This is a comprehensive list of volunteer computing projects, which 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, [1] and Android devices.
Each project seeks to utilize the computing power of many internet connected devices to solve problems and perform tedious, repetitive research in a very cost effective manner.
| Project | Launched | Sponsor | Category | Research focus | BOINC based | Processing units | Performance in TeraFLOPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albert@Home | 2011-12-23 [2] | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Max Planck Institute [3] | Astrophysics | Testing project for Einstein@Home [3] | Yes | 12 (Mar 2020) [4] | 0.056 (Mar 2020) [4] |
| Amicable Numbers | 2017-01-05 | Independent | Mathematics | Research project to find new amicable pairs | Yes | 4,663 (Mar 2023) [5] | 1,529.166 (Mar 2023) [5] |
| ArchiveTeam Warrior | 2013-12-22 [6] | Archive Team | Digital preservation | A virtual archiving appliance that will download sites and upload them to the Archive Team archive. | No | ||
| Asteroids@home | 2012-06-18 [7] | Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic | Astrophysics | To significantly enlarge our knowledge of the physical properties of asteroids [8] | Yes | 12,055 (Mar 2023) [9] | 55.018 (Mar 2023) [9] |
| BOID | 2018-06-20 [10] | BOID DAC, decentralized community | Research | The Social Supercomputer for data-driven medical and scientific research involving blockchain technology [11] | No | 212 (Mar 2023) [12] | 53 (Sep 2021) [12] |
| climateprediction.net | 2003-12-09 [13] | Oxford University [14] | Climate change | Analyse ways to improve climate prediction models [15] | Yes | 418 (Mar 2023) [16] | 10.166 (Mar 2023) [17] |
| Collatz Conjecture | 2009-01-06 [18] | Independent [14] | Mathematics | Study the Collatz conjecture, an unsolved conjecture in mathematics [19] | Yes | 4,409 (Mar 2020) [20] | 18,532 (Mar 2020) [20] |
| DENIS@Home | 2015-04-08 | Universidad San Jorge. Zaragoza, Spain [21] | Medicine and Biology | Simulation of the electrical activity of the cardiac cells [22] | Yes | 1,344 (Mar 2023) [23] | 8.785 (Mar 2023) [23] |
| Distributed.net | 1997-01-28 [24] | Independent [25] | Cryptography, Mathematics | Crack the RC5-72 cipher [26] | No | 1,146 (Mar 2023) [27] | |
| Einstein@Home | 2005-02-19 [28] | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Max Planck Institute [14] | Astrophysics | Search for pulsars using radio signals and gravitational wave data [29] | Yes | 20,177 (Mar 2023) [30] | 4,098.577 (Mar 2023) [30] |
| Electric Sheep | 1999-09-30 [31] | Visual arts | Make computer art with fractal flames | No | 450,000 (May 2015) [32] [33] | ||
| Fishnet | 2016-03-07 [34] | Independent | Chess | Provides server analysis for games played on lichess.org using the Stockfish chess engine | No | 38 (Mar 2023) [35] | |
| Fishtest | 2013-02-13 | Independent [36] | 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 [36] | No | 228 (Apr 2024) [37] | |
| Folding@home | 2000-10-01 [38] | Washington University in St. Louis [39] | Molecular biology [38] | Understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases, with a minor emphasis in protein structure prediction. [40] [41] [42] Computing power also harnessed the power of PlayStation 3s [1] | No | 44,197 (Mar 2023) [43] | 29,838 (Mar 2023) [43] |
| 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) [44] | 0.227 (Mar 2023) [44] |
| Gerasim@Home | 2007-02-10 [45] | Southwest State University, Russia [45] [46] | Mathematics | Research in discrete mathematics and logic control systems [46] | Yes | 765 (Mar 2023) [47] | 4.823 (Mar 2023) [47] |
| Golem Network | 2016 [48] | Independent | Software | Developing a permissionless distributed computing marketplace | No | 664 (Mar 2023) [49] | |
| GPUGRID | 2007-12-05 [50] | Barcelona Biomedical Research Park [14] | Molecular biology | Perform full-atom molecular simulations of proteins on Nvidia GPUs for biomedical research [51] | Yes | 2,042 (Mar 2023) [52] | 422.397 (Mar 2023) [52] |
| Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) | 1996-01-early [53] [54] | Independent [53] [55] | Mathematics | Searches for Mersenne primes of world record size [55] | No | 18,741 (Mar 2023) [56] | 5,296.905 (Mar 2023) [56] |
