List of volunteer computing projects
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Volunteer computing projects are a type of distributed computing where volunteers donate computing time to specific causes. The donated computing power comes from idle CPUs and GPUs in personal computers, video game consoles, and Android devices. Each project seeks to utilize the computing power of many internet connected devices to solve problems and perform large scale computational research in a cost-effective manner.
Active projects
| Project | Launched | Sponsor | Category | Research focus | BOINC based | Processing units | Performance in TeraFLOPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albert@Home | 2011-12-23 | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Max Planck Institute | Astrophysics | Testing project for Einstein@Home | Yes | 12 (Mar 2020) | 0.056 (Mar 2020) |
| Amicable Numbers | 2017-01-05 | Independent | Mathematics | Research project to find new amicable pairs | Yes | 4,663 (Mar 2023) | 1,529.166 (Mar 2023) |
| 2013-12-22 | Archive Team | Digital preservation | A virtual archiving appliance that will download sites and upload them to the Archive Team archive and the Internet Archive Wayback Machine | No | |||
| Asteroids@home | 2012-06-18 | Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic | Astrophysics | To significantly enlarge our knowledge of the physical properties of asteroids | Yes | 12,055 (Mar 2023) | 55.018 (Mar 2023) |
| BOID | 2018-06-20 | BOID DAC, decentralized community | Research | The Social Supercomputer for data-driven medical and scientific research involving blockchain technology | No | 212 (Mar 2023) | 53 (Sep 2021) |
| climateprediction.net | 2003-12-09 | Oxford University | Climate change | Analyse ways to improve climate prediction models | Yes | 418 (Mar 2023) | 10.166 (Mar 2023) |
| Collatz Conjecture | 2009-01-06 | Independent | Mathematics | Study the Collatz conjecture, an unsolved conjecture in mathematics | Yes | 4,409 (Mar 2020) | 18,532 (Mar 2020) |
| DENIS@Home | 2015-04-08 | Universidad San Jorge. Zaragoza, Spain | Medicine and Biology | Simulation of the electrical activity of the cardiac cells | Yes | 1,344 (Mar 2023) | 8.785 (Mar 2023) |
| Distributed.net | 1997-01-28 | Independent | Cryptography, Mathematics | Crack the RC5-72 cipher | No | 1,146 (Mar 2023) | |
| Einstein@Home | 2005-02-19 | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Max Planck Institute | Astrophysics | Search for pulsars using radio signals and gravitational wave data | Yes | 20,177 (Mar 2023) | 4,098.577 (Mar 2023) |
| Electric Sheep | 1999-09-30 | Visual arts | Make computer art with fractal flames | No | 450,000 (May 2015) | ||
| Fishnet | 2016-03-07 | Independent | Chess | Provides server analysis for games played on lichess.org using the Stockfish chess engine | No | 38 (Mar 2023) | |
| Fishtest | 2013-02-13 | Independent | Software testing, chess | Validates patches to the Stockfish chess engine by playing thousands of chess games at fast time controls between different versions of the engine | No | 228 (Apr 2024) | |
| Folding@home | 2000-10-01 | Washington University in St. Louis | Molecular biology | Understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases, with a minor emphasis in protein structure prediction. Computing power also harnessed the power of PlayStation 3s | No | 44,197 (Mar 2023) | 29,838 (Mar 2023) |
| Gaia@home | 2019-08-21 | Astronomical Observatory Institute, Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University | Astronomy | Provide additional computing power to scientists studying the Gaia (spacecraft) data releases | Yes | 289 (Mar 2023) | 0.227 (Mar 2023) |
| Gerasim@Home | 2007-02-10 | Southwest State University, Russia | Mathematics | Research in discrete mathematics and logic control systems | Yes | 765 (Mar 2023) | 4.823 (Mar 2023) |
| Golem Network | 2016 | Independent | Software | Developing a permissionless distributed computing marketplace | No | 664 (Mar 2023) | |
| GPUGRID | 2007-12-05 | Barcelona Biomedical Research Park | Molecular biology | Perform full-atom molecular simulations of proteins on Nvidia GPUs for biomedical research | Yes | 2,042 (Mar 2023) | 422.397 (Mar 2023) |
| Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) | 1996-01-early | Independent | Mathematics | Searches for Mersenne primes of world record size | No | 18,741 (Mar 2023) | 5,296.905 (Mar 2023) |
