Full archive
Full Directory of Active and Historical Projects
Every volunteer computing project we know about — active, idle, completed, or lost to time. Cross-referenced from multiple public sources, deduplicated, and scored.
564Projects tracked
148Active
416Historical / completed
0Status unclear
9Public sources
Looking for a shorter, curated list to actually join? See Recommended Projects.
We stand on the shoulders of these communities and archives:
- BOINCThe canonical BOINC project list at UC Berkeley.
- equn.comThe Chinese volunteer computing wiki (中国分布式计算总站).
- DC InfoKirk Pearson's long-running distributedcomputing.info index.
- BOINCstatsWilly de Zutter's BOINC statistics aggregator.
- BOINC SynergyBOINC Synergy's active-projects rollup.
- RechenkraftRechenkraft.net's volunteer-maintained German-language project overview.
- WikipediaWikipedia's community-edited list of volunteer computing projects.
- AnandTechAnandTech forums' enthusiast-maintained distributed-computing project list.
- Free-DCFree-DC's live BOINC-project status dashboard and statistics.
| Project | Status | Field | Institution | Activity | Meaning | Sources | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
The open-source middleware platform powering most volunteer computing projects worldwide. The gateway for volunteers to contribute to science.
|
active | platform Multi-disciplinary (Platform) | UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory | 10 | 10 | vcomp | Site Wiki |
|
Searches for gravitational waves and new pulsars using data from LIGO, Fermi, and radio telescopes. One of the most scientifically productive volunteer computing projects.
|
active | physics Gravitational Waves / Pulsar Search | Max Planck Institute / UW-Milwaukee | 10 | 10 | boinc-synergy boincstats dci-active equn-wiki vcomp wikipedia | Site DCI Stats Wiki |
|
Simulates protein folding to understand diseases and develop new therapies. Became the world's most powerful computing system during COVID-19.
|
active | biology Protein Folding / Drug Discovery | University of Pennsylvania | 10 | 10 | dci-active dci-recent equn-wiki vcomp wikipedia | Site DCI Wiki |
|
The world's largest climate modeling experiment, running massive ensembles of simulations to quantify the uncertainty in climate change predictions.
|
active | climate Climate Modeling / Earth System Science | University of Oxford | 10 | 9 | boinc-synergy boincstats dci-active equn-wiki vcomp wikipedia | Site DCI Stats Wiki |
|
Simulates particle beam dynamics and physics events for CERN's Large Hadron Collider — the machine that discovered the Higgs boson.
|
active | physics Particle Physics / Accelerator Simulation | CERN | 10 | 9 | boinc-synergy boincstats dci-active equn-wiki vcomp wikipedia | Site DCI Stats Wiki |
|
Predicts and designs protein structures to fight diseases. Directly connected to the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry through David Baker's lab.
|
active | biology Protein Structure Prediction & Design | University of Washington (Institute for Protein Design) | 10 | 9 | boinc-synergy boincstats dci-active equn-wiki vcomp wikipedia | Site DCI Stats Wiki |
|
Creates detailed 3D models of the Milky Way to map dark matter distribution and understand galactic structure and evolution.
|
active | physics Astrophysics / Galactic Dynamics | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 10 | 7 | boinc-synergy boincstats dci-active equn-wiki vcomp wikipedia | Site DCI Stats Wiki |
|
Searches for record-breaking prime numbers and solves long-standing conjectures in number theory using massive distributed computing.
|
active | math Number Theory / Prime Number Search | Community-organized | 10 | 7 | boinc-synergy boincstats dci-active dci-recent equn-wiki vcomp wikipedia | Site DCI Stats Wiki |
|
An algorithmic mathematician that searches for new continued-fraction formulas for fundamental constants like π, e, and Catalan's constant — inspired by Ramanujan's famously intuitive formula-discovery.
|
active | math Mathematical Discovery / Fundamental Constants | Technion — Israel Institute of Technology | 10 | 7 | boinc-synergy boincstats vcomp wikipedia | Site Stats Wiki |
|
A multi-project umbrella hosted by the German Rechenkraft BOINC community, running elliptic-curve factorization, Optimal Golomb Rulers, Collatz searches, and more — all from a single BOINC attachment.
|
active | math Multi-disciplinary (ECM / OGR / Collatz) | Rechenkraft.net e.V. (Germany) | 10 | 7 | boinc-synergy boincstats equn-wiki vcomp wikipedia | Site DCI Stats Wiki |
|
Reconstructs the 3D shapes and spin states of asteroids from photometric data, contributing to planetary defense and solar system science.
|
active | physics Planetary Science / Asteroid Research | Charles University, Prague | 10 | 6 | boinc-synergy boincstats vcomp wikipedia | Site Stats Wiki |
|
Russian research project in discrete mathematics — testing heuristic methods for parallel-algorithm design and enumerating combinatorial objects like diagonal Latin squares.
|
active | math Discrete Mathematics / Combinatorial Optimization | Russian BOINC community (gerasim.boinc.ru) | 10 | 6 | boinc-synergy boincstats vcomp wikipedia | Site Stats |
|
Mines computer programs that generate integer sequences from the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS), discovering new formulas and algorithms for mathematical curiosities.
|
active | math Integer Sequences / Program Mining | Independent (Christian Krause) | 10 | 6 | boinc-synergy boincstats vcomp | Site Stats |
|
Factors large integers using the Number Field Sieve — the most powerful factoring algorithm known — advancing both number theory and our understanding of cryptographic security.
|
active | math Number Theory / Integer Factorization | California State University, Fullerton | 10 | 6 | boinc-synergy boincstats dci-active vcomp wikipedia | Site DCI Stats Wiki |
|
Searches for algebraic number fields with special properties, building comprehensive databases for one of the deepest areas of pure mathematics.
|
active | math Algebraic Number Theory | Arizona State University | 10 | 6 | boinc-synergy boincstats vcomp wikipedia | Site Stats Wiki |
|
Citizen science project for independent decentralized drug design by distributed computing
|
active | molecular biology Citizen science project for independent decentralized drug design by distributed computing | Russian Academy of Sciences | 10 | 6 | boinc-synergy boincstats wikipedia | Site Stats |
|
Finds amicable number pairs — numbers whose proper divisors sum to each other — up to 10²¹ using massively parallel GPU search.
|
active | math Number Theory / Amicable Pairs | Independent (Sergei Chernykh) | 10 | 5 | boincstats vcomp wikipedia | Site Stats Wiki |
|
Simulates electrical wave propagation in human cardiac tissue to understand arrhythmias and improve life-saving treatments.
|
active | biology Cardiac Electrophysiology | Universidad San Jorge, Zaragoza, Spain | 10 | 5 | boinc-synergy boincstats vcomp wikipedia | Site Stats Wiki |
|
A BOINC wrapper around distributed.net's legendary RC5-72 challenge — a decades-long brute-force search for a 72-bit encryption key, one of the original distributed-computing showcases.
|
active | math Cryptography / RC5-72 Key Search | distributed.net (independent) | 10 | 5 | boinc-synergy boincstats vcomp wikipedia | Site Stats |
|
Extends the Sierpiński and Riesel conjectures to all integer bases up to 1030, searching for prime values of k·bⁿ±1 that eliminate candidate numbers.
|
active | math Number Theory / Sierpiński-Riesel Problem | Community-organized (Germany) | 10 | 5 | boinc-synergy boincstats vcomp wikipedia | Site Stats |
|
Test BOINC server software, integer factorization
|
active | software testing, mathematics Test BOINC server software, integer factorization | Independent (community-run) | 10 | 5 | boinc-synergy boincstats vcomp wikipedia | Site Stats |
|
A multi-project humanitarian computing platform tackling cancer, pandemic preparedness, clean energy, and more. One of the largest and longest-running volunteer computing efforts.
|
active | biology Multi-disciplinary (Cancer, Clean Energy, Health) | Krembil Research Institute (formerly IBM) | 9 | 9 | boinc-synergy vcomp wikipedia | Site Wiki |
|
Harnesses volunteer GPUs for full-atom molecular dynamics simulations, studying protein behavior and drug interactions at unprecedented timescales.
|
active | biology Molecular Dynamics / Biomedicine | Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB) | 9 | 8 | boinc-synergy boincstats dci-active equn-wiki vcomp wikipedia | Site DCI Stats Wiki |
|
Breaks original World War II U-boat Enigma messages intercepted in 1942 using distributed cryptanalysis — two of three have fallen; one remains unbroken.
|
active | math Cryptanalysis / WWII Enigma M4 | Independent (Stefan Krah M4 Project) | 9 | 7 | dci-active equn-wiki vcomp wikipedia | Site DCI Wiki |
|
Processes data from ESA's Gaia space observatory — which charted over two billion stars — to help astronomers turn raw satellite measurements into the most precise 3D map of our Galaxy.
|
active | physics Astronomy / Gaia Mission Data Processing | Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (Poland) under ESA contract | 9 | 7 | boinc-synergy boincstats vcomp wikipedia | Site Stats |
|
Studies questions related to Minecraft, such as the properties of worlds that can be generated from different random seeds
|
active | games Studies questions related to Minecraft, such as the properties of worlds that can be generated from different random seeds | Independent | 9 | 6 | boinc-synergy boincstats vcomp wikipedia | Site Stats |
|
Collect various statistics about other BOINC projects
|
active | miscellaneous Collect various statistics about other BOINC projects | Independent | 9 | 5 | boinc-synergy boincstats dci-active vcomp wikipedia | Site DCI Stats |
|
Spain's national citizen-science computing platform — BOINC-based, hosting rotating experiments from Spanish research institutions across physics, biomedicine, materials, and climate.
|
active | platform Multi-project Citizen Science Platform | Ibercivis Foundation + CSIC + University of Zaragoza (Spain) | 8 | 7 | dci-active vcomp wikipedia | Site DCI Wiki |
|
Simulates the evolution of billions of stars to build synthetic maps of the Universe's compact objects — black holes, neutron stars, and the binary systems that produce gravitational waves.
|
active | physics Astrophysics / Stellar Population Synthesis | Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sciences | 8 | 7 | vcomp wikipedia | Site Wiki |
|
First volunteer-computing project autonomously managed by an LLM. The AI principal investigator designs experiments, deploys them to volunteer hardware, reviews results, and pays FLOPS-based credit. 500+ experiment type…
|
active | multi-disciplinary AI-managed distributed experimentation | Heliex (independent) | 8 | 6 | boinc-synergy vcomp | Site |
|
Performs density functional theory (DFT) calculations on small organic molecules to build an open quantum-chemistry database for AI-driven molecular design.
|
active | chemistry Quantum Chemistry / Molecular Design | LERIA Lab, University of Angers (France) | 8 | 6 | vcomp wikipedia | Site |
|
A citizen-science gamma-radiation monitoring network. Volunteers plug small USB Geiger counters into their computers to build a continuously-updated world map of background radiation.
|
active | environmental Gamma Radiation Mapping | BOINC@Poland Association | 8 | 5 | boinc-synergy boincstats vcomp wikipedia | Site Stats |
|
Computational prediction of structure and properties of new chemical compounds (crystals, nanoparticles etc.) for various applications
|
active | chemistry, physics, materials science Computational prediction of structure and properties of new chemical compounds (crystals, nanoparticles etc.) for various applications | Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russian Academy of Science, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology | 7 | 7 | boinc-synergy vcomp wikipedia | Site |
|
Maps and measures the structure of the global internet from distributed vantage points, building a comprehensive picture of real-world network topology.
|
active | physics Internet Measurement / Network Science | Independent research project | 7 | 5 | boinc-synergy boincstats vcomp | Site Stats |
|
Uses bioinformatics software to study RNA structure
|
active | life sciences Uses bioinformatics software to study RNA structure | Independent research group in Marburg, Germany | 7 | 5 | boincstats dci-active wikipedia | Site DCI Stats |
|
Helps astronomers process data from space missions like ESA Gaia by pooling volunteer CPU power. Hosted at the University of Barcelona.
|
active | physics Astronomy / Space data processing | Universitat de Barcelona (Spain) | 7 | 5 | boinc-synergy boincstats | Site Stats |
|
Testing project for Einstein@Home
|
active | astrophysics Testing project for Einstein@Home | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Max Planck Institute | 7 | 4 | boincstats wikipedia | Site Stats |
|
Latest 2025 successor in the diagonal Latin squares research lineage; takes over from ODLK1 and the SPT line.
|
active | math Discrete math / Diagonal Latin squares | Eduard Vatutin et al. (Russia) | 7 | 4 | boinc-synergy | Site |
|
Gene@home is a scientific project belonging to the infrastructure TrentoGrid. It aims to expand networks of genes.
|
active | genetics Gene@home is a scientific project belonging to the infrastructure TrentoGrid. It aims to expand networks of genes. | Research Area of Trento of the National Research Council of Italy, University of Trento | 6 | 5 | boinc-synergy boincstats wikipedia | Site Stats |
|
BOINC platform-team service that gives independent and academic researchers free volunteer compute via Docker-packaged apps, without needing to set up their own BOINC server.
|
active | platform BOINC core team service | UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory | 6 | 4 | boinc-synergy | Site |
|
Successor to ODLK. Continues building the canonical-forms database for diagonal Latin squares of order 10 with orthogonal companions.
|
active | mathematics Discrete math / Diagonal Latin squares | Independent | 6 | 4 | boinc-synergy boincstats wikipedia | Site Stats |
|
Search of diagonal Latin squares
|
active | mathematics Search of diagonal Latin squares | Karelian Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences | 6 | 4 | boinc-synergy boincstats wikipedia | Site Stats |
|
Test/staging project for Rosetta@home — pre-release validation of new Rosetta apps before they reach production at boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta.
|
active | life sciences Test project for Rosetta@home | University of Washington | 6 | 4 | boinc-synergy boincstats dci-active equn-wiki wikipedia | Site DCI Stats |
|
Beta line of RNA World — runs Infernal-based bioinformatics analysis pipelines for systematic identification of non-coding RNA family members.
|
beta | biology Bioinformatics / RNA | Rechenkraft.net (Germany) | 6 | 4 | boinc-synergy | Site |
|
Development instance of climateprediction.net — used to test new climate-model apps before deployment to the production CPDN server.
|
active | climate Climate modeling (dev) | University of Oxford | 5 | 4 | boinc-synergy | Site |
|
Development/testing instance of LHC@home; hosts pre-release versions of the SixTrack/ATLAS/CMS apps for vetting before production rollout.
|
active | physics Particle physics / LHC test apps | CERN | 5 | 4 | boinc-synergy boincstats | Site Stats |
|
Builds a database of canonical forms of diagonal Latin squares of order 10 that have orthogonal companions. Continuation of the SAT@home Latin-squares work.
|
active | mathematics Discrete math / Diagonal Latin squares | Independent | 5 | 4 | boinc-synergy boincstats wikipedia | Site Stats |
|
Symmetric Prime Tuples (SPT) — successor to T.Brada Experimental Grid. Builds the Prime Tuple Database; CPU-only, ~900 MB RAM per task. Note: superseded by ODLK2025 in 2025 per the project team.
|
active | math Number theory / Prime tuples | Natalia Makarova (independent, RU) | 5 | 4 | boinc-synergy | Site |
|
PrimeGrid development server — pre-release primality test apps and project-side experiments before they reach production PrimeGrid.
|
active | math Number theory / Prime testing (dev) | PrimeGrid (community) | 5 | 3 | boinc-synergy | Site |
|
Private BOINC server coordinating Generalized Fermat Number (GFN) prime-search work using Genefer; complements PrimeGrid by sieving lower-n ranges.
|
active | math Number theory / Generalized Fermat primes | Independent (community-run, no support/forum) | 5 | 3 | boinc-synergy boincstats | Site Stats |
|
Look for Infinite monkey theorem
|
historical | mathematics Look for Infinite monkey theorem | Independent | 4 | 2 | wikipedia | Site Wiki |
|
Make computer art with fractal flames
|
historical | art Make computer art with fractal flames | Scott Draves (independent) | 3 | 3 | dci-active wikipedia | Site DCI Wiki |
|
Non-CPU-intensive (NCI) BOINC variant of GoofyxGrid@Home — runs as a "set and forget" credit-only task that stays out of the way of other projects.
|
active | math Infinite Monkey Theorem (NCI variant) | Independent (Goofyxgrid) | 3 | 2 | boincstats | Site Stats |
|
Volunteer-computing test project from the Institute of System Analysis of the Russian Academy of Sciences; targets the orthogonal diagonal Latin square (ODLS) problem.
|
active | math Discrete math / Latin squares | Institute of System Analysis, Russian Academy of Sciences | 3 | 2 | boinc-synergy | Site |
|
Long-running distributed-computing organization (since 1997) hosting multiple challenges; the RC5-72 keysearch is the headline ongoing effort.
|
active | cryptography Crack the RC5-72 cipher | Independent | 1 | 3 | dci-active equn-wiki wikipedia | Site DCI Wiki |
|
Genetic-linkage analysis to identify gene loci involved in diabetes, hypertension, cancer, schizophrenia, and other complex diseases.
|
historical | life sciences Uses genetic linkage analysis to help find disease-provoking genes. | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology | 1 | 2 | equn-wiki wikipedia | Site |
|
, owned by LookSmart , was "an open-source distributed Internet crawler." The client "crawled" websites to see which sites had changed their content, and updated a master search index in real-time. grub.org hoped to cre…
|
historical | internet distributed web crawling | Grub Inc. / LookSmart / Wikia | 1 | 1 | dci-active dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
Hungarian project that searches for all generalized binary number systems up to 11 dimensions.
|
historical | mathematics Find all the generalized binary number systems (in which bases are matrices and digits are vectors) up to dimension 11, understand basic universality classes of nonequilibrium system | MTA SZTAKI Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Hungary | 1 | 1 | equn-wiki wikipedia | Site |
|
The project that launched the volunteer computing revolution. Analyzed radio telescope data searching for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence (1999-2020).
|
historical | physics Astrobiology / SETI | UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory | 0 | 10 | dci-active dci-recent equn-wiki vcomp wikipedia | Site DCI Wiki |
|
Long-timescale molecular-dynamics simulations of solid-state systems using accelerated MD techniques.
|
completed | science Calculated the evolution of an atomic-scale system over time, such as a chemical reaction or diffusion. | University of Texas at Austin | 0 | 6 | dci-recent equn-wiki wikipedia | Site DCI Wiki |
|
models protein-ligand docking using the CHARMM program.
|
historical | life sciences models protein-ligand docking using the CHARMM program. | University of Delaware | 0 | 5 | dci-active wikipedia | Site DCI Wiki |
|
Designed new genes that can form working proteins in the cell that have not been found in nature.
|
historical | molecular biology Designed new genes that can form working proteins in the cell that have not been found in nature. | Stanford University | 0 | 5 | wikipedia | Site Wiki |
|
used "techniques from the attack from Wang et al., ... to find [MD5 hash] collisions which are more flexible:" these collisions will help "clarify the nature of the vulnerabilities in applications of MD5 that have been …
|
completed | cryptography Find collisions in the MD5 hash algorithm | Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (Marc Stevens) | 0 | 5 | dci-recent wikipedia | Site DCI Wiki |
|
Predicts protein structures using physics-based energy minimization techniques.
