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 |
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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] | |
DreamLab | 2015-09-11 [28] [29] | Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia | Cancer research | Breast, ovarian, prostate and pancreatic cancer; COVID-19 [28] | No | 250,000 (Mar 2023) [30] | |
Einstein@Home | 2005-02-19 [31] | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Max Planck Institute [14] | Astrophysics | Search for pulsars using radio signals and gravitational wave data [32] | Yes | 20,177 (Mar 2023) [33] | 4,098.577 (Mar 2023) [33] |
Electric Sheep | 1999-09-30 [34] | Visual arts | Make computer art with fractal flames | No | 450,000 (May 2015) [35] [36] | ||
Fishnet | 2016-03-07 [37] | Independent | Chess | Provides server analysis for games played on lichess.org using the Stockfish chess engine | No | 38 (Mar 2023) [38] | |
Fishtest | 2013-02-13 | Independent [39] | 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 [39] | No | 228 (Apr 2024) [40] | |
Folding@home | 2000-10-01 [41] | Washington University in St. Louis [42] | Molecular biology [41] | Understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases, with a minor emphasis in protein structure prediction. [43] [44] [45] Computing power also harnessed the power of PlayStation 3s [1] | No | 44,197 (Mar 2023) [46] | 29,838 (Mar 2023) [46] |
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) [47] | 0.227 (Mar 2023) [47] |
Gerasim@Home | 2007-02-10 [48] | Southwest State University, Russia [48] [49] | Mathematics | Research in discrete mathematics and logic control systems [49] | Yes | 765 (Mar 2023) [50] | 4.823 (Mar 2023) [50] |
Golem Network | 2016 [51] | Independent | Software | Developing a permissionless distributed computing marketplace | No | 664 (Mar 2023) [52] | |
GPUGRID | 2007-12-05 [53] | Barcelona Biomedical Research Park [14] | Molecular biology | Perform full-atom molecular simulations of proteins on Nvidia GPUs for biomedical research [54] | Yes | 2,042 (Mar 2023) [55] | 422.397 (Mar 2023) [55] |
Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) | 1996-01-early [56] [57] | Independent [56] [58] | Mathematics | Searches for Mersenne primes of world record size [58] | No | 18,741 (Mar 2023) [59] | 5,296.905 (Mar 2023) [59] |
iThena.Measurements | 2019-09-25 [60] | Cyber-Complex Foundation [61] | Computer science | Generally computer networks [62] | Yes | 9,846 (Mar 2023) [63] | 3.970 (Mar 2023) [64] |
iThena.Computational | 2021-10-31 [65] | Cyber-Complex Foundation [61] | Computer science | Generally computer networks [66] | Yes | 155 (Mar 2023) [67] | 1.575 (Mar 2023) [68] |
Leela Chess Zero | 2018-03-04 [69] | Software testing, chess | Trains chess neural networks with deep reinforcement learning. Experiments with training parameters and net architectures [70] | No | 19 (Mar 2023) [71] | ||
LHC@home | 2004-01-09 [72] | CERN [14] | Physics | Helping physicists compare theory with experiment, in the search for new fundamental particles and answers to questions about the Universe [73] | Yes | 3,862 (Mar 2023) [74] | 40.377 (Mar 2023) [74] |
MilkyWay@home | 2007-07-07 [75] | 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 [76] | Yes | 31,137 (Mar 2023) [77] | 2,048.233 (Mar 2023) [77] |
Moo! Wrapper | 2011-02-05 [78] | Independent [78] | Cryptography | Combines BOINC with distributed.net to try to break the RC5 cipher [79] | Yes | 1,818 (Mar 2023) [80] | 683.872 (Mar 2023) [80] |
nanoHUB@Home | 2015-01-30 [81] | Purdue University | Nanoscience | Research in nanoscience and nanotechnology | Yes | 10 (Mar 2023) [82] | 0.000 (Mar 2023) [82] |
NFS@Home | 2009-09-05 [83] | California State University, Fullerton [14] | Integer factorization | Performs parts of the number field sieve in the factorization of large integers [84] | Yes | 4,096 (Mar 2023) [85] | 50.552 (Mar 2023) [85] |
NumberFields@Home | 2011-08-12 [86] | Arizona State University's School of Mathematics [87] | Number theory | Search for number fields with special properties to assist with the formulation of mathematical conjectures [87] | Yes | 14,974 (Mar 2023) [88] | 127.692 (Mar 2023) [88] |
ODLK | 2017-04-06 | Independent | Mathematics | Yes | 1,165 (Mar 2023) [89] | 3.006 (Mar 2023) [89] | |
ODLK1 | 2017-10-22 | Independent | Mathematics | Yes | 2,011 (Mar 2023) [90] | 10.085 (Mar 2023) [90] | |