| iThena.Measurements | 2019-09-25 | Cyber-Complex Foundation | Computer science | Generally computer networks | Yes | 9,846 (Mar 2023) | 3.970 (Mar 2023) |
| iThena.Computational | 2021-10-31 | Cyber-Complex Foundation | Computer science | Generally computer networks | Yes | 155 (Mar 2023) | 1.575 (Mar 2023) |
| Leela Chess Zero | 2018-03-04 | Software testing, chess | Trains chess neural networks with deep reinforcement learning. Experiments with training parameters and net architectures | No | 19 (Mar 2023) | ||
| LHC@home | 2004-01-09 | CERN | Physics | Helping physicists compare theory with experiment, in the search for new fundamental particles and answers to questions about the Universe | Yes | 3,862 (Mar 2023) | 40.377 (Mar 2023) |
| MilkyWay@home | 2007-07-07 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Astronomy | Create a highly accurate three-dimensional model of the Milky Way galaxy using data collected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey | Yes | 31,137 (Mar 2023) | 2,048.233 (Mar 2023) |
| Moo! Wrapper | 2011-02-05 | Independent | Cryptography | Combines BOINC with distributed.net to try to break the RC5 cipher | Yes | 1,818 (Mar 2023) | 683.872 (Mar 2023) |
| nanoHUB@Home | 2015-01-30 | Purdue University | Nanoscience | Research in nanoscience and nanotechnology | Yes | 10 (Mar 2023) | 0.000 (Mar 2023) |
| NFS@Home | 2009-09-05 | California State University, Fullerton | Integer factorization | Performs parts of the number field sieve in the factorization of large integers | Yes | 4,096 (Mar 2023) | 50.552 (Mar 2023) |
| NumberFields@Home | 2011-08-12 | Arizona State University's School of Mathematics | Number theory | Search for number fields with special properties to assist with the formulation of mathematical conjectures | Yes | 14,974 (Mar 2023) | 127.692 (Mar 2023) |
| ODLK | 2017-04-06 | Independent | Mathematics | Yes | 1,165 (Mar 2023) | 3.006 (Mar 2023) | |
| ODLK1 | 2017-10-22 | Independent | Mathematics | Yes | 2,011 (Mar 2023) | 10.085 (Mar 2023) | |
| PrimeGrid | 2005-06-12 | Independent | Mathematics | Search for world record sized prime numbers, search for particular types of primes, such as 321 primes, Cullen-Woodall primes, Proth prime, and prime Sierpinski numbers. Subprojects also include Seventeen or Bust, and the Riesel problem. | Yes | 89,193 (Mar 2023) | 2,973.132 (Mar 2023) |
| Radioactive@home | 2011-10-21 | Poland | Physics | Real-time radiation monitoring, detected by gamma sensors connected to volunteer computers | Yes | 169 (Mar 2023) | 0.089 (Mar 2023) |
| RakeSearch | 2017-09-14 | Karelian Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences | Mathematics | Search of diagonal Latin squares | Yes | 528 (Mar 2023) | 2.712 (Mar 2023) |
| RALPH@home | 2006-02-15 | University of Washington | Software testing | Test project for Rosetta@home | Yes | 22 (Mar 2023) | 0.000 (Mar 2023) |
| Ramanujan machine | 2021-10-14 | Independent | Mathematics | Conjecturing new mathematical formulas | Yes | 1,514 (Mar 2023) | 4.368 (Mar 2023) |
| RNA World | 2009-05-21 | Independent research group in Marburg, Germany | Molecular biology | Uses bioinformatics software to study RNA structure | Yes | 12 (Mar 2023) | 0.016 (Mar 2023) |
| Rosetta@home | 2005-10-06 | University of Washington | Molecular biology | Protein structure prediction for disease research | Yes | 34,472 (Mar 2023) | 44,307 (Mar 2023) |
| SheepIt Renderfarm | Art | Rendering of 3D Animations | No | 600 (Jun 2023) | |||
| SiDock@home | 2020-12-19 | Russian Academy of Sciences | Molecular biology | Citizen science project for independent decentralized drug design by distributed computing | Yes | 4,644 (Mar 2023) | 36.659 (Mar 2023) |
| SRBase | 2013-01-02 | Independent | Mathematics | Trying to solve Sierpinski / Riesel Bases up to 1030, the project is Conjecture 'R Us | Yes | 1,267 (Mar 2023) | 617.109 (Mar 2023) |
| TN-Grid | 2014-05-01 | Research Area of Trento of the National Research Council of Italy, University of Trento | Genetics | Gene@home is a scientific project belonging to the infrastructure TrentoGrid. It aims to expand networks of genes. | Yes | 4,666 (Mar 2023) | 26.697 (Mar 2023) |
| Twin Prime Search | 2006-04-13 | Mathematics | Searches for large twin primes | No | 34 (Mar 2023) | ||
| Universe@Home | 2015-02-19 | Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences | Astronomy | Computational astrophysics, computer simulation of stars, galaxies, and the Universe | Yes | 3,547 (Mar 2023) | 383.863 (Mar 2023) |