|
historical | life sciences Protein structure prediction, cellular signaling, protein aggregation, and drug design | University of Karlsruhe, Germany | 0 | 5 | dci-active equn-wiki wikipedia | Site DCI Wiki |
|
Pre-computes pairwise sequence-similarity scores between every protein and every Pfam family — feeding many downstream bioinformatics tools.
|
historical | life sciences Calculated similarities between proteins | University of Vienna | 0 | 5 | dci-active equn-wiki wikipedia | Site DCI Wiki |
|
Various aerospace-related science and engineering problems.
|
historical | science Various aerospace-related science and engineering problems. | Students at the University of Stuttgart, Germany | 0 | 4 | dci-active wikipedia | Site DCI |
|
Find the most accurate models that best describe the universe
|
historical | science Find the most accurate models that best describe the universe | Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris | 0 | 4 | dci-active vcomp wikipedia | Site DCI Wiki |
|
was a grand-challenge computation research program to study evolution. The first simulator for the project "helps uncover potential genetic causes of extinction for endangered and not-yet-endangered species by investiga…
|
completed | science Uses evolutionary algorithms to optimize the parameters of different kinds of machine learning algorithms | Laurence Loewe (University of Edinburgh / University of Wisconsin-Madison) | 0 | 4 | dci-recent equn-wiki wikipedia | Site DCI Wiki |
|
Builds cognitive models of the human mind
|
historical | life sciences Builds cognitive models of the human mind | University of Dayton Research Institute and Wright State University | 0 | 4 | dci-active wikipedia | Site DCI Wiki |
|
predicted protein structures from protein sequences. Scripps Research Institute .--> The first phase of the project, mfold, tested and evaluated "new algorithms and methods of protein structure prediction in the context…
|
completed | life sciences Test and evaluate new algorithms and methods of protein structure prediction in the context of the Sixth Biannual CASP experiment | The Scripps Research Institute | 0 | 4 | dci-recent equn-wiki wikipedia | Site DCI Wiki |
|
Predicts protein structures from amino-acid sequences via a distributed inverse-folding approach.
|
historical | life sciences Contribute to a better understanding of many diseases and pathologies and to progress in Medicine and Technology | École polytechnique | 0 | 4 | dci-active equn-wiki wikipedia | Site DCI Wiki |
|
Study the structure and reactivity of molecules using quantum chemistry and Monte Carlo techniques
|
historical | science Study the structure and reactivity of molecules using quantum chemistry and Monte Carlo techniques | University of Münster, Germany | 0 | 4 | dci-active equn-wiki wikipedia | Site DCI Wiki |
|
Uses accelerometers connected to personal computers to detect earthquakes and to educate about seismology
|
historical | science Uses accelerometers connected to personal computers to detect earthquakes and to educate about seismology | Stanford University | 0 | 4 | dci-active vcomp wikipedia | Site DCI Wiki |
|
Studies the basic physics of molecular magnetism with the goal of extending it to new technological applications.
|
historical | science Studied nano-magnetic molecules for research into localized tumor chemotherapy and micro-memory. | Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences | 0 | 4 | dci-active equn-wiki wikipedia | Site DCI Wiki |
|
Various scientific analysis projects
|
historical | life sciences Various scientific analysis projects | University of Maryland Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology | 0 | 4 | dci-active equn-wiki wikipedia | Site DCI Wiki |
|
Searches for distributions of triples (a, b, c) satisfying the ABC conjecture, a famous open problem in number theory.
|
historical | mathematics Find triples related to the abc conjecture, one of the greatest open problems in mathematics. | Mathematical Institute of Leiden University, Kennislink | 0 | 3 | dci-active equn-wiki wikipedia | Site DCI Wiki |
|
Earth-science project (now historical) running regional climate simulations for the African continent under World Community Grid.
|
historical | science regional climate modeling | World Community Grid / University of Cape Town | 0 | 3 | dci-active equn-wiki | Site DCI |
|
Used Quantum Monte Carlo to predict the performance of superconducting adiabatic quantum computers on a variety of problems.
|
historical | science Used Quantum Monte Carlo to predict the performance of superconducting adiabatic quantum computers on a variety of problems. | D-Wave Systems, Canada | 0 | 3 | dci-active wikipedia | Site DCI Wiki |
|
attempted to "reverse engineer the brain in order to build a large scale artificial intelligence system." The project's software client "is an application that simulates neurons. Each downloaded work unit generates 100,…
|
completed | science Simulate the brain using Hodgkin–Huxley models via an artificial neural network | Intelligence Realm Inc | 0 | 3 | dci-recent wikipedia | Site DCI Wiki |
|
Big and Ugly Rendering Project — distributed rendering for 3D animation. Project URL is now dead.
|
historical | art Rendering of 3D Animations | Janus Kristensen (community); later Laurea University of Applied Sciences (Finland, as Renderfarm.fi) | 0 | 3 | dci-active equn-wiki wikipedia | Site DCI Wiki |
|
Animals, Biology, Birds, Climate and weather, Education, Nature, and outdoors
|
active | multiple applications Animals, Biology, Birds, Climate and weather, Education, Nature, and outdoors | University of North Dakota | 0 | 3 | wikipedia | Site |
|
The Collatz Conjecture project attempted to verify the Collatz Conjecture for larger values. This was a test project for the Grid on Tap computing platform. Collatz Phase 1 tested n from 1 to 99,999,999,999. It began on…
|
completed | mathematics Study the Collatz conjecture, an unsolved conjecture in mathematics | Independent | 0 | 3 | dci-recent equn-wiki wikipedia | Site DCI Wiki |
|
Distributed Internet Measurements and Simulations — maps the structure and behavior of the Internet from many vantage points.
|
historical | internet Maps the structure and evolution of the Internet infrastructure, letting users see how the Internet looks from their home | Tel Aviv University (EU EVERGROW / FET programme) | 0 | 3 | dci-active equn-wiki wikipedia | Site DCI Wiki |
|
Citizen-science project (manual visual classification) where volunteers categorize galaxies in survey imagery — pioneering work in citizen-science astronomy.
|
historical | distributed human projects galaxy morphology classification | University of Oxford (Chris Lintott, Kevin Schawinski et al.) | 0 | 3 | dci-active equn-wiki | Site DCI |
|
Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search — finds the largest known Mersenne primes (2^p - 1). Predates and remains independent of BOINC; runs on its own client (Prime95). The longest-running volunteer-computing project.
|
historical | mathematics Searches for Mersenne primes of world record size | Independent | 0 | 3 | dci-active equn-wiki wikipedia | Site DCI Wiki |
|
An open computing platform for scientists and students focused on general classical molecular dynamics simulations. Hosted at Leiden University.
|
historical | science General classical mechanics for students or scientists | Leiden University, the Netherlands | 0 | 3 | dci-active equn-wiki wikipedia | Site DCI Wiki |
|
used "the Number Field Sieve to find the factors of increasingly large numbers." On November 10, 2002, NFSNET completed the factorization of W(668), a 204-digit special number field sieve (SNFS). The project's 10 most r…
|
completed | february 19, 2005 Used the general number field sieve to factor increasingly large integers. Discontinued and replaced by NFS@Home. | Paul Leyland, Richard Wackerbarth et al. | 0 | 3 | dci-recent wikipedia | Site DCI Wiki |
|
Computes precise orbital trajectories for every near-Earth object larger than ~6 km in diameter, supporting planetary defense work.
|
historical | science Monitored and studied the hazards posed by near-earth asteroids. | Planetary Science Institute | 0 | 3 | dci-active equn-wiki wikipedia | Site DCI Wiki |
|
( PROtein SURFace Exploratory Research) looked for similar proteins in the human genome. The knowledge it created will help scientists to predict potential side-effects for existing drugs and to design new drugs with fe…
|
completed | life sciences protein surface / drug side-effect prediction | NTT Data Corporation (cell computing Birth) | 0 | 3 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
Prove that 509,203 is the smallest Riesel number, by finding a prime of the form k × 2 − 1 for all odd k smaller than 509,203. Merged with PrimeGrid.
|
historical | mathematics Prove that 509,203 is the smallest Riesel number, by finding a prime of the form k × 2 − 1 for all odd k smaller than 509,203. Merged with PrimeGrid. | Independent (merged into PrimeGrid) | 0 | 3 | wikipedia | Site Wiki |
|
Test project of SETI@home
|
historical | software testing Test project of SETI@home | University of California, Berkeley | 0 | 3 | wikipedia | Site Wiki |
|
Studies scaling laws in cluster aggregation
|
historical | materials science Studies scaling laws in cluster aggregation | G.V.Kurdyumov Institute for Metal Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine | 0 | 3 | wikipedia | Site Wiki |
|
Citizen-science project (manual image classification, not number crunching) to search Stardust spacecraft aerogel collectors for interstellar dust grains.
|
historical | distributed human projects interstellar dust search | UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory (Andrew Westphal) | 0 | 3 | dci-active equn-wiki | Site DCI |
|
Protein structure prediction project from Japan, using molecular dynamics to fold protein chains from sequence.
|
historical | life sciences Protein structure prediction using the Brownian dynamics method | Tokyo University of Science | 0 | 3 | dci-active equn-wiki wikipedia | Site DCI |
|
Analysis of radio astronomy data from telescopes such as the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder and The Square Kilometre Array
|
historical | science Analysis of radio astronomy data from telescopes such as the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder and The Square Kilometre Array | International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research | 0 | 3 | dci-active wikipedia | Site DCI Wiki |
|
researched "the effects of atmospheric dispersion as it relates to the accuracy of measurements used in climate prediction." The project also planned to research other topics in atmospheric science. The project ended wh…
|
completed | science atmospheric dispersion / atmospheric science | Independent BOINC project (hobbyist-run) | 0 | 2 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
Ran simulations of the ATLAS experiment at CERN.
|
historical | science Ran simulations of the ATLAS experiment at CERN. | CERN | 0 | 2 | dci-active wikipedia | Site DCI |
|
studied the evolutionary process which has created the anti-fungoid peptide, which is in the genome of all living things, in order to help create a new antibiotic for humans. The project completed 46,062 work units usin…
|
completed | life sciences anti-fungoid peptide evolution | NTT Data Corporation (cell computing Birth) | 0 | 2 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
's Race for the Pandas had a free button for people to click to save 0.3 acres (2.2 square meters) of endangered panda habitat per click. The project generated 4,185,000 donations, which saved about 1.2 million acres (a…
|
historical | charity click-to-donate (panda habitat) | Care2 | 0 | 2 | dci-past | Site DCI |
|
Provide computing power to Chinese Researchers
|
historical | science Provide computing power to Chinese Researchers | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 0 | 2 | dci-active wikipedia | Site DCI |
|
( Chromosomal Nostalgia) searched for relationships between the 24 chromosomes of the human genome. An understanding of these relationships would help scientists to better understand and prevent genetic diseases, includ…
|
completed | life sciences chromosome relationship analysis | NTT Data Corporation (cell computing Birth) | 0 | 2 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
DCypher.net was designed to run multiple and different types of projects. It ran a CSC decryption contest and a project to design safer storage vessels for nuclear waste . For the gamma flux project it processed almost …
|
historical | cryptography CSC decryption + nuclear-waste storage gamma flux | Distributed Science Inc. | 0 | 2 | dci-past | Site DCI |
|
WCG project that searched for promising drug-lead compounds against dengue, hepatitis C, West Nile, and yellow-fever viruses.
|
historical | life sciences drug discovery / flaviviruses | University of Texas Medical Branch; University of Chicago | 0 | 2 | dci-active equn-wiki | Site DCI |
|
Discovered what regulates the genes in DNA using statistical algorithms.
|
historical | life sciences Discovered what regulates the genes in DNA using statistical algorithms. | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 0 | 2 | dci-active wikipedia | Site DCI |
|
Breast, ovarian, prostate and pancreatic cancer; COVID-19
|
historical | cancer research Breast, ovarian, prostate and pancreatic cancer; COVID-19 | Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia | 0 | 2 | wikipedia | Site Wiki |
|
Supported in silico drug design of chemical compounds for medicines in the fields of cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.
|
historical | life sciences Supported in silico drug design of chemical compounds for medicines in the fields of cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. | Independent | 0 | 2 | dci-active wikipedia | Site DCI |
|
rendered animations for a short movie "Erecl nico." The movie was broadcast on the Japanese television program "thermal blood! Hobby stadium" on May 7 and May 8, 2005, on The Kids Station . This project was part of the …
|
completed | art distributed animation rendering | NTT Data Corporation (cell computing Birth) | 0 | 2 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
searched for drugs to fight major diseases. The project studied cancer, bioterrorism diseases, respiratory diseases, multiple sclerosis, HIV (AIDS), Malaria, and CJD, as well as studying the human proteome in general, a…
|
completed | life sciences multi-disease drug discovery (THINK) | Treweren Consultants (UK) | 0 | 2 | dci-recent equn-wiki | Site DCI |
|
Compute essential information for software which seeks to imitate human conversation.
|
historical | language Compute essential information for software which seeks to imitate human conversation. | Independent | 0 | 2 | dci-active wikipedia | Site DCI Wiki |
|
project created a data source of similarities among all predicted protein sequences. The project "perform[ed], for the first time, a complete pairwise comparison between all predicted protein sequences, obtaining simila…
|
completed | life sciences protein sequence similarity (ProteinWorldDB) | Fiocruz (DBBM) / World Community Grid | 0 | 2 | dci-recent equn-wiki | Site DCI |
|
Citizen-science project that gathered visual sky observations from volunteers worldwide to map light-pollution levels.
|
historical | astronomy citizen-science light-pollution mapping | Windows to the Universe / University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) | 0 | 2 | equn-wiki | Site |
|
, "Accelrys, Evotec OAI, IBM, Oxford University, ... and numerous scientific researchers led by Dr. Grant McFadden and Dr. Stewart Shuman," screened potential drug molecules to help find a cure for Smallpox . Phase 1 of…
|
completed | life sciences drug discovery / smallpox | United Devices, IBM, Oxford University, Accelrys, Evotec OAI | 0 | 2 | dci-past dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
WCG project that improved protein-crystallography image analysis to accelerate cancer-related structural biology research.
|
historical | life sciences protein crystallography / cancer structural biology | Ontario Cancer Institute / Princess Margaret Hospital | 0 | 2 | dci-active equn-wiki | Site DCI |
|
Trains chess neural networks with deep reinforcement learning. Experiments with training parameters and net architectures
|
active | software testing, chess Trains chess neural networks with deep reinforcement learning. Experiments with training parameters and net architectures | Leela Chess Zero community | 0 | 2 | wikipedia | Site Wiki |
|
Simulate the transmission dynamics and health effects of malaria.
|
historical | epidemiology Simulate the transmission dynamics and health effects of malaria. | Swiss Tropical Institute | 0 | 2 | dci-active vcomp wikipedia | Site DCI Wiki |
|
, a World Community Grid project, "predict[ed] the structure of proteins of major strains of rice. The intent [was] to help farmers breed better rice strains with higher crop yields, promote greater disease and pest res…
|
completed | life sciences rice protein structure prediction | University of Washington (Ram Samudrala) / World Community Grid | 0 | 2 | dci-recent equn-wiki | Site DCI |
|
Algorithm analysis. The library is open and available in the Code.google.com SVN repository.
|
historical | mathematics Algorithm analysis. The library is open and available in the Code.google.com SVN repository. | Olin Library, Rollins College | 0 | 2 | wikipedia | Site Wiki |
|
Search for counterexamples to Agrawal's conjecture and Popovych's conjecture, which relate to the identification of prime numbers
|
historical | mathematics Search for counterexamples to Agrawal's conjecture and Popovych's conjecture, which relate to the identification of prime numbers | RheinMain University of Applied Sciences | 0 | 2 | wikipedia | Site |
|
2D and 3D rendering for animation artists
|
historical | rendering 2D and 3D rendering for animation artists | Independent (Finnish) | 0 | 2 | wikipedia | Site Wiki |
|
Searches for large twin primes
|
historical | mathematics Searches for large twin primes | Independent (founded by Michael Kwok) | 0 | 2 | wikipedia | Site Wiki |
|
Simulated microfluidics problems and two-phase flows in microgravity
|
historical | physics, aeronautics Simulated microfluidics problems and two-phase flows in microgravity | Purdue University | 0 | 2 | dci-active wikipedia | Site DCI Wiki |
|
Provided ecological guidelines on the design of prairies with the best potential for water purification
|
historical | science Provided ecological guidelines on the design of prairies with the best potential for water purification | University of Houston | 0 | 2 | dci-active wikipedia | Site DCI |
|
attempted to improve the performance of distributed/grid computing projects. It planned to study various combinations of grid computing technologies to find the most efficient way to do grid computing. The results of th…
|
completed | science grid computing performance research | LRI (Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique), Universite Paris-Sud | 0 | 2 | dci-recent equn-wiki | Site DCI |
|
looked for prime numbers of the form 2 n - 1. It looked for 15k which produce many primes n : "in general when k has many small factors, n is more likely to produce a prime because it can't have those same factors." As …
|
completed | october 10, 2005 prime number search (k*2^n-1) | Independent prime-search hobbyist project (15k.us) | 0 | 1 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
was "trying to break a 1024 bit RSA key used by Motorola to sign the boot and recovery partitions on the Motorola Milestone. If this key could be broken, [Motorola mobile device users] would be able to sign [their] own …
|
completed | cryptography Broke Motorola's 1024-bit RSA key used to sign the boot and recovery partition partitions on the Motorola Milestone smartphone. | Independent | 0 | 1 | dci-recent wikipedia | Site DCI |
|
was a non-profit project sponsored by NTT Data Corporation , with two sub-projects: finding disease-causing genes, and finding good materials for creating optical microprocessors. Note that this site is written complete…
|
completed | life sciences disease-gene search (BOLERO) and photonic crystals (OPAL) | NTT Data | 0 | 1 | dci-recent wikipedia | Site DCI |
|
Analysis of chess 960.
|
historical | puzzles/games Analysis of chess 960. | Independent | 0 | 1 | dci-active wikipedia | Site DCI |
|
A volunteer-computing grid framework built at Gdańsk University of Technology to run national-security-relevant simulations. More research platform than public project, with rotating defense-related compute tasks.
|
historical | mathematics, artificial intelligence, physics National Security Research Grid | Gdańsk University of Technology, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics | 0 | 1 | curated wikipedia | Site |
|
searched for drugs to fight Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC), "a genetic disorder that leads to benign tumors in multiple organs, including the brain, kidneys, heart, eyes, lungs and other organs. The project was sponso…
|
completed | life sciences Tuberous Sclerosis Complex drug discovery | The Rothberg Institute for Childhood Diseases | 0 | 1 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
developed lower-cost and more efficient water filters. The project, a collaboration between World Community Grid and Tsinghua University , performed molecular dynamics experiments to study the physical properties of car…
|
completed | science carbon nanotube water filtration | Tsinghua University / World Community Grid | 0 | 1 | dci-recent equn-wiki | Site DCI |
|
Collects structural data about websites for academic web-graph and link-analysis research.