PrimeGrid | 2005-06-12 [91] | 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, prime Sierpinski numbers, and Sophie Germain primes. Subprojects also include Seventeen or Bust, and the Riesel problem. [92] | Yes | 89,193 (Mar 2023) [93] | 2,973.132 (Mar 2023) [93] |
Radioactive@home | 2011-10-21 [94] | Poland [95] | Physics | Real-time radiation monitoring, detected by gamma sensors connected to volunteer computers [95] | Yes | 169 (Mar 2023) [94] | 0.089 (Mar 2023) [94] |
RakeSearch | 2017-09-14 [96] | Karelian Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences | Mathematics | Search of diagonal Latin squares | Yes | 528 (Mar 2023) [96] | 2.712 (Mar 2023) [96] |
RALPH@home | 2006-02-15 [97] | University of Washington [98] | Software testing | Test project for Rosetta@home [98] | Yes | 22 (Mar 2023) [99] | 0.000 (Mar 2023) [100] |
Ramanujan machine | 2021-10-14 | Independent | Mathematics | Conjecturing new mathematical formulas | Yes | 1,514 (Mar 2023) [101] | 4.368 (Mar 2023) [101] |
RNA World | 2009-05-21 [102] | Independent research group in Marburg, Germany [103] | Molecular biology | Uses bioinformatics software to study RNA structure [103] | Yes | 12 (Mar 2023) [104] | 0.016 (Mar 2023) [104] |
Rosetta@home | 2005-10-06 [105] | University of Washington [14] | Molecular biology | Protein structure prediction for disease research [106] | Yes | 34,472 (Mar 2023) [107] | 44,307 (Mar 2023) [107] |
SheepIt Renderfarm | Art | Rendering of 3D Animations | No | 600 (Jun 2023) [108] | |||
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) [109] | 36.659 (Mar 2023) [109] |
SRBase [110] | 2013-01-02 | Independent | Mathematics | Trying to solve Sierpinski / Riesel Bases up to 1030, the project is Conjecture 'R Us [111] | Yes | 1,267 (Mar 2023) [112] | 617.109 (Mar 2023) [112] |
TN-Grid | 2014-05-01 [113] | 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) [113] | 26.697 (Mar 2023) [113] |
Twin Prime Search | 2006-04-13 [114] [115] | Mathematics | Searches for large twin primes [114] [115] | No | 34 (Mar 2023) [116] [117] | ||
Universe@Home | 2015-02-19 [118] | Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences [119] | Astronomy | Computational astrophysics, computer simulation of stars, galaxies, and the Universe | Yes | 3,547 (Mar 2023) [120] | 383.863 (Mar 2023) [118] |
WEP-M+2 Project | 2006-05-12 [121] | London, England, United Kingdom [122] | Mathematics | Factorization of Mersenne+2 numbers [122] | Yes | 335 (Mar 2023) [123] | 2.254 (Mar 2023) [123] |
World Community Grid | 2004-11-16 [124] | Krembil Research Institute [125] | 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. [126] 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) [127] | 293.196 (Mar 2023) [127] |
WUProp@Home | 2010-03-27 [128] | Independent [129] | Statistics | Collect various statistics about other BOINC projects [130] | Yes | 10,564 (Mar 2023) [131] | 1.019 (Mar 2023) [131] |
YAFU | 2011-09-01 [132] | Software testing, Mathematics | Test BOINC server software, integer factorization [133] | Yes | 446 (Mar 2023) [134] | 13.668 (Mar 2023) [134] | |
yoyo@home | 2007-07-19 [135] | Independent [14] | Mathematics, physics, and evolution | Elliptic curve factorization, Riesel/Sierpinski siever, M queens puzzle [136] | Yes | 2,900 (Mar 2023) [137] | 65.617 (Mar 2023) [137] |
Project | Launched Completed | Sponsor | Category | Research focus | BOINC based | Processing units | Performance in TeraFLOPS |
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ABC@Home | 2006-11-21 [138] 2014-06-01 [139] | Mathematical Institute of Leiden University, Kennislink [14] [140] | Mathematics | Find triples related to the abc conjecture, one of the greatest open problems in mathematics. [140] | Yes | ||
AlmereGrid | 2006-09-27 [141] | Almere, the Netherlands [141] | Multiple applications | A number of applications from local researchers. [142] | Yes | ||
AlmereGrid TestGrid | 2008-02-24 [143] | Multiple applications | Test of the AlmereGrid project. [144] | Yes | |||
AndrOINC | Independent [145] | Cryptography | Broke Motorola's 1024-bit RSA key used to sign the boot and recovery partition partitions on the Motorola Milestone smartphone. [145] | Yes | |||
AQUA@home | 2008-12-10 2011-08-23 [146] | D-Wave Systems, Canada [147] | Quantum computing | Used Quantum Monte Carlo to predict the performance of superconducting adiabatic quantum computers on a variety of problems. [148] [149] | 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 [150] 2017-04-07 [151] | CERN [14] | Physics | Ran simulations of the ATLAS experiment at CERN. [150] | Yes | ||
