Learn more about Projects from our Distributed Computing directory

12121 Search - Help this distributed computing project by donating CPU cycles to find primes of the form 121*2^N-1.

American Scientist: Collective Wisdom - Article discusses the "early days" (pre-1998) of distributed computing projects

Ars Technica Team Prime Rib - Information

ClimatePrediction.Net - Large-scale simulation where each participant is given one slightly different scenario to run. Those that successfully model past weather patterns will be more likely to accurately predict the future.

Compute Against Cancer - Corporate-sponsored project exploring cancer development

DevChannel - A distributed computing development and knowledge community. Become involved in Open Source distributed computing projects. Read news

Distributed Computing Arcana - A forum for discussing SETI

Distributed Computing Over P2P Networks - Open framework that will allow P2P file sharing networks to make Distributed Parallel Computing.

Distributed computing projects - Distributed computing projects links and short descriptions in English and in Finnish.

Distributed Hardware Evolution Project (DHEP) - Using a desktop's idle time

Distributed Proofreaders - Founded to support the digitization of public domain books. Originally conceived to assist Project Gutenberg

Distributed Proofreaders Europe - Modeled after the Digital Proofreaders project

Evolution@Home - Distributed computing program for evolutionary biology.

Find-a-Drug - Windows and Linux platforms supported. Find-a-Drug aims to run a series of projects in parallel addressing a number of diseases which have a major impact on health by "finding" molecules which are predicted to exhibit the desired biological act

G??mez PEER Community - Project pays select computer users to run a client that tests internet performance.

Globus Project - Research project developing a software infrastructure for distributed computing on a world-wide scale.

GPU - A non-professional

Grid.org - A distributed computing effort by the United Devices Global MetaProcessor with the participation of over 2 million PCs worldwide for cancer

Grub - Distributed web-crawling project to improve search capabilities of the web.

Internet-Based Distributed Computing Projects - Kirk Pearson's directory of current distributed computing projects as well as news articles and related materials.

Java Grid Project (jCluster Project) - Software project investigating the possibilities in creating a distributed computer system - a so called grid - based on the distributed nature of Java and Jini. It is the intension to allow computer resources and data to be shared and to provide a dynami

K-Optimal Lattice Rules - Mathematical project with a somewhat technically intimidating site. Whitepapers and software for Linux

LCG Grid deployment download & Installation - LHC Computing Grid distribution site. Place to find the grid middleware devellop for the future Large Hydron Collider in CERN.

Legion: A Worldwide Virtual Computer - Research project homed at the University of Virginia. An open specification and prototype for a worldwide virtual computer.

Mobius - Research project developing tools and middleware components to coherently share and manage data and metadata in a Grid or distributed computing environment.

MoneyBee - Generates stock forecasts by application of artificial intelligence with the aid of artificial neural networks.

Muon1 Optimisation Project - Uses PC idle time to simulate and design a particle accelerator.

NETI@home - Open-source software package designed to run on end-user machines while collecting various statistics about Internet performance.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Distributed Computing Project - Project goal is a single run-time environment that ties together several networked supercomputers. Intended users are the community of scientists and engineers addressing "grand challenge" computations.

On The 3x + 1 Problem - Project working on the 3x+1 (or Collatz) sequences and their properties.

PCP@HOME - A distributed project to find short Post Correspondence Problems with large shortest solutions.

Power of Supercomputer on a Desktop - Grid computing analogy

Quite Advanced Distributed Parallel Zystem (QADPZ) - The system allows the management/use of the computational power of idle computers in a network. Based on a client-master-slave architecture

Repository of Grid Research Projects - News and resources on grid computing.

SDSC Matrix Project for P2P Grid Workflows - The SDSC Matrix Project performs research and open-sourced development to deliver the grid workflow protocols and workflow language descriptions necessary to build a peer-to- peer infrastructure for Grid Workflow Management Systems.

Search for Fermat Number Dividers - Screensaver program tries to find divisors of Fermat numbers.

The ChessBrain Network - Distributed network chess experiment. Intends to create a single playing program using donated time.

The DBGlobe Project - Aims at developing novel data management techniques to deal with the challenge of global computing.

The EON project - Software for the long time scale simulation of solids. From University of Washington Chemistry Department.

The Grid Report - News

The Hunting of the Snark Project - Explores distributed file sharing through BitTorrent and experiments with the GNU Compiler for Java. It also produces a regular BitTorrent client

The NorduGrid Project - The Grid middleware development and testbed deployment project in the Nordic countries

The Small Internet GFN Prime Search - Help search for primes of the form b^8192+1(b > 99999999).

The Virtual Laboratory Project - Engaged in research

World Community Grid - Mission is to create the largest public computing grid benefiting humanity. Currently supporting the Human Proteome Folding project to provide scientists with data that predicts the shape of a very large number of human proteins.

XGrid@Stanford - Project of a postdoctoral fellow in Brian Kobilka's lab