|
historical | internet web-dependency crawler | Independent (Scott Hendrickson) | 0 | 1 | dci-active equn-wiki | Site DCI |
|
searched for Emirps, prime numbers whose digits, when reversed, are also a prime number (for example, 13 and 31 are Emirps). The project processed 197 blocks. The client supports modem-users and users behind firewalls a…
|
completed | mathematics emirp prime search | Tong-Web (independent) | 0 | 1 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
project simulated folding proteins to help scientists learn how proteins "fold and assemble into living cells." The project, run by the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute , the Hogue Bioinformatics Laboratory and the U…
|
completed | life sciences protein structure prediction | Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute / University of Toronto | 0 | 1 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
Research in the various fields of data analysis and machine learning, such as prediction of market value of companies'shares and analysis of medical data
|
historical | miscellaneous Research in the various fields of data analysis and machine learning, such as prediction of market value of companies'shares and analysis of medical data | Christian Kubera (independent) | 0 | 1 | dci-active wikipedia | Site DCI |
|
(D 2 OL) TM searched for oral drugs which could fight Anthrax , Smallpox , Ebola , SARS , deadly diseases for which there was currently no cure, and for Malaria , a life-threatenting disease for which 40% of the world's…
|
completed | life sciences drug discovery (Anthrax/Smallpox/Ebola/SARS/Malaria) | The Rothberg Institute for Childhood Diseases | 0 | 1 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
was a distributed effort to solve Certicom 's ECCp-109 challenge and set "a new world record in characteristic p elliptic curve discrete log computation." The project won Certicom's $10,000 (US) prize: each of the two p…
|
historical | cryptography elliptic-curve discrete log challenge (p-prime curve) | University of Notre Dame (Chris Monico) | 0 | 1 | dci-past | Site DCI |
|
Support the execution of selected scientific applications developed by the EGEE and EDGeS community
|
historical | science Support the execution of selected scientific applications developed by the EGEE and EDGeS community | MTA SZTAKI Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Hungary | 0 | 1 | dci-active wikipedia | Site DCI |
|
The first major volunteer-computing project devoted to drug discovery for a single disease. Screened millions of compounds against HIV proteins for over a decade, becoming the template every later medical-VC project fol…
|
historical | life sciences HIV / AIDS Drug Discovery | Scripps Research Institute (Olson Lab) via World Community Grid | 0 | 1 | dci-active equn-wiki vcomp | Site DCI |
|
Find a prime or probable prime of the form 2+k for all odd k < 78557, the last probable prime found is 2+40291, and this project stopped when this probable prime was found.
|
historical | mathematics Find a prime or probable prime of the form 2+k for all odd k < 78557, the last probable prime found is 2+40291, and this project stopped when this probable prime was found. | Independent | 0 | 1 | wikipedia | Site |
|
was a volunteer project that used a screensaver, command-line client or system client application to simulate protein folding of the data from the Human Genome Project . The project completed 36 years of simulation befo…
|
historical | life sciences protein folding (Human Genome data) | Independent (folderol.org) | 0 | 1 | dci-past | Site DCI |
|
Project designed and evolved robotic lifeforms via a screensaver application. The screensaver randomly created a population of virtual robots on users' systems and then evolved them (the rule for evolution was survival …
|
historical | science Used evolutionary computation to design robotic locomotion systems. | Brandeis University | 0 | 1 | dci-past wikipedia | Site DCI |
|
WCG project that screened candidate molecules against muscular-dystrophy and related neuromuscular-disease targets.
|
historical | life sciences drug discovery / muscular dystrophy | Décrypthon (CNRS / AFM-Téléthon / IBM); Pierre and Marie Curie University | 0 | 1 | dci-active equn-wiki | Site DCI |
|
project enabled cancer researchers "to analyze a larger set of cancer tissue specimens and conduct experiments using a much broader ensemble of biomarkers and stains than is possible using traditional computer resources…
|
completed | life sciences tissue microarray / cancer biomarkers | Rutgers / World Community Grid | 0 | 1 | dci-recent equn-wiki | Site DCI |
|
Life-sciences project (WCG) that simulated folding of human proteins to help characterize their structures and functions.
|
historical | life sciences protein structure prediction | Institute for Systems Biology (Richard Bonneau); New York University | 0 | 1 | dci-active equn-wiki | Site DCI |
|
researched more efficient ways to produce hydrogen to use as an energy source. The project simulated "interactions of 3D structures of proteins and substrate" "to predict previously uncharacterized catalytic interaction…
|
completed | science Searches for the most efficient method of hydrogen production | Independent project (Jack Shultz) | 0 | 1 | dci-recent wikipedia | Site DCI |
|
Used social networking mathematical models to study the ideological evolution of a group of people over time.
|
historical | society Used social networking mathematical models to study the ideological evolution of a group of people over time. | Complutense University of Madrid, Spain | 0 | 1 | wikipedia | Site |
|
attempted "to complete the factorization tables with Fibonacci and Lucas numbers which are maintained by Blair Kelly ... focusing only on composites of Lucas numbers (composites are the remains left over when a number i…
|
completed | mathematics integer factorization (Lucas / Fibonacci numbers) | Independent (Blair Kelly, factoring community) | 0 | 1 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
Explored magnetization patterns.
|
historical | science Explored magnetization patterns. | Donetsk Institute for Physics and Technology, Ukraine | 0 | 1 | dci-active wikipedia | Site DCI |
|
Distributed crawling for an independent Internet search engine — volunteers contribute crawl bandwidth.
|
historical | internet Uses a distributed web crawler program to index web sites for a distributed search engine | Majestic (Alex Chudnovsky, UK) | 0 | 1 | dci-active equn-wiki wikipedia | Site DCI |
|
studied the properties of oligopeptides. Note that the site is written in Russian, but babelfish provides a reasonable English translation of it. The project simulated the thermal agitation of molecules within large pro…
|
completed | 100.0% complete; 100.0% complete molecular dynamics (oligopeptides) | Independent (Russian hobbyist) | 0 | 1 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
Understanding and interpreting complex machine learning models
|
historical | mathematics Understanding and interpreting complex machine learning models | University of Maryland, Baltimore County | 0 | 1 | wikipedia | Site |
|
was a screen saver that used neural networks to analyze stock market charts and indices to predict future trends of the indices. The client trained its neural network with recent market data in an attempt to make good, …
|
completed | financial financial / neural-network stock forecasting | MoneyBee AG (Germany) | 0 | 1 | dci-recent equn-wiki wikipedia | Site DCI |
|
attempted to "accurately simulate nanosystems too large to be calculated via normal means, and thereby enable further scientific study in the field of nanotechnology." The project ended when the project owner, Brian Hel…
|
completed | science molecular nanotechnology simulation | Nanorex / Brian Helfrich | 0 | 1 | dci-recent equn-wiki | Site DCI |
|
Simulating the behavior of a large and complex network of cellular automata neurons.
|
historical | neural network Simulating the behavior of a large and complex network of cellular automata neurons. | Complutense University of Madrid, Spain | 0 | 1 | wikipedia | Site |
|
) Screensaver-Lifesaver project searched for drugs to fight pancreatic cancer. The project was a partnership among grid.org , the National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR) , the Centre for Drug Discovery in the Dep…
|
completed | life sciences pancreatic cancer drug discovery | National Foundation for Cancer Research / University of Oxford / University of Arizona / TGen | 0 | 1 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
Solve various large-scale optimization problems. Currently finding molecular conformations which have minimal potential energy.
|
historical | optimization Solve various large-scale optimization problems. Currently finding molecular conformations which have minimal potential energy. | Institute for Systems Analysis, Russian Academy of Sciences | 0 | 1 | wikipedia | Site |
|
project continued the work begun in one of Al Zimmerman's programming contest s, the Pancakes Programming Contest : the project attempted to exhaustively prove one or more of the solutions discovered in the contest. See…
|
completed | puzzles/games pancake-sorting problem | Al Zimmermann's Programming Contests community | 0 | 1 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
rendering project produced a simulation of 382 billion photons in a room. This simulation reproduced one which was done by the project coordinator, Richard Keene, in 1994. The first simulation produced an image for SIGG…
|
completed | art distributed rendering / ray tracing | Richard Keene (independent) | 0 | 1 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
attempted to break the world's record for known digits of Pi. The current record as of 2007, set by PiHex in September, 2000, was 1 quadrillion digits. The project website was currently only in Chinese and English. The …
|
completed | mathematics Looked for specific digits (in binary) of Pi and make volunteer computing more popular in China | Independent project | 0 | 1 | dci-recent wikipedia | Site DCI |
|
Mission 1 helped to develop the Einstein@Home screensaver Tested BOINC's forum software for possible use by Interactions in Understanding the Universe
|
historical | miscellaneous Mission 1 helped to develop the Einstein@Home screensaver Tested BOINC's forum software for possible use by Interactions in Understanding the Universe | 1 Vassar College 2 Spy Hill Research | 0 | 1 | dci-active equn-wiki wikipedia | Site DCI |
|
searched for a more effective influenza vaccine. The company went out of business on March 17, 2001, but the founders continued the influenza vaccine project until September, 2001. The client used Java for task implemen…
|
historical | life sciences influenza vaccine modeling | Popular Power, Inc. | 0 | 1 | dci-past | Site DCI |
|
, sponsored by Al Zimmerman, which ran from July, 2002 to October 15, 2002. See the final results of the contest. The project used a modified version of Jean-Charles Meyrignac's client for the Minimal Equal Sums of Like…
|
completed | mathematics difference-triangle span optimization | Al Zimmerman (sponsor) | 0 | 1 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
sieved ranges of k up to 10 trillion to support participants at Yves Gallot's Proth Search Page . The project apparently ended sometime in 2007. No results from the project were published
|
completed | mathematics Proth prime sieving | Independent project (Mikael Klasson / Paul Jobling, hosted at prothsieve.com) | 0 | 1 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
searched for Ramsey numbers. " Ramsey theory , named for Frank P. Ramsey, is a branch of mathematics that studies the conditions under which order must appear. Problems in Ramsey theory typically ask a question of the f…
|
historical | mathematics Ramsey numbers | Rice University (community-hosted) | 0 | 1 | dci-active dci-recent equn-wiki | Site DCI |
|
Finding the minimum number of edge crossings when drawing the complete graph K_n with straight edges — a classical open problem in combinatorial geometry. Volunteer-computed lower bounds have advanced the known values f…
|
historical | mathematics Combinatorial Geometry | Graz University of Technology (CAPE5 group) | 0 | 1 | curated dci-active equn-wiki | Site DCI |
|
Various applications related to the boolean satisfiability problem, inversion of specific stream cipher functions
|
historical | cryptanalysis, mathematics Various applications related to the boolean satisfiability problem, inversion of specific stream cipher functions | Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences | 0 | 1 | wikipedia | Site |
|
The search for Wieferich prime numbers looked for numbers of the form a p-1 = 1 (mod p 2 ) for a = 2 or 3. The only two known Wieferich primes are 1,093 and 3,511 and there are no other Wieferich primes less than 2 * 10…
|
completed | mathematics Wieferich prime search | Dalhousie University | 0 | 1 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
Searched for collisions in the SHA-1 cryptographic hash function to demonstrate its weakness. Groundwork for the 2017 SHAttered attack (Google + CWI) that produced the first practical SHA-1 collision.
|
historical | cryptography Hash Function Cryptanalysis | Graz University of Technology (IAIK) | 0 | 1 | curated dci-active equn-wiki | Site DCI |
|
( The Small Internet GFN Prime Search) searched for primes of the form b 8192 + 1 (b > 99999999), a Generalized Fermat prime number. The project used the AthGFNsv.exe client to sieve candidate primes. The project also h…
|
completed | september 21, 2004 Generalized Fermat / Proth prime search | Independent (hobbyist) | 0 | 1 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
Looking for prime k-tuples
|
historical | mathematics Looking for prime k-tuples | Independent | 0 | 1 | wikipedia | Site |
|
Monitor and test websites for failure rates and overall performance
|
historical | computer science Monitor and test websites for failure rates and overall performance | University of Coimbra | 0 | 1 | wikipedia | Site |
|
Searched the molecular space for organic photovoltaic candidates suitable for cheap solar cells, and for polymer-membrane fuel cells. Run on World Community Grid.
|
historical | science Computational Materials Discovery / Organic Photovoltaics | Harvard University (Aspuru-Guzik group) via World Community Grid | 0 | 1 | dci-active equn-wiki vcomp | Site DCI |
|
The dual Sierpinski problem search tried to find a prime in each sequence of integers of the form k + 2 n (fixed k) for which no prime had yet been found. The project was coordinated by Payam Samidoost, an active resear…
|
historical | mathematics dual Sierpinski problem | Payam Samidoost (independent) | 0 | 1 | dci-past | Site DCI |
|
the smallest remaining Sierpinski problem candidate k=4847 project searched for prime numbers of the form 4847 . 2 n +1 for n > 1,000,000 (n <= 1,000,000 had already been checked). The project was coordinated by Payam S…
|
historical | mathematics Sierpinski problem (k=4847) | Payam Samidoost (independent) | 0 | 1 | dci-past | Site DCI |
|
searched for cancer-fighting drugs. The project was a partnership among grid.org , the National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR) , and the Centre for Drug Discovery in the Department of Chemistry at the University …
|
completed | life sciences cancer drug discovery (THINK / LigandFit) | Grid.org (United Devices) / NFCR / University of Oxford | 0 | 1 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
Run simulations of high-energy particle collisions in a computational search for new fundamental particles for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN
|
historical | physics Run simulations of high-energy particle collisions in a computational search for new fundamental particles for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN | CERN | 0 | 1 | wikipedia | Site |
|
Supported various research projects at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
|
historical | software testing Supported various research projects at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University | Vilnius Gediminas Technical University and Kaunas University of Technology | 0 | 1 | wikipedia | Site |
|
Factorization of Mersenne+2 numbers
|
historical | mathematics Factorization of Mersenne+2 numbers | London, England, United Kingdom | 0 | 1 | dci-active equn-wiki wikipedia | Site DCI |
|
Searches for new Wieferich primes
|
historical | mathematics Searches for new Wieferich primes | Unsads BOINC server / Czech National Team | 0 | 1 | dci-active wikipedia | Site DCI |
|
, a challenge to crack the 2048-bit RSA private encryption key Microsoft uses to sign Xbox media. If this key was discovered, Linux could be run on the Xbox without modifying the Xbox hardware. The client used Microsoft…
|
completed | cryptography 2048-bit RSA key brute-force | Xbox Linux Project (Michael Steil et al.) | 0 | 1 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
's Java-based client allowed people to participate in for-pay projects. The project never began any for-pay projects, however. The most recent Beta version of the client ran "genetic alignment algorithms" which "look[ed…
|
completed | life sciences genetic alignment / bioinformatics | Institute of Genomics and Bioinformatics, UC Irvine | 0 | 1 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
100 Million digits prefactor project remove exponents which can be factored now from GIMPS ' search for the first known 100 million digit prime number. This is a sister project to Operation Billion Digits .
|
historical | mathematics GIMPS trial-factoring | Community (Mersenne Forum, sister of Operation Billion Digits) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
The 12121 Search looked for large primes of the form 121 * 2 n - 1, a subsidiary of the search of k * 2 n - 1 for k < 300. This project planned to search for n up to 1,000,000 in the short term, and for larger n in the …
|
completed | mathematics prime number search (121*2^n-1) | Independent (hobbyist; 121*2^n-1 Proth search on vocabulate.com) | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
looked for large primes of the form 27 * 2 n - 1. This was a sister project to the 12121 Search . The project used the LLR.exe command-line client. Join a discussion forum about this project.-->
|
completed | mathematics prime number search (27*2^n-1) | Independent (sister of 12121 Search on vocabulate.com) | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
Find 3x+1 class records in the 3x+1 Problem project. This project attempts to find ever higher 3x+1 class records. The client, which will work on any PC/Windows platform, and the instructions for joining the project, ar…
|
active | mathematics Collatz / 3x+1 conjecture verification | Eric Roosendaal (independent) / yoyo@home / David Bařina | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
searched for high 3x+1 (Collatz) conjecture stopping times. On June 23, 2008, the project found a higher stopping time: 2,361,198,062,777,205,778,683 with a stopping time of 2240. See the project's discussion forum
|
completed | mathematics Collatz conjecture stopping times | Independent BOINC project (hosted at allprojectstats.com) | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
Generated rainbow tables for GSM's A5/1 stream cipher in 2009, publicly demonstrating that real-time eavesdropping on mobile phone calls was feasible. The published tables motivated the industry's transition to A5/3.
|
historical | cryptography GSM Cipher Cryptanalysis | Karsten Nohl / Security Research Labs | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Crowdsourced transcription of service records for the 209,000 African American men who served in the U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War. Run by the National Park Service as part of their 'From Civil War to Civil R…
|
active | distributed human projects Historical Transcription | National Park Service | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
A number of applications from local researchers.
|
historical | multiple applications A number of applications from local researchers. | Almere, the Netherlands | 0 | 0 | wikipedia | Site |
|
Test of the AlmereGrid project.
|
historical | multiple applications Test of the AlmereGrid project. | AlmereGrid Foundation, Almere, Netherlands | 0 | 0 | wikipedia | Site |
|
A citizen-science volunteer project cataloging and tracking oil-exploration activity in the Amazon Basin. Obscure; exact current operator unclear.
|
historical | distributed human projects Environmental Monitoring | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona + FEDIQUEP (Amazonian indigenous community) | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Amazon's commercial microtask platform — requesters pay 'Turkers' pennies-to-dollars for HITs (Human Intelligence Tasks) like image labeling, transcription, and survey completion. Launched 2005; arguably the template fo…
|
active | distributed human projects Commercial Crowdwork | Amazon | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
The Analytical Spectroscopy Research Group (ASRG) ran a SETI project with the same basic goal as SETI@Home , to detect artificial radio signals from space. The project used a more manual process: users downloaded work u…
|
completed | science SETI / radio signal search | University of Kentucky, Analytical Spectroscopy Research Group | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
Transcribed fragments of Greek papyri from the Oxyrhynchus papyri collection — 500,000+ pieces of everyday ancient Egyptian / Greco-Roman life. Published transcription work helped editors at Oxford produce new volumes o…
|
historical | distributed human projects Ancient Papyri Transcription | University of Oxford (Egypt Exploration Society) | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Transcribed Boston Public Library's collection of 19th-century abolitionist correspondence — letters of William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and others — to make them searchable for historians.
|
historical | distributed human projects Abolitionist Correspondence | Boston Public Library | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
"to help WaterAid deliver clean, safe water and sanitation to people in Malawi and Madagascar." Users could also answer a daily quiz question to earn an extra click. Each click donated €0.10. The project hoped to reach …
|
completed | charity click-to-donate (clean water, WaterAid) | European plastics industry / WaterAid | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
"to help WaterAid deliver clean, safe water and sanitation to people in Ethiopia." Each click donated €0.10. Users could also answer a daily quiz question to donate an extra €0.02. The project reached its goal of genera…
|
completed | charity charity / click-to-donate (WaterAid Ethiopia) | European plastics industry / WaterAid (beneficiary) | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
A virtual archiving appliance that will download sites and upload them to the Archive Team archive and the Internet Archive Wayback Machine
|
active | digital preservation A virtual archiving appliance that will download sites and upload them to the Archive Team archive and the Internet Archive Wayback Machine | Archive Team | 0 | 0 | wikipedia | Site |
|
attempted a brute-force decryption of an RC5 code used in the online/offline game " Perplex City ". On September 22, 2006, 5,374,785 new work units, which included new key spaces for the characters SPACE , . ? !, were a…
|
completed | cryptography RC5 brute force (Perplex City game) | chimera245 / GuiN (Perplex City community) | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
Hunted for previously undetected asteroids by inspecting images from the Pan-STARRS1 survey telescope. Volunteer classifications trained automated detection algorithms. Data-taking phase concluded in 2017.