| WEP-M+2 Project | 2006-05-12 | London, England, United Kingdom | Mathematics | Factorization of Mersenne+2 numbers | Yes | 335 (Mar 2023) | 2.254 (Mar 2023) |
| World Community Grid | 2004-11-16 | Krembil Research Institute | Humanitarian research on disease, natural disasters, and hunger | 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. Smash Childhood Cancer, Help Conquer Cancer, Help Defeat Cancer, Mapping Cancer Markers, Human Proteome Folding Project, FightAIDS@Home, Uncovering Genome Mysteries, Let's outsmart Ebola together, Help Stop TB, OpenZika. | Yes | 57,439 (Mar 2023) | 293.196 (Mar 2023) |
| WUProp@Home | 2010-03-27 | Independent | Statistics | Collect various statistics about other BOINC projects | Yes | 10,564 (Mar 2023) | 1.019 (Mar 2023) |
| YAFU | 2011-09-01 | Software testing, Mathematics | Test BOINC server software, integer factorization | Yes | 446 (Mar 2023) | 13.668 (Mar 2023) | |
| yoyo@home[ru] | 2007-07-19 | Independent | Mathematics, physics, and evolution | Elliptic curve factorization, Riesel/Sierpinski siever, M queens puzzle | Yes | 2,900 (Mar 2023) | 65.617 (Mar 2023) |
Completed projects
| Project | Launched Completed | Sponsor | Category | Research focus | BOINC based | Processing units | Performance in TeraFLOPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC@Home | 2006-11-21 2014-06-01 | Mathematical Institute of Leiden University, Kennislink | Mathematics | Find triples related to the abc conjecture, one of the greatest open problems in mathematics. | Yes | ||
| AlmereGrid | 2006-09-27 | Almere, the Netherlands | Multiple applications | A number of applications from local researchers. | Yes | ||
| AlmereGrid TestGrid | 2008-02-24 | Multiple applications | Test of the AlmereGrid project. | Yes | |||
| AndrOINC | Independent | Cryptography | Broke Motorola's 1024-bit RSA key used to sign the boot and recovery partition partitions on the Motorola Milestone smartphone. | Yes | |||
| AQUA@home | 2008-12-10 2011-08-23 | D-Wave Systems, Canada | Quantum computing | Used Quantum Monte Carlo to predict the performance of superconducting adiabatic quantum computers on a variety of problems. | Yes | ||
| Artificial Intelligence System | Intelligence Realm Inc | Simulate the brain using Hodgkin–Huxley models via an artificial neural network | Yes | ||||
| ATLAS@Home | 2014-06-19 2017-04-07 | CERN | Physics | Ran simulations of the ATLAS experiment at CERN. | Yes | ||
| Background Pi | Computed decimal digits of pi using digit extraction method. | No | |||||
| Biochemical Library | Vanderbilt University | Molecular biology | Performed research using the Biochemical Algorithms Library into proteins and their interactions with small molecules for disease research. | Yes | |||
| BOINC@TACC | 2018-07-30 2022-09 | Texas Advanced Computing Center | Multiple | aerospace engineering, computational biology, and earthquake engineering | Yes | ||
| BURP | 2004-06-17 | Art | Rendering of 3D Animations | Yes | |||
| CAS@home | 2010-07-19 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | Physics, biochemistry, and others | Provide computing power to Chinese Researchers | Yes | ||
| Cell Computing | 2008 | NTT Data | biomedical research | Yes | |||
| Chess960@home | 2006-03-20 | Independent | Games and Puzzles | Analysis of chess 960. | Yes | ||
| Citizen Science Grid | 2012-01-01 | University of North Dakota | Multiple applications | Animals, Biology, Birds, Climate and weather, Education, Nature, and outdoors | Yes | ||
| Cleanmobility.now | 2013-08 | Chemistry | Find safer and greener materials for e-vehicle batteries | Yes | |||
| Comcute | 2010 2016 | Gdańsk University of Technology, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics | Mathematics, Artificial intelligence, Physics | No | |||
| Compute for Humanity | 2015-08 2017 | Independent | Cryptocurrencies, Charitable Organizations | No | |||
| Constellation | Students at the University of Stuttgart, Germany | Aerospace, Engineering | Various aerospace-related science and engineering problems. | Yes | |||
| Correlizer | 2011 | EpiGenSys Consortium and EraSysBio+, part of the Seventh Framework Program of the European Union | Genetics | The sequential organization of genomes, and its connection to their 3D architectural organization. | Yes | ||
| Cosmology@Home | 2007-06-26 2024-01 | Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris | Astronomy | Find the most accurate models that best describe the universe | Yes | 4,083 (Mar 2023) | 17.034 (Mar 2023) |
