Active Projects
| Project | Launched | Home | Category | Research Focus | BOINC-based | Number of Active Processing Units | TeraFLOPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC@home | 2006-11-21 | Mathematical Institute of Leiden University, Kennislink | Mathematics | Prove the ABC conjecture, one of the greatest open problems in mathematics | Yes | 70039866000000000009,866 (Feb 2012) | 700112333000000000012.333 (Feb 2012) |
| Albert@home | ? | University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Max Planck Institute | Astrophysics | Testing project for Einstein@home | Yes | 7002377000000000000377 (Feb 2012) | 70002207000000000002.207 (Feb 2012) |
| Background Pi | ? | ? | ? | Computes decimal digits of pi using digit extraction method. | No | ? | ? |
| Bitcoin | 2009-01-09 | ? | Decentralized electronic money, cryptocurrency | A peer-to-peer network-based digital currency | No | several thousand | 7005312000000000000312,000Note 1 (Nov 2012) |
| BURP | 2004-06-17 | ? | Art | Rendering of 3D animations | Yes | 7002154000000000000154 (Feb 2012) | 69991980000000000000.198 (Feb 2012) |
| CAS@home | 2010-01 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | Physics, biochemistry, and others | Encourage Chinese scientists to use volunteer computing for their research | Yes | 70032643000000000002,643 (Feb 2012) | 70001319000000000001.319 (Feb 2012) |
| Chemomentum | ? | ? | ? | Undertakes the evaluation and risk assessment of chemicals | ? | ? | ? |
| Chess960@home | 2006-03-20 | Private | Game-playing | Analysis of chess 960 | Yes | 70001000000000000001 (Feb 2012) | 69981200000000000000.012 (Feb 2012) |
| Climateprediction.net | 2003-12-09 | Oxford University | Climate study | Analyse ways to improve climate prediction models | Yes | 700427158000000000027,158 (Feb 2012) | 700134925999990000034.925 (Feb 2012) |
| Collatz Conjecture | 2009-01-06 | Private | Mathematics | Study the Collatz conjecture, an unsolved conjecture in mathematics | Yes | 700410089000000000010,089 (Feb 2012) | 7002623444000000000623.444 (Feb 2012) |
| Constellation | ? | Students at the University of Stuttgart, Germany | Aerospace, Engineering | Various aerospace-related science and engineering problems | Yes | 70031860000000000001,860 (Feb 2012) | 70002150000000000002.150 (Feb 2012) |
| Correlizer | ? | EpiGenSys Consortium and EraSysBio+, part of the Seventh Framework Program of the European Union | Genetics | The sequential organization of genomes, and its connection to their 3D architectural organization | Yes | 70031620000000000001,620 (Feb 2012) | 70001607000000000001.607 (Feb 2012) |
| Cosmology@home | 2007-03-31 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Astronomy | Find the most accurate models that best describe the universe | Yes | 70038124000000000008,124 (Feb 2012) | 70009119000000000009.119 (Feb 2012) |
| Distributed Data Mining | 2010-02-mid | ? | Data analysis, machine learning | Research in the various fields of data analysis and machine learning, such as stock market prediction and analysis of medical data | Yes | 7002964000000000000964 (Feb 2012) | 69999680000000000000.968 (Feb 2012) |
| Distributed.net | 1997-01-28 | Private | Cryptography, Mathematics | Crack the RC5-72 cipher, find optimal Golomb rulers of length 27 | No | 70032474000000000002,474 (Feb 2012) | ? |
| DistrRTgen | 2008-01-12 | Private | Cryptography | Analysis of hash strength for password security by developing rainbow tables | Yes | 70032572000000000002,572 (Feb 2012) | 7002270140000099999270.150 (Feb 2012) |
| DNA@home | ? | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | ? | discover what regulates the genes in DNA using statistical algorithms | Yes | 50000000000000000000 (Feb 2012) | 50000000000000000000 (Feb 2012) |
| Docking@home | 2006-11-09 | University of Delaware | Molecular biology | Simulate the docking of ligands to proteins for pharmaceutical research | Yes | 70037968000000000007,968 (Feb 2012) | 700116390000000000016.390 (Feb 2012) |
| DrugDiscovery@home | ? | Private | Drug design | In silico drug design of chemical compounds for medicines in the fields of cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. | Yes | 70006000000000000006 (Feb 2012) | 50000000000000000000 (Feb 2012) |