|
historical | distributed human projects Asteroid Surveys | Pan-STARRS / University of Hawaii + Planetary Resources | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Rescued figures, plots, and plates from decades of old astronomy journal articles — so future researchers can find and use this historical data. A collaboration with NASA ADS (Astrophysics Data System).
|
historical | distributed human projects Historical Astronomy Data Rescue | American Astronomical Society + ADS | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
A SETI@home companion search — hunted for microsecond radio pulses (from compact objects or exotic physics) in Arecibo data, using a more computationally intense algorithm than classic SETI@home. Ran alongside the main …
|
historical | physics Radio Astronomy / Transient Searches | UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory | 0 | 0 | curated equn-wiki | Site |
|
Background Pi
Computed decimal digits of pi using digit extraction method.
|
historical | mathematics Computed decimal digits of pi using digit extraction method. | — | 0 | 0 | wikipedia | |
|
Volunteers flip through short animated sequences of WISE space-telescope images, looking for faint brown dwarfs or a hypothetical Planet 9 moving against the starry background. Discoveries include hundreds of new brown …
|
active | distributed human projects Brown Dwarfs / Solar System | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Listen to recordings of bat echolocation and social calls and classify them by species. Builds a large training dataset for automated acoustic bat monitoring — critical for biodiversity and pesticide-impact research.
|
historical | distributed human projects Bioacoustics / Biodiversity | University College London (UCL) | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
, in a project with climateprediction.net and BOINC , studied global climate warming due to different processes in the 20th century and attempted to predict the "transient climate response," the actual climate change ex…
|
completed | science transient climate response modelling | climateprediction.net / University of Oxford / BBC | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
tracked the distance traveled by a participant's computer mouse, and the number of times the participant clicked it, and periodically reported that information to the project server. Participants could compete against o…
|
completed | human for-fun mouse-distance tracker (distributed human) | BeWeS (independent hobbyist project, Belgium) | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
Performed research using the Biochemical Algorithms Library into proteins and their interactions with small molecules for disease research.
|
historical | molecular biology Performed research using the Biochemical Algorithms Library into proteins and their interactions with small molecules for disease research. | Vanderbilt University | 0 | 0 | wikipedia | Site |
|
Biogames make medical diagnoses for real patients from medical images via a "game" that you play in your web browser or on your cell phone or tablet computer. The project uses crowdsourcing to view medical images, such …
|
historical | distributed human projects biomedical image diagnosis (gamified) | UCLA (Aydogan Ozcan) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
The Social Supercomputer for data-driven medical and scientific research involving blockchain technology
|
active | research The Social Supercomputer for data-driven medical and scientific research involving blockchain technology | BOID DAC, decentralized community | 0 | 0 | wikipedia | Site |
|
BOINC platform team's alpha-testing project — exercises new BOINC client/server releases on diverse volunteer hardware before production rollout.
|
active | computer science BOINC client/server alpha testing | UC Berkeley BOINC project | 0 | 0 | equn-wiki | Site |
|
aerospace engineering, computational biology, and earthquake engineering
|
historical | multiple aerospace engineering, computational biology, and earthquake engineering | Texas Advanced Computing Center | 0 | 0 | wikipedia | Site |
|
BRaTS@Home (BRaTS Ray Trace Simulator) "do various calculations in Gravitational Ray Tracing. As of August 8, 2007, participation in the project is by invitation only. The project uses a BOINC -based client. See the BOI…
|
historical | science gravitational ray tracing | University of Missouri-St. Louis (physics dept.) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Traced building footprints on 100+ year-old NYC fire-insurance atlases, creating geolocated historical maps. Output is public and queryable — useful for genealogists, historians, and urban planners.
|
active | distributed human projects Historical Map Digitization | New York Public Library | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Capacity Calibration tests and monitors website performance in real-time with controlled capacity loads. Participants are paid $0.30(US) per hour of testing. Payments are made via PayPal : users are paid when their earn…
|
historical | internet distributed load/capacity testing | Distributed Computing Inc. / S·Q·A·Logic | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
asked participants to click a button to generate donations to help support Oxfam America 's emergency relief efforts in Haiti. Oxfam America used these donations to deliver emergency water and sanitation services to Hai…
|
completed | charity charity / click-to-donate | Care2 / Oxfam America | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
asked participants to click a button to help support Tom's of Maine 's Dental Health for All program. This program "supports community organizations that provide dental care to people who would otherwise go without." Pa…
|
completed | charity charity / click-to-donate | Care2 / Tom's of Maine | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
Catalan's Conjecture states that "8 and 9 are the only two consecutive powers of integers. In other words 3 2 -2 3 =1 is the only solution to x u -y v =1 in terms of integers." In the Catalan's Conjecture Research proje…
|
historical | mathematics double-Wieferich prime search | Lowell Ensor (independent) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
--> Help Cels@Home "do 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 bo…
|
historical | life sciences cell-adhesion simulation | Independent (hobbyist) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
A commercial distributed-computing pool where volunteers' idle cycles are rented to paying research/enterprise clients, and half the revenue goes to charities chosen by contributors. Runs on BOINC.
|
active | charity Commercial-Charity Grid | Charity Engine (UK) | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Early (2001–2006) distributed chess engine that connected thousands of volunteer peers to search game trees collaboratively. Set Guinness records for the most peers ever used by a single chess game; superseded by Stockf…
|
historical | puzzles/games Distributed Chess Engine | ChessBrain Project (Carlos Justiniano) | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Coordinated volunteer photometry of the 2009–2011 eclipse of epsilon Aurigae — a rare, 27-year binary system. Amateur and professional observations helped refine models of the companion's obscuring dust disk.
|
historical | distributed human projects Variable Star Photometry | American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Find safer and greener materials for e-vehicle batteries
|
historical | chemistry Find safer and greener materials for e-vehicle batteries | Helmholtz Zentrum München (Martin Korth / QMC@home) | 0 | 0 | wikipedia | Site |
|
asked users to click a button to help clear landmines around the world. Each click funded the clearing of at least 21 cm 2 of land. The program was paid for by the companies which sponsored the site. Money raised by the…
|
completed | charity click-to-donate charity | Canadian Landmine Foundation | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
asked users to click a button to generate a financial donation for foor and other reources to help people in need in Brazil. Thes site was available in Portuguese and English. The donations were paid for by the companie…
|
completed | charity click-to-donate (hunger relief, Brazil) | Independent (Brazilian click-to-give) | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
Click the "Click to donate" link at Click for Trees to help plant new trees. The project's sponsors donate money to the project for every click (about US$0.004 per click). The program costs you nothing (it is paid for b…
|
historical | charity charity / click-to-donate | Independent (hostzi.com site) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
asked asked users to click buttons to save 2square meters of land per click for endangered forests and wildlife areas. The site was only available in Italian. The three projects listed on the main page were: Costa Rica …
|
completed | charity click-to-donate (conservation) | Independent (Italian click-to-give) | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
ClicktoCure discover new and more effective ways to detect and cure cancer. In this project, managed by Cancer Research UK , participants view images from a collection of over two million images of actual cells and iden…
|
historical | distributed human projects cancer tissue classification | Cancer Research UK + Zooniverse | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
asked volunteers to mark and classify craters on images of Mars. The project presented images in temporary web pages. Volunteers used Java software to mark the locations and sizes of craters in the images. The pilot pro…
|
historical | distributed human project distributed human (Mars crater classification) | NASA Ames Research Center | 0 | 0 | dci-past | Site DCI |
|
ClimateWatch , a project by the EarthWatch Institute , track seasonal changes in plant and animal life cycles in the Southern Hemisphere. Project participants observe particular types of plants and animals in their area…
|
active | distributed human projects phenology / climate | Earthwatch Australia (with Bureau of Meteorology and University of Melbourne) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
project attempted to teach computers to think. It asked users to teach Learner, an Artificial Intelligence system being developed by the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute (USC/ISI) and t…
|
completed | 2007 common-sense knowledge (distributed human) | USC Information Sciences Institute / MIT | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
Intel's philanthropic peer-to-peer distributed-computing initiative (2001) that aggregated idle CPU cycles for Alzheimer's drug-target research at Oxford and UT Southwestern. An early sibling to United Devices' commerci…
|
historical | life sciences Alzheimer's Research | Intel + Oxford University | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR) + Parabon Computation distributed cancer-docking effort (2001). Pioneered medical volunteer computing alongside Oxford's Screensaver Lifesaver.
|
historical | life sciences Cancer Drug Docking | National Foundation for Cancer Research + Parabon Computation | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
A short-lived distributed-computing effort (circa 2012) that aimed to route volunteer cycles toward humanitarian research problems. Not the same as World Community Grid; details sparse.
|
historical | cryptocurrencies, charitable organizations Humanitarian Computing | Independent | 0 | 0 | curated wikipedia | Site |
|
Simulated the dynamics of water contamination in entire watersheds to find more effective conservation practices. A WCG sub-project (2014–2016) led by the University of Virginia.
|
historical | science Hydrology / Watershed Modeling | University of Virginia | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
The sequential organization of genomes, and its connection to their 3D architectural organization.
|
historical | genetics The sequential organization of genomes, and its connection to their 3D architectural organization. | EpiGenSys Consortium and EraSysBio+, part of the Seventh Framework Program of the European Union | 0 | 0 | wikipedia | Site |
|
project attempted to determine the probability with which various cuboids (six-sided dice with parallel faces but non-equal edge lengths) will land on each of their surfaces. This simple problem is a 'truncated chaotic'…
|
completed | mathematics dice-landing probability / chaos | University of Oxford (Condensed Matter Theory) | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
Click a button at Care2's Cure Breast Cancer to help support research for a cure for breast cancer. You may click the button once per day to help this cause. The program costs you nothing (it is paid for by the companie…
|
historical | charity click-to-give / breast cancer research | Care2 | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
CycleTraders
combined distributed computing with Peer-to-Peer computing concepts. A user could use the client to measure the response time of other users' websites while they measured the response time of his/her site
|
completed | internet P2P website-responsiveness measurement | — | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | DCI |
|
Estimate the intensity of historical tropical cyclones from satellite imagery using the Dvorak technique, re-analyzing 40 years of storm data for climate-change research.
|
historical | distributed human projects Climatology / Cyclones | NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
(DALi stands for Distributed Artificial Life) wasn't technically a distributed computing project since it wasn't solving a problem. It was just a fun toy: a distributed virtual aquarium. Written in Java by DALi, Inc. , …
|
completed | miscellaneous distributed artificial life (virtual aquarium) | DALi, Inc. | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
(Build me a Home) asked participants to click a button on their website to generate donations to help build proper homes for needy families in Colombia. The project was part of Minuto de Dios , an organization which has…
|
completed | charity charity / click-to-donate | Minuto de Dios (Colombia) | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
Classify candidate Lyman-alpha galaxies from the HETDEX survey — part of a 1-million-galaxy map used to measure dark energy's properties 9–11 billion years ago.
|
active | distributed human projects Cosmology / Dark Energy | University of Texas McDonald Observatory (HETDEX) | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
DarwinTunes create music through evolution. The project, developed at Imperial College London as a collaboration between Dr.
|
historical | distributed human projects musical evolution experiment | Imperial College London (Robert MacCallum, Armand Leroi) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
data.rescue@home digitize historical weather data from all over the world. Data from the project will be made available to the public with no restrictions. "Two projects are currently online: German radiosonde data from…
|
historical | distributed human projects historical weather data rescue | Universität Bern (Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research) / ACRE | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
built a better P2P web searcher by joining with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and Lehigh University to develop an approach called Hierarchical Distributed Dynamic Indexing (HDDI TM ). Partic…
|
historical | internet P2P distributed web indexing (HDDI) | DataSynapse / NCSA / Lehigh University | 0 | 0 | dci-past | Site DCI |
|
was a distributed, brute-force attempt to find the secret "backdoor" password for Tivo 's version 3.2 software. This password would allow a Tivo device owner to enable hidden features in the software. The project ended …
|
completed | cryptography TiVo backdoor password search | MIT LCS (community) | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
Cracked encrypted US Civil War Union Army telegrams, decoded using the Thomas T. Eckert codebooks. Volunteers transcribed, cipher-matched, and decrypted messages previously unread for 150 years.
|
historical | distributed human projects Historical Cryptanalysis | Huntington Library + North Carolina State University | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Click a button at Care2's Defend Baby Seals to generate donations for International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW). IFAW documents and exposes the cruelty of seal hunting in an effort to end Canada's commercial seal hun…
|
historical | charity click-to-give / IFAW baby seals | Care2 | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
was a project by a group of students at Åbo Akademi University in Finland to support a Cryptograpy and Network Security course they were taking. They attempted a brute force search of the DES 56-bit keyspace within 1 mo…
|
completed | cryptography DES brute-force (educational) | Abo Akademi University, Finland | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
Click the STOP! button at die Waldseite to help save rainforests. The site is only available in German, but babelfish provides a reasonable translation. Click on the project links near the bottom of the page to see shor…
|
historical | charity click-to-give / rainforest (German) | die Waldseite (independent German charity click site) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
attempted to design the next generation of self-diagnosing computer circuits. The project client evolved populations of individual computer circuits with Built-In Self-Test (BIST, a way for a circuit to detect whether i…
|
completed | science evolutionary hardware / self-checking circuits | Independent (D. Bestern) | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
Stephen Brooks' Distributed Particle Accelerator Design project designed "a channel of magnets to produce a particle beam of muons as efficiently as possible from a source of pions spreading in almost all directions. Th…
|
historical | science particle accelerator / muon beam design | Stephen Brooks (CERN alumnus) | 0 | 0 | dci-past | Site DCI |
|
Volunteers proofread scanned books page-by-page, comparing OCR output to original scans through multiple rounds. Contributes to Project Gutenberg — the 50,000+ public-domain ebook library. Active since 2000.
|
active | distributed human projects Text Digitization | Distributed Proofreaders (community, supports Project Gutenberg) | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Sibling project of Distributed Proofreaders, focused on works that are public-domain in Canada (typically 70+ years after author's death). Feeds Project Gutenberg Canada's library.
|
active | distributed human projects Text Digitization | Project Gutenberg Canada | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
European sibling of Distributed Proofreaders, hosted at Project Rastko (Serbia). Digitized works in European languages. No longer active; site retired in the 2010s.
|
historical | distributed human projects Text Digitization | Project Rastko (Serbia) | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Distributed Search for Fermat Number Divisors project find unique Fermat Number factors. This site is also available in Italian , Russian , and German . See the project website for the latest version of the project's so…
|
active | mathematics Fermat-number factorization | Fermatsearch.org community (coordinated by Wilfrid Keller et al.) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
The 'Next Generation' Optimal Golomb Ruler search — finding rulers with N marks such that no two pairs of marks have the same distance between them. OGRs have applications in radio astronomy, X-ray crystallography, and …
|
active | mathematics Combinatorial Optimization / Golomb Rulers | distributed.net | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Analysis of hash strength for password security by developing rainbow tables.
|
historical | cryptography Analysis of hash strength for password security by developing rainbow tables. | Independent | 0 | 0 | wikipedia | Site |
|
build "the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web" in the dmoz Open Directory Project. dmoz also maintains collections of links to other knowledge bases: Idea Banks , in which people submit and ev…
|
historical | collaborative knowledge bases collaborative web directory | Netscape / AOL (volunteer-edited) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Another BOINC wrapper (distinct from Moo! Wrapper) around distributed.net's RC5-72 challenge. Historical; largely superseded by Moo! Wrapper.
|
historical | cryptography RC5 Key-Search | distributed.net (community wrapper) | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
(Add/Give your Heart) asked participants to click a button to help fund medical treatment and rehabilitation for a woman with bone cancer. The project planned to help other people, too. The program cost participants not…
|
completed | charity charity / click-to-donate | Polish click-to-give (zmilosciserc.pl, independent/volunteer-run) | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
Screened 600,000+ chemical compounds against 10 Leishmania protein targets to find new treatments for the parasitic disease that affects millions, mostly in the developing world. AutoDock-based; ran 2011–2013 on WCG.
|
historical | life sciences Drug Discovery / Neglected Tropical Diseases | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
,--> Décrypthon , hosted by the French organization Téléthon 2001 , decrypted proteomes to fight against neuromuscular and other diseases. It compared and classified about 550,000 proteins, and made the results availabl…
|
historical | life sciences proteome comparison (neuromuscular disease) | AFM-Téléthon / CNRS / IBM | 0 | 0 | dci-past | Site DCI |
|
--> Help the Earth Albedo project measure Earth's albedo or reflecting power each year on the Summer solstice . The project does not have a website. Project details are listed in a TalkingScience blog posting and are li…
|
historical | distributed human projects albedo / summer solstice | Wilbraham and Monson Academy (Kathleen Gorski) / UCAR Windows on the Universe | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
, was a distributed effort to solve Certicom 's ECC2-109 challenge . The challenge offered a $10,000 (US) prize. The project calculated 41 million distinguished points using the parallelized rho method "in conjunction w…
|
completed | cryptography elliptic-curve discrete log challenge | Chris Monico / University of Notre Dame | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
Factors large composite numbers using the Elliptic-Curve Method (ECM), particularly for numbers of the form b^n ± 1 from the Cunningham tables. Long-running effort; contributes to open cryptography research.
|
active | mathematics Integer Factorization / ECM | Community (Paul Zimmermann, INRIA) | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Click buttons at EcologyFund.com to do the following things: save South American rain forest reduce pollution save a national park in east Africa--> save United States wilderness: Old-Growth in the Cascades; western U.S…
|
historical | charity click-to-give / habitat conservation | EcologyFund.com (Care2 / CharityUSA network) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
A distributed ECM factorization project targeting Mersenne numbers 2^n − 1 for composite n — filling gaps that GIMPS (which only tests prime-exponent Mersennes) leaves alone.
|
historical | mathematics Integer Factorization | Community (William Lipp) | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
asked visitors to click a button to help "raise awareness, funds and activism for social justice issues/projects recognizing homelessness as one end result of specific societal problems such as domestic violence and the…
|
completed | charity charity / click-to-donate | Independent (click-to-give, social justice) | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
platform, studied the causes of stock market volatility. The project began on April 2, 2001 and ended on January 18, 2002. According to a Business Week article , the goal of the project was to find a formula that can "p…
|
historical | financial financial volatility modeling | Entropia Inc. | 0 | 0 | dci-past | Site DCI |
|
Design RNA molecules by solving puzzle shapes. Top designs are synthesized in a Stanford lab, folded, and scored against the computational prediction — turning players into RNA-engineering co-authors. Produced published…
|
active | distributed human projects RNA Design (Gamified) | Stanford University (Das Lab) + Carnegie Mellon | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Volunteer search for the solution to Christopher Monckton's Eternity II puzzle — a 256-piece edge-matching puzzle launched in 2007 with a $2 million prize. French-community-run project; no complete solution has ever bee…
|
historical | math Combinatorial Puzzle | Eternity2.fr (community, France) | 0 | 0 | curated equn-wiki | Site |
|
--> Click a button at Ett klick f�r skogen (A Click For The Forest) to help save the last remaining old growth forests in Sweden. The charity's first project, completed on July 28, 2005, collected 840,000 SEK (about $12…
|
active | charity click-to-give / Swedish old-growth forest | Naturarvet (Sweden) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Register the serial numbers of euro banknotes you handle, then track where the same notes reappear. 18+ years of data, over 200 million bills registered — a study of banknote circulation across the Eurozone.