| iThena.Measurements | 2019-09-25 [57] | Cyber-Complex Foundation [58] | Computer science | Generally computer networks [59] | Yes | 9,846 (Mar 2023) [60] | 3.970 (Mar 2023) [61] |
| iThena.Computational | 2021-10-31 [62] | Cyber-Complex Foundation [58] | Computer science | Generally computer networks [63] | Yes | 155 (Mar 2023) [64] | 1.575 (Mar 2023) [65] |
| Leela Chess Zero | 2018-03-04 [66] | Software testing, chess | Trains chess neural networks with deep reinforcement learning. Experiments with training parameters and net architectures [67] | No | 19 (Mar 2023) [68] | ||
| LHC@home | 2004-01-09 [69] | CERN [14] | Physics | Helping physicists compare theory with experiment, in the search for new fundamental particles and answers to questions about the Universe [70] | Yes | 3,862 (Mar 2023) [71] | 40.377 (Mar 2023) [71] |
| MilkyWay@home | 2007-07-07 [72] | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute [14] | Astronomy | Create a highly accurate three-dimensional model of the Milky Way galaxy using data collected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey [73] | Yes | 31,137 (Mar 2023) [74] | 2,048.233 (Mar 2023) [74] |
| Moo! Wrapper | 2011-02-05 [75] | Independent [75] | Cryptography | Combines BOINC with distributed.net to try to break the RC5 cipher [76] | Yes | 1,818 (Mar 2023) [77] | 683.872 (Mar 2023) [77] |
| nanoHUB@Home | 2015-01-30 [78] | Purdue University | Nanoscience | Research in nanoscience and nanotechnology | Yes | 10 (Mar 2023) [79] | 0.000 (Mar 2023) [79] |
| NFS@Home | 2009-09-05 [80] | California State University, Fullerton [14] | Integer factorization | Performs parts of the number field sieve in the factorization of large integers [81] | Yes | 4,096 (Mar 2023) [82] | 50.552 (Mar 2023) [82] |
| NumberFields@Home | 2011-08-12 [83] | Arizona State University's School of Mathematics [84] | Number theory | Search for number fields with special properties to assist with the formulation of mathematical conjectures [84] | Yes | 14,974 (Mar 2023) [85] | 127.692 (Mar 2023) [85] |
| ODLK | 2017-04-06 | Independent | Mathematics | Yes | 1,165 (Mar 2023) [86] | 3.006 (Mar 2023) [86] | |
| ODLK1 | 2017-10-22 | Independent | Mathematics | Yes | 2,011 (Mar 2023) [87] | 10.085 (Mar 2023) [87] | |
| PrimeGrid | 2005-06-12 [88] | Independent [14] | 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. [89] | Yes | 89,193 (Mar 2023) [90] | 2,973.132 (Mar 2023) [90] |
| Radioactive@home | 2011-10-21 [91] | Poland [92] | Physics | Real-time radiation monitoring, detected by gamma sensors connected to volunteer computers [92] | Yes | 169 (Mar 2023) [91] | 0.089 (Mar 2023) [91] |
| RakeSearch | 2017-09-14 [93] | Karelian Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences | Mathematics | Search of diagonal Latin squares | Yes | 528 (Mar 2023) [93] | 2.712 (Mar 2023) [93] |
| RALPH@home | 2006-02-15 [94] | University of Washington [95] | Software testing | Test project for Rosetta@home [95] | Yes | 22 (Mar 2023) [96] | 0.000 (Mar 2023) [97] |
| Ramanujan machine | 2021-10-14 | Independent | Mathematics | Conjecturing new mathematical formulas | Yes | 1,514 (Mar 2023) [98] | 4.368 (Mar 2023) [98] |
| RNA World | 2009-05-21 [99] | Independent research group in Marburg, Germany [100] | Molecular biology | Uses bioinformatics software to study RNA structure [100] | Yes | 12 (Mar 2023) [101] | 0.016 (Mar 2023) [101] |
| Rosetta@home | 2005-10-06 [102] | University of Washington [14] | Molecular biology | Protein structure prediction for disease research [103] | Yes | 34,472 (Mar 2023) [104] | 44,307 (Mar 2023) [104] |
| SheepIt Renderfarm | Art | Rendering of 3D Animations | No | 600 (Jun 2023) [105] | |||
| 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) [106] | 36.659 (Mar 2023) [106] |
| SRBase [107] | 2013-01-02 | Independent | Mathematics | Trying to solve Sierpinski / Riesel Bases up to 1030, the project is Conjecture 'R Us [108] | Yes | 1,267 (Mar 2023) [109] | 617.109 (Mar 2023) [109] |
| TN-Grid | 2014-05-01 [110] | 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) [110] | 26.697 (Mar 2023) [110] |
| Twin Prime Search | 2006-04-13 [111] [112] | Mathematics | Searches for large twin primes [111] [112] | No | 34 (Mar 2023) [113] [114] | ||
