Lukol Directory: Computers: Computer Science: Distributed Computing: Projects

NETI@home
Open-source software package designed to run on end-user machines while collecting various statistics about Internet performance.
http://www.neti.gatech.edu/

Moneybee
Prognosen und Handelssignale eines computergesteuerten Handelsystems.
http://www.moneybee.net/

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/

Distributedcomputing.info
Kirk Pearson's directory of current distributed computing projects as well as news articles and related materials.
http://www.distributedcomputing.info/

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/iss...

Repository of Grid Research Projects
News and resources on grid computing.
http://www.enterthegrid.com/

Quite Advanced Distributed Parallel Zystem (QADPZ)
The system allows the management/use of the computational power of idle computers in a network. Based on a client-master-slave architecture, using message based communication.
http://qadpz.sourceforge.net

NGrid
NGrid is a .Net open source grid computing framework written in C#. NGrid provides a transparent multithread and garbage collected programming model for grid programming.
http://ngrid.sourceforge.net

Majestic 12
Distributed Computing Project aimed towards building the largest search engine index on the Internet using Distributed Crawlers.
http://www.majestic12.co.uk

Compute Against Cancer
Corporate-sponsored project exploring cancer development, prevention and treatment. [Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME]
http://www.computeagainstcancer.org/

Evolution@Home
Distributed computing program for evolutionary biology.
http://www.evolutionary-research.org/

Leiden Classical
BOINC project, dedicated to general Classical Dynamics for any scientist or science student.
http://boinc.gorlaeus.net/

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/

The EON Project
Software for the long time scale simulation of solids. From University of Washington Chemistry Department.
http://eon.cm.utexas.edu/

Distributed Computing Over P2P Networks
Open framework that will allow P2P file sharing networks to make Distributed Parallel Computing.
http://www.geocities.com/tiagonmas/

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/

Gómez PEER Community
Project pays select computer users to run a client that tests internet performance.
http://peer.gomez.com/

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/ubb.x?...

Info Sharkz Distributed Computing
Distributed Computing information containing the concept of Grid computing and active projects in the feild of distributed computing to help solve problems and questions.
http://www.infosharkz.com/dc/

SDSC Matrix Project
Offers workflow protocols and workflow language descriptions necessary to build a peer-to- peer infrastructure.
http://www.npaci.edu/DICE/SRB/matrix/

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

DevChannel
A distributed computing development and knowledge community. Become involved in Open Source distributed computing projects. Read news, articles, papers, guided opinions, or participate in forums.
http://www.devchannel.org/

XGrid@Stanford
Project of a postdoctoral fellow in Brian Kobilka's lab, in the Molecular and Cellular Physiology department, Stanford University running large calculations, the purpose being to modelize the conformational changes of the beta 2 adrenergic receptor and have a better understanding of its pharmacology. Runs through Mac OSX-only software called XGrid. How to install and configure the software, news about the project, and a FAQ.
http://cmgm.stanford.edu/~cparnot/xgrid-st...

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/

ORNL Distributed Computing Project
Oak Ridge National Lab has developed a world-wide reputation for its parallel and distributed computing research.
http://www.csm.ornl.gov/cs/DistComp.html

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Computing Grid
Place to find the grid middleware developed for the future Large Hydron Collider in CERN.
http://lcg.web.cern.ch/LCG/

Power of Supercomputer on a Desktop
Grid computing analogy, meaning, capabilities, uses and limitations.
http://www.geocities.com/bhupeshreddy/grid...

Globus Project
Research project developing a software infrastructure for distributed computing on a world-wide scale.
http://www.globus.org/

PCP@HOME
A distributed project to find short Post Correspondence Problems with large shortest solutions.
http://www.theory.informatik.uni-kassel.de...

Distributed computing projects
Distributed computing projects links and short descriptions in English and in Finnish.
http://koti.mbnet.fi/aquarius/links/link_d...

Distributed Hardware Evolution Project (DHEP)
Using a desktop's idle time, arrive at designs of self-diagnosing circuits superior to those produced by conventional design. FAQ, statistics, news, academic papers, forum, and source code.
http://dhep.dbestern.com/

The NorduGrid Project
The Grid middleware development and testbed deployment project in the Nordic countries
http://www.nordugrid.org

The Virtual Laboratory Project
Engaged in research, design, and development of Grid technologies that help in solving large-scale compute and data intensive science applications in the area of molecular biology.
http://www.gridbus.org/vlab/

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

Center for Distributed Computing
Distributed computing projects directory.
http://www.distcomputing.com/

P2P Distributed Computing Framework
JNGI is a open-source generic P2P distributed computing framework.
http://jngi.jxta.org

The Hunting of the Snark Project
Explores distributed file sharing through BitTorrent and experiments with the GNU Compiler for Java. It also produces a regular BitTorrent client, torrent creator and tracker program.
http://www.klomp.org/snark/

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/

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/

The DBGlobe Project
Aims at developing novel data management techniques to deal with the challenge of global computing.
http://softsys.cs.uoi.gr/dbglobe/index1.ht...

Repdigit Prime Problems, The
Distributed Computing Project aimed towards finding prime numbers of the form n*k. This project uses the software Primeform to test workunits.
http://www.freewebs.com/dries5/prime_probl...

The ChessBrain Network
Distributed network chess experiment. Intends to create a single playing program using donated time.
http://www.chessbrain.net

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/

Java Grid Project (jCluster Project)
Software project investigating the possibilities in creating a distributed computer system - a so called grid - based on the distributed nature of Java and Jini. It is the intension to allow computer resources and data to be shared and to provide a dynamic high availability system for hosting services.
http://www.mycgiserver.com/~jcluster

Muon1 Optimisation Project
Uses PC idle time to simulate and design a particle accelerator.
http://www.stephenbrooks.org/muon1/

Rosetta@home
BOINC project to predict and design protein structures and protein-protein and protein-ligand interactions. The goal is to develop methods that accurately predict and design protein structures and complexes.
http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/

Distributed Computing Projects - infoAnarchy Wiki
Long annotated list.
http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/...

12121 Search
Help this distributed computing project by donating CPU cycles to find primes of the form 121*2^N-1.
http://12121.vocabulate.com/

Search for Fermat Number Dividers
Screensaver program tries to find divisors of Fermat numbers.
http://www.fermatsearch.org/

World Community Grid
Mission is to create the largest public computing grid benefiting humanity. Currently supporting the Human Proteome Folding project to provide scientists with data that predicts the shape of a very large number of human proteins.
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/

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