challenge].

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090331215945/http://mothershipathome.org/ Mothership@Home]
|
| 2008
|  
|
|
|
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|
|
| Mothership@Home is dedicated in loving memory of my mother Patricia Horner (1942-1987), my husband Joshua Resnick (1965-1999) and all others who have passed away prematurely due to medical conditions.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://dart.cs.georgefox.edu/mcpi/ Monte Carlo Pi]
|
| 2008
|
|
|
|
| George Fox University
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [http://cancergrid.lpds.sztaki.hu/cancergrid/ CancerGrid]
|
| 2008
|
|
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|

|-
| [http://stuff.povaddict.com.ar:8080/boinctest/ Silly Pi Calculation]
|
| 2008
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|
|
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| Nicolas
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|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130823010101/http://www.fpgaathome.org/ FPGA@Home]
|
| {{No}}
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| This is an open collaboration for porting Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) based volunteer computing projects on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs).

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130528155906/http://boinc.hpc.utp.edu.my:80/utpdg/ UTP Desktop Grid]
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|
|  
|
|
|
| Universiti Teknologi Petronas
|
|
| UTP Desktop Grid (UTPDG) is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in various areas of parallel computational problems.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130302052041/http://boinc.ucd.ie/fmah/ FightMalaria@Home]
|
| 2012-07-20
|  
|
|
|
| Dr Anthony Chubb
|
|
| Perform docking simulations on malaria proteins.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://107.21.228.163/VBOINC V-BOINC]
|
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|  
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| The VBOINC project is the first attempt to use virtual machines with BOINC.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130501160927/http://oproject.info/ OProject@Home]
| [https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.1593 1]
| 2012-08-13
|  
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| Algorithm analysis. OProject@Home based at Olin Library (Rollins College).

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/https://climateathome.info/climateathome/ Climate@Home]
|
|
|  
|
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|
| George Mason University, NASA
|
|
| Research for spatiotemporal computing and climate predictions.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130701032038/http://bigdata.ihep.ac.cn/bigdata/stats.php BigData@home]
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| [https://web.archive.org/http://bigdata.ihep.ac.cn/bigdata/ Windows, Linux]
|
|
|
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|
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| Crawl Internet New Media Information.

|-
| [https://quakecatcher.net/sensor/ Quake-Catcher Network]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Quake-Catcher 13]
| 2007-12-05 / 2023-06-01
|
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| [https://youtu.be/SCv_W751m64 view]
| Stanford University, then University of Southern California
|
|
| Research, education, and outreach in seismology.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://qcn.emsc-csem.org/sensor/ Quake-Catcher Network EMSC / CSEM]
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|  
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| [https://youtu.be/SCv_W751m64 view]
|
|
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| Research, education, and outreach in seismology.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110723205439/http://mersenneathome.net/ Mersenne@home]
|
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|  
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|-
| [http://b25.interix.jp/b25/ B25@Home]
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|  
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|-
| [http://boinc.ryanteck.org.uk/boincPi/ boincPi]
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|  
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|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://surveill.dei.uc.pt/surveill/ Surveill@home]
|
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|  
|
|
|
| University of Coimbra
|
|
| Conduct end-to-end fine-grained monitoring of web sites.

|-
| [https://www.chess960athome.org/alpha/ Chess960athome]
|
| 2006-03-20
|  
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|
| used Stockfish to evaluate tens of millions of chess positions, building a labeled dataset intended for training a machine-learned classifier of winning positions. [[Chess960@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110801052639/http://www.freehal.net/freehal_at_home FreeHAL]
|
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|  
|
|
|
| Tobias Schulz / Powered by SETI.Germany and Planet 3DNow!
|
|
| FreeHAL@home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to parse and convert big open source semantic nets for use in FreeHAL.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20100430012556/http://goldbach.pl/ Goldbach's Conjecture Project]
|
| 2009-07-23
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20100505082120/http://goldbach.pl/apps.php Windows, Linux]
|
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| Effectively proving Goldbach's weak conjecture.

|-
| [http://starmageddon.dyndns.org/ninjagrid/ NinjaGrid]
|
| 2009
|
|
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|
| Mathematics
|
| 3x+1.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://physicsathome.tk/physics/ physics@home]
|
| 2013-02-16
|  
|
|
|
| Vasyl Kuzmenko
|
|
| Research in Solid-state physics, Materials science, Optics and Chemistry.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://vcsc.cs.uh.edu/second-computing/ UH Second Computing]
|
|
|  
|
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|
| University of Houston College of Technology
|
|
| We are in the process to simulate macromolecular interactions in a living cell.

|-
| [http://babel.boinc.povaddict.com.ar/ Babel]
|
|
|
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|
|
| Testing translations of BOINC server and forum.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://eon.raunvis.hi.is/EON2v1/ EON2v1@clusters]
|
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|  
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| [https://web.archive.org/http://sctr.i3a.uclm.es/prob/ Prob]
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| [http://140.110.240.195/bioinfo/ Bioinfo@Home]
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| [https://web.archive.org/https://boinc.freerainbowtables.com/distrrtgen/ DistrRTgen]
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| By distributing the generation of rainbow chains, we can generate HUGE rainbow tables that are able to crack longer passwords than ever seen before.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20100526004243/http://boinc.picevolvr.com:80/ Picevolvr]
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| 2010
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| [http://cullen-online.com/ Michael Cullen]
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| Uses Internet-connected computers to generate artwork completely automatically.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://cah.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/ QuantumFIRE alpha]
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| 2010
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| University of Cambridge
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| Quantum foundations and Solid-state physics research.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinctest.codeq.pl/boinctest/ Replace With Project Name]
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| http://boinctest.codeq.pl/boinctest/

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| [http://web.archive.org/web/20131229164437/http://plagiarism.boincpolska.org/plagiarism/ Plagiarism@Home]
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| 2013
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| Krzysztof Piszczek
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| Search given text for potential plagiarism in Internet resources.

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| [http://boinc.comcute.com/SIM/ Comcute emBOINC]
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| 2012
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| [http://boinc.comcute.com/cc_boinc/ Comcute Boinc]
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| [https://web.archive.org/http://chess.qugate.org/ Chess@Home]
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| 2014-01-05
2014-03-01
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| Michal Stanislaw Wojcik
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| play large numbers of Chess960 (Fischer Random Chess) games, in an effort to build the beginnings of an opening theory for the variant. [[Chess@Home|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://perft.computers-chess.com/ computers-chess]
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| 2013
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [http://151.97.53.109/synchronised/ Synchronised]
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| 2013 / 2014
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| University of Catania
| Molecular Modelling
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| Pharmaceutical chemistry research.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090402124145/http://cleanenergy.harvard.edu/ The Clean Energy Project]
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| Harvard University
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| Merged into World Community Grid.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20150522195526/http://www.universeathometest.info/universe/ Universe@Home test project]
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| University of Warsaw
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| Test project for Universe@Home.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://eon.ices.utexas.edu/eon2/ eOn2]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#EOn 6]
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| Simulate long timescale evolution of atomic scale systems in chemistry and materials science. [[EOn|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://mmgboinc.unimi.it/ SimOne@home]
| [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000926141300763X 1]
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| The project focuses on the osmoprotection phenomenon. In nature there are small molecules that are able to protect proteins from thermal stress. Answering this question could have a major impact in agriculture, e.g. developing plants that require less water intake.

|-
| [http://docking.cis.udel.edu/ Docking@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Docking@home 20]
| 2006-09-11 / 2014-05-23
| WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS X/Intel
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| [https://youtu.be/gC_2zu2efY4 view]
| University of Delaware
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| CHARMM-based protein-ligand docking simulations to search for new pharmaceutical drugs. [[Docking@Home|See more...]]

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| [http://boinc01.cern.ch/test4theory/ LHC Test4Theory]
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| 2011
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20150731163559/http://lhcathome2.cern.ch/vLHCathome/ vLHCathome]
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| 2011
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| This is a project that utilizes the CERN-developed CernVM virtual machine and the BOINC virtualization layer to harness volunteer cloud computing power for full-fledged LHC event physics simulation on volunteer computers.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120102114135/http://ui.hpc.iit.bme.hu/wc/ Web Computing]
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| 2011
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130511025233/http://falua.cesfelipesegundo.com/Ideologias/ Ideologias@Home]
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| Study how people in a certain region evolve ideologically over time with respect to an idea.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120302132650/http://alfa-bridge.ibercivis.es/puente/ alfa_puente]
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| 2012
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20121207151627/http://boinc.biruni.upm.my/putra/ DG@Putra]
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| 2012-02-23
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| Universiti Putra Malaysia
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| Putra Desktop Grid is UPM's implementation of a DesktopGrid network. The project is fully supported by the International Desktop Grid Federation (IDGF).

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://qcn.stanford.edu/continual/ QCN Continual Sensor Monitoring]
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| 2012-04-18
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| [https://youtu.be/SCv_W751m64 view]
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| Research, education, and outreach in seismology.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://qcn.twgrid.org/sensor/ QCN Taiwan]
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| 2012-04-16
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| [https://youtu.be/SCv_W751m64 view]
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| Research, education, and outreach in seismology.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://www.ras.unam.mx/sensor/ QCN Red Atrapa Sismos]
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| [https://youtu.be/SCv_W751m64 view]
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| Research, education, and outreach in seismology.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://bvp6.hpc.iit.bme.hu/w2g/ Web2Grid Development]
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| 2012
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [http://bacalhau.lsd.ufcg.edu.br/table_transcriber/ TABLE TRANSCRIBER]
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| 2012
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| http://boinc.rm-hs.de/test/

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| [http://150.186.92.236/boinctest/ boinctest]
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| [https://web.archive.org/http://nanomodeling.molsim.ru/nanomodeling/ NanoModeling@home]
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| 2012-05-03
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| For designing nanostructures and nanorobots. Our goal is molecular modeling of targeted drug delivery systems, nanorobots and related nanostructures.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120120081734/http://boinc.berkeley.edu:80/vbox/ CERNVM/Vboxwrapper Test Project]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://mishra.lpds.sztaki.hu/atticproxy/ Attic Proxy Project]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [http://95.56.231.137/norlist/view_profile.php?userid=806 NORLIST@HOME]
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| 2014
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| Kazakhstan National Scientific Laboratory
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| Kazakh speech recognition.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.biruni.upm.my/pucbi/ PUCBi Desktop Grid]
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| 2015
|  
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| Perdana University Centre for Bioinformatics (PU-CBi)
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| Provide education and training to support the development and continuity of in-house programmes, in particular to advance the translational bioinformatics skills of the next generation doctors and clinician scientists.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20160315063057/http://finance.gridcoin.us/finance/show_user.php?userid=885357 Gridcoin Finance]
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| 2015
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| [https://wiki.bc-team.org/index.php?title=Gridcoin_Finance/en The project performs financial simulations, analysis of the block chain, consolidate humanitarian reports, calculate marketing strategies, perform stock option analysis, harvest business intelligence, and assimilate top level results for the crowdsourced web pages.]

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20160831173736/http://nanosurf.kr.ua/nanos/ nanosurf]
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| 2016-06-16
|  
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| Oleg Schevchenko
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| Researching surface physics. In particular, the development of optical devices. Theoretical modeling of surface quantum dots makes it possible to provide recommendations to a group of experimenters.

|-
| [https://www.boincstats.com/stats/167/project/detail/ BMG@Home]
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| 2016-02-25
|  
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| Chemistry
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20170514021753/http://parlea.ru:80/andersonattack AndersonAttack@home]
| [https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/eng-2018-0002/html 1]
| 2017
|  
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| {{Yes}}, Vbox
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| Matrosov Institute for System Dynamics and Control Theory
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| Implement Anderson's attack on A5/1 GSM stream cipher.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20171114233820/http://stop.inferia.ru:80/ Stop@home]
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| 2017-09-17
|  
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| 256Ghz
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| Today we can't imagine our life without internet and its services. Our team wants to use distributed computing to solve mathematical tasks and improve algorithms.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130605030952/http://boinc.riojascience.com/ Riojascience@home]
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| Knet Communications and the University of La Rioja
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| A platform for biomedical research.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20141117215322/http://igemathome.org/ iGem@home]
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| {{No}}
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20160629234412/http://www.bitcoinutopia.net/bitcoinutopia/ Bitcoin Utopia]
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| 2013-06-05
|  
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| Mine cryptocurrencies for incentive awards and science projects.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://59.78.96.61:8082/dhome/ Drug@Home]
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| School of Pharmacy, Ecust China University of Science & Technology
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| This study applied an efficient virtual screening strategy integrating molecular docking with MM-GBSA rescoring to identify diverse human dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (hDHODH) inhibitors.

|-
| [http://edges-ext-dg.ceta-ciemat.es/3gbp/ Edges Bridge Production]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140913231024/http://boinc.unsads.com/rsals/ RSA Lattice Siever(2.0)]
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| 2009-12-24 / 2012
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| Help other factoring projects such as mersenneforum or XYYXf achieve their academic goals. Merged into [[NFS@Home]].

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120329124047/http://home.edges-grid.eu/home/ EDGeS@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#EDGeS@Home 12]
| 2009-10-28
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| To support the execution of selected and validated scientific applications developed by the EGEE and EDGeS community.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20081008031648/http://cels-at-home-dev.dyndns.org:80/cels/ Cels@Home]
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|2008-06-23
2009-09-01
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| [https://youtu.be/mzp2QBwvb2U view]
|University of Texas in Austin
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| 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 is a critical event that makes the disease much harder to treat. [[Cels@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [http://77.48.48.82/jplan/ jplan]
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| [https://web.archive.org/http://lhcbathome.cern.ch/Beauty/ Beauty@LHC]
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| Based at CERN and is a project of the LHCb experiment.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209200706/http://boinc.biruni.upm.my/putra/ Putra Desktop Grid]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://vcsc.cs.uh.edu/virtual-prairie/ Virtual Prairie]
| [https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0304380010005557 1]
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| University of Houston
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| simulations of clonal plant growth to inform the ecological design of sustainable prairie ecosystems. [[Virtual Prairie|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.med.usherbrooke.ca/nrg/ Najmanovich Research Group]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Najmanovich 3]
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| Research in molecular recognition and computer-aided drug design.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://www.sustainablegrid.org/ Sustainable Grid]
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| 2012-01-11
|  
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| Enterprise Application Development Group at the University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Goerlitz
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| Bundles hardware resources of the university and provides this computational power to the scientists for their research purposes.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120312215655/http://mamarreis.lsd.ufcg.edu.br/ciencia-em-sua-casa/ Ciência Em Sua Casa]
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| Science in Your Home. Search for Wilson prime numbers and DNA sequencing.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120705003101/http://donateathome.org/ Donate@Home]
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| Allows participants to donate towards funding by using their GPU to mine for BitCoins.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://edges-local-devbnc-srv.ceta-ciemat.es/student01/ Student01]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://edges-local-devbnc-srv.ceta-ciemat.es/student02/ Student02]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [http://gf45.mp.tudelft.nl/psdm/ BIoS]
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| TU Delft
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| [https://web.archive.org/http://mishra.lpds.sztaki.hu/edgidemo/ EDGI Demo Project]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://voldemort.cs.cf.ac.uk/attic_proxy/ AtticFS Proxy Application Project on BOINC]
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| The AtticFS Proxy application acts as a translation layer between HTTP and the AtticFS. This allows BOINC Projects to utilise AtticFS easily.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130526001435/http://volunteer.cs.und.edu/subset_sum/ SubsetSum@Home]
| [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7255176/ 1]
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| Computer Science Department of the University of North Dakota
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| See how far we can extend the empirical evidence of the Subset Sum problem. Find better ways to apply volunteer computing to combinatorial problems.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20100313233251/http://www.nicoschlitter.de/DistributedDataMining distributedDataMining]
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| Research in the various fields of Data Analysis and Machine Learning.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20101201205418/http://dnetc.net/ DNETC@HOME]
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| A wrapper between BOINC and distributed.net.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://dg.imp.kiev.ua/slinca/ SLinCA]
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| SLinCA (Scaling Laws in Cluster Aggregation) is involved with research in the field of materials science.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110803231551/http://mishra.lpds.sztaki.hu:80/szdgr/ SZTAKI Desktop Grid Research Facility]
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| WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS X
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| Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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| This project is the test & research facility for SZTAKI Desktop Grid.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20081224080150/http://hydrogenathome.org/ Hydrogen@home]
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120111114110/http://hydrogenathome.org/apps.php WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS X (Not Intel)]
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| Enhance clean energy technology by improving hydrogen production and storage.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://convector.fsv.cvut.cz/ convector@home]
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| Calculate global optimum of 52 bar truss.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070202002920/http://spin.fh-bielefeld.de/ Spinhenge@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Spinhenge@home 3]
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| WinXP-98
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| [https://youtu.be/d-fafmtqE74 view]
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| Support the research of nano-magnetic molecules. In the future these molecules will be used in the local tumor chemotherapy and to develop tiny memory-modules. [[Spinhenge@home|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140413155515/http://bealathome.com/ Beal@Home]
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| Beal's conjecture is a conjecture in number theory: where A, B, C, x, y, and z are positive integers with x, y, z > 2, then A, B, and C have a common prime factor. Beal initially offered a prize of US $5,000 in 1997, raising it to US $1,000,000.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20150816053811/http://bealf.pl/bealf BealF@Home]
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| Part of the Master Thesis: '''''Testing Beal conjecture using supercomputers and distributed computing platform BOINC'''''. The predecessor of the project was ''Beal@Home''.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://cbl-link02.cs.technion.ac.il/superlinkattechnion/ Superlink@Technion]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Superlink@Technion 4]
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| Helps geneticists all over the world find disease-provoking genes causing some types of diabetes, hypertension (high blood pressure), cancer, schizophrenia and many others.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110720105948/http://boinc.vanderbilt.edu/bcl/ Biochemical Library]
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| 2011
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| Research in Biochemical Library.

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| [http://falua.cesfelipesegundo.com/jarifa/ Jarifa]
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| [https://web.archive.org/http://netmax.isa.ru/netmax/ NetMax@home]
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| Research in dynamic routing at telecommunication networks.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140804215459/http://gilda117.ihep.ac.cn/ATLAS/ Replace With Project Name]
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| https://web.archive.org/web/20140903030559/http://gilda117.ihep.ac.cn/ATLAS

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| [http://cvmathome.cern.ch/test4theory/ LHC+@Home]
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| [http://isaac.ssl.berkeley.edu/test2/ Replace With Project Name]
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| http://isaac.ssl.berkeley.edu/test2/

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.fiit.stuba.sk/ BOINC@Fiit]
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| Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava
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| TBA.

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| [https://web.archive.org/https://v8boinc.fer.hr/v8boinc/ v8boinc]
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20101203122655/http://glife.is-a-geek.org:80/ga/view_profile.php?userid=120 GA@home]
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20101109123610/http://www.luxrenderfarm.de/luxfarm Luxrenderfarm@home]
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| Renderfarm for Luxrender.net.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130819173713/http://sudoku.nctu.edu.tw/joomla/ sudoku@vtaiwan]
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| Develop new techniques and use them to modify the program [https://web.archive.org/web/20130819173713/http://www.math.ie/checker.html Checker] (written by Gary McGuire).

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://poseidon.shacknet.nu:8080/MilestoneRSA/ MilestoneRSA]
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| Break a 1024 bit RSA key used by Motorola to sign the boot and recovery partitions on the Motorola Milestone.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc01.uoc.edu/ILS-ESP-2014/ ILS-ESP-2014]
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| Research for solving the permutation FLOW-SHOP problem.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://wordcompatibility.com/words_compatibility/ Russian Words Compatibility]
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| Research in Russian computational linguistics.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110816010257/http://falua.cesfelipesegundo.com/Neurona/ Neurona@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Neurona@Home 2]
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| Simulating the behavior of a large assembly of cellular automata neurons connected in a complex network.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.isa.ru/dcsdg/ OPTIMA@HOME]
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| Solve challenging large-scale optimization problems.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130525113734/http://svahesrv2.bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de/correlizer/ Correlizer]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Correlizer 5]
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| Revealing the mysteries of genome organization.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120825055512/http://vbridge.twgrid.org/asgcdg/ Taiwan Desktop Grid]
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|Academia Sinica Grid Computing
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| Bridging Taiwanese volunteer computers to European e-Science service grid infrastructure. [[Taiwan Desktop Grid|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110214000708/http://androinc.net:80/ AndrOINC]
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| To break a 1024 bit RSA key used by Motorola to sign the boot and recovery partitions on the Motorola Milestone.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20141216004540/http://findah.ucd.ie/ FiND@Home]
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| 2012-07-20
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| Dr Anthony Chubb
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| A research project that uses donated CPU time to perform docking simulations on malaria proteins.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140514143657/http://www.primaboinca.com/ Primaboinca]
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| This project concerns itself with two hypotheses in number theory: Agrawal's Conjecture (the basis for the AKS algorithm) and Popovych's conjecture, which adds a further condition and could reduce the time of a deterministic prime test from O(log N)^6 to O(log N)^3.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060723185510/http://attribution.cpdn.org/ Seasonal Attribution Project]
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| WinXP, Linux
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| By comparing the results of climate simulations, half of which will include the effects of human-induced climate change, and half of which will not, we will investigate the possible impact of human activity on extreme weather risk.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://shasta.chem.uh.edu/SolarAtHome/ Solar@home]
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| Make more efficient solar cells.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080828221836/http://kinetic.dnsalias.org/magnetism/ Magnetism@home]
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| Explore the equilibrium, metastable and transient magnetization patterns in nano-scale magnetic elements and their arrays.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://desktopgrid.hiast.edu.sy/hiastdg/ HIAST@HOME]
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| 2013
|  
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140316201231/http://volunteer.cs.und.edu:80/dna/ DNA@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#DNA@Home 2]
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| Discover what regulates the genes in DNA.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120130113228/http://boinc.umiacs.umd.edu/ The Lattice Project]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#The 16]
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| WinXP, Linux, Mac
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| University of Maryland
| Multiple applications
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| Condor and PBS clusters through the Globus Toolkit, chiefly supporting phylogenetic analysis with the GARLI software. [[The Lattice Project|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.fzk.de/poem/ POEM@HOME]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#POEM@HOME 5]
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| Protein structure prediction has been complemented by other nanoscale molecule simulations. Within the scope of polymer crystallography we are researching conformations of organic hydrocarbons. [[POEM@HOME|See more...]]

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| [http://int-boinctest.int.kit.edu/poem/ POEM@TEST]
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| Test project for POEM@HOME.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://199.26.254.190/qos/ Spatiotemporal Quality of Service (QoS)]
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| Perform distributed web service evaluation so that more accurate service quality information can be delivered to end users.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070128212119/http://boinc.rieselsieve.com/ RieselSieve]
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| WinXP
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| Mathematics
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| k+2n-1 problem, eventually merged with PrimeGrid.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130806073759/http://mopac.cadaster.eu/ mopac@home]
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| Chemistry
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| Research in quantum chemistry.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140419190153/http://volunteer.cs.und.edu/wildlife/ Wildlife@Home]
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| University of North Dakota
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| Analyze video gathered from various cameras recording wildlife.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20160120043345/http://volpexathome.cs.uh.edu/VolPEx/ Volpex@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Volpex@Home 9]
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|  
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| University of Houston
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| Research in creating effective parallel computing on multiple volatile nodes.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://mindmodeling.org/palm_project/ MindModeling@Home (Palm)]
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| University of Dayton Research Institute and Wright State University
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| Test project for MindModeling@Home.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080805160334/http://mindmodeling.org:80/beta/ MindModeling@Home (Beta)]
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|  
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| [https://youtu.be/3aJmm60Wgl8 view]
| University of Dayton Research Institute and Wright State University
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| Test project for MindModeling@Home.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120215132304/http://boinc.almeregrid.nl/ AlmereGrid]
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090422205514/http://server1.almeregrid.nl/testgrid/ AlmereGrid TestGrid]
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| Test Grid of AlmereGrid.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://server5.almeregrid.nl/almeregrid/ AlmereGrid Boinc testGrid]
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| No independent verification that this was a BOINC project.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20181204215217/http://anthgrid.com/dbnupperbound/ DBN Upper Bound]
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| Polymath project related to the theory of the Riemann zeta function.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130331200159/http://abcathome.com/ ABC@home]
| [https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.2974 1]
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| WinXP-98, Linux
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| Finding abc-triples related to the ABC conjecture. [[ABC@home|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070206065801/http://abcathome.com/beta/ ABC@home beta]
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| WinXP-98, Linux
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| Test project for ABC@home.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc2.cs.hs-rm.de/abclll/ ABC Lattices @Home]
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| Searching for good abc-triples. Unlike ABC@Home, this project is not aiming for a thorough search of a certain range of numbers. Instead, we are trying to find good triples with the help of a specialized algorithm in areas beyond 2^100.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080801101300/http://cpdnbeta.oerc.ox.ac.uk/ CPDN Beta]
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| Test project for climate''prediction''.net.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140703145955/http://atlasathome.cern.ch/ Atlas@home]
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| A research project that uses volunteer computing to run simulations of the ATLAS experiment at CERN.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130302044909/http://boincsimap.org/boincsimap/ SIMAP]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#SIMAP 5]
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| WinXP, Linux, Mac OS, Other
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|Technical University of Munich, the Helmholtz Zentrum München and the University of Vienna
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| Many computational methods in biology and medicine are based on protein sequence analysis, e.g. to predict the function and structure of genes and proteins. SIMAP facilitates these methods by providing pre-calculated protein similarities and protein domains. [[SIMAP|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120214044716/http://boinc.gorlaeus.net/ Leiden Classical]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Leiden 2]
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| WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS X (Not Intel)
|
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| [https://youtu.be/co2SkwsvyOk view] and [https://youtu.be/ECAQC1mzMiM view]
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| Dedicated to general Classical Dynamics for any scientist or science student. [[Leiden Classical|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20171217033707/http://szdg.lpds.sztaki.hu/szdg/ SZTAKI Desktop Grid]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#SZTAKI 5]
| 2005-05-26
2018-05-31
| WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS X (Not Intel), Solaris
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| Multiple Applications
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| The SZTAKI Desktop Grid and its applications are partly supported by the DEGISCO and the EDGI projects. The work leading to these results has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreements n° RI-261561 and n° RI-261556. [[SZTAKI Desktop Grid|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080926101459/http://orbit.psi.edu/oah/ Orbit@home]
| [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103516300914 1]
|
| Windows, Linux
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| Produce an optimized search strategy for dedicated astronomical surveys to search for near-Earth asteroids.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130725025029/http://pogs.theskynet.org/pogs/ theSkyNet POGS]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#TheSkyNet 3]
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| Research in astronomy. Combine the spectral coverage of GALEX, Pan-STARRS1, and WISE to generate a multi-wavelength UV-optical-NIR galaxy atlas for the nearby Universe. [[TheSkyNet POGS|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20180205194455/https://sourcefinder.theskynet.org/duchamp/ theSkyNet Sourcefinder]
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| Provide a means to test the effectiveness of various astronomical sourcefinding applications.

|-
| [https://nickeycat.net/nic/ Nickeycat]
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| No independent verification that this was a BOINC project.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://xansons4cod.com/xansons4cod/ XANSONS for COD]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#XANSONS 2]
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|  
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| Create an open access database of simulated x-ray and neutron powder diffraction patterns for nanocrystalline phase of the materials presented in the '''Crystallography Open Database (COD)'''.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://aerospaceresearch.net/constellation/ Constellation]
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| Research in various aerospace related sciences and engineering.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20190401042546/http://www.acousticsathome.ru/boinc/ Acoustics@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Acoustics@home 2]
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|  
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| Matrosov Institute for System Dynamics and Control Theory of SB RAS
|
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| Solving inverse problems in underwater acoustics.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20100427212604/http://boinc.drugdiscoveryathome.com/ Drug Discovery@home]
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| Model the behavior of leading compounds that could be developed into new medicines.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://sat.isa.ru/pdsat/ SAT@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#SAT@home 8]
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|  
|
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|
|Russian Academy of Sciences (Siberian Branch)
|Mathematics
|
| Solve hard and practically important problems (discrete functions inversion problems, discrete optimization, bioinformatics, etc) that can be effectively reduced to Boolean satisfiability problem. [[SAT@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20190606103241/https://www.dhep.ga/boinc/ Distributed Hardware Evolution Project]
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| Used island-based coevolutionary genetic algorithm to synthesize self-checking digital hardware circuits. [[Distributed Hardware Evolution Project|See more...]]

|-
| [https://charon.camras.nl/setiatcamras/ SETI@CAMRAS]
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20180927092346/http://cpu.goofyxgridathome.net/ GoofyxGrid@Home CPU]
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| [https://web.archive.org/http://usproteins-at-home.ru/usproteins/ usproteins@home]
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|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20131022042932/http://qmcathome.org/ QMC@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#QMC@Home 7]
|
| Windows, Linux
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| [https://youtu.be/fNWUs9jRwSY view]
|
| Multiple applications
|
| Quantum-mechanical computations on medically relevant biomolecular systems, to help with developing quantum-mechanics-based approaches for computational drug design; and finding safer and greener materials for e-vehicle batteries. [[QMC@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [http://physiome.lf1.cuni.cz/ident3/physiome/ Physiome@home]
|
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|  
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| Research in human physiology.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://casathome.ihep.ac.cn/ CAS@home]
|
|2010-09-30
2020-04-27
|  
|
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| [https://youtu.be/e-DUArD38Pw view]
| Chinese Academy of Sciences
|
|
| The main application is the TreeThreader which predicts protein structure. [[CAS@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20210417203758/http://boinc.scienterprise.cn/ scienterprise]
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| 2020
|  
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| Enterprises own a lot of idle computing resources in their private cloud, while research projects are restricted by limited computing power. This project aims to decrease this imbalance by building CloudTides, an elastic platform on idle cloud resources.

|-
| [http://vath.xicp.cn/test/ volunteer@home]
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| 2021
|
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| [https://youtu.be/a4nO8ki2qR4 view]
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| Very small test project, no information.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20191018200437/http://brainstormhome.org/ Brainstorm@home]
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|  
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| Investigate the molecular basis of brain-related diseases.

|-
| [http://hayes.nodium.net:8000/boincserver/ beef@home]
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|  
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| Proof of concept temporary test project.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20170509144906/https://csgrid.org/csg/ Citizen Science Grid]
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|  
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| UND's Computational Research Center and Information Technology Systems and Services
| Multiple applications
|
| A wide range of research and educational projects using volunteer computing and citizen science, including DNA@Home, SubsetSum@Home, Climate Tweets, and Wildlife@Home.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20210125080541/https://www.kryptosathome.com/ Kryptos@Home]
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|  
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| Solving one of the most famous unsolved puzzles - the three-decade old Kryptos sculpture located on the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency. [[Kryptos@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20200421212107/https://mindmodeling.org/ MindModeling@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Publications_by_BOINC_projects#MindModeling.40Home 6]
| 2007-03-17
|  
|
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| [https://youtu.be/3aJmm60Wgl8 view]
| University of Dayton Research Institute and Wright State University
| Cognitive science
|
| Computational cognitive process modeling to better understand the human mind. [[MindModeling@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20210225002054/http://www.vdwnumbers.org/vdwnumbers/ Van Der Waerden Numbers]
| [https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.03301 1]
| 2021-02-02
|  
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|
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| Daniel Monroe
| Mathematics
|
| Van Der Waerden Numbers is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to find better lower bounds for these numbers. Static mirror for this project: https://www.123numbers.org/

|-
| [http://burp.renderfarming.net/ Big and Ugly Rendering Project (BURP)]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Big 2]
|2004-06-17
2020
| Windows, Linux, Mac OS
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|Janus Kristensen
|3D rendering
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| Render animated videos including [http://bbb3d.renderfarming.net/download.html Big Buck Bunny]. [[Big and Ugly Rendering Project|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/test/ BOINC Test project]
|
| 2007-07-24
|  
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| [https://youtu.be/e-DUArD38Pw view]
| University of California, Berkeley
| Software testing
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| A test project for BOINC development.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20220711171713/https://boinc.tacc.utexas.edu/ BOINC@TACC]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#BOINC@TACC 3]
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| Texas Advanced Computing Center
| Multiple applications
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| Aerospace engineering, computational biology, and earthquake engineering. [[BOINC@TACC|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc-dev.tacc.utexas.edu/boincserver/ BOINC@TACC dev]
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|  
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| Texas Advanced Computing Center
| Software testing
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| Test project for BOINC@TACC.

|-
| [https://www.mlcathome.org/mlcathome/ MLC@Home]
| [https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2104.10555 1]
| 2020-06-30 / 2022-08-02
| [https://www.mlcathome.org/mlcathome/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| University of Maryland, Baltimore County
| Cognitive science
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mlc-home/id1492837872?i=1000499605038 Listen]
| Understanding and interpreting complex machine learning models. [[MLC@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.tbrada.eu/ T.Brada Experimental Grid]
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| 2019-02-03 / 2022-12-24
|
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
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| Independent
| Mathematics
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| The PADLS Total subproject aims to find new pseudo-associative DLS. [[T.Brada Experimental Grid|See more...]]

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| [https://quchempedia.univ-angers.fr/athome/ QuChemPedIA@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#QuChemPedIA@home 4]
| 2019-07-01 / 2022-09-29
| [https://quchempedia.univ-angers.fr/athome/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: olive; color: black;" | Vbox only
|
| Université Angers
| Molecular Chemistry
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/quchempedia/id1492837872?i=1000484760287 Listen]
| Help chemical researchers around the world by building a unique collection of results and also help our AIs to propose much more new targets for the different applications we are addressing than we could do on our own. [[QuChemPedIA@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/ Collatz Conjecture]
| [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11227-020-03368-x 1]
| 2009-01-06
| [https://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| Study the Collatz conjecture, an unsolved conjecture in mathematics. [[Collatz Conjecture|See more...]]

|-
| [http://www.cosmologyathome.org/ Cosmology@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Cosmology@Home 5]
| 2007-06-26 / 2024-01-10
| [http://www.cosmologyathome.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, Vbox
|
| Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
| Astronomy
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/comology-home/id1492837872?i=1000521601975 Listen]
| Find the most accurate models that best describe the universe. [[Cosmology@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20240118183120/http://bearnol.is-a-geek.com/wanless2/ WEP-M+2 Project]
|
| 2006-05-12 / 2024-01-18
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20231126215917/http://bearnol.is-a-geek.com/wanless2/apps.php Linux, macOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| James Wanless, London, England
| Mathematics
| [https://www.youtube.com/live/9QexlknOdb0?feature=share Watch]
| Factorization of Mersenneplustwo numbers. [[WEP-M+2 Project|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.nanohub.org/nanoHUB_at_home/ nanoHUB@Home]
|
| 2012-07-26
| [https://boinc.nanohub.org/nanoHUB_at_home/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: olive; color: black;" | Vbox only
|
| Purdue University
| Nanotechnology
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nanohub/id1492837872?i=1000488157528 Listen]
| Research in nanoscience and nanotechnology. [[NanoHUB@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-540-30208-7_91 Unknown project]
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| [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1488682/ Unknown project]
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| [https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jp806269w boinc@duq]
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| [https://www.comsol.com/paper/comsolgrid-a-framework-for-performing-large-scale-parameter-studies-using-comsol-8288 ComsolGrid]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#ComsolGrid 1]
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| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#BOINC-MR BOINC-MR]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#BOINC-MR 2]
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| [https://frostydata.com/0Kdata Data freezer]
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| 2024-06-11
| [https://frostydata.com/0Kdata/apps.php Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
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| Independent
| Storage
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| Build a data warehouse on consumer hardware. [[Data freezer|See more...]]

|-
| [https://albertathome.org/ Albert@Home]
|
| 2011-12-23
| [https://albertathome.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Max Planck Institute
| Software testing
|
| Test project for [[Einstein@Home]]. [[Albert@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://sech.me/boinc/Amicable/ Amicable Numbers]
|
| 2017-01-05
| [https://sech.me/boinc/Amicable/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boinc-radio-project-brief-amicable-numbers/id1492837872?i=1000581365935 Listen]
| Amicable numbers are pairs where the sum of the proper divisors of each is equal to the other number. The goal of this project is to collect all amicable numbers up to a very large limit. [[Amicable Numbers|See more...]]

|-
| [https://blackholesathome.net/ BlackHoles@Home]
|
| {{No}}t yet
|
|
|
|
| University of Idaho
| Astrophysics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boinc-radio-project-brief-blackholes-home/id1492837872?i=1000575215408 Listen]
| Black hole collision simulations to maximize the science gained from gravitational wave observations. [[BlackHoles@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://team.dodoathome.com/dodo/ dodo@home]
|
| 2024-11-07
| [https://team.dodoathome.com/dodo/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
|
|
| We will bring the Dodo back from extinction (well, we will give it a damn good try!). [[Dodo@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://nci.boinc.goofyx.pl/ goofyxGrid@Home NCI]
|
| 1) [https://web.archive.org/web/20191023104620/http://nci.goofyxgridathome.net:80/ 2015-11-09] / 2) 2024-06-20
| [https://nci.boinc.goofyx.pl/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
|
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/goofyxgrid/id1492837872?i=1000490909639 Listen]
| To simulate the infinite monkey theorem which states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type any given text, including the complete works of William Shakespeare. [[GoofyxGrid@Home NCI|See more...]]

|-
| [http://boinc.llmentor.org/LLMentorGrid/ LLMentorGrid]
|
| 2025-01-22
| [http://boinc.llmentor.org/LLMentorGrid/apps.php Linux]
|
|
|
| Independent
|
|
|

|-
| [http://parlea.ru/boinctest/ Parlea]
|
| 2022-12
| [http://parlea.ru/boinctest/apps.php Windows, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
|
| Mathematics
|
| Investigate the efficiency and behavior of mobile devices as computing nodes on the BOINC platform for solving the Orthogonal Diagonal Latin Squares (ODLS) search problem. [[Parlea|See more...]]

|-
| [https://ralph.bakerlab.org/ RALPH@home]
|
| 2006-02-15
| [https://ralph.bakerlab.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, macOS, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, Vbox
| [https://youtu.be/W9fC5lv76T0 view]
| University of Washington
| Software testing
|
| Test project for [[Rosetta@home]]. [[RALPH@home|See more...]]

|-
| RNA World (computing project) | [https://www.rnaworld.de/rnaworld/ RNA World (beta)]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#RNA 5]
| 2009-05-21
| [https://www.rnaworld.de/rnaworld/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: olive; color: black;" | Vbox only
| [https://youtu.be/GHJ4KBdwVew view]
| Independent research group in Marburg, Germany
| Molecular biology
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rnaworld/id1492837872?i=1000496594043 Listen]
| Uses bioinformatics software to study RNA structure. [[RNA World (beta)|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.termit.me/adsl/ SPT@home]
|
| 2023-06-14
| [https://boinc.termit.me/adsl/ Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
|
| Mathematics
|
| The Symmetric Prime Tuples (SPT) project is a continuation of the T. Brada Experimental Grid project. [[SPT|See more...]]

|-
| [https://universeathome.pl/universe/ Universe@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Publications_by_BOINC_projects#Universe.40home 14]
| 2015-02-19
| [https://universeathome.pl/universe/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences
| Astronomy
|
| Computational astrophysics, computer simulation of stars, galaxies and the Universe. [[Universe@Home|See more...]]

|-
|[https://axiom.heliex.net/ Axiom Distributed AI]
|
|2026-01-30
2026-03-20
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20260319085629/https://axiom.heliex.net/apps.php Windows, Linux, Mac]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
|Axiom Project 2026
|Artificial Intelligence
|
|Distributed neural-network learning techniques influenced by Hebbian learning [[Axiom Distributed AI|See more...]]

|-
| [https://rnma.xyz/boinc/ Ramanujan Machine]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Ramanujan 2]
| 2021-10-14
| [https://rnma.xyz/boinc/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/project-brief-ramanujan-machine-5-2-2022/id1492837872?i=1000570072053 Listen]
| Conjecturing new mathematical formulas. [[Ramanujan Machine|See more...]]
|}

BOINC project screensavers

2026-08-14T20:34:39Z

Al Piskun: /* Full Playlist */ add link

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One of the distinctive features of early [[BOINC]] projects was the '''project screensaver.''' Many screensavers featured a real-time animated display showing the volunteer's computer actively contributing to science. When a BOINC-attached machine sat idle, the screensaver would launch and visualise the underlying computation: radio telescope signals sweeping across a star field for [[SETI@home]], protein chains folding in three dimensions for [[Rosetta@home]], or a climate model globe spinning for [[climateprediction.net]].

As LCD and OLED monitors replaced phosphor-coated CRTs, the original technical justification for screensavers (preventing phosphor burn-in), became obsolete. BOINC projects gradually stopped shipping screensaver graphics. The gallery below preserves recordings of every known BOINC project screensaver. Click any '''▶''' link to watch the YouTube recording; where an animated GIF exists on [[Wikimedia Commons]], it appears in the left column.

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== Full Playlist ==

The complete collection of 71 BOINC screensaver recordings is available as a YouTube playlist. Use the player below to browse all videos, or jump to individual project entries in the gallery beneath it.

