3x+1@home Project Status:
ALPHA -- open for processing Account Creation: Create on site or in the client.
WU Processing Time: 1 hour
WU Expiration Time: 2 days during testing phase
WU Quota (per CPU per day): n/a
Points Per Day: n/a
Project Description: 3x+1@home is a distributed non-profit project trying to find 3x+1 conjecture stopping time records. The 3x+1 conjecture is also known as Collatz conjecture.
Project Affiliation: Unknown.
Availability of Results: Unknown.
Message boards: No comment.
Unique Features: None noted.
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ABC@home Project Status:
Open for processing limited work available. Account Creation: Create on site or in the client.
WU Processing Time: n/a
WU Expiration Time: n/a
WU Quota (per CPU per day): n/a
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Project Description: Search for so called abc-triples. The project is comparable in a way to GIMPS, another mathematical project. These abc-triples are positive integers a,b,c such that a+b=c, a < b < c, a,b,c have no common divisors and c > rad(abc), the so-called radical of abc. The ABC conjecture says that there are only finitely many a,b,c such that log(c)/log(rad(abc)) > h for any real h > 1.
Project Affiliation: Mathematics Institute of Leiden University, The Netherlands.
Availability of Results: On request.
Message boards: No comment.
Unique Features: None noted.
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APS@Home Project Status:
ALPHA sporadic work available. Account Creation: Create in Client or on website.
WU Processing Time: 7 hours
WU Expiration Time: sized to WU processing time (1 hr 1 day)
WU Quota (per CPU per day): unknown
Points Per Day: unknown
Project Description: Atmospheric Processs Simulator (APS). Research atmospheric dispersion as it relates to the accuracy of climate prediction, focusing on very small scale, short duration processes in the atmosphere. Simulates the trajectories of tracer "particles" within and above forest and crop canopies. These ecosystem measurements are eventually used as input to climate models. There are plans to diversify into cloud microphysics and other areas eventually.
Project Affiliation: Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Manchester
Availability of Results: Unknown.
Message boards: No comment.
Unique Features: None noted.
Clients for:
Solaris, Free BSD
Artificial Intelligence System (aka Intelligence Realm) Project Status:
ALPHA limited work available. Account Creation: Create on site or in the client.
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: Reverse engineer the way the human brain works in order to create an artificial intelligence system.
Project Affiliation: Intelligence Realm, Inc., Toronto, Canada
Availability of Results: unknown.
Message boards: No comment.
Unique Features: None noted.
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BBC Climate Change Project Status:
Closed. Project now runs under Climateprediction.net. Site and servers still accepting completed work units and providing stats. Account Creation:
Closed. WU Processing Time: 1933 hours (80.5 days)
WU Expiration Time: 345 days
WU Quota (per CPU per day): unofficially 1 per CPU core
Points Per Day: unknown, points flow at regular checkpoints to reach the point total for a completed WU.
Project Description: Model the worlds future climate based on variables introduced by mankind. This is a version of the Climate Prediction project in conjunction with the BBC. This project formally merged with CPDN in mid- 2007.
Project Affiliation: Oxford University and British Broadcasting Corporation
Availability of Results: Unknown.
Message boards: Through Climate Prediction, very active with good project participation.
Unique Features: Results broadcast on BBC and remain available on
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/hottopics/climatechange/ Clients for:
BOINC ALPHA Project Status:
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Open for processing. Account Creation: Create on site or in the client.
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Project Description: Permanent testing for the BOINC manager, uses science applications and wus from SET@Home, ASTROPULSE and Upper Case all selected randomly.
Project Affiliation: University of California at Berkely
Message boards: No comment.
Unique Features: None noted.
Clients for:
SPARC
BraTS@home Gravitational Lensing Project Status:
ALPHA sporadic work available Account Creation: Requires invitation code. Request code through project forums.
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: Gravitational ray trace imaging. BRaTS stands for BRaTS Ray Trace Simulator.
Project Affiliation: Based at the University of Missouri-St. Louis
Availability of Results: unknown
Message boards: No comment.
Unique Features: None noted.
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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.
Project Affiliation: Based in Denmark, affiliation unknown.
Availability of Results: Posted on website.
Message boards: Very active for an alpha project.
Unique Features: Image results displayed in gallery on website.
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Cels@home Project Status:
ALPHA - Open for processing. Account Creation: Create on site or in the client.