| Universe@Home | 2015-02-19 [115] | Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences [116] | Astronomy | Computational astrophysics, computer simulation of stars, galaxies, and the Universe | Yes | 3,547 (Mar 2023) [117] | 383.863 (Mar 2023) [115] |
| WEP-M+2 Project | 2006-05-12 [118] | London, England, United Kingdom [119] | Mathematics | Factorization of Mersenne+2 numbers [119] | Yes | 335 (Mar 2023) [120] | 2.254 (Mar 2023) [120] |
| World Community Grid | 2004-11-16 [121] | Krembil Research Institute [122] | 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. [123] 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) [124] | 293.196 (Mar 2023) [124] |
| WUProp@Home | 2010-03-27 [125] | Independent [126] | Statistics | Collect various statistics about other BOINC projects [127] | Yes | 10,564 (Mar 2023) [128] | 1.019 (Mar 2023) [128] |
| YAFU | 2011-09-01 [129] | Software testing, Mathematics | Test BOINC server software, integer factorization [130] | Yes | 446 (Mar 2023) [131] | 13.668 (Mar 2023) [131] | |
| yoyo@home | 2007-07-19 [132] | Independent [14] | Mathematics, physics, and evolution | Elliptic curve factorization, Riesel/Sierpinski siever, M queens puzzle [133] | Yes | 2,900 (Mar 2023) [134] | 65.617 (Mar 2023) [134] |
| Project | Launched Completed | Sponsor | Category | Research focus | BOINC based | Processing units | Performance in TeraFLOPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC@Home | 2006-11-21 [135] 2014-06-01 [136] | Mathematical Institute of Leiden University, Kennislink [14] [137] | Mathematics | Find triples related to the abc conjecture, one of the greatest open problems in mathematics. [137] | Yes | ||
| AlmereGrid | 2006-09-27 [138] | Almere, the Netherlands [138] | Multiple applications | A number of applications from local researchers. [139] | Yes | ||
| AlmereGrid TestGrid | 2008-02-24 [140] | Multiple applications | Test of the AlmereGrid project. [141] | Yes | |||
| AndrOINC | Independent [142] | Cryptography | Broke Motorola's 1024-bit RSA key used to sign the boot and recovery partition partitions on the Motorola Milestone smartphone. [142] | Yes | |||
| AQUA@home | 2008-12-10 2011-08-23 [143] | D-Wave Systems, Canada [144] | Quantum computing | Used Quantum Monte Carlo to predict the performance of superconducting adiabatic quantum computers on a variety of problems. [145] [146] | 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 [147] 2017-04-07 [148] | CERN [14] | Physics | Ran simulations of the ATLAS experiment at CERN. [147] | Yes | ||
| Background Pi | Computed decimal digits of pi using digit extraction method. [149] | No | |||||
| Biochemical Library | Vanderbilt University [150] | Molecular biology | Performed research using the Biochemical Algorithms Library into proteins and their interactions with small molecules for disease research. [142] [150] | Yes | |||
| BOINC@TACC | 2018-07-30 [151] 2022-09 [152] | 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 [153] [154] | Chinese Academy of Sciences [14] | Physics, biochemistry , and others | Provide computing power to Chinese Researchers | Yes | ||
| Cell Computing | 2008 | NTT Data | biomedical research | Yes | |||
| Chess960@home | 2006-03-20 [155] | Independent [14] | Games and Puzzles | Analysis of chess 960. [156] | Yes | ||
| Citizen Science Grid | 2012-01-01 [157] | University of North Dakota [158] | Multiple applications | Animals, Biology, Birds, Climate and weather, Education, Nature, and outdoors [157] | Yes | ||
| Cleanmobility.now | 2013-08 [159] | Chemistry | Find safer and greener materials for e-vehicle batteries [160] | Yes | |||
| Comcute | 2010 2016 [161] | Gdańsk University of Technology, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics | Mathematics, Artificial intelligence, Physics | No | |||
| Compute for Humanity | 2015-08 [165] 2017 [166] | Independent [165] | Cryptocurrencies, Charitable Organizations | No | |||
| Constellation | Students at the University of Stuttgart, Germany [167] | Aerospace, Engineering [167] | Various aerospace-related science and engineering problems. [167] | Yes | |||