{{#ev:youtube|pZ1fSYpwhYA|700|center|BOINC Project Screensavers – Full Playlist|start=0&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy}}

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== Screensaver Gallery ==

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%; vertical-align:top;"
! style="width:150px;" | Animated GIF
! style="width:220px;" | YouTube recording(s)
! Project
! Notes
|-
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | [[File:SETI@home custom background and logo screensaver.gif|140px]]
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/IfeGNAZY92k/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfeGNAZY92k&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Enhanced 5.27]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[SETI@home]]'''<br/><small>Astronomy / SETI</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Flagship BOINC screensaver. Features a custom background and logo that were available options. Displays a rotating 3D star field with a sweeping radio-telescope signal trace, frequency spectrum, and spike indicator. Ran from 2002 until the project entered hibernation in March 2020.
|-
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | [[File:SETI Beta.gif|140px]]
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/buLKZnyzOdI/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buLKZnyzOdI&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Version 6.00]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[SETI@home Beta]]'''<br/><small>Astronomy / SETI</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Beta test environment for SETI@home and AstroPulse. Volunteers stress-tested new algorithms and GPU-optimised work units before deployment to the main project.
|-
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | [[File:Astropulse.gif|140px]]
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/5r-t8WQicqE/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r-t8WQicqE&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ AstroPulse 4.25]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[AstroPulse]]'''<br/><small>Astronomy / SETI</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Searched for dispersed radio pulses potentially indicative of primordial black holes, pulsars, or ETI signals. Shares visual DNA with SETI@home but emphasises the wide-band de-dispersion pipeline.
|-
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | [[File:Einstein@Home.gif|140px]]
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/kGWsTnmk1lw/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGWsTnmk1lw&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Multi-Directional 2.07]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/xwhMEXMxqU8/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwhMEXMxqU8&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ All-sky pulsar search 4.15]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[Einstein@Home]]'''<br/><small>Astrophysics / Gravitational waves</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Renders a real-time 3D celestial sphere ('Gravity Surfer') showing the sky position being searched for continuous gravitational-wave signals and radio pulsars. Still active as of 2026.
|-
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | [[File:Rosetta.gif|140px]]
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/6o5yBfG_vss/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o5yBfG_vss&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Rosetta 4.20]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/m1nlnZoTJV4/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1nlnZoTJV4&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Rosetta Beta 5.89]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[Rosetta@home]]'''<br/><small>Biochemistry / Protein folding</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Visualises protein structure prediction in real time using a 3D molecular renderer. Chains of amino acids fold and rotate as the work unit progresses. Run by the Baker Lab at the University of Washington.
|-
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | —
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/W9fC5lv76T0/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9fC5lv76T0&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Rosetta Beta 5.90]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[RALPH@home]]'''<br/><small>Biochemistry / Protein folding</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Pre-production test project for Rosetta@home. Used the same protein-folding screensaver as the Rosetta Beta application.
|-
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | [[File:Proteins.gif|140px]]
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/aM6kiaM228Y/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM6kiaM228Y&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Boinc Xplor 7.41]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[proteins@home]]'''<br/><small>Biochemistry / Protein folding</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | An early protein structure prediction project. The screensaver displayed evolving protein geometry using the Boinc Xplor visualiser.
|-
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | [[File:Climateprediction.gif|140px]]
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/Mae7JfL1giE/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mae7JfL1giE&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ HadSM3 Slab Model]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[climateprediction.net]]'''<br/><small>Climate science</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Displays an animated global climate model: a spinning Earth overlaid with colour-coded temperature anomaly, cloud cover, and atmospheric flow vectors. One of the oldest continuous BOINC projects (launched 2003), still active.
|-
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | [[File:LHC@home.gif|140px]]
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/0qbLDbsNO3w/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qbLDbsNO3w&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ SixTrack 4.67]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[LHC@home]]'''<br/><small>Particle physics</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Run by CERN to simulate particle beam trajectories in the Large Hadron Collider. The screensaver renders a schematic of the LHC ring with animated beam paths. Still active.
|-
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | [[File:Primegrid.gif|140px]]
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/rhZxqi9x7rI/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhZxqi9x7rI&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ 321 Prime Search 5.09]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[PrimeGrid]]'''<br/><small>Mathematics / Number theory</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Searches for large prime numbers and prime constellations. One of the largest and longest-running BOINC projects; still active.
|-
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | [[File:QMC@Home.gif|140px]]
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/fNWUs9jRwSY/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNWUs9jRwSY&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ preRC1 5.01]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[QMC@Home]]'''<br/><small>Chemistry / Quantum chemistry</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Ran Quantum Monte Carlo calculations for molecular electronic structure — among the most computationally demanding methods in theoretical chemistry. Currently inactive.
|-
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | [[File:Spinhenge.gif|140px]]
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/d-fafmtqE74/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-fafmtqE74&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Monte Carlo Metropolis 3.10]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[Spinhenge@home]]'''<br/><small>Physics / Molecular magnetism</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Simulated quantum spin dynamics of single-molecule magnets. The screensaver rendered molecular structures rotating in a magnetic field. Ran approximately 2006–2008.
|-
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | [[File:Leiden.gif|140px]]
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/co2SkwsvyOk/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co2SkwsvyOk&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Trajtou-cu111 5.36]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/ECAQC1mzMiM/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECAQC1mzMiM&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Classical 5.50]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[Leiden Classical]]'''<br/><small>Chemistry / Astrochemistry</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Simulated classical molecular dynamics on interstellar dust grain surfaces to model the formation of molecules such as water and methanol in space. Ran approximately 2007–2011.
|-
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | [[File:Gerasim.gif|140px]]
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/cw7yBZ_KGGA/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw7yBZ_KGGA&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ gsm 1.10]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[Gerasim@home]]'''<br/><small>Mathematics / Combinatorics</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | A Russian volunteer computing project solving combinatorial problems including the study of Latin squares and similar discrete structures.
|-
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | [[File:Malaria.gif|140px]]
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/4GAYKw5SakQ/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GAYKw5SakQ&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ malariacontrol.net 5.53]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[malariacontrol.net]]'''<br/><small>Epidemiology / Public health</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Ran stochastic simulations of malaria transmission dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa to evaluate cost-effectiveness of intervention strategies. Concluded around 2015.
|-
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | [[File:Docking@Home.gif|140px]]
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/gC_2zu2efY4/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC_2zu2efY4&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Charmm 6.13]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[Docking@Home]]'''<br/><small>Biochemistry / Drug discovery</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Performed molecular docking simulations — fitting drug-like molecules into target protein binding sites to identify drug candidates. Ran approximately 2006–2012.
|-
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | [[File:AQUA@home.gif|140px]]
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/VyQgGkj_Rss/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyQgGkj_Rss&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ D-Wave AQUA 1.14]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[AQUA@home]]'''<br/><small>Physics / Quantum computing</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Run by D-Wave Systems to help design and verify quantum annealing processors. Simulated quantum annealing on classical hardware to test future D-Wave chip architectures. Ran approximately 2008–2013.
|-
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | [[File:MindModeling.gif|140px]]
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/3aJmm60Wgl8/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aJmm60Wgl8&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Beta 2.61]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[MindModeling@Home]]'''<br/><small>Cognitive science</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Applied cognitive architecture models (ACT-R and PRIMs) to simulate human thought processes. Run by Wright State University and the University of Dayton. Ran approximately 2009–2016.
|-
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | [[File:Ibercivis.gif|140px]]
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/RRPMDKPGt3A/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRPMDKPGt3A&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ neurosim 4.44]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[Ibercivis]]'''<br/><small>Physics / Nuclear fusion</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | A Spanish–French initiative supporting plasma physics simulations related to nuclear fusion research. Ran approximately 2008–2013.
|-
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | —
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/GHJ4KBdwVew/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHJ4KBdwVew&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ cmsearch 0.13]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[RNA World (beta)]]'''<br/><small>Biology / RNA research</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Searched for functional RNA molecules using the cmsearch algorithm from the Infernal software package.
|-
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | —
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/e-DUArD38Pw/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-DUArD38Pw&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Short-Cut Threading 5.14]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[CAS@home]]'''<br/><small>Biochemistry / Protein threading</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Run by the Chinese Academy of Sciences to perform protein structure prediction using short-cut threading methods.
|-
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | —
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/d03IUeQrDLQ/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d03IUeQrDLQ&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Version 5.60]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/g7T_oKqNYMo/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7T_oKqNYMo&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Version 5.58]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[Rectilinear Crossing Number Project]]'''<br/><small>Mathematics / Graph theory</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Computed the rectilinear crossing number of complete graphs — the minimum number of edge crossings in a straight-line drawing. Two screensaver versions archived.
|-
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | [[File:Quake-Catcher.gif|140px]]
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/SCv_W751m64/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCv_W751m64&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ QCN Alpha 4.27]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[Quake-Catcher Network]]'''<br/><small>Geophysics / Seismology</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Used laptop accelerometers and USB sensors as a distributed seismograph network. The screensaver displayed a live seismogram trace from the volunteer's own sensor. A joint project of Stanford and UC Riverside.
|-
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | —
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/mzp2QBwvb2U/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzp2QBwvb2U&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Version 1.00]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[Cels@Home]]'''<br/><small>Biology / Cell simulation</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | One of the rarer BOINC project screensavers. Cels@Home was an early project focused on biological cell simulation.
|-
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | —
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/Upt0ROEPBt8/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Upt0ROEPBt8&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Cruncher ogr 519.01]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/ZUmmcIdnAog/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUmmcIdnAog&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Cruncher ogr 2.03]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/7Fu7lClSYsk/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Fu7lClSYsk&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ evolution@home 1.12]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/H-ByPAHoBe8/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-ByPAHoBe8&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Muon 1.10]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[Yoyo@home]]'''<br/><small>Mathematics / Various</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | A wrapper project running multiple mathematical applications including OGR (Optimal Golomb Ruler search), evolution simulation, and muon physics calculations. Still active.
|-
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| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/vEqImf6mtgE/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEqImf6mtgE&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ YAFU 134.05 (mt)]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[YAFU]]'''<br/><small>Mathematics / Integer factorisation</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Yet Another Factorisation Utility — a BOINC wrapper running YAFU to factor large integers, particularly small composites.
|-
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | —
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/a4nO8ki2qR4/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4nO8ki2qR4&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Example Application 224.89]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[Volunteer@home]]'''<br/><small>Test / Example</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | A test project running a generic example BOINC application.
|-
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | [[File:Pirates@Home screensaver Scroll 4.53.gif|140px]]
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/pZ1fSYpwhYA/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ1fSYpwhYA&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Starboard 4.14]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/hXE7bi-pBXE/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXE7bi-pBXE&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Lalane 3.05]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/2n9OOeotK6E/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n9OOeotK6E&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Scroll 4.53]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/dRKVEfXVdFo/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRKVEfXVdFo&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Scroll 4.60]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/D_5G-HzQkHs/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_5G-HzQkHs&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Scroll 4.63]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/AqmAVE746DY/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqmAVE746DY&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Sextant 4.91]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/2kUDzXquNw4/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kUDzXquNw4&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Cube 5.13]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/5ga7lRWMk-I/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ga7lRWMk-I&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Starboard 5.14]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/ONAegiu4jyA/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONAegiu4jyA&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Starboard 5.17]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/SPF8fZ8lJf8/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPF8fZ8lJf8&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Starboard 5.18]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/OX3lw2xHvyo/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX3lw2xHvyo&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Starboard 5.19]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/P6guDjKdUH8/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6guDjKdUH8&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Lalanne 5.06]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/auWJPd_Yzds/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auWJPd_Yzds&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Cube 6.01]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/O2mBz8tmBhA/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2mBz8tmBhA&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Starboard 6.01]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/yq6odp-rhao/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq6odp-rhao&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Cube 6.05]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[Pirates@Home]]'''<br/><small>Developement</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Contributed to Einstein@Home's screensaver developement. Produced more screensaver variants than any other BOINC project, spanning multiple themes (Lalane/Lalanne, Scroll, Sextant, Cube, Starboard) across versions 3.x–6.x.
|-
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | [[File:Primates@Home screensaver Starboard 5.21.gif|140px]]
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/NTeYa66qkxc/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTeYa66qkxc&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Starboard 5.21]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[Pirates@Home#Primates@Home (April Fools 2008)|Primates@Home]]'''<br/>Playing around
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | The Starboard screensaver variant echoes the Pirates@Home fun atmosphere with secret messages
|-
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | [[File:Help Conquer Cancer.gif|140px]]
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/P69-Z_-Keqo/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P69-Z_-Keqo&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ FightAIDS@Home 5.42]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/t1J6MWXQTT0/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1J6MWXQTT0&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Discovering Dengue Drugs]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/qzCBvULmEVA/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzCBvULmEVA&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Help Conquer Cancer 5.15]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/nxsswGhJKl8/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxsswGhJKl8&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Human Proteome Folding–Phase 2 6.17]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/QBrMRUh_OFY/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBrMRUh_OFY&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Help Fight Childhood Cancer 6.11]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/QmFu9NqtXdE/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmFu9NqtXdE&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Computing for Clean Water 6.13]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/JuuMK8ysNyA/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuuMK8ysNyA&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy 2 6.14]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/Iny0ZfWpvaM/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iny0ZfWpvaM&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ The Clean Energy Project–Phase 2]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/YseFsaILi1w/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YseFsaILi1w&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Mapping Cancer Markers v7.41]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/s9uEV83uuzU/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9uEV83uuzU&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Microbiome Immunity Project v7.16]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/AYnQw9qcMdE/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYnQw9qcMdE&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Open Pandemics COVID-19 v7.17]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/pNz-CzHW3AA/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNz-CzHW3AA&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Krembil – Open Pandemics COVID-19]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/x-L8FzyfFN4/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-L8FzyfFN4&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Krembil – Mapping Cancer Markers]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/_cTbP3UFnTM/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cTbP3UFnTM&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Krembil – Africa Rainfall Project]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/vLbgNxlP5w4/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLbgNxlP5w4&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Smash Childhood Cancer]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[World Community Grid]]'''<br/><small>Multiple projects. IBM/Krembil hosted</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Formerly IBM and now Krembil Institute-sponsored grid running multiple humanitarian research sub-projects on a shared BOINC platform. Each sub-project had its own screensaver variant, all archived here.
|-
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| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/9rRWAgpfMzg/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rRWAgpfMzg&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Upper Case 5.15]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[BOINC]]'''<br/><small>Infrastructure / Alpha testing</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | The BOINC alpha test project screensaver, used to test screensaver infrastructure on pre-release BOINC client builds.
|-
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | —
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/1RVFLPdrwiA/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RVFLPdrwiA&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Version 7.00]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[BOINC]] test project'''<br/><small>Infrastructure / Testing</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Generic BOINC test project screensaver used for client validation.
|-
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | —
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/XPDLWA8d_10/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPDLWA8d_10&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Generic]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[BOINC]]'''<br/><small>Infrastructure</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | The built-in BOINC overview screensaver shown when no project graphics application is available. Displays BOINC status, project list, and credit totals.
|-
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | —
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/ck6UTKxPyxI/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck6UTKxPyxI&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Version 2.1]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/PvgSOBLiJtw/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvgSOBLiJtw&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Version 1.0]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[BOINC Synergy]]'''<br/><small>Custom / Community</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | A custom screensaver built for Windows XP, 7 and 10 that replaces the generic BOINC logo with BOINC Synergy branding. Two versions archived.
|-
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| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/f6ugQIq7Zao/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6ugQIq7Zao&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ General]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[BOINC]] processing for science Screensaver'''<br/><small>Promotional</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | A promotional screensaver recording showing BOINC processing across multiple projects.
|-
|—
|[[File:NanoHive@Home Screensaver.png|thumb|Static image only]]
|'''[[NanoHive@Home]] Screensaver'''
|NanoHive@Home Screensaver with explanations.
|}

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== Adding new entries ==

To add a screensaver not yet listed:

# Upload an animated GIF to [[commons:Main Page|Wikimedia Commons]] with a descriptive filename and tag it with <code><nowiki>{{Free screenshot}}</nowiki></code> and the appropriate licence template.
# Upload a screen recording to the [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy BOINC Screensavers YouTube playlist].
# Add a new row to the gallery table following the existing pattern. The YouTube thumbnail image URL format is <code>https://img.youtube.com/vi/VIDEO_ID/mqdefault.jpg</code> place it on its own line in the cell to render as an inline image, followed by the bracketed watch link on the next line.

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== Technical background ==

=== How BOINC screensavers worked ===

The [[BOINC]] client on Windows and macOS registers itself as a system screensaver. When the machine idles, the BOINC screensaver coordinator launches and cycles between two display modes:

* '''Overview screensaver''' — a built-in BOINC display showing project list, credit totals, and connection status.
* '''Project graphics''' — a separate OpenGL executable shipped by each project, rendering the computation in real time via shared memory with the work unit.

Not all projects shipped graphics applications. Projects without one fell back to the overview screensaver. The graphics application literally showed the live computation in progress, which distinguished BOINC from most other screensaver-based volunteer computing platforms of the era.

=== Preservation ===

By the early 2010s, project screensavers were already disappearing: projects closed, graphics executables were dropped from client packages, and 32-bit OpenGL dependencies became incompatible with modern operating systems. Some recordings required virtual machines running Windows XP or Windows 7 to launch executables that no longer run on current systems. Animated GIF versions on [[Wikimedia Commons]] are limited to 256 colours; the YouTube recordings are the highest-fidelity versions available.

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== See also ==

* [[BOINC]] the volunteer computing platform underlying all projects on this wiki
* [[BOINC Manager]] the desktop client that hosted the screensaver coordinator
* [[BOINC projects]] the complete list of all BOINC projects

== External links ==

* [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy BOINC Screensavers — full YouTube playlist]
* [https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/wiki/BOINC-screensaver BOINC screensaver technical documentation (GitHub)]
* [[commons:Category:Berkeley_Open_Infrastructure_for_Network_Computing_projects|BOINC media on Wikimedia Commons]]

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[[Category:Screensavers]]

BOINC project screensavers

2026-08-14T20:33:39Z

Al Piskun: add NanoHive@Home Screensaver static image

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|title=BOINC project screensavers
|description=A complete archive of 71 BOINC project screensavers — animated recordings of real-time scientific visualisations from SETI@home, Einstein@Home, Rosetta@home, Pirates@Home, World Community Grid, and dozens more volunteer computing projects.
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{{DISPLAYTITLE:BOINC Project Screensavers}}
__NOTOC__

One of the distinctive features of early [[BOINC]] projects was the '''project screensaver.''' Many screensavers featured a real-time animated display showing the volunteer's computer actively contributing to science. When a BOINC-attached machine sat idle, the screensaver would launch and visualise the underlying computation: radio telescope signals sweeping across a star field for [[SETI@home]], protein chains folding in three dimensions for [[Rosetta@home]], or a climate model globe spinning for [[climateprediction.net]].

As LCD and OLED monitors replaced phosphor-coated CRTs, the original technical justification for screensavers (preventing phosphor burn-in), became obsolete. BOINC projects gradually stopped shipping screensaver graphics. The gallery below preserves recordings of every known BOINC project screensaver. Click any '''▶''' link to watch the YouTube recording; where an animated GIF exists on [[Wikimedia Commons]], it appears in the left column.

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== Full Playlist ==

The complete collection of 71 BOINC screensaver recordings is available as a YouTube playlist. Use the player below to browse all videos, or jump to individual project entries in the gallery beneath it.

{{#ev:youtube|pZ1fSYpwhYA|700|center|BOINC Project Screensavers – Full Playlist|start=0&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy}}

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== Screensaver Gallery ==

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%; vertical-align:top;"
! style="width:150px;" | Animated GIF
! style="width:220px;" | YouTube recording(s)
! Project
! Notes
|-
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | [[File:SETI@home custom background and logo screensaver.gif|140px]]
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/IfeGNAZY92k/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfeGNAZY92k&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Enhanced 5.27]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[SETI@home]]'''<br/><small>Astronomy / SETI</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Flagship BOINC screensaver. Features a custom background and logo that were available options. Displays a rotating 3D star field with a sweeping radio-telescope signal trace, frequency spectrum, and spike indicator. Ran from 2002 until the project entered hibernation in March 2020.
|-
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | [[File:SETI Beta.gif|140px]]
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/buLKZnyzOdI/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buLKZnyzOdI&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Version 6.00]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[SETI@home Beta]]'''<br/><small>Astronomy / SETI</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Beta test environment for SETI@home and AstroPulse. Volunteers stress-tested new algorithms and GPU-optimised work units before deployment to the main project.
|-
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | [[File:Astropulse.gif|140px]]
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/5r-t8WQicqE/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r-t8WQicqE&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ AstroPulse 4.25]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[AstroPulse]]'''<br/><small>Astronomy / SETI</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Searched for dispersed radio pulses potentially indicative of primordial black holes, pulsars, or ETI signals. Shares visual DNA with SETI@home but emphasises the wide-band de-dispersion pipeline.
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| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | [[File:Einstein@Home.gif|140px]]
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/kGWsTnmk1lw/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGWsTnmk1lw&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Multi-Directional 2.07]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/xwhMEXMxqU8/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwhMEXMxqU8&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ All-sky pulsar search 4.15]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[Einstein@Home]]'''<br/><small>Astrophysics / Gravitational waves</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Renders a real-time 3D celestial sphere ('Gravity Surfer') showing the sky position being searched for continuous gravitational-wave signals and radio pulsars. Still active as of 2026.
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| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | [[File:Rosetta.gif|140px]]
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/6o5yBfG_vss/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o5yBfG_vss&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Rosetta 4.20]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/m1nlnZoTJV4/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1nlnZoTJV4&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Rosetta Beta 5.89]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[Rosetta@home]]'''<br/><small>Biochemistry / Protein folding</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Visualises protein structure prediction in real time using a 3D molecular renderer. Chains of amino acids fold and rotate as the work unit progresses. Run by the Baker Lab at the University of Washington.
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| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/W9fC5lv76T0/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9fC5lv76T0&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Rosetta Beta 5.90]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[RALPH@home]]'''<br/><small>Biochemistry / Protein folding</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Pre-production test project for Rosetta@home. Used the same protein-folding screensaver as the Rosetta Beta application.
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| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | [[File:Proteins.gif|140px]]
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/aM6kiaM228Y/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM6kiaM228Y&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Boinc Xplor 7.41]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[proteins@home]]'''<br/><small>Biochemistry / Protein folding</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | An early protein structure prediction project. The screensaver displayed evolving protein geometry using the Boinc Xplor visualiser.
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| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | [[File:Climateprediction.gif|140px]]
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/Mae7JfL1giE/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mae7JfL1giE&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ HadSM3 Slab Model]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[climateprediction.net]]'''<br/><small>Climate science</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Displays an animated global climate model: a spinning Earth overlaid with colour-coded temperature anomaly, cloud cover, and atmospheric flow vectors. One of the oldest continuous BOINC projects (launched 2003), still active.
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| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | [[File:LHC@home.gif|140px]]
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/0qbLDbsNO3w/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qbLDbsNO3w&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ SixTrack 4.67]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[LHC@home]]'''<br/><small>Particle physics</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Run by CERN to simulate particle beam trajectories in the Large Hadron Collider. The screensaver renders a schematic of the LHC ring with animated beam paths. Still active.
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| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | [[File:Primegrid.gif|140px]]
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/rhZxqi9x7rI/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhZxqi9x7rI&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ 321 Prime Search 5.09]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[PrimeGrid]]'''<br/><small>Mathematics / Number theory</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Searches for large prime numbers and prime constellations. One of the largest and longest-running BOINC projects; still active.
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| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | [[File:QMC@Home.gif|140px]]
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/fNWUs9jRwSY/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNWUs9jRwSY&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ preRC1 5.01]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[QMC@Home]]'''<br/><small>Chemistry / Quantum chemistry</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Ran Quantum Monte Carlo calculations for molecular electronic structure — among the most computationally demanding methods in theoretical chemistry. Currently inactive.
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| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | [[File:Spinhenge.gif|140px]]
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/d-fafmtqE74/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-fafmtqE74&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Monte Carlo Metropolis 3.10]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[Spinhenge@home]]'''<br/><small>Physics / Molecular magnetism</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Simulated quantum spin dynamics of single-molecule magnets. The screensaver rendered molecular structures rotating in a magnetic field. Ran approximately 2006–2008.
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| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | [[File:Leiden.gif|140px]]
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/co2SkwsvyOk/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co2SkwsvyOk&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Trajtou-cu111 5.36]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/ECAQC1mzMiM/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECAQC1mzMiM&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Classical 5.50]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[Leiden Classical]]'''<br/><small>Chemistry / Astrochemistry</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Simulated classical molecular dynamics on interstellar dust grain surfaces to model the formation of molecules such as water and methanol in space. Ran approximately 2007–2011.
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| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | [[File:Gerasim.gif|140px]]
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/cw7yBZ_KGGA/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw7yBZ_KGGA&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ gsm 1.10]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[Gerasim@home]]'''<br/><small>Mathematics / Combinatorics</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | A Russian volunteer computing project solving combinatorial problems including the study of Latin squares and similar discrete structures.
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| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | [[File:Malaria.gif|140px]]
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/4GAYKw5SakQ/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GAYKw5SakQ&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ malariacontrol.net 5.53]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[malariacontrol.net]]'''<br/><small>Epidemiology / Public health</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Ran stochastic simulations of malaria transmission dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa to evaluate cost-effectiveness of intervention strategies. Concluded around 2015.
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| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | [[File:Docking@Home.gif|140px]]
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/gC_2zu2efY4/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC_2zu2efY4&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Charmm 6.13]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[Docking@Home]]'''<br/><small>Biochemistry / Drug discovery</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Performed molecular docking simulations — fitting drug-like molecules into target protein binding sites to identify drug candidates. Ran approximately 2006–2012.
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| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | [[File:AQUA@home.gif|140px]]
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/VyQgGkj_Rss/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyQgGkj_Rss&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ D-Wave AQUA 1.14]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[AQUA@home]]'''<br/><small>Physics / Quantum computing</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Run by D-Wave Systems to help design and verify quantum annealing processors. Simulated quantum annealing on classical hardware to test future D-Wave chip architectures. Ran approximately 2008–2013.
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| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | [[File:MindModeling.gif|140px]]
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/3aJmm60Wgl8/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aJmm60Wgl8&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Beta 2.61]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[MindModeling@Home]]'''<br/><small>Cognitive science</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Applied cognitive architecture models (ACT-R and PRIMs) to simulate human thought processes. Run by Wright State University and the University of Dayton. Ran approximately 2009–2016.
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| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | [[File:Ibercivis.gif|140px]]
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/RRPMDKPGt3A/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRPMDKPGt3A&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ neurosim 4.44]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[Ibercivis]]'''<br/><small>Physics / Nuclear fusion</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | A Spanish–French initiative supporting plasma physics simulations related to nuclear fusion research. Ran approximately 2008–2013.
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| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/GHJ4KBdwVew/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHJ4KBdwVew&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ cmsearch 0.13]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[RNA World (beta)]]'''<br/><small>Biology / RNA research</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Searched for functional RNA molecules using the cmsearch algorithm from the Infernal software package.
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| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/e-DUArD38Pw/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-DUArD38Pw&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Short-Cut Threading 5.14]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[CAS@home]]'''<br/><small>Biochemistry / Protein threading</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Run by the Chinese Academy of Sciences to perform protein structure prediction using short-cut threading methods.
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| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/d03IUeQrDLQ/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d03IUeQrDLQ&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Version 5.60]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/g7T_oKqNYMo/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7T_oKqNYMo&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Version 5.58]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[Rectilinear Crossing Number Project]]'''<br/><small>Mathematics / Graph theory</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Computed the rectilinear crossing number of complete graphs — the minimum number of edge crossings in a straight-line drawing. Two screensaver versions archived.
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| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | [[File:Quake-Catcher.gif|140px]]
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/SCv_W751m64/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCv_W751m64&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ QCN Alpha 4.27]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[Quake-Catcher Network]]'''<br/><small>Geophysics / Seismology</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Used laptop accelerometers and USB sensors as a distributed seismograph network. The screensaver displayed a live seismogram trace from the volunteer's own sensor. A joint project of Stanford and UC Riverside.
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| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/mzp2QBwvb2U/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzp2QBwvb2U&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Version 1.00]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[Cels@Home]]'''<br/><small>Biology / Cell simulation</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | One of the rarer BOINC project screensavers. Cels@Home was an early project focused on biological cell simulation.
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| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/Upt0ROEPBt8/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Upt0ROEPBt8&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Cruncher ogr 519.01]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/ZUmmcIdnAog/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUmmcIdnAog&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Cruncher ogr 2.03]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/7Fu7lClSYsk/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Fu7lClSYsk&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ evolution@home 1.12]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/H-ByPAHoBe8/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-ByPAHoBe8&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Muon 1.10]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[Yoyo@home]]'''<br/><small>Mathematics / Various</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | A wrapper project running multiple mathematical applications including OGR (Optimal Golomb Ruler search), evolution simulation, and muon physics calculations. Still active.
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| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/vEqImf6mtgE/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEqImf6mtgE&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ YAFU 134.05 (mt)]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[YAFU]]'''<br/><small>Mathematics / Integer factorisation</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Yet Another Factorisation Utility — a BOINC wrapper running YAFU to factor large integers, particularly small composites.
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| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/a4nO8ki2qR4/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4nO8ki2qR4&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Example Application 224.89]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[Volunteer@home]]'''<br/><small>Test / Example</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | A test project running a generic example BOINC application.
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| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | [[File:Pirates@Home screensaver Scroll 4.53.gif|140px]]
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/pZ1fSYpwhYA/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ1fSYpwhYA&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Starboard 4.14]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/hXE7bi-pBXE/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXE7bi-pBXE&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Lalane 3.05]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/2n9OOeotK6E/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n9OOeotK6E&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Scroll 4.53]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/dRKVEfXVdFo/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRKVEfXVdFo&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Scroll 4.60]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/D_5G-HzQkHs/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_5G-HzQkHs&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Scroll 4.63]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/AqmAVE746DY/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqmAVE746DY&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Sextant 4.91]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/2kUDzXquNw4/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kUDzXquNw4&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Cube 5.13]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/5ga7lRWMk-I/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ga7lRWMk-I&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Starboard 5.14]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/ONAegiu4jyA/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONAegiu4jyA&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Starboard 5.17]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/SPF8fZ8lJf8/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPF8fZ8lJf8&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Starboard 5.18]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/OX3lw2xHvyo/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX3lw2xHvyo&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Starboard 5.19]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/P6guDjKdUH8/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6guDjKdUH8&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Lalanne 5.06]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/auWJPd_Yzds/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auWJPd_Yzds&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Cube 6.01]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/O2mBz8tmBhA/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2mBz8tmBhA&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Starboard 6.01]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/yq6odp-rhao/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq6odp-rhao&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Cube 6.05]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[Pirates@Home]]'''<br/><small>Developement</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Contributed to Einstein@Home's screensaver developement. Produced more screensaver variants than any other BOINC project, spanning multiple themes (Lalane/Lalanne, Scroll, Sextant, Cube, Starboard) across versions 3.x–6.x.
|-
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | [[File:Primates@Home screensaver Starboard 5.21.gif|140px]]
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/NTeYa66qkxc/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTeYa66qkxc&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Starboard 5.21]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[Pirates@Home#Primates@Home (April Fools 2008)|Primates@Home]]'''<br/>Playing around
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | The Starboard screensaver variant echoes the Pirates@Home fun atmosphere with secret messages
|-
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | [[File:Help Conquer Cancer.gif|140px]]
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/P69-Z_-Keqo/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P69-Z_-Keqo&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ FightAIDS@Home 5.42]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/t1J6MWXQTT0/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1J6MWXQTT0&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Discovering Dengue Drugs]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/qzCBvULmEVA/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzCBvULmEVA&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Help Conquer Cancer 5.15]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/nxsswGhJKl8/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxsswGhJKl8&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Human Proteome Folding–Phase 2 6.17]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/QBrMRUh_OFY/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBrMRUh_OFY&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Help Fight Childhood Cancer 6.11]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/QmFu9NqtXdE/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmFu9NqtXdE&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Computing for Clean Water 6.13]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/JuuMK8ysNyA/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuuMK8ysNyA&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy 2 6.14]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/Iny0ZfWpvaM/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iny0ZfWpvaM&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ The Clean Energy Project–Phase 2]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/YseFsaILi1w/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YseFsaILi1w&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Mapping Cancer Markers v7.41]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/s9uEV83uuzU/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9uEV83uuzU&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Microbiome Immunity Project v7.16]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/AYnQw9qcMdE/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYnQw9qcMdE&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Open Pandemics COVID-19 v7.17]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/pNz-CzHW3AA/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNz-CzHW3AA&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Krembil – Open Pandemics COVID-19]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/x-L8FzyfFN4/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-L8FzyfFN4&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Krembil – Mapping Cancer Markers]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/_cTbP3UFnTM/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cTbP3UFnTM&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Krembil – Africa Rainfall Project]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/vLbgNxlP5w4/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLbgNxlP5w4&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Smash Childhood Cancer]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[World Community Grid]]'''<br/><small>Multiple projects. IBM/Krembil hosted</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Formerly IBM and now Krembil Institute-sponsored grid running multiple humanitarian research sub-projects on a shared BOINC platform. Each sub-project had its own screensaver variant, all archived here.
|-
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | —
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/9rRWAgpfMzg/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rRWAgpfMzg&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Upper Case 5.15]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[BOINC]]'''<br/><small>Infrastructure / Alpha testing</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | The BOINC alpha test project screensaver, used to test screensaver infrastructure on pre-release BOINC client builds.
|-
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | —
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/1RVFLPdrwiA/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RVFLPdrwiA&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Version 7.00]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[BOINC]] test project'''<br/><small>Infrastructure / Testing</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | Generic BOINC test project screensaver used for client validation.
|-
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | —
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/XPDLWA8d_10/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPDLWA8d_10&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Generic]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[BOINC]]'''<br/><small>Infrastructure</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | The built-in BOINC overview screensaver shown when no project graphics application is available. Displays BOINC status, project list, and credit totals.
|-
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | —
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/ck6UTKxPyxI/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck6UTKxPyxI&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Version 2.1]<br/><br/>https://img.youtube.com/vi/PvgSOBLiJtw/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvgSOBLiJtw&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ Version 1.0]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[BOINC Synergy]]'''<br/><small>Custom / Community</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | A custom screensaver built for Windows XP, 7 and 10 that replaces the generic BOINC logo with BOINC Synergy branding. Two versions archived.
|-
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | —
| style="text-align:center; padding:6px; vertical-align:top;" | https://img.youtube.com/vi/f6ugQIq7Zao/mqdefault.jpg

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6ugQIq7Zao&list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy ▶ General]
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px;" | '''[[BOINC]] processing for science Screensaver'''<br/><small>Promotional</small>
| style="vertical-align:top; padding:6px; font-size:0.9em;" | A promotional screensaver recording showing BOINC processing across multiple projects.
|-
|—
|[[File:NanoHive@Home Screensaver.png|thumb|Static image only]]
|'''NanoHive@Home Screensaver'''
|NanoHive@Home Screensaver with explanations.
|}

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== Adding new entries ==

To add a screensaver not yet listed:

# Upload an animated GIF to [[commons:Main Page|Wikimedia Commons]] with a descriptive filename and tag it with <code><nowiki>{{Free screenshot}}</nowiki></code> and the appropriate licence template.
# Upload a screen recording to the [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy BOINC Screensavers YouTube playlist].
# Add a new row to the gallery table following the existing pattern. The YouTube thumbnail image URL format is <code>https://img.youtube.com/vi/VIDEO_ID/mqdefault.jpg</code> place it on its own line in the cell to render as an inline image, followed by the bracketed watch link on the next line.

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== Technical background ==

=== How BOINC screensavers worked ===

The [[BOINC]] client on Windows and macOS registers itself as a system screensaver. When the machine idles, the BOINC screensaver coordinator launches and cycles between two display modes:

* '''Overview screensaver''' — a built-in BOINC display showing project list, credit totals, and connection status.
* '''Project graphics''' — a separate OpenGL executable shipped by each project, rendering the computation in real time via shared memory with the work unit.

Not all projects shipped graphics applications. Projects without one fell back to the overview screensaver. The graphics application literally showed the live computation in progress, which distinguished BOINC from most other screensaver-based volunteer computing platforms of the era.

=== Preservation ===

By the early 2010s, project screensavers were already disappearing: projects closed, graphics executables were dropped from client packages, and 32-bit OpenGL dependencies became incompatible with modern operating systems. Some recordings required virtual machines running Windows XP or Windows 7 to launch executables that no longer run on current systems. Animated GIF versions on [[Wikimedia Commons]] are limited to 256 colours; the YouTube recordings are the highest-fidelity versions available.

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== See also ==

* [[BOINC]] the volunteer computing platform underlying all projects on this wiki
* [[BOINC Manager]] the desktop client that hosted the screensaver coordinator
* [[BOINC projects]] the complete list of all BOINC projects

== External links ==

* [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLblxpyGay1Q7Bp3Mx2GACRc2XU6F0Yduy BOINC Screensavers — full YouTube playlist]
* [https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/wiki/BOINC-screensaver BOINC screensaver technical documentation (GitHub)]
* [[commons:Category:Berkeley_Open_Infrastructure_for_Network_Computing_projects|BOINC media on Wikimedia Commons]]

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NanoHive@Home

2026-08-14T20:21:22Z

Al Piskun: first light

{{Infobox software
| name = NanoHive@Home
| logo = Header-nhah-house.png
| logo caption = NanoHive@Home project logo
| screenshot = NanoHive@Home Screensaver.png
| caption = The NanoHive@Home screensaver, showing the work unit identifier, host and total credit, a progress bar, and the running quantum chemical optimization log
| description = NanoHive@Home was a completed Nanotechnology BOINC volunteer computing project that used the NanoHive-1 nanospace simulator to search for failure modes in diamondoid mechanosynthesis tooltips. It was created by Brian Helfrich and sponsored by Nanorex, Inc.
| status = Completed
| category = Nanotechnology (computational chemistry, molecular nanotechnology)
| compute = CPU
| dependencies = None (the client bundled the NanoHive-1 simulator, MPQC libraries and the graphics/screensaver executable)
| developer = Brian Helfrich (NanoHive@Home and NanoHive-1); Nanorex, Inc.
| author = Brian Helfrich
| sponsor = Nanorex, Inc., Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
| maintainer = Brian Helfrich (project engineer); Dr. Damian G. Allis (project scientist)
| released = {{Start date and age|2006|10|04}} (open beta; closed beta from 25 May 2006)
| completed = Science run ended May 2007; project closed 2008
| discontinued = 2008
| repository = {{URL|https://sourceforge.net/projects/nano-hive/}}
| programming language = C, C++ (TCL simulation scripting)
| operating system = Windows (x86, amd64, x86_64); Mac and Linux clients announced but never released
| size = 4 MB download, expanding to about 20 MB on disk
| stats as of = {{Start date and age|2008|01|14}}
| average performance = About 3 TFLOPS at peak (project statement); 4.72 TFLOPS recorded by BOINCstats on 27 April 2007
| active users = 0 (project closed)
| total users = 3165
| active hosts = 0 (project closed)
| total hosts = 7166
| rac = 0
| credit per day = 0
| gpu performance = None (no GPU application)
| cpu performance = About 3 TFLOPS at peak
| website = {{URL|http://www.nanohive-1.org/atHome/}} (offline; [https://web.archive.org/web/20070505234056/http://www.nanohive-1.org:80/atHome/ archived])
| license = GNU GPL-2.0 and LGPL-2.0 (NanoHive-1 core and plugins)
}}

'''NanoHive@Home''' (often abbreviated '''NHAH''' or '''NH@H''') was a [[Volunteer computing|volunteer computing]] project running on the [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/ Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing] (BOINC) platform between 2006 and 2008. It was created by software architect Brian Helfrich and sponsored by the molecular [[Nanotechnology|nanotechnology]] software company Nanorex, Inc., with quantum chemist Dr. Damian G. Allis serving as project scientist.<ref>{{Cite web |title=NanoHive@Home: About Us |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070706233855/http://www.nanohive-1.org/atHome/about_us.php |website=nanohive-1.org (Wayback Machine) |date=2007 |access-date=2026-08-14}}</ref> The project's stated goal was "to perform large-scale nanosystems simulation and analysis that is otherwise too intensive to be calculated via normal means, and thereby enable further scientific study in the field of nanotechnology."<ref name="NanoHiveHomeIntroducti">{{Cite web |title=NanoHive@Home: Introduction |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070505234056/http://www.nanohive-1.org:80/atHome/ |website=nanohive-1.org (Wayback Machine) |date=2007-05-05 |access-date=2026-08-14}}</ref>

Unlike most BOINC projects of its era, NanoHive@Home was not run by a university. It was a not-for-profit effort attached to a commercial [[Computer-aided design|CAD]] software company, it was completely open source, and it placed all of its results in the public domain.<ref name="NanoHiveHomeIntroducti" /> Its single completed science campaign, the '''Tooltip Failure Mode Search Project''', ran from February to May 2007 and produced roughly 80,000 candidate molecular geometries and 200,000 quantum chemical calculations. Those results were eventually published in 2011 in the ''Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience''.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Allis |first1=Damian G. |last2=Helfrich |first2=Brian |last3=Freitas |first3=Robert A. |last4=Merkle |first4=Ralph C. |title=Analysis of Diamondoid Mechanosynthesis Tooltip Pathologies Generated via a Distributed Computing Approach |journal=Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience |volume=8 |issue=7 |pages=1139-1161 |date=2011-07-01 |doi=10.1166/jctn.2011.1792 |publisher=American Scientific Publishers}}</ref>

The project is remembered fondly in the volunteer computing community for its unusually informative screensaver, which displayed the live quantum chemistry log of the molecule being optimized. A contemporary post in the BOINCstats forum called it "the project with the most cool screensaver."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Forum: Retired projects: Nano-hive @home |url=https://www.boincstats.com/forum/12/1209 |website=BOINCstats |date=2006 |access-date=2026-08-14}}</ref> Members of [[BOINC projects|BOINC Synergy]] were active on the project, and a BOINC Synergy member was featured as NanoHive@Home's "User of the Day" in May 2007.<ref name="NanoHiveHomeIntroducti" />

== Scientific background ==

[[File:Diamondoids.png|thumb|right|300px|Diamondoid cage hydrocarbons: adamantane (1), diamantane (2), triamantane (3) and a tetramantane (4). The tooltips studied by NanoHive@Home were germanium-substituted polymantanes built from cages of this kind.]]

=== Diamondoid mechanosynthesis ===

[[Mechanosynthesis]] is the proposed fabrication of structures by mechanically positioning individual reactive molecules so that chemical bonds are formed at chosen sites, rather than by allowing reagents to meet by diffusion in solution. In [[Molecular nanotechnology|molecular nanotechnology]], the most-studied variant is ''diamondoid mechanosynthesis'' (DMS), in which stiff hydrocarbon cage molecules ([[Adamantane|adamantane]], diamantane and larger polymantanes) act as the framework for a '''tooltip''' that carries a two-carbon feedstock unit, the carbon dimer <math>\mathrm{C}_2</math>, and deposits it onto a growing diamond workpiece.

The tooltips examined by NanoHive@Home came from a published survey of germanium-substituted polymantane dimer placement motifs by Robert A. Freitas Jr., Damian G. Allis and Ralph C. Merkle,<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Freitas |first1=Robert A. |last2=Allis |first2=Damian G. |last3=Merkle |first3=Ralph C. |title=Horizontal Ge-Substituted Polymantane-Based C2 Dimer Placement Tooltip Motifs for Diamond Mechanosynthesis |journal=Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience |volume=4 |issue=3 |pages=433-442 |date=May 2007 |url=http://www.MolecularAssembler.com/Papers/DPTMotifs.pdf}}</ref> and from the earlier DC10c tooltip study by Allis and K. Eric Drexler.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Allis |first1=Damian G. |last2=Drexler |first2=K. Eric |title=Design and Analysis of a Molecular Tool for Carbon Transfer in Mechanosynthesis |journal=Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=45-55 |date=March 2005 |url=http://e-drexler.com/d/05/00/DC10C-mechanosynthesis.pdf}}</ref> In these designs the dimer is held between two germanium atoms, so the reactive geometry can be written schematically as <math>\mathrm{Ge}\cdots\mathrm{C}_2\cdots\mathrm{Ge}</math>.

