HubHip: Computers: Computer Science: Distributed Computing: Projects (127)

DescriptionThis category is for distributed computing projects. A distributed computing project is a coordinated attack on a particular computational problem, normally open to public participation through the Internet. The organization that wants to solve the problem writes software that divides up the problem into little pieces, then other people download the software and let it run on their computers when they're not doing anything else. A well-known example is SETI@Home, a search through radio signals looking for alien intelligence.

Projects

Distributed Computing Over P2P Networks (Site) - Open framework that will allow P2P file sharing networks to make Distributed Parallel Computing.
The ChessBrain Network (Site) - Distributed network chess experiment. Intends to create a single playing program using donated time.
ClimatePrediction.Net (Site) - 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.
Repository of Grid Research Projects (Site) - News and resources on grid computing.
Search for Fermat Number Dividers (Site) - Screensaver program tries to find divisors of Fermat numbers.
Legion: A Worldwide Virtual Computer (Site) - Research project homed at the University of Virginia. An open specification and prototype for a worldwide virtual computer.
Distributed Proofreaders (Site) - Founded to support the digitization of public domain books. Originally conceived to assist Project Gutenberg, Distributed Proofreaders is now the main source of PG e-books.
Globus Project (Site) - Research project developing a software infrastructure for distributed computing on a world-wide scale.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Distributed Computing Project (Site) - 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.
The Virtual Laboratory Project (Site) - Engaged in research, design, and development of Grid technologies that help in solving large-scale compute and data intensive science applications in the area of molecular biology.
The Hunting of the Snark Project (Site) - Explores distributed file sharing through BitTorrent and experiments with the GNU Compiler for Java. It also produces a regular BitTorrent client, torrent creator and tracker program.
Distributed computing projects (Site) - Distributed computing projects links and short descriptions in English and in Finnish.
Power of Supercomputer on a Desktop (Site) - Grid computing analogy, meaning, capabilities, uses and limitations.
The NorduGrid Project (Site) - The Grid middleware development and testbed deployment project in the Nordic countries
SDSC Matrix Project for P2P Grid Workflows (Site) - 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.
Quite Advanced Distributed Parallel Zystem (QADPZ) (Site) - The system allows the management/use of the computational power of idle computers in a network. Based on a client-master-slave architecture, using message based communication.
Grid.org (Site) - A distributed computing effort by the United Devices Global MetaProcessor with the participation of over 2 million PCs worldwide for cancer, anthrax, and smallpox research projects.
GPU, a Global Processing Unit (Site) - GPU is an Open Source Gnutella/Pastella client that allows users to share CPU-resources on a truly P2P based cluster. Applications include a Landscape Generator able to generate movies and an experimental Distributed Search Engine. The client is under development.
MoneyBee (Site) - Generates stock forecasts by application of artificial intelligence with the aid of artificial neural networks.
Mobius (Site) - Research project developing tools and middleware components to coherently share and manage data and metadata in a Grid or distributed computing environment.
Distributed Proofreaders Europe (Site) - Modeled after the Digital Proofreaders project, this variation focuses on digitization of works considered to be in the public domain in Europe.
NETI@home (Site) - Open-source software package designed to run on end-user machines while collecting various statistics about Internet performance.
Majestic 12 (Site) - Distributed Computing Project aimed towards building the largest search engine index on the Internet using Distributed Crawlers.
Muon1 Optimisation Project (Site) - Uses PC idle time to simulate and design a particle accelerator.
The EON Project (Site) - Software for the long time scale simulation of solids. From University of Washington Chemistry Department.
XGrid@Stanford (Site) - Project of a postdoctoral fellow in Brian Kobilka's lab, in the Molecular and Cellular Physiology department, Stanford University running large calculations, the purpose being to modelize the conformational changes of the beta 2 adrenergic receptor and have a better understanding of its pharmacology. Runs through Mac OSX-only software called XGrid. How to install and configure the software, news about the project, and a FAQ.
NGrid (Site) - NGrid is a .Net open source grid computing framework written in C#. NGrid provides a transparent multithread and garbage collected programming model for grid programming.
Computing Minimum Equal Sums of Like Power (Site) - Includes client software download, computation records, and project description on its research into mathematical problems.
World Community Grid (Site) - 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.
