BOINC Project Descriptions and Links -- A thru M

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BBC Climate Change
?? Project Status:? Open for processing.
?? Account Creation:? Create on site or in the client.
?? WU Processing Time:? 1933 hours (80.5 days)
?? WU Expiration Time:? 345 days
?? Project Description:? ?Model the world?s future climate based on variables introduced by mankind.? This is a version of the Climate Prediction project in conjunction with the BBC.? It can also be run as a stand-alone client.?
?? Message boards:? ?Through Climate Prediction, very active with good project participation.?
?? Clients for:? Windows and Linux

BURP
?? Project Status:? ?ALPHA --Open for processing.? Limited work available.
?? Account Creation:? Create on site or in the client
?? WU Processing Time:? 55 minutes
?? WU Expiration Time:? 28 hours
?? WU Quota (per CPU per day):? 200
?? Points Per Day:? 290
?? Project Description: Big Ugly Rendering Project ? BURP.? Development of a publicly distributed system for rendering 3D animations.
?? Message boards:? ?no comment
?? Clients for:? Windows

Chess960@home
?? Project Status:? ALPHA -- Open for processing.?
?? Account Creation:? Create on site or in the client
?? WU Processing Time:? 2.9 minutes
?? WU Expiration Time:? 12 hours
?? WU Quota (per CPU per day):? 150
?? Points Per Day:? 300
?? Project Description:? Create potential play strategies for the Chess960 variation of chess, where the pieces are placed randomly on the board at the beginning of each game.
?? Message boards:? ?no comment?
?? Clients for:? Windows, Linux, Linux-64 (gnu varieties)

Climate Prediction
?? Project Status:? Open for processing.
?? Account Creation:? Create in the client.
?? WU Processing Time:? 3448 hours (143.7 days)
?? WU Expiration Time:? 356 days (1 year)
?? Project Description: Attempt to produce a forecast of the climate in the 21st century.? ?CPDN (Climate Prediction Dot Net) uses weather models run over many years to determine the impact of pollution on earth?s climate.? In the Coupled Model, your wu is one set of variables over 160 years.? Some information from the client model will remain on your computer.? You may choose to delete or remove to another media when the wu is completed.? NOTE:? The software is sensitive to overclocking, which will usually cause your model to fail. CPDN classic remains available as a stand-alone client, running a less complex model.? See the link from the Open University course here http://climateprediction.net/openu/index.php

?? Message boards:? ?Very active message boards, especially through original CPDN format, very good interaction with project.
?? Clients for:? Windows and Linux (BOINC), Windows Linux and MAC (Classic)? ? ?

DepSpid (Dependency Spider)
?? Project Status:? ALPHA --Open for processing.
?? Account Creation:? Account creation disabled.
?? WU Processing Time:? n/a
?? WU Expiration Time:? n/a
?? Project Description:? Create a database of web servers and calculate the dependencies between various servers on different domains.
?? Message boards:? ?no comment
?? Clients for:? Windows

Docking@Home
?? Project Status:? ALPHA -- Open for processing.
?? Account Creation:? MAC and Linux users apply for an account key on the site.
?? WU Processing Time:? n/a
?? WU Expiration Time:? ?n/a
?? WU Quota (per CPU per day):? ?n/a
?? Points Per Day:? ?n/a
?? Project Description:? ?Explore the multi-scale nature of algorithmic adaptations in protein-ligand docking and develop cyber infrastructures based on computational methods and models that efficiently accommodate these adaptations.?
?? Message boards:? ?Through Climate Prediction, very active with good project participation.?
?? Clients for:? Windows, Linux and MAC OS X/Intel

Einstein@Home
?? Project Status:? Open for processing.
?? Account Creation:? Create on site or in the client.
?? WU Processing Time:? 252 minutes (4 hours) or 10 hours
?? WU Expiration Time:? 14 days
?? WU Quota (per CPU per day):? 32
?? Points Per Day:? 208
?? Project Description: Search for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors.? ?Pulsars and black holes are believed to produce the gravitational waves (ripples in space-time) predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity.?
?? Message boards:? ?Very active message boards, good interaction with project.?
?? Clients for:? Windows, Linux, MAC OS X on PPC and Intel, Solaris on SPARC

HashClash
?? Project Status:? ALPHA -- Open for processing. Some new work available recently (OCT 06).
?? Account Creation:? Create on site or in the client.
?? WU Processing Time:? 4.3 minutes
?? WU Expiration Time:? 7-14 days
?? WU Quota (per CPU per day):? 10,000
?? Points Per Day:? 413
?? Project Description: Clarify the nature of the vulnerabilities in applications of MD5 encryption.
?? Message boards:? ?no comment?
?? Clients for:? Windows, Windows-64, Linux and Linux-64

Leiden Classical
?? Project Status:? ?ALPHA -- Open for processing.
?? Account Creation:? Create on site or in the client.
?? WU Processing Time:? 9.9 minutes
?? WU Expiration Time:? 5 days
?? WU Quota (per CPU per day):? 1,024
?? Points Per Day:? 495
?? Project Description:? Desktop Computer Grid dedicated to general Classical Dynamics -- Newtonian mechanics through Special Relativity, atoms to galaxies.? Predict how systems react.? For use by any scientist or science student.? NOTE:? You can submit your own work units for processing.?
?? Message boards:? ?Reasonably active with project interaction.?
?? Clients for:? Windows, Linux, Linux-64, MAC OS X

LHC Alpha
?? Project Status:? Closed ? Permanent ALPHA.
?? Account Creation: Account creation disabled. To join the project you have to apply by email on the site.
?? WU Processing Time:
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?? Project Description:? ?Alpha test for the LHC project, very limited work.? ?
?? Message boards:? ?no comment.?
?? Clients for:? Windows and Linux

LHC@Home
?? Project Status:? ?Open for processing.? ?No work since JUL 06.? Newly installed servers should provide more work soon.
?? Account Creation:? Create on site or in the client
?? WU Processing Time:? 208 minutes
?? WU Expiration Time:? 8 days
?? WU Quota (per CPU per day):? 100
?? Points Per Day:? 192
?? Project Description:? Simulates particles traveling around the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) to study the stability of their orbits. When constructed, the LHC will be used to examine the new short-lived particles created in the accelerator.? ?The enormous concentration of energy that can be reached in collisions between particles such as electrons or protons in an accelerator can recreate the conditions of the early universe.
?? Message boards:? ?no comment?
?? Clients for:? Windows and Linux

Malaria Control
?? Project Status:? BETA ? Open for processing.
?? Account Creation:? Account creation closed temporarily, expansion expected in NOV 06 pending installation of additional servers.? Plan to go operational by June 2007.
?? WU Processing Time:? 31.7 minutes
?? WU Expiration Time:? 4 days
?? WU Quota (per CPU per day):? 500
?? Points Per Day:? 372
?? Project Description:? Simulation models of the transmission dynamics and health effects of malaria to determine optimal strategies for delivering mosquito nets, chemotherapy, or new vaccines which are currently under development and testing for the control of malaria.
?? Message boards:? ?Active message boards for the project?s current size, good interaction with project.
?? Clients for:? Windows and Linux