=== Why failure modes matter ===

A tooltip is only useful if the geometry that performs the chemistry, the "ready" or ''loaded'' tooltip, is also the geometry the molecule prefers to sit in. If some other arrangement of the same atoms is lower in energy and reachable, the tool can quietly rearrange itself into a shape that can no longer transfer its dimer. Allis described the distinction between reactivity and stability with characteristic humour on the project site:

<blockquote>"A knife with its blade exposed is certainly the more functional geometry for such an object, but the knife with its blade retracted into the handle is the geometry least likely to damage the blade."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Allis |first=Damian G. |title=The Q-SMAKAS Tooltip Failure Mode Search Project |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070606082448/http://www.nanohive-1.org/atHome/Nanofactory_1_Damian.php |website=nanohive-1.org (Wayback Machine) |date=2007 |access-date=2026-08-14}}</ref></blockquote>

Because a manufacturing system might cycle a tooltip on the order of <math>10^{12}</math> to <math>10^{23}</math> times, even rare rearrangements matter. Allis pointed out that a tool surviving <math>10^{12}</math> operations at one operation per 100 nanoseconds lasts a little under ten days, while <math>10^{23}</math> operations at the same rate would last roughly 2.7 million years. Cataloguing the accessible defect geometries, or ''pathologies'', of each candidate tooltip was therefore treated as a necessary last step of tooltip design, and it was exactly the kind of embarrassingly parallel search that volunteer computing does well.

== The Q-SMAKAS method ==

[[File:Adamantane 3D ball.png|thumb|left|260px|Ball-and-stick model of adamantane, the smallest diamondoid cage. Tooltip frameworks in the NanoHive@Home survey were built from adamantane, diamantane, iceane and twistane cages with germanium substitutions.]]

The search protocol devised for the project was named '''Q-SMAKAS''', for ''Quantum Search for Minimum Alternatives in Kinetically-Accessible Space''. Allis contrasted it with the lower-energy conformational searching used by protein folding projects, which he labelled Q-SMACS: "Q-SMACS is to a hot water bottle what Q-SMAKAS is to a lit match."

The pipeline had three stages.<ref>{{Cite web |title=NanoHive@Home: Results Gallery, Experimental process |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070825144023/http://www.nanohive-1.org/atHome/results_gallery.php |website=nanohive-1.org (Wayback Machine) |date=2007-08-25 |access-date=2026-08-14}}</ref>

# '''Reference optimization.''' Each tooltip was first energy-minimized with Sandia National Laboratories' Massively Parallel Quantum Chemistry program ([http://www.mpqc.org/ MPQC]) at the restricted [[Hartree-Fock method|Hartree-Fock]] RHF/3-21G level of theory. Seven of the larger tooltips (MCB5Ge, MCB57Ge, DCB75Ge, C100GeATD, C100GeATS, C100GeCTS and MCB75Ge) converged too slowly and were run at RHF/STO-3G instead.
# '''Thermal deformation.''' Using the optimized geometry, a [[Molecular dynamics|molecular dynamics]] simulation was run in [https://www.gromacs.org/ GROMACS] for 50,000 iterations at high temperature, with a snapshot taken every 40 to 50 iterations. The thermal energy shook each cage far away from its designed shape, generating kinetically accessible deformations.
# '''Distributed re-optimization.''' Every snapshot became a BOINC work unit: a fresh RHF/3-21G or RHF/STO-3G geometry optimization that relaxed the deformed structure downhill into whatever local minimum it happened to fall into. Volunteers' computers performed the overwhelming majority of these optimizations.

The severity of the deformation was tracked with the root-mean-square deviation of atomic positions relative to the reference geometry,

:<math>\mathrm{RMSD} = \sqrt{\frac{1}{N}\sum_{i=1}^{N}\left| \mathbf{r}_i - \mathbf{r}_i^{0} \right|^{2}}</math>

where <math>\mathbf{r}_i</math> is the position of atom <math>i</math> in the snapshot and <math>\mathbf{r}_i^{0}</math> its position in the reference structure. A baseline run at 1500 K produced only <math>\mathrm{RMSD}\approx 0.02</math> and yielded no failure modes at all. The team therefore stepped the thermostat upward in 500 K increments, through 2000 K, 2500 K, 3000 K, 3500 K, 4000 K and 4500 K, until deformations of at least <math>\mathrm{RMSD}\approx 0.04</math> were obtained. Several candidate failure modes appeared at that level. Work unit names encoded the run temperature with a letter, from ''z'' for 1500 K through ''t'' for 4500 K.

Energies were reported in [[Hartree|hartree]], the atomic unit of energy, with completely dissociated nuclei and electrons defined as the zero of energy, so that bound molecules have negative total energies. Only structures with identical atom counts computed at identical levels of theory were compared, and the quantity of interest was the relative energy

:<math>\Delta E = E_{\mathrm{defect}} - E_{\mathrm{ready}}, \qquad 1\ E_{\mathrm{h}} \approx 2625.5\ \mathrm{kJ\ mol^{-1}}</math>

A defect with <math>\Delta E < 0</math> is more stable than the working tooltip, which is the unwelcome case: the tool "wants" to be broken. The project shoutbox recorded a participant asking what the recurring note "dimer cracked" meant, and the project engineer explaining that a crack in the tooltip base which lowers the energy "is not good because then it means the tooltip naturally _wants_ to be in a broken configuration."

A crucial caveat, stated plainly by the project and repeated in the published paper, is that Q-SMAKAS locates minima but not the barriers between them. Whether a given pathology is reachable in a working device depends on the transition state energy <math>E_a</math> and the operating temperature through a Boltzmann-type factor,

:<math>k \propto \exp \left( -\frac{E_a}{k_{\mathrm{B}}T} \right)</math>

so identifying accessible minima was explicitly framed as an important but separate follow-up problem.

== Simulation campaigns ==

=== FineMotionController_1 (beta) ===

The first simulation run on the network was a beta test payload. It tested the molecular stability of the '''fine-motion controller''' for molecular assembly, a mechanism designed by K. Eric Drexler in which eight rotating rings drive struts attached to a platform, giving fine control of the platform in the ''x'', ''y'', ''z'', roll, pitch and yaw degrees of freedom.<ref>{{Cite web |title=NanoHive@Home: Current Simulations |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070701135443/http://www.nanohive-1.org/atHome/current_simulations.php |website=nanohive-1.org (Wayback Machine) |date=2007-07-01 |access-date=2026-08-14}}</ref> The simulation was marked "over" by early 2007.

=== Nanofactory_1: the Tooltip Failure Mode Search Project ===

[[File:Molecularpropeller.jpg|thumb|right|300px|A molecular propeller, one of the hypothetical nanoscale machine components of the kind whose feasibility motivated projects such as NanoHive@Home. The NanoHive-1 simulator was written as a general tool for studying such structures.]]

The project's only full science campaign was announced on 24 January 2007, with work units queued from 29 January 2007. The news post promised that this run would behave "more like a typical BOINC project": no cap on work units per host, the whole batch queued more or less at once, and deadlines of about one week.<ref>{{Cite web |title=NanoHive@Home: News archive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070826103208/http://www.nanohive-1.org/atHome/old_news.php |website=nanohive-1.org (Wayback Machine) |date=2007-08-26 |access-date=2026-08-14}}</ref>

The target set consisted of 25 published carbon dimer tooltips, each examined in both a '''loaded''' state (L, holding the <math>\mathrm{C}_2</math> feedstock and ready to deposit) and an '''unloaded''' state (U, after deposition and awaiting recharge), giving 50 structures in all. Named tooltips in the results gallery included DC10c, AdamGe22, AdamGe33, Diad3Ge22, TwistaneGe, DCBIceane7Ge, the DCB series (DCB5Ge, DCB6Ge, DCB55AGe, DCB55BGe, DCB55CGe, DCB57Ge, DCB65Ge, DCB75Ge), the MCB series (MCB5Ge, MCB55Ge, MCB57Ge, MCB75Ge) and the C100/C110/C111 germanium tooltips. Three further molecules, [[Biotin|biotin]], ''n''-heptane and ''n''-octane, were run as method evaluation cases to check whether the same machinery could be used at ordinary temperatures for plain [[Conformational isomerism|conformational]] searching.

On 24 April 2007 the project announced that the campaign was "coming to a successful end" and that results were being organized for the Results Gallery and for peer-reviewed publication. Both the loaded and unloaded galleries were duly posted, with PDB coordinate files, energies and per-defect commentary for each structure.

=== HiveArena (never launched) ===

A third simulation, '''HiveArena''', was listed as "in dev." but never ran. It was a plan for a public competition in which entrants would submit nanobot designs into the NanoHive-1 simulation space and compete at goals such as a speed race, a last-bot-standing melee, or a challenge to disassemble a population of hostile "virus" bots. Volunteers would have watched the contests unfold in the screensaver before anyone else, with crunching teams credited in order of work units contributed and winning teams choosing the soundtrack. The project even published a frequently asked question about how it would prevent participants from cheating by falsifying results, answering that the simulation space was subdivided very finely and that every work unit was independently checked by a second, and if necessary a third, participant.

== Technology ==

=== NanoHive-1 ===

At its core, NanoHive@Home ran the '''NanoHive-1 Nanospace Simulator''', a modular simulator written by Brian Helfrich for modelling the physical world at nanometer scale.<ref>{{Cite web |title=NanoHive@Home: Simulation Software |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070701135840/http://www.nanohive-1.org/atHome/simulation_software.php |website=nanohive-1.org (Wayback Machine) |date=2007-07-01 |access-date=2026-08-14}}</ref> NanoHive-1 was designed around two problems: the sheer number of interacting factors involved in simulating nanospace, and the computational intensity of evaluating those factors for every atom at every time and space quantum. Its answer was a plugin framework in which physical interaction calculators, entity traversal schemes, data import and export formats, results management and simulation control were all replaceable modules.

Successive releases added plugins that are visible in the project's methodology, including ''MPQC_SClib'', which wrapped the Scientific Computing toolkit of the Massively Parallel Quantum Chemistry program, ''BasicCellTraverser'' for multithreaded subdivision of the simulation space, ''AIREBO'' for the adaptive intermolecular reactive empirical bond order potential, ''OpenBabelImportExport'' for file format conversion, and ''SocketsControl'' for driving the simulator over TCP. Version 1.2.0 Beta 1, released in February 2006, was the release that made NanoHive-1 "fully distributable across computing networks."<ref>{{Cite web |title=NanoHive Nanospace Simulator: News |url=https://sourceforge.net/p/nano-hive/news/ |website=SourceForge |access-date=2026-08-14}}</ref> The simulator is written in C and C++ with TCL used for simulation workflow scripting, and is distributed under the GNU GPL version 2 and LGPL version 2.<ref>{{Cite web |title=NanoHive Nanospace Simulator |url=https://sourceforge.net/projects/nano-hive/ |website=SourceForge |access-date=2026-08-14}}</ref>

=== BOINC integration ===

BOINC was bolted onto NanoHive-1 with two purpose-written plugins:

* '''BOINC_PIC_Control''' connected the master NanoHive-1 instance to the BOINC server components, generating and re-assimilating work units. "PIC" stands for ''Physical Interaction Calculator'', which in practice means one computer running NanoHive-1, or a cluster sharing memory.
* '''BOINC_ClientControl''' connected the participant's BOINC main program to the slave NanoHive-1 instance, unpacking and launching the graphics and screensaver program and the simulator, monitoring progress, and reporting claimed credit back through the BOINC Manager.

All of the NanoHive@Home components were open source and were distributed through the SourceForge CVS repository for the ''nano-hive'' project, with anonymous pserver checkout documented on the project website.

The applications page listed two BOINC applications: the original ''Nano-Hive@Home'' application, version 5.08 for Windows/x86, installed 4 October 2006, and ''NHAH Quantum Search for Minimum Alternatives in Kinetically-Accessible Space'', version 5.08 for Windows/x86, Windows/amd64 and Windows/x86_64, installed 22 March 2007.<ref>{{Cite web |title=NanoHive@Home: Applications |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071005181148/http://www.nanohive-1.org/atHome/apps.php |website=nanohive-1.org (Wayback Machine) |date=2007-10-05 |access-date=2026-08-14}}</ref>

=== Client requirements and work unit characteristics ===

[[File:BOINC Manager Screenshot.jpg|thumb|right|230px|The BOINC Manager. Volunteers attached to NanoHive@Home by entering the project URL http://www.nanohive-1.org/atHome/ , taking care with the capital "H" in "atHome".]]

The published system requirements covered Windows XP Professional and Home (Service Pack 1 or 2), Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 (Service Pack 2) and Windows NT (Service Pack 6 or 6a), with 128 MB of RAM (256 MB recommended) and up to 100 MB of free disk space. Mac and Linux clients were described as "in development" and a Solaris client as "planned"; none of them was ever released.<ref>{{Cite web |title=NanoHive@Home: Getting Started |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070620160625/http://www.nanohive-1.org/atHome/getting_started.php |website=nanohive-1.org (Wayback Machine) |date=2007-06-20 |access-date=2026-08-14}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Project characteristics as published in the Getting Started page
! Property !! Value
|-
| Client application size || 4 MB download, expanding to 20 MB on disk
|-
| Work unit size || About 10 KB, expanding to 20 KB
|-
| Result upload size || About 200 KB
|-
| Work unit processing time || 40 minutes to 140 hours
|-
| Work unit deadline || 9 to 12 days (about 7 days for the 2007 tooltip run)
|-
| Quorum || 2 or 3, depending on the simulation
|}

The extreme spread in run time, from under an hour to nearly six days, was not a scheduling accident. As the project explained, it is "intrinsic to the search algorithm in our quantum mechanics software": a geometry optimization takes as many steps as the potential energy surface demands, and a badly mangled 4500 K snapshot can wander for a very long time before it settles.

Credit followed a quorum rule. With two valid results, the canonical credit was the mean of the two valid claims,

:<math>C = \frac{1}{2}\left(c_1 + c_2\right)</math>

and both claimants received it, while other participants who had made a reasonable attempt received their own claim capped at <math>C</math>. With three or more valid results the highest and lowest claims were discarded before averaging.

=== The screensaver ===

The screensaver was the project's signature feature and doubled as a genuine progress readout.<ref>{{Cite web |title=NanoHive@Home: Screensaver Graphics |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070627121240/http://www.nanohive-1.org/atHome/screensaver_graphics.php |website=nanohive-1.org (Wayback Machine) |date=2007-06-27 |access-date=2026-08-14}}</ref> Down the left side it showed the participant's username, team, host credit and total credit. Beneath that came the work unit identifier, which was itself descriptive: a molecule name, an ''L'' or ''U'' marking a loaded or unloaded tooltip, and a ''deform_#'' suffix identifying which thermally deformed variant was being computed. The BOINC slot number, CPU time, percentage complete and a progress bar followed.

The most distinctive element was the live activity log, which exposed the two nested loops of the quantum chemical optimization. Energy iterations printed as, for example, ''12.06 dE=2.024e-005 [3.337e-006]'', where ''12'' is the geometry optimization iteration, ''06'' the energy iteration within it, ''dE'' the achieved energy convergence

:<math>\mathrm{dE} = \left| E_n - E_{n-1} \right|</math>

and the bracketed figure the target accuracy. Optimization steps printed their own convergence tests on the maximum gradient and maximum displacement, each with its threshold in brackets and a plain "yes" or "no" for whether the criterion had been met. In effect volunteers watched the molecule roll downhill toward a minimum in real time.

== History ==

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Timeline of NanoHive@Home
! Date !! Event
|-
| 25 May 2006 || Closed beta testing begins with a handful of testers; account creation closed.
|-
| 30 June 2006 || New project website opens with information pages and discussion forums.
|-
| 25 July 2006 || Open enrollment delayed while a bug preventing correct work unit processing on some computers is fixed.
|-
| 23 August 2006 || Closed beta by a small team of BOINC experts continues; open enrollment promised for the following month.
|-
| 20 September 2006 || Enrollment for beta testing opens at 18:00 UTC; the project URL changes to http://www.nanohive-1.org/atHome/ and earlier closed beta testers must detach and reattach.
|-
| 4 October 2006 || Open beta testing begins; the Windows/x86 application version 5.08 is installed.
|-
| 6 October 2006 || Work unit production paused to fix bugs and to add a limited-cache mechanism improving work unit distribution and parallelism.
|-
| 27 to 30 October 2006 || Beta test round 5.08 / client 1.21 / server, with the new limited-cache mechanism.
|-
| 24 January 2007 || The Tooltip Failure Mode Search Project is announced.
|-
| 29 January 2007 || Work units for the tooltip run enter the queue.
|-
| 11 to 12 February 2007 || Roughly two hours of scheduled maintenance downtime.
|-
| 17 February 2007 || Client NHAH_QSMAKAS version 5.06 released, fixing a modal error dialog that blocked the BOINC Manager and correcting a progress calculation that stalled work units at 99.99 percent; the per-host daily result limit is reset to 50.
|-
| 22 March 2007 || Version 5.08 of the QSMAKAS application is installed for Windows x86, amd64 and x86_64.
|-
| 24 April 2007 || The project announces the campaign is coming to a successful end and that results are being prepared for the gallery and for publication.
|-
| May 2007 || Science run ends; the Results Gallery is populated with 25 loaded tooltips, 25 unloaded tooltips and 3 method evaluation molecules.
|-
| 2008 || The project closes. Helfrich leaves Nanorex; Nanorex does not keep the project running.
|-
| 12 December 2011 || Allis announces the publication of the project's results on his website, thanking the volunteers.
|}

=== Closure ===

No further campaign followed the tooltip survey. Helfrich's curriculum vitae records his tenure at Nanorex in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan as running from June 2006 to June 2008, during which he "created and managed a project to find failure modes for 25 published carbon-dimer mechanosynthesis tooltips" and "implemented a ~10,000 node, globally distributed computing network to run the project (nanohive-1.org/atHome)".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Personnel File: Brian Helfrich |url=https://www.helcorp.com/bhelfrich/ |website=Helcorp |access-date=2026-08-14}}</ref> A message posted to the BOINCstats forum on 2 October 2008 quoted Helfrich's reply to a participant's query about the project's future:

<blockquote>"Yes, sad to say, NHAH is dead. I no longer work at Nanorex and they have no interest in keeping it alive, so it's over."</blockquote>

Forum members reacted with regret, and asked whether the statistics could be archived, since the project had disappeared from the BOINCstats project menu into the retired projects section. As BOINCstats' operator explained in the same thread, retired projects continue to have user, team and country credit preserved, but host credit is no longer updated and retired projects are excluded from BOINC combined statistics.

== Participation and statistics ==

NanoHive@Home was a modest project by credit, but a well-populated one by headcount for a company-run effort with a Windows-only client and a single science run.

{| class="wikitable"
|+ BOINCstats project figures for Nano-Hive@Home
! Metric !! 27 April 2007 (near peak) !! 14 January 2008 (after closure)
|-
| Users (total / active) || 3,150 / 2,199 || 3,165 / 0
|-
| Hosts (total / active) || 7,294 / 7,287 || 7,166 / 7,112
|-
| Teams (total / active) || 452 / 368 || 454 / 0
|-
| Countries (total / active) || 88 / 80 || 87 / 4
|-
| Total credit || 41,865,304 || 42,983,633
|-
| Average performance || 4,720.4 GigaFLOPS (4.720 TFLOPS) || 0.0 GigaFLOPS
|}

<ref>{{Cite web |title=BOINCstats: Nano-Hive@Home credit overview |url=http://web.archive.org/web/20070427211705/http://www.boincstats.com:80/stats/project_graph.php?pr=nano |website=BOINCstats (Wayback Machine) |date=2007-04-27 |access-date=2026-08-14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=BOINCstats: Nano-Hive@Home credit overview |url=http://web.archive.org/web/20080115045538/http://boincstats.com:80/stats/project_graph.php?pr=nano |website=BOINCstats (Wayback Machine) |date=2008-01-15 |access-date=2026-08-14}}</ref>

Other counts are cited by the participants themselves. The published paper's acknowledgement credits "over 6,000 worldwide volunteers and their computers",<ref>{{Cite web |last=Allis |first=Damian G. |title=NanoHive@Home's Published Results (Finally) |url=https://www.somewhereville.com/2011/12/12/nanohivehomes-published-results-finally-analysis-of-diamondoid-mechanosynthesis-tooltip-pathologies-generated-via-a-distributed-computing-approach/ |website=somewhereville.com |date=2011-12-12 |access-date=2026-08-14}}</ref> and Helfrich describes a network of roughly 10,000 nodes. Allis's curriculum vitae notes that the Tooltip Failure Mode Search Project "peaked at an unadvertised three teraFLOPS",<ref>{{Cite web |last=Allis |first=Damian G. |title=Damian Gregory Allis, Ph.D. (Online CV) |url=https://www.somewhereville.com/damian-gregory-allis-phd/ |website=somewhereville.com |access-date=2026-08-14}}</ref> while the contemporaneous BOINCstats snapshot records 4.72 TFLOPS. The discrepancy is typical of the period, when project-side FLOPS estimates and credit-derived estimates were computed differently. Sustained throughput can be estimated from granted credit using the BOINC convention that one credit corresponds to <math>10^{-2}</math> [[Cobblestone (BOINC)|cobblestone]] days of a reference machine, but the project itself simply published daily plots of results returned and average teraFLOPS per day on its front page.

Statistics were also carried by the usual third-party sites of the day, among them BOINCstats, Free-DC, BOINC.dk, boinc.mundayweb.com, DC-Vault, BOINC UK, the Knights Who Say 'Ni' and BOINC Combined Statistics.

== Results ==

[[File:Nanob.jpg|thumb|left|280px|A conceptual rendering of a molecular nanotechnology device. NanoHive@Home's practical contribution was less glamorous and more useful: an exhaustive catalogue of the ways in which such structures can quietly break.]]

The Q-SMAKAS survey generated approximately 80,000 tooltip geometries which were used in 200,000 geometry optimizations at the RHF/3-21G or RHF/STO-3G levels. Those optimizations were catalogued, grouped by energy and geometry, and analysed to identify pathologies for both loaded and unloaded tooltips.

Several classes of defect emerged from the analysis:

* '''Hydrogen migration.''' In most stable tooltips, migration of hydrogen is assumed to be the most accessible route to an inoperative structure, a mode earlier work called "hydrogen poisoning". For the DCB65Ge tooltip, hydrogen insertion was the ''only'' pathology found, indicating an unusually deformation-resistant framework.
* '''Hydrogen inversion.''' The most common defect encountered was a C-H group on the outer surface of a cage flipping so that the hydrogen points into the hollow interior. The project frankly identified this as largely an artefact of the method, arising from the mismatch between light hydrogen momenta and the classical molecular dynamics time step, and described it with the memorable image of "reaching for your mouse with your right arm and instead firmly grasping your pancreas." Standard workarounds noted in the paper are smaller time steps, artificially increasing the hydrogen mass, or subsuming hydrogen into its heavy atom.
* '''Ge-C framework bond breaking''', and the combined case of Ge-C breaking with formation of a C=C pi bond, which can produce very stable geometries and therefore demand large transition state barriers if the tooltip is to remain operable.
* '''Ge-Ge bond formation''' in unloaded tooltips, which is not necessarily harmful: by raising the barrier to other defects it may stabilize the tool during the interval between depositing one dimer and being recharged with the next.
* '''Conformational differences at the tooltip base.''' The paper singles this out as one of the more interesting outcomes, since controlling base conformation had not previously been considered as a route to tooltip design optimization.

One quantitative example given in the published discussion concerns the L1 to L2 rearrangement, in which the only identified loaded-tooltip pathology, a CH<sub>2</sub> torsion at the base opposite the dimer binding site, lies 1.3 kJ/mol below the operational geometry while the transition state for the rearrangement sits at 51 kJ/mol at the B3LYP/6-31G(d,p) level.

The method evaluation molecules were equally important to the project's argument. Running the same machinery at 300 K rather than 3000 K turned Q-SMAKAS into an ordinary conformational search, and the resulting surveys of biotin, ''n''-heptane and ''n''-octane demonstrated that the NanoHive@Home framework was useful for generating and optimizing molecular conformations in general, not only for torturing diamondoid cages.

The paper also drew a methodological lesson about volunteer computing itself, observing that both the speed and ultimately the quality of a calculation are dictated by the hardware the participants happen to own, and recommending that researchers survey the machines available to them before fixing the constraints of a quantum chemistry study.

== Publications ==

The project's results were published four years after the science run ended, in the July 2011 issue of the ''Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience''.

* {{Cite journal |last1=Allis |first1=Damian G. |last2=Helfrich |first2=Brian |last3=Freitas |first3=Robert A. |last4=Merkle |first4=Ralph C. |title=Analysis of Diamondoid Mechanosynthesis Tooltip Pathologies Generated via a Distributed Computing Approach |journal=Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience |volume=8 |issue=7 |pages=1139-1161 |date=2011-07-01 |doi=10.1166/jctn.2011.1792 |publisher=American Scientific Publishers |url=http://openurl.ingenta.com/content/xref?genre=article&issn=1546-1955&volume=8&issue=7&spage=1139}} Author affiliations: Department of Chemistry, Syracuse University (Allis); Helcorp, Maplewood, New Jersey (Helfrich); Institute for Molecular Manufacturing, Palo Alto, California (Freitas and Merkle). Indexed keywords include ''BOINC platform'', ''conformational searches'', ''diamondoid mechanosynthesis'', ''distributed computing'', ''molecular manufacturing'', ''NanoHive@Home'' and ''tooltip pathologies''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Analysis of Diamondoid Mechanosynthesis Tooltip Pathologies Generated via a Distributed Computing Approach |url=https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/asp/jctn/2011/00000008/00000007/art00009 |website=IngentaConnect |access-date=2026-08-14}}</ref>

=== Directly related papers ===

These are the source papers for the tooltip set that NanoHive@Home analysed, and the follow-on literature in which the project's results are cited.

* {{Cite journal |last1=Freitas |first1=Robert A. |last2=Allis |first2=Damian G. |last3=Merkle |first3=Ralph C. |title=Horizontal Ge-Substituted Polymantane-Based C2 Dimer Placement Tooltip Motifs for Diamond Mechanosynthesis |journal=Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience |volume=4 |issue=3 |pages=433-442 |date=May 2007 |url=http://www.MolecularAssembler.com/Papers/DPTMotifs.pdf}} The survey that supplied the 25 tooltips studied by the project.
* {{Cite journal |last1=Allis |first1=Damian G. |last2=Drexler |first2=K. Eric |title=Design and Analysis of a Molecular Tool for Carbon Transfer in Mechanosynthesis |journal=Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=45-55 |date=March 2005 |url=http://e-drexler.com/d/05/00/DC10C-mechanosynthesis.pdf}} The DC10c tooltip study whose section 3.5 defect analysis Q-SMAKAS was designed to automate.
* {{Cite journal |last1=Freitas |first1=Robert A. |title=A Simple Tool for Positional Diamond Mechanosynthesis, and its Method of Manufacture |journal=Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience |volume=1 |pages=71-80 |date=March 2004}} Earlier work in the same tooltip programme.
* {{Cite book |last=Tseng |first=Ampere A. |title=Tip-Based Nanofabrication: Fundamentals and Applications |publisher=Springer |date=2011 |isbn=978-1-4419-9899-6}} Provides background on the tooltip literature that NanoHive@Home extended.
* {{Cite web |last=Freitas |first=Robert A. |title=Nanomedicine and Nanorobotics Publications |url=http://www.rfreitas.com/NanoPubls.htm |website=rfreitas.com |access-date=2026-08-14}} Lists the 2011 NanoHive@Home paper alongside the wider diamondoid mechanosynthesis literature.

Two documents from the original project website were re-posted as PDFs by Allis in 2011 for historical preservation: an overview of NanoHive-1 and NanoHive@Home,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Allis |first=Damian G. |title=NanoHive-1 and NanoHive@Home (archived project page, PDF) |url=https://www.somewhereville.com/blogfiles/2011december10_NanoHive1andNanoHiveAtHome.pdf |website=somewhereville.com |date=2011-12-10 |access-date=2026-08-14}}</ref> and the full Q-SMAKAS explanation.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Allis |first=Damian G. |title=The Q-SMAKAS Tooltip Failure Mode Search Project (archived project page, PDF) |url=https://www.somewhereville.com/blogfiles/2011december10_QSMAKAS.pdf |website=somewhereville.com |date=2011-12-10 |access-date=2026-08-14}}</ref>

== People ==

* '''Brian Helfrich''', project engineer and creator. Helfrich designed and implemented NanoHive-1 and created NanoHive@Home while Senior Architect and Software Engineer at Nanorex. He holds a BA in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, began his career at Bellcore Labs, and later worked at Amazon, where he created the statistical model behind EC2 Spot Instance pricing. At Nanorex he also integrated an HDF5-based results library into GROMACS and led development of NanoVision-1.
* '''Dr. Damian G. Allis''', project scientist. Allis took his doctorate in quantum chemistry at Syracuse University, received the Foresight Institute's Feynman Distinguished Student Award in 2004, served on Nanorex's advisory board, and worked on molecular tooltip development in coordination with K. Eric Drexler, Robert Freitas and Ralph Merkle. He wrote the project's public explanation of Q-SMAKAS and coordinated the scientific analysis. His CV dates his NanoHive@Home involvement to February to May 2007, with the project defunct in 2008.
* '''Robert A. Freitas Jr.''' and '''Ralph C. Merkle''' of the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing, co-authors of the resulting paper and authors of the underlying tooltip survey.

== Legacy ==

NanoHive@Home is one of relatively few BOINC projects to have carried an entire published quantum chemistry study from work unit to journal page, and it is unusual among them in having been organized by a private company that then dissolved the effort. Its lasting contributions are the peer-reviewed pathology catalogue, the demonstration that a molecular dynamics plus quantum chemistry pipeline can be split across tens of thousands of consumer machines, and the observation that the same protocol run cold serves as a general conformational search engine.

Its practical successor in subject matter is [[NanoHUB@Home|nanoHUB@Home]], a later BOINC project supporting nanoscience and nanotechnology research at nanoHUB.org, though the two share no code or personnel. Chemistry-oriented BOINC projects that followed similar quantum chemical or conformational search strategies include [[QMC@Home]], [[QuChemPedIA@home]], [[Leiden Classical]], [[eOn]] and [[Spinhenge@home]]. NanoHive-1 itself remains available on SourceForge.

The project also survives as a small piece of volunteer computing folklore. Its screensaver appears in period discussions as a benchmark for how engaging a BOINC display could be, and threads announcing its beta rounds on AnandTech and BOINCstats preserve a detailed record of what it felt like to test a young BOINC project in 2006.<ref>{{Cite web |title=NanoHive@Home now beta testing |url=https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/nanohive-home-now-beta-testing.1892599/ |website=AnandTech Forums |date=2006 |access-date=2026-08-14}}</ref>

== See also ==

* [[BOINC projects]]
* [[BOINC project screensavers]]
* [[NanoHUB@Home|nanoHUB@Home]]
* [[QMC@Home]]
* [[QuChemPedIA@home]]
* [[Spinhenge@home]]
* [[Leiden Classical]]
* [[eOn]]
* [[Predictor@home]]
* [[SETI@home]]
* [[Rosetta@home]]

== References ==

{{Reflist}}

== External links ==

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070505234056/http://www.nanohive-1.org:80/atHome/ NanoHive@Home home page (archived, 5 May 2007)] via Wayback Machine
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070606082448/http://www.nanohive-1.org/atHome/Nanofactory_1_Damian.php The Q-SMAKAS Tooltip Failure Mode Search Project, by Damian G. Allis (archived)] via Wayback Machine
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070825144023/http://www.nanohive-1.org/atHome/results_gallery.php NanoHive@Home Results Gallery (archived, 25 August 2007)] via Wayback Machine
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070701135840/http://www.nanohive-1.org/atHome/simulation_software.php Simulation Software and BOINC architecture (archived)] via Wayback Machine
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070627121240/http://www.nanohive-1.org/atHome/screensaver_graphics.php Screensaver Graphics explained (archived)] via Wayback Machine
* [https://sourceforge.net/projects/nano-hive/ NanoHive Nanospace Simulator on SourceForge]
* [https://www.somewhereville.com/2011/12/12/nanohivehomes-published-results-finally-analysis-of-diamondoid-mechanosynthesis-tooltip-pathologies-generated-via-a-distributed-computing-approach/ NanoHive@Home's Published Results, somewhereville.com, 12 December 2011]
* [https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/asp/jctn/2011/00000008/00000007/art00009 Publication record at IngentaConnect]
* [https://www.boincstats.com/forum/12/1209 BOINCstats forum thread on Nano-Hive@Home (retired projects)]

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Al Piskun: NanoHive@Home Screensaver

== Summary ==
NanoHive@Home Screensaver

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Al Piskun: NanoHive@Home logo

== Summary ==
NanoHive@Home logo

SciLINC

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Al Piskun:

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'''SciLINC''', an acronym for '''Sci'''entific '''L'''iterature '''I'''ndexing on '''N'''etworked '''C'''omputers, was a [[BOINC]] volunteer computing project operated by the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, Missouri.<ref name="botanicus">{{cite web |url=http://www.botanicus.org/Scilinc.aspx |title=Botanicus.org: SciLINC, Scientific Literature Indexing on Networked Computers |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden |access-date=August 14, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081212014154/http://www.botanicus.org/Scilinc.aspx |archive-date=December 12, 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Volunteers attached their computers to the project so that pages of digitized botanical literature could be analyzed during idle time: each workunit bundled OCR text of scanned pages together with an algorithm for finding scientific names, and the results were used to build full text and keyword indexes for the Garden's Botanicus digital library.<ref name="freeland2011">{{cite web |url=http://blog.chrisfreeland.com/2011/12/boincing-angry-birds-for-bhl.html |title=BOINCing Angry Birds for BHL: Purposeful Gaming in Digital Libraries |first=Chris |last=Freeland |publisher=ChrisFreeland.com |date=December 2, 2011 |access-date=August 14, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120313135210/http://blog.chrisfreeland.com/2011/12/boincing-angry-birds-for-bhl.html |archive-date=March 13, 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref> SciLINC went online on March 22, 2007 and sent out its first workunits on March 29, 2007.<ref name="oldnews">{{cite web |url=http://www.scilinc.org/old_news.php |title=SciLINC: News archive |first=Ron |last=Parker |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden |date=June 19, 2007 |access-date=August 14, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071223012202/http://www.scilinc.org/old_news.php |archive-date=December 23, 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> It was a pioneering effort, presented by its creators as the first attempt to apply public-resource computing within the library community.<ref name="botanicus"/>

Because text indexing demands very little computing per unit of data, the public phase of the project was brief: the available work was processed within days, and in June 2007 the team announced that all remaining SciLINC computation would be performed on the Garden's own servers.<ref name="june22">{{cite web |url=http://www.scilinc.org/ |title=SciLINC: SciLINC Update |first=Ron |last=Parker |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden |date=June 22, 2007 |access-date=August 14, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071023063008/http://www.scilinc.org/ |archive-date=October 23, 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Statistics sites such as [[BOINCstats]] froze their SciLINC data on July 24, 2007, recording 150 registered users, 217 hosts and 2,093 total credits.<ref name="boincstats">{{cite web |url=https://boincstats.com/stats/project_graph.php?pr=scilinc |title=BOINCstats: SciLINC, Credit overview |publisher=BOINCstats |access-date=August 14, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111012020502/http://boincstats.com/stats/project_graph.php?pr=scilinc |archive-date=October 12, 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The project website remained online through 2009 and later went offline.<ref name="oldnews"/> Although short lived, SciLINC influenced later biodiversity informatics work, most notably the TaxonFinder name-finding service adopted by the Biodiversity Heritage Library.<ref name="freeland2011"/><ref name="idealstnr">{{cite web |url=https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/9140 |title=Taxonomic Name Recognition in Biodiversity Heritage Library |first1=Qin |last1=Wei |first2=Chris |last2=Freeland |first3=P. Bryan |last3=Heidorn |publisher=University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IDEALS |date=October 17, 2008 |access-date=August 14, 2026}}</ref>

== Background and goals ==

The Missouri Botanical Garden, founded in 1859, is one of the oldest botanical institutions in the United States and maintains a major research library of rare botanical literature.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_Botanical_Garden |title=Missouri Botanical Garden |publisher=Wikipedia |access-date=August 14, 2026}}</ref> Much of that literature is scarce or unique, and scientists have traditionally travelled to St. Louis to consult it. To make the collection widely available, the Garden digitizes books and journals through its Botanicus digital library, and in October 2005 it received a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), a United States federal agency, to build SciLINC as a three-year project.<ref name="botanicus"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chrisfreeland.com/Freeland_CV.pdf |title=Christopher David Freeland: Curriculum Vitae |publisher=ChrisFreeland.com |access-date=August 14, 2026}}</ref> Chris Freeland was the project's listed contact at the Garden, and Ron Parker wrote the project's news pages and development blog.<ref name="botanicus"/><ref name="june22"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://scilincdev.blogspot.com/2006/10/boinc.html |title=SciLINC, Scientific Literature Indexing on Networked Computers |first=Ron |last=Parker |work=SciLINC Dev |date=October 3, 2006 |access-date=August 14, 2026}}</ref>

The project description on Botanicus set out four primary goals:<ref name="botanicus"/>

# Increase public access to nationally significant scientific literature held by the Missouri Botanical Garden Library.
# Enhance the usefulness of the digitized materials by creating a web repository of scanned literature, keywords and online resources with tools for searching and analysis.
# Create an educational tool for learning about plant life: while indexing keywords, the participant's computer would display information about each plant name being processed, including descriptive data, images, maps and annotated links.
# Provide a model for adopting public-resource computing applications within the library community, where such applications "have been successfully employed in research and museum communities" but "so far have not been applied within libraries".

The keywords identified by SciLINC were to be derived from the Garden's botanical databases and would include plant names, place names, authors and other phrases of interest to people studying plants, each annotated with links to related online resources.<ref name="botanicus"/>

[[File:Climatron, Missouri Botanical Gardens.jpg|thumb|The Climatron conservatory at the Missouri Botanical Garden, which developed and operated SciLINC.]]

== Design and operation ==

SciLINC used [[BOINC]], the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing, the open-source volunteer computing platform developed at the University of California, Berkeley, which also powers projects such as [[SETI@home]] and [[World Community Grid]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/ |title=BOINC: Open-source software for volunteer computing |publisher=University of California, Berkeley |access-date=August 14, 2026}}</ref> The project packaged OCR text of scanned botanical pages into workunits and sent them, along with a name-finding algorithm, to volunteers' computers, which then reported back the locations of scientific names and index terms found in the text.<ref name="freeland2011"/> Participants joined by installing the BOINC client and attaching to the project URL <code>http://www.scilinc.org/SciLINC/</code>.<ref name="june22"/>

The volunteer application was named TaxonGrab. As listed on the project's applications page, version 1.39 ran on Microsoft Windows 98 or later on Intel x86-compatible processors, while the first results reported on March 29, 2007 were produced by a Linux version.<ref name="oldnews"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.scilinc.org/apps.php |title=SciLINC: Applications |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden |date=June 27, 2007 |access-date=August 14, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070627230850/http://www.scilinc.org/apps.php |archive-date=June 27, 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Participants operated under standard BOINC rules and policies: the software had to be run only on authorized computers, volunteers could control how much CPU power, disk space and bandwidth SciLINC used, and account names, along with a summary of each computer's work, could be shown on the project website.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.scilinc.org/info.php |title=SciLINC: Read our rules and policies |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden |access-date=August 14, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071023063008/http://www.scilinc.org/info.php |archive-date=October 23, 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Volunteers earned BOINC credit for completed work, though the team later acknowledged that "a relatively small amount of credit" was earned for "a comparatively large load" on participants' systems.<ref name="june22"/>

During 2006, Parker documented development on the SciLINC Dev blog, covering topics such as installing the BOINC server software on CentOS and Fedora Core Linux, running the server under Xen virtualization, and a summary of a BOINC community conference question and answer session with BOINC founder David P. Anderson and SETI@home scientist Eric Korpela.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://scilincdev.blogspot.com/2006/11/linux-boinc-server-centos-4.html |title=Linux BOINC Server CentOS-4 Installation |first=Ron |last=Parker |work=SciLINC Dev |date=November 19, 2006 |access-date=August 14, 2026}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://scilincdev.blogspot.com/2006/12/boinc-conference-summary.html |title=BOINC Conference Summary |first=Ron |last=Parker |work=SciLINC Dev |date=December 19, 2006 |access-date=August 14, 2026}}</ref> The blog also recorded the project's design philosophy, borrowed from the BOINC literature: to make efficient use of public-resource computing, the compute time of the client must be relatively large compared to the data-transfer time required, that is

<math>t_{\text{compute}} \gg t_{\text{transfer}}</math>

== History ==

SciLINC went online on March 22, 2007, with the project team expecting to "be processing work within a few days".<ref name="oldnews"/> On March 29, 2007 the server sent out its first set of workunits and received its first results, running on Linux, with a Windows version announced as coming shortly.<ref name="oldnews"/> The project had originally operated on the Garden's internal network, and on May 14, 2007 the server was moved to the public Internet at www.scilinc.org; a server outage followed a few days later, and the recovery process, which involved changing the BOINC server's name, was documented on the development blog.<ref name="oldnews"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://scilincdev.blogspot.com/2007/05/problems-changing-boinc-servers-name.html |title=Problems changing a BOINC server's name |first=Ron |last=Parker |work=SciLINC Dev |date=May 21, 2007 |access-date=August 14, 2026}}</ref>

On June 1, 2007 the project announced that results from SciLINC were being passed to Botanicus.<ref name="oldnews"/> In mid June the project hit a series of setbacks: on June 15 the process that gathered work for SciLINC "filled the drive with everything it could find in the vaults" (images, PDFs and more); on June 16 an electrical transient in the building housing the server corrupted the MySQL database, including the SciLINC results table; and on June 18 new account creation was temporarily disabled.<ref name="oldnews"/> Around the same time, volunteers on the BOINCstats and BOINC forums reported that the roughly 50 files served per workunit were causing high CPU load in the core BOINC client.<ref name="oldnews"/> On June 19 the team restored the database but disabled the sending of new workunits, warning that pending results might never receive credit.<ref name="oldnews"/>

The decisive announcement came on June 22, 2007 in a news item titled "SciLINC Update". The team reported that goals 1, 2 and 4 had been met (Botanicus was processing SciLINC's output, and the project had demonstrated the library use of public-resource computing), but that "the workunits fly by so rapidly" that the educational screensaver of goal 3 had never become realistic. It also noted that the BOINC community had discovered the project before the team was ready to announce it. The update concluded that "for now all SciLINC computation will be performed internally", with hopes of returning to volunteers with more computationally intensive analyses and "a better credit-reward ratio (and nicer screensaver)".<ref name="june22"/> Internal testing continued at the end of June, with the scheduler briefly unavailable to Internet users on June 27, 2007.<ref name="june22"/>

Public participation wound down quickly after that. BOINCstats, which had last imported SciLINC's statistics on July 24, 2007, later labelled the project "no longer active" with its statistics "frozen on the day of the last update".<ref name="boincstats"/> The website, still bearing the June 2007 news, remained online through 2009, and was gone by the late 2010s.<ref name="oldnews"/>

== Data economics and the end of public computing ==

The June 22, 2007 update explained in unusual detail why text indexing was a poor fit for volunteer computing. The team calculated that SciLINC would have needed to transfer roughly 250 MiB of compressed data to occupy a modern CPU for one day; this would expand to nearly 660 MiB of input data, and the client would then upload about 44 MiB of results, which would compress to 17 MiB. The input data therefore expanded by a factor of

<math>660/250 = 2.64</math>

while the results compressed by a similar factor,

<math>44/17 \approx 2.59</math>

These numbers, the team said, "have only grown as SciLINC has been improved and made more efficient", and they were "not acceptable to the average BOINC user". The project lead's working rule, stated in the same update, was that from a technological and economic standpoint it makes sense to use public-resource computing in place of an internal grid architecture whenever less than a gigabyte of data is required per CPU-day of computation, that is

<math>D < 1\ \text{GiB per CPU-day}</math>

For a volunteer on dial-up giving SciLINC just 1% of their BOINC time, the daily computation would last

<math>0.01 \times 24 \times 60 = 14.4</math>

minutes, about 15 minutes, during which roughly 2.5 MiB would have to be downloaded; the team observed that for dial-up users "the transfer time would exceed the computation time". Even setting transfer concerns aside, the Garden simply did not have enough text to "realistically occupy hundred or thousands of BOINC enthusiasts for a lengthy period of time", and the work itself, "text-indexing and taxonomic analysis", had "a relatively low mathematical complexity". Freeland later summarized the experience: "we ran out of jobs in about 2 days because text indexing isn't processor intensive; the best BOINC projects take small inputs that require lots of computing resources."<ref name="june22"/><ref name="freeland2011"/>

== Project statistics ==

The following figures are the final values recorded by BOINCstats before the project's statistics were frozen on July 24, 2007:<ref name="boincstats"/>

{| class="wikitable"
|+ SciLINC statistics at BOINCstats (frozen)
! Metric !! Value
|-
| Total users || 150
|-
| Active users || 0
|-
| Total hosts || 217
|-
| Active hosts || 0
|-
| Teams || 35
|-
| Countries || 23
|-
| Total credit || 2,093
|-
| Recent average credit || 0
|-
| Average performance || 0.0 GigaFLOPS
|}

== Results and legacy ==

SciLINC's principal scientific output was the indexing of digitized botanical literature that fed the Garden's Botanicus portal, where full text searching and name-based discovery were integrated beginning in June 2007.<ref name="oldnews"/> By December 2008 Botanicus reported 577 titles (books and journals), 2,548 volumes and 1,079,660 pages online, along with 184,750 links to protologues (original species descriptions).<ref name="botanicus"/>

The project's longest lasting influence was methodological. Freeland wrote that SciLINC preceded the team's work on TaxonFinder, the algorithm and service, provided by uBio, that the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) incorporated into its portal to identify and verify taxonomic name strings across its digitized corpus.<ref name="freeland2011"/><ref name="idealstnr"/> The experience also taught the team how jobs are packaged for distribution to volunteers "and the kinds of inputs and outputs that are successful in an asynchronous computing environment", a lesson Freeland later applied to proposals for "purposeful gaming" for the BHL, where human spare cycles, rather than CPU cycles, would improve digitized library metadata.<ref name="freeland2011"/> That idea grew into BHL's Purposeful Gaming project, funded by IMLS and run by the Garden's Center for Biodiversity Informatics from 2013 to 2015.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://about.biodiversitylibrary.org/projects/past-projects/purposeful-gaming/ |title=Purposeful Gaming |publisher=Biodiversity Heritage Library |access-date=August 14, 2026}}</ref> The team's lessons were collected in the unpublished IMLS final report, "SciLINC Final Report", with an appendix, linked from Freeland's 2011 blog post.<ref name="freeland2011"/>

[[File:Curtis's botanical magazine (Plate 3709) (8386433065).jpg|thumb|upright=0.75|A hand coloured plate from ''Curtis's Botanical Magazine'', typical of the historical botanical literature that Botanicus digitizes and that SciLINC indexed.]]