Compute Against Cancer (Site) - Corporate-sponsored project exploring cancer development, prevention and treatment. [Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME]
Repdigit Prime Problems, The (Site) - Distributed Computing Project aimed towards finding prime numbers of the form n*k. This project uses the software Primeform to test workunits.
Distributedcomputing.info (Site) - Kirk Pearson's directory of current distributed computing projects as well as news articles and related materials.
The DBGlobe Project (Site) - Aims at developing novel data management techniques to deal with the challenge of global computing.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Computing Grid (Site) - Place to find the grid middleware developed for the future Large Hydron Collider in CERN.
How to Join Distributed Computing Projects That Benefit Humanity (Site) - An annotated directory of projects combined with commentary and illustrations or screenshots.
Center for Distributed Computing (Site) - Distributed computing projects directory.
Gómez PEER Community (Site) - Project pays select computer users to run a client that tests internet performance.
Leiden Classical (Site) - BOINC project, dedicated to general classical dynamics for any scientist or science student.
PCP@HOME (Site) - A distributed project to find short Post Correspondence Problems with large shortest solutions.
Distributed Computing Projects - infoAnarchy Wiki (Site) - Long annotated list.
Boitho (Site) - Boitho distributed crawler (BETA). Goal is to make a general internet search engine with a thumbnail picture of all the pages.
ABC@home (Site) - Distributed computing project for finding abc-triples related to the ABC conjecture.
Evolution@Home (Site) - Distributed computing program for evolutionary biology.
Similarity Matrix of Proteins (SIMAP) (Site) - SIMAP is a public database of pre-calculated protein similarities that plays a key role in many bioinformatics methods. It contains about all currently published protein sequences and is continuously updated.
Distributed Computing Arcana (Site) - A forum for discussing SETI, RC5, F@H, G@H, the UD Cancer Project, and other distributed computing efforts.
Einstein@Home (Site) - Uses a computer's idle time to search for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors.
SZTAKI Desktop Grid (Site) - Currently searches for generalized binary number systems.
12121 Search (Site) - Help this distributed computing project by donating CPU cycles to find primes of the form 121*2^N-1.
3x+1@home (Site) - Distributed mathematical project trying to find high stopping times for the Collatz conjecture.

Distributed Computing Over P2P Networks (Site) - Open framework that will allow P2P file sharing networks to make Distributed Parallel Computing.
The ChessBrain Network (Site) - Distributed network chess experiment. Intends to create a single playing program using donated time.
ClimatePrediction.Net (Site) - 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.
Repository of Grid Research Projects (Site) - News and resources on grid computing.
Search for Fermat Number Dividers (Site) - Screensaver program tries to find divisors of Fermat numbers.
Legion: A Worldwide Virtual Computer (Site) - Research project homed at the University of Virginia. An open specification and prototype for a worldwide virtual computer.
Distributed Proofreaders (Site) - Founded to support the digitization of public domain books. Originally conceived to assist Project Gutenberg, Distributed Proofreaders is now the main source of PG e-books.
Globus Project (Site) - Research project developing a software infrastructure for distributed computing on a world-wide scale.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Distributed Computing Project (Site) - 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.
The Virtual Laboratory Project (Site) - Engaged in research, design, and development of Grid technologies that help in solving large-scale compute and data intensive science applications in the area of molecular biology.
The Hunting of the Snark Project (Site) - Explores distributed file sharing through BitTorrent and experiments with the GNU Compiler for Java. It also produces a regular BitTorrent client, torrent creator and tracker program.
Distributed computing projects (Site) - Distributed computing projects links and short descriptions in English and in Finnish.
Power of Supercomputer on a Desktop (Site) - Grid computing analogy, meaning, capabilities, uses and limitations.
The NorduGrid Project (Site) - The Grid middleware development and testbed deployment project in the Nordic countries
SDSC Matrix Project for P2P Grid Workflows (Site) - 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.
Quite Advanced Distributed Parallel Zystem (QADPZ) (Site) - The system allows the management/use of the computational power of idle computers in a network. Based on a client-master-slave architecture, using message based communication.
Grid.org (Site) - A distributed computing effort by the United Devices Global MetaProcessor with the participation of over 2 million PCs worldwide for cancer, anthrax, and smallpox research projects.