|
active | collaborative knowledge bases Citizen Economics | Community-run (volunteers) | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Wiki-like encyclopedia of opinion, essays, fiction, and reference (1998–). Predates Wikipedia. Uses a reputation-and-experience-points system; maintained by a small but dedicated community.
|
active | collaborative knowledge bases Collaborative Encyclopedia | Everything2 Media (community) | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Play the EVOKE social networking game "to come up with creative solutions to our most urgent social problems." The game is open to participants all over the world, ages 13 and older. During an active season of the game,…
|
historical | distributed human projects social-innovation ARG | World Bank Institute (designed by Jane McGonigal) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Inspect light curves from NASA's K2 mission — the follow-up to Kepler — for transit dips that indicate planets orbiting distant stars. The project co-discovered a 7-planet resonant system, K2-138.
|
historical | distributed human projects Exoplanets / Transit Photometry | NASA + Caltech | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Map the 3D shape of retinal neurons by coloring through high-resolution electron-microscope slices. Published results in Nature and Cell trace previously unknown neural circuitry in the mouse retina.
|
active | distributed human projects Connectomics (Gamified) | Princeton University (Seung Lab) | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
--> Factoring is a collection of factoring projects. Factoring completed the factorization of 2^791+1 (to 45 digits) on May 2, 2005. It completed the factorization of 2,1342L on May 8, 2005. It achieved a new P - 1 reco…
|
active | mathematics number-theory factoring | Community (Mersenne Forum) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Factorizations of Cyclotomic Numbers
Computes factorizations of Φ_n(b) (cyclotomic polynomial evaluations) — extending long-standing number-theory tables maintained by the computational number theory community.
|
historical | mathematics Computational Number Theory | Community | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | DCI |
|
find --> Help find Factors of k*2^n�1 for k=3,5,7,9,11,13 and N < 1000. See the 50 most recent factors .--> See the 50 most recent factors . As of September 5, 2004, the project has reached n=500 for all k=11. The proje…
|
historical | mathematics integer factorization | Mikael Klasson | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Click a button at Care2's Feed Pets in Need to generate donations to help The Humane Society of the United States feed and provide other services for pets in animal shelters. You may click the button once per day to hel…
|
historical | charity click-to-give / animal welfare (HSUS) | Care2 | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Click a button at Care2's Feed Rescued Primates to generate donations to Jane Goodall's primate protection programs at the Jane Goodall Institute . You may click the button once per day to help protect endangered primat…
|
historical | charity click-to-give / primate conservation (Jane Goodall Institute) | Care2 | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Field Expedition: Mongolia "conduct a noninvasive survey in the region of the lost tomb of ruler Genghis Khan" by "tagging clues and artifacts on satellite images of the area." This project is sponsored by National Geog…
|
historical | distributed human projects archaeology (satellite crowdsourcing) | National Geographic Society / UC San Diego Calit2 (Albert Yu-Min Lin) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Summer citizen-science effort where volunteers observe their backyards and report firefly species, behavior, and abundance. 15+ years of data help biologists track firefly population trends and habitat loss.
|
active | distributed human projects Biodiversity / Fireflies | Mass Audubon + Museum of Science Boston | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Provides server analysis for games played on lichess.org using the Stockfish chess engine
|
active | chess Provides server analysis for games played on lichess.org using the Stockfish chess engine | Independent | 0 | 0 | wikipedia | Site |
|
Validates patches to the Stockfish chess engine by playing thousands of chess games at fast time controls between different versions of the engine
|
active | software testing, chess Validates patches to the Stockfish chess engine by playing thousands of chess games at fast time controls between different versions of the engine | Independent | 0 | 0 | wikipedia | Site |
|
Map giant kelp forests in Landsat satellite imagery going back to 1984. Produces a long-running time series for ecologists studying how marine kelp canopies respond to climate and fishing pressures.
|
active | distributed human projects Marine Ecology / Remote Sensing | UC Santa Barbara (National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis) | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Focus on Wildlife -- Cleveland Metroparks improve wildlife conservation efforts in the 23,000 acre Cleveland Metroparks system of nature reserves in Ohio . Volunteers analyze thousands of images from cameras in the park…
|
historical | distributed human projects wildlife camera-trap classification | Cleveland Metroparks + Michigan State University RECaP Lab | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
A free puzzle game where players fold proteins by hand. Top players have out-performed automated algorithms on hard targets; notable results include cracking the M-PMV retroviral protease structure (2011) and contributi…
|
active | distributed human projects Protein Structure Prediction (Gamified) | University of Washington Baker Lab + Center for Game Science | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Crowdsourced pronunciation dictionary — native speakers record the pronunciation of words in their language; users can listen to authentic pronunciations of place names, proper nouns, and loanwords.
|
active | collaborative knowledge bases Pronunciation Dictionary | Forvo Media (community-contributed) | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Also known as DistrRTgen. Volunteers generate and distribute 'rainbow tables' — precomputed hash-reversal tables — used by penetration testers and security researchers to audit password strength. Historical, educational…
|
historical | cryptography Password-hash Security Research | Free Rainbow Tables (community) | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
--> Help FreeCell Project solve 99.9% of the 1,000,000 freecell games available in Windows XP. This project is based on The Internet FreeCell Project, one of the earliest Internet crowdsourcing projects, which in 1994 a…
|
historical | distributed human projects card-game solving | Community-run (heir to Dave Ring's Internet FreeCell Project) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Community-edited open database of audio CD track metadata (artist, album, song titles). Queried by thousands of ripping applications. Superseded in practice by MusicBrainz after 2000s; original freedb.org now serves arc…
|
historical | collaborative knowledge bases Music Metadata | FreeDB (community, later Magix GmbH) | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
asked participants to play a geography question game to help donate flour to the Bread for the World Institute (and to help improve participants' knowledge of geography). For each question a participant answered correct…
|
completed | charity charity / click-to-donate game | Bread for the World Institute (beneficiary) | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
Answer vocabulary and general-knowledge questions; each correct answer triggers an ad-revenue donation of 10 grains of rice to the UN World Food Programme. Billions of grains donated since 2007.
|
active | charity Click-to-Give / Educational | United Nations World Food Programme | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Classify the presence, strength, and shape of galactic bars in Hubble Space Telescope COSMOS field images. Data informs research on bar-driven secular evolution of disk galaxies.
|
historical | distributed human projects Galactic Astronomy / Bars | Portsmouth / Nottingham (Galaxy Zoo team) | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
A Galaxy Zoo sister project where volunteers matched real images of colliding galaxies against simulation outputs to reconstruct how the mergers unfolded. An early success for public participation in actual numerical as…
|
historical | distributed human projects Galactic Astronomy / Mergers | University of Oxford + George Mason University | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
attempted to "catch exploding stars"-- supernovae in images of the Milky Way Galaxy. Data for the project were provided by the Palomar Transient Factory automated sky survey at the Palomar Observatory . Two astronomers …
|
completed | human citizen-science image classification / supernovae | Zooniverse / Palomar Transient Factory | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
Generalized Fermat Prime Search
Searches for primes of the form b^(2^n) + 1 (Generalized Fermat Numbers). Similar to PrimeGrid's GFN subproject — most such primes occur in giant-prime territory and require sophisticated FFT multiplication.
|
historical | mathematics Prime Searches / Generalized Fermat | Community | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | DCI |
|
The Generalized Woodall Numbers project found generalized Woodall numbers using the Proth program.
|
historical | mathematics generalized Woodall primes | Yves Gallot / University of Tennessee Martin (Proth program host) | 0 | 0 | dci-past | Site DCI |
|
--> Help Genetic Life research genetic algorithms. The project is currently simulating the evolution of simple software-based creatures executing a compact set of instructions. The project uses a BOINC -based client. Se…
|
historical | science genetic algorithms / artificial life | Independent (hobbyist) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Genetic Research with HMMER . More information about this project will be posted soon.
|
historical | life sciences genetic / protein-family (HMMER) | United Devices / Washington University | 0 | 0 | dci-past | Site DCI |
|
Genetic TSP used a Java application that ran through a user's web browser and used genetic algorithms to solve a Traveling Salesman Problem (in a TSP, a salesman must find the shortest route in which he/she can visit ea…
|
completed | puzzles/games Traveling Salesman / genetic algorithm | Independent (ad-infinitum.net) | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
--> gi john is "grid implemented john the ripper," a platform-independent, open source distributed password cracker. It cracks DES, MD5, Blowfish, and MySQL passwords. Project members can submit password hashes for the …
|
historical | cryptography distributed password cracking | Community-run (Fernando Mercês 'earthquake') | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
, sponsored by Thames Water, gives safe drinking water to needy people around the world. The project had a free donation button that it asked to be clicked 4 million times. After that goal was reached, the project donat…
|
historical | charity click-to-donate (clean water) | Thames Water / WaterAid | 0 | 0 | dci-past | Site DCI |
|
Click a button at giveaminute.org to give a minute of hospital care to a patient in The Tarahumara Children's Hospital, a hospital which serves the Tarahumara Indian tribe near El Paso, Texas. The program costs you noth…
|
historical | charity click-to-give / children's hospital (Tarahumara) | The Tarahumara Children's Hospital (El Paso, TX) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
A citizen-science project where anyone can submit naked-eye or smartphone observations of night-sky brightness. 15+ years of global data document the growth of light pollution and its effects on astronomy and ecology.
|
active | distributed human projects Light Pollution Monitoring | NOIRLab (National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Lab) | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Searched for compounds that could be developed into new antimalarial drugs, particularly against drug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum. AutoDock virtual screening on WCG, 2011–2013.
|
historical | life sciences Drug Discovery / Malaria | Scripps Research Institute (Olson Lab) | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Verifies Goldbach's conjecture — that every even integer > 2 is the sum of two primes — by exhaustive testing. Extends verified bounds beyond 4 × 10^18.
|
historical | mathematics Number Theory | Tomás Oliveira e Silva (University of Aveiro) | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Tests Goldbach's weak conjecture.
|
historical | mathematics Tests Goldbach's weak conjecture. | Independent | 0 | 0 | wikipedia | Site |
|
Developing a permissionless distributed computing marketplace
|
active | software Developing a permissionless distributed computing marketplace | Independent | 0 | 0 | wikipedia | Site |
|
Google Image Labeler "label images and help improve the quality of Google's image search results." This project is similar to The ESP Game . The project presents a Java applet game to a pair of volunteers. The volunteer…
|
historical | distributed human projects image labelling (game-with-a-purpose) | Google (based on ESP Game by Luis von Ahn, CMU) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Used a computational approach to the graceful tree conjecture, proving that every tree with at most 35 vertices is graceful
|
historical | mathematics Used a computational approach to the graceful tree conjecture, proving that every tree with at most 35 vertices is graceful | Independent | 0 | 0 | wikipedia | Site |
|
Classify transient noise 'glitches' in LIGO gravitational-wave detector data so machine-learning algorithms can filter them out and improve real astrophysical-signal detection.
|
active | distributed human projects Gravitational Waves / Noise Characterization | Northwestern University + LIGO Scientific Collaboration | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
searched for K-optimal lattice rules . It completed a Delta=7 project on November 15, 2000, and a Delta=8 project on December 21, 2001. It began a Delta=11 project on December 21, 2001, and completed 22% of it when the …
|
completed | mathematics K-optimal lattice rules | University of Bergen, Department of Informatics | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
Zooniverse project to classify acoustic recordings of greater sage-grouse lek displays — helping conservation biologists understand breeding behavior and track this declining prairie bird species.
|
historical | distributed human projects Bioacoustics / Ornithology | University of Washington | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
--> GStock determines optimum stock investment strategies, and generates buy and sell signals, for all major stocks traded in the United States stock markets. It tests over one billion investment strategies for each sto…
|
historical | financial distributed stock strategy backtesting | GridStock Ltd. | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Evaluate the performance of large websites to find bottlenecks with G�mez 's distributed PEER client and its first project, peerReview. Some users will be paid up to US$45 per month for their contributions. Payments are…
|
historical | internet distributed web-performance monitoring | Compuware / Dynatrace | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
--> Click a button at Habitat for Humanity Poland to help fund the purchase of materials to build one house. The project website is also available in Polish . On the English click the "Give a Home, click & join" button,…
|
historical | charity click-to-give / housing | Habitat for Humanity Poland | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Zooniverse project to transcribe and classify calls of raptor species — owls, hawks, and eagles — from field recordings, supporting bioacoustic research on bird vocalizations.
|
historical | distributed human projects Bioacoustics / Ornithology | Cornell Lab of Ornithology | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Health Tracking Network prevent influenza, the common cold, and stomach flu by tracking the spread of these diseases and discovering factors which contribute to the diseases. In this project, run by Interdisciplinary Sc…
|
historical | distributed human projects illness surveillance | Interdisciplinary Scientific Research (ISR), Seattle (Devon Brewer) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
--> Click a button at Care2's Help Children in Need to generate donations to help Children International provide assistance to children and families in need. Currently the organization helps children in Chile, Colombia,…
|
historical | charity click-to-give / Children International | Care2 | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
had the same goals that the DES project did. The project looked for the remaining 35 bits of a 56-bit key, and it had to find them before a May 16, 2004 deadline. The project ended after searching 84.75% of the keyspace…
|
completed | cryptography DES keyspace brute-force | Community (French DES-cracking effort) | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
Screened millions of drug-candidate molecules against three proteins critical to neuroblastoma — a deadly childhood cancer — to identify new therapeutic leads. WCG sub-project, 2009–2013.
|
historical | life sciences Drug Discovery / Pediatric Oncology | Chiba Cancer Center Research Institute, Japan | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
--> Help Herbaria@home document and make public the information from thousands of herbarium sheets from university and museum collections. Herbarium sheets (dried, pressed plant collections) can be a valuable resource f…
|
active | distributed human projects herbarium specimen transcription | Herbaria United / Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Look through ATLAS experiment event displays at CERN's Large Hadron Collider for 'off-center vertices' — possible signatures of Higgs bosons decaying into new particles not predicted by the Standard Model.
|
historical | distributed human projects Particle Physics / Higgs Decays | University of Oxford + CERN ATLAS | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
HiWish project decide which places on Mars the HiRISE imaging experiment on the Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter should photograph next. To participate in the project, create an account on the project website, browse the imag…
|
active | distributed human projects Mars imaging target requests | University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (HiRISE team) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Click the Fight Hunger button at Hunger Fighters to donate one cup of food to fight hunger. The program costs you nothing (it is paid for by the companies which sponsor the site) and you do not need to register. ongoing…
|
historical | charity click-to-give / hunger | Independent (click-to-give) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
--> Click the Click to Help button at Hungrychildren to generate funds for hungry children sponsored by the project. The project's sponsors donate Canada$25 for every 1,000 clicks. The program costs you nothing (it is p…
|
historical | charity click-to-give / hunger (Canada) | Independent (Canadian click-to-give) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Ice Hunters look through public data from around the world for "Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs), Variable Stars, and Asteroids. The ultimate goal is to find the Kuiper Belt Object (or Objects) that the New Horizons spacecraf…
|
historical | distributed human projects Kuiper Belt Objects / New Horizons targets | Zooniverse / New Horizons team (Southwest Research Institute) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Shop online through iGive.com and donate a percentage of your purchases (up to 27%) to your favorite charity. ongoing: see donations sent in the last 120 days N/A
|
active | charity cause shopping portal | iGive.com / CharityUSA (Robert Grosshandler) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Searched for chemical compounds that could block influenza virus proteins (including H5N1 bird flu), using virtual docking against viral targets. Early WCG sub-project, 2006–2009.
|
historical | life sciences Drug Discovery / Influenza | University of Texas Medical Branch + Scripps Research | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
evolve digital creatures which move more efficiently in Intelligent Design a Darwin@Home project. The project's results are stored in publically-accessible XML files . See screenshots and more information about the proj…
|
historical | science artificial life / digital evolution | DigitalSpace Inc. (Bruce Damer) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Citizen-science project to classify camera-trap images of predators visiting the nesting sites of interior least terns and piping plovers — endangered shorebirds of US river systems.
|
historical | distributed human projects Avian Conservation | US Army Corps of Engineers + Virginia Tech | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
IMDb — the largest collaborative movie, TV, and video-game database. Launched 1990 on Usenet; now an Amazon subsidiary but still accepts volunteer contributions and corrections for credits, trivia, and biographies.
|
active | collaborative knowledge bases Film & Media Metadata | IMDb / Amazon | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
rendered images for computer-animated movies submitted by project users. The project was an open-source collaboration of volunteers and was just for fun. Participants could volunteer to be a "render-farmer," to render i…
|
completed | 2006 distributed rendering / POV-Ray | Independent open-source collaboration (imp.org / IMPFarm) | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
Zooniverse project to identify invasive marine species in underwater plate images from the Smithsonian's Marine Global Earth Observatory. Tracking how non-native species spread via global shipping.
|
historical | distributed human projects Invasive Species / Marine Ecology | Smithsonian Environmental Research Center | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Generally computer networks
|
active | computer science Generally computer networks | Cyber-Complex Foundation | 0 | 0 | wikipedia | Site |
|
Generally computer networks
|
active | computer science Generally computer networks | Cyber-Complex Foundation | 0 | 0 | wikipedia | Site |
|
JoeAnt.com is a search engine of hand-picked links and is maintained by a volunteer online community. Join the project and help build the database. ongoing N/A
|
active | collaborative knowledge bases collaborative web directory | JoeAnt.com (community-run volunteer directory) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
--> --> Help k6465 find primes of the form 6465 * 2 n - 1. To participate in the project, send email to the project owner to reserve a range, then download NewPGen version 2.82 for pre-sieveing and LLR version 3.71c for…
|
historical | mathematics prime search | Gary Barnes (individual) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Shop online through KlickDieSpende.de , "click the donation," and donate a percentage of your purchases to charities. The site is only available in German, but babelfish provides a reasonable translation. Click on banne…
|
historical | charity click-to-give / cause shopping (German) | KlickDieSpende.de (independent German cause-shopping portal) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Lab in the Wild test people's cultural preferences and perception. The project runs several experiments (listed on the project's main page), to help the project owners learn about the similarities and differences betwee…
|
active | distributed human projects cross-cultural HCI experiments | Harvard / University of Washington (Katharina Reinecke & Krzysztof Gajos) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Click a link at Land Care Niagara to help plant a tree to restore Niagara's ecosystem (in Ontario, Canada). Every 5 clicks plants 1 tree. You may click the link once per day to help plant a tree. The program costs you n…
|
active | charity tree planting / habitat restoration | Land Care Niagara (Ontario, Canada) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
The second-generation LHC@home project — now known as ATLAS@Home (and part of CERN's broader LHC@home umbrella). Runs full detector-response simulations for the LHC's ATLAS experiment via virtualization technology.
