| 1. 3x+1@home |
| Distributed mathematical project trying to find high stopping times for the Collatz conjecture. |
| http://allprojectstats.com/collatz/ |
| 2. ABC@home |
| Distributed computing project for finding abc-triples related to the ABC conjecture. |
| http://abcathome.com/ |
| 3. 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. |
| http://www.americanscientist.org/amsci/issues... |
| 4. Boitho |
| Boitho distributed crawler (BETA). Goal is to make a general internet search engine with a thumbnail picture of all the pages. |
| http://www.boitho.com/dc/ |
| 5. Center for Distributed Computing |
| Distributed computing projects directory. |
| http://www.distcomputing.com/ |
| 6. 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. |
| http://www.climateprediction.net/ |
| 7. Compute Against Cancer |
| Corporate-sponsored project exploring cancer development, prevention and treatment. [Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME] |
| http://www.computeagainstcancer.org/ |
| 8. Computing Minimum Equal Sums of Like Power |
| Includes client software download, computation records, and project description on its research into mathematical problems. |
| http://euler.free.fr/ |
| 9. Distributed Computing Arcana |
| A forum for discussing SETI, RC5, F@H, G@H, the UD Cancer Project, and other distributed computing efforts. |
| http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/... |
| 10. Distributed Computing Over P2P Networks |
| Open framework that will allow P2P file sharing networks to make Distributed Parallel Computing. |
| http://www.geocities.com/tiagonmas/ |
| 11. Distributed Computing Projects - infoAnarchy Wiki |
| Long annotated list. |
| http://www.infoanarchy.org/en/Distributed_Com... |
| 12. Distributed Proofreaders |
| 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. |
| http://www.pgdp.net/ |
| 13. Distributed Proofreaders Europe |
| Modeled after the Digital Proofreaders project, this variation focuses on digitization of works considered to be in the public domain in Europe. |
| http://dp.rastko.net/ |
| 14. Distributed computing projects |
| Distributed computing projects links and short descriptions in English and in Finnish. |
| http://koti.mbnet.fi/aquarius/links/link_dist... |
| 15. Distributedcomputing.info |
| Kirk Pearson's directory of current distributed computing projects as well as news articles and related materials. |
| http://www.distributedcomputing.info/ |
| 16. Einstein@Home |
| 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. |
| http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/ |
| 17. Evolution@Home |
| Distributed computing program for evolutionary biology. |
| http://evolutionary-research.net |
| 18. GPU, a Global Processing Unit |
| 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. |
| http://gpu.sourceforge.net |
| 19. Globus Project |
| Research project developing a software infrastructure for distributed computing on a world-wide scale. |
| http://www.globus.org/ |
| 20. Grid.org |
| 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. |
| http://www.grid.org/ |
| 21. Gómez PEER Community |
| Project pays select computer users to run a client that tests internet performance. |
| http://peer.gomez.com/ |
| 22. How to Join Distributed Computing Projects That Benefit Humanity |
| An annotated directory of projects combined with commentary and illustrations or screenshots. |
| http://www.hyper.net/dc-howto.html |
| 23. Legion: A Worldwide Virtual Computer |
| Research project homed at the University of Virginia. An open specification and prototype for a worldwide virtual computer. |
| http://legion.virginia.edu/ |
| 24. Leiden Classical |
| BOINC project, dedicated to general classical dynamics for any scientist or science student. |
| http://boinc.gorlaeus.net/ |
| 25. Majestic 12 |
| Distributed Computing Project aimed towards building the largest search engine index on the Internet using Distributed Crawlers. |
| http://www.majestic12.co.uk |
| 26. Mobius |
| Research project developing tools and middleware components to coherently share and manage data and metadata in a Grid or distributed computing environment. |
| http://projectmobius.osu.edu |