| DIMES | Maps the structure and evolution of the Internet infrastructure, letting users see how the Internet looks from their home | No | |||||
| DistributedDataMining | 2010-03-04 2018-04-20 | Data analysis, machine learning | Research in the various fields of data analysis and machine learning, such as prediction of market value of companies'shares and analysis of medical data | Yes | |||
| DistrRTgen | 2008-01-12 2014-06 | Independent | Cryptography | Analysis of hash strength for password security by developing rainbow tables. | Yes | ||
| DNA@home | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Discovered what regulates the genes in DNA using statistical algorithms. | Yes | ||||
| Docking@Home | 2006-09-11 2014-05-23 | University of Delaware | models protein-ligand docking using the CHARMM program. | Yes | |||
| DreamLab | 2015-09-112025-04-02 | Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia | Cancer research | Breast, ovarian, prostate and pancreatic cancer; COVID-19 | No | 250,000 (Mar 2023) | |
| DrugDiscovery@home | Independent | Drug design | Supported in silico drug design of chemical compounds for medicines in the fields of cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. | Yes | |||
| Enigma@Home | 2007-09-09 | Cryptography | Cryptography | Decode three unbroken Enigma messages from World War II | Yes | ||
| eOn | 2014-05-08 | University of Texas at Austin | Chemistry | Calculated the evolution of an atomic-scale system over time, such as a chemical reaction or diffusion. | Yes | ||
| Evolution@Home | 2001-04-03 | Uses evolutionary algorithms to optimize the parameters of different kinds of machine learning algorithms | No | ||||
| Five or Bust | 2011-02 | Find a prime or probable prime of the form 2n+k for all odd k < 78557, the last probable prime found is 29092392+40291, and this project stopped when this probable prime was found. | No | ||||
| FreeHAL | 2006 2012 | Independent | Artificial intelligence | Compute essential information for software which seeks to imitate human conversation. | Yes | ||
| Genome@home | 2001-02-01 2004-03-08 | Stanford University | Molecular biology | Designed new genes that can form working proteins in the cell that have not been found in nature. | No | ||
| GoofyxGrid@Home | 2016 | Independent | Mathematics | Look for Infinite monkey theorem | Yes | ||
| Goldbach's Conjecture | 2009-11-09 2011-06 | Tests Goldbach's weak conjecture. | Yes | ||||
| Golem@home | 2000 2001-09-03 | Brandeis University | Robotics | Used evolutionary computation to design robotic locomotion systems. | No | ||
| Graceful Tree Verification Project | 2008-11-22 2010-02-21 | Independent | Mathematics | Used a computational approach to the graceful tree conjecture, proving that every tree with at most 35 vertices is graceful | No | ||
| HashClash | 2005-11-24 | Cryptography | Find collisions in the MD5 hash algorithm | Yes | |||
| Hydrogen@Home | 2007-10-22 2011-02 | Searches for the most efficient method of hydrogen production | Yes | ||||
| Ibercivis | 2008-06-22 2016-07 | Spanish universities and research centers | Multiple applications | Yes | |||
| Ideologias@home | 2011-05-19 | Complutense University of Madrid, Spain | Society | Used social networking mathematical models to study the ideological evolution of a group of people over time. | Yes | ||
| Leiden Classical | 2005-05-12 2018-06-05 | Leiden University, the Netherlands | Chemistry | General classical mechanics for students or scientists | Yes | ||
| vLHCathome (not to be confused with LHC@home above) | 2011-08-01 2017-03 | CERN | Physics | Run simulations of high-energy particle collisions in a computational search for new fundamental particles for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN | Yes | ||
| M4 Project | 2006-01-09 2009-11-15 | History | Decrypts Enigma messages from World War II | No | |||
| Majestic-12 | Uses a distributed web crawler program to index web sites for a distributed search engine | No | |||||
| Magnetism@home | 2008-06-09 | Donetsk Institute for Physics and Technology, Ukraine | Magnetism, nanotechnology | Explored magnetization patterns. | Yes | ||
| Malaria Control Project | 2006-12-19 2016-01-28 | Swiss Tropical Institute | Epidemiology | Simulate the transmission dynamics and health effects of malaria. | Yes | ||