| Correlizer | 2011 [168] | EpiGenSys Consortium and EraSysBio+, part of the Seventh Framework Program of the European Union [169] | Genetics [170] | The sequential organization of genomes, and its connection to their 3D architectural organization. [170] | Yes | ||
| Cosmology@Home | 2007-06-26 [171] 2024-01 | Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris [172] | Astronomy | Find the most accurate models that best describe the universe [172] | Yes | 4,083 (Mar 2023) [173] | 17.034 (Mar 2023) [173] |
| 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 [174] [175] [176] 2018-04-20 [177] | 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 [178] | Yes | |||
| DistrRTgen | 2008-01-12 [179] 2014-06 [180] | Independent [14] | Cryptography | Analysis of hash strength for password security by developing rainbow tables. [181] | Yes | ||
| DNA@home | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute [182] | Discovered what regulates the genes in DNA using statistical algorithms. [182] | Yes | ||||
| Docking@Home | 2006-09-11 [183] 2014-05-23 [184] | University of Delaware | models protein-ligand docking using the CHARMM program. | Yes | |||
| DreamLab | 2015-09-11 [185] [186] 2025-04-02 [187] | Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia | Cancer research | Breast, ovarian, prostate and pancreatic cancer; COVID-19 [185] | No | 250,000 (Mar 2023) [188] | |
| DrugDiscovery@home | Independent [189] | Drug design | Supported in silico drug design of chemical compounds for medicines in the fields of cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. [189] | Yes | |||
| Enigma@Home | 2007-09-09 [190] | Cryptography | Cryptography | Decode three unbroken Enigma messages from World War II [191] | Yes | ||
| eOn | 2014-05-08 [192] | University of Texas at Austin [14] | Chemistry | Calculated the evolution of an atomic-scale system over time, such as a chemical reaction or diffusion. [193] | Yes | ||
| Evolution@Home | 2001-04-03 [194] | Uses evolutionary algorithms to optimize the parameters of different kinds of machine learning algorithms [195] | No | ||||
| Five or Bust [196] | 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 [197] 2012 [198] | Independent [14] | Artificial intelligence | Compute essential information for software which seeks to imitate human conversation. [197] | Yes | ||
| Genome@home | 2001-02-01 2004-03-08 [199] | 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 [200] 2011-06 [201] | Tests Goldbach's weak conjecture. [202] | Yes | ||||
| Golem@home | 2000 2001-09-03 [203] | Brandeis University | Robotics | Used evolutionary computation to design robotic locomotion systems. [204] | No | ||
| Graceful Tree Verification Project [205] | 2008-11-22 2010-02-21 | Independent [206] | Mathematics | Used a computational approach to the graceful tree conjecture, proving that every tree with at most 35 vertices is graceful [207] | No | ||
| HashClash | 2005-11-24 | Cryptography | Find collisions in the MD5 hash algorithm | Yes | |||
| Hydrogen@Home | 2007-10-22 [208] 2011-02 [209] | Searches for the most efficient method of hydrogen production [210] | Yes | ||||
| Ibercivis | 2008-06-22 [211] 2016-07 [212] | Spanish universities and research centers [213] | Multiple applications | Yes | |||
| Ideologias@home | 2011-05-19 [215] | Complutense University of Madrid, Spain [216] | Society | Used social networking mathematical models to study the ideological evolution of a group of people over time. [216] | Yes | ||
| Leiden Classical | 2005-05-12 [217] 2018-06-05 [218] | Leiden University, the Netherlands [213] | Chemistry | General classical mechanics for students or scientists [219] | Yes | ||
| vLHCathome (not to be confused with LHC@home above) | 2011-08-01 [220] 2017-03 [221] | CERN [222] | Physics [222] | Run simulations of high-energy particle collisions in a computational search for new fundamental particles for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN [222] [223] | Yes | ||
| M4 Project | 2006-01-09 [224] 2009-11-15 [225] | History | Decrypts Enigma messages from World War II [226] | No | |||
| Majestic-12 | Uses a distributed web crawler program to index web sites for a distributed search engine [227] | No | |||||