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: 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.
Project Affiliation: Laboratory for Molecular and Cellular Dynamics, University of Texas at Austin
Availability of Results: Unknown.
Message boards: Reasonable for an alpha project.
Unique Features: None noted.
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Chess960@home Project Status:
ALPHA -- Open for processing sporadic work available. 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.
Project Affiliation: unknown
Availability of Results: Posted on website.
Message boards: No comment.
Unique Features: Live chess games available on the website.
Clients for:
Linux-64 (gnu varieties)
Climate Prediction Project Status:
Open for processing. Account Creation: Create in the client.
WU Processing Time: 15 days to 120 days depending on work unit assigned (see project description)
WU Expiration Time: 365 days (1 year)
WU Quota (per CPU per day): unofficially, one per CPU core available
Points Per Day: Points assigned at regular checkpoints to reach the point total for a completed WU.
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 earths climate. You may select the type of model to run from the project website in your account/CPDN preferences
--UK Met Office HADAM3
(formerly the Seasonal Attribution Project) 1 model year, about 15 days computer time
--UK Met Office HADSM3
(Slab Model)
45 model years, about 22 days computer time
--UK Met Office HADCM3
(Coupled Model)
80 or 160 model years, 60 or 120 days computer time.
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.
Project Affiliation: Oxford University and UK Met Office, among others
Availability of Results: Initial and summary results on website. Personal results on website. On request.
Message boards: Very active message boards, especially through original CPDN format. Very good interaction with project, has hosted Open Days at the university.
Unique Features: 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 Clients for:
Cosmology@home Project Status:
BETA- work is available Account creation: Create in the client or on the website.
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: 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.
Project Affiliation: University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaigne; funding from National Science Foundation.
Availability of Results: unknown.
Message boards: Good interaction for a new project.
Unique Features: None noted.
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DepSpid (Dependency Spider) Project Status:
ALPHA --limited work available. Account Creation: Create in the client or on the website.
WU Processing Time: n/a
WU Expiration Time: n/a
WU Quota (per CPU per day): n/a
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Project Description: Create a database of web servers and calculate the dependencies between various servers on different domains.
Project Affiliation: Based in Germany, affiliation unknown.
Availability of Results: unknown
Message boards: No comment.
Unique Features: None noted.
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Docking@Home Project Status:
ALPHA -- ETR June 2008. Account Creation: invitation required.
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.
Project Affiliation: University of Delaware
Availability of Results: Unknown.
Message boards: reasonably good interaction with project for size, re-establishing project after move from Texas (UTEP).
Unique Features: None noted.
Clients for:
MAC OS X on PPC , Windows-64 and Linux-64
Einstein@Home Project Status:
Open for processing. Account Creation: Create on site or in the client.
WU Processing Time: 9 hours
WU Expiration Time: 18 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.
Project Affiliation: Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, among others.
Availability of Results: On request.
Message boards: Very active message boards, good interaction with project.
Unique Features: None noted.
Clients for:
MAC OS X on PPC and Intel, Solaris on SPARC
Enigma@Home Project Status:
Offline May 2008, ETR NOV 2008. Account Creation: Create on site or in the client.
WU Processing Time: n/a
WU Expiration Time: n/a
WU Quota (per CPU per day): n/a
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Project Description: Enigma@Home is a wrapper between BOINC and Stefan Krah's M4 Project. The M4 Project is an effort to break 3 original Enigma-encrypted messages with the help of distributed computing. The signals were intercepted in the North Atlantic in 1942, serving German U-boats during WWII, and are believed to be unbroken.
Project Affiliation: none.
Availability of Results: On website. Final translations and verifications of solved messages will also be posted on website.
Message boards: reasonable for small size, and best way to track status of project as the admin is traveling/working in Eastern Europe this summer.
Unique Features: None noted.
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Gerasim@home Project Status:
ALPHA sporadic work available. Account Creation: Create on site or in the client.
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: Currently Gerasim@home Has No goals. Scientists want to see full working system and waiting, when development ends. When Gerasim officially starts, science info will be placed to the project main page.
Project Affiliation: Based in Russia, unknown affiliation. Expect translation difficulties.
Availability of Results: unknown
Message boards: Poor in English.
Unique Features: None noted.
Clients for:
Windows 64 (Vista)