| Mersenne@home | 2012 | Independent | Mathematics | Searched for Mersenne primes. Discontinued because the creator lacked time to administer it | Yes | ||
| MindModeling@Home | 2007-03-17 | University of Dayton Research Institute and Wright State University | Cognitive science | Builds cognitive models of the human mind | Yes | ||
| Minecraft@Home | 2020-06-24 | Independent | Games | Studies questions related to Minecraft, such as the properties of worlds that can be generated from different random seeds | Yes | ||
| MLC@Home | 2020-06-30 2022-10-02 | University of Maryland, Baltimore County | Mathematics | Understanding and interpreting complex machine learning models | Yes | ||
| MoneyBee | 2000-09 2010 | Finance | No | ||||
| Muon1 Distributed Particle Accelerator Design | 2017 | Physics | Simulate and design parts of the Neutrino Factory particle accelerator | No | |||
| Najmanovich Research Group | Université de Sherbrooke | Molecular biology | Research in molecular recognition | Yes | |||
| Neurona@home | 2011-06-14 | Complutense University of Madrid, Spain | Neural network | Simulating the behavior of a large and complex network of cellular automata neurons. | Yes | ||
| NFSNET | 2010 | Integer factorization | Used the general number field sieve to factor increasingly large integers. Discontinued and replaced by NFS@Home. | No | |||
| NNGenerator | 2014-10-20 2016 | Independent | Mathematics, finance, and artificial neural networks | Distributed system based on neural networks for analysis and forecasting time series | No | ||
| OProject@Home | 2012-08-13 | Olin Library, Rollins College | Mathematics | Algorithm analysis. The library is open and available in the Code.google.com SVN repository. | Yes | ||
| Optima@home | Institute for Systems Analysis, Russian Academy of Sciences | Optimization | Solve various large-scale optimization problems. Currently finding molecular conformations which have minimal potential energy. | Yes | |||
| orbit@home | 2008-04-03 2013-02-16 | Planetary Science Institute | Astronomy | Monitored and studied the hazards posed by near-earth asteroids. | Yes | ||
| Pi Segment | 2006 | Independent project | Mathematics | Looked for specific digits (in binary) of Pi and make volunteer computing more popular in China | No | ||
| Pirates@Home | 2004-02-06 | 1 Vassar College 2 Spy Hill Research | Software testing | Mission 1 helped to develop the Einstein@Home screensaver Tested BOINC's forum software for possible use by Interactions in Understanding the Universe | Yes | ||
| POEM@Home | 2007-13-11 2016-10-04 | University of Karlsruhe, Germany | Molecular biology | Protein structure prediction, cellular signaling, protein aggregation, and drug design | Yes | ||
| Predictor@home | 2004-05-04 | The Scripps Research Institute | Molecular biology | Test and evaluate new algorithms and methods of protein structure prediction in the context of the Sixth Biannual CASP experiment | Yes | ||
| Primaboinca | 2010-07-30 2020-05-31 | RheinMain University of Applied Sciences | Mathematics | Search for counterexamples to Agrawal's conjecture and Popovych's conjecture, which relate to the identification of prime numbers | Yes | ||
| Proteins@home | 2006-09-15 | École polytechnique | Protein structure prediction | Contribute to a better understanding of many diseases and pathologies and to progress in Medicine and Technology | Yes | ||
| QMC@Home | 2006-03-03 2013-01 | University of Münster, Germany | Chemistry | Study the structure and reactivity of molecules using quantum chemistry and Monte Carlo techniques | Yes | ||
| Quake Catcher Network | 2008-02-03 2023-06-01 | Stanford University | Seismology | Uses accelerometers connected to personal computers to detect earthquakes and to educate about seismology | Yes | 215 (Mar 2023) | 0.000 (Mar 2023) |
| QuChemPedIA@home | 2019-07-01 2022-09-29 | Université Anger | Molecular Chemistry | Help for chemical researchers | Yes | 26 (Mar 2023) | 0.000 (Mar 2023) |
| Riesel Sieve | Mathematics | Prove that 509,203 is the smallest Riesel number, by finding a prime of the form k × 2n − 1 for all odd k smaller than 509,203. Merged with PrimeGrid. | Yes | ||||
| Renderfarm.fi | 2009-summer | Independent (Finnish) | Rendering | 2D and 3D rendering for animation artists | Yes | ||
| RSA Lattice Siever | 2009 2012-08 | Integer factorization | Assisted other factoring projects to achieve their academic goals. Merged into NFS@Home because its server was outdated | Yes | |||