== Related publications ==

SciLINC itself did not publish scientific papers; its findings were reported to the funding agency and in blog posts. The techniques and systems it demonstrated appear in the following works. The first describes TaxonGrab, a rule-based technique for extracting taxonomic names from text; SciLINC's Windows volunteer application carried the same name.

* {{cite journal |last1=Koning |first1=Drew |last2=Sarkar |first2=Indra Neil |last3=Moritz |first3=Thomas |year=2005 |title=TaxonGrab: Extracting taxonomic names from text |journal=Biodiversity Informatics |volume=2 |pages=79-82 |doi=10.17161/bi.v2i0.17}}
* {{cite web |url=http://precedings.nature.com/documents/3372/version/1 |title=An evaluation of taxonomic name finding & next steps in Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) developments |first=Chris |last=Freeland |publisher=Nature Precedings |year=2009 |access-date=August 14, 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090723202516/http://precedings.nature.com/documents/3372/version/1 |archive-date=July 23, 2009 |url-status=dead}}
* {{cite web |url=https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/9140 |title=Taxonomic Name Recognition in Biodiversity Heritage Library |first1=Qin |last1=Wei |first2=Chris |last2=Freeland |first3=P. Bryan |last3=Heidorn |publisher=University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IDEALS |date=October 17, 2008 |access-date=August 14, 2026}}
* {{cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/41492665 |title=Name Matters: Taxonomic Name Recognition (TNR) in Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) |first1=Qin |last1=Wei |first2=P. Bryan |last2=Heidorn |first3=Chris |last3=Freeland |publisher=ResearchGate |date=February 2010 |access-date=August 14, 2026}}
* {{cite web |url=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/grid_paper_04.pdf |title=BOINC: A System for Public-Resource Computing and Storage |first=David P. |last=Anderson |work=5th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing |date=November 8, 2004 |access-date=August 14, 2026}}

The Anderson paper is included because it was the description of BOINC recommended by the SciLINC development blog as background reading for the project.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://scilincdev.blogspot.com/2006/10/boinc.html |title=SciLINC, Scientific Literature Indexing on Networked Computers |first=Ron |last=Parker |work=SciLINC Dev |date=October 3, 2006 |access-date=August 14, 2026}}</ref>

== See also ==

* [[BOINC]]
* [[BOINC Manager]]
* [[BOINCstats]]
* [[SETI@home]]
* [[World Community Grid]]

== References ==

{{Reflist}}

== External links ==

* [http://www.botanicus.org/Scilinc.aspx SciLINC project description] at Botanicus.org
* [https://scilincdev.blogspot.com/ SciLINC Dev] development blog by Ron Parker
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071023063008/http://www.scilinc.org/ SciLINC website] at the Wayback Machine
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20111012020502/http://boincstats.com/stats/project_graph.php?pr=scilinc SciLINC statistics] at BOINCstats via the Wayback Machine

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'''''Q - What is a BOINC project?'''''

'''''A - BOINC project definition:''''' A [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/ BOINC] project is a website and server set up by an individual or group to distribute applications (software which is a set of instructions for executing tasks in a computing device) to BOINC volunteer computing devices that are deliberately attached to receive, process and return the results of the application for further research.
====Active BOINC Projects====

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 80%;"
|-
!Project Name
!Publications
!Launched
!Operating System
!GPU App
!Requires
!Screen saver
!Sponsor
!Category
!BOINC Radio
!Research Focus

|-
| [http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/ Asteroids@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Asteroids@home 10]
| 2012-06-18
| [https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS, Free BSD, Android]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU NVIDIA
| {{No}}
|
| Astronomical Institute, Charles University, Prague
| Astronomy
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/asteroids-home/id1492837872?i=1000467560195 Listen]
| Derive shapes and spin for a significant part of the asteroid population. [[Asteroids@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/central/ BOINC Central]
|
| 2023-02-04
|
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, BUDA
|
| University of California, Berkeley
| Multiple applications
|
| Gives scientists access to the power of volunteer computing without having to operate a BOINC project. [[BOINC Central|See more...]]

|-
| [https://www.cpdn.org/cpdnboinc/ climate''prediction''.net]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Climateprediction.net 152]
| 2003-12-09
| [https://www.cpdn.org/cpdnboinc/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| [https://youtu.be/Mae7JfL1giE view]
| Oxford University
| Climate study
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/climate-prediction-dot-net/id1492837872?i=1000465982378 Listen]
| Analyse ways to improve climate prediction models. [[Climateprediction.net|See more...]]

|-
| [https://dev.cpdn.org/ cpdnboinc dev]
|
|
| [https://dev.cpdn.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Oxford University
| Software testing
|
| Test project for [[Climateprediction.net|climate''prediction''.net]]. [[Cpdnboinc dev|See more...]]

|-
| [https://denis.usj.es/denisathome/ DENIS@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#DENIS@home 6]
| 2015-03-16
| [https://480denis.usj.es/denisathome/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Universidad San Jorge, Zaragoza, Spain
| Medical physiology
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boinc-radio-project-brief-denis-home/id1492837872?i=1000576898376 Listen]
| Cardiac electrophysiological simulations, studying the electrical activity of the heart. [[DENIS@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://einsteinathome.org/ Einstein@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Einstein@Home 42]
| 2005-02-19
| [https://einsteinathome.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS, Android]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
| [https://youtu.be/kGWsTnmk1lw view]
| University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Max Planck Institute
| Astrophysics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/einstein-home/id1492837872?i=1000470993092 Listen]
| Search for pulsars using radio signals and gravitational wave data. [[Einstein@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [http://gaiaathome.eu/gaiaathome/ Gaia@home]
|
| 2019-08-21
| [http://150.254.66.104/gaiaathome/apps.php Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Astronomical Observatory Institute, Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
| Astronomy
|
| Provide additional computing power to scientists studying the Gaia spacecraft data releases. [[Gaia@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://gerasim.boinc.ru/ Gerasim@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Publications_by_BOINC_projects#Gerasim.40home 9]
| 2007-02-10
| [https://gerasim.boinc.ru/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
| [https://youtu.be/cw7yBZ_KGGA view]
| Southwest State University (Russia)
| Multiple applications
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gerasim/id1492837872?i=1000515709940 Listen]
| Research in discrete mathematics and logic control systems. [[Gerasim@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090210175851/http://www.ps3grid.net/ PS3GRID] became [https://gpugrid.net/gpugrid/ GPUGRID]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#GPUGrid.net 53]
| 2007-12-05
| [https://www.gpugrid.net/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: cyan; color: black;" | GPU only NVIDIA
| {{No}}
|
| Barcelona Biomedical Research Park
| Molecular biology
|
| Perform full-atom molecular simulations of proteins on Nvidia GPUs for biomedical research. [[GPUGRID|See more...]]

|-
| [https://comp.ithena.net/usr/ iThena.Computational]
|
| [https://comp.ithena.net/usr/forum_thread.php?id=4 2021-10-31]
| [https://comp.ithena.net/usr/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Cyber-Complex Foundation
| Computer science
| See below
| A computational platform for analysis based on data extracted from iThena.Measurements project applications. [[IThena.Computational|See more...]]

|-
| [https://root.ithena.net/usr/ iThena.Measurements]
|
| [https://root.ithena.net/usr/forum_thread.php?id=5#17 2019-09-25]
| [https://einsteinathome.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Cyber-Complex Foundation
| Computer science
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boinc-radio-project-brief-ithena/id1492837872?i=1000580505988 Listen]
| Generate a dynamic topological model of the Internet, based on measurements from distributed devices. [[IThena.Measurements|See more...]]

|-
| [https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/ LHC@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#LHC@home 71]
| 2004-01-09
| [https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS, Free BSD, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, BUDA
| [https://youtu.be/0qbLDbsNO3w view]
| CERN
| Physics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lhc-home/id1492837872?i=1000477722614 Listen]
| Helping physicists compare theory with experiment, in the search for new fundamental particles and answers to questions about the Universe. [[LHC@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/ LHCathome-dev]
|
| 2014-08-01
| [https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS, Free BSD, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, BUDA
|
| CERN
| Software testing
|
| A BOINC server for LHC@home development.

|-
| [https://boinc.loda-lang.org/loda/ LODA]
|
| 2022-05-13
| [https://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, git
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boinc-radio-project-brief-loda-18-6-2022/id1492837872?i=1000570153809 Listen]
| Finds new formulas and more efficient algorithms for a wide range of non-trivial integer sequences. [[LODA|See more...]]

|-
| [https://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/ MilkyWay@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Milkyway@home 35]
| 2007-07-07
| [https://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
| Astronomy
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/milkyway-home/id1492837872?i=1000468872520 Listen]
| Create a highly accurate three-dimensional model of the Milky Way galaxy using data collected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. [[MilkyWay@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://minecraftathome.com/minecrafthome/ Minecraft@Home]
|
| 2020-06-24
| [https://comp.ithena.net/usr/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Games
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/minecraft-home/id1492837872?i=1000491697377 Listen]
| Studies questions related to Minecraft, such as the properties of worlds that can be generated from different random seeds. [[Minecraft@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://moowrap.net/ Moo! Wrapper]
|
| 2011-02-05
| [https://moowrap.net/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Cryptography
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZmTZJBh_D0 Watch]
| Combines BOINC with distributed.net to try to break the RC5 cipher. [[Moo! Wrapper|See more...]]

|-
| [https://escatter11.fullerton.edu/nfs/ NFS@Home]
|
| 2009-09-05
| [https://escatter11.fullerton.edu/nfs/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS, Free BSD]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| California State University, Fullerton
| Integer factorization
|
| Performs parts of the number field sieve in the factorization of large integers. [[NFS@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://numberfields.asu.edu/NumberFields/ NumberFields@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#NumberFields@Home 3]
| 2011-08-12
| [https://numberfields.asu.edu/NumberFields/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Arizona State University's School of Mathematics
| Number theory
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/project-brief-numberfields-home-15-05-2021/id1492837872?i=1000570068591 Listen]
| Search for number fields with special properties to assist with the formulation of mathematical conjectures. [[NumberFields@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.progger.info/odlk/ ODLK]
|
| 2017-04-06
| [https://boinc.progger.info/odlk/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS, Free BSD]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| Compile a database of canonical forms of 10th order diagonal Latin squares (DLS) with orthogonal diagonal Latin squares (ODLS). [[ODLK|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.multi-pool.info/latinsquares/ ODLK1]
|
| 2017-10-22
| [https://boinc.multi-pool.info/latinsquares/apps.php Windows, Linux, Free BSD]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| Generates a database of canonical forms (CF) of diagonal Latin squares (DLS) of order 10 having orthogonal diagonal Latin squares (ODLS). [[ODLK1|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.mak.termit.me/odlk2025/ ODLK2025]
|
| 2024-12-18
| [https://boinc.mak.termit.me/odlk2025/apps.php Windows]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| Find canonical forms of diagonal Latin squares of order 10 with orthogonal diagonal Latin squares, extending the search beyond the ranges covered by ODLK and ODLK1. [[ODLK2025|See more...]]

|-
| [https://www.primegrid.com/ PrimeGrid]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#PrimeGrid 3]
| 2005-06-12
| [https://www.primegrid.com/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
| [https://youtu.be/rhZxqi9x7rI view]
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| Search for world record sized prime numbers, search for particular types of primes such as 321 primes, Cullen-Woodall primes, Proth prime, prime Sierpinski numbers, and Sophie Germain primes. Subprojects also include Seventeen or Bust, and the Riesel problem. [[PrimeGrid|See more...]]

|-
| [https://dev.primegrid.com/ PrimeGrid dev]
|
| 2007-06-06
| [https://dev.primegrid.com/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Software testing
|
| Test project for PrimeGrid.

|-
| [http://boincvm.proxyma.ru:30080/test4vm/ PRIVATE GFN SERVER]
|
| 2016-04-20
| [http://boincvm.proxyma.ru:30080/test4vm/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| This is a PRIVATE SERVER to coordinate distribution of mathematical work on GFN. The server is open for everybody, but some BOINC experience is recommended. [[PRIVATE GFN SERVER|See more...]]

|-
| [http://radioactiveathome.org/boinc/ Radioactive@home]
|
| 2011-10-21
| [http://radioactiveathome.org/boinc/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, Sensor
|
| Independent
| Physics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radioactive-home/id1492837872?i=1000463072395 Listen]
| Real-time radiation monitoring, detected by gamma sensors connected to volunteer computers. [[Radioactive@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://rake.boincfast.ru/rakesearch/ RakeSearch]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Rakesearch 4]
| 2017-08-11
| [https://rake.boincfast.ru/rakesearch/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rakesearch/id1492837872?i=1000496377228 Listen]
| Implement an application that picks up separate pairs of mutually orthogonal DLSs, which allows reconstructing the full graphs of their orthogonality. [[Rakesearch|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/ Rosetta@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Rosetta@home 234]
| 2005-10-06
| [https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, macOS, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| [https://youtu.be/6o5yBfG_vss view]
| University of Washington
| Molecular biology
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rosetta-home/id1492837872?i=1000472931628 Listen]
| Protein structure prediction for disease research. [[Rosetta@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://www.sidock.si/sidock SiDock@home]
|
| 2020-12-19
| [https://www.sidock.si/sidock/apps.php Windows, Linux+OpenWrt, ARM, macOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Russian Academy of Sciences
| Molecular biology
|
| Independent decentralized drug design by volunteer computing. [[SiDock@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://spaciousathome.eu/spaciousathome/ SPACIOUS@home]
|
| 2024-01-01
| [https://spaciousathome.eu/spaciousathome/apps.php Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| European Union
| Astrophysics
|
| Contribute to cutting-edge astronomy by sharing your idle computing time with professional astronomers. Space surveys such as the European Space Agency's Gaia telescope are generating large datasets of unprecedented high quality data. Astronomers need a huge amount of CPU power to model and analyse the data. [[SPACIOUS@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://srbase.my-firewall.org/sr5/ SRBase]
|
| 2013-01-02
| [https://srbase.my-firewall.org/sr5/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| Trying to solve Sierpinski / Riesel Bases up to 1030. [[SRBase|See more...]]

|-
| [https://gene.disi.unitn.it/test/ TN-Grid]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#TN-Grid 8]
| 2014-05-01
| [https://gene.disi.unitn.it/test/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, macOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Research Area of Trento of the National Research Council of Italy, University of Trento
| Genetics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tn-grid/id1492837872?i=1000482396321 Listen]
| ''Gene@home'' is a scientific project belonging to the infrastructure ''TrentoGrid''. It aims to expand networks of genes. [[TN-Grid|See more...]]

|-
| [https://uspex-at-home.ru/prediction/ USPEX@HOME]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#USPEX@HOME 2]
| 2017-04 (Restart 2022-10-23)
| [https://uspex-at-home.ru/prediction/apps.php Windows, Linux, macOS]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, Vbox
|
| [https://uspex-team.org/en uspex-team.org]
|
|
| Research in the field of computational materials design. [[USPEX@HOME|See more...]]

|-
| [https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ World Community Grid]
| [https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/news.s?filterCategory=1_0&filterTags=14&sortBy=&pageNum=1 77]
| 2004-11-16
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php Windows, Linux, ARM, macOS, Android]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
| [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLblxpyGay1Q4PwdIlLTxko7jm9Jedv1ei view]
| Krembil Research Institute
| Multiple applications
|
| Disease research, various worldwide humanitarian problems. Subprojects include(d) GO Fight Against Malaria, Drug Search for Leishmaniasis, Computing for Clean Water, Clean Energy Project, Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together, Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy, Help Fight Childhood Cancer, Help Conquer Cancer, Mapping Cancer Markers, Human Proteome Folding Project, FightAIDS@Home, Uncovering Genome Mysteries, Let's outsmart Ebola together, Help Stop TB, OpenZika, Smash Childhood Cancer, Open Pandemics - COVID-19. [[World Community Grid|See more...]]

|-
| [https://wuprop.boinc-af.org/ WUProp@Home]
|
| 2010-03-27
| [https://wuprop.boinc-af.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Statistics
|
| Collect various statistics about other BOINC projects. [[WUProp@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://yafu.myfirewall.org/yafu YAFU]
|
| 2011-09-01
| [https://yafu.myfirewall.org/yafu/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| [https://youtu.be/vEqImf6mtgE view]
| Independent
| Software testing, Mathematics
|
| Test BOINC server software, integer factorization. [[YAFU|See more...]]

|-
| [https://www.rechenkraft.net/yoyo/ yoyo@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Yoyo@home 9]
| 2007-07-19
| [https://www.rechenkraft.net/yoyo/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, macOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLblxpyGay1Q4C8qBmkKkI0MpKMTof5Dhf view]
| Independent
| Mathematics, physics, evolution
|
| Data structure analysis to help prove a conjecture, elliptic curve factorization, pion creation in a particle accelerator, evolution research, find the shortest optimal Golomb ruler of length 28. [[Yoyo@home|See more...]]
|}

==== Private BOINC Projects====

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 80%;"
|-
!Project Name
!Publications
!Launched
!Operating System
!GPU App
!Requires
!Screen saver
!Sponsor
!Category
!BOINC Radio
!Research Focus

|-
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/alpha/ BOINC Alpha Test]
|
| 2004-02-16
|
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/9rRWAgpfMzg view]
| University of California, Berkeley
| Software testing
|
| BOINC Alpha Test allows volunteers to test new versions of BOINC client software on a wide range of computers, thereby increasing the stability and reliability of the software versions released to the public. [[BOINC Alpha Test|See more...]]

|-
| [http://mq232-80.ararangua.ufsc.br/boincufscara/ AraBOINC]
|
| 2012
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/https://boinc.moisescardona.me/ Distributed Data and Media Processing]
|
| 2018
|
|
|
|
| Independent
| Data processing
|
| A private data processing project where tasks like data compression and audio encoding are performed. The idea is to do data tasks in the background and in a distributed fashion.

|-
| [https://bioinfo.lifl.fr/yass/iedera_dominance/index_additional.html iedera]
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Independent
| Botany
|
| A program to select and design ''subset seed'' and ''vectorized subset seed'' patterns.

|-
| [http://boinc.mmon.co/boincserver/ Common Compute]
|
| 2024-05
|
|
|
|
| Independent
|
|
| Software testing.

|-
| [https://templet.ssau.ru/ Templet Project]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Templet 1]
|
|
|
|
|
| Samara National Research University
| Education
|
| Teach parallel and distributed programming to undergraduate and graduate students of Samara National Research University.
|}

====Completed BOINC Projects ====

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 80%;"
|-
!Project Name
!Publications
!Launched / Completed
!Operating System
!GPU App
!Requires
!Screen saver
!Sponsor
!Category
!BOINC Radio
!Research Focus

|-
| [https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ SETI@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#SETI@home 12]
| 1999-05
| [https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS, Solaris, Other]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
|
| [https://youtu.be/IfeGNAZY92k view] and [https://youtu.be/5r-t8WQicqE view]
| University of California, Berkeley
| Astronomy
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tribute-to-seti-home-part-1/id1492837872?i=1000468003990 Part 1] of three and [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tribute-to-seti-home-part-2-the-history-of-seti-home/id1492837872?i=1000468428937 Part 2]
| In 1995, David Gedye proposed doing radio SETI using a virtual supercomputer composed of large numbers of Internet-connected computers, and he organized the SETI@home project to explore this. The search for extraterrestrial life by analyzing radio frequencies emanating from space. [[SETI@home|See more...]]

|-
| [http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/ SETI@home Beta]
|
| 2006-01-12
| [https://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS, Solaris, Other]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
|
| [https://youtu.be/buLKZnyzOdI view]
| University of California, Berkeley
| Software testing
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rosetta-home-covid19-and-tribute-to-seti-home-part-3/id1492837872?i=1000469085793 Part 3]
| Test project for SETI@home.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20040615010643/http://predictor.scripps.edu/ Predictor@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Predictor@Home 5]
| 2004-05-04
| WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS X (Not Intel)
|
|
|
| The Scripps Research Institute
|
|
| A world-community experiment and effort to use distributed world-wide-web volunteer resources to assemble a supercomputer able to ''predict protein structure from protein sequence''. Our work is aimed at testing and evaluating new algorithms and methods of protein structure prediction in the context of the Sixth Biannual [https://web.archive.org/web/20040610024610/http://predictioncenter.llnl.gov/casp6/Casp6.html CASP] (Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction) experiment. [[Predictor@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://alifeathome.dyndns.org/ ALife@Home]
|
| 2004-07-19
| WinXP-98
|
|
|
|
| Artificial intelligence
| [https://www.youtube.com/live/zstEf1dTm2I?feature=share Watch]
| An effort to conduct scientific experiments regarding neural networks and evolution on the computers of volunteers.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20040829080146/http://pirates.vassar.edu:80/ Pirates@HomeMission1] [https://web.archive.org/web/20060117061652/http://pirates.spy-hill.net/ Pirates@Home] [http://primates.spy-hill.net/ Primates@Home]
|
| 2004 / 2006 / 2008-04-01
| Windows, Linux, MacOS
|
|
| [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLblxpyGay1Q4849w-GB4X7g07FNXTeMBb view]
| Vassar College / Independent / Independent
| Software testing
| [https://www.youtube.com/live/qr-n6FziUeo?feature=share Watch]
| Pirates@Home Mission 1 helped to develop the Einstein@Home screensaver. Pirates@Home tested BOINC's forum software for possible use by ''[http://i2u2.spy-hill.net/ Interactions in Understanding the Universe]''. Primates@Home tested the reaction of [https://web.archive.org/web/20060117061652/http://pirates.spy-hill.net/ Pirates@Home] users to a disturbance in their accustomed environment. [[Pirates@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060215003906/http://autotranslator.net:80/ translator@home]
|
| 2005-03-23
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| translator@home was in the process of creating new software linked to BOINC but never developed.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20051027013808/http://public.shoft.net/ Shoft@Home]
|
| 2005
|  
|
|
|
| Independent
|
|
|

|-
| [http://boinctest.axpr.net/ Break the Forum!]
|
| 2005
|  
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
| Test BOINC forum software.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://fsmtdist.ist.tu-graz.ac.at/dist/ dIST]
|
| 2005
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| A Cape4 project.

|-
| [http://fsmtdist.ist.tu-graz.ac.at/cape4/index.php cape4]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Another Cape4 project.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://grid-devel3.rocksclusters.org/boinc_gamess/ BOINC GAMESS]
|
| 2005
|  
|
|
|
| Independent
|
|
| Project never overcame '''Warning''': mysql_pconnect(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060103125636/http://bifi.unizar.es/research/computing/bah/ BIFI@home]
|
| {{No}}
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Solve calculations that contribute to the research carried out at the Institute of Biocomputing and Physics of Complex Systems at the University of Zaragoza (BIFI).

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.azurite.co.uk/ IMP]
|
| 2005
|  
|
|
|
| The IMP Team
| Software testing
|
| Internet Movie Project. Test Project copyright © 2005 The IMP Team.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://lhcathome-alpha.cern.ch/ LHC@home Alpha]
|
| 2005
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
| Test Project for LHC@home.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071016235617/http://boinc.banaan.org:80/hashclash/ HashClash]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#HashClash 11]
| 2005-11-24
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
|
|
|
| searched for MD5 and SHA-1 hash collisions, culminating in the 2008 rogue certificate authority attack. [[HashClash|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060703095044/http://issofty17.is.noda.tus.ac.jp/index_E.php TANPAKU]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#TANPAKU 2]
| 2005-08-02
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
|
| Tokyo University of Science
|
|
| Used a Brownian dynamics method to study protein folding. [[TANPAKU|See more...]]

|-
| [http://slawoo.homelinux.org/ Nagrzewanie stali@HOME]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://lattice.umiacs.umd.edu/boinc_public_oldschool/ The Lattice Project-original]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#The 16]
| 2006
| WinXP-98
|
|
|
| University of Maryland, College Park
|
|
| Condor and PBS clusters through the Globus Toolkit, chiefly supporting phylogenetic analysis with the GARLI software. [[The Lattice Project|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060916002226/http://fah-boinc.stanford.edu/ Folding@home]
|
| 2006
| WinXP
|
|
|
| Stanford University
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060901142513/http://research.utep.edu/Default.aspx?alias=research.utep.edu/daplds Docking@Home-utep]
|
| {{No}}
|  
|
|
|
| University of Texas at El Paso
|
|
| The goals of the project are to explore the multi-scale nature of algorithmic adaptations in protein-ligand docking and to develop cyber infrastructures based on computational methods and models that efficiently accommodate these adaptations.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://ecc.crypto.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ ECDLP PROJECT]
|
| 2006
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070326165532/http://test.ntbz.com:80/ ntbz Test Project]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://debian.povaddict.com.ar/pov/ Renderfarm]
|
| 2006-08-10
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Another URL for the project: http://renderfarm.povaddict.com.ar/

|-
| [https://www.boincstats.com/stats/33/project/detail/ RenderFarm@Home]
|
| 2006-08-23
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://hashbreaker.com:8700/tmrldrtg/ Distributed Rainbow Table Generator]
|
| 2006
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
| The Minouche Research Laboratories
|
|
| The '''Distributed Rainbow Table Generator''' project of '''The Minouche Research Laboratories'''; a community project dedicated to large scale distributed calculation of huge Rainbow Tables.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://bebeer.dyndns.org:2222/bebeer/ Belgian Beer@Home]
|
| 2006-12-08
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070630030320/http://www.boinc.be/vbulletin BOINC.BE]
|
|
| An effort of people from the [https://web.archive.org/web/20070630030320/http://www.boinc.be/vbulletin BOINC.BE] team.

|-
| [http://www.enigmaathome.net/ Enigma@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Enigma@Home 2]
| 2007-08-24
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| An attempt to break 3 original Enigma messages that were intercepted in 1942. [[Enigma@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080511223553/http://impfarm.imp.org/boinc/ Internet Movie Project]
|
| 2007-07-15
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080724214454/http://impfarm.imp.org/boinc/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
| Setting up a renderfarm to power the [https://web.archive.org/web/20080511223553/http://www.imp.org/ Internet Movie Project]. Note that this project will never export credit stats.

|-
| [http://predictor.chem.lsa.umich.edu/pah/ Predictor@home Alpha]
|
| 2007 / 2009
|
|
|
|
| The Scripps Research Institute
|
|
| Test project for Predictor@home.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071001120117/http://zivis.bifi.unizar.es:80/ Zivis Superordenador Ciudadano]
|
| 2007
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070823192420/http://zivis.bifi.unizar.es/apps.php WinXP, Linux]
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://zebrabrute.ath.cx/zebrabrute/ Zebra RSA Brutforce]
|
| 2007
| WinXP-98
|
|
|
| Darkscout - a Computer Science student.
|
|
| The Project originates from an idea in a forum. An attempt to break the RSA-key for the checksum of RSA-Smart card by Brute-force search.

|-
| [http://web.archive.org/web/20090306065822/http://dist2.ist.tugraz.at/sudoku/ Sudoku project]
|
| 2007-08-27
|
|
|
|
| Graz, University of Technology
|
|
| Uses Internet-connected computers to search for the smallest possible start configuration of Sudoku.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071128150637/http://eternity2.net:80/ Eternity2.net]
|
| 2007
|  
|
|
|
| Dave Clark, Auckland
|
|
| A project to try to solve the Eternity II puzzle™.

|-
| [http://roc.cs.berkeley.edu/projects/boinc/index.html ROC]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
| University of California, Berkeley
|
|
|

|-
| [http://neuron.mine.nu/neuron/ Project Neuron]
|
| 2007-11-25
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
| Independent
|
|
| Provide a trial BOINC environment in which a set of dummy applications will run. The purpose of this being to record, observe and understand BOINC activity and data with a view to developing metrics that will establish or otherwise the quality/reliability/dependability of particular BOINC projects.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071020023328/http://www.gridfinity.com:80/gridfinity/ Gridfinity]
|
| 2007
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://www.scilinc.org/SciLINC/ SciLINC]
|
| 2007-03-22
| WinXP-98
|
|
|
| Missouri Botanical Garden
|
|
| Increase public access to nationally significant scientific literature. Enhance the usefulness of digitized materials by creating a Web repository of scanned literature, keywords, and online resources with tools for searching and analysis. Create an educational tool for learning about plant life. Provide a model for adopting public-resource computing applications within the library community.

|-
| [http://isaac.ssl.berkeley.edu/sleeper/ Sleeper]
|
| 2007-03
|
|
|
|
| University of California, Berkeley
|
|
| Test project for BOINC Alpha Test.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080901231107/http://www.init1.net:80/pPotTables/ pPot Tables]
|
| 2008
|  
|
|
|
| Independent
|
|
| Computing relative hand strength and 1-card lookahead positive potential for all possible flop, turn and hole card combinations for 2 to 10 players in Texas hold 'em.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20121205084825/http://www.malariacontrol.net/ malariacontrol.net]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Malariacontrol.net 26]
| 2006-03-01
2016-06-21
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/4GAYKw5SakQ view]
|
|
|
| A project with an application that makes use of network computing for stochastic modelling of the clinical epidemiology and natural history of Plasmodium falciparum malaria. [[Malariacontrol.net|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20061206015653/http://biology.polytechnique.fr/proteinsathome/ proteins@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Proteins@home 4]
| 2006-09-15
| WinXP
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/aM6kiaM228Y view]
|
|
|
| A large-scale Protein structure prediction project to contribute to a better understanding of many diseases and pathologies, and to progress in both Medicine and Technology. [[Proteins@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080517170329/http://www.depspid.net:80/ DepSpid]
|
| 2007
| WinXP-98
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Every DepSpid task is processed in two phases: a networking phase (Phase One) in which the DepSpid spider scans a set of web pages and stores results in a temporary database; and a computational phase (Phase Two) which uses the collected data to calculate dependencies between all pages. [[DepSpid|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://bob.myisland.as/tsp/ Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP)]
|
| 2007
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
|
|
|
|
| The Travelling salesman problem (TSP): for a given set of cities, visit each city once and only once and minimize the distance you travel.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060412015807/http://xw01.lri.fr:4320/ XtremLab]
|
| 2005
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Measuring the free resources available on personal computers involved in large-scale distributed computing.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060903103622/http://bbc.cpdn.org/ BBC Climate Change Experiment]
|
|
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090107014341/http://allprojectstats.com/collatz/ 3x+1@home]
|
| 2008-02-18
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| A non-profit project trying to find high 3x+1 conjecture stopping times. The 3x+1 conjecture is also known as the Collatz conjecture.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://edges-local-devbnc-srv.ceta-ciemat.es/appexample/ Uppercase Application]
|
| 2008
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [http://193.144.240.190/nnsimu/ NNSIMU Project]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090204215407/http://boinc.unex.es/extremadurathome/ Extremadura@Home]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090528015437/http://boinc.isa.ru:80/russiadg/ Russian Desktop Grid]
|
| 2009
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110801221116/http://falua.cesfelipesegundo.com/VRS/ Virus Respiratorio Sincitial (VRS)]
| [https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0895717710005595 1]
| 2010
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| VRS (from the Spanish Virus Respiratorio Sincitial) is a BOINC-based project which main aim is to simulate the behaviour of the human Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV).

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20081004231715/http://cels-at-home-dev.dyndns.org:80/test2/ <nowiki>Cels@Home [Second] Test Project</nowiki>]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Research in cell adhesion.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090925001717/http://boinc.vanderbilt.edu:80/test_setup Test Setup Project]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
| Vanderbilt
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://grid.ncssm.edu/ncssm_grid/ NCSSM Grid Computing Project]
|
| 2007-04-04
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20051226054712/http://www.cellcomputing.net/simple/ Cell Computing]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://arcoboinc.unex.es/rnd/ RND@home]
|
| 2007
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Radio Network Design (RND) is a telecommunication problem which consists in covering a geographic area with radio signal using the fewer number of transmitters that cover the maximum area.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://edges-local-testbnc-srv.ceta-ciemat.es/localtest EDGeS Local Test]
|
| 2007
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://sat.math.umu.se/sat/ Satisfaction@Home]
|
| 2007
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070505234056/http://www.nanohive-1.org:80/atHome/ NanoHive@Home]
| [http://openurl.ingenta.com/content/xref?genre=article&issn=1546-1955&volume=8&issue=7&spage=1139 1]
|
| WinXP
|
|
|
| Nanorex, Inc.
|
|
| NanoHive-1 is a modular simulator used for modeling the physical world at a nanometer scale. The intended purpose of the simulator is to act as a tool for the study, experimentation, and development of nanotech entities.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080711074723/http://boinc.iaik.tugraz.at:80/sha1_coll_search SHA 1 Collision Search Graz]
|
| 2007-08-08
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
| Graz University of Technology
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in cryptanalysis.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://dist2.ist.tugraz.at/sudoku/ Project Sudoku]
|
| 2007-08-27
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080307034907/http://dist2.ist.tugraz.at/sudoku/apps.php WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS]
|
|
|
| Graz University of Technology
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to search for the smallest possible start configuration of Sudoku.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071005080915/http://www.apsathome.org:80/ APS@Home]
|
| 2007-08-30
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
| University of Manchester
|
|
| The effects that atmospheric dispersion has on the measurements used in climate prediction.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080806072857/http://dawn.ynet.sk:80/test1/ Reversi]
|
| 2008-05-16
|  
|
|
|
| Independent
|
|
| Determine who wins in Reversi game - first player, second player or if the game is tied.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://www.ramseyathome.com/ramsey/ Ramsey@Home]
|
| 2008-06-14
|  
|
|
|
| Nick Peterson
|
|
| A volunteer computing project designed to find new lower bounds for various Ramsey numbers using a host of different techniques.

|-
| [http://canis.csc.ncsu.edu:8005/anansi/ Anansi]
|
| 2008
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://eaps-at-home-alpha.gotdns.org/eaps/ EAPS@HOME]
|
| 2008
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in Artificial Intelligence.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080703141019/http://boinc.vanderbilt.edu/CSB/ CSB@Home] / [https://web.archive.org/web/20080703141019/http://boinc.vanderbilt.edu/CSB/ BCL@Home]
|
| 2008-06-05 / 2008
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in '''Computational Structural Biochemistry'''.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080908061532/http://genlife.is-a-geek.org:80/genlife/ Genetic Life]
|
| 2008-06-18
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| A not-for-profit research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research into Genetic Algorithms.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090506112112/http://africangridlab.net/ African Grid Lab ALPHA]
|
| 2008-10-05
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| An incubation laboratory environment for African based BOINC projects.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090322190553/http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu/brats/ BRaTS@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#BRaTS@Home 2]
| 2007-06-05
| WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS
|
|
|
|
|
|
| BRaTS@Home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do various calculations in Gravitational Ray Tracing. ''BRaTS'' stands for ''BRaTS Ray Trace Simulator''.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090425124851/http://www.intelligencerealm.com/aisystem/system.php Artificial Intelligence System]
|
| 2007-09-05
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| The neural network simulator is an application that simulates neurons. Each downloaded work unit generates 500,000 biophysical neurons.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090927062104/http://dynaping.com/ DynaPing]
|
| 2009
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Ensure highest availability of your web services. DynaPing uses computers around the world to monitor your web service availability and alerts you of any downtime.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20091130024643/http://nqueens.ing.udec.cl/ NQueens@Home]
|
| 2007-08-10
| Windows
|
|
|
| University of Concepción
|
|
| This project uses Internet-connected computers to solve the N Queens problem.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20141009194330/http://registro.ibercivis.es/ Ibercivis]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Ibercivis 18]
| 2007-11
2020-08-01
|  
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/RRPMDKPGt3A view]
|
|
|
| Research in physics, material science and biomedicines and is based at several institutes and universities; Zaragoza, CETA-CIEMAT, CSIC, Coimbra. [[Ibercivis|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20201213215515/https://boinc.ibercivis.es/ibercivis/ Ibercivis BOINC]
|
| 2020-10
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| The Biophym Group of the CSIC Institute for the Structure of Matter has proposed to carry out simulations of the interaction of drugs used against Ebola, HIV infection, influenza or hepatitis B with the genome replication machinery of the SARS-Co-V virus.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://evil.podzone.org/decs/ DECS]
|
| 2007-10-05
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| The Generic Distributed Exact Cover Solver (DECS) project uses Internet-connected computers to solve exact cover problems. Exact cover is a general type of problem which can be used to solve problems including n-queens, Latin Square puzzles, Sudoku, polyomino tiling, set packing and set partitioning.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://boincsrv01.cern.ch/atlfast/ LHC Atlas Test]
|
| 2007-08-14
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Test project for LHC@home.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070209051807/http://boinc.berkeley.edu/cplan/ Cunning Plan]
|
| 2007
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Was being used to test account creation.

|-
| [http://pcschmiede.pc.funpic.de/teah/html/user/ Test Project Christian Beer]
|
| 2007
|  
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110207203930/http://mapthegap.com/ MAPtheGAP]
|
| {{No}}
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Eliminating racial disparities in health.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://dnahome.cs.rpi.edu/dna/ DNA@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#DNA@Home 2]
| 2010-04-14
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| The new versions allow for different motif types which are different models for how a binding site could look. One is palindromic, where the nucleotides in the beginning of the model have their complement at the end of the model. The other model type is reverse complement, which doesn't assume the model to be palindromic, but looks for either the forward or reverse version of the model.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://edges-local-devbnc-srv.ceta-ciemat.es/3gbp 3g Bridge Project]
|
| 2009
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071220210249/http://boincsrv01.cern.ch:80/lhcathome/ LHC@Home Experimental]
|
| 2007
|  
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
| For internal testing only; any workunits issued are for testing and do not yet have any scientific value. Please remain attached to the official LHC@Home server!

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://cbl-link02.cs.technion.ac.il/cplan/ Superlink@EGEE queue]
|
| {{No}}
|  
|
|
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|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20100324075245/http://boinc.cs.uct.ac.za:80/malaria/ UCT:malariacontrol.net]
|
| 2008-03-31
|  
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
| A test project in collaboration with MalariaControl.net in Switzerland that aims to test the correct operation of our server for future BOINC-based projects.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://dist.ist.tugraz.at/cape5/ Rectilinear Crossing Number]
|
| 2006-06-30
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/d03IUeQrDLQ view]
|
|
|
| Use sophisticated mathematical methods to determine the rectilinear crossing number for small values of n. [[Rectilinear Crossing Number Project|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20091124095534/http://boinc.vtu.lt:80/vtuathome VTU@home], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090412025420/http://boinc.vgtu.lt/vtuathome/ VGTU@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#VGTU@home 2]
| 2006-04-13
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
|
| Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
|
|
| The aim of this project is to provide a powerful distributed computing platform for scientists of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU) as well as other Lithuanian academic institutions.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090309055929/http://aqua.dwavesys.com/ AQUA@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#AQUA@home 4]
|2008-12-08
2011-08-01
|  
|
| {{Yes}}, Vbox
| [https://youtu.be/VyQgGkj_Rss view]
| dwavesys
|Quantum Computing
|
|Model the performance of superconducting adiabatic quantum computers. [[AQUA@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060702175205/http://www.ufluids.net/ μFluids@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Publications_by_BOINC_projects#.C2.B5Fluids.40Home 3]
| 2005-09-19
| WinXP-98
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Study fluid behavior in microgravity to design satellite propellant management devices. [[UFluids@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110817075110/http://boinc.run.montefiore.ulg.ac.be:80/evo/ Evo@home]
|
| 2010-11-22
|  
|
|
|
| University of Liège
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in Machine Learning. This project uses Evolutionary Algorithms to optimize the parameters of different kind of machine learning algorithms.

|-
| [http://gmdhgrid.com/mgua/index.php GMDHGrid]
|
| 2010
|
|
|
|
| Kiev Polytechnic Institute
|
|
| Data mining, knowledge discovery, prediction, complex systems modeling, optimization and pattern recognition.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20101025171952/http://project.czechnationalteam.cz/cplan/ Czech National Team project]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
| Czech National Team
| Software testing
|
| A test project for our new BOINC server helping us to find and fix some bugs and create a new project which is being prepared.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.math.ucalgary.ca/sheti/ SHETI]
|
| 2009-01-08
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Sheti is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to solve the [http://www.certicom.com/index.php/the-certicom-ecc-challenge 131-bit Certicom ECC Challenge].