Background Pi | Computed decimal digits of pi using digit extraction method. [152] | No | |||||
Biochemical Library | Vanderbilt University [153] | Molecular biology | Performed research using the Biochemical Algorithms Library into proteins and their interactions with small molecules for disease research. [145] [153] | Yes | |||
BOINC@TACC | 2018-07-30 [154] 2022-09 [155] | 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 [156] [157] | 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 [158] | Independent [14] | Games and Puzzles | Analysis of chess 960. [159] | Yes | ||
Citizen Science Grid | 2012-01-01 [160] | University of North Dakota [161] | Multiple applications | Animals, Biology, Birds, Climate and weather, Education, Nature, and outdoors [160] | Yes | ||
Cleanmobility.now | 2013-08 [162] | Chemistry | Find safer and greener materials for e-vehicle batteries [163] | Yes | |||
Comcute | 2010 2016 [164] | Gdańsk University of Technology, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics | Mathematics, Artificial intelligence, Physics | No | |||
Compute for Humanity | 2015-08 [168] 2017 [169] | Independent [168] | Cryptocurrencies, Charitable Organizations | No | |||
Constellation | Students at the University of Stuttgart, Germany [170] | Aerospace, Engineering [170] | Various aerospace-related science and engineering problems. [170] | Yes | |||
Correlizer | 2011 [171] | EpiGenSys Consortium and EraSysBio+, part of the Seventh Framework Program of the European Union [172] | Genetics [173] | The sequential organization of genomes, and its connection to their 3D architectural organization. [173] | Yes | ||
Cosmology@Home | 2007-06-26 [174] 2024-01 | Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris [175] | Astronomy | Find the most accurate models that best describe the universe [175] | Yes | 4,083 (Mar 2023) [176] | 17.034 (Mar 2023) [176] |
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 [177] [178] [179] 2018-04-20 [180] | 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 [181] | Yes | |||
DistrRTgen | 2008-01-12 [182] 2014-06 [183] | Independent [14] | Cryptography | Analysis of hash strength for password security by developing rainbow tables. [184] | Yes | ||
DNA@home | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute [185] | Discovered what regulates the genes in DNA using statistical algorithms. [185] | Yes | ||||
Docking@Home | 2006-09-11 [186] 2014-05-23 [187] | University of Delaware | models protein-ligand docking using the CHARMM program. | Yes | |||
DrugDiscovery@home | Independent [188] | Drug design | Supported in silico drug design of chemical compounds for medicines in the fields of cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. [188] | Yes | |||
Enigma@Home | 2007-09-09 [189] | Cryptography | Cryptography | Decode three unbroken Enigma messages from World War II [190] | Yes | ||
eOn | 2014-05-08 [191] | University of Texas at Austin [14] | Chemistry | Calculated the evolution of an atomic-scale system over time, such as a chemical reaction or diffusion. [192] | Yes | ||
Evolution@Home | 2001-04-03 [193] | Uses evolutionary algorithms to optimize the parameters of different kinds of machine learning algorithms [194] | No | ||||
Five or Bust [195] | 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 [196] 2012 [197] | Independent [14] | Artificial intelligence | Compute essential information for software which seeks to imitate human conversation. [196] | Yes | ||
Genome@home | 2001-02-01 2004-03-08 [198] | 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 [199] 2011-06 [200] | Tests Goldbach's weak conjecture. [201] | Yes | ||||
Golem@home | 2000 2001-09-03 [202] | Brandeis University | Robotics | Used evolutionary computation to design robotic locomotion systems. [203] | No | ||
Graceful Tree Verification Project [204] | 2008-11-22 2010-02-21 | Independent [205] | Mathematics | Used a computational approach to the graceful tree conjecture, proving that every tree with at most 35 vertices is graceful [206] | No | ||
HashClash | 2005-11-24 | Cryptography | Find collisions in the MD5 hash algorithm | Yes | |||
Hydrogen@Home | 2007-10-22 [207] 2011-02 [208] | Searches for the most efficient method of hydrogen production [209] | Yes | ||||
Ibercivis | 2008-06-22 [210] 2016-07 [211] | Spanish universities and research centers [212] | Multiple applications | Yes | |||