|
active | science Particle Physics (ATLAS detector) | CERN | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
assembled "a powerful, predictive electronic atlas of Earth's biological diversity." The project, sponsored by the Informatics Biodiversity Research Center at The University of Kansas , "compute[ed], map[ped] and provid…
|
completed | science biodiversity / species-distribution modeling | University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
Library of Congress's crowdsourced transcription program ('By the People'), where volunteers transcribe hand-written historical documents — presidential papers, Rosa Parks's notes, suffrage letters — for full-text searc…
|
active | distributed human projects Historical Transcription | Library of Congress | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Logos is a "multilingual e-translation portal." It offers: a Living Dictionary , "the world's largest online multilingual dictionary," including audio pronunciations of some words --> a children's multilingual dictionar…
|
historical | collaborative knowledge bases multilingual dictionary / e-translation | Logos Group (Modena, Italy) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Lone Mersenne Hunters looks for Mersenne prime numbers which have not been tested by other projects or by GIMPS ' Primenet server. To participate, read the instructions in the How to start? discussion thread. Note: this…
|
active | mathematics GIMPS off-range Mersenne factoring | Community (Mersenne Forum) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
--> --> Help Looking for Mars Polar Lander find the Mars Polar Lander , which crashed in 1999, by studying high-resolution images of the surface of Mars from the area scientists predicted the lander crashed in. If the l…
|
historical | distributed human projects planetary science (Mars imagery) | University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (HiRISE team) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Decrypts Enigma messages from World War II
|
completed | history Decrypts Enigma messages from World War II | Independent (Stefan Krah) | 0 | 0 | dci-recent wikipedia | Site DCI |
|
attempted to force known spam websites out of business. The project, run by Lycos Europe , overloaded known spam sites with fake web page requests in an attempt to maximize the spammers' bandwidth costs (without actuall…
|
completed | internet anti-spam screensaver | Lycos Europe | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
Analyzed millions of tumor samples to identify protein patterns ('markers') that distinguish different cancer types and predict treatment response. Covered lung, ovarian, prostate, and sarcoma cancers. WCG, 2013–2019.
|
historical | life sciences Cancer Bioinformatics | Princess Margaret Cancer Centre + Ontario Institute for Cancer Research | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Mapping Change transcribe over 4 million specimen labels for the Bell Museum of Natural History to map the effects of human change on biodiversity in the U.S. upper midwest, to "understand and respond to the changes tha…
|
historical | distributed human projects biodiversity specimen transcription | Bell Museum of Natural History, University of Minnesota | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Mark2Cure "organize biomedical knowledge and uncover hidden links" by reading and annotating biomedical documents. See the project's blog . The project completed its first beta experiment on February 18, 2015. 212 volun…
|
historical | distributed human projects biomedical literature annotation | Scripps Research Institute / Scripps Translational Science Institute (Andrew Su) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
attempted to prove that the MD5 encryption algorithm is insecure by finding a collision: two inputs which can produce the same digest (encryption method). No one had ever found a collision in the MD5 hash before the pro…
|
completed | cryptography MD5 collision search | CertainKey Cryptosystems (Jean-Luc Cooke) | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
Contribute new word definitions to Merriam-Webster's Open Dictionary . The project is documenting changes to the English language. ongoing N/A
|
historical | collaborative knowledge bases collaborative dictionary | Merriam-Webster | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Searched for Mersenne primes. Discontinued because the creator lacked time to administer it
|
historical | mathematics Searched for Mersenne primes. Discontinued because the creator lacked time to administer it | Independent | 0 | 0 | wikipedia | Site |
|
Mersenneplustwo Factorization factor numbers of the form 2^p+1. To participate in the project, use one of the software clients listed on the project website. The project website does not contain details about how to use…
|
historical | mathematics factorization of 2^p+1 | Independent (bearnol, hobbyist) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Michigan ZoomIN study spatial patterns between carnivores and their prey throughout the state of Michigan by identifying and describing animal species in images from wildlife surveys. See more information about the proj…
|
historical | distributed human projects wildlife camera-trap classification | University of Michigan / Michigan DNR | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
asked volunteers to help teach an artificially intelligent computer program to think more like a human by asking it questions. This project was the first known Distributed Human project. The project was created by Chris…
|
completed | distributed human project distributed human AI Q&A corpus | Chris McKinstry | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
Find Minimal Equal Sums of Like Powers using Euler2000 , available on the download page. The client automatically downloads ranges of numbers to work on. The project celebrated its 10th anniversary on January 31, 2009. …
|
historical | mathematics Euler sum-of-like-powers problem | Jean-Charles Meyrignac (EulerNet) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
--> Minimal Superpermutation Problem is looking for minimal superpermutations , "strings formed from a set of n symbols such that every one of the n ! permutations of those symbols appears at least once as a contiguous …
|
historical | mathematics superpermutations / Chaffin method | Community-run (superpermutators GitHub / Google Group) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Search for factors of 2^(2^61-1)-1, a double Mersenne number, in the MM61 project . Download and test the client, then email the project coordinator to reserve a range of numbers to test. Note that the project website i…
|
historical | mathematics double Mersenne factoring | Tony Forbes (independent) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Classified crater size and distribution in high-resolution images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's NAC camera, mapping lunar surface ages and identifying boulders and anomalies.
|
historical | distributed human projects Planetary Science / Lunar | University of Oxford / Astrobiology Society of Britain | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
MQL5 Cloud Network provides a for-pay network of computing power to MQL5 network members to use for various distributed computing tasks such as testing trading strategies or developing new drugs. Members can earn money …
|
active | financial paid distributed computing marketplace | MetaQuotes Software | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Designs a future muon-collider particle accelerator by simulating proton-on-mercury-target interactions and tracking the produced pions and muons through magnetic-focusing lattices. Runs on a standalone Windows client —…
|
active | science Accelerator Physics / Muon Colliders | Stephen Brooks (independent researcher) | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Simulate and design parts of the Neutrino Factory particle accelerator
|
historical | physics Simulate and design parts of the Neutrino Factory particle accelerator | Independent (Stephen Brooks; work related to UKNF / Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) | 0 | 0 | wikipedia | Site |
|
Open, community-maintained encyclopedia of music metadata — artists, releases, recordings, relationships. Used by Picard (auto-tagger), JRiver Media Center, Plex, Subsonic, Spotify, and many more. Launched 2000 as a Fre…
|
active | collaborative knowledge bases Music Metadata | MetaBrainz Foundation | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Research in molecular recognition
|
historical | molecular biology Research in molecular recognition | Université de Sherbrooke | 0 | 0 | wikipedia | Site |
|
Research in nanoscience and nanotechnology
|
historical | nanoscience Research in nanoscience and nanotechnology | Purdue University | 0 | 0 | wikipedia | Site |
|
--> Help the NASA Be A Martian project create more detailed maps of Mars, and count and classify craters on Mars, from high-resolution images returned from Mars orbiters. Watch some videos to learn about why the project…
|
historical | distributed human projects planetary science (Mars imagery) | NASA JPL (collaboration with Microsoft) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
provided to network researchers "a wealth of end-to-end data that has been previously unavailable" in order to make the Internet faster and more reliable. The original description of the project: "NETI@home is an open-s…
|
completed | internet internet measurement | Georgia Institute of Technology | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
Distributed system based on neural networks for analysis and forecasting time series
|
historical | mathematics, finance, and artificial neural networks Distributed system based on neural networks for analysis and forecasting time series | Independent | 0 | 0 | wikipedia | Site |
|
--> Help No Prime Left Behind find Riesel primes of the form k * 2 n - 1 for 300 < k <= 1001 and 1400 < k < 3000 and not reserved by others or actively being worked on. To participate in the project, follow instructions…
|
active | mathematics Riesel prime search (300 < k ≤ 1001) | Community (NPLB team) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Transcribe handwritten labels from millions of biological specimens in natural-history museum collections, unlocking biodiversity data that would otherwise sit inaccessible in drawers for decades.
|
active | distributed human projects Biodiversity / Museum Collections | Florida Museum of Natural History + iDigBio | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Enumerates solutions to the generalized n-queens problem — counting how many ways n non-attacking queens can be placed on an n×n chessboard. Advances combinatorics and the study of exponential-time algorithms.
|
historical | puzzles/games Combinatorics / n-Queens Problem | Universidad de Concepción, Chile | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active equn-wiki | Site DCI |
|
Contribute to Nupedia, the open content encyclopedia , the world's largest international, peer-reviewed encyclopedia. The project needs writers, editors and peer reviewers, copy editors, programmers, translators, graphi…
|
historical | collaborative knowledge bases peer-reviewed open encyclopedia | Bomis (Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Transcribe weather observations from historic ship logs (Royal Navy, Arctic expeditions, WWI naval vessels). The recovered data extends the instrumental climate record by decades and corners of the globe previously poor…
|
active | distributed human projects Historical Climatology | NOAA + National Archives + University of Oxford | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
--> --> Help the Online Life-Like CA Soup Search find "interesting patterns in Life -like cellular automata by watching the evolution of random initial configurations (known as soups). In particular, random soups are ev…
|
historical | puzzles/games cellular automata (Life) | Nathaniel Johnston (independent) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
oomind
, the Open Education Community, organized information about any subject into "Courselets," small articles which were submitted by contributors and scored or graded by other contributors. Anyone could submit new Coursele…
|
completed | knowledge distributed-human knowledge project (Courselets) | — | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | DCI |
|
asked participants to help teach computers to understand human "common sense" in a project which attempted to create a repository of basic human knowledge. Participants could choose from many activites, such as describi…
|
completed | human common-sense knowledge repository (distributed human) | MIT Media Lab (OpenMind Initiative) | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
created a repository of knowledge which would enable people to create more intelligent mobile robots for use in home and office enviornments. Starting on November 9, 2006, the project offered participants a US$25 Amazon…
|
completed | human common-sense knowledge for robotics (distributed human) | MIT Media Lab / OpenMind Initiative | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
project asked participants to play a free word game to help teach computers how to interpret English words with multiple meanings in the context of sentences. In July, 2003, the project began similar foreign-langauge pr…
|
completed | human word-sense disambiguation (distributed human) | OpenMind Initiative (Rada Mihalcea) | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
Contribute to Open Site , the open encyclopedia project, a collection of knowledge contributed and edited by volunteers. The site is something between a dictionary and an encylopedia. All information in the project is f…
|
historical | collaborative knowledge bases collaborative encyclopedia | Independent project run by Michael J. Flickinger | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Screened billions of small-molecule compounds against SARS-CoV-2 protein targets during the COVID-19 pandemic, searching for potential antiviral drugs. WCG's COVID-19 response, launched May 2020.
|
historical | life sciences Drug Discovery / COVID-19 | Scripps Research Institute (Olson Lab) | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
The collaborative world map — 'Wikipedia of maps'. 10+ million volunteers have mapped roads, buildings, forests, and infrastructure globally. Powers Mapbox, Apple Maps extensions, Facebook, MapillaryOSM, humanitarian ma…
|
active | collaborative knowledge bases Geographic Data | OpenStreetMap Foundation (UK) | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Screened tens of millions of compounds against Zika virus proteins during the 2016 outbreak, aiming to identify antiviral drug candidates. WCG, 2016–2018.
|
historical | life sciences Drug Discovery / Viral Disease | Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
search for a billion-digit Mersenne prime in Operation Billion Digits . The project website is also available in Italian . This project is attempting a nearly-impossible goal. Since today's technology and algorithms can…
|
historical | mathematics Mersenne-prime trial factoring (billion-digit hunt) | Independent (sister project of ElevenSmooth) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
--> --> Help the Optimal Solution Finder find optimal solutions for various puzzle games:
|
historical | puzzles/games puzzle game solvers | Independent hobbyist | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Zooniverse project to identify orangutan day- and night-nests in photos from Borneo rainforest camera traps, enabling population monitoring of this critically endangered great ape.
|
historical | distributed human projects Great Ape Conservation | University of Oxford Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Searched for drug candidates to treat Ebola virus disease after the 2014 West African outbreak, using virtual screening against Ebola proteins. WCG, 2014–2018.
|
historical | life sciences Drug Discovery / Viral Disease | Scripps Research Institute + University of Pennsylvania | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
P.I.E.S (Prime Internet Eisenstein Search) find large prime Generalised Eisenstein Fermat numbers numbers. The project's main goal is to study the properties of these numbers, and for that it needs to find some prime nu…
|
historical | mathematics Generalised Eisenstein-Fermat primes | Phil Carmody ('thefatphil') | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
The PCP@Home project looks for short cases of Post's Correspondence Problem with large shortest solutions. This theoretical computer science problem has been in existence since 1946.
|
historical | mathematics Post's Correspondence Problem | University of Leipzig (Informatik) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
A puzzle game where players slide colored blocks to refine multiple sequence alignments of genetic data — producing alignments that outperform purely automated methods on hard regions. Open-source.
|
active | distributed human projects Multiple Sequence Alignment (Gamified) | McGill University (Waldispühl Lab) | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
calculated pi(x), for very large values of x, up to x=4*10 22 . It began, but did not end, calculations for for x=10 23 . Mathematics
|
historical | april 15, 2002 pi(x) computation | Xavier Gourdon / Patrick Demichel (independent) | 0 | 0 | dci-past | Site DCI |
|
constructed a very large table of values of pi(x) for large values of x. The table would allow people to study the behavior of the pi(x) function in large ranges, a study which had never before been possible. The projec…
|
historical | mathematics prime-counting function pi(x) tabulation | Xavier Gourdon / Patrick Demichel (independent) | 0 | 0 | dci-past | Site DCI |
|
--> Help Pingdom GIGRIB measure uptime for websites. Participants in the project monitor the uptime of websites specified by other project participants, and can specify their own websites to monitor. The project's "webs…
|
historical | internet distributed uptime monitoring | Pingdom | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Planet Four "identify and measure features on the surface of Mars ... the likes of which don�t exist on Earth. All of the images on this site depict the southern polar region, an area of Mars that we know little about, …
|
historical | distributed human projects Mars southern polar surface (fans/blotches) | Zooniverse (Meg Schwamb et al.) with HiRISE / Oxford / Adler | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Planet Four: Terrains characterize surfaces on Mars by examining images from the Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter 's Context Camera . See more information about the project. See the project's blog . This project is a Zooniver…
|
historical | distributed human projects planetary science / Mars surface classification | Planetary Science Institute (Candy Hansen, PI) with LASP & Queen's University Belfast (Meg Schwamb) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Inspect stellar light curves from NASA's TESS mission (and previously Kepler) to spot transiting planets. Volunteers co-discovered Planet Hunters' namesake exoplanets as well as the famous 'Boyajian's Star' (KIC 8462852…
|
active | distributed human projects Exoplanets / Transit Photometry | Yale University + Caltech | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
--> Click the image of an oak tree at Plant an Oak to help plant a new oak tree in an oak forest in France. Each click plants at least 25 square centimeters of oak forest. The project's sponsors donate money to the proj…
|
historical | charity click-to-give / oak forest (France) | Cannecy (independent, France) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
--> Play a free mobile game to help Play to Cure: Genes in Space analyze real genetic data to find cancer cures. This is the first mobile game to contribute useful work to a scientific research project. The project is o…
|
historical | distributed human projects cancer genomics (mobile game) | Cancer Research UK (with Guerilla Tea) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
--> Click a button at Polska Strona Gtodu ("The Wooden Puppet Program"--The Polish Hunger Site) to help feed a hungry school-child in Poland. The Pajacyk (Wooden Puppet) Campaign, run by the Polish Humanitarian Organisa…
|
active | charity click-to-give / child hunger (Poland) | Polska Akcja Humanitarna (PAH) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
--> Click a button at Polskie Sztuczne Serce (Polish Artificial Heart) to help fund the development of the first Polish artificial heart. The research project is directed by the leading Polish cardiologist, Professor Zb…
|
historical | charity click-to-give / artificial heart research | Fundacja Rozwoju Kardiochirurgii im. prof. Zbigniewa Religi | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
asked participants to click a "Click Here!" link to give poor families the chance they needed to work out of poverty. The project donated money to microcredit charities around the world. These charities loan poor famili…
|
completed | charity charity / click-to-donate (microcredit) | Independent (microcredit click-to-give) | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
Primesearch find primes of the form k * 2 n - 1. The project is currently searching k between 301-399 with n at least 16001. To participate in the project, sign up for an account on the website, then reserve ranges and …
|
historical | mathematics prime search (k*2^n - 1) | Michael Hartley | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
--> Help Project Budburst track the dates on which native tree and plant species leaf or flower across the U.S. Data gathered from the project will help scientists track climate changes which might be caused by global w…
|
active | distributed human projects plant phenology / climate | Chicago Botanic Garden (formerly UCAR/NEON) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
was the old Project Dolphin , restarted by a new project coordinator. It let participants track their total number of keystrokes and periodically reported that total to the project server. Participants could compete aga…
|
completed | human for-fun keystroke counter (distributed human) | Independent (Netherlands) | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
--> Help Project Neuron develop metrics that will support or refute the quality/reliability/dependability of particular BOINC projects, to encourage BOINC-based projects to use quality/reliability metrics. This project …
|
historical | miscellaneous BOINC quality metrics (meta) | Independent | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
tracked tracked a user's total number of keystrokes and periodically reported that total to the project server. Participants could compete against other participants and teams in the project's statistics. The project wa…
|
completed | human for-fun keystroke counter | Independent (hobbyist; continuation of Project Dolphin) | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
Project Squirrel better understand the ecology of squirrels in the United States. "By contributing your observations of squirrels from home, the office, school, a park, or anywhere, you are helping us better understand …
|
active | distributed human projects urban wildlife ecology | University of Illinois at Chicago + Chicago Academy of Sciences / Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
tracked the distance traveled by its participants' mouse and periodically reported that distance to the project server. Participants could compete against other project members, teams and countries in the stats. The pro…
|
completed | human for-fun mouse-distance tracker (distributed human) | Independent (Gruk.org, France) | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
Click a button at Care2's Protect Threatened Wolves to generate donations to help Defenders of Wildlife stop aerial hunting of wolves, continue efforts to expand wolf recovery in the Northern Rockies, and more . You may…
|
historical | charity click-to-give / Defenders of Wildlife | Care2 | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Search for different kinds of prime numbers at Yves Gallot's Proth Search Page . Submit new primes to the Top 5000 Primes list . Version 7.1 of Proth is available as of May 4, 2010. As of January 19, 2010, the project h…
|
active | mathematics prime search (Proth primes) | Yves Gallot / Ray Ballinger / Mark Rodenkirch community | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
The PlayStation-3 precursor to GPUGRID. Pioneered full-atom molecular dynamics on the Cell Broadband Engine processor — predating consumer GPU adoption. Rebranded GPUGRID when CUDA arrived on NVIDIA cards.
|
historical | science Molecular Dynamics | Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB) | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
search for the 33rd largest prime number in PSearch . A Proth prime is a prime number of the form k . 2 n +1 where 2 n > k . The project found the 15th largest prime number (and second largest Proth prime number, 32883 …
|
historical | mathematics Proth prime search | Independent (hobbyist prime-search community) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Inspect candidate pulsar signals from radio surveys (Parkes, Jodrell Bank) for the tell-tale dispersion patterns of real pulsars. A companion to automated machine-learning approaches.