| Magnetism@home | 2008-06-09 [228] | Donetsk Institute for Physics and Technology, Ukraine [229] | Magnetism, nanotechnology | Explored magnetization patterns. [229] | Yes | ||
| Malaria Control Project | 2006-12-19 [230] 2016-01-28 [231] | Swiss Tropical Institute [14] | Epidemiology | Simulate the transmission dynamics and health effects of malaria. [232] | Yes | ||
| Mersenne@home | 2012 | Independent [14] | Mathematics | Searched for Mersenne primes. [233] Discontinued because the creator lacked time to administer it [234] | Yes | ||
| MindModeling@Home | 2007-03-17 [235] | University of Dayton Research Institute and Wright State University [236] | Cognitive science [236] | Builds cognitive models of the human mind [236] | Yes | ||
| Minecraft@Home | 2020-06-24 [237] | Independent [238] | Games [238] | Studies questions related to Minecraft, such as the properties of worlds that can be generated from different random seeds [237] | Yes | ||
| MLC@Home | 2020-06-30 2022-10-02 [239] | University of Maryland, Baltimore County | Mathematics | Understanding and interpreting complex machine learning models | Yes | ||
| MoneyBee | 2000-09 [240] 2010 | Finance | No | ||||
| Muon1 Distributed Particle Accelerator Design | 2017 [241] | Physics | Simulate and design parts of the Neutrino Factory particle accelerator [242] [243] | No | |||
| Najmanovich Research Group | Université de Sherbrooke [244] | Molecular biology [244] | Research in molecular recognition [244] | Yes | |||
| Neurona@home | 2011-06-14 [245] | Complutense University of Madrid, Spain [246] | Neural network | Simulating the behavior of a large and complex network of cellular automata neurons. [246] | Yes | ||
| NFSNET | 2010 | Integer factorization | Used the general number field sieve to factor increasingly large integers. Discontinued and replaced by NFS@Home. [247] | No | |||
| NNGenerator | 2014-10-20 [248] 2016 [249] | 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 [250] | Optimization [250] | Solve various large-scale optimization problems. Currently finding molecular conformations which have minimal potential energy. [250] | Yes | |||
| orbit@home | 2008-04-03 [251] 2013-02-16 [252] | Planetary Science Institute [14] | Astronomy | Monitored and studied the hazards posed by near-earth asteroids. [253] | Yes | ||
| Pi Segment | 2006 | Independent project | Mathematics | Looked for specific digits (in binary) of Pi and make volunteer computing more popular in China [254] | No | ||
| Pirates@Home | 2004-02-06 [255] | 1 Vassar College 2 Spy Hill Research [255] | Software testing | Mission 1 helped to develop the Einstein@Home screensaver [256] Tested BOINC's forum software for possible use by Interactions in Understanding the Universe [257] | Yes | ||
| POEM@Home | 2007-13-11 [258] 2016-10-04 [259] | University of Karlsruhe, Germany [14] | Molecular biology | Protein structure prediction, cellular signaling, protein aggregation, and drug design [260] | Yes | ||
| Predictor@home | 2004-05-04 [261] | 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 [262] experiment [263] | Yes | ||
| Primaboinca | 2010-07-30 [264] 2020-05-31 [265] | RheinMain University of Applied Sciences [14] | Mathematics | Search for counterexamples to Agrawal's conjecture and Popovych's conjecture, which relate to the identification of prime numbers [266] | Yes | ||
| Proteins@home | 2006-09-15 [267] | École polytechnique | Protein structure prediction | Contribute to a better understanding of many diseases and pathologies and to progress in Medicine and Technology [267] | Yes | ||
| QMC@Home | 2006-03-03 [268] 2013-01 | University of Münster, Germany [213] | Chemistry | Study the structure and reactivity of molecules using quantum chemistry and Monte Carlo techniques [269] | Yes | ||
| Quake Catcher Network | 2008-02-03 [270] 2023-06-01 [271] | Stanford University [272] [273] | Seismology [272] [273] | Uses accelerometers connected to personal computers to detect earthquakes and to educate about seismology [272] [273] | Yes | 215 (Mar 2023) [271] | 0.000 (Mar 2023) [271] |
| QuChemPedIA@home | 2019-07-01 2022-09-29 | Université Anger | Molecular Chemistry | Help for chemical researchers | Yes | 26 (Mar 2023) [274] | 0.000 (Mar 2023) [274] |