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090331215945/http://mothershipathome.org/ Mothership@Home]
|
| 2008
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Mothership@Home is dedicated in loving memory of my mother Patricia Horner (1942-1987), my husband Joshua Resnick (1965-1999) and all others who have passed away prematurely due to medical conditions.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://dart.cs.georgefox.edu/mcpi/ Monte Carlo Pi]
|
| 2008
|
|
|
|
| George Fox University
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [http://cancergrid.lpds.sztaki.hu/cancergrid/ CancerGrid]
|
| 2008
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [http://stuff.povaddict.com.ar:8080/boinctest/ Silly Pi Calculation]
|
| 2008
|
|
|
|
| Nicolas
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|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130823010101/http://www.fpgaathome.org/ FPGA@Home]
|
| {{No}}
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| This is an open collaboration for porting Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) based volunteer computing projects on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs).

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130528155906/http://boinc.hpc.utp.edu.my:80/utpdg/ UTP Desktop Grid]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
| Universiti Teknologi Petronas
|
|
| UTP Desktop Grid (UTPDG) is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in various areas of parallel computational problems.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130302052041/http://boinc.ucd.ie/fmah/ FightMalaria@Home]
|
| 2012-07-20
|  
|
|
|
| Dr Anthony Chubb
|
|
| Perform docking simulations on malaria proteins.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://107.21.228.163/VBOINC V-BOINC]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| The VBOINC project is the first attempt to use virtual machines with BOINC.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130501160927/http://oproject.info/ OProject@Home]
| [https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.1593 1]
| 2012-08-13
|  
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|
| Algorithm analysis. OProject@Home based at Olin Library (Rollins College).

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/https://climateathome.info/climateathome/ Climate@Home]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
| George Mason University, NASA
|
|
| Research for spatiotemporal computing and climate predictions.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130701032038/http://bigdata.ihep.ac.cn/bigdata/stats.php BigData@home]
|
|
| [https://web.archive.org/http://bigdata.ihep.ac.cn/bigdata/ Windows, Linux]
|
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| Crawl Internet New Media Information.

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| [https://quakecatcher.net/sensor/ Quake-Catcher Network]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Quake-Catcher 13]
| 2007-12-05 / 2023-06-01
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| [https://youtu.be/SCv_W751m64 view]
| Stanford University, then University of Southern California
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| Research, education, and outreach in seismology.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://qcn.emsc-csem.org/sensor/ Quake-Catcher Network EMSC / CSEM]
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| [https://youtu.be/SCv_W751m64 view]
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| Research, education, and outreach in seismology.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110723205439/http://mersenneathome.net/ Mersenne@home]
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| [http://b25.interix.jp/b25/ B25@Home]
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| [http://boinc.ryanteck.org.uk/boincPi/ boincPi]
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| [https://web.archive.org/http://surveill.dei.uc.pt/surveill/ Surveill@home]
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| University of Coimbra
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| Conduct end-to-end fine-grained monitoring of web sites.

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| [https://www.chess960athome.org/alpha/ Chess960athome]
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| 2006-03-20
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| used Stockfish to evaluate tens of millions of chess positions, building a labeled dataset intended for training a machine-learned classifier of winning positions. [[Chess960@home|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110801052639/http://www.freehal.net/freehal_at_home FreeHAL]
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| Tobias Schulz / Powered by SETI.Germany and Planet 3DNow!
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| FreeHAL@home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to parse and convert big open source semantic nets for use in FreeHAL.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20100430012556/http://goldbach.pl/ Goldbach's Conjecture Project]
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| 2009-07-23
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20100505082120/http://goldbach.pl/apps.php Windows, Linux]
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| Effectively proving Goldbach's weak conjecture.

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| [http://starmageddon.dyndns.org/ninjagrid/ NinjaGrid]
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| 2009
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| Mathematics
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| 3x+1.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://physicsathome.tk/physics/ physics@home]
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| 2013-02-16
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| Vasyl Kuzmenko
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| Research in Solid-state physics, Materials science, Optics and Chemistry.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://vcsc.cs.uh.edu/second-computing/ UH Second Computing]
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| University of Houston College of Technology
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| We are in the process to simulate macromolecular interactions in a living cell.

|-
| [http://babel.boinc.povaddict.com.ar/ Babel]
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| Testing translations of BOINC server and forum.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://eon.raunvis.hi.is/EON2v1/ EON2v1@clusters]
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| [https://web.archive.org/http://sctr.i3a.uclm.es/prob/ Prob]
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| [http://140.110.240.195/bioinfo/ Bioinfo@Home]
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| [https://web.archive.org/https://boinc.freerainbowtables.com/distrrtgen/ DistrRTgen]
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| By distributing the generation of rainbow chains, we can generate HUGE rainbow tables that are able to crack longer passwords than ever seen before.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20100526004243/http://boinc.picevolvr.com:80/ Picevolvr]
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| 2010
|  
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| [http://cullen-online.com/ Michael Cullen]
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| Uses Internet-connected computers to generate artwork completely automatically.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://cah.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/ QuantumFIRE alpha]
|
| 2010
|  
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| University of Cambridge
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| Quantum foundations and Solid-state physics research.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinctest.codeq.pl/boinctest/ Replace With Project Name]
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| 2013
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| http://boinctest.codeq.pl/boinctest/

|-
| [http://web.archive.org/web/20131229164437/http://plagiarism.boincpolska.org/plagiarism/ Plagiarism@Home]
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| 2013
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| Krzysztof Piszczek
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| Search given text for potential plagiarism in Internet resources.

|-
| [http://boinc.comcute.com/SIM/ Comcute emBOINC]
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| 2012
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| [http://boinc.comcute.com/cc_boinc/ Comcute Boinc]
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| 2013
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|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://chess.qugate.org/ Chess@Home]
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| 2014-01-05
2014-03-01
|  
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| Michal Stanislaw Wojcik
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| play large numbers of Chess960 (Fischer Random Chess) games, in an effort to build the beginnings of an opening theory for the variant. [[Chess@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://perft.computers-chess.com/ computers-chess]
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| 2013
|  
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [http://151.97.53.109/synchronised/ Synchronised]
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| 2013 / 2014
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| University of Catania
| Molecular Modelling
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| Pharmaceutical chemistry research.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090402124145/http://cleanenergy.harvard.edu/ The Clean Energy Project]
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| Harvard University
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| Merged into World Community Grid.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20150522195526/http://www.universeathometest.info/universe/ Universe@Home test project]
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| University of Warsaw
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| Test project for Universe@Home.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://eon.ices.utexas.edu/eon2/ eOn2]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#EOn 6]
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| Simulate long timescale evolution of atomic scale systems in chemistry and materials science. [[EOn|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://mmgboinc.unimi.it/ SimOne@home]
| [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000926141300763X 1]
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| The project focuses on the osmoprotection phenomenon. In nature there are small molecules that are able to protect proteins from thermal stress. Answering this question could have a major impact in agriculture, e.g. developing plants that require less water intake.

|-
| [http://docking.cis.udel.edu/ Docking@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Docking@home 20]
| 2006-09-11 / 2014-05-23
| WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS X/Intel
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| [https://youtu.be/gC_2zu2efY4 view]
| University of Delaware
|
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| CHARMM-based protein-ligand docking simulations to search for new pharmaceutical drugs. [[Docking@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [http://boinc01.cern.ch/test4theory/ LHC Test4Theory]
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| 2011
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|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20150731163559/http://lhcathome2.cern.ch/vLHCathome/ vLHCathome]
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| 2011
|  
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| This is a project that utilizes the CERN-developed CernVM virtual machine and the BOINC virtualization layer to harness volunteer cloud computing power for full-fledged LHC event physics simulation on volunteer computers.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120102114135/http://ui.hpc.iit.bme.hu/wc/ Web Computing]
|
| 2011
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130511025233/http://falua.cesfelipesegundo.com/Ideologias/ Ideologias@Home]
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| Study how people in a certain region evolve ideologically over time with respect to an idea.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120302132650/http://alfa-bridge.ibercivis.es/puente/ alfa_puente]
|
| 2012
|  
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20121207151627/http://boinc.biruni.upm.my/putra/ DG@Putra]
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| 2012-02-23
|  
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| Universiti Putra Malaysia
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| Putra Desktop Grid is UPM's implementation of a DesktopGrid network. The project is fully supported by the International Desktop Grid Federation (IDGF).

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://qcn.stanford.edu/continual/ QCN Continual Sensor Monitoring]
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| 2012-04-18
|  
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| [https://youtu.be/SCv_W751m64 view]
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| Research, education, and outreach in seismology.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://qcn.twgrid.org/sensor/ QCN Taiwan]
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| 2012-04-16
|  
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| [https://youtu.be/SCv_W751m64 view]
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| Research, education, and outreach in seismology.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://www.ras.unam.mx/sensor/ QCN Red Atrapa Sismos]
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|  
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| [https://youtu.be/SCv_W751m64 view]
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| Research, education, and outreach in seismology.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://bvp6.hpc.iit.bme.hu/w2g/ Web2Grid Development]
|
| 2012
|  
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [http://bacalhau.lsd.ufcg.edu.br/table_transcriber/ TABLE TRANSCRIBER]
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| 2012
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|-
| [http://boinc.rm-hs.de/test/ Replace With Project Name]
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| http://boinc.rm-hs.de/test/

|-
| [http://150.186.92.236/boinctest/ boinctest]
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|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://nanomodeling.molsim.ru/nanomodeling/ NanoModeling@home]
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| 2012-05-03
|  
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| For designing nanostructures and nanorobots. Our goal is molecular modeling of targeted drug delivery systems, nanorobots and related nanostructures.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120120081734/http://boinc.berkeley.edu:80/vbox/ CERNVM/Vboxwrapper Test Project]
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|  
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://mishra.lpds.sztaki.hu/atticproxy/ Attic Proxy Project]
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|  
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [http://95.56.231.137/norlist/view_profile.php?userid=806 NORLIST@HOME]
|
| 2014
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| Kazakhstan National Scientific Laboratory
|
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| Kazakh speech recognition.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.biruni.upm.my/pucbi/ PUCBi Desktop Grid]
|
| 2015
|  
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| Perdana University Centre for Bioinformatics (PU-CBi)
|
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| Provide education and training to support the development and continuity of in-house programmes, in particular to advance the translational bioinformatics skills of the next generation doctors and clinician scientists.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20160315063057/http://finance.gridcoin.us/finance/show_user.php?userid=885357 Gridcoin Finance]
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| 2015
|  
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| [https://wiki.bc-team.org/index.php?title=Gridcoin_Finance/en The project performs financial simulations, analysis of the block chain, consolidate humanitarian reports, calculate marketing strategies, perform stock option analysis, harvest business intelligence, and assimilate top level results for the crowdsourced web pages.]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20160831173736/http://nanosurf.kr.ua/nanos/ nanosurf]
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| 2016-06-16
|  
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| Oleg Schevchenko
|
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| Researching surface physics. In particular, the development of optical devices. Theoretical modeling of surface quantum dots makes it possible to provide recommendations to a group of experimenters.

|-
| [https://www.boincstats.com/stats/167/project/detail/ BMG@Home]
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| 2016-02-25
|  
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| Chemistry
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|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20170514021753/http://parlea.ru:80/andersonattack AndersonAttack@home]
| [https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/eng-2018-0002/html 1]
| 2017
|  
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| {{Yes}}, Vbox
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| Matrosov Institute for System Dynamics and Control Theory
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| Implement Anderson's attack on A5/1 GSM stream cipher.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20171114233820/http://stop.inferia.ru:80/ Stop@home]
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| 2017-09-17
|  
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| 256Ghz
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| Today we can't imagine our life without internet and its services. Our team wants to use distributed computing to solve mathematical tasks and improve algorithms.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130605030952/http://boinc.riojascience.com/ Riojascience@home]
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|  
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| Knet Communications and the University of La Rioja
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| A platform for biomedical research.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20141117215322/http://igemathome.org/ iGem@home]
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| {{No}}
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20160629234412/http://www.bitcoinutopia.net/bitcoinutopia/ Bitcoin Utopia]
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| 2013-06-05
|  
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| Mine cryptocurrencies for incentive awards and science projects.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://59.78.96.61:8082/dhome/ Drug@Home]
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|  
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| School of Pharmacy, Ecust China University of Science & Technology
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| This study applied an efficient virtual screening strategy integrating molecular docking with MM-GBSA rescoring to identify diverse human dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (hDHODH) inhibitors.

|-
| [http://edges-ext-dg.ceta-ciemat.es/3gbp/ Edges Bridge Production]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140913231024/http://boinc.unsads.com/rsals/ RSA Lattice Siever(2.0)]
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| 2009-12-24 / 2012
|  
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| Help other factoring projects such as mersenneforum or XYYXf achieve their academic goals. Merged into [[NFS@Home]].

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120329124047/http://home.edges-grid.eu/home/ EDGeS@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#EDGeS@Home 12]
| 2009-10-28
|  
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| To support the execution of selected and validated scientific applications developed by the EGEE and EDGeS community.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20081008031648/http://cels-at-home-dev.dyndns.org:80/cels/ Cels@Home]
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|2008-06-23
2009-09-01
|  
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| [https://youtu.be/mzp2QBwvb2U view]
|University of Texas in Austin
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| 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 is a critical event that makes the disease much harder to treat. [[Cels@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [http://77.48.48.82/jplan/ jplan]
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| [https://web.archive.org/http://lhcbathome.cern.ch/Beauty/ Beauty@LHC]
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| Based at CERN and is a project of the LHCb experiment.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209200706/http://boinc.biruni.upm.my/putra/ Putra Desktop Grid]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://vcsc.cs.uh.edu/virtual-prairie/ Virtual Prairie]
| [https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0304380010005557 1]
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|  
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| University of Houston
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| simulations of clonal plant growth to inform the ecological design of sustainable prairie ecosystems. [[Virtual Prairie|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.med.usherbrooke.ca/nrg/ Najmanovich Research Group]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Najmanovich 3]
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| Research in molecular recognition and computer-aided drug design.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://www.sustainablegrid.org/ Sustainable Grid]
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| 2012-01-11
|  
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| Enterprise Application Development Group at the University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Goerlitz
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| Bundles hardware resources of the university and provides this computational power to the scientists for their research purposes.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120312215655/http://mamarreis.lsd.ufcg.edu.br/ciencia-em-sua-casa/ Ciência Em Sua Casa]
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| Science in Your Home. Search for Wilson prime numbers and DNA sequencing.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120705003101/http://donateathome.org/ Donate@Home]
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| Allows participants to donate towards funding by using their GPU to mine for BitCoins.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://edges-local-devbnc-srv.ceta-ciemat.es/student01/ Student01]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://edges-local-devbnc-srv.ceta-ciemat.es/student02/ Student02]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [http://gf45.mp.tudelft.nl/psdm/ BIoS]
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| TU Delft
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| [https://web.archive.org/http://mishra.lpds.sztaki.hu/edgidemo/ EDGI Demo Project]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://voldemort.cs.cf.ac.uk/attic_proxy/ AtticFS Proxy Application Project on BOINC]
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| The AtticFS Proxy application acts as a translation layer between HTTP and the AtticFS. This allows BOINC Projects to utilise AtticFS easily.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130526001435/http://volunteer.cs.und.edu/subset_sum/ SubsetSum@Home]
| [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7255176/ 1]
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|  
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| Computer Science Department of the University of North Dakota
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| See how far we can extend the empirical evidence of the Subset Sum problem. Find better ways to apply volunteer computing to combinatorial problems.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20100313233251/http://www.nicoschlitter.de/DistributedDataMining distributedDataMining]
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| Research in the various fields of Data Analysis and Machine Learning.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20101201205418/http://dnetc.net/ DNETC@HOME]
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| A wrapper between BOINC and distributed.net.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://dg.imp.kiev.ua/slinca/ SLinCA]
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| SLinCA (Scaling Laws in Cluster Aggregation) is involved with research in the field of materials science.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110803231551/http://mishra.lpds.sztaki.hu:80/szdgr/ SZTAKI Desktop Grid Research Facility]
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| WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS X
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| Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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| This project is the test & research facility for SZTAKI Desktop Grid.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20081224080150/http://hydrogenathome.org/ Hydrogen@home]
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120111114110/http://hydrogenathome.org/apps.php WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS X (Not Intel)]
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| Enhance clean energy technology by improving hydrogen production and storage.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://convector.fsv.cvut.cz/ convector@home]
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| Calculate global optimum of 52 bar truss.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070202002920/http://spin.fh-bielefeld.de/ Spinhenge@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Spinhenge@home 3]
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| WinXP-98
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| [https://youtu.be/d-fafmtqE74 view]
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| Support the research of nano-magnetic molecules. In the future these molecules will be used in the local tumor chemotherapy and to develop tiny memory-modules. [[Spinhenge@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140413155515/http://bealathome.com/ Beal@Home]
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| Beal's conjecture is a conjecture in number theory: where A, B, C, x, y, and z are positive integers with x, y, z > 2, then A, B, and C have a common prime factor. Beal initially offered a prize of US $5,000 in 1997, raising it to US $1,000,000.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20150816053811/http://bealf.pl/bealf BealF@Home]
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| Part of the Master Thesis: '''''Testing Beal conjecture using supercomputers and distributed computing platform BOINC'''''. The predecessor of the project was ''Beal@Home''.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://cbl-link02.cs.technion.ac.il/superlinkattechnion/ Superlink@Technion]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Superlink@Technion 4]
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| WinXP-98, Linux
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| Helps geneticists all over the world find disease-provoking genes causing some types of diabetes, hypertension (high blood pressure), cancer, schizophrenia and many others.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110720105948/http://boinc.vanderbilt.edu/bcl/ Biochemical Library]
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| 2011
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| Research in Biochemical Library.

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| [http://falua.cesfelipesegundo.com/jarifa/ Jarifa]
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| [https://web.archive.org/http://netmax.isa.ru/netmax/ NetMax@home]
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| Research in dynamic routing at telecommunication networks.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140804215459/http://gilda117.ihep.ac.cn/ATLAS/ Replace With Project Name]
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| https://web.archive.org/web/20140903030559/http://gilda117.ihep.ac.cn/ATLAS

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| [http://cvmathome.cern.ch/test4theory/ LHC+@Home]
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| http://isaac.ssl.berkeley.edu/test2/

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.fiit.stuba.sk/ BOINC@Fiit]
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| Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava
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| TBA.

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| [https://web.archive.org/https://v8boinc.fer.hr/v8boinc/ v8boinc]
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20101203122655/http://glife.is-a-geek.org:80/ga/view_profile.php?userid=120 GA@home]
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20101109123610/http://www.luxrenderfarm.de/luxfarm Luxrenderfarm@home]
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| Renderfarm for Luxrender.net.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130819173713/http://sudoku.nctu.edu.tw/joomla/ sudoku@vtaiwan]
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| Develop new techniques and use them to modify the program [https://web.archive.org/web/20130819173713/http://www.math.ie/checker.html Checker] (written by Gary McGuire).

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://poseidon.shacknet.nu:8080/MilestoneRSA/ MilestoneRSA]
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| Break a 1024 bit RSA key used by Motorola to sign the boot and recovery partitions on the Motorola Milestone.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc01.uoc.edu/ILS-ESP-2014/ ILS-ESP-2014]
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| Research for solving the permutation FLOW-SHOP problem.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://wordcompatibility.com/words_compatibility/ Russian Words Compatibility]
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| Research in Russian computational linguistics.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110816010257/http://falua.cesfelipesegundo.com/Neurona/ Neurona@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Neurona@Home 2]
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| Simulating the behavior of a large assembly of cellular automata neurons connected in a complex network.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.isa.ru/dcsdg/ OPTIMA@HOME]
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| Solve challenging large-scale optimization problems.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130525113734/http://svahesrv2.bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de/correlizer/ Correlizer]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Correlizer 5]
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| Revealing the mysteries of genome organization.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120825055512/http://vbridge.twgrid.org/asgcdg/ Taiwan Desktop Grid]
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|Academia Sinica Grid Computing
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| Bridging Taiwanese volunteer computers to European e-Science service grid infrastructure. [[Taiwan Desktop Grid|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110214000708/http://androinc.net:80/ AndrOINC]
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| To break a 1024 bit RSA key used by Motorola to sign the boot and recovery partitions on the Motorola Milestone.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20141216004540/http://findah.ucd.ie/ FiND@Home]
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| 2012-07-20
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| Dr Anthony Chubb
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| A research project that uses donated CPU time to perform docking simulations on malaria proteins.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140514143657/http://www.primaboinca.com/ Primaboinca]
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| This project concerns itself with two hypotheses in number theory: Agrawal's Conjecture (the basis for the AKS algorithm) and Popovych's conjecture, which adds a further condition and could reduce the time of a deterministic prime test from O(log N)^6 to O(log N)^3.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060723185510/http://attribution.cpdn.org/ Seasonal Attribution Project]
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| WinXP, Linux
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| By comparing the results of climate simulations, half of which will include the effects of human-induced climate change, and half of which will not, we will investigate the possible impact of human activity on extreme weather risk.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://shasta.chem.uh.edu/SolarAtHome/ Solar@home]
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| Make more efficient solar cells.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080828221836/http://kinetic.dnsalias.org/magnetism/ Magnetism@home]
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| Explore the equilibrium, metastable and transient magnetization patterns in nano-scale magnetic elements and their arrays.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://desktopgrid.hiast.edu.sy/hiastdg/ HIAST@HOME]
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| 2013
|  
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140316201231/http://volunteer.cs.und.edu:80/dna/ DNA@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#DNA@Home 2]
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| Discover what regulates the genes in DNA.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120130113228/http://boinc.umiacs.umd.edu/ The Lattice Project]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#The 16]
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| WinXP, Linux, Mac
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| University of Maryland
| Multiple applications
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| Condor and PBS clusters through the Globus Toolkit, chiefly supporting phylogenetic analysis with the GARLI software. [[The Lattice Project|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.fzk.de/poem/ POEM@HOME]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#POEM@HOME 5]
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| Protein structure prediction has been complemented by other nanoscale molecule simulations. Within the scope of polymer crystallography we are researching conformations of organic hydrocarbons. [[POEM@HOME|See more...]]

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| [http://int-boinctest.int.kit.edu/poem/ POEM@TEST]
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| Test project for POEM@HOME.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://199.26.254.190/qos/ Spatiotemporal Quality of Service (QoS)]
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| Perform distributed web service evaluation so that more accurate service quality information can be delivered to end users.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070128212119/http://boinc.rieselsieve.com/ RieselSieve]
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| WinXP
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| Mathematics
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| k+2n-1 problem, eventually merged with PrimeGrid.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130806073759/http://mopac.cadaster.eu/ mopac@home]
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| Chemistry
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| Research in quantum chemistry.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140419190153/http://volunteer.cs.und.edu/wildlife/ Wildlife@Home]
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| University of North Dakota
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| Analyze video gathered from various cameras recording wildlife.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20160120043345/http://volpexathome.cs.uh.edu/VolPEx/ Volpex@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Volpex@Home 9]
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| University of Houston
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| Research in creating effective parallel computing on multiple volatile nodes.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://mindmodeling.org/palm_project/ MindModeling@Home (Palm)]
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| University of Dayton Research Institute and Wright State University
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| Test project for MindModeling@Home.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080805160334/http://mindmodeling.org:80/beta/ MindModeling@Home (Beta)]
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| [https://youtu.be/3aJmm60Wgl8 view]
| University of Dayton Research Institute and Wright State University
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| Test project for MindModeling@Home.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120215132304/http://boinc.almeregrid.nl/ AlmereGrid]
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090422205514/http://server1.almeregrid.nl/testgrid/ AlmereGrid TestGrid]
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| Test Grid of AlmereGrid.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://server5.almeregrid.nl/almeregrid/ AlmereGrid Boinc testGrid]
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| No independent verification that this was a BOINC project.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20181204215217/http://anthgrid.com/dbnupperbound/ DBN Upper Bound]
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| Polymath project related to the theory of the Riemann zeta function.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130331200159/http://abcathome.com/ ABC@home]
| [https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.2974 1]
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| WinXP-98, Linux
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| Finding abc-triples related to the ABC conjecture. [[ABC@home|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070206065801/http://abcathome.com/beta/ ABC@home beta]
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| Test project for ABC@home.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc2.cs.hs-rm.de/abclll/ ABC Lattices @Home]
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| Searching for good abc-triples. Unlike ABC@Home, this project is not aiming for a thorough search of a certain range of numbers. Instead, we are trying to find good triples with the help of a specialized algorithm in areas beyond 2^100.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080801101300/http://cpdnbeta.oerc.ox.ac.uk/ CPDN Beta]
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| Test project for climate''prediction''.net.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140703145955/http://atlasathome.cern.ch/ Atlas@home]
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| A research project that uses volunteer computing to run simulations of the ATLAS experiment at CERN.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130302044909/http://boincsimap.org/boincsimap/ SIMAP]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#SIMAP 5]
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| WinXP, Linux, Mac OS, Other
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|Technical University of Munich, the Helmholtz Zentrum München and the University of Vienna
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| Many computational methods in biology and medicine are based on protein sequence analysis, e.g. to predict the function and structure of genes and proteins. SIMAP facilitates these methods by providing pre-calculated protein similarities and protein domains. [[SIMAP|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120214044716/http://boinc.gorlaeus.net/ Leiden Classical]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Leiden 2]
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| WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS X (Not Intel)
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| [https://youtu.be/co2SkwsvyOk view] and [https://youtu.be/ECAQC1mzMiM view]
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| Dedicated to general Classical Dynamics for any scientist or science student. [[Leiden Classical|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20171217033707/http://szdg.lpds.sztaki.hu/szdg/ SZTAKI Desktop Grid]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#SZTAKI 5]
| 2005-05-26
2018-05-31
| WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS X (Not Intel), Solaris
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| Multiple Applications
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| The SZTAKI Desktop Grid and its applications are partly supported by the DEGISCO and the EDGI projects. The work leading to these results has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreements n° RI-261561 and n° RI-261556. [[SZTAKI Desktop Grid|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080926101459/http://orbit.psi.edu/oah/ Orbit@home]
| [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103516300914 1]
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| Windows, Linux
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| Produce an optimized search strategy for dedicated astronomical surveys to search for near-Earth asteroids.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130725025029/http://pogs.theskynet.org/pogs/ theSkyNet POGS]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#TheSkyNet 3]
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| Research in astronomy. Combine the spectral coverage of GALEX, Pan-STARRS1, and WISE to generate a multi-wavelength UV-optical-NIR galaxy atlas for the nearby Universe. [[TheSkyNet POGS|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20180205194455/https://sourcefinder.theskynet.org/duchamp/ theSkyNet Sourcefinder]
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| Provide a means to test the effectiveness of various astronomical sourcefinding applications.

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| [https://nickeycat.net/nic/ Nickeycat]
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| No independent verification that this was a BOINC project.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://xansons4cod.com/xansons4cod/ XANSONS for COD]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#XANSONS 2]
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| Create an open access database of simulated x-ray and neutron powder diffraction patterns for nanocrystalline phase of the materials presented in the '''Crystallography Open Database (COD)'''.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://aerospaceresearch.net/constellation/ Constellation]
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| Research in various aerospace related sciences and engineering.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20190401042546/http://www.acousticsathome.ru/boinc/ Acoustics@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Acoustics@home 2]
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| Matrosov Institute for System Dynamics and Control Theory of SB RAS
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| Solving inverse problems in underwater acoustics.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20100427212604/http://boinc.drugdiscoveryathome.com/ Drug Discovery@home]
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| Model the behavior of leading compounds that could be developed into new medicines.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://sat.isa.ru/pdsat/ SAT@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#SAT@home 8]
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|Russian Academy of Sciences (Siberian Branch)
|Mathematics
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| Solve hard and practically important problems (discrete functions inversion problems, discrete optimization, bioinformatics, etc) that can be effectively reduced to Boolean satisfiability problem. [[SAT@home|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20190606103241/https://www.dhep.ga/boinc/ Distributed Hardware Evolution Project]
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| Used island-based coevolutionary genetic algorithm to synthesize self-checking digital hardware circuits. [[Distributed Hardware Evolution Project|See more...]]

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| [https://charon.camras.nl/setiatcamras/ SETI@CAMRAS]
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20180927092346/http://cpu.goofyxgridathome.net/ GoofyxGrid@Home CPU]
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20131022042932/http://qmcathome.org/ QMC@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#QMC@Home 7]
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| Windows, Linux
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| [https://youtu.be/fNWUs9jRwSY view]
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| Multiple applications
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| Quantum-mechanical computations on medically relevant biomolecular systems, to help with developing quantum-mechanics-based approaches for computational drug design; and finding safer and greener materials for e-vehicle batteries. [[QMC@Home|See more...]]

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| [http://physiome.lf1.cuni.cz/ident3/physiome/ Physiome@home]
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| Research in human physiology.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://casathome.ihep.ac.cn/ CAS@home]
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|2010-09-30
2020-04-27
|  
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| [https://youtu.be/e-DUArD38Pw view]
| Chinese Academy of Sciences
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| The main application is the TreeThreader which predicts protein structure. [[CAS@home|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20210417203758/http://boinc.scienterprise.cn/ scienterprise]
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| 2020
|  
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| Enterprises own a lot of idle computing resources in their private cloud, while research projects are restricted by limited computing power. This project aims to decrease this imbalance by building CloudTides, an elastic platform on idle cloud resources.

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| [http://vath.xicp.cn/test/ volunteer@home]
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| 2021
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| [https://youtu.be/a4nO8ki2qR4 view]
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| Very small test project, no information.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20191018200437/http://brainstormhome.org/ Brainstorm@home]
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| Investigate the molecular basis of brain-related diseases.

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| [http://hayes.nodium.net:8000/boincserver/ beef@home]
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| Proof of concept temporary test project.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20170509144906/https://csgrid.org/csg/ Citizen Science Grid]
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|  
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| UND's Computational Research Center and Information Technology Systems and Services
| Multiple applications
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| A wide range of research and educational projects using volunteer computing and citizen science, including DNA@Home, SubsetSum@Home, Climate Tweets, and Wildlife@Home.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20210125080541/https://www.kryptosathome.com/ Kryptos@Home]
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| Solving one of the most famous unsolved puzzles - the three-decade old Kryptos sculpture located on the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency. [[Kryptos@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20200421212107/https://mindmodeling.org/ MindModeling@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Publications_by_BOINC_projects#MindModeling.40Home 6]
| 2007-03-17
|  
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| [https://youtu.be/3aJmm60Wgl8 view]
| University of Dayton Research Institute and Wright State University
| Cognitive science
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| Computational cognitive process modeling to better understand the human mind. [[MindModeling@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20210225002054/http://www.vdwnumbers.org/vdwnumbers/ Van Der Waerden Numbers]
| [https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.03301 1]
| 2021-02-02
|  
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|
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| Daniel Monroe
| Mathematics
|
| Van Der Waerden Numbers is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to find better lower bounds for these numbers. Static mirror for this project: https://www.123numbers.org/

|-
| [http://burp.renderfarming.net/ Big and Ugly Rendering Project (BURP)]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Big 2]
|2004-06-17
2020
| Windows, Linux, Mac OS
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|Janus Kristensen
|3D rendering
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| Render animated videos including [http://bbb3d.renderfarming.net/download.html Big Buck Bunny]. [[Big and Ugly Rendering Project|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/test/ BOINC Test project]
|
| 2007-07-24
|  
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| [https://youtu.be/e-DUArD38Pw view]
| University of California, Berkeley
| Software testing
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| A test project for BOINC development.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20220711171713/https://boinc.tacc.utexas.edu/ BOINC@TACC]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#BOINC@TACC 3]
|
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| Texas Advanced Computing Center
| Multiple applications
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| Aerospace engineering, computational biology, and earthquake engineering. [[BOINC@TACC|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc-dev.tacc.utexas.edu/boincserver/ BOINC@TACC dev]
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|  
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| Texas Advanced Computing Center
| Software testing
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| Test project for BOINC@TACC.

|-
| [https://www.mlcathome.org/mlcathome/ MLC@Home]
| [https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2104.10555 1]
| 2020-06-30 / 2022-08-02
| [https://www.mlcathome.org/mlcathome/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| University of Maryland, Baltimore County
| Cognitive science
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mlc-home/id1492837872?i=1000499605038 Listen]
| Understanding and interpreting complex machine learning models. [[MLC@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.tbrada.eu/ T.Brada Experimental Grid]
|
| 2019-02-03 / 2022-12-24
|
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
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| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| The PADLS Total subproject aims to find new pseudo-associative DLS. [[T.Brada Experimental Grid|See more...]]

|-
| [https://quchempedia.univ-angers.fr/athome/ QuChemPedIA@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#QuChemPedIA@home 4]
| 2019-07-01 / 2022-09-29
| [https://quchempedia.univ-angers.fr/athome/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: olive; color: black;" | Vbox only
|
| Université Angers
| Molecular Chemistry
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/quchempedia/id1492837872?i=1000484760287 Listen]
| Help chemical researchers around the world by building a unique collection of results and also help our AIs to propose much more new targets for the different applications we are addressing than we could do on our own. [[QuChemPedIA@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/ Collatz Conjecture]
| [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11227-020-03368-x 1]
| 2009-01-06
| [https://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| Study the Collatz conjecture, an unsolved conjecture in mathematics. [[Collatz Conjecture|See more...]]

|-
| [http://www.cosmologyathome.org/ Cosmology@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Cosmology@Home 5]
| 2007-06-26 / 2024-01-10
| [http://www.cosmologyathome.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, Vbox
|
| Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
| Astronomy
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/comology-home/id1492837872?i=1000521601975 Listen]
| Find the most accurate models that best describe the universe. [[Cosmology@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20240118183120/http://bearnol.is-a-geek.com/wanless2/ WEP-M+2 Project]
|
| 2006-05-12 / 2024-01-18
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20231126215917/http://bearnol.is-a-geek.com/wanless2/apps.php Linux, macOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| James Wanless, London, England
| Mathematics
| [https://www.youtube.com/live/9QexlknOdb0?feature=share Watch]
| Factorization of Mersenneplustwo numbers. [[WEP-M+2 Project|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.nanohub.org/nanoHUB_at_home/ nanoHUB@Home]
|
| 2012-07-26
| [https://boinc.nanohub.org/nanoHUB_at_home/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: olive; color: black;" | Vbox only
|
| Purdue University
| Nanotechnology
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nanohub/id1492837872?i=1000488157528 Listen]
| Research in nanoscience and nanotechnology. [[NanoHUB@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-540-30208-7_91 Unknown project]
|
|
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|
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|

|-
| [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1488682/ Unknown project]
|
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|

|-
| [https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jp806269w boinc@duq]
|
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|

|-
| [https://www.comsol.com/paper/comsolgrid-a-framework-for-performing-large-scale-parameter-studies-using-comsol-8288 ComsolGrid]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#ComsolGrid 1]
|
|
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|
|
|
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|

|-
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#BOINC-MR BOINC-MR]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#BOINC-MR 2]
|
|
|
|
|
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|

|-
| [https://frostydata.com/0Kdata Data freezer]
|
| 2024-06-11
| [https://frostydata.com/0Kdata/apps.php Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Storage
|
| Build a data warehouse on consumer hardware. [[Data freezer|See more...]]

|-
| [https://albertathome.org/ Albert@Home]
|
| 2011-12-23
| [https://albertathome.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Max Planck Institute
| Software testing
|
| Test project for [[Einstein@Home]]. [[Albert@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://sech.me/boinc/Amicable/ Amicable Numbers]
|
| 2017-01-05
| [https://sech.me/boinc/Amicable/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boinc-radio-project-brief-amicable-numbers/id1492837872?i=1000581365935 Listen]
| Amicable numbers are pairs where the sum of the proper divisors of each is equal to the other number. The goal of this project is to collect all amicable numbers up to a very large limit. [[Amicable Numbers|See more...]]

|-
| [https://blackholesathome.net/ BlackHoles@Home]
|
| {{No}}t yet
|
|
|
|
| University of Idaho
| Astrophysics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boinc-radio-project-brief-blackholes-home/id1492837872?i=1000575215408 Listen]
| Black hole collision simulations to maximize the science gained from gravitational wave observations. [[BlackHoles@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://team.dodoathome.com/dodo/ dodo@home]
|
| 2024-11-07
| [https://team.dodoathome.com/dodo/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
|
|
| We will bring the Dodo back from extinction (well, we will give it a damn good try!). [[Dodo@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://nci.boinc.goofyx.pl/ goofyxGrid@Home NCI]
|
| 1) [https://web.archive.org/web/20191023104620/http://nci.goofyxgridathome.net:80/ 2015-11-09] / 2) 2024-06-20
| [https://nci.boinc.goofyx.pl/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
|
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/goofyxgrid/id1492837872?i=1000490909639 Listen]
| To simulate the infinite monkey theorem which states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type any given text, including the complete works of William Shakespeare. [[GoofyxGrid@Home NCI|See more...]]

|-
| [http://boinc.llmentor.org/LLMentorGrid/ LLMentorGrid]
|
| 2025-01-22
| [http://boinc.llmentor.org/LLMentorGrid/apps.php Linux]
|
|
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| Independent
|
|
|

|-
| [http://parlea.ru/boinctest/ Parlea]
|
| 2022-12
| [http://parlea.ru/boinctest/apps.php Windows, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
|
| Mathematics
|
| Investigate the efficiency and behavior of mobile devices as computing nodes on the BOINC platform for solving the Orthogonal Diagonal Latin Squares (ODLS) search problem. [[Parlea|See more...]]

|-
| [https://ralph.bakerlab.org/ RALPH@home]
|
| 2006-02-15
| [https://ralph.bakerlab.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, macOS, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, Vbox
| [https://youtu.be/W9fC5lv76T0 view]
| University of Washington
| Software testing
|
| Test project for [[Rosetta@home]]. [[RALPH@home|See more...]]

|-
| RNA World (computing project) | [https://www.rnaworld.de/rnaworld/ RNA World (beta)]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#RNA 5]
| 2009-05-21
| [https://www.rnaworld.de/rnaworld/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: olive; color: black;" | Vbox only
| [https://youtu.be/GHJ4KBdwVew view]
| Independent research group in Marburg, Germany
| Molecular biology
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rnaworld/id1492837872?i=1000496594043 Listen]
| Uses bioinformatics software to study RNA structure. [[RNA World (beta)|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.termit.me/adsl/ SPT@home]
|
| 2023-06-14
| [https://boinc.termit.me/adsl/ Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
|
| Mathematics
|
| The Symmetric Prime Tuples (SPT) project is a continuation of the T. Brada Experimental Grid project. [[SPT|See more...]]

|-
| [https://universeathome.pl/universe/ Universe@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Publications_by_BOINC_projects#Universe.40home 14]
| 2015-02-19
| [https://universeathome.pl/universe/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences
| Astronomy
|
| Computational astrophysics, computer simulation of stars, galaxies and the Universe. [[Universe@Home|See more...]]

|-
|[https://axiom.heliex.net/ Axiom Distributed AI]
|
|2026-01-30
2026-03-20
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20260319085629/https://axiom.heliex.net/apps.php Windows, Linux, Mac]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
|Axiom Project 2026
|Artificial Intelligence
|
|Distributed neural-network learning techniques influenced by Hebbian learning [[Axiom Distributed AI|See more...]]

|-
| [https://rnma.xyz/boinc/ Ramanujan Machine]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Ramanujan 2]
| 2021-10-14
| [https://rnma.xyz/boinc/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/project-brief-ramanujan-machine-5-2-2022/id1492837872?i=1000570072053 Listen]
| Conjecturing new mathematical formulas. [[Ramanujan Machine|See more...]]
|}

BOINC projects

2026-07-31T11:06:24Z

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{{#seo:
|title=All BOINC projects
|description=All BOINC Projects. A complete list of all active, private, and completed BOINC volunteer computing projects.
|keywords=BOINC, volunteer computing, distributed computing, BOINC project list, BOINC projects
|image=Boinc-projects-seo.png
}}
{| align="center"
| __TOC__
|}
[[File:Boinc-projects-seo.png|right|frameless|200x200px]]This is a comprehensive and continually updating List of All [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php BOINC projects]

'''''Q - What is a BOINC project?'''''