|
historical | distributed human projects Radio Astronomy / Pulsars | University of Manchester (Jodrell Bank Observatory) | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
QMulus develop artificial intelligence algorithms. The project, run by Qualia Labs , hosts several research projects which study artificial intelligence. Project participants have the chance to win prizes and may receiv…
|
historical | science AI research | Qualia Labs | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
uses a single infrastructure to support many kinds of client applications (similar to the Parabon Computation project. The site is hosted by the University of Dortmund in Germany and is written in German , but an Englis…
|
historical | puzzles/games distributed chess program evolution | University of Dortmund | 0 | 0 | dci-past | Site DCI |
|
The 'Smash Childhood Cancer' sub-project — used quantum chemistry simulations to identify drug candidates against seven rare childhood cancers including osteosarcoma and hepatoblastoma. WCG, 2017–2019.
|
historical | life sciences Drug Discovery / Pediatric Oncology | Chiba University + Princess Margaret Cancer Centre | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
--> Help QuantumFIRE alpha conduct "scientific research in Quantum Foundations and Solid State Physics." Quantum Foundations Theory (the theory of the structure and behavior of atoms and molecules) is not completely und…
|
historical | science quantum foundations / solid-state physics | TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
attempted to develop common sense artificial intelligence to "cluster information into sets, made up of related elements (words to start with, followed by concepts, ideas etc) and their potential hierarchies." Volunteer…
|
completed | human common-sense knowledge collection (distributed human) | Independent hobbyist project (questsin.net) | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
Zooniverse project to transcribe handwritten herbarium specimen labels from the Natural History Museum London. Each transcribed label unlocks a data point about a plant specimen collected over the past 300 years.
|
active | distributed human projects Biodiversity / Specimen Transcription | Natural History Museum London | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Originally a dual-purpose CAPTCHA where solving it helped digitize old books and newspapers that OCR couldn't read reliably. Created by Luis von Ahn at Carnegie Mellon (2007); acquired by Google in 2009. Version 2+ trai…
|
active | distributed human projects Text Digitization via CAPTCHA | Google (originally Carnegie Mellon) | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
( Distributed Link Validator) validated links in Red Library , readyresponse.org 's link directory. The project distributed links from the directory to volunteers to test, and removed links from the directory which were…
|
completed | internet distributed link validation | readyresponse.org | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
--> Help RenderFarm@Home render graphical images and animations. Note : the project website is unavailable as of December 1, 2007. The project may have ended. The project uses a BOINC -based client. See the BOINC platfo…
|
historical | art 3D rendering | Community-run (independent) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Repdigit Prime Problems find prime numbers of the form n * k, where k is a single digit which can be repeated any number of times (for example, for n = 47 and k = 3, a possible repdigit prime might be 473333). To partic…
|
historical | mathematics prime search (repdigit-related) | Independent (Dries5, hobbyist) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
--> Click a button at Care2's Rescue Ocean Wildlife to fund donations for Oceana 's ocean protection network. You may click the button once per day to help preserve 100 square feet (9.3 square meters) of the world's oce…
|
historical | charity click-to-give / ocean conservation (Oceana) | Care2 | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
--> Help Reversi find "ultra-weak" solutions for the game Reversi (also known as Othello). No winning strategy for the game is known except for the simplest cases. The project uses the BOINC computing platform. See the …
|
historical | puzzles/games Reversi/Othello solver | Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (STU / FIIT) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
find Riesel primes, primes of the form k * 2 n - 1, with k > 1, in the Riesel Prime Search . This project has three sub-projects: find k's that can produce many primes in the given range of exponent n find low-weight k'…
|
active | mathematics Riesel prime search | Community (Mersenne Forum; partially via PrimeGrid) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
The project's first attemp to solve the challenge was through random guesses. For this attemp, volunteers generated 39,033,522 packets (.154885015296E+15 keys checked) for the project. The attempt ended on January 10, 2…
|
completed | cryptography, science RSA-576 / MD5 challenges, multi-project (NEO-c) | CertainKey Cryptosystems | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
Assisted other factoring projects to achieve their academic goals. Merged into NFS@Home because its server was outdated
|
historical | integer factorization Assisted other factoring projects to achieve their academic goals. Merged into NFS@Home because its server was outdated | California State University, Fullerton (Greg Childers; community project) | 0 | 0 | dci-active wikipedia | Site DCI |
|
, was a distributed effort to solve the RSA 576-bit challenge . The project ended after the RSA 576-bit challenge was factored on December 5, 2003, by some people not related to this project. The project processed over …
|
completed | cryptography RSA-576 factoring | Community (French RSA-576 effort) | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
--> Click a button at Care2's Race for the Big Cats to--> Care2's Save Big Cat Habitat to protect habitat for endangered tigers, jaguars and snow leopards. You may click the button once per day to help preserve endanger…
|
historical | charity click-to-give / big cat conservation | Care2 | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Click a button at Care2's Save the Rainforest to perserve endangered rainforest. All donations from the program go to The Nature Conservancy . You may click the button once per day to help preserve endangered land. The …
|
historical | charity click-to-give / rainforest | Care2 / The Nature Conservancy | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Searched for new treatments against schistosomiasis, a parasitic disease affecting 240 million+ people worldwide. AutoDock virtual screening against schistosome enzymes. WCG, 2014–2016.
|
historical | life sciences Drug Discovery / Neglected Tropical Diseases | Infectious Diseases Research Centre, Laval University | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
--> Help Science Gossip classify drawings from Victorian-era periodicals and "map the origins of citizen science." See more information about the project. See the project's blog . This project is a Zooniverse project. T…
|
historical | distributed human projects Victorian periodicals illustration tagging | ConSciCom (University of Oxford) + Missouri Botanical Garden / Biodiversity Heritage Library | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Transcribe U.S. Supreme Court Justices' handwritten case notes (mostly from the 20th century) to make them searchable by legal historians.
|
historical | distributed human projects Legal History Transcription | Washington University in St. Louis | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Zooniverse project to count kittiwakes and other seabirds in camera-trap photos of remote North Atlantic cliff colonies. Data informs research on climate impacts and seabird population crashes.
|
active | distributed human projects Seabird Ecology | University of Oxford Zoology Department | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Classify sea-bottom images and habitat types from the HabCam ocean-floor imaging system, supporting fisheries management in the Northeast US.
|
historical | distributed human projects Marine Ecology | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution + NOAA | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Join the Search for Multifactorial Primes . This project continues work started by Ray Ballinger to find multifactorial prime numbers , primes of the form n !!+/-1, n !!!+/-1, n !!!!+/-1, searching for all primes up to …
|
historical | mathematics multifactorial prime search | Community (Free-DC / Ken Davis continuing Ray Ballinger's work) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
search for prime numbers of the form k . 2 n - 1. To participate, reserve a range of numbers to check through the website, then download either the proth or primeform application: links to these applications are on Prim…
|
historical | mathematics prime search (k*2^n - 1) | Sepang Institute of Technology (Malaysia) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Season Spotter Jornada study impacts of changing climate by spotting seasonal changes in images of the Jornada Experimental Range in Mexico. This projhect is an offshoot of the Season Spotter project. Learn more about t…
|
historical | distributed human projects phenology / land imagery | Zooniverse (Margaret Kosmala et al.) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
climateprediction.net spin-off that studies how human industrial activity affects regional weather patterns and extreme events.
|
historical | climate extreme-weather attribution (UK Autumn 2000 floods) | climateprediction.net / University of Oxford | 0 | 0 | equn-wiki | Site |
|
Second Computing
Assesses biopolymer dynamics, and models the behavior of clonal colonies in a prairie ecosystem
|
historical | biology Assesses biopolymer dynamics, and models the behavior of clonal colonies in a prairie ecosystem | Community (BC-Team BOINC directory listing) | 0 | 0 | wikipedia | |
|
--> Help SETILive search "for interesting signals coming from the Kepler Field." The project is searching for evidence of extra-terrestrial radio signals from data from the field of stars being surveyed by the Kepler sp…
|
historical | distributed human projects SETI / radio signals | SETI Institute + Zooniverse (Jill Tarter's TED Prize) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
find the smallest Sierpinski number in Seventeen or Bust , a distributed attack on the Sierpinski problem. The project looks for Proth prime numbers in which, for a number k , if every possible choice of n results in a …
|
active | mathematics Sierpinski-problem prime search | PrimeGrid (originally SoB LLC) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Transcribe manuscripts written by Shakespeare's contemporaries — letters, recipes, diaries — from the Folger Shakespeare Library collection. Adds new words to the Oxford English Dictionary and restores ordinary Early Mo…
|
historical | distributed human projects Historical Transcription | Folger Shakespeare Library + University of Oxford | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Rendering of 3D Animations
|
active | art Rendering of 3D Animations | SheepIt Renderfarm (community) | 0 | 0 | wikipedia | Site |
|
Sierpinski/Riesel Base 5 for the smallest base 5 Sierpinski and Riesel numbers. The project does not have a website, only a discussion forum. The project has found the following primes recently:
|
active | mathematics Sierpinski/Riesel base-5 prime search | PrimeGrid | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Classify millions of camera-trap images from Tanzania's Serengeti National Park, identifying lions, wildebeest, and dozens of other species. Data drives population ecology research and has been used to train automated w…
|
active | distributed human projects Wildlife Ecology | University of Minnesota Lion Research Center | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Classify 'new' sources in astronomical difference images from the SkyMapper survey, separating real supernovae from noise and artifacts. Drives fast follow-up of transient events.
|
historical | distributed human projects Time-Domain Astronomy | Australian National University (SkyMapper Survey) | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
--> Help Social Docking find potential drugs to treat Alzheimer's and AIDS . This project "is the first attempt ever to attempt virtual screening of Massive Compound Libraries entirely using JavaScript." The script "run…
|
historical | life sciences drug docking / browser distributed computing | Independent (Google App Engine hosted) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Watch footage from STEREO spacecraft to track coronal mass ejections (CMEs) as they erupt from the Sun and travel toward Earth. Volunteer tracks feed space-weather-forecast research.
|
historical | distributed human projects Solar Physics / Space Weather | UK Science and Technology Facilities Council + Rutherford Appleton Lab | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Click a button at SolvePoverty to help educate disadvantaged youth. The project funds grassroots projects for "computers, scholarships, ICT Centres, training and connectivity leading to job creation for disadvantaged yo…
|
historical | charity click-to-give / education | Independent (click-to-give) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
--> Help Space Warps find rare gravitational lenses galaxies so large they bend light around them, allowing us to see galaxies behind them. See more information about the project's science and the project's FAQ . This p…
|
historical | distributed human projects gravitational lensing | Zooniverse + Oxford + SLAC + Kavli IPMU | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
was a project/game to "predict which web pages will rank more highly on Google in the future." The game's predictions were "used to build a Speculative Search Engine that ranks those web pages more highly today." Player…
|
completed | human search-ranking prediction game (distributed human) | University of New South Wales (Amichai Shulman / Amichail) | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
Spotting Spider Monkeys study deforestation and habitat loss by training an algorithm to "spot and monitor spider monkey populations in the tropical forests of Central and South America." Volunteers can "help scientists…
|
historical | distributed human projects primate conservation / drone thermal imagery | Liverpool John Moores University (Astro-Ecology LJMU Drones) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Watch short videos of mouse-brain capillaries and flag 'stalled' blood vessels — a phenomenon linked to Alzheimer's disease progression. Results from volunteers have already shortened Alzheimer's research timelines by y…
|
active | distributed human projects Alzheimer's / Cerebral Microcirculation | Cornell University (Schaffer-Nishimura Lab) | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Fishtest — the distributed engine-testing framework behind the Stockfish chess engine. Volunteers run thousands of test games to validate whether candidate patches actually strengthen play. Every Stockfish release owes …
|
active | puzzles/games Chess Engine Testing | Stockfish team (community-organized) | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Click a button at Care2's Stop Global Warming to generate donations for Carbonfund.org . Carbonfund supports projects for renewable energy, energy efficiency and reforestation. You may click the button once per day to s…
|
historical | charity click-to-give / Carbonfund.org | Care2 | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
--> Click a button at Care2's Stop Violence Against Women to generate donations to help Amnesty International stop violence against women. You may click the button once per day to help stop violence against women. The p…
|
historical | charity click-to-give / Amnesty International | Care2 | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
find strong pseudoprimes . From the project website: A composite odd integer x is a base b strong pseudoprime if b y =1 (mod x) or there exists a r such that 0 <= r < t and b y2 r = -1 (mod x) where x-1=y2 t and y is od…
|
historical | mathematics strong-pseudoprime search | Independent (PFGW community, UK) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Sudoku find the minimum sudoku puzzle (i.e. find the minimum amount of number clues that need to be given for a sudoku puzzle in order to generate a puzzle with a unique solution). Note : this project has been inactive …
|
historical | puzzles/games minimum-clue Sudoku search | TU Graz (IST, students) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Confirmed solution to the "Minimum Sudoku Problem." After running for more than 2½ years, the project was completed - it was confirmed that no 16-clue Sudoku exists, and so the fewest clues possible is 17
|
historical | games and puzzles Confirmed solution to the "Minimum Sudoku Problem." After running for more than 2½ years, the project was completed - it was confirmed that no 16-clue Sudoku exists, and so the fewest clues possible is 17 | National Center for High-performance Computing (NCHC), Hsinchu Science and Industrial Park, Hsinchu City, Taiwan. | 0 | 0 | wikipedia | Site |
|
SuperDonate raise funds for your favorite charity by contributing computer power to their distributed computing projects. The project sends work to your computer and collects results from your computer's completed work.…
|
historical | charity volunteer-computing charity relay | Independent (volunteer-computing charity relay) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Look for fresh supernovae in difference-imaging data from Pan-STARRS1, helping trigger spectroscopic follow-up within hours of discovery — crucial for catching early-phase physics.
|
historical | distributed human projects Time-Domain Astronomy | Queen's University Belfast + Pan-STARRS | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
--> Help systemic search for and describe extrasolar planetary systems using professional astronomical images and data on the Internet. You do not need to have any prior experience or expertise with Astronomy to partici…
|
historical | distributed human projects exoplanets (radial velocity) | UC Santa Cruz (Gregory Laughlin) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Test My Brain learn more about how the mind and brain work (and learn more about yourself) by participating in the project's various experiments. The project is run by the Harvard University Vision Sciences Laboratory .…
|
active | distributed human projects cognitive science | McLean Hospital / Harvard Medical School / Many Brains Project (Laura Germine) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
find primes of the form 3 * 2 n - 1 in the 3*2^n-1 Search . This project builds on the work of the project to find primes of the form k * 2 n - 1 for k < 300. For 3 * 2 n - 1, n is known up to 2,000,000. This project is…
|
historical | mathematics prime search (3*2^n-1) | Community (Paul Underwood, mersenneforum.org) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Andromeda Project discover and classify star clusters within the Andromeda Galaxy , a spiral galaxy about 2.5 million light years away from Earth. Studying star clusters helps scientists learn how stars--and spiral gala…
|
historical | distributed human projects star-cluster identification (PHAT) | Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury (PHAT) team / University of Washington + Zooniverse | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Click once a day to trigger ad-revenue funding for shelter animals (food, vaccinations, medical care). GreaterGood family of click-to-give sites, running since 2002.
|
active | charity Click-to-Give | GreaterGood.com | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
A daily click triggers ad-revenue funding for free mammograms through the National Breast Cancer Foundation. The original GreaterGood click-to-give site (2000).
|
active | charity Click-to-Give | GreaterGood.com | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Daily click funds maternal and child-health services in underserved communities. GreaterGood click-to-give.
|
active | charity Click-to-Give | GreaterGood.com | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
tried to create better chess-playing artificial neural networks. The project software implemented a genetic algorithm "to train multi-layer-perceptron neural networks on sets of chess positions with known best continuat…
|
completed | puzzles/games chess neural networks (GA training) | Independent (hobbyist, netfirms hosting) | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
ESP Game label images on the Internet. The project presents a Java applet game to volunteers. A pair of volunteers is shown a series of images and must type the same one-word description of an image within a time limit.…
|
historical | distributed human projects image labelling (game-with-a-purpose) | Carnegie Mellon University (Luis von Ahn & Laura Dabbish) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
The original click-to-give site, launched 1999 by John Breen: each daily click triggers ad-revenue funding for food aid via Feeding America and Mercy Corps.
|
active | charity Click-to-Give | GreaterGood.com | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Daily click funds books for underserved communities through First Book and other literacy charities. GreaterGood click-to-give.
|
active | charity Click-to-Give | GreaterGood.com | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Searches for Lychrel numbers — integers that never form a palindrome through the iterative reverse-and-add process. 196 is the most famous candidate. Community-run brute-force computation extending the search to astrono…
|
active | mathematics Computational Number Theory | Community (Wade VanLandingham, 196-algorithm.com) | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Identify 'bubbles' — arcs and rings of dust and gas sculpted by massive stars — in Spitzer Space Telescope infrared images of the galactic plane. Helps map star formation across our Galaxy.
|
active | distributed human projects Galactic Astronomy / Star Formation | University of Oxford + Adler Planetarium | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Plastic Tide enable scientists to study the amount of plastic waste on coastlines and help train computers to identify plastic waste in images of coastline from drones. See more information about the project. See the pr…
|
historical | distributed human projects marine pollution / drone imagery | The Plastic Tide charity (Zooniverse) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Prime Sierpinski Project find the smallest prime Sierpinski number . "The smallest known prime Sierpinski number is k=271129. Finding a prime of type k * 2 n + 1 for all prime k < 271129 will be sufficient to prove that…
|
active | mathematics Prime Sierpinski problem | PrimeGrid | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Daily click funds rainforest preservation through the Rainforest Conservation Fund and World Land Trust. GreaterGood click-to-give.