Ideologias@home | 2011-05-19 [214] | Complutense University of Madrid, Spain [215] | Society | Used social networking mathematical models to study the ideological evolution of a group of people over time. [215] | Yes | ||
Leiden Classical | 2005-05-12 [216] 2018-06-05 [217] | Leiden University, the Netherlands [212] | Chemistry | General classical mechanics for students or scientists [218] | Yes | ||
vLHCathome (not to be confused with LHC@home above) | 2011-08-01 [219] 2017-03 [220] | CERN [221] | Physics [221] | Run simulations of high-energy particle collisions in a computational search for new fundamental particles for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN [221] [222] | Yes | ||
M4 Project | 2006-01-09 [223] 2009-11-15 [224] | History | Decrypts Enigma messages from World War II [225] | No | |||
Majestic-12 | Uses a distributed web crawler program to index web sites for a distributed search engine [226] | No | |||||
Magnetism@home | 2008-06-09 [227] | Donetsk Institute for Physics and Technology, Ukraine [228] | Magnetism, nanotechnology | Explored magnetization patterns. [228] | Yes | ||
Malaria Control Project | 2006-12-19 [229] 2016-01-28 [230] | Swiss Tropical Institute [14] | Epidemiology | Simulate the transmission dynamics and health effects of malaria. [231] | Yes | ||
Mersenne@home | 2012 | Independent [14] | Mathematics | Searched for Mersenne primes. [232] Discontinued because the creator lacked time to administer it [233] | Yes | ||
MindModeling@Home | 2007-03-17 [234] | University of Dayton Research Institute and Wright State University [235] | Cognitive science [235] | Builds cognitive models of the human mind [235] | Yes | ||
Minecraft@Home | 2020-06-24 [236] | Independent [237] | Games [237] | Studies questions related to Minecraft, such as the properties of worlds that can be generated from different random seeds [236] | Yes | ||
MLC@Home | 2020-06-30 2022-10-02 [238] | University of Maryland, Baltimore County | Mathematics | Understanding and interpreting complex machine learning models | Yes | ||
MoneyBee | 2000-09 [239] 2010 | Finance | No | ||||
Muon1 Distributed Particle Accelerator Design | 2017 [240] | Physics | Simulate and design parts of the Neutrino Factory particle accelerator [241] [242] | No | |||
Najmanovich Research Group | Université de Sherbrooke [243] | Molecular biology [243] | Research in molecular recognition [243] | Yes | |||
Neurona@home | 2011-06-14 [244] | Complutense University of Madrid, Spain [245] | Neural network | Simulating the behavior of a large and complex network of cellular automata neurons. [245] | Yes | ||
NFSNET | 2010 | Integer factorization | Used the general number field sieve to factor increasingly large integers. Discontinued and replaced by NFS@Home. [246] | No | |||
NNGenerator | 2014-10-20 [247] 2016 [248] | 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 [249] | Optimization [249] | Solve various large-scale optimization problems. Currently finding molecular conformations which have minimal potential energy. [249] | Yes | |||
orbit@home | 2008-04-03 [250] 2013-02-16 [251] | Planetary Science Institute [14] | Astronomy | Monitored and studied the hazards posed by near-earth asteroids. [252] | Yes | ||
Pi Segment | 2006 | Independent project | Mathematics | Looked for specific digits (in binary) of Pi and make volunteer computing more popular in China [253] | No | ||
Pirates@Home | 2004-02-06 [254] | 1 Vassar College 2 Spy Hill Research [254] | Software testing | Mission 1 helped to develop the Einstein@Home screensaver [255] Tested BOINC's forum software for possible use by Interactions in Understanding the Universe [256] | Yes | ||
POEM@Home | 2007-13-11 [257] 2016-10-04 [258] | University of Karlsruhe, Germany [14] | Molecular biology | Protein structure prediction, cellular signaling, protein aggregation, and drug design [259] | Yes | ||
Predictor@home | 2004-05-04 [260] | 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 [261] experiment [262] | Yes | ||
Primaboinca | 2010-07-30 [263] 2020-05-31 [264] | 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 [265] | Yes | ||
Proteins@home | 2006-09-15 [266] | École polytechnique | Protein structure prediction | Contribute to a better understanding of many diseases and pathologies and to progress in Medicine and Technology [266] | Yes | ||