| 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 [275] | Independent (Finnish) [276] [277] | Rendering | 2D and 3D rendering for animation artists [278] | Yes | ||
| RSA Lattice Siever | 2009 [279] 2012-08 | Integer factorization | Assisted other factoring projects to achieve their academic goals. [280] Merged into NFS@Home because its server was outdated [281] | Yes | |||
| SAT@home | 2011-09-29 2017-02 [282] | Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences | Cryptanalysis, Mathematics | Various applications related to the boolean satisfiability problem, inversion of specific stream cipher functions [283] | Yes | ||
| Second Computing | 2008-04-10 [284] 2012-08 [285] | Assesses biopolymer dynamics, and models the behavior of clonal colonies in a prairie ecosystem [286] | Yes | ||||
| SETI@home | 1999-05-17 [287] [288] [289] 2020-03-31 [290] | University of California, Berkeley [14] | Astrobiology | Search for extraterrestrial life by analyzing specific radio frequencies emanating from space [291] | Yes | ||
| SETI@home beta | 2006-01-12 [292] 2020-03-31 [290] | University of California, Berkeley [293] | Software testing | Test project of SETI@home [293] | Yes | ||
| SIMAP | 2006-04-26 [294] 2014-05-30 | University of Vienna [14] | Molecular biology | Calculated similarities between proteins [295] | Yes | ||
| SLinCA@Home | G.V.Kurdyumov Institute for Metal Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine [296] | Materials science [296] | Studies scaling laws in cluster aggregation [296] | Yes | |||
| Spinhenge@home | 2006-05-19 [297] 2011-09-28 [298] | Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences [14] | Nanotechnology | Studied nano-magnetic molecules for research into localized tumor chemotherapy and micro-memory. [299] | Yes | ||
| Stop@home | 2017-02-28 [300] 2018-01 [301] | Independent | Mathematics | Looking for prime k-tuples | Yes | ||
| Sudoku@vtaiwan [302] | 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 [303] | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology [14] | Genetic linkage analysis | Uses genetic linkage analysis to help find disease-provoking genes. [304] | Yes | ||
| Surveill@Home | University of Coimbra | Monitor and test websites for failure rates and overall performance [305] | Yes | ||||
| theSkyNet | 2011-09-13 [306] 2018-05-02 [307] | International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research [308] | Astronomy | Analysis of radio astronomy data from telescopes such as the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder and The Square Kilometre Array [309] [310] | Yes | ||
| uFluids@Home | 2005-09-19 [311] 2010-11 [312] | Purdue University [14] | Physics, Aeronautics | Simulated microfluidics problems and two-phase flows in microgravity [313] | Yes | ||
| USPEX@Home | 2017-04-04 [314] 2019-03 [315] | 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 [316] 2019-03 [315] | University of Houston [14] | Botanical ecosystems | Provided ecological guidelines on the design of prairies with the best potential for water purification [317] | Yes | ||
| VTU@home | Vilnius Gediminas Technical University and Kaunas University of Technology [14] | Software testing [14] | Supported various research projects at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University [318] | Yes | |||
| Wieferich@Home | 2007-12-29 [319] 2017 [320] | Mathematics | Searches for new Wieferich primes [321] | No | |||
| EDGeS@Home | 2009-10 [322] | MTA SZTAKI Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Hungary [14] | Multiple applications | Support the execution of selected scientific applications developed by the EGEE and EDGeS community [323] | Yes | ||
| SZTAKI Desktop Grid | 2005-05-26 [324] | MTA SZTAKI Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Hungary [14] | 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 [325] | Yes | ||
| TANPAKU | 2005-08-02 [326] | Tokyo University of Science | Molecular biology | Protein structure prediction using the Brownian dynamics method | Yes | ||
| The Lattice Project | 2004-06-30 [327] | University of Maryland Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology [14] | Life science | Various scientific analysis projects [328] [329] | Yes |
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