Hydrogen@home Project Status:
ALPHA -- open for processing Account Creation: Create on site or in the client.
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Project Description: Research improved methods of hydrogen production and storage.
Project Affiliation: Not affiliated with any research institute or university.
Availability of Results: unknown Message boards: No comment.
Unique Features: None noted.
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Leiden Classical Project Status:
BETA -- Open for processing. Account Creation: Create on site or in the client.
WU Processing Time: 30 minutes or 2 hours depending on type of work unit
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.
Project Affiliation: Leiden University, The Netherlands
Availability of Results: On request.
Message boards: Reasonably active with project interaction.
Unique Features: For use by any scientist or science student. You can submit your own work units for processing.
Clients for:
Linux-64 and FreeBSD
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: n/a
WU Expiration Time: n/a
WU Quota (per CPU per day): n/a
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Project Description: Alpha test for the LHC project, very limited work.
Project Affiliation: CERN, Swizterland
Message boards: No comment.
Unique Features: None noted.
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LHC@Home Project Status:
Open for processing, limited work available. 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.
Project Affiliation: CERN European Center for Nuclear Research, Switzerland
Availability of Results: Overall results or portions to researchers upon request.
Message boards: No comment.
Unique Features: None noted.
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Malaria Control Project Status:
Open for processing. Account Creation: Create on site or in the client.
WU Processing Time: 30 minutes to 2 hrs depending on type of work unit
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.
Project Affiliation: Swiss Tropical Institute
Availability of Results: Overall results or portions to researchers upon request.
Message boards: Active message boards for the projects current size, good interaction with project.
Unique Features: None noted.
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MilkyWay@Home Project Status:
ALPHA - Open for processing work may be sporadic. 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: Research in modeling and determining the evolution of the Milky Way galaxy.
Project Affiliation: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), NY
Availability of Results: unknown.
Message boards: No comment.
Unique Features: None noted.
Clients for:
Solaris and Free BSD
MindModeling@Home (Beta) Project Status:
BETA -- Open for processing. Account Creation: Create in 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: Beta testing for the MindModeling@Home project. Research focuses on utilizing computational cognitive process modeling to better understand the human mind.
Project Affiliation: Cognitive Engineering Research Institute, Mesa, AZ
Availability of Results: unknown
Message boards: No comment.
Unique Features: None noted.
Clients for:
Linux-64
Nano-Hive@Home Project Status:
BETA Off-line, no work available. Not ETR as of May 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: Accurately simulate nanosystems too large to be calculated via normal means, and thereby enable further scientific study in the field of nanotechnology -- the understanding and manipulation of matter at the molecular level.
Project Affiliation: Nanorex Inc.
Availability of Results: free and publicly available
Message boards: Sporadic since summer 2007.
Unique Features: None noted.
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NQueens Project Project Status:
BETA - Open for processing. Account Creation: Create on site or in the client.
WU Processing Time: 25 minutes
WU Expiration Time: n/a
WU Quota (per CPU per day): n/a
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Project Description: Attempt to solve the n Queens puzzle, placing n number of Queens on a chessboard the size of nxn such that no queen can attack any other queen.
Project Affiliation: Universidad de Concepciσn, Chile
Availability of Results: On project website.
Message boards: No comment.
Unique Features: None noted.
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Orbit@home Project Status:
BETA limited work. Account Creation: Create on site or in the client.
WU Processing Time: 12 hrs, 15 mins
WU Expiration Time: 14 days
WU Quota (per CPU per day): n/a
Points Per Day: n/a
Project Description: Simulate orbits and interactions of near-Earth objects such as asteroids and comets when they come within close range of the Earth and the Moon.
Project Affiliation: Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ. Funding from NASA.
Availability of Results: On request.
Message boards: Improving with influx of money and support/scientific personnel. Also good news/blog.
Unique Features: None noted.
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Pirates@Home Project Status:
ALPHA -- Open for processing, permanent test-bed with limited work. Account Creation: Create on the site. Need an invitation code from the devs to create a new account.
WU Processing Time: 9.9 seconds
WU Expiration Time:
WU Quota (per CPU per day): 500
Points Per Day: 697
Project Description: Originally the test-bed for Einstein@Home, Pirates is now a test-bed for new BOINC projects. Current project is Interactions in Understanding the Universe (I2U2).
Project Affiliation: Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO)
Availability of Results: On request, see research page
http://pirates.spy-hill.net/research.php Message boards: No comment.
Unique Features: Help improve BOINC thru Pirates work on Mechanical Turk.
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POEM@Home Project Status:
BETA -- 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
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Project Description: Protein Optimization with Energy Methods (POEM). Predict the biologically active structure of proteins. Understand the signal-processing mechanisms when the proteins interact with one another. Understand diseases related to protein malfunction or aggregation. Develop new drugs on the basis of the three-dimensions structure of biologically important proteins.
Project Affiliation: Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH,
Institute for Nanotechnology, Germany, with funding from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Availability of Results: academic, non-profit research, results through peer-reviewd journals, some highlights posted to website.
Message boards: No comment.
Unique Features: Participates in annual scientific protein prediction competitions (CASP).
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Predictor@Home Project Status:
Open for processing limited work available as project completes move to Michigan
Account Creation: Through BOINC manager.
WU Processing Time: 60.3 minutes
WU Expiration Time: 5 days
WU Quota (per CPU per day): 200
Points Per Day: 367
Project Description: Testing and evaluating new algorithms and methods of protein structure prediction.
Project Affiliation: University of Michigan and The Scripps Research Institute
Availability of Results: Unknown
Message boards: Poor project interaction prior to and during the move to Michigan, may be recovering.
Unique Features: None noted.
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PrimeGrid Project Status:
ALPHA -- Open for processing. Account Creation: Create in the client.
WU Processing Time: 13.75 minutes
WU Expiration Time: 7 days
WU Quota (per CPU per day): 60
Points Per Day: 402
Project Description: PrimeGrid is generating a public prime number database and is using it to factorize the number in the RSA Factoring Challenge -- trying to split the 193-digit number into two factors that multiplied form the original number, and also testing PerlBOINC.
Project Affiliation:
Availability of Results: Unknown
Message boards: No comment.
Unique Features: Runs occasional special focus challenges for different mathematical problems. 15 May 1 June 2008 is Drive for Five.
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Proteins@home Project Status:
BETA -- Open for processing. Account Creation: Create on site or via BOINC manager.
WU Processing Time: n/a
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WU Quota (per CPU per day): n/a
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Project Description: Predict protein structure and function, for understanding protein evolution, and for designing new proteins.
Project Affiliation: Laboratoire de Biochimie, Ιcole Polytechnique, France.
Availability of Results: Unknown
Message boards: No comment.
Unique Features: None noted.
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PS3Grid.net Project Status:
Beta open for processing. Must have Linux installed on a Playstation3 Account Creation: On website.
WU Processing Time: n/a
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WU Quota (per CPU per day): n/a
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Project Description: The ps3grid.net project is a distributed computing initiative based on the use of the PlayStation3 for biomolecular simulations using a full-atom molecular dynamics code (CellMD) optimized to run on the Cell processor in the PS3.
Project Affiliation: Computational Biochemistry and Biophysics Laboratory , University of Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Availability of Results: Unknown
Message boards: No comment.
Unique Features: None noted.
Clients for:
Linux on PS3