'''''A - BOINC project definition:''''' A [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/ BOINC] project is a website and server set up by an individual or group to distribute applications (software which is a set of instructions for executing tasks in a computing device) to BOINC volunteer computing devices that are deliberately attached to receive, process and return the results of the application for further research.
====Active BOINC Projects====

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 80%;"
|-
!Project Name
!Publications
!Launched
!Operating System
!GPU App
!Requires
!Screen saver
!Sponsor
!Category
!BOINC Radio
!Research Focus

|-
| [http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/ Asteroids@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Asteroids@home 10]
| 2012-06-18
| [https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS, Free BSD, Android]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU NVIDIA
| {{No}}
|
| Astronomical Institute, Charles University, Prague
| Astronomy
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/asteroids-home/id1492837872?i=1000467560195 Listen]
| Derive shapes and spin for a significant part of the asteroid population. [[Asteroids@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/central/ BOINC Central]
|
| 2023-02-04
|
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, BUDA
|
| University of California, Berkeley
| Multiple applications
|
| Gives scientists access to the power of volunteer computing without having to operate a BOINC project. [[BOINC Central|See more...]]

|-
| [https://www.cpdn.org/cpdnboinc/ climate''prediction''.net]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Climateprediction.net 152]
| 2003-12-09
| [https://www.cpdn.org/cpdnboinc/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| [https://youtu.be/Mae7JfL1giE view]
| Oxford University
| Climate study
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/climate-prediction-dot-net/id1492837872?i=1000465982378 Listen]
| Analyse ways to improve climate prediction models. [[Climateprediction.net|See more...]]

|-
| [https://dev.cpdn.org/ cpdnboinc dev]
|
|
| [https://dev.cpdn.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Oxford University
| Software testing
|
| Test project for [[Climateprediction.net|climate''prediction''.net]]. [[Cpdnboinc dev|See more...]]

|-
| [https://denis.usj.es/denisathome/ DENIS@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#DENIS@home 6]
| 2015-03-16
| [https://480denis.usj.es/denisathome/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Universidad San Jorge, Zaragoza, Spain
| Medical physiology
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boinc-radio-project-brief-denis-home/id1492837872?i=1000576898376 Listen]
| Cardiac electrophysiological simulations, studying the electrical activity of the heart. [[DENIS@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://einsteinathome.org/ Einstein@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Einstein@Home 42]
| 2005-02-19
| [https://einsteinathome.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS, Android]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
| [https://youtu.be/kGWsTnmk1lw view]
| University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Max Planck Institute
| Astrophysics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/einstein-home/id1492837872?i=1000470993092 Listen]
| Search for pulsars using radio signals and gravitational wave data. [[Einstein@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [http://gaiaathome.eu/gaiaathome/ Gaia@home]
|
| 2019-08-21
| [http://150.254.66.104/gaiaathome/apps.php Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Astronomical Observatory Institute, Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
| Astronomy
|
| Provide additional computing power to scientists studying the Gaia spacecraft data releases. [[Gaia@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://gerasim.boinc.ru/ Gerasim@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Publications_by_BOINC_projects#Gerasim.40home 9]
| 2007-02-10
| [https://gerasim.boinc.ru/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
| [https://youtu.be/cw7yBZ_KGGA view]
| Southwest State University (Russia)
| Multiple applications
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gerasim/id1492837872?i=1000515709940 Listen]
| Research in discrete mathematics and logic control systems. [[Gerasim@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090210175851/http://www.ps3grid.net/ PS3GRID] became [https://gpugrid.net/gpugrid/ GPUGRID]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#GPUGrid.net 53]
| 2007-12-05
| [https://www.gpugrid.net/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: cyan; color: black;" | GPU only NVIDIA
| {{No}}
|
| Barcelona Biomedical Research Park
| Molecular biology
|
| Perform full-atom molecular simulations of proteins on Nvidia GPUs for biomedical research. [[GPUGRID|See more...]]

|-
| [https://comp.ithena.net/usr/ iThena.Computational]
|
| [https://comp.ithena.net/usr/forum_thread.php?id=4 2021-10-31]
| [https://comp.ithena.net/usr/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Cyber-Complex Foundation
| Computer science
| See below
| A computational platform for analysis based on data extracted from iThena.Measurements project applications/sensors. [[IThena.Computational|See more...]]

|-
| [https://root.ithena.net/usr/ iThena.Measurements]
|
| [https://root.ithena.net/usr/forum_thread.php?id=5#17 2019-09-25]
| [https://einsteinathome.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Cyber-Complex Foundation
| Computer science
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boinc-radio-project-brief-ithena/id1492837872?i=1000580505988 Listen]
| Generate a dynamic topological model of the Internet, based on measurements from distributed devices. [[IThena.Measurements|See more...]]

|-
| [https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/ LHC@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#LHC@home 71]
| 2004-01-09
| [https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS, Free BSD, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, BUDA
| [https://youtu.be/0qbLDbsNO3w view]
| CERN
| Physics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lhc-home/id1492837872?i=1000477722614 Listen]
| Helping physicists compare theory with experiment, in the search for new fundamental particles and answers to questions about the Universe. [[LHC@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/ LHCathome-dev]
|
| 2014-08-01
| [https://lhcathomedev.cern.ch/lhcathome-dev/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS, Free BSD, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, BUDA
|
| CERN
| Software testing
|
| A BOINC server for LHC@home development.

|-
| [https://boinc.loda-lang.org/loda/ LODA]
|
| 2022-05-13
| [https://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, git
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boinc-radio-project-brief-loda-18-6-2022/id1492837872?i=1000570153809 Listen]
| Finds new formulas and more efficient algorithms for a wide range of non-trivial integer sequences. [[LODA|See more...]]

|-
| [https://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/ MilkyWay@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Milkyway@home 35]
| 2007-07-07
| [https://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
| Astronomy
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/milkyway-home/id1492837872?i=1000468872520 Listen]
| Create a highly accurate three-dimensional model of the Milky Way galaxy using data collected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. [[MilkyWay@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://minecraftathome.com/minecrafthome/ Minecraft@Home]
|
| 2020-06-24
| [https://comp.ithena.net/usr/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Games
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/minecraft-home/id1492837872?i=1000491697377 Listen]
| Studies questions related to Minecraft, such as the properties of worlds that can be generated from different random seeds. [[Minecraft@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://moowrap.net/ Moo! Wrapper]
|
| 2011-02-05
| [https://moowrap.net/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Cryptography
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZmTZJBh_D0 Watch]
| Combines BOINC with distributed.net to try to break the RC5 cipher. [[Moo! Wrapper|See more...]]

|-
| [https://escatter11.fullerton.edu/nfs/ NFS@Home]
|
| 2009-09-05
| [https://escatter11.fullerton.edu/nfs/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS, Free BSD]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| California State University, Fullerton
| Integer factorization
|
| Performs parts of the number field sieve in the factorization of large integers. [[NFS@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://numberfields.asu.edu/NumberFields/ NumberFields@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#NumberFields@Home 3]
| 2011-08-12
| [https://numberfields.asu.edu/NumberFields/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Arizona State University's School of Mathematics
| Number theory
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/project-brief-numberfields-home-15-05-2021/id1492837872?i=1000570068591 Listen]
| Search for number fields with special properties to assist with the formulation of mathematical conjectures. [[NumberFields@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.progger.info/odlk/ ODLK]
|
| 2017-04-06
| [https://boinc.progger.info/odlk/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS, Free BSD]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| Compiles a database of canonical forms (CF) of 10th order diagonal Latin squares (DLS) with orthogonal diagonal Latin squares (ODLS). [[ODLK|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.multi-pool.info/latinsquares/ ODLK1]
|
| 2017-10-22
| [https://boinc.multi-pool.info/latinsquares/apps.php Windows, Linux, Free BSD]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| Generates a database of canonical forms (CF) of diagonal Latin squares (DLS) of order 10 having orthogonal diagonal Latin squares (ODLS). [[ODLK1|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.mak.termit.me/odlk2025/ ODLK2025]
|
| 2024-12-18
| [https://boinc.mak.termit.me/odlk2025/apps.php Windows]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| Find canonical forms of diagonal Latin squares of order 10 with orthogonal diagonal Latin squares, extending the search beyond the ranges covered by ODLK and ODLK1. [[ODLK2025|See more...]]

|-
| [https://www.primegrid.com/ PrimeGrid]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#PrimeGrid 3]
| 2005-06-12
| [https://www.primegrid.com/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
| [https://youtu.be/rhZxqi9x7rI view]
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| Search for world record sized prime numbers, search for particular types of primes such as 321 primes, Cullen-Woodall primes, Proth prime, prime Sierpinski numbers, and Sophie Germain primes. Subprojects also include Seventeen or Bust, and the Riesel problem. [[PrimeGrid|See more...]]

|-
| [https://dev.primegrid.com/ PrimeGrid dev]
|
| 2007-06-06
| [https://dev.primegrid.com/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Software testing
|
| Test project for PrimeGrid.

|-
| [http://boincvm.proxyma.ru:30080/test4vm/ PRIVATE GFN SERVER]
|
| 2016-04-20
| [http://boincvm.proxyma.ru:30080/test4vm/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| This is a PRIVATE SERVER to coordinate distribution of mathematical work on GFN. The server is open for everybody, but some BOINC experience is recommended. [[PRIVATE GFN SERVER|See more...]]

|-
| [http://radioactiveathome.org/boinc/ Radioactive@home]
|
| 2011-10-21
| [http://radioactiveathome.org/boinc/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, Sensor
|
| Independent
| Physics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radioactive-home/id1492837872?i=1000463072395 Listen]
| Real-time radiation monitoring, detected by gamma sensors connected to volunteer computers. [[Radioactive@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://rake.boincfast.ru/rakesearch/ RakeSearch]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Rakesearch 4]
| 2017-08-11
| [https://rake.boincfast.ru/rakesearch/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rakesearch/id1492837872?i=1000496377228 Listen]
| Implement an application that picks up separate pairs of mutually orthogonal DLSs, which allows reconstructing the full graphs of their orthogonality. [[Rakesearch|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/ Rosetta@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Rosetta@home 234]
| 2005-10-06
| [https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, macOS, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| [https://youtu.be/6o5yBfG_vss view]
| University of Washington
| Molecular biology
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rosetta-home/id1492837872?i=1000472931628 Listen]
| Protein structure prediction for disease research. [[Rosetta@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://www.sidock.si/sidock SiDock@home]
|
| 2020-12-19
| [https://www.sidock.si/sidock/apps.php Windows, Linux+OpenWrt, ARM, macOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Russian Academy of Sciences
| Molecular biology
|
| Independent decentralized drug design by volunteer computing. [[SiDock@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://spaciousathome.eu/spaciousathome/ SPACIOUS@home]
|
| 2024-01-01
| [https://spaciousathome.eu/spaciousathome/apps.php Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| European Union
| Astrophysics
|
| Contribute to cutting-edge astronomy by sharing your idle computing time with professional astronomers. Space surveys such as the European Space Agency's Gaia telescope are generating large datasets of unprecedented high quality data. Astronomers need a huge amount of CPU power to model and analyse the data. [[SPACIOUS@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://srbase.my-firewall.org/sr5/ SRBase]
|
| 2013-01-02
| [https://srbase.my-firewall.org/sr5/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| Trying to solve Sierpinski / Riesel Bases up to 1030. [[SRBase|See more...]]

|-
| [https://gene.disi.unitn.it/test/ TN-Grid]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#TN-Grid 8]
| 2014-05-01
| [https://gene.disi.unitn.it/test/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, macOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Research Area of Trento of the National Research Council of Italy, University of Trento
| Genetics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tn-grid/id1492837872?i=1000482396321 Listen]
| ''Gene@home'' is a scientific project belonging to the infrastructure ''TrentoGrid''. It aims to expand networks of genes. [[TN-Grid|See more...]]

|-
| [https://uspex-at-home.ru/prediction/ USPEX@HOME]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#USPEX@HOME 2]
| 2017-04 (Restart 2022-10-23)
| [https://uspex-at-home.ru/prediction/apps.php Windows, Linux, macOS]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, Vbox
|
| [https://uspex-team.org/en uspex-team.org]
|
|
| Research in the field of computational materials design. [[USPEX@HOME|See more...]]

|-
| [https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ World Community Grid]
| [https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/news.s?filterCategory=1_0&filterTags=14&sortBy=&pageNum=1 77]
| 2004-11-16
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php Windows, Linux, ARM, macOS, Android]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
| [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLblxpyGay1Q4PwdIlLTxko7jm9Jedv1ei view]
| Krembil Research Institute
| Multiple applications
|
| Disease research, various worldwide humanitarian problems. Subprojects include(d) GO Fight Against Malaria, Drug Search for Leishmaniasis, Computing for Clean Water, Clean Energy Project, Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together, Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy, Help Fight Childhood Cancer, Help Conquer Cancer, Mapping Cancer Markers, Human Proteome Folding Project, FightAIDS@Home, Uncovering Genome Mysteries, Let's outsmart Ebola together, Help Stop TB, OpenZika, Smash Childhood Cancer, Open Pandemics - COVID-19. [[World Community Grid|See more...]]

|-
| [https://wuprop.boinc-af.org/ WUProp@Home]
|
| 2010-03-27
| [https://wuprop.boinc-af.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Statistics
|
| Collect various statistics about other BOINC projects. [[WUProp@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://yafu.myfirewall.org/yafu YAFU]
|
| 2011-09-01
| [https://yafu.myfirewall.org/yafu/apps.php Windows, Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| [https://youtu.be/vEqImf6mtgE view]
| Independent
| Software testing, Mathematics
|
| Test BOINC server software, integer factorization. [[YAFU|See more...]]

|-
| [https://www.rechenkraft.net/yoyo/ yoyo@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Yoyo@home 9]
| 2007-07-19
| [https://www.rechenkraft.net/yoyo/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, macOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
| [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLblxpyGay1Q4C8qBmkKkI0MpKMTof5Dhf view]
| Independent
| Mathematics, physics, evolution
|
| Data structure analysis to help prove a conjecture, elliptic curve factorization, pion creation in a particle accelerator, evolution research, find the shortest optimal Golomb ruler of length 28. [[Yoyo@home|See more...]]
|}

==== Private BOINC Projects====

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 80%;"
|-
!Project Name
!Publications
!Launched
!Operating System
!GPU App
!Requires
!Screen saver
!Sponsor
!Category
!BOINC Radio
!Research Focus

|-
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/alpha/ BOINC Alpha Test]
|
| 2004-02-16
|
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/9rRWAgpfMzg view]
| University of California, Berkeley
| Software testing
|
| BOINC Alpha Test allows volunteers to test new versions of BOINC client software on a wide range of computers, thereby increasing the stability and reliability of the software versions released to the public. [[BOINC Alpha Test|See more...]]

|-
| [http://mq232-80.ararangua.ufsc.br/boincufscara/ AraBOINC]
|
| 2012
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/https://boinc.moisescardona.me/ Distributed Data and Media Processing]
|
| 2018
|
|
|
|
| Independent
| Data processing
|
| A private data processing project where tasks like data compression and audio encoding are performed. The idea is to do data tasks in the background and in a distributed fashion.

|-
| [https://bioinfo.lifl.fr/yass/iedera_dominance/index_additional.html iedera]
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Independent
| Botany
|
| A program to select and design ''subset seed'' and ''vectorized subset seed'' patterns.

|-
| [http://boinc.mmon.co/boincserver/ Common Compute]
|
| 2024-05
|
|
|
|
| Independent
|
|
| Software testing.

|-
| [https://templet.ssau.ru/ Templet Project]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Templet 1]
|
|
|
|
|
| Samara National Research University
| Education
|
| Teach parallel and distributed programming to undergraduate and graduate students of Samara National Research University.
|}

====Completed BOINC Projects ====

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 80%;"
|-
!Project Name
!Publications
!Launched / Completed
!Operating System
!GPU App
!Requires
!Screen saver
!Sponsor
!Category
!BOINC Radio
!Research Focus

|-
| [https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ SETI@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#SETI@home 12]
| 1999-05
| [https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS, Solaris, Other]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
|
| [https://youtu.be/IfeGNAZY92k view] and [https://youtu.be/5r-t8WQicqE view]
| University of California, Berkeley
| Astronomy
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tribute-to-seti-home-part-1/id1492837872?i=1000468003990 Part 1] of three and [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tribute-to-seti-home-part-2-the-history-of-seti-home/id1492837872?i=1000468428937 Part 2]
| In 1995, David Gedye proposed doing radio SETI using a virtual supercomputer composed of large numbers of Internet-connected computers, and he organized the SETI@home project to explore this. The search for extraterrestrial life by analyzing radio frequencies emanating from space. [[SETI@home|See more...]]

|-
| [http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/ SETI@home Beta]
|
| 2006-01-12
| [https://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS, Solaris, Other]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
|
| [https://youtu.be/buLKZnyzOdI view]
| University of California, Berkeley
| Software testing
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rosetta-home-covid19-and-tribute-to-seti-home-part-3/id1492837872?i=1000469085793 Part 3]
| Test project for SETI@home.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20040615010643/http://predictor.scripps.edu/ Predictor@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Predictor@Home 5]
| 2004-05-04
| WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS X (Not Intel)
|
|
|
| The Scripps Research Institute
|
|
| A world-community experiment and effort to use distributed world-wide-web volunteer resources to assemble a supercomputer able to ''predict protein structure from protein sequence''. Our work is aimed at testing and evaluating new algorithms and methods of protein structure prediction in the context of the Sixth Biannual [https://web.archive.org/web/20040610024610/http://predictioncenter.llnl.gov/casp6/Casp6.html CASP] (Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction) experiment. [[Predictor@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://alifeathome.dyndns.org/ ALife@Home]
|
| 2004-07-19
| WinXP-98
|
|
|
|
| Artificial intelligence
| [https://www.youtube.com/live/zstEf1dTm2I?feature=share Watch]
| An effort to conduct scientific experiments regarding neural networks and evolution on the computers of volunteers.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20040829080146/http://pirates.vassar.edu:80/ Pirates@HomeMission1] [https://web.archive.org/web/20060117061652/http://pirates.spy-hill.net/ Pirates@Home] [http://primates.spy-hill.net/ Primates@Home]
|
| 2004 / 2006 / 2008-04-01
| Windows, Linux, MacOS
|
|
| [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLblxpyGay1Q4849w-GB4X7g07FNXTeMBb view]
| Vassar College / Independent / Independent
| Software testing
| [https://www.youtube.com/live/qr-n6FziUeo?feature=share Watch]
| Pirates@Home Mission 1 helped to develop the Einstein@Home screensaver. Pirates@Home tested BOINC's forum software for possible use by ''[http://i2u2.spy-hill.net/ Interactions in Understanding the Universe]''. Primates@Home tested the reaction of [https://web.archive.org/web/20060117061652/http://pirates.spy-hill.net/ Pirates@Home] users to a disturbance in their accustomed environment. [[Pirates@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060215003906/http://autotranslator.net:80/ translator@home]
|
| 2005-03-23
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| translator@home was in the process of creating new software linked to BOINC but never developed.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20051027013808/http://public.shoft.net/ Shoft@Home]
|
| 2005
|  
|
|
|
| Independent
|
|
|

|-
| [http://boinctest.axpr.net/ Break the Forum!]
|
| 2005
|  
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
| Test BOINC forum software.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://fsmtdist.ist.tu-graz.ac.at/dist/ dIST]
|
| 2005
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| A Cape4 project.

|-
| [http://fsmtdist.ist.tu-graz.ac.at/cape4/index.php cape4]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Another Cape4 project.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://grid-devel3.rocksclusters.org/boinc_gamess/ BOINC GAMESS]
|
| 2005
|  
|
|
|
| Independent
|
|
| Project never overcame '''Warning''': mysql_pconnect(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060103125636/http://bifi.unizar.es/research/computing/bah/ BIFI@home]
|
| {{No}}
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Solve calculations that contribute to the research carried out at the Institute of Biocomputing and Physics of Complex Systems at the University of Zaragoza (BIFI).

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.azurite.co.uk/ IMP]
|
| 2005
|  
|
|
|
| The IMP Team
| Software testing
|
| Internet Movie Project. Test Project copyright © 2005 The IMP Team.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://lhcathome-alpha.cern.ch/ LHC@home Alpha]
|
| 2005
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
| Test Project for LHC@home.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071016235617/http://boinc.banaan.org:80/hashclash/ HashClash]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#HashClash 11]
| 2005-11-24
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
|
|
|
| searched for MD5 and SHA-1 hash collisions, culminating in the 2008 rogue certificate authority attack. [[HashClash|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060703095044/http://issofty17.is.noda.tus.ac.jp/index_E.php TANPAKU]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#TANPAKU 2]
| 2005-08-02
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
|
| Tokyo University of Science
|
|
| Used a Brownian dynamics method to study protein folding. [[TANPAKU|See more...]]

|-
| [http://slawoo.homelinux.org/ Nagrzewanie stali@HOME]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://lattice.umiacs.umd.edu/boinc_public_oldschool/ The Lattice Project-original]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#The 16]
| 2006
| WinXP-98
|
|
|
| University of Maryland, College Park
|
|
| Condor and PBS clusters through the Globus Toolkit, chiefly supporting phylogenetic analysis with the GARLI software. [[The Lattice Project|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060916002226/http://fah-boinc.stanford.edu/ Folding@home]
|
| 2006
| WinXP
|
|
|
| Stanford University
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060901142513/http://research.utep.edu/Default.aspx?alias=research.utep.edu/daplds Docking@Home-utep]
|
| {{No}}
|  
|
|
|
| University of Texas at El Paso
|
|
| The goals of the project are to explore the multi-scale nature of algorithmic adaptations in protein-ligand docking and to develop cyber infrastructures based on computational methods and models that efficiently accommodate these adaptations.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://ecc.crypto.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ ECDLP PROJECT]
|
| 2006
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070326165532/http://test.ntbz.com:80/ ntbz Test Project]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://debian.povaddict.com.ar/pov/ Renderfarm]
|
| 2006-08-10
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Another URL for the project: http://renderfarm.povaddict.com.ar/

|-
| [https://www.boincstats.com/stats/33/project/detail/ RenderFarm@Home]
|
| 2006-08-23
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://hashbreaker.com:8700/tmrldrtg/ Distributed Rainbow Table Generator]
|
| 2006
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
| The Minouche Research Laboratories
|
|
| The '''Distributed Rainbow Table Generator''' project of '''The Minouche Research Laboratories'''; a community project dedicated to large scale distributed calculation of huge Rainbow Tables.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://bebeer.dyndns.org:2222/bebeer/ Belgian Beer@Home]
|
| 2006-12-08
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070630030320/http://www.boinc.be/vbulletin BOINC.BE]
|
|
| An effort of people from the [https://web.archive.org/web/20070630030320/http://www.boinc.be/vbulletin BOINC.BE] team.

|-
| [http://www.enigmaathome.net/ Enigma@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Enigma@Home 2]
| 2007-08-24
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| An attempt to break 3 original Enigma messages that were intercepted in 1942. [[Enigma@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080511223553/http://impfarm.imp.org/boinc/ Internet Movie Project]
|
| 2007-07-15
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080724214454/http://impfarm.imp.org/boinc/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
| Setting up a renderfarm to power the [https://web.archive.org/web/20080511223553/http://www.imp.org/ Internet Movie Project]. Note that this project will never export credit stats.

|-
| [http://predictor.chem.lsa.umich.edu/pah/ Predictor@home Alpha]
|
| 2007 / 2009
|
|
|
|
| The Scripps Research Institute
|
|
| Test project for Predictor@home.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071001120117/http://zivis.bifi.unizar.es:80/ Zivis Superordenador Ciudadano]
|
| 2007
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070823192420/http://zivis.bifi.unizar.es/apps.php WinXP, Linux]
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://zebrabrute.ath.cx/zebrabrute/ Zebra RSA Brutforce]
|
| 2007
| WinXP-98
|
|
|
| Darkscout - a Computer Science student.
|
|
| The Project originates from an idea in a forum. An attempt to break the RSA-key for the checksum of RSA-Smart card by Brute-force search.

|-
| [http://web.archive.org/web/20090306065822/http://dist2.ist.tugraz.at/sudoku/ Sudoku project]
|
| 2007-08-27
|
|
|
|
| Graz, University of Technology
|
|
| Uses Internet-connected computers to search for the smallest possible start configuration of Sudoku.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071128150637/http://eternity2.net:80/ Eternity2.net]
|
| 2007
|  
|
|
|
| Dave Clark, Auckland
|
|
| A project to try to solve the Eternity II puzzle™.

|-
| [http://roc.cs.berkeley.edu/projects/boinc/index.html ROC]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
| University of California, Berkeley
|
|
|

|-
| [http://neuron.mine.nu/neuron/ Project Neuron]
|
| 2007-11-25
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
| Independent
|
|
| Provide a trial BOINC environment in which a set of dummy applications will run. The purpose of this being to record, observe and understand BOINC activity and data with a view to developing metrics that will establish or otherwise the quality/reliability/dependability of particular BOINC projects.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071020023328/http://www.gridfinity.com:80/gridfinity/ Gridfinity]
|
| 2007
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://www.scilinc.org/SciLINC/ SciLINC]
|
| 2007-03-22
| WinXP-98
|
|
|
| Missouri Botanical Garden
|
|
| Increase public access to nationally significant scientific literature. Enhance the usefulness of digitized materials by creating a Web repository of scanned literature, keywords, and online resources with tools for searching and analysis. Create an educational tool for learning about plant life. Provide a model for adopting public-resource computing applications within the library community.

|-
| [http://isaac.ssl.berkeley.edu/sleeper/ Sleeper]
|
| 2007-03
|
|
|
|
| University of California, Berkeley
|
|
| Test project for BOINC Alpha Test.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080901231107/http://www.init1.net:80/pPotTables/ pPot Tables]
|
| 2008
|  
|
|
|
| Independent
|
|
| Computing relative hand strength and 1-card lookahead positive potential for all possible flop, turn and hole card combinations for 2 to 10 players in Texas hold 'em.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20121205084825/http://www.malariacontrol.net/ malariacontrol.net]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Malariacontrol.net 26]
| 2006-03-01
2016-06-21
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/4GAYKw5SakQ view]
|
|
|
| A project with an application that makes use of network computing for stochastic modelling of the clinical epidemiology and natural history of Plasmodium falciparum malaria. [[Malariacontrol.net|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20061206015653/http://biology.polytechnique.fr/proteinsathome/ proteins@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Proteins@home 4]
| 2006-09-15
| WinXP
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/aM6kiaM228Y view]
|
|
|
| A large-scale Protein structure prediction project to contribute to a better understanding of many diseases and pathologies, and to progress in both Medicine and Technology. [[Proteins@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080517170329/http://www.depspid.net:80/ DepSpid]
|
| 2007
| WinXP-98
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Every DepSpid task is processed in two phases: a networking phase (Phase One) in which the DepSpid spider scans a set of web pages and stores results in a temporary database; and a computational phase (Phase Two) which uses the collected data to calculate dependencies between all pages. [[DepSpid|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://bob.myisland.as/tsp/ Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP)]
|
| 2007
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
|
|
|
|
| The Travelling salesman problem (TSP): for a given set of cities, visit each city once and only once and minimize the distance you travel.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060412015807/http://xw01.lri.fr:4320/ XtremLab]
|
| 2005
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Measuring the free resources available on personal computers involved in large-scale distributed computing.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060903103622/http://bbc.cpdn.org/ BBC Climate Change Experiment]
|
|
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090107014341/http://allprojectstats.com/collatz/ 3x+1@home]
|
| 2008-02-18
|  
|
|
|
|
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| A non-profit project trying to find high 3x+1 conjecture stopping times. The 3x+1 conjecture is also known as the Collatz conjecture.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://edges-local-devbnc-srv.ceta-ciemat.es/appexample/ Uppercase Application]
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| 2008
|  
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [http://193.144.240.190/nnsimu/ NNSIMU Project]
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|  
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|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090204215407/http://boinc.unex.es/extremadurathome/ Extremadura@Home]
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|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090528015437/http://boinc.isa.ru:80/russiadg/ Russian Desktop Grid]
|
| 2009
|  
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110801221116/http://falua.cesfelipesegundo.com/VRS/ Virus Respiratorio Sincitial (VRS)]
| [https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0895717710005595 1]
| 2010
|  
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| VRS (from the Spanish Virus Respiratorio Sincitial) is a BOINC-based project which main aim is to simulate the behaviour of the human Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV).

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20081004231715/http://cels-at-home-dev.dyndns.org:80/test2/ <nowiki>Cels@Home [Second] Test Project</nowiki>]
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|  
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| Research in cell adhesion.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090925001717/http://boinc.vanderbilt.edu:80/test_setup Test Setup Project]
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|  
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| Vanderbilt
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://grid.ncssm.edu/ncssm_grid/ NCSSM Grid Computing Project]
|
| 2007-04-04
|  
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|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20051226054712/http://www.cellcomputing.net/simple/ Cell Computing]
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|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://arcoboinc.unex.es/rnd/ RND@home]
|
| 2007
| WinXP, Linux
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| Radio Network Design (RND) is a telecommunication problem which consists in covering a geographic area with radio signal using the fewer number of transmitters that cover the maximum area.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://edges-local-testbnc-srv.ceta-ciemat.es/localtest EDGeS Local Test]
|
| 2007
|  
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://sat.math.umu.se/sat/ Satisfaction@Home]
|
| 2007
| WinXP, Linux
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|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070505234056/http://www.nanohive-1.org:80/atHome/ NanoHive@Home]
| [http://openurl.ingenta.com/content/xref?genre=article&issn=1546-1955&volume=8&issue=7&spage=1139 1]
|
| WinXP
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|
|
| Nanorex, Inc.
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|
| NanoHive-1 is a modular simulator used for modeling the physical world at a nanometer scale. The intended purpose of the simulator is to act as a tool for the study, experimentation, and development of nanotech entities.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080711074723/http://boinc.iaik.tugraz.at:80/sha1_coll_search SHA 1 Collision Search Graz]
|
| 2007-08-08
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
| Graz University of Technology
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in cryptanalysis.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://dist2.ist.tugraz.at/sudoku/ Project Sudoku]
|
| 2007-08-27
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080307034907/http://dist2.ist.tugraz.at/sudoku/apps.php WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS]
|
|
|
| Graz University of Technology
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to search for the smallest possible start configuration of Sudoku.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071005080915/http://www.apsathome.org:80/ APS@Home]
|
| 2007-08-30
| WinXP-98, Linux
|
|
|
| University of Manchester
|
|
| The effects that atmospheric dispersion has on the measurements used in climate prediction.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080806072857/http://dawn.ynet.sk:80/test1/ Reversi]
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| 2008-05-16
|  
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| Independent
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| Determine who wins in Reversi game - first player, second player or if the game is tied.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://www.ramseyathome.com/ramsey/ Ramsey@Home]
|
| 2008-06-14
|  
|
|
|
| Nick Peterson
|
|
| A volunteer computing project designed to find new lower bounds for various Ramsey numbers using a host of different techniques.

|-
| [http://canis.csc.ncsu.edu:8005/anansi/ Anansi]
|
| 2008
|  
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|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://eaps-at-home-alpha.gotdns.org/eaps/ EAPS@HOME]
|
| 2008
|  
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|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in Artificial Intelligence.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080703141019/http://boinc.vanderbilt.edu/CSB/ CSB@Home] / [https://web.archive.org/web/20080703141019/http://boinc.vanderbilt.edu/CSB/ BCL@Home]
|
| 2008-06-05 / 2008
|  
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in '''Computational Structural Biochemistry'''.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080908061532/http://genlife.is-a-geek.org:80/genlife/ Genetic Life]
|
| 2008-06-18
|  
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| A not-for-profit research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research into Genetic Algorithms.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090506112112/http://africangridlab.net/ African Grid Lab ALPHA]
|
| 2008-10-05
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| An incubation laboratory environment for African based BOINC projects.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090322190553/http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu/brats/ BRaTS@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#BRaTS@Home 2]
| 2007-06-05
| WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS
|
|
|
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|
|
| BRaTS@Home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do various calculations in Gravitational Ray Tracing. ''BRaTS'' stands for ''BRaTS Ray Trace Simulator''.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090425124851/http://www.intelligencerealm.com/aisystem/system.php Artificial Intelligence System]
|
| 2007-09-05
|  
|
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| The neural network simulator is an application that simulates neurons. Each downloaded work unit generates 500,000 biophysical neurons.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090927062104/http://dynaping.com/ DynaPing]
|
| 2009
|  
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| Ensure highest availability of your web services. DynaPing uses computers around the world to monitor your web service availability and alerts you of any downtime.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20091130024643/http://nqueens.ing.udec.cl/ NQueens@Home]
|
| 2007-08-10
| Windows
|
|
|
| University of Concepción
|
|
| This project uses Internet-connected computers to solve the N Queens problem.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20141009194330/http://registro.ibercivis.es/ Ibercivis]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Ibercivis 18]
| 2007-11
2020-08-01
|  
|
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| [https://youtu.be/RRPMDKPGt3A view]
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|
| Research in physics, material science and biomedicines and is based at several institutes and universities; Zaragoza, CETA-CIEMAT, CSIC, Coimbra. [[Ibercivis|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20201213215515/https://boinc.ibercivis.es/ibercivis/ Ibercivis BOINC]
|
| 2020-10
|  
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|
| The Biophym Group of the CSIC Institute for the Structure of Matter has proposed to carry out simulations of the interaction of drugs used against Ebola, HIV infection, influenza or hepatitis B with the genome replication machinery of the SARS-Co-V virus.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://evil.podzone.org/decs/ DECS]
|
| 2007-10-05
|  
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|
| The Generic Distributed Exact Cover Solver (DECS) project uses Internet-connected computers to solve exact cover problems. Exact cover is a general type of problem which can be used to solve problems including n-queens, Latin Square puzzles, Sudoku, polyomino tiling, set packing and set partitioning.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://boincsrv01.cern.ch/atlfast/ LHC Atlas Test]
|
| 2007-08-14
|  
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| Test project for LHC@home.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070209051807/http://boinc.berkeley.edu/cplan/ Cunning Plan]
|
| 2007
|  
|
|
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| Was being used to test account creation.

|-
| [http://pcschmiede.pc.funpic.de/teah/html/user/ Test Project Christian Beer]
|
| 2007
|  
|
|
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|
| Software testing
|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110207203930/http://mapthegap.com/ MAPtheGAP]
|
| {{No}}
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Eliminating racial disparities in health.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://dnahome.cs.rpi.edu/dna/ DNA@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#DNA@Home 2]
| 2010-04-14
|  
|
|
|
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|
|
| The new versions allow for different motif types which are different models for how a binding site could look. One is palindromic, where the nucleotides in the beginning of the model have their complement at the end of the model. The other model type is reverse complement, which doesn't assume the model to be palindromic, but looks for either the forward or reverse version of the model.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://edges-local-devbnc-srv.ceta-ciemat.es/3gbp 3g Bridge Project]
|
| 2009
|
|
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20071220210249/http://boincsrv01.cern.ch:80/lhcathome/ LHC@Home Experimental]
|
| 2007
|  
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
| For internal testing only; any workunits issued are for testing and do not yet have any scientific value. Please remain attached to the official LHC@Home server!

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://cbl-link02.cs.technion.ac.il/cplan/ Superlink@EGEE queue]
|
| {{No}}
|  
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|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20100324075245/http://boinc.cs.uct.ac.za:80/malaria/ UCT:malariacontrol.net]
|
| 2008-03-31
|  
|
|
|
|
| Software testing
|
| A test project in collaboration with MalariaControl.net in Switzerland that aims to test the correct operation of our server for future BOINC-based projects.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://dist.ist.tugraz.at/cape5/ Rectilinear Crossing Number]
|
| 2006-06-30
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/d03IUeQrDLQ view]
|
|
|
| Use sophisticated mathematical methods to determine the rectilinear crossing number for small values of n. [[Rectilinear Crossing Number Project|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20091124095534/http://boinc.vtu.lt:80/vtuathome VTU@home], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090412025420/http://boinc.vgtu.lt/vtuathome/ VGTU@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#VGTU@home 2]
| 2006-04-13
| WinXP, Linux
|
|
|
| Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
|
|
| The aim of this project is to provide a powerful distributed computing platform for scientists of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU) as well as other Lithuanian academic institutions.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090309055929/http://aqua.dwavesys.com/ AQUA@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#AQUA@home 4]
|2008-12-08
2011-08-01
|  
|
| {{Yes}}, Vbox
| [https://youtu.be/VyQgGkj_Rss view]
| dwavesys
|Quantum Computing
|
|Model the performance of superconducting adiabatic quantum computers. [[AQUA@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060702175205/http://www.ufluids.net/ μFluids@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Publications_by_BOINC_projects#.C2.B5Fluids.40Home 3]
| 2005-09-19
| WinXP-98
|
|
|
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|
|
| Study fluid behavior in microgravity to design satellite propellant management devices. [[UFluids@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110817075110/http://boinc.run.montefiore.ulg.ac.be:80/evo/ Evo@home]
|
| 2010-11-22
|  
|
|
|
| University of Liège
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in Machine Learning. This project uses Evolutionary Algorithms to optimize the parameters of different kind of machine learning algorithms.

|-
| [http://gmdhgrid.com/mgua/index.php GMDHGrid]
|
| 2010
|
|
|
|
| Kiev Polytechnic Institute
|
|
| Data mining, knowledge discovery, prediction, complex systems modeling, optimization and pattern recognition.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20101025171952/http://project.czechnationalteam.cz/cplan/ Czech National Team project]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
| Czech National Team
| Software testing
|
| A test project for our new BOINC server helping us to find and fix some bugs and create a new project which is being prepared.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.math.ucalgary.ca/sheti/ SHETI]
|
| 2009-01-08
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Sheti is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to solve the [http://www.certicom.com/index.php/the-certicom-ecc-challenge 131-bit Certicom ECC Challenge].

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090331215945/http://mothershipathome.org/ Mothership@Home]
|
| 2008
|  
|
|
|
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|
|
| Mothership@Home is dedicated in loving memory of my mother Patricia Horner (1942-1987), my husband Joshua Resnick (1965-1999) and all others who have passed away prematurely due to medical conditions.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://dart.cs.georgefox.edu/mcpi/ Monte Carlo Pi]
|
| 2008
|
|
|
|
| George Fox University
|
|
| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

|-
| [http://cancergrid.lpds.sztaki.hu/cancergrid/ CancerGrid]
|
| 2008
|
|
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|

|-
| [http://stuff.povaddict.com.ar:8080/boinctest/ Silly Pi Calculation]
|
| 2008
|
|
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|
| Nicolas
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|
|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130823010101/http://www.fpgaathome.org/ FPGA@Home]
|
| {{No}}
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| This is an open collaboration for porting Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) based volunteer computing projects on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs).

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130528155906/http://boinc.hpc.utp.edu.my:80/utpdg/ UTP Desktop Grid]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
| Universiti Teknologi Petronas
|
|
| UTP Desktop Grid (UTPDG) is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in various areas of parallel computational problems.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130302052041/http://boinc.ucd.ie/fmah/ FightMalaria@Home]
|
| 2012-07-20
|  
|
|
|
| Dr Anthony Chubb
|
|
| Perform docking simulations on malaria proteins.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://107.21.228.163/VBOINC V-BOINC]
|
|
|  
|
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| The VBOINC project is the first attempt to use virtual machines with BOINC.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130501160927/http://oproject.info/ OProject@Home]
| [https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.1593 1]
| 2012-08-13
|  
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| Algorithm analysis. OProject@Home based at Olin Library (Rollins College).

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/https://climateathome.info/climateathome/ Climate@Home]
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|  
|
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|
| George Mason University, NASA
|
|
| Research for spatiotemporal computing and climate predictions.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130701032038/http://bigdata.ihep.ac.cn/bigdata/stats.php BigData@home]
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|
| [https://web.archive.org/http://bigdata.ihep.ac.cn/bigdata/ Windows, Linux]
|
|
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| Crawl Internet New Media Information.

|-
| [https://quakecatcher.net/sensor/ Quake-Catcher Network]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Quake-Catcher 13]
| 2007-12-05 / 2023-06-01
|
|
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| [https://youtu.be/SCv_W751m64 view]
| Stanford University, then University of Southern California
|
|
| Research, education, and outreach in seismology.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://qcn.emsc-csem.org/sensor/ Quake-Catcher Network EMSC / CSEM]
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|  
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| [https://youtu.be/SCv_W751m64 view]
|
|
|
| Research, education, and outreach in seismology.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110723205439/http://mersenneathome.net/ Mersenne@home]
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|  
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|-
| [http://b25.interix.jp/b25/ B25@Home]
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|  
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|-
| [http://boinc.ryanteck.org.uk/boincPi/ boincPi]
|
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|  
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|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://surveill.dei.uc.pt/surveill/ Surveill@home]
|
|
|  
|
|
|
| University of Coimbra
|
|
| Conduct end-to-end fine-grained monitoring of web sites.

|-
| [https://www.chess960athome.org/alpha/ Chess960athome]
|
| 2006-03-20
|  
|
|
|
|
|
|
| used Stockfish to evaluate tens of millions of chess positions, building a labeled dataset intended for training a machine-learned classifier of winning positions. [[Chess960@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110801052639/http://www.freehal.net/freehal_at_home FreeHAL]
|
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|  
|
|
|
| Tobias Schulz / Powered by SETI.Germany and Planet 3DNow!
|
|
| FreeHAL@home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to parse and convert big open source semantic nets for use in FreeHAL.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20100430012556/http://goldbach.pl/ Goldbach's Conjecture Project]
|
| 2009-07-23
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20100505082120/http://goldbach.pl/apps.php Windows, Linux]
|
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|
| Effectively proving Goldbach's weak conjecture.

|-
| [http://starmageddon.dyndns.org/ninjagrid/ NinjaGrid]
|
| 2009
|
|
|
|
|
| Mathematics
|
| 3x+1.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://physicsathome.tk/physics/ physics@home]
|
| 2013-02-16
|  
|
|
|
| Vasyl Kuzmenko
|
|
| Research in Solid-state physics, Materials science, Optics and Chemistry.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://vcsc.cs.uh.edu/second-computing/ UH Second Computing]
|
|
|  
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|
| University of Houston College of Technology
|
|
| We are in the process to simulate macromolecular interactions in a living cell.

|-
| [http://babel.boinc.povaddict.com.ar/ Babel]
|
|
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|
| Testing translations of BOINC server and forum.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://eon.raunvis.hi.is/EON2v1/ EON2v1@clusters]
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|  
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|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://sctr.i3a.uclm.es/prob/ Prob]
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|  
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|-
| [http://140.110.240.195/bioinfo/ Bioinfo@Home]
|
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|  
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|-
| [https://web.archive.org/https://boinc.freerainbowtables.com/distrrtgen/ DistrRTgen]
|
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|  
|
|
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|
|
| By distributing the generation of rainbow chains, we can generate HUGE rainbow tables that are able to crack longer passwords than ever seen before.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20100526004243/http://boinc.picevolvr.com:80/ Picevolvr]
|
| 2010
|  
|
|
|
| [http://cullen-online.com/ Michael Cullen]
|
|
| Uses Internet-connected computers to generate artwork completely automatically.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://cah.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/ QuantumFIRE alpha]
|
| 2010
|  
|
|
|
| University of Cambridge
|
|
| Quantum foundations and Solid-state physics research.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinctest.codeq.pl/boinctest/ Replace With Project Name]
|
| 2013
|  
|
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| http://boinctest.codeq.pl/boinctest/

|-
| [http://web.archive.org/web/20131229164437/http://plagiarism.boincpolska.org/plagiarism/ Plagiarism@Home]
|
| 2013
|
|
|
|
| Krzysztof Piszczek
|
|
| Search given text for potential plagiarism in Internet resources.

|-
| [http://boinc.comcute.com/SIM/ Comcute emBOINC]
|
| 2012
|
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|

|-
| [http://boinc.comcute.com/cc_boinc/ Comcute Boinc]
|
| 2013
|
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|

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://chess.qugate.org/ Chess@Home]
|
| 2014-01-05
2014-03-01
|  
|
|
|
| Michal Stanislaw Wojcik
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| play large numbers of Chess960 (Fischer Random Chess) games, in an effort to build the beginnings of an opening theory for the variant. [[Chess@Home|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://perft.computers-chess.com/ computers-chess]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [http://151.97.53.109/synchronised/ Synchronised]
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| 2013 / 2014
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| University of Catania
| Molecular Modelling
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| Pharmaceutical chemistry research.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090402124145/http://cleanenergy.harvard.edu/ The Clean Energy Project]
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| Harvard University
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| Merged into World Community Grid.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20150522195526/http://www.universeathometest.info/universe/ Universe@Home test project]
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| University of Warsaw
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| Test project for Universe@Home.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://eon.ices.utexas.edu/eon2/ eOn2]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#EOn 6]
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| Simulate long timescale evolution of atomic scale systems in chemistry and materials science. [[EOn|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://mmgboinc.unimi.it/ SimOne@home]
| [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000926141300763X 1]
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| The project focuses on the osmoprotection phenomenon. In nature there are small molecules that are able to protect proteins from thermal stress. Answering this question could have a major impact in agriculture, e.g. developing plants that require less water intake.