QMC@Home | 2006-03-03 [267] 2013-01 | University of Münster, Germany [212] | Chemistry | Study the structure and reactivity of molecules using quantum chemistry and Monte Carlo techniques [268] | Yes | ||
Quake Catcher Network | 2008-02-03 [269] 2023-06-01 [270] | Stanford University [271] [272] | Seismology [271] [272] | Uses accelerometers connected to personal computers to detect earthquakes and to educate about seismology [271] [272] | Yes | 215 (Mar 2023) [270] | 0.000 (Mar 2023) [270] |
QuChemPedIA@home | 2019-07-01 2022-09-29 | Université Anger | Molecular Chemistry | Help for chemical researchers | Yes | 26 (Mar 2023) [273] | 0.000 (Mar 2023) [273] |
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 [274] | Independent (Finnish) [275] [276] | Rendering | 2D and 3D rendering for animation artists [277] | Yes | ||
RSA Lattice Siever | 2009 [278] 2012-08 | Integer factorization | Assisted other factoring projects to achieve their academic goals. [279] Merged into NFS@Home because its server was outdated [280] | Yes | |||
SAT@home | 2011-09-29 2017-02 [281] | Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences | Cryptanalysis, Mathematics | Various applications related to the boolean satisfiability problem, inversion of specific stream cipher functions [282] | Yes | ||
Second Computing | 2008-04-10 [283] 2012-08 [284] | Assesses biopolymer dynamics, and models the behavior of clonal colonies in a prairie ecosystem [285] | Yes | ||||
SETI@home | 1999-05-17 [286] [287] [288] 2020-03-31 [289] | University of California, Berkeley [14] | Astrobiology | Search for extraterrestrial life by analyzing specific radio frequencies emanating from space [290] | Yes | ||
SETI@home beta | 2006-01-12 [291] 2020-03-31 [289] | University of California, Berkeley [292] | Software testing | Test project of SETI@home [292] | Yes | ||
SIMAP | 2006-04-26 [293] 2014-05-30 | University of Vienna [14] | Molecular biology | Calculated similarities between proteins [294] | Yes | ||
SLinCA@Home | G.V.Kurdyumov Institute for Metal Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine [295] | Materials science [295] | Studies scaling laws in cluster aggregation [295] | Yes | |||
Spinhenge@home | 2006-05-19 [296] 2011-09-28 [297] | Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences [14] | Nanotechnology | Studied nano-magnetic molecules for research into localized tumor chemotherapy and micro-memory. [298] | Yes | ||
Stop@home | 2017-02-28 [299] 2018-01 [300] | Independent | Mathematics | Looking for prime k-tuples | Yes | ||
Sudoku@vtaiwan [301] | 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 [302] | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology [14] | Genetic linkage analysis | Uses genetic linkage analysis to help find disease-provoking genes. [303] | Yes | ||
Surveill@Home | University of Coimbra | Monitor and test websites for failure rates and overall performance [304] | Yes | ||||
theSkyNet | 2011-09-13 [305] 2018-05-02 [306] | International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research [307] | Astronomy | Analysis of radio astronomy data from telescopes such as the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder and The Square Kilometre Array [308] [309] | Yes | ||
uFluids@Home | 2005-09-19 [310] 2010-11 [311] | Purdue University [14] | Physics, Aeronautics | Simulated microfluidics problems and two-phase flows in microgravity [312] | Yes | ||
USPEX@Home | 2017-04-04 [313] 2019-03 [314] | 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 [315] 2019-03 [314] | University of Houston [14] | Botanical ecosystems | Provided ecological guidelines on the design of prairies with the best potential for water purification [316] | 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 [317] | Yes | |||
Wieferich@Home | 2007-12-29 [318] 2017 [319] | Mathematics | Searches for new Wieferich primes [320] | No | |||
EDGeS@Home | 2009-10 [321] | 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 [322] | Yes | ||
SZTAKI Desktop Grid | 2005-05-26 [323] | 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 [324] | Yes | ||
TANPAKU | 2005-08-02 [325] | Tokyo University of Science | Molecular biology | Protein structure prediction using the Brownian dynamics method | Yes | ||
The Lattice Project | 2004-06-30 [326] | University of Maryland Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology [14] | Life science | Various scientific analysis projects [327] [328] | Yes |
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