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General discussion of BOINC. This section may include new projects too.

3x+1@home is a distributed non-profit project trying to find high 3x+1 conjecture stopping times.

Try to find abc triples related to the ABC conjecture

APS@home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research into the effects of atmospheric dispersion as it relates to the accuracy of measurements used in climate prediction.

The idea of an own BOINC project comes up from time to time in our discussions, no doubt under the influence of that delicious blond or brown liquid: Belgian beer. There have been some valid ideas, but the talks always went silent after a short while since nobody in the team actually knows what it involves to set up and run a BOINC project.

BRaTS@Home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do various calculations in Gravitational Ray Tracing. BRaTS stands for BRaTS Ray Trace Simulator.

Big Ugly Rendering Project

Cels@Home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in cell adhesion. One of the many applications of this is in cancer research, as the point at which cancerous cells quit staying in place, and instead break free to move throughout the body, is a critical event that makes the disease much harder to treat.

Chess960 is an innovative chess variant.

The goal of Cosmology@Home is to search for the model that best describes our Universe and to find the range of models that agree with the available astronomical and particle physics data.

Currently only the few big search engines can give access to the basic data needed to do intensive studies of the web. But they don't give access to their raw data and therefore results based on their data have been looked at very carefully. DepSpid on the contrary is supposed to give researchers in this area free access to its raw data for doing their studies.

Dynamically Adaptive Protein-Ligand Docking System

Searches for pulsars (spinning neutron stars) in space.

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We intend to clarify the nature of the vulnerabilities in applications of MD5 that have been opened up by the collision finding methods of Wang et al.

Hydrogen@Home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in Hydrogen Production.

In collaboration with the Institute of Biocomputación and Física de Sistemas Complejos (BIFI) of the University of Zaragoza and the National Laboratory of Fusion of the CIEMAT, the project ZIVIS has started up, whose objective is the creation of a citizen platform of Super Computation based on the union of computer science equipment of the homes and Institutions you publish, to give service to the investigators of our city.

The Lattice Project is an effort by a community of scientists at the University of Maryland to develop and deploy a comprehensive Grid system for scientific analysis.

Simulates a Large Hadron Collider.

Join in and help to build a Desktop Computer Grid dedicated to general Classical Dynamics for any scientist or science student!

The MalariaControl.net project computes stochastic modelling of the clinical epidemiology and history of Plasmodium falciparum malaria.

Milkyway@home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in modeling and determining the evolution of the Milkyway galaxy.

MindModeling@Home (Beta) is a research project that uses volunteer computing for the advancement of cognitive science. The research focuses on utilizing computational cognitive process modeling to better understand the human mind. We need your help to improve on the scientific foundations that explain the mechanisms and processes that enable and moderate human performance and learning.

Simulate large-scale nanotech systems

POEM@HOME is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to research and predict protein structure.

Analysis of protein folding and conformational change in the tertiary structure of proteins.

Prime Numbers are of great interest to mathematicians for a variety of reasons. Primes also play a central role in the cryptographic systems which are used for computer security. Through the study of Prime Numbers it can be shown how much processing is required to crack an encryption code and thus to determine whether current security schemes are sufficiently secure. PrimeGrid is currently running several sub-projects: -Primegen: generating a public sequential prime number database (end phase). -Twin Prime Search: searching for gigantic twin primes of the form k*2n + 1 and k*2n - 1. -Cullen-Woodall Search: searching for mega primes of forms n*2n + 1 and n*2n - 1. -3*2^n-1 Search: searching for mega primes of the form 3*2n - 1. -Prime Sierpinski Project: helping Prime Sierpinski Project solve the Prime Sierpinski Problem. You can choose the projects you would like to run by going to the project preferences page.

Be part of a large-scale protein structure prediction project and help to advance an important area of science.

PS3GRID is a volunteer computing project based on BOINC for full-atom molecular dynamics simulations and other scientific applications specially optimized for the Cell processor and the PlayStation3. Your contribution is very important because the Cell processor runs our Cell MD molecular dynamics software over an order of magnitude faster allowing to perform novel computational experiments

A project designed to further develop the Quantum Monte Carlo method for general use in Quantum Chemistry

Fractal Flame rendering project

The Riesel Sieve @ Home Project is sieving for factors as part of the PerlBOINC platform.

Protein folding, design and docking, Sub-forum also includes Ralph or Rosetta Alpha Project discussion

Scientific Literature Indexing on Networked Computers

Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence.

SHA 1 Collision Search is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in XXX.

SIMAP - SImilarity MAtrix of Proteins - is a database of protein similarities that are computed using the FASTA algorithm which provides optimal speed and sensitivity.

Support the research of nano-magnetic molecules. In the future these molecules will be used in local tumor chemotherapy and to develop tiny memory-modules

Superlink@Technion helps geneticists all over the world find disease-provoking genes causing some types of diabetes, hypertension (high blood pressure), cancer, schizophrenia and many others.

SZTAKI Desktop Grid currently searches for generalized binary number systems. The aim of the project is to find all the generalized binary number systems up to dimension 11.

Protein folding project from the Tokyo University of Science

μFluids project is a massively distributed computer simulation of two-phase fluid behavior in microgravity and microfluidics problems.

The aim of the project is to count the quantity of prime numbers in a large interval. This is a test project for its author to learn the BOINC application.

It appears to be another Math project for Mersenneplustwo Factorizations and it requires either Linux or MacOS at the moment.

XtremLab studies the BOINC grid technology itself. We study actual performances and try to combine various grid technologies in order to find how to improve performances of all others projects.

yoyo@home is a wrapper of the distributed.net client and runs OGR work units.

We are trying to break the RSA-key for the checksum by Brute-forcing.

Analysis of protein folding and conformational change in the tertiary structure of proteins.

Calculating chemical reactions at the atomic level

RC5-72 and OGR25

Computing minimal equal sums of like powers

Searching for factors for large numbers like Cunningham Most Wanted Numbers

The Prime Sierpinski project (PSP) is a mathematical project involved in the search of large prime numbers of a special class called proth numbers. They have the general formula k*2^n+1. We further specialize by searching for numbers where k is prime in k*2^n+1. Further more it has been proven that there exists an infinite number of prime k’s such that k*2^n+1 can never be prime. These k’s are called prime sierpinski numbers.

Searching for the 23rd largest prime.

To solve the Sierpinski and Riesel problem for base 5.

A distributed effort to prove the Riesel conjecture.

Attacking the Sierpinski problem

To solve the Sierpinski and Riesel problem for base 5.

Wieferich@home is a scientific experiment that uses Internet-connected computers in the Search for next Wieferich and Near-Wieferich primes.

Searches for cures for human diseases like Malaria, Anthrax, SARS, Smallpox and Ebola using the Sengent software

Searches for a cure for children with Tuberous Sclerosis Complex, a genetic disorder that leads to benign tumors in multiple organs

A Distributed effort in several areas. 1. Fight AIDS at Home 2. Human Proteome project 3. Muscular Dystrophy 4. Genome Comparison 5. Help Defeat Cancer

Mouse Tracker

A keyboard, mouse, and bandwidth counter.

DIMES is a distributed scientific research project, aimed to study the structure and topology of the Internet.

Majestic-12 is primarily concerned with creation of the Distributed Search Engine (DSearch)

Key and mouse-click counter

Watch the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves

Key and mouse-click counter

Simulates a particle accelerator.