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| [http://docking.cis.udel.edu/ Docking@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Docking@home 20]
| 2006-09-11 / 2014-05-23
| WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS X/Intel
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| [https://youtu.be/gC_2zu2efY4 view]
| University of Delaware
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| CHARMM-based protein-ligand docking simulations to search for new pharmaceutical drugs. [[Docking@Home|See more...]]

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| [http://boinc01.cern.ch/test4theory/ LHC Test4Theory]
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| 2011
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20150731163559/http://lhcathome2.cern.ch/vLHCathome/ vLHCathome]
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| 2011
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| This is a project that utilizes the CERN-developed CernVM virtual machine and the BOINC virtualization layer to harness volunteer cloud computing power for full-fledged LHC event physics simulation on volunteer computers.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120102114135/http://ui.hpc.iit.bme.hu/wc/ Web Computing]
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| 2011
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130511025233/http://falua.cesfelipesegundo.com/Ideologias/ Ideologias@Home]
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| Study how people in a certain region evolve ideologically over time with respect to an idea.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120302132650/http://alfa-bridge.ibercivis.es/puente/ alfa_puente]
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| 2012
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20121207151627/http://boinc.biruni.upm.my/putra/ DG@Putra]
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| 2012-02-23
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| Universiti Putra Malaysia
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| Putra Desktop Grid is UPM's implementation of a DesktopGrid network. The project is fully supported by the International Desktop Grid Federation (IDGF).

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://qcn.stanford.edu/continual/ QCN Continual Sensor Monitoring]
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| 2012-04-18
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| [https://youtu.be/SCv_W751m64 view]
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| Research, education, and outreach in seismology.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://qcn.twgrid.org/sensor/ QCN Taiwan]
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| 2012-04-16
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| [https://youtu.be/SCv_W751m64 view]
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| Research, education, and outreach in seismology.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://www.ras.unam.mx/sensor/ QCN Red Atrapa Sismos]
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| [https://youtu.be/SCv_W751m64 view]
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| Research, education, and outreach in seismology.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://bvp6.hpc.iit.bme.hu/w2g/ Web2Grid Development]
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| 2012
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [http://bacalhau.lsd.ufcg.edu.br/table_transcriber/ TABLE TRANSCRIBER]
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| 2012
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| [http://boinc.rm-hs.de/test/ Replace With Project Name]
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| http://boinc.rm-hs.de/test/

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| [http://150.186.92.236/boinctest/ boinctest]
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| [https://web.archive.org/http://nanomodeling.molsim.ru/nanomodeling/ NanoModeling@home]
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| 2012-05-03
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| For designing nanostructures and nanorobots. Our goal is molecular modeling of targeted drug delivery systems, nanorobots and related nanostructures.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120120081734/http://boinc.berkeley.edu:80/vbox/ CERNVM/Vboxwrapper Test Project]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://mishra.lpds.sztaki.hu/atticproxy/ Attic Proxy Project]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [http://95.56.231.137/norlist/view_profile.php?userid=806 NORLIST@HOME]
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| 2014
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| Kazakhstan National Scientific Laboratory
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| Kazakh speech recognition.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.biruni.upm.my/pucbi/ PUCBi Desktop Grid]
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| 2015
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| Perdana University Centre for Bioinformatics (PU-CBi)
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| Provide education and training to support the development and continuity of in-house programmes, in particular to advance the translational bioinformatics skills of the next generation doctors and clinician scientists.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20160315063057/http://finance.gridcoin.us/finance/show_user.php?userid=885357 Gridcoin Finance]
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| 2015
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| [https://wiki.bc-team.org/index.php?title=Gridcoin_Finance/en The project performs financial simulations, analysis of the block chain, consolidate humanitarian reports, calculate marketing strategies, perform stock option analysis, harvest business intelligence, and assimilate top level results for the crowdsourced web pages.]

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20160831173736/http://nanosurf.kr.ua/nanos/ nanosurf]
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| 2016-06-16
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| Oleg Schevchenko
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| Researching surface physics. In particular, the development of optical devices. Theoretical modeling of surface quantum dots makes it possible to provide recommendations to a group of experimenters.

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| [https://www.boincstats.com/stats/167/project/detail/ BMG@Home]
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| 2016-02-25
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| Chemistry
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20170514021753/http://parlea.ru:80/andersonattack AndersonAttack@home]
| [https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/eng-2018-0002/html 1]
| 2017
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| {{Yes}}, Vbox
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| Matrosov Institute for System Dynamics and Control Theory
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| Implement Anderson's attack on A5/1 GSM stream cipher.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20171114233820/http://stop.inferia.ru:80/ Stop@home]
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| 2017-09-17
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| 256Ghz
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| Today we can't imagine our life without internet and its services. Our team wants to use distributed computing to solve mathematical tasks and improve algorithms.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130605030952/http://boinc.riojascience.com/ Riojascience@home]
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| Knet Communications and the University of La Rioja
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| A platform for biomedical research.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20141117215322/http://igemathome.org/ iGem@home]
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| {{No}}
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20160629234412/http://www.bitcoinutopia.net/bitcoinutopia/ Bitcoin Utopia]
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| 2013-06-05
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| Mine cryptocurrencies for incentive awards and science projects.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://59.78.96.61:8082/dhome/ Drug@Home]
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| School of Pharmacy, Ecust China University of Science & Technology
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| This study applied an efficient virtual screening strategy integrating molecular docking with MM-GBSA rescoring to identify diverse human dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (hDHODH) inhibitors.

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| [http://edges-ext-dg.ceta-ciemat.es/3gbp/ Edges Bridge Production]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140913231024/http://boinc.unsads.com/rsals/ RSA Lattice Siever(2.0)]
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| 2009-12-24 / 2012
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| Help other factoring projects such as mersenneforum or XYYXf achieve their academic goals. Merged into [[NFS@Home]].

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120329124047/http://home.edges-grid.eu/home/ EDGeS@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#EDGeS@Home 12]
| 2009-10-28
|  
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| To support the execution of selected and validated scientific applications developed by the EGEE and EDGeS community.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20081008031648/http://cels-at-home-dev.dyndns.org:80/cels/ Cels@Home]
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|2008-06-23
2009-09-01
|  
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| [https://youtu.be/mzp2QBwvb2U view]
|University of Texas in Austin
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| 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 is a critical event that makes the disease much harder to treat. [[Cels@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [http://77.48.48.82/jplan/ jplan]
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| [https://web.archive.org/http://lhcbathome.cern.ch/Beauty/ Beauty@LHC]
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| Based at CERN and is a project of the LHCb experiment.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209200706/http://boinc.biruni.upm.my/putra/ Putra Desktop Grid]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://vcsc.cs.uh.edu/virtual-prairie/ Virtual Prairie]
| [https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0304380010005557 1]
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| University of Houston
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| simulations of clonal plant growth to inform the ecological design of sustainable prairie ecosystems. [[Virtual Prairie|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.med.usherbrooke.ca/nrg/ Najmanovich Research Group]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Najmanovich 3]
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| Research in molecular recognition and computer-aided drug design.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://www.sustainablegrid.org/ Sustainable Grid]
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| 2012-01-11
|  
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| Enterprise Application Development Group at the University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Goerlitz
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| Bundles hardware resources of the university and provides this computational power to the scientists for their research purposes.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120312215655/http://mamarreis.lsd.ufcg.edu.br/ciencia-em-sua-casa/ Ciência Em Sua Casa]
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| Science in Your Home. Search for Wilson prime numbers and DNA sequencing.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120705003101/http://donateathome.org/ Donate@Home]
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| Allows participants to donate towards funding by using their GPU to mine for BitCoins.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://edges-local-devbnc-srv.ceta-ciemat.es/student01/ Student01]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://edges-local-devbnc-srv.ceta-ciemat.es/student02/ Student02]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [http://gf45.mp.tudelft.nl/psdm/ BIoS]
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| TU Delft
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| [https://web.archive.org/http://mishra.lpds.sztaki.hu/edgidemo/ EDGI Demo Project]
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://voldemort.cs.cf.ac.uk/attic_proxy/ AtticFS Proxy Application Project on BOINC]
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| The AtticFS Proxy application acts as a translation layer between HTTP and the AtticFS. This allows BOINC Projects to utilise AtticFS easily.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130526001435/http://volunteer.cs.und.edu/subset_sum/ SubsetSum@Home]
| [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7255176/ 1]
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|  
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| Computer Science Department of the University of North Dakota
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| See how far we can extend the empirical evidence of the Subset Sum problem. Find better ways to apply volunteer computing to combinatorial problems.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20100313233251/http://www.nicoschlitter.de/DistributedDataMining distributedDataMining]
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| Research in the various fields of Data Analysis and Machine Learning.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20101201205418/http://dnetc.net/ DNETC@HOME]
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| A wrapper between BOINC and distributed.net.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://dg.imp.kiev.ua/slinca/ SLinCA]
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| SLinCA (Scaling Laws in Cluster Aggregation) is involved with research in the field of materials science.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110803231551/http://mishra.lpds.sztaki.hu:80/szdgr/ SZTAKI Desktop Grid Research Facility]
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| WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS X
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| Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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| This project is the test & research facility for SZTAKI Desktop Grid.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20081224080150/http://hydrogenathome.org/ Hydrogen@home]
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120111114110/http://hydrogenathome.org/apps.php WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS X (Not Intel)]
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| Enhance clean energy technology by improving hydrogen production and storage.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://convector.fsv.cvut.cz/ convector@home]
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| Calculate global optimum of 52 bar truss.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070202002920/http://spin.fh-bielefeld.de/ Spinhenge@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Spinhenge@home 3]
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| WinXP-98
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| [https://youtu.be/d-fafmtqE74 view]
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| Support the research of nano-magnetic molecules. In the future these molecules will be used in the local tumor chemotherapy and to develop tiny memory-modules. [[Spinhenge@home|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140413155515/http://bealathome.com/ Beal@Home]
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| Beal's conjecture is a conjecture in number theory: where A, B, C, x, y, and z are positive integers with x, y, z > 2, then A, B, and C have a common prime factor. Beal initially offered a prize of US $5,000 in 1997, raising it to US $1,000,000.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20150816053811/http://bealf.pl/bealf BealF@Home]
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| Part of the Master Thesis: '''''Testing Beal conjecture using supercomputers and distributed computing platform BOINC'''''. The predecessor of the project was ''Beal@Home''.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://cbl-link02.cs.technion.ac.il/superlinkattechnion/ Superlink@Technion]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Superlink@Technion 4]
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| WinXP-98, Linux
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| Helps geneticists all over the world find disease-provoking genes causing some types of diabetes, hypertension (high blood pressure), cancer, schizophrenia and many others.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110720105948/http://boinc.vanderbilt.edu/bcl/ Biochemical Library]
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| 2011
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| Research in Biochemical Library.

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| [http://falua.cesfelipesegundo.com/jarifa/ Jarifa]
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| [https://web.archive.org/http://netmax.isa.ru/netmax/ NetMax@home]
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| Research in dynamic routing at telecommunication networks.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140804215459/http://gilda117.ihep.ac.cn/ATLAS/ Replace With Project Name]
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| https://web.archive.org/web/20140903030559/http://gilda117.ihep.ac.cn/ATLAS

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| [http://cvmathome.cern.ch/test4theory/ LHC+@Home]
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| [http://isaac.ssl.berkeley.edu/test2/ Replace With Project Name]
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| http://isaac.ssl.berkeley.edu/test2/

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.fiit.stuba.sk/ BOINC@Fiit]
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| Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava
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| TBA.

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| [https://web.archive.org/https://v8boinc.fer.hr/v8boinc/ v8boinc]
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20101203122655/http://glife.is-a-geek.org:80/ga/view_profile.php?userid=120 GA@home]
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20101109123610/http://www.luxrenderfarm.de/luxfarm Luxrenderfarm@home]
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| Renderfarm for Luxrender.net.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130819173713/http://sudoku.nctu.edu.tw/joomla/ sudoku@vtaiwan]
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| Develop new techniques and use them to modify the program [https://web.archive.org/web/20130819173713/http://www.math.ie/checker.html Checker] (written by Gary McGuire).

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://poseidon.shacknet.nu:8080/MilestoneRSA/ MilestoneRSA]
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| Break a 1024 bit RSA key used by Motorola to sign the boot and recovery partitions on the Motorola Milestone.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc01.uoc.edu/ILS-ESP-2014/ ILS-ESP-2014]
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| Research for solving the permutation FLOW-SHOP problem.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://wordcompatibility.com/words_compatibility/ Russian Words Compatibility]
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| Research in Russian computational linguistics.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110816010257/http://falua.cesfelipesegundo.com/Neurona/ Neurona@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Neurona@Home 2]
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| Simulating the behavior of a large assembly of cellular automata neurons connected in a complex network.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.isa.ru/dcsdg/ OPTIMA@HOME]
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| Solve challenging large-scale optimization problems.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130525113734/http://svahesrv2.bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de/correlizer/ Correlizer]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Correlizer 5]
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| Revealing the mysteries of genome organization.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120825055512/http://vbridge.twgrid.org/asgcdg/ Taiwan Desktop Grid]
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|Academia Sinica Grid Computing
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| Bridging Taiwanese volunteer computers to European e-Science service grid infrastructure. [[Taiwan Desktop Grid|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20110214000708/http://androinc.net:80/ AndrOINC]
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| To break a 1024 bit RSA key used by Motorola to sign the boot and recovery partitions on the Motorola Milestone.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20141216004540/http://findah.ucd.ie/ FiND@Home]
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| 2012-07-20
|  
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| Dr Anthony Chubb
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| A research project that uses donated CPU time to perform docking simulations on malaria proteins.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140514143657/http://www.primaboinca.com/ Primaboinca]
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| This project concerns itself with two hypotheses in number theory: Agrawal's Conjecture (the basis for the AKS algorithm) and Popovych's conjecture, which adds a further condition and could reduce the time of a deterministic prime test from O(log N)^6 to O(log N)^3.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20060723185510/http://attribution.cpdn.org/ Seasonal Attribution Project]
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| WinXP, Linux
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| By comparing the results of climate simulations, half of which will include the effects of human-induced climate change, and half of which will not, we will investigate the possible impact of human activity on extreme weather risk.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://shasta.chem.uh.edu/SolarAtHome/ Solar@home]
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| Make more efficient solar cells.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080828221836/http://kinetic.dnsalias.org/magnetism/ Magnetism@home]
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| Explore the equilibrium, metastable and transient magnetization patterns in nano-scale magnetic elements and their arrays.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://desktopgrid.hiast.edu.sy/hiastdg/ HIAST@HOME]
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| 2013
|  
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| A research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140316201231/http://volunteer.cs.und.edu:80/dna/ DNA@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#DNA@Home 2]
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| Discover what regulates the genes in DNA.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120130113228/http://boinc.umiacs.umd.edu/ The Lattice Project]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#The 16]
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| WinXP, Linux, Mac
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| University of Maryland
| Multiple applications
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| Condor and PBS clusters through the Globus Toolkit, chiefly supporting phylogenetic analysis with the GARLI software. [[The Lattice Project|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc.fzk.de/poem/ POEM@HOME]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#POEM@HOME 5]
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| Protein structure prediction has been complemented by other nanoscale molecule simulations. Within the scope of polymer crystallography we are researching conformations of organic hydrocarbons. [[POEM@HOME|See more...]]

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| [http://int-boinctest.int.kit.edu/poem/ POEM@TEST]
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| Test project for POEM@HOME.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://199.26.254.190/qos/ Spatiotemporal Quality of Service (QoS)]
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| Perform distributed web service evaluation so that more accurate service quality information can be delivered to end users.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070128212119/http://boinc.rieselsieve.com/ RieselSieve]
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| WinXP
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| Mathematics
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| k+2n-1 problem, eventually merged with PrimeGrid.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130806073759/http://mopac.cadaster.eu/ mopac@home]
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| Chemistry
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| Research in quantum chemistry.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140419190153/http://volunteer.cs.und.edu/wildlife/ Wildlife@Home]
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| University of North Dakota
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| Analyze video gathered from various cameras recording wildlife.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20160120043345/http://volpexathome.cs.uh.edu/VolPEx/ Volpex@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Volpex@Home 9]
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| University of Houston
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| Research in creating effective parallel computing on multiple volatile nodes.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://mindmodeling.org/palm_project/ MindModeling@Home (Palm)]
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| University of Dayton Research Institute and Wright State University
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| Test project for MindModeling@Home.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080805160334/http://mindmodeling.org:80/beta/ MindModeling@Home (Beta)]
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|  
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| [https://youtu.be/3aJmm60Wgl8 view]
| University of Dayton Research Institute and Wright State University
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| Test project for MindModeling@Home.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120215132304/http://boinc.almeregrid.nl/ AlmereGrid]
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20090422205514/http://server1.almeregrid.nl/testgrid/ AlmereGrid TestGrid]
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| Test Grid of AlmereGrid.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://server5.almeregrid.nl/almeregrid/ AlmereGrid Boinc testGrid]
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| No independent verification that this was a BOINC project.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20181204215217/http://anthgrid.com/dbnupperbound/ DBN Upper Bound]
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| Polymath project related to the theory of the Riemann zeta function.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130331200159/http://abcathome.com/ ABC@home]
| [https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.2974 1]
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| WinXP-98, Linux
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| Finding abc-triples related to the ABC conjecture. [[ABC@home|See more...]]

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20070206065801/http://abcathome.com/beta/ ABC@home beta]
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| WinXP-98, Linux
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| Test project for ABC@home.

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| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc2.cs.hs-rm.de/abclll/ ABC Lattices @Home]
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| Searching for good abc-triples. Unlike ABC@Home, this project is not aiming for a thorough search of a certain range of numbers. Instead, we are trying to find good triples with the help of a specialized algorithm in areas beyond 2^100.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080801101300/http://cpdnbeta.oerc.ox.ac.uk/ CPDN Beta]
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| Test project for climate''prediction''.net.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20140703145955/http://atlasathome.cern.ch/ Atlas@home]
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| A research project that uses volunteer computing to run simulations of the ATLAS experiment at CERN.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130302044909/http://boincsimap.org/boincsimap/ SIMAP]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#SIMAP 5]
|
| WinXP, Linux, Mac OS, Other
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|Technical University of Munich, the Helmholtz Zentrum München and the University of Vienna
|
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| Many computational methods in biology and medicine are based on protein sequence analysis, e.g. to predict the function and structure of genes and proteins. SIMAP facilitates these methods by providing pre-calculated protein similarities and protein domains. [[SIMAP|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20120214044716/http://boinc.gorlaeus.net/ Leiden Classical]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Leiden 2]
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| WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS X (Not Intel)
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| [https://youtu.be/co2SkwsvyOk view] and [https://youtu.be/ECAQC1mzMiM view]
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| Dedicated to general Classical Dynamics for any scientist or science student. [[Leiden Classical|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20171217033707/http://szdg.lpds.sztaki.hu/szdg/ SZTAKI Desktop Grid]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#SZTAKI 5]
| 2005-05-26
2018-05-31
| WinXP-98, Linux, MacOS X (Not Intel), Solaris
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| Multiple Applications
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| The SZTAKI Desktop Grid and its applications are partly supported by the DEGISCO and the EDGI projects. The work leading to these results has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreements n° RI-261561 and n° RI-261556. [[SZTAKI Desktop Grid|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080926101459/http://orbit.psi.edu/oah/ Orbit@home]
| [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103516300914 1]
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| Windows, Linux
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| Produce an optimized search strategy for dedicated astronomical surveys to search for near-Earth asteroids.

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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20130725025029/http://pogs.theskynet.org/pogs/ theSkyNet POGS]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#TheSkyNet 3]
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| Research in astronomy. Combine the spectral coverage of GALEX, Pan-STARRS1, and WISE to generate a multi-wavelength UV-optical-NIR galaxy atlas for the nearby Universe. [[TheSkyNet POGS|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20180205194455/https://sourcefinder.theskynet.org/duchamp/ theSkyNet Sourcefinder]
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| Provide a means to test the effectiveness of various astronomical sourcefinding applications.

|-
| [https://nickeycat.net/nic/ Nickeycat]
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| No independent verification that this was a BOINC project.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://xansons4cod.com/xansons4cod/ XANSONS for COD]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#XANSONS 2]
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| Create an open access database of simulated x-ray and neutron powder diffraction patterns for nanocrystalline phase of the materials presented in the '''Crystallography Open Database (COD)'''.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://aerospaceresearch.net/constellation/ Constellation]
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| Research in various aerospace related sciences and engineering.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20190401042546/http://www.acousticsathome.ru/boinc/ Acoustics@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Acoustics@home 2]
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|  
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| Matrosov Institute for System Dynamics and Control Theory of SB RAS
|
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| Solving inverse problems in underwater acoustics.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20100427212604/http://boinc.drugdiscoveryathome.com/ Drug Discovery@home]
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| Model the behavior of leading compounds that could be developed into new medicines.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://sat.isa.ru/pdsat/ SAT@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#SAT@home 8]
|
|  
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|Russian Academy of Sciences (Siberian Branch)
|Mathematics
|
| Solve hard and practically important problems (discrete functions inversion problems, discrete optimization, bioinformatics, etc) that can be effectively reduced to Boolean satisfiability problem. [[SAT@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20190606103241/https://www.dhep.ga/boinc/ Distributed Hardware Evolution Project]
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| Used island-based coevolutionary genetic algorithm to synthesize self-checking digital hardware circuits. [[Distributed Hardware Evolution Project|See more...]]

|-
| [https://charon.camras.nl/setiatcamras/ SETI@CAMRAS]
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20180927092346/http://cpu.goofyxgridathome.net/ GoofyxGrid@Home CPU]
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| [https://web.archive.org/http://usproteins-at-home.ru/usproteins/ usproteins@home]
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|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20131022042932/http://qmcathome.org/ QMC@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#QMC@Home 7]
|
| Windows, Linux
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| [https://youtu.be/fNWUs9jRwSY view]
|
| Multiple applications
|
| Quantum-mechanical computations on medically relevant biomolecular systems, to help with developing quantum-mechanics-based approaches for computational drug design; and finding safer and greener materials for e-vehicle batteries. [[QMC@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [http://physiome.lf1.cuni.cz/ident3/physiome/ Physiome@home]
|
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|  
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| Research in human physiology.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://casathome.ihep.ac.cn/ CAS@home]
|
|2010-09-30
2020-04-27
|  
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/e-DUArD38Pw view]
| Chinese Academy of Sciences
|
|
| The main application is the TreeThreader which predicts protein structure. [[CAS@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20210417203758/http://boinc.scienterprise.cn/ scienterprise]
|
| 2020
|  
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| Enterprises own a lot of idle computing resources in their private cloud, while research projects are restricted by limited computing power. This project aims to decrease this imbalance by building CloudTides, an elastic platform on idle cloud resources.

|-
| [http://vath.xicp.cn/test/ volunteer@home]
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| 2021
|
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| [https://youtu.be/a4nO8ki2qR4 view]
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| Very small test project, no information.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20191018200437/http://brainstormhome.org/ Brainstorm@home]
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|  
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| Investigate the molecular basis of brain-related diseases.

|-
| [http://hayes.nodium.net:8000/boincserver/ beef@home]
|
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|  
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| Proof of concept temporary test project.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20170509144906/https://csgrid.org/csg/ Citizen Science Grid]
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|  
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| UND's Computational Research Center and Information Technology Systems and Services
| Multiple applications
|
| A wide range of research and educational projects using volunteer computing and citizen science, including DNA@Home, SubsetSum@Home, Climate Tweets, and Wildlife@Home.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20210125080541/https://www.kryptosathome.com/ Kryptos@Home]
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|  
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| Solving one of the most famous unsolved puzzles - the three-decade old Kryptos sculpture located on the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency. [[Kryptos@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20200421212107/https://mindmodeling.org/ MindModeling@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Publications_by_BOINC_projects#MindModeling.40Home 6]
| 2007-03-17
|  
|
|
| [https://youtu.be/3aJmm60Wgl8 view]
| University of Dayton Research Institute and Wright State University
| Cognitive science
|
| Computational cognitive process modeling to better understand the human mind. [[MindModeling@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20210225002054/http://www.vdwnumbers.org/vdwnumbers/ Van Der Waerden Numbers]
| [https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.03301 1]
| 2021-02-02
|  
|
|
|
| Daniel Monroe
| Mathematics
|
| Van Der Waerden Numbers is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to find better lower bounds for these numbers. Static mirror for this project: https://www.123numbers.org/

|-
| [http://burp.renderfarming.net/ Big and Ugly Rendering Project (BURP)]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Big 2]
|2004-06-17
2020
| Windows, Linux, Mac OS
|
|
|
|Janus Kristensen
|3D rendering
|
| Render animated videos including [http://bbb3d.renderfarming.net/download.html Big Buck Bunny]. [[Big and Ugly Rendering Project|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/test/ BOINC Test project]
|
| 2007-07-24
|  
|
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| [https://youtu.be/e-DUArD38Pw view]
| University of California, Berkeley
| Software testing
|
| A test project for BOINC development.

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20220711171713/https://boinc.tacc.utexas.edu/ BOINC@TACC]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#BOINC@TACC 3]
|
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|
| Texas Advanced Computing Center
| Multiple applications
|
| Aerospace engineering, computational biology, and earthquake engineering. [[BOINC@TACC|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/http://boinc-dev.tacc.utexas.edu/boincserver/ BOINC@TACC dev]
|
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|  
|
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|
| Texas Advanced Computing Center
| Software testing
|
| Test project for BOINC@TACC.

|-
| [https://www.mlcathome.org/mlcathome/ MLC@Home]
| [https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2104.10555 1]
| 2020-06-30 / 2022-08-02
| [https://www.mlcathome.org/mlcathome/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| University of Maryland, Baltimore County
| Cognitive science
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mlc-home/id1492837872?i=1000499605038 Listen]
| Understanding and interpreting complex machine learning models. [[MLC@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.tbrada.eu/ T.Brada Experimental Grid]
|
| 2019-02-03 / 2022-12-24
|
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| The PADLS Total subproject aims to find new pseudo-associative DLS. [[T.Brada Experimental Grid|See more...]]

|-
| [https://quchempedia.univ-angers.fr/athome/ QuChemPedIA@home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#QuChemPedIA@home 4]
| 2019-07-01 / 2022-09-29
| [https://quchempedia.univ-angers.fr/athome/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: olive; color: black;" | Vbox only
|
| Université Angers
| Molecular Chemistry
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/quchempedia/id1492837872?i=1000484760287 Listen]
| Help chemical researchers around the world by building a unique collection of results and also help our AIs to propose much more new targets for the different applications we are addressing than we could do on our own. [[QuChemPedIA@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/ Collatz Conjecture]
| [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11227-020-03368-x 1]
| 2009-01-06
| [https://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
|
| Study the Collatz conjecture, an unsolved conjecture in mathematics. [[Collatz Conjecture|See more...]]

|-
| [http://www.cosmologyathome.org/ Cosmology@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Cosmology@Home 5]
| 2007-06-26 / 2024-01-10
| [http://www.cosmologyathome.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android]
| {{No}}
| {{Yes}}, Vbox
|
| Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
| Astronomy
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/comology-home/id1492837872?i=1000521601975 Listen]
| Find the most accurate models that best describe the universe. [[Cosmology@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20240118183120/http://bearnol.is-a-geek.com/wanless2/ WEP-M+2 Project]
|
| 2006-05-12 / 2024-01-18
| [https://web.archive.org/web/20231126215917/http://bearnol.is-a-geek.com/wanless2/apps.php Linux, macOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| James Wanless, London, England
| Mathematics
| [https://www.youtube.com/live/9QexlknOdb0?feature=share Watch]
| Factorization of Mersenneplustwo numbers. [[WEP-M+2 Project|See more...]]

|-
| [https://boinc.nanohub.org/nanoHUB_at_home/ nanoHUB@Home]
|
| 2012-07-26
| [https://boinc.nanohub.org/nanoHUB_at_home/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: olive; color: black;" | Vbox only
|
| Purdue University
| Nanotechnology
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nanohub/id1492837872?i=1000488157528 Listen]
| Research in nanoscience and nanotechnology. [[NanoHUB@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-540-30208-7_91 Unknown project]
|
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| [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1488682/ Unknown project]
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| [https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jp806269w boinc@duq]
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| [https://www.comsol.com/paper/comsolgrid-a-framework-for-performing-large-scale-parameter-studies-using-comsol-8288 ComsolGrid]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#ComsolGrid 1]
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|-
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#BOINC-MR BOINC-MR]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#BOINC-MR 2]
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|-
| [https://frostydata.com/0Kdata Data freezer]
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| 2024-06-11
| [https://frostydata.com/0Kdata/apps.php Linux]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Storage
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| Build a data warehouse on consumer hardware. [[Data freezer|See more...]]

|-
| [https://albertathome.org/ Albert@Home]
|
| 2011-12-23
| [https://albertathome.org/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Max Planck Institute
| Software testing
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| Test project for [[Einstein@Home]]. [[Albert@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://sech.me/boinc/Amicable/ Amicable Numbers]
|
| 2017-01-05
| [https://sech.me/boinc/Amicable/apps.php Windows, Linux, ARM, MacOS]
| style="vertical-align:center;text-align:center; background: yellow; color: black;" | GPU CPU
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
| Mathematics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boinc-radio-project-brief-amicable-numbers/id1492837872?i=1000581365935 Listen]
| Amicable numbers are pairs where the sum of the proper divisors of each is equal to the other number. The goal of this project is to collect all amicable numbers up to a very large limit. [[Amicable Numbers|See more...]]

|-
| [https://blackholesathome.net/ BlackHoles@Home]
|
| {{No}}t yet
|
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| University of Idaho
| Astrophysics
| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boinc-radio-project-brief-blackholes-home/id1492837872?i=1000575215408 Listen]
| Black hole collision simulations to maximize the science gained from gravitational wave observations. [[BlackHoles@Home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://team.dodoathome.com/dodo/ dodo@home]
|
| 2024-11-07
| [https://team.dodoathome.com/dodo/apps.php Windows, Linux, MacOS]
| {{No}}
| {{No}}
|
| Independent
|
|
| We will bring the Dodo back from extinction (well, we will give it a damn good try!). [[Dodo@home|See more...]]

|-
| [https://nci.boinc.goofyx.pl/ goofyxGrid@Home NCI]
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| 1) [https://web.archive.org/web/20191023104620/http://nci.goofyxgridathome.net:80/ 2015-11-09] / 2) 2024-06-20
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| Investigate the efficiency and behavior of mobile devices as computing nodes on the BOINC platform for solving the Orthogonal Diagonal Latin Squares (ODLS) search problem. [[Parlea|See more...]]

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| [https://youtu.be/W9fC5lv76T0 view]
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| Test project for [[Rosetta@home]]. [[RALPH@home|See more...]]

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| RNA World (computing project) | [https://www.rnaworld.de/rnaworld/ RNA World (beta)]
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| Independent research group in Marburg, Germany
| Molecular biology
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| Uses bioinformatics software to study RNA structure. [[RNA World (beta)|See more...]]

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| [https://boinc.termit.me/adsl/ SPT@home]
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| The Symmetric Prime Tuples (SPT) project is a continuation of the T. Brada Experimental Grid project. [[SPT|See more...]]

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| [https://universeathome.pl/universe/ Universe@Home]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Publications_by_BOINC_projects#Universe.40home 14]
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| Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences
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| Computational astrophysics, computer simulation of stars, galaxies and the Universe. [[Universe@Home|See more...]]

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|[https://axiom.heliex.net/ Axiom Distributed AI]
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|Distributed neural-network learning techniques influenced by Hebbian learning [[Axiom Distributed AI|See more...]]

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| [https://rnma.xyz/boinc/ Ramanujan Machine]
| [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php#Ramanujan 2]
| 2021-10-14
| [https://rnma.xyz/boinc/apps.php Windows, Linux]
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| [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/project-brief-ramanujan-machine-5-2-2022/id1492837872?i=1000570072053 Listen]
| Conjecturing new mathematical formulas. [[Ramanujan Machine|See more...]]
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Al Piskun: add Virtual Prairie and Kryptos@Home

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| * [[SRBase]] Sierpinski-Riesel base search
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|* [[SZTAKI Desktop Grid]] MTA SZTAKI in Budapest, running mathematics, physics, and digital humanities applications
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|* [[SPT]] Symmetric Prime Tuples
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Virtual Prairie

2026-07-26T15:15:11Z

Al Piskun: add links

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| description = Virtual Prairie (ViP) was a completed BOINC volunteer computing project run by the University of Houston and the University of Rennes 1 that used individual-based simulations of clonal plant growth to inform the ecological design of sustainable prairie ecosystems.
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| developer = University of Houston Department of Computer Science; University of Rennes 1 (UMR CNRS ECOBIO)
| author = Marc Garbey, Cendrine Mony
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'''Virtual Prairie''' (also referred to as '''ViP''') was a completed [[BOINC]] [[wikipedia:volunteer computing|volunteer computing]] project that studied the ecology of [[wikipedia:prairie|prairie]] and [[wikipedia:grassland|grassland]] ecosystems through large-scale individual-based simulation of [[wikipedia:clonal colony|clonal plant]] growth.<ref name="uh2009">{{cite web |authors=University of Houston |title=Virtual Prairie Project With Garbey as PI Taking Off |url=https://www.uh.edu/nsm/computer-science/news-events/stories/2009/0422_garbey_02.php |website=University of Houston |date=22 April 2009 |access-date=26 July 2026}}</ref> The project was jointly led by Professor Marc Garbey of the [[wikipedia:University of Houston|University of Houston]] Department of Computer Science and Assistant Professor Cendrine Mony of the [[wikipedia:University of Rennes 1|University of Rennes 1]], and combined high-performance computing with BOINC-based volunteer computing to model how agricultural and land-management practices affect plant competition and genetic structure within prairies.<ref name="sicortex2009">{{cite press release |authors=SiCortex, Inc. |title=Leading International Universities Use SiCortex Computers to Protect Prairial Systems |date=17 February 2009 |location=Maynard, Massachusetts}}</ref>

The project's goal was to help design new grassland systems that balance water purification, biodiversity conservation, and carbon storage.<ref name="sicortex2009" /> At the time it was described by its organizers as the world's largest ecological simulation.<ref name="sicortex2009" />

[[File:Restored tallgrass prairie in DuPage County, Illinois.jpg|thumb|right|Prairie grassland ecosystems, like this restored tallgrass prairie in Illinois, provide ecological services such as water purification, biodiversity support, and carbon storage that the Virtual Prairie project sought to help optimize.]]

== Background ==
Environmental policy developments of the 2000s, including the European [[wikipedia:Common Agricultural Policy|Common Agricultural Policy]] reforms of 2005 and France's Grenelle Environment Forum of 2007, focused new attention on the ecological services provided by grassland ecosystems, particularly the availability of unpolluted fresh water and the regulation of carbon emissions.<ref name="uh2009" /> Natural prairies had historically been studied mainly for their agricultural productivity, but researchers increasingly sought to understand and reproduce their broader ecological functions, including nitrate pollution remediation, erosion prevention, and habitat stability for vulnerable species.<ref name="uh2011">{{cite web |authors=University of Houston |title=Protecting Ecosystems, Pollution Remediation Goals of Research at UH |url=https://www.uh.edu/nsm/news-events/stories/2011/0307_ecosystems.php |website=University of Houston |date=7 March 2011 |access-date=26 July 2026}}</ref>

Virtual Prairie approached this problem computationally: since a prairie is a complex system with emergent properties arising from the interaction of many individual plants, the project's researchers built an [[wikipedia:individual-based model|individual-based model]] (IBM), sometimes described as an [[wikipedia:agent-based model|agent-based model]], to simulate the growth of clonal plants at the level of individual ramets (the repeated modular units of a clonal plant network) and to test which combinations of plant traits and management strategies produced the best ecological outcomes.<ref name="ecolmodel2011" />

== Research design and computational methods ==

=== Individual-based clonal plant model ===
The core simulation, referred to in publications as the CLONAL model, represented a clonal plant as a network of interconnected ramets that could share and store resources.<ref name="ecolmodel2011">{{cite journal |authors=Cendrine Mony, Marc Garbey, Malek Smaoui, Marie-Lise Benot |title=Large scale parameter study of an individual-based model of clonal plant with volunteer computing |journal=Ecological Modelling |volume=222 |issue=4 |pages=935–946 |date=2011 |doi=10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2010.10.014}}</ref> The model incorporated nine growth rules governing metabolic processes, plant architecture, and resource sharing and storage, controlled by nineteen input parameters.<ref name="researchgate-smaoui">{{cite web |authors=Malek Smaoui |title=Research works (profile excerpt discussing the CLONAL model parameter study) |url=https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Malek-Smaoui-74531876 |website=ResearchGate |access-date=26 July 2026}}</ref>

Rather than testing only a small, expert-selected subset of parameter combinations, as was typical in earlier ecological modelling literature, the project's researchers chose two to four candidate values for each of the nineteen parameters and tested essentially all resulting combinations, an approach only made tractable through volunteer computing:<ref name="researchgate-smaoui" />

<math>N = \prod_{i=1}^{19} k_i \approx 2 \times 10^{7}</math>

where <math>k_i</math> is the number of candidate values tested for parameter <math>i</math>. Sources close to the project reported the resulting simulation count slightly differently depending on the run being described, with the February 2009 project press release citing more than 22 million completed simulations in the first phase of the project<ref name="sicortex2009" /> and the project's 2011 journal paper describing roughly 20 million parameter combinations tested overall.<ref name="researchgate-smaoui" />

=== Two-phase simulation strategy ===
The project ran in two broad phases. In the first phase, researchers modeled individual plant space colonization through clonal reproduction to generate initial hypotheses about competitive strategies between plant types; this phase alone produced more than 22 million simulation runs and found that prairie growth was best explained not by a single dominant strategy but by a small number of distinct viable strategies.<ref name="sicortex2009" /> The second, more ambitious phase aimed to run thousands of combinations of plant types together in a single master simulation across an entire growing season, in order to identify optimal species combinations for long-term prairie sustainability under varying conditions.<ref name="sicortex2009" />

To manage the scale of the second phase, the team developed a parallel multi-objective [[wikipedia:genetic algorithm|genetic algorithm]] (PGA) that could run on top of BOINC to fine-tune the optimization process, described in a 2009 conference paper by PhD student Malek Smaoui and Garbey.<ref name="parco2009">{{cite conference |authors=Malek Smaoui, Marc Garbey |title=Parallel Genetic Algorithm Implementation for BOINC |booktitle=Parallel Computing: From Multicores and GPU's to Petascale |volume=19 |pages=212–219 |publisher=IOS Press |date=2010 |conference=International Conference on Parallel Computing (ParCo), 1–4 September 2009, Lyon, France}}</ref>

=== Computing infrastructure ===
[[File:UH Science and Engineering Research and Classroom Complex.jpg|thumb|right|The University of Houston, whose Department of Computer Science and Research Computing Center hosted Virtual Prairie's local computing infrastructure.]]

Early, computationally intensive runs used local high-performance computing (HPC) hardware at the University of Houston. The department's third such system, provided by [[wikipedia:SiCortex|SiCortex]], was a single-cabinet 2.1 [[wikipedia:FLOPS|TFLOPS]] cluster built around 648 [[wikipedia:64-bit computing|64-bit]] processors, acquired as a joint venture between the university's Department of Computer Science and its Research Computing Center (RCC).<ref name="sicortex2009" /> SiCortex, which marketed itself on the energy efficiency of its systems, ceased operations in May 2009, a few months after this system was highlighted in connection with the project.<ref name="sicortex-shutdown">{{cite web |authors=HPCwire staff |title=SiCortex Meets an Untimely End |url=https://www.hpcwire.com/2009/05/28/sicortex_meets_an_untimely_end/ |website=HPCwire |date=28 May 2009 |access-date=26 July 2026}}</ref>

[[File:Beaulieu 1 Université de Rennes.JPG|thumb|left|The Beaulieu campus of the University of Rennes 1 in France, home to the UMR CNRS ECOBIO laboratory that led the project's ecological modelling work.]]