GPU, a Global Processing Unit (Site) - GPU is an Open Source Gnutella/Pastella client that allows users to share CPU-resources on a truly P2P based cluster. Applications include a Landscape Generator able to generate movies and an experimental Distributed Search Engine. The client is under development.
MoneyBee (Site) - Generates stock forecasts by application of artificial intelligence with the aid of artificial neural networks.
Mobius (Site) - Research project developing tools and middleware components to coherently share and manage data and metadata in a Grid or distributed computing environment.
Distributed Proofreaders Europe (Site) - Modeled after the Digital Proofreaders project, this variation focuses on digitization of works considered to be in the public domain in Europe.
NETI@home (Site) - Open-source software package designed to run on end-user machines while collecting various statistics about Internet performance.
Majestic 12 (Site) - Distributed Computing Project aimed towards building the largest search engine index on the Internet using Distributed Crawlers.
Muon1 Optimisation Project (Site) - Uses PC idle time to simulate and design a particle accelerator.
The EON Project (Site) - Software for the long time scale simulation of solids. From University of Washington Chemistry Department.
XGrid@Stanford (Site) - Project of a postdoctoral fellow in Brian Kobilka's lab, in the Molecular and Cellular Physiology department, Stanford University running large calculations, the purpose being to modelize the conformational changes of the beta 2 adrenergic receptor and have a better understanding of its pharmacology. Runs through Mac OSX-only software called XGrid. How to install and configure the software, news about the project, and a FAQ.
NGrid (Site) - NGrid is a .Net open source grid computing framework written in C#. NGrid provides a transparent multithread and garbage collected programming model for grid programming.
Computing Minimum Equal Sums of Like Power (Site) - Includes client software download, computation records, and project description on its research into mathematical problems.
World Community Grid (Site) - 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.
Compute Against Cancer (Site) - Corporate-sponsored project exploring cancer development, prevention and treatment. [Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME]
Repdigit Prime Problems, The (Site) - Distributed Computing Project aimed towards finding prime numbers of the form n*k. This project uses the software Primeform to test workunits.
Distributedcomputing.info (Site) - Kirk Pearson's directory of current distributed computing projects as well as news articles and related materials.
The DBGlobe Project (Site) - Aims at developing novel data management techniques to deal with the challenge of global computing.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Computing Grid (Site) - Place to find the grid middleware developed for the future Large Hydron Collider in CERN.
How to Join Distributed Computing Projects That Benefit Humanity (Site) - An annotated directory of projects combined with commentary and illustrations or screenshots.
Center for Distributed Computing (Site) - Distributed computing projects directory.
Gómez PEER Community (Site) - Project pays select computer users to run a client that tests internet performance.
Leiden Classical (Site) - BOINC project, dedicated to general classical dynamics for any scientist or science student.
PCP@HOME (Site) - A distributed project to find short Post Correspondence Problems with large shortest solutions.
Distributed Computing Projects - infoAnarchy Wiki (Site) - Long annotated list.
Boitho (Site) - Boitho distributed crawler (BETA). Goal is to make a general internet search engine with a thumbnail picture of all the pages.
ABC@home (Site) - Distributed computing project for finding abc-triples related to the ABC conjecture.
Evolution@Home (Site) - Distributed computing program for evolutionary biology.
Similarity Matrix of Proteins (SIMAP) (Site) - SIMAP is a public database of pre-calculated protein similarities that plays a key role in many bioinformatics methods. It contains about all currently published protein sequences and is continuously updated.
Distributed Computing Arcana (Site) - A forum for discussing SETI, RC5, F@H, G@H, the UD Cancer Project, and other distributed computing efforts.
Einstein@Home (Site) - Uses a computer's idle time to search for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors.
SZTAKI Desktop Grid (Site) - Currently searches for generalized binary number systems.
12121 Search (Site) - Help this distributed computing project by donating CPU cycles to find primes of the form 121*2^N-1.
3x+1@home (Site) - Distributed mathematical project trying to find high stopping times for the Collatz conjecture.
American Scientist: Collective Wisdom () - Article discusses the "early days" (pre-1998) of distributed computing projects, explains the basics of how they work and how to get them to work well, describes some early successes, and considers how CPU cycles may someday become a commodity to be bought, sold or traded.