|
active | charity Click-to-Give | GreaterGood.com | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Works to prove that 509203 is the smallest Riesel number — i.e. the smallest odd k for which k·2^n − 1 is composite for every n. Finds Riesel primes to eliminate smaller candidates. Overlaps heavily with PrimeGrid's RSP…
|
active | mathematics Prime Searches / Riesel Problem | Community (Wilfrid Keller) | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Play The Space Game to help improve methods for designing interplanetary trajectories. The game is a crowdsourcing experiment run by the Advanced Concepts Team of the European Space Agency "to improve the methods for de…
|
historical | distributed human projects interplanetary trajectory optimisation | European Space Agency Advanced Concepts Team (ACT) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Click a link at The Stop HIV Site to help "raise money for AIDS treatment as well as research and development for cures and vaccines." You may click the link once per day to help stop HIV. The program costs you nothing …
|
historical | charity click-to-give / HIV/AIDS research | Independent (click-to-give) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
screen molecules to design drugs to fight diseases in The Virtual Laboratory Project . This project does not work in the way that traditional projects do. Instead of downloading a software client and having it get work …
|
historical | life sciences drug design / grid computing | Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Lab, University of Melbourne (Rajkumar Buyya) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
The WWW Virtual Library is "the oldest catalog of the web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of HTML and the web itself." It is compiled by volunteers who make lists of links for areas in which they are expert. on…
|
historical | collaborative knowledge bases collaborative web directory | Community-maintained (founded by Tim Berners-Lee) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Click a button (or enter a search query) at TheEnvironmentSite.org to help preserve the environment. The project donates money to the Surrey Wildlife Trust to help preserve natural habitat and wildlife in the U.K. See m…
|
historical | charity click-to-give / Surrey Wildlife Trust | Surrey Wildlife Trust (beneficiary) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
They Work for You match video of the British House of Commons from the BBC with text of the speech archived by Hansard . Matching text to video makes the videos searchable and allows British citizens to see how their PM…
|
active | distributed human projects parliamentary transparency | mySociety (UK charity) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
was another project which let participants track their total number of keystrokes and periodically reported those totals to the project server. It also tracked the number of times a each participant pressed a mouse butt…
|
completed | human for-fun keystroke/mouse-click counter | piqsoftware (independent) | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
--> Help Tomnod solve real-world problems by exploring satellite images of Earth. The project is owned by DigitalGlobe . The project runs several campaigns at a time and starts new campaigns frequently. Check the projec…
|
historical | distributed human projects satellite imagery crowdsourcing | DigitalGlobe / Maxar (originally UC San Diego) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
searched for the shortest route between the 48 capital cities of the contiguous United States of America. The project attempted to solve that problem to study the Traveling Salesman Problem , an NP-Hard problem for whic…
|
completed | mathematics traveling salesman problem | Independent (American Samoa) | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
Twenty Questions , " the neural net on the Internet," is an experimental artificial intelligence system which asks you to think of an object and then tries to quess what the object is by asking you twenty (more or less)…
|
historical | distributed human projects neural network / game | Robin Burgener (20Q.net Inc.) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
searched for the largest twin primes of the form k * 2 n - 1 and k * 2 n + 1. On January 15, 2007, the project found the largest known twin primes: 2003663613 * 2^195000 - 1 2003663613 * 2^195000 + 1 The numbers are 58,…
|
completed | mathematics twin prime search | Independent project (Michael Kwok); collaborated with PrimeGrid from Nov 2006 | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
--> --> Help UCT : malariacontrol.net test the correct operation of the malariacontrol.net server for future BOINC-based projects. This project is a test project in collaboration with malariacontrol.net . This project i…
|
historical | life sciences malaria epidemiology simulation | Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (test-mirrored at University of Cape Town) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Compared genomes from thousands of microorganisms found in soils, oceans, and extreme environments to understand biodiversity and search for useful genes (enzymes, antibiotics). WCG, 2014–2019.
|
historical | life sciences Comparative Genomics | Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Brazil | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
project. More information about this project will be posted soon. Total CPU Time (y:d:h:m:s)
|
historical | 6,989:164:06:35:38 drug discovery / anthrax | United Devices | 0 | 0 | dci-past | Site DCI |
|
tracked participants' computers' uptime (the time the each computer had been running since it was last restarted). The client periodically reported each computer's uptime to the project server. Participants could compet…
|
completed | human for-fun uptime tracker (distributed human) | Independent (hobbyist; David Bjornaas et al.) | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
--> Help vSwarm render three-dimensional animations submitted by project members. Project members can submit projects to be rendered in the Blender or LuxRender software applications, and other project members using the…
|
historical | art 3D rendering (Blender / LuxRender) | Community-run | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
webtesting
United Devices Web Performance Testing project. More information about this project will be posted soon.
|
historical | internet web-performance testing | United Devices | 0 | 0 | dci-past | DCI |
|
Western Shield - Camera Watch identify animal species in nighttime photographs of Western Australia 's northern jarrah forests to help scientists control feral fox and feral cat populations and protect the native specie…
|
historical | distributed human projects wildlife camera-trap classification | Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife (Western Shield) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Matched recordings of killer-whale and pilot-whale vocalizations, letting bio-acousticians analyze cetacean 'dialects' across pods and populations.
|
historical | distributed human projects Bioacoustics / Cetaceans | Scientific American + Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
What's the Score at the Bodleian? describe over 4,000 images of piano music scores from the Bodleian library . No catalogue exists for these scores from the mid- Victorian time period. "The music was mostly produced for…
|
historical | distributed human projects music-score metadata | Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford (Zooniverse) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Enter the serial number of a US dollar bill, then see where anyone else reports the same bill next. 20+ years of banknote circulation data; the basis of a 2006 Nature paper on human travel patterns using dollar-bill mov…
|
active | collaborative knowledge bases Citizen Economics | Community-run (Hank Eskin) | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Where's Willy? track the geographic movement of Canadian bank notes. Participants enter the serial number of any Canadian bank note and their current Canadian Postal Code or U.S. ZIP code and they can see where the note…
|
active | collaborative knowledge bases citizen economics / banknote tracking | Independent (Hank Eskin; Canadian spin-off of WheresGeorge.com) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
to Wikia Search create an open-source search engine which allows users to search the Internet with an open, objective, accountable search tool. This project is based on the following 4 principles: Transparency - Opennes…
|
historical | collaborative knowledge bases open-source search engine | Wikia Inc. (Jimmy Wales) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Wikimedia's sister project for open-licensed textbooks and instructional material. Covers mathematics, programming, languages, history, cooking, and more.
|
active | collaborative knowledge bases Open Textbooks | Wikimedia Foundation | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Wikimedia's citizen-journalism sister project, where volunteers write original news reports under a neutral point-of-view policy. Smaller and more niche than Wikipedia, but an interesting experiment in community-produce…
|
active | collaborative knowledge bases Citizen Journalism | Wikimedia Foundation | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
The collaboratively-edited encyclopedia. Over 6 million English-language articles and 300+ language editions. Founded 2001; runs on MediaWiki under the Wikimedia Foundation. Possibly the largest volunteer project in hum…
|
active | collaborative knowledge bases Encyclopedia | Wikimedia Foundation | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Contribute to WikiProfessional 's life sciences knowledge bases, such as WikiProteins. The goal for the WikiProteins knowledge base is to build the base "by importing a huge amount of data from existing databases, such …
|
historical | collaborative knowledge bases biomedical knowledge base | Knewco / Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre (WikiProteins consortium) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Wikimedia's free, open directory of life — a taxonomy reference for biologists and naturalists covering plants, animals, fungi, microbes, and extinct species.
|
active | collaborative knowledge bases Taxonomy | Wikimedia Foundation | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Collaborative multilingual dictionary sister-project to Wikipedia. Includes definitions, etymologies, pronunciations, and translations — for nearly every language ever written.
|
active | collaborative knowledge bases Dictionary | Wikimedia Foundation | 0 | 0 | curated dci-active | Site DCI |
|
WildCam Gorongosa document the recovery of wildlife in Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique. Participants identify animals in trail camera photos from the park to help document the restoration of the park's wildlife. S…
|
historical | distributed human projects wildlife camera-trap classification | HHMI BioInteractive + Gorongosa Restoration Project (Zooniverse) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
once a day to save Mexican Rainforest (the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve ). Each click saved save 4.4 square feet of land. The program cost users nothing (it was paid for by the companies which sponsor the site) and users …
|
completed | charity charity / click-to-donate (rainforest) | Calakmul Biosphere Reserve (beneficiary) | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
--> Help Wildsense contribute to scientific research by discovering more information about wildlife. See more information about the project and the project's blog . Wildsense's first project is studying wild tigers, an …
|
historical | distributed human projects wildlife (tiger) tracking | University of Surrey (+ Snap Out Ltd) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
find Wilson primes . From the project website: An odd prime p is a wilson prime if (p-1)!+1=0 mod p2. The only known wilson primes are 5, 13, and 563. Setup of the client is straightforward, but not trivial. Be sure to …
|
historical | mathematics Wilson-prime search | Independent (PFGW community, UK) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Worm Watch Lab study videos of nematode worm behavior to discover "how genes affect behaviour in nematode worms. These discoveries can help us understand our own genes, too." "By watching a short video and spotting the …
|
historical | distributed human projects C. elegans behaviour genetics | MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology + MRC Clinical Sciences Centre (Zooniverse) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
attempted to "modelize the conformational changes of the beta 2 adrenergic receptor, and have a better understanding of its pharmacology." This project was run by Charles Parnot, a postdoctoral fellow in Brian Kobilka '…
|
completed | october, 2008 GPCR molecular dynamics (beta2 adrenergic receptor) | Stanford University (Charles Parnot / Brian Kobilka Lab) | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
factor numbers of the form x y + y x in the XYYXF project. The project completed the factorization of all numbers with y < 11 as of February 7, 2005. It completed the factorization of all numbers up to x = 90 as of Marc…
|
historical | mathematics integer factorization (x^y + y^x) | Primefan (Russia) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
Your Paintings Tagger tag and categorize over 200,000 publicly-held paintings in the United Kingdom. This project supports the Public Catalog Foundation (PCF), a project in the UK to catalog every collection of oil pain…
|
active | distributed human projects art-collection tagging | Art UK (formerly Public Catalogue Foundation) + BBC | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
YourMorals understand the way humans' "moral minds" work. The project enables participants to learn about their "own morality, ethics, and/or values" while contributing to scientific research. The project is run by a gr…
|
active | distributed human projects moral psychology research | University of Virginia / UC Irvine / USC (Jonathan Haidt, Jesse Graham, Ravi Iyer et al.) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
--> yoyo@home Euler (6,2,5) is searching for minimal equal sums of power 6. The project expects to find at least 32 new sums. See more information about the project. The project finished on June 8, 2010. The project beg…
|
historical | mathematics Diophantine equations / Euler sums | Rechenkraft.net e.V. | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
yoyo@home EvoHo is a BOINC -based wrapper for evolution@home . The project uses a BOINC -based client. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. Version 1.04 of the project's evoluti…
|
historical | science population genetics / evolution simulation | Rechenkraft.net e.V. (wrapper for evolution@home, Laurence Loewe) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
yoyo@home Muon is a BOINC -based wrapper for Muon1 . The project uses a BOINC -based client. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. Version 1.06 of the project's Muon client is av…
|
active | science particle accelerator simulation (Muon1) | Rechenkraft.net e.V. (wrapper for Stephen Brooks' Muon1) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
yoyo@home OGR is a BOINC -based wrapper for distributed.net 's OGR-25 project. The project uses a BOINC -based client. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. Version 1.08 of the p…
|
active | mathematics Optimal Golomb Ruler search (wrapper) | Rechenkraft.net e.V. (wrapper for distributed.net's OGR) | 0 | 0 | curated-dci dci-active | Site DCI |
|
was a similar project to dmoz, a user-edited, categorized index of websites, and was hosted (and eventually shut down) by looksmart . Zeal was a completely non-commercial directory built by a community of volunteer edit…
|
completed | knowledge volunteer-edited web directory | LookSmart | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
attempted to verify Riemann's hypothesis: this hypothesis was formulated in 1859 and states that "all non-trivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function are on the critical line (1/2+ it where t is a real number)." No one h…
|
completed | mathematics Riemann hypothesis zeta-zeros verification | Sebastian Wedeniwski (IBM) | 0 | 0 | dci-recent | Site DCI |
|
A Spanish distributed-computing platform (2007) that was the direct precursor to Ibercivis. Ran the first nationwide BOINC campaign in Spain. Superseded by Ibercivis in 2008.
|
historical | platform Historical National Grid | Ibercivis Foundation / University of Zaragoza (Spain) | 0 | 0 | curated equn-wiki | Site |
|
Russian-led BOINC project using boundary-element methods to simulate how sound propagates through shallow-water environments — applied to underwater acoustics and oceanography.
|
historical | physics Underwater Acoustics | Matrosov Institute for System Dynamics (Irkutsk, Russia) | — | — | free-dc curated | Site |
|
A World Community Grid sub-project (2019–2021) that simulated high-resolution rainfall patterns over sub-Saharan Africa to help smallholder farmers improve crop yields. Run with IBM Weather Company and Delft University …
|
completed | environmental Rainfall Modeling / Agriculture | Delft University of Technology + IBM Weather Company | — | — | rechenkraft curated | Site |
|
An early BOINC umbrella platform (2005–2011) run by the University of Geneva that hosted sub-projects focused on African public-health and climate challenges — including MalariaControl.net, AfricanClimate@Home, and the …
|
historical | platform Multi-project Grid (Global-South Research) | University of Geneva | — | — | wikipedia curated | Site |
|
Searches for counterexamples to the Beal Conjecture — the statement that if Aˣ + Bʸ = Cᶻ for positive integers with exponents >2, then A, B, C share a common prime factor. $1 million prize offered for a proof or counter…
|
historical | math Beal Conjecture Search | Community (BOINC-based) | — | — | free-dc curated | Site |
|
A novelty BOINC project from a Belgian research group; ran short-duration compute tasks as a lighthearted outreach effort. Long retired.
|
historical | misc Outreach / Test | Community (Belgium) | — | — | free-dc curated | Site |
|
BOINC platform run by the Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies (FIIT), Slovak University of Technology Bratislava. Hosted academic student compute tasks.
|
historical | platform University Research Grid | Slovak University of Technology Bratislava | — | — | free-dc curated | Site |
|
French cryptography / codebreaking volunteer project. Short-lived; community-run.
|
historical | cryptography Codebreaking | Community (France) | — | — | free-dc curated | Site |
|
An early distributed chess-engine project predating Stockfish's distributed testing framework. Experimental; superseded by modern engine-testing pipelines.
|
historical | puzzles Chess Engine | Community | — | — | free-dc curated | Site |
|
A NASA-affiliated BOINC project that ran ModelE2 climate simulations on volunteers' computers to complement supercomputer climate ensembles. Test-phase; distinct from Oxford's climateprediction.net.
|
historical | environmental Climate Modeling | NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies | — | — | free-dc curated | Site |
|
BOINC project for earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences — ran atmospheric-dynamics simulations. Short-lived MIT effort.
|
historical | environmental Atmospheric Dynamics | MIT (Department of EAPS) | — | — | free-dc curated | Site |
|
Demonstration/testing BOINC server for the European Desktop Grid Initiative (EDGI) infrastructure. Short-lived; the project sits under the EDGI umbrella rather than running its own research.
|
historical | platform Desktop Grid Demonstration | European Desktop Grid Initiative (EDGI) | — | — | free-dc curated | Site |
|
Volunteer brute-force search for the Eternity II edge-matching puzzle solution. Parallel to the French Eternity2.fr effort; unfinished.
|
historical | math Combinatorial Puzzle | Community | — | — | free-dc curated | Site |
|
Searches for factors of Fermat numbers (Fₙ = 2^(2^n) + 1) and their generalizations. A long-running independent project by Leonid Durman; uses its own Windows/Linux clients rather than BOINC.
|
active | math Fermat Number Factorization | Leonid Durman (independent) | — | — | rechenkraft curated | Site |
|
Ran virtual drug screening against the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. A smaller sibling to WCG's GO Fight Against Malaria.
|
historical | biology Drug Discovery / Malaria | Rutgers University / University of Dublin | — | — | free-dc curated | Site |
|
Infers gene regulatory networks from expression data to help biologists understand cell behavior in health and disease. A TN-Grid BOINC sub-project run by the Italian research center CNR (National Research Council).
|
active | biology Gene Regulatory Network Inference | University of Trento (DISI) + CNR, Italy | — | — | rechenkraft curated | Site |
|
Factors 'homogeneous Cunningham' numbers of the form a^n + b^n and a^n − b^n for small bases a, b. A sub-project of Yoyo@home run by Rechenkraft.net; extends the classical Cunningham Project's tables of small-base integ…
|
active | math Integer Factorization / Cunningham Numbers | Rechenkraft.net e.V. (Germany) | — | — | rechenkraft curated | Site |
|
Volunteer computing support for the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) synthetic-biology competition — running simulations to support student teams' biology projects.
|
historical | biology Synthetic Biology | iGEM Foundation | — | — | free-dc curated | Site |
|
A BOINC cryptanalysis project focused on the famous Kryptos sculpture at CIA HQ — specifically K4, the still-unsolved fourth passage encoded there since 1990.
|
historical | cryptography Kryptos K4 Cryptanalysis | Community | — | — | free-dc curated | Site |
|
La Red de Atrapa Sismos
Spanish citizen-seismograph project — distributes inexpensive MEMS accelerometers to schools and homes across Spain to build a dense seismic network. Spiritual sibling of Quake-Catcher Network.
|
historical | environmental Citizen Seismology | CSIC + Universidad Complutense de Madrid | — | — | free-dc curated | |
|
BOINC-wrapped distributed rendering using the open-source LuxRender path tracer. Community-run.
|
historical | art Distributed Rendering | Community | — | — | free-dc curated | Site |
|
Volunteer factoring project targeting Milestone RSA-style challenge numbers. Short-lived community effort; superseded by NFS@Home for modern GNFS work.
|
historical | cryptography RSA Factoring | Community | — | — | free-dc curated | Site |
|
BOINC wrapper for MOPAC semi-empirical quantum-chemistry calculations — smaller and faster than DFT, useful for large-molecule screening.
|
historical | chemistry Semi-empirical Quantum Chemistry | Stewart Computational Chemistry | — | — | free-dc curated | Site |
|
BOINC platform hosted by the Physics department at a German university; ran small-scale solid-state and molecular physics simulations.
|
historical | physics Solid State Physics | Community (Germany) | — | — | free-dc curated | Site |
|
Radio Network Design
BOINC project optimizing cellular base-station placement and radio-resource allocation to improve coverage and cost-efficiency of mobile networks.
|
historical | internet/networking Cellular Network Design | Cardiff University | — | — | free-dc curated | |
|
SciLink
A short-lived Russian academic BOINC platform hosting rotating physics and chemistry tasks.
|
historical | platform Multi-discipline Grid | Community (Russia) | — | — | free-dc curated | |
|
Part of the theSkyNet POGS family — specifically tests the Duchamp source-finder on HI (neutral hydrogen) data cubes for the ASKAP radio telescope.
|
historical | physics Radio Astronomy / HI Surveys | ICRAR / University of Western Australia | — | — | free-dc curated | Site |
|
Steiner@Home
Searches for minimum-length Steiner trees in Euclidean space — a classical NP-hard problem in combinatorial optimization.
|
historical | math Combinatorial Optimization | University of Bonn (Germany) | — | — | free-dc curated | |
|
BOINC project attacking the Subset Sum problem (a classic NP-complete decision problem) for specific large instances.
|
historical | math Combinatorial Optimization | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | — | — | free-dc curated | Site |
|
Searches for van der Waerden numbers w(k; r) — the smallest N such that every r-coloring of {1..N} contains a monochromatic arithmetic progression of length k. Deep connection to Ramsey theory.
|
historical | math Ramsey Theory | Community | — | — | free-dc curated | Site |
|
University of Houston BOINC project exploring 'virtual parallel execution' — using volunteer hosts to run MPI-style scientific codes that normally need tightly-coupled clusters.
|
historical | platform Parallel Computing Research | University of Houston | — | — | free-dc curated | Site |
|
Identify animals, habitat types, and behavior in camera-trap and field photos. Run by the University of North Dakota as part of Citizen Science Grid.
|
historical | biology Wildlife Ecology | University of North Dakota (Citizen Science Grid) | — | — | free-dc curated | Site |
|
Computes X-ray and neutron scattering patterns for every crystal structure in the Crystallography Open Database (COD), so researchers can pre-screen materials for targeted diffraction studies.
|
historical | chemistry Crystallography / X-ray Scattering | University of Turin (Italy) | — | — | free-dc curated | Site |
No projects match your filters. Try removing one.
Scores are auditable (see score_notes in the CSV) and blend rule-based signals with hand-tuning for priority projects. Data is cached; for live numbers consult the linked sources.