For the larger, second-phase master simulations, the project moved to BOINC-based volunteer computing, distributing work to home and lab computers around the world.<ref name="parco2009" /> By 2011, the university reported that more than 10,000 volunteers in 90 countries had contributed computing time to the project.<ref name="uh2011" /> The project's BOINC application was hosted at {{URL|http://vcsc.cs.uh.edu/virtual-prairie/}}, run as a Virtual Campus Supercomputing Center (VCSC) project of the University of Houston.<ref name="vcsc-wiki">{{cite web |authors=BOINC project |title=VirtualCampusSupercomputerCenter |url=https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/wiki/VirtualCampusSupercomputerCenter |website=BOINC wiki (GitHub) |access-date=26 July 2026}}</ref>

== Project team ==
Virtual Prairie was a joint effort between two university research groups:
* At the University of Houston, principal investigator Marc Garbey, chair of the Department of Computer Science, worked with PhD students Malek Smaoui, who focused on volunteer computing, evolutionary algorithms, and Monte Carlo methods, and Waree Rinsurongkawong, who worked on parallel data mining methods.<ref name="uh2009" /><ref name="sciencedirect-smaoui">{{cite web |authors=ScienceDirect |title=Improving volunteer computing scheduling for evolutionary algorithms (author biography excerpt) |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167739X12000921 |website=ScienceDirect |access-date=26 July 2026}}</ref> Multicore and software optimization researcher [[wikipedia:Barbara Chapman (computer scientist)|Barbara Chapman]] also contributed to the project's computing infrastructure work.<ref name="sicortex2009" />
* At the University of Rennes 1, Cendrine Mony led a team that included Professor Bernard Clement and PhD candidates Marie-Lise Benot and Anne-Kristel Bittebiere.<ref name="uh2011" /> Benot later became a post-doctoral researcher at the Laboratory of Alpine Ecology in Grenoble, France.<ref name="uh2011" />

== Funding ==
The project was funded by several French national research agencies, including the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR, under grant ANR-08-SYSC-012), the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Cemagref (the Institute for Research in Science and Technology for the Environment, later merged into [[wikipedia:Irstea|Irstea]]), and INRIA (the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control).<ref name="uh2009" /><ref name="uh2011" /><ref name="anr-grant">{{cite web |authors=BOINC message boards |title=Virtual Prairie results published (forum thread quoting ANR-08-SYSC-012 grant acknowledgement) |url=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=6607 |website=BOINC |date=June 2011 |access-date=26 July 2026}}</ref>

== Results and publications impact ==
The project's central ecological finding, drawn from its large-scale parameter study, was that high plant performance in prairie conditions was reached through several distinct combinations of traits, such as high metabolic gain paired with low resource storage, or short branch spacing, rather than through a single optimal strategy.<ref name="researchgate-smaoui" /> Interactive effects between more than half of the tested input parameters were also demonstrated, providing a level of insight into clonal plant growth strategies that the researchers argued would not have been feasible without volunteer computing.<ref name="researchgate-smaoui" />

== Current status ==
Virtual Prairie's BOINC servers stopped issuing new work sometime around mid-2011, shortly after the project's main results were published in ''Ecological Modelling''; a project administrator confirmed on the BOINC message boards in June 2011 that the servers appeared to have gone silent.<ref name="anr-grant" /> The project's original website, vcsc.cs.uh.edu, no longer hosts Virtual Prairie content.<ref name="surly">{{cite web |title=vcsc.cs.uh.edu site scan |url=https://sur.ly/i/vcsc.cs.uh.edu/ |website=Sur.ly |access-date=26 July 2026}}</ref> The BOINC project maintains an entry for Virtual Prairie in its historical list of retired projects.<ref name="boinc-oldprojects">{{cite web |authors=BOINC |title=old_projects.inc |url=https://github.com/BOINC/boinc-site/blob/master/old_projects.inc |website=GitHub |access-date=26 July 2026}}</ref>

== Publications ==
The project produced the following peer-reviewed and conference publications, drawn from the project's archived publications page:<ref name="vip-pubs">{{cite web |title=Virtual Prairie: Publications (archived) |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130528055610/http://vcsc.cs.uh.edu/virtual-prairie/ |website=Wayback Machine |access-date=26 July 2026}}</ref>

; Using BOINC-computed data
* Cendrine Mony, Marc Garbey, Malek Smaoui, Marie-Lise Benot. "Large scale parameter study of an individual-based model of clonal plant with volunteer computing." ''Ecological Modelling'', vol. 222, no. 4, 2011, pp. 935–946. {{doi|10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2010.10.014}}<ref name="ecolmodel2011" />
* Malek Smaoui, Marc Garbey. "[https://web.archive.org/web/20100724031842/http://vcsc.cs.uh.edu/virtual-prairie/pages_site_aurelie/ParCo09Smaoui_Garbey.pdf Parallel Genetic Algorithm Implementation for BOINC.]" ''Parallel Computing: From Multicores and GPU's to Petascale'', vol. 19, IOS Press, 2010, pp. 212–219 (Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Computing, ParCo, 1–4 September 2009, Lyon, France).<ref name="parco2009" />
* Malek Smaoui, Marc Garbey, Cendrine Mony. "[https://www.academia.edu/75230011/Virtual_Prairie_Going_Green_with_Volunteer_Computing Virtual Prairie: Going green with volunteer computing.]" ''Proceedings of the IEEE Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference'' (APSCC), 9–12 December 2008, Yilan, Taiwan, pp. 427–434.<ref name="apscc2008">{{cite conference |authors=Malek Smaoui, Marc Garbey, Cendrine Mony |title=Virtual Prairie: Going green with volunteer computing |booktitle=Proceedings of the IEEE Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference |pages=427–434 |date=2008 |conference=APSCC, 9–12 December 2008, Yilan, Taiwan}}</ref>
* Marc Garbey, Cendrine Mony, Malek Smaoui. "[https://web.archive.org/web/20110830131424/http://vcsc.cs.uh.edu/virtual-prairie/pages_site_aurelie/ParCFD4.pdf Fluid flow, agent based hybrid model for the simulation of virtual prairies.]" ''Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering'', vol. 74, part 10, 2011, pp. 369–376 (Proceedings of the Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, ParCFD, 18–22 May 2008, Lyon, France).<ref name="parcfd2008">{{cite conference |authors=Marc Garbey, Cendrine Mony, Malek Smaoui |title=Fluid flow, agent based hybrid model for the simulation of virtual prairies |booktitle=Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering |volume=74 |pages=369–376 |date=2011 |conference=Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference (ParCFD), 18–22 May 2008, Lyon, France}}</ref>

; Other project-related publications
* Marc Garbey, Malek Smaoui, Waree Rinsurongkawong, Cendrine Mony. "The Virtual Prairie Project." Invited plenary lecture, 2nd International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, Grid and Cloud Computing for Engineering, Ajaccio, Corsica, April 2011, Civil-Comp Press.<ref name="civilcomp2011">{{cite conference |authors=Marc Garbey, Malek Smaoui, Waree Rinsurongkawong, Cendrine Mony |title=The Virtual Prairie Project |booktitle=2nd International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, Grid and Cloud Computing for Engineering |publisher=Civil-Comp Press |date=April 2011 |conference=Ajaccio, Corsica}}</ref>
* Cendrine Mony, Marc Garbey. "[https://web.archive.org/web/20100724032022/http://vcsc.cs.uh.edu/virtual-prairie/pages_site_aurelie/Boinc_workshop_Marc_Garbey_2.pdf Updates on the Virtual Prairie Project.]" 5th Pan-Galactic BOINC Workshop, 22–23 October 2009, Barcelona, Spain.<ref name="workshop2009">{{cite conference |authors=Cendrine Mony, Marc Garbey |title=Updates on the Virtual Prairie Project |conference=5th Pan-Galactic BOINC Workshop, 22–23 October 2009, Barcelona, Spain}}</ref>
* Marc Garbey. "[https://web.archive.org/web/20100724031558/http://vcsc.cs.uh.edu/virtual-prairie/pages_site_aurelie/Grenoble.pdf Virtual Prairies with BOINC.]" 4th Pan-Galactic BOINC Workshop, 11–12 September 2008, INRIA, Grenoble, France.<ref name="workshop2008">{{cite conference |authors=Marc Garbey |title=Virtual Prairies with BOINC |conference=4th Pan-Galactic BOINC Workshop, 11–12 September 2008, INRIA, Grenoble, France}}</ref>
* Cendrine Mony, Marc Garbey, Malek Smaoui. "Using modelling to understand clonal strategies in optimal growing conditions." 51st Annual Symposium of the International Association for Vegetation Science, 7–12 September 2008, South Africa.<ref name="iavs2008">{{cite conference |authors=Cendrine Mony, Marc Garbey, Malek Smaoui |title=Using modelling to understand clonal strategies in optimal growing conditions |conference=51st Annual Symposium of the International Association for Vegetation Science, 7–12 September 2008, South Africa}}</ref>

Archived copies of several of these papers and a related workshop video are held via the Wayback Machine on the project's former publications page.<ref name="vip-pubs" />

== See also ==
* [[BOINC]]

== External links ==
* {{URL|http://vcsc.cs.uh.edu/virtual-prairie/|Virtual Prairie project website (defunct)}}
* {{URL|https://web.archive.org/web/20130528055610/http://vcsc.cs.uh.edu/virtual-prairie/|Archived Virtual Prairie website}}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Completed BOINC projects]]
[[Category:Ecology]]
[[Category:Volunteer computing]]

Virtual Prairie

2026-07-26T14:55:18Z

Al Piskun: first light

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'''Virtual Prairie''' (also referred to as '''ViP''') was a completed [[BOINC]] [[wikipedia:volunteer computing|volunteer computing]] project that studied the ecology of [[wikipedia:prairie|prairie]] and [[wikipedia:grassland|grassland]] ecosystems through large-scale individual-based simulation of [[wikipedia:clonal colony|clonal plant]] growth.<ref name="uh2009">{{cite web |authors=University of Houston |title=Virtual Prairie Project With Garbey as PI Taking Off |url=https://www.uh.edu/nsm/computer-science/news-events/stories/2009/0422_garbey_02.php |website=University of Houston |date=22 April 2009 |access-date=26 July 2026}}</ref> The project was jointly led by Professor Marc Garbey of the [[wikipedia:University of Houston|University of Houston]] Department of Computer Science and Assistant Professor Cendrine Mony of the [[wikipedia:University of Rennes 1|University of Rennes 1]], and combined high-performance computing with BOINC-based volunteer computing to model how agricultural and land-management practices affect plant competition and genetic structure within prairies.<ref name="sicortex2009">{{cite press release |authors=SiCortex, Inc. |title=Leading International Universities Use SiCortex Computers to Protect Prairial Systems |date=17 February 2009 |location=Maynard, Massachusetts}}</ref>

The project's goal was to help design new grassland systems that balance water purification, biodiversity conservation, and carbon storage.<ref name="sicortex2009" /> At the time it was described by its organizers as the world's largest ecological simulation.<ref name="sicortex2009" />

[[File:Restored tallgrass prairie in DuPage County, Illinois.jpg|thumb|right|Prairie grassland ecosystems, like this restored tallgrass prairie in Illinois, provide ecological services such as water purification, biodiversity support, and carbon storage that the Virtual Prairie project sought to help optimize.]]

== Background ==
Environmental policy developments of the 2000s, including the European [[wikipedia:Common Agricultural Policy|Common Agricultural Policy]] reforms of 2005 and France's Grenelle Environment Forum of 2007, focused new attention on the ecological services provided by grassland ecosystems, particularly the availability of unpolluted fresh water and the regulation of carbon emissions.<ref name="uh2009" /> Natural prairies had historically been studied mainly for their agricultural productivity, but researchers increasingly sought to understand and reproduce their broader ecological functions, including nitrate pollution remediation, erosion prevention, and habitat stability for vulnerable species.<ref name="uh2011">{{cite web |authors=University of Houston |title=Protecting Ecosystems, Pollution Remediation Goals of Research at UH |url=https://www.uh.edu/nsm/news-events/stories/2011/0307_ecosystems.php |website=University of Houston |date=7 March 2011 |access-date=26 July 2026}}</ref>

Virtual Prairie approached this problem computationally: since a prairie is a complex system with emergent properties arising from the interaction of many individual plants, the project's researchers built an [[wikipedia:individual-based model|individual-based model]] (IBM), sometimes described as an [[wikipedia:agent-based model|agent-based model]], to simulate the growth of clonal plants at the level of individual ramets (the repeated modular units of a clonal plant network) and to test which combinations of plant traits and management strategies produced the best ecological outcomes.<ref name="ecolmodel2011" />

== Research design and computational methods ==

=== Individual-based clonal plant model ===
The core simulation, referred to in publications as the CLONAL model, represented a clonal plant as a network of interconnected ramets that could share and store resources.<ref name="ecolmodel2011">{{cite journal |authors=Cendrine Mony, Marc Garbey, Malek Smaoui, Marie-Lise Benot |title=Large scale parameter study of an individual-based model of clonal plant with volunteer computing |journal=Ecological Modelling |volume=222 |issue=4 |pages=935–946 |date=2011 |doi=10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2010.10.014}}</ref> The model incorporated nine growth rules governing metabolic processes, plant architecture, and resource sharing and storage, controlled by nineteen input parameters.<ref name="researchgate-smaoui">{{cite web |authors=Malek Smaoui |title=Research works (profile excerpt discussing the CLONAL model parameter study) |url=https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Malek-Smaoui-74531876 |website=ResearchGate |access-date=26 July 2026}}</ref>

Rather than testing only a small, expert-selected subset of parameter combinations, as was typical in earlier ecological modelling literature, the project's researchers chose two to four candidate values for each of the nineteen parameters and tested essentially all resulting combinations, an approach only made tractable through volunteer computing:<ref name="researchgate-smaoui" />

<math>N = \prod_{i=1}^{19} k_i \approx 2 \times 10^{7}</math>

where <math>k_i</math> is the number of candidate values tested for parameter <math>i</math>. Sources close to the project reported the resulting simulation count slightly differently depending on the run being described, with the February 2009 project press release citing more than 22 million completed simulations in the first phase of the project<ref name="sicortex2009" /> and the project's 2011 journal paper describing roughly 20 million parameter combinations tested overall.<ref name="researchgate-smaoui" />

=== Two-phase simulation strategy ===
The project ran in two broad phases. In the first phase, researchers modeled individual plant space colonization through clonal reproduction to generate initial hypotheses about competitive strategies between plant types; this phase alone produced more than 22 million simulation runs and found that prairie growth was best explained not by a single dominant strategy but by a small number of distinct viable strategies.<ref name="sicortex2009" /> The second, more ambitious phase aimed to run thousands of combinations of plant types together in a single master simulation across an entire growing season, in order to identify optimal species combinations for long-term prairie sustainability under varying conditions.<ref name="sicortex2009" />

To manage the scale of the second phase, the team developed a parallel multi-objective [[wikipedia:genetic algorithm|genetic algorithm]] (PGA) that could run on top of BOINC to fine-tune the optimization process, described in a 2009 conference paper by PhD student Malek Smaoui and Garbey.<ref name="parco2009">{{cite conference |authors=Malek Smaoui, Marc Garbey |title=Parallel Genetic Algorithm Implementation for BOINC |booktitle=Parallel Computing: From Multicores and GPU's to Petascale |volume=19 |pages=212–219 |publisher=IOS Press |date=2010 |conference=International Conference on Parallel Computing (ParCo), 1–4 September 2009, Lyon, France}}</ref>

=== Computing infrastructure ===
[[File:UH Science and Engineering Research and Classroom Complex.jpg|thumb|right|The University of Houston, whose Department of Computer Science and Research Computing Center hosted Virtual Prairie's local computing infrastructure.]]

Early, computationally intensive runs used local high-performance computing (HPC) hardware at the University of Houston. The department's third such system, provided by [[wikipedia:SiCortex|SiCortex]], was a single-cabinet 2.1 [[wikipedia:FLOPS|TFLOPS]] cluster built around 648 [[wikipedia:64-bit computing|64-bit]] processors, acquired as a joint venture between the university's Department of Computer Science and its Research Computing Center (RCC).<ref name="sicortex2009" /> SiCortex, which marketed itself on the energy efficiency of its systems, ceased operations in May 2009, a few months after this system was highlighted in connection with the project.<ref name="sicortex-shutdown">{{cite web |authors=HPCwire staff |title=SiCortex Meets an Untimely End |url=https://www.hpcwire.com/2009/05/28/sicortex_meets_an_untimely_end/ |website=HPCwire |date=28 May 2009 |access-date=26 July 2026}}</ref>

[[File:Beaulieu 1 Université de Rennes.JPG|thumb|left|The Beaulieu campus of the University of Rennes 1 in France, home to the UMR CNRS ECOBIO laboratory that led the project's ecological modelling work.]]

For the larger, second-phase master simulations, the project moved to BOINC-based volunteer computing, distributing work to home and lab computers around the world.<ref name="parco2009" /> By 2011, the university reported that more than 10,000 volunteers in 90 countries had contributed computing time to the project.<ref name="uh2011" /> The project's BOINC application was hosted at {{URL|http://vcsc.cs.uh.edu/virtual-prairie/}}, run as a Virtual Campus Supercomputing Center (VCSC) project of the University of Houston.<ref name="vcsc-wiki">{{cite web |authors=BOINC project |title=VirtualCampusSupercomputerCenter |url=https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/wiki/VirtualCampusSupercomputerCenter |website=BOINC wiki (GitHub) |access-date=26 July 2026}}</ref>

== Project team ==
Virtual Prairie was a joint effort between two university research groups:
* At the University of Houston, principal investigator Marc Garbey, chair of the Department of Computer Science, worked with PhD students Malek Smaoui, who focused on volunteer computing, evolutionary algorithms, and Monte Carlo methods, and Waree Rinsurongkawong, who worked on parallel data mining methods.<ref name="uh2009" /><ref name="sciencedirect-smaoui">{{cite web |authors=ScienceDirect |title=Improving volunteer computing scheduling for evolutionary algorithms (author biography excerpt) |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167739X12000921 |website=ScienceDirect |access-date=26 July 2026}}</ref> Multicore and software optimization researcher [[wikipedia:Barbara Chapman (computer scientist)|Barbara Chapman]] also contributed to the project's computing infrastructure work.<ref name="sicortex2009" />
* At the University of Rennes 1, Cendrine Mony led a team that included Professor Bernard Clement and PhD candidates Marie-Lise Benot and Anne-Kristel Bittebiere.<ref name="uh2011" /> Benot later became a post-doctoral researcher at the Laboratory of Alpine Ecology in Grenoble, France.<ref name="uh2011" />

== Funding ==
The project was funded by several French national research agencies, including the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR, under grant ANR-08-SYSC-012), the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Cemagref (the Institute for Research in Science and Technology for the Environment, later merged into [[wikipedia:Irstea|Irstea]]), and INRIA (the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control).<ref name="uh2009" /><ref name="uh2011" /><ref name="anr-grant">{{cite web |authors=BOINC message boards |title=Virtual Prairie results published (forum thread quoting ANR-08-SYSC-012 grant acknowledgement) |url=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=6607 |website=BOINC |date=June 2011 |access-date=26 July 2026}}</ref>

== Results and publications impact ==
The project's central ecological finding, drawn from its large-scale parameter study, was that high plant performance in prairie conditions was reached through several distinct combinations of traits, such as high metabolic gain paired with low resource storage, or short branch spacing, rather than through a single optimal strategy.<ref name="researchgate-smaoui" /> Interactive effects between more than half of the tested input parameters were also demonstrated, providing a level of insight into clonal plant growth strategies that the researchers argued would not have been feasible without volunteer computing.<ref name="researchgate-smaoui" />

== Current status ==
Virtual Prairie's BOINC servers stopped issuing new work sometime around mid-2011, shortly after the project's main results were published in ''Ecological Modelling''; a project administrator confirmed on the BOINC message boards in June 2011 that the servers appeared to have gone silent.<ref name="anr-grant" /> The project's original website, vcsc.cs.uh.edu, no longer hosts Virtual Prairie content.<ref name="surly">{{cite web |title=vcsc.cs.uh.edu site scan |url=https://sur.ly/i/vcsc.cs.uh.edu/ |website=Sur.ly |access-date=26 July 2026}}</ref> The BOINC project maintains an entry for Virtual Prairie in its historical list of retired projects.<ref name="boinc-oldprojects">{{cite web |authors=BOINC |title=old_projects.inc |url=https://github.com/BOINC/boinc-site/blob/master/old_projects.inc |website=GitHub |access-date=26 July 2026}}</ref>

== Publications ==
The project produced the following peer-reviewed and conference publications, drawn from the project's archived publications page:<ref name="vip-pubs">{{cite web |title=Virtual Prairie: Publications (archived) |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130528055610/http://vcsc.cs.uh.edu/virtual-prairie/ |website=Wayback Machine |access-date=26 July 2026}}</ref>

; Using BOINC-computed data
* Cendrine Mony, Marc Garbey, Malek Smaoui, Marie-Lise Benot. "Large scale parameter study of an individual-based model of clonal plant with volunteer computing." ''Ecological Modelling'', vol. 222, no. 4, 2011, pp. 935–946. {{doi|10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2010.10.014}}<ref name="ecolmodel2011" />
* Malek Smaoui, Marc Garbey. "Parallel Genetic Algorithm Implementation for BOINC." ''Parallel Computing: From Multicores and GPU's to Petascale'', vol. 19, IOS Press, 2010, pp. 212–219 (Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Computing, ParCo, 1–4 September 2009, Lyon, France).<ref name="parco2009" />
* Malek Smaoui, Marc Garbey, Cendrine Mony. "Virtual Prairie: Going green with volunteer computing." ''Proceedings of the IEEE Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference'' (APSCC), 9–12 December 2008, Yilan, Taiwan, pp. 427–434.<ref name="apscc2008">{{cite conference |authors=Malek Smaoui, Marc Garbey, Cendrine Mony |title=Virtual Prairie: Going green with volunteer computing |booktitle=Proceedings of the IEEE Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference |pages=427–434 |date=2008 |conference=APSCC, 9–12 December 2008, Yilan, Taiwan}}</ref>
* Marc Garbey, Cendrine Mony, Malek Smaoui. "Fluid flow, agent based hybrid model for the simulation of virtual prairies." ''Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering'', vol. 74, part 10, 2011, pp. 369–376 (Proceedings of the Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, ParCFD, 18–22 May 2008, Lyon, France).<ref name="parcfd2008">{{cite conference |authors=Marc Garbey, Cendrine Mony, Malek Smaoui |title=Fluid flow, agent based hybrid model for the simulation of virtual prairies |booktitle=Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering |volume=74 |pages=369–376 |date=2011 |conference=Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference (ParCFD), 18–22 May 2008, Lyon, France}}</ref>

; Other project-related publications
* Marc Garbey, Malek Smaoui, Waree Rinsurongkawong, Cendrine Mony. "The Virtual Prairie Project." Invited plenary lecture, 2nd International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, Grid and Cloud Computing for Engineering, Ajaccio, Corsica, April 2011, Civil-Comp Press.<ref name="civilcomp2011">{{cite conference |authors=Marc Garbey, Malek Smaoui, Waree Rinsurongkawong, Cendrine Mony |title=The Virtual Prairie Project |booktitle=2nd International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, Grid and Cloud Computing for Engineering |publisher=Civil-Comp Press |date=April 2011 |conference=Ajaccio, Corsica}}</ref>
* Cendrine Mony, Marc Garbey. "Updates on the Virtual Prairie Project." 5th Pan-Galactic BOINC Workshop, 22–23 October 2009, Barcelona, Spain.<ref name="workshop2009">{{cite conference |authors=Cendrine Mony, Marc Garbey |title=Updates on the Virtual Prairie Project |conference=5th Pan-Galactic BOINC Workshop, 22–23 October 2009, Barcelona, Spain}}</ref>
* Marc Garbey. "Virtual Prairies with BOINC." 4th Pan-Galactic BOINC Workshop, 11–12 September 2008, INRIA, Grenoble, France.<ref name="workshop2008">{{cite conference |authors=Marc Garbey |title=Virtual Prairies with BOINC |conference=4th Pan-Galactic BOINC Workshop, 11–12 September 2008, INRIA, Grenoble, France}}</ref>
* Cendrine Mony, Marc Garbey, Malek Smaoui. "Using modelling to understand clonal strategies in optimal growing conditions." 51st Annual Symposium of the International Association for Vegetation Science, 7–12 September 2008, South Africa.<ref name="iavs2008">{{cite conference |authors=Cendrine Mony, Marc Garbey, Malek Smaoui |title=Using modelling to understand clonal strategies in optimal growing conditions |conference=51st Annual Symposium of the International Association for Vegetation Science, 7–12 September 2008, South Africa}}</ref>

Archived copies of several of these papers and a related workshop video are held via the Wayback Machine on the project's former publications page.<ref name="vip-pubs" />

== See also ==
* [[BOINC]]

== External links ==
* {{URL|http://vcsc.cs.uh.edu/virtual-prairie/|Virtual Prairie project website (defunct)}}
* {{URL|https://web.archive.org/web/20130528055610/http://vcsc.cs.uh.edu/virtual-prairie/|Archived Virtual Prairie website}}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Completed BOINC projects]]
[[Category:Ecology]]
[[Category:Volunteer computing]]

Kryptos@Home

2026-07-26T12:03:14Z

Al Piskun:

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'''[https://web.archive.org/web/20210125080541/https://www.kryptosathome.com/ Kryptos@Home]''' was a [[BOINC]] [[wikipedia:Volunteer computing|volunteer computing]] project that applied [[wikipedia:Genetic algorithm|genetic algorithms]] to the search for [[wikipedia:Hill cipher|Hill cipher]] keys, in an attempt to decrypt the unsolved fourth passage, known as K4, of the [[wikipedia:Kryptos|Kryptos]] sculpture at the grounds of the [[wikipedia:Central Intelligence Agency|Central Intelligence Agency]] (CIA) headquarters in Langley, Virginia.<ref name="kh-launch">{{Cite web |title=Project launch |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210517151345/https://www.kryptosathome.com/forum_thread.php?id=1 |website=Kryptos@Home Wayback Archive |date=January 8, 2021 |access-date=July 26, 2026}}</ref> It was launched in January 2021, and it operated for approximately eight months before its servers went offline and the project was abandoned by its volunteer developer.<ref name="boincstats-dead">{{Cite web |title=Kryptos@Home Dead? |url=https://www.boincstats.com/forum/10/12718,1 |website=BOINCstats/BAM! Forum |access-date=July 26, 2026}}</ref>

The project never publicly credited a named individual as its developer; community discussion described it as a one-person effort, reportedly run by a university-affiliated volunteer.<ref name="boincstats-dead"/> Kryptos@Home is not to be confused with the unrelated K4 auction and archival discovery that ultimately disclosed the plaintext of the same cipher in 2025, several years after the project's own computations had ceased.<ref name="sciam2025"/>

== Background: the Kryptos sculpture ==
[[File:Kryptos sculptor.jpg|thumb|The S-shaped copper screen bearing the Kryptos ciphertexts, in the courtyard of the CIA's George Bush Center for Intelligence|326x326px]]
Kryptos is a sculpture by American artist [[wikipedia:Jim Sanborn|Jim Sanborn]], dedicated on November 3, 1990, on the grounds of CIA headquarters at the main entrance to the New Headquarters Building and in the courtyard between that building and the Original Headquarters Building cafeteria.<ref name="kryptos-home">{{Cite web |title=Kryptos@Home – Project Overview |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125080541/https://www.kryptosathome.com/ |website=Kryptos@Home |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125080541/https://www.kryptosathome.com/ |archive-date=January 25, 2021 |url-status=dead |access-date=July 26, 2026}}</ref> The centerpiece is a large, vertical S-shaped copper screen bearing four separate encrypted passages, referred to as K1, K2, K3, and K4.<ref name="kryptos-home"/> Sanborn worked for four months with Ed Scheidt, then the retired chairman of the CIA's Office of Communications, to devise the encryption schemes used in the piece.<ref name="kryptos-home"/> The sculpture's name derives from the ancient Greek word for "hidden," and its overall theme is intelligence gathering.<ref name="kryptos-home"/> The design and installation, commissioned through the GSA Art-in-Architecture program, cost $250,000 in 1988 dollars.<ref name="kryptos-home"/>

K1, K2, and K3 were solved by cryptanalysts within a few years of the sculpture's dedication, but K4, a 97-character passage beginning with the letters "OBKR," resisted every public cryptanalytic attempt for more than three decades and became one of the best-known unsolved ciphers in the world.<ref name="wp-kryptos">{{Cite web |title=Kryptos |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptos |website=Wikipedia |access-date=July 26, 2026}}</ref> Sanborn has stated that solving K4 does not require physical access to the sculpture, which is located on CIA property that is off-limits to the public.<ref name="kryptos-home"/> In addition to the main screen, the installation includes a related Morse code message and a compass rose pointing to a lodestone, along with an adjacent reflecting pool; these elements have long been the subject of speculation about hidden clues, though no solution to K1 through K3 was found to depend on them.<ref name="kryptos-home"/>

== History ==
The projects first post announced the launch of Kryptos@Home on January 8, 2021.<ref name="kh-launch"/> At launch, the project was explicitly labeled as being in a beta-testing stage, and the announcement noted that upload errors were occurring during the initial rollout.<ref name="bs-launch">{{Cite web |title=Project launch |url=https://boincsynergy.ca/blog/kryptoshome/ |website=BOINC Synergy |date=January 12, 2021 |access-date=July 26, 2026}}</ref> For security reasons, new accounts could only be created through the project website rather than directly through the BOINC client.<ref name="bs-launch"/> The project maintained a Twitter account (@kryptosathome) and, shortly after launch, added a public Trello board so that participants could track reported issues, requested features, and ongoing development work.<ref name="tsbt-trello">{{Cite web |title=Kryptos@home Trello board added |url=https://tsbt.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=29343 |website=The Scottish Boinc Team Forum |access-date=July 26, 2026}}</ref>

The project attracted attention from volunteer computing communities within days of launch, including teams such as [[wikipedia:AMD|AMD]] Users and The Scottish Boinc Team, whose members reported early experiences running its work units.<ref name="amdusers">{{Cite web |title=New Project: Kryptos@Home |url=http://www.amdusers.com/forum/showthread.php/11910-New-Project-Kryptos-Home |website=AMDusers Forum |access-date=July 26, 2026}}</ref><ref name="tsbt-thread">{{Cite web |title=Kryptos@Home |url=https://tsbt.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28643 |website=The Scottish Boinc Team Forum |access-date=July 26, 2026}}</ref> Multiple contemporaneous forum reports flagged frequent [[wikipedia:VirtualBox|VirtualBox]] hypervisor instability under the project's virtual-machine application, with some volunteers finding that rolling back to an older VirtualBox release (5.2.x) reduced work unit failure rates compared to the then-current 6.1.x branch.<ref name="tsbt-thread"/>

== Computational approach ==
Kryptos@Home's stated research goal was to use genetic algorithms to search for [[wikipedia:Hill cipher|Hill cipher]] keys capable of producing a meaningful decryption of K4.<ref name="tsbt-thread"/> The Hill cipher encrypts a block of plaintext letters, represented as a vector <math>P</math>, by multiplying it against a square key matrix <math>K</math> modulo 26:

<math>C \equiv K P \pmod{26}</math>

Decryption requires the modular inverse of the key matrix:

<math>P \equiv K^{-1} C \pmod{26}</math>

which exists only when <math>K</math> is invertible modulo 26, that is, when <math>\gcd(\det K,\ 26) = 1</math>. Kryptos@Home's applications searched the space of invertible candidate matrices for keys that, when applied to K4, matched a set of cryptographic cribs, fragments of suspected plaintext that Sanborn himself had released to the Kryptos-solving community, while also producing plausible decryptions across the rest of the passage.<ref name="tsbt-thread"/> This distinguished the project's approach from simple brute-force keyspace enumeration, since a genetic algorithm's fitness function could be tuned against partial crib matches to guide the search toward more promising candidate keys.<ref name="tsbt-thread"/>

== Software and applications ==
The project distributed its computational application, referred to in configuration files by the internal name <code>kryptos-plato</code>, as an [[wikipedia:VM (BOINC)|Oracle VM VirtualBox]]-based virtual machine application rather than a native executable, running under the BOINC Virtualbox wrapper.<ref name="tsbt-thread"/> Work was available for 64-bit Windows (AMD64/Intel EM64T), 64-bit Linux (AMD64/Intel EM64T), and 64-bit Intel-based macOS 10.5 or later; no GPU-accelerated application was offered.<ref name="amdusers"/> The project's own documentation indicated that a native (non-virtualized) application was planned for at least the Windows platform, though it is not confirmed whether such a native client was ever released before the project went offline.<ref name="tsbt-thread"/>

Volunteers could tune concurrency through a standard BOINC <code>app_config.xml</code> entry limiting the number of concurrent <code>kryptos-plato</code> tasks per host, a workaround commonly used to manage the resource demands of the VirtualBox-based application.<ref name="tsbt-thread"/>

== Decline and discontinuation ==
Kryptos@Home's public presence began to lapse in mid-2021. By early October 2021, participants on the BOINCstats/BAM! forums noted that the project's last confirmed server contact had been on July 1, 2021, and that its website had subsequently become unreachable, with its TLS certificate misconfigured to present a certificate for an unrelated domain.<ref name="boincstats-dead"/> Community speculation attributed the outage variously to the developer's academic obligations and to the project being a one-person operation without backup maintainers, though no official explanation was ever published.<ref name="boincstats-dead"/> Forum participants ultimately recommended that the project be treated as discontinued and removed from BOINC project-tracking tools after its website remained unreachable for an extended period with no further communication from its developer.<ref name="boincstats-dead"/>

No official statistics archive, final work unit counts, or closure announcement from the Kryptos@Home team is known to survive; the project's disappearance was documented primarily through third-party community forums rather than through any statement from BOINC Synergy or the project's developer.<ref name="boincstats-dead"/>

== K4's eventual disclosure ==
K4 remained unsolved by any public cryptanalytic method, including efforts such as Kryptos@Home's, for the following several years. In 2025, journalists Jarett Kobek and Richard Byrne reported that they had located the plaintext of K4 among archival material related to Sanborn held by the [[wikipedia:Smithsonian Institution|Smithsonian Institution]], rather than through cryptanalysis of the ciphertext itself.<ref name="sciam2025">{{Cite web |title=A Solution to the CIA's Kryptos Code Is Found after 35 Years |url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-solution-to-the-cias-kryptos-code-is-found-after-35-years/ |website=Scientific American |date=2025 |access-date=July 26, 2026}}</ref> Some members of the Kryptos-solving community disputed whether an archival discovery of this kind constituted a genuine "solution" in the cryptanalytic sense, since it did not involve deriving the plaintext from the ciphertext and key alone.<ref name="sciam2025"/> Later in 2025, Sanborn, citing health concerns, put the original K4 solution materials up for public auction through RR Auction, with the intent of naming a new designated keeper of the sculpture's secret.<ref name="aol-auction">{{Cite web |title=Solution goes on auction for CIA HQ's 'Kryptos' sculpture that has stumped code breakers for decades |url=https://www.aol.com/solution-goes-auction-cia-hqs-050030992.html |website=Associated Press via AOL |date=2025 |access-date=July 26, 2026}}</ref> These developments occurred well after Kryptos@Home's own computations had ceased, and there is no indication that the project's search results contributed to, or anticipated, the archival plaintext later reported.

== See also ==
* [[BOINC]]
* [[Enigma@Home]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:BOINC projects]]
[[Category:Completed BOINC projects]]
[[Category:Cryptography]]

Kryptos@Home

2026-07-26T11:59:30Z

Al Piskun: first light

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'''Kryptos@Home''' was a [[BOINC]] [[wikipedia:Volunteer computing|volunteer computing]] project that applied [[wikipedia:Genetic algorithm|genetic algorithms]] to the search for [[wikipedia:Hill cipher|Hill cipher]] keys, in an attempt to decrypt the unsolved fourth passage, known as K4, of the [[wikipedia:Kryptos|Kryptos]] sculpture at the grounds of the [[wikipedia:Central Intelligence Agency|Central Intelligence Agency]] (CIA) headquarters in Langley, Virginia.<ref name="kh-launch">{{Cite web |title=Project launch |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210517151345/https://www.kryptosathome.com/forum_thread.php?id=1 |website=Kryptos@Home Wayback Archive |date=January 8, 2021 |access-date=July 26, 2026}}</ref> It was launched in January 2021, and it operated for approximately eight months before its servers went offline and the project was abandoned by its volunteer developer.<ref name="boincstats-dead">{{Cite web |title=Kryptos@Home Dead? |url=https://www.boincstats.com/forum/10/12718,1 |website=BOINCstats/BAM! Forum |access-date=July 26, 2026}}</ref>

The project never publicly credited a named individual as its developer; community discussion described it as a one-person effort, reportedly run by a university-affiliated volunteer.<ref name="boincstats-dead"/> Kryptos@Home is not to be confused with the unrelated K4 auction and archival discovery that ultimately disclosed the plaintext of the same cipher in 2025, several years after the project's own computations had ceased.<ref name="sciam2025"/>

== Background: the Kryptos sculpture ==
[[File:Kryptos sculptor.jpg|thumb|right|The S-shaped copper screen bearing the Kryptos ciphertexts, in the courtyard of the CIA's George Bush Center for Intelligence]]
Kryptos is a sculpture by American artist [[wikipedia:Jim Sanborn|Jim Sanborn]], dedicated on November 3, 1990, on the grounds of CIA headquarters at the main entrance to the New Headquarters Building and in the courtyard between that building and the Original Headquarters Building cafeteria.<ref name="kryptos-home">{{Cite web |title=Kryptos@Home – Project Overview |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125080541/https://www.kryptosathome.com/ |website=Kryptos@Home |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125080541/https://www.kryptosathome.com/ |archive-date=January 25, 2021 |url-status=dead |access-date=July 26, 2026}}</ref> The centerpiece is a large, vertical S-shaped copper screen bearing four separate encrypted passages, referred to as K1, K2, K3, and K4.<ref name="kryptos-home"/> Sanborn worked for four months with Ed Scheidt, then the retired chairman of the CIA's Office of Communications, to devise the encryption schemes used in the piece.<ref name="kryptos-home"/> The sculpture's name derives from the ancient Greek word for "hidden," and its overall theme is intelligence gathering.<ref name="kryptos-home"/> The design and installation, commissioned through the GSA Art-in-Architecture program, cost $250,000 in 1988 dollars.<ref name="kryptos-home"/>

K1, K2, and K3 were solved by cryptanalysts within a few years of the sculpture's dedication, but K4, a 97-character passage beginning with the letters "OBKR," resisted every public cryptanalytic attempt for more than three decades and became one of the best-known unsolved ciphers in the world.<ref name="wp-kryptos">{{Cite web |title=Kryptos |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptos |website=Wikipedia |access-date=July 26, 2026}}</ref> Sanborn has stated that solving K4 does not require physical access to the sculpture, which is located on CIA property that is off-limits to the public.<ref name="kryptos-home"/> In addition to the main screen, the installation includes a related Morse code message and a compass rose pointing to a lodestone, along with an adjacent reflecting pool; these elements have long been the subject of speculation about hidden clues, though no solution to K1 through K3 was found to depend on them.<ref name="kryptos-home"/>

== History ==
The projects first post announced the launch of Kryptos@Home on January 8, 2021.<ref name="kh-launch"/> At launch, the project was explicitly labeled as being in a beta-testing stage, and the announcement noted that upload errors were occurring during the initial rollout.<ref name="bs-launch">{{Cite web |title=Project launch |url=https://boincsynergy.ca/blog/kryptoshome/ |website=BOINC Synergy |date=January 12, 2021 |access-date=July 26, 2026}}</ref> For security reasons, new accounts could only be created through the project website rather than directly through the BOINC client.<ref name="bs-launch"/> The project maintained a Twitter account (@kryptosathome) and, shortly after launch, added a public Trello board so that participants could track reported issues, requested features, and ongoing development work.<ref name="tsbt-trello">{{Cite web |title=Kryptos@home Trello board added |url=https://tsbt.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=29343 |website=The Scottish Boinc Team Forum |access-date=July 26, 2026}}</ref>

The project attracted attention from volunteer computing communities within days of launch, including teams such as [[wikipedia:AMD|AMD]] Users and The Scottish Boinc Team, whose members reported early experiences running its work units.<ref name="amdusers">{{Cite web |title=New Project: Kryptos@Home |url=http://www.amdusers.com/forum/showthread.php/11910-New-Project-Kryptos-Home |website=AMDusers Forum |access-date=July 26, 2026}}</ref><ref name="tsbt-thread">{{Cite web |title=Kryptos@Home |url=https://tsbt.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28643 |website=The Scottish Boinc Team Forum |access-date=July 26, 2026}}</ref> Multiple contemporaneous forum reports flagged frequent [[wikipedia:VirtualBox|VirtualBox]] hypervisor instability under the project's virtual-machine application, with some volunteers finding that rolling back to an older VirtualBox release (5.2.x) reduced work unit failure rates compared to the then-current 6.1.x branch.<ref name="tsbt-thread"/>

== Computational approach ==
Kryptos@Home's stated research goal was to use genetic algorithms to search for [[wikipedia:Hill cipher|Hill cipher]] keys capable of producing a meaningful decryption of K4.<ref name="tsbt-thread"/> The Hill cipher encrypts a block of plaintext letters, represented as a vector <math>P</math>, by multiplying it against a square key matrix <math>K</math> modulo 26:

<math>C \equiv K P \pmod{26}</math>

Decryption requires the modular inverse of the key matrix:

<math>P \equiv K^{-1} C \pmod{26}</math>

which exists only when <math>K</math> is invertible modulo 26, that is, when <math>\gcd(\det K,\ 26) = 1</math>. Kryptos@Home's applications searched the space of invertible candidate matrices for keys that, when applied to K4, matched a set of cryptographic cribs, fragments of suspected plaintext that Sanborn himself had released to the Kryptos-solving community, while also producing plausible decryptions across the rest of the passage.<ref name="tsbt-thread"/> This distinguished the project's approach from simple brute-force keyspace enumeration, since a genetic algorithm's fitness function could be tuned against partial crib matches to guide the search toward more promising candidate keys.<ref name="tsbt-thread"/>

== Software and applications ==
[[File:Kryptos01 1, background removed.png|thumb|right|The encrypted copper screen of the Kryptos sculpture, isolated from its background]]
The project distributed its computational application, referred to in configuration files by the internal name <code>kryptos-plato</code>, as an [[wikipedia:VM (BOINC)|Oracle VM VirtualBox]]-based virtual machine application rather than a native executable, running under the BOINC Virtualbox wrapper.<ref name="tsbt-thread"/> Work was available for 64-bit Windows (AMD64/Intel EM64T), 64-bit Linux (AMD64/Intel EM64T), and 64-bit Intel-based macOS 10.5 or later; no GPU-accelerated application was offered.<ref name="amdusers"/> The project's own documentation indicated that a native (non-virtualized) application was planned for at least the Windows platform, though it is not confirmed whether such a native client was ever released before the project went offline.<ref name="tsbt-thread"/>

Volunteers could tune concurrency through a standard BOINC <code>app_config.xml</code> entry limiting the number of concurrent <code>kryptos-plato</code> tasks per host, a workaround commonly used to manage the resource demands of the VirtualBox-based application.<ref name="tsbt-thread"/>

== Decline and discontinuation ==
Kryptos@Home's public presence began to lapse in mid-2021. By early October 2021, participants on the BOINCstats/BAM! forums noted that the project's last confirmed server contact had been on July 1, 2021, and that its website had subsequently become unreachable, with its TLS certificate misconfigured to present a certificate for an unrelated domain.<ref name="boincstats-dead"/> Community speculation attributed the outage variously to the developer's academic obligations and to the project being a one-person operation without backup maintainers, though no official explanation was ever published.<ref name="boincstats-dead"/> Forum participants ultimately recommended that the project be treated as discontinued and removed from BOINC project-tracking tools after its website remained unreachable for an extended period with no further communication from its developer.<ref name="boincstats-dead"/>

No official statistics archive, final work unit counts, or closure announcement from the Kryptos@Home team is known to survive; the project's disappearance was documented primarily through third-party community forums rather than through any statement from BOINC Synergy or the project's developer.<ref name="boincstats-dead"/>

== K4's eventual disclosure ==
K4 remained unsolved by any public cryptanalytic method, including efforts such as Kryptos@Home's, for the following several years. In 2025, journalists Jarett Kobek and Richard Byrne reported that they had located the plaintext of K4 among archival material related to Sanborn held by the [[wikipedia:Smithsonian Institution|Smithsonian Institution]], rather than through cryptanalysis of the ciphertext itself.<ref name="sciam2025">{{Cite web |title=A Solution to the CIA's Kryptos Code Is Found after 35 Years |url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-solution-to-the-cias-kryptos-code-is-found-after-35-years/ |website=Scientific American |date=2025 |access-date=July 26, 2026}}</ref> Some members of the Kryptos-solving community disputed whether an archival discovery of this kind constituted a genuine "solution" in the cryptanalytic sense, since it did not involve deriving the plaintext from the ciphertext and key alone.<ref name="sciam2025"/> Later in 2025, Sanborn, citing health concerns, put the original K4 solution materials up for public auction through RR Auction, with the intent of naming a new designated keeper of the sculpture's secret.<ref name="aol-auction">{{Cite web |title=Solution goes on auction for CIA HQ's 'Kryptos' sculpture that has stumped code breakers for decades |url=https://www.aol.com/solution-goes-auction-cia-hqs-050030992.html |website=Associated Press via AOL |date=2025 |access-date=July 26, 2026}}</ref> These developments occurred well after Kryptos@Home's own computations had ceased, and there is no indication that the project's search results contributed to, or anticipated, the archival plaintext later reported.

== See also ==
* [[BOINC]]
* [[Enigma@Home]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:BOINC projects]]
[[Category:Completed BOINC projects]]
[[Category:Cryptography]]

File:Kryptos-logo.jpg

2026-07-26T11:10:39Z

Al Piskun: Kryptos@Home logo

== Summary ==
Kryptos@Home logo