| SAT@home | 2011-09-29 2017-02 | Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences | Cryptanalysis, Mathematics | Various applications related to the boolean satisfiability problem, inversion of specific stream cipher functions | Yes | ||
| Second Computing | 2008-04-10 2012-08 | Assesses biopolymer dynamics, and models the behavior of clonal colonies in a prairie ecosystem | Yes | ||||
| SETI@home | 1999-05-17 2020-03-31 | University of California, Berkeley | Astrobiology | Search for extraterrestrial life by analyzing specific radio frequencies emanating from space | Yes | ||
| SETI@home beta | 2006-01-12 2020-03-31 | University of California, Berkeley | Software testing | Test project of SETI@home | Yes | ||
| SIMAP | 2006-04-26 2014-05-30 | University of Vienna | Molecular biology | Calculated similarities between proteins | Yes | ||
| SLinCA@Home | G.V.Kurdyumov Institute for Metal Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine | Materials science | Studies scaling laws in cluster aggregation | Yes | |||
| Spinhenge@home | 2006-05-19 2011-09-28 | Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences | Nanotechnology | Studied nano-magnetic molecules for research into localized tumor chemotherapy and micro-memory. | Yes | ||
| Stop@home | 2017-02-28 2018-01 | Independent | Mathematics | Looking for prime k-tuples | Yes | ||
| Sudoku@vtaiwan | 2011-01-05 2013-09-05 | National Center for High-performance Computing (NCHC), Hsinchu Science and Industrial Park, Hsinchu City, Taiwan. | Games and Puzzles | Confirmed solution to the "Minimum Sudoku Problem." After running for more than 2½ years, the project was completed - it was confirmed that no 16-clue Sudoku exists, and so the fewest clues possible is 17 | Yes | ||
| Superlink@Technion | 2007-05-03 | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology | Genetic linkage analysis | Uses genetic linkage analysis to help find disease-provoking genes. | Yes | ||
| Surveill@Home | University of Coimbra | Monitor and test websites for failure rates and overall performance | Yes | ||||
| theSkyNet | 2011-09-13 2018-05-02 | International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research | Astronomy | Analysis of radio astronomy data from telescopes such as the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder and The Square Kilometre Array | Yes | ||
| uFluids@Home | 2005-09-19 2010-11 | Purdue University | Physics, Aeronautics | Simulated microfluidics problems and two-phase flows in microgravity | Yes | ||
| USPEX@Home | 2017-04-04 2019-03 | Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russian Academy of Science, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology | Chemistry, Physics, Materials science | Computational prediction of structure and properties of new chemical compounds (crystals, nanoparticles etc.) for various applications | Yes | ||
| Virtual Prairie | 2008 2019-03 | University of Houston | Botanical ecosystems | Provided ecological guidelines on the design of prairies with the best potential for water purification | Yes | ||
| VTU@home | Vilnius Gediminas Technical University and Kaunas University of Technology | Software testing | Supported various research projects at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University | Yes | |||
| Wieferich@Home | 2007-12-29 2017 | Mathematics | Searches for new Wieferich primes | No | |||
| EDGeS@Home | 2009-10 | MTA SZTAKI Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Hungary | Multiple applications | Support the execution of selected scientific applications developed by the EGEE and EDGeS community | Yes | ||
| SZTAKI Desktop Grid | 2005-05-26 | MTA SZTAKI Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Hungary | Mathematics | Find all the generalized binary number systems (in which bases are matrices and digits are vectors) up to dimension 11, understand basic universality classes of nonequilibrium system | Yes | ||
| TANPAKU | 2005-08-02 | Tokyo University of Science | Molecular biology | Protein structure prediction using the Brownian dynamics method | Yes | ||
| The Lattice Project | 2004-06-30 | University of Maryland Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology | Life science | Various scientific analysis projects | Yes |
See also
- List of grid computing projects
- List of citizen science projects
- List of crowdsourcing projects
- List of free and open-source Android applications
- List of Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) projects