| Einstein@home | 2005-02-19 | University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Max Planck Institute | Astrophysics | Search for pulsars using radio signals and gravitational wave data | Yes | 7005121698000000000121,698 (Feb 2012) | 7002288809000000000288.809 (Feb 2012) |
| Electric Sheep | 1999 | ? | Art | An open source screen-saver to animate and evolve abstract animations. | No | 450,000 | ? |
| Enigma@home | 2007-09-09 | Private | Cryptography | Decode three unbroken Enigma messages from World War II | Yes | 70037427000000000007,427 (Feb 2012) | 70007175000000000007.175 (Feb 2012) |
| eOn | ? | University of Texas at Austin | Chemistry | Calculate the evolution of an atomic-scale system over time, such as a chemical reaction or diffusion | Yes | 70033175000000000003,175 (Feb 2012) | 70003526000000000003.526 (Feb 2012) |
| Evolution@home | ? | ? | ? | Uses evolutionary algorithms to optimize the parameters of different kinds of machine learning algorithms | No | ? | |
| Folding@home | 2000-10-01 | Stanford University | Molecular biology | Understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases, with a minor emphasis in protein structure prediction | No | 7005426787000000000426,787 (Feb 2012) | 70038588000000000008,588 (Feb 2012) |
| FreeHAL | 2006 | Private | Artificial intelligence | Compute essential information for software which seeks to imitate human conversation | Yes | 70039552000000000009,552 (Feb 2012) | 700114019000000000014.019 (Feb 2012) |
| Galaxy Zoo | ? | ? | ? | Classifies galaxy types from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Part of the Zooniverse group of citizen science projects | No | ? | ? |
| Gerasim@home | 2007-02-10 | Russia | Mathematics | Research in discrete mathematics and logic control systems | Yes | 50000000000000000000 (Feb 2012) | 50000000000000000000 (Feb 2012) |
| Goldbach's Conjecture | ? | ? | ? | Tests Goldbach's weak conjecture. | ? | ? | ? |
| Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) | 1996-01-early | Private | Mathematics | Searches for Mersenne primes of world record size | No | 7005571366000000000571,366 (Feb 2012) | 700195100000000000095.1 (Nov 2012) |
| Hydrogen@home | ? | ? | ? | Searches for the most efficient method of hydrogen production | ? | ? | ? |
| Ibercivis | 2008 | Spanish universities and research centers | Various Spanish projects | Research in physics, material medicine, and biomedicine | Yes | 70035897000000000005,897 (Feb 2012) | 70003021900000000003.022 (Feb 2012) |
| Ideologias@home | 2011-05-19 | Complutense University of Madrid, Spain | Society | Uses social networking mathematical models to study the ideological evolution of a group of people over time | Yes | 50000000000000000000 (Feb 2012) | 50000000000000000000 (Feb 2012) |
| Leiden Classical | 2005-05-12 | Leiden University, the Netherlands | Chemistry | General classical mechanics for students or scientists | Yes | 70033292000000000003,292 (Feb 2012) | 70001644000000000001.644 (Feb 2012) |
| LHC Test4Theory@home | ? | CERN | Physics | Search for new fundamental particles computations for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN | Yes | 70032707000000000002,707 (Feb 2012) | 70002420000000000002.420 (Feb 2012) |
| LHC@home | 2004-01-09 | CERN | Physics | Improve the design of the Large Hadron Collider and its detectors | Yes | 700410862000000000010,862 (Feb 2012) | 69992810000000000000.281 (Feb 2012) |
| M4 Project | ? | ? | ? | Decrypts Enigma messages from World War II | ? | ? | ? |
| Magnetism@home | 2008-06-09 | Donetsk Institute for Physics and Technology, Ukraine | Magnetism, nanotechnology | Explores magnetization patterns | Yes | 70001000000000000001 (Feb 2012) | 50000000000000000000 (Feb 2012) |
| Malariacontrol.net | 2006-12-19 | Swiss Tropical Institute | Epidemiology | Simulate the transmission dynamics and health effects of malaria | Yes | 700415653000000000015,653 (Feb 2012) | 700114197000000000014.197 (Feb 2012) |
| Milkyway@home | 2007-07-07 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Astronomy | Create a highly accurate three-dimensional model of the Milky Way galaxy using data collected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey | Yes | 700439651000000000039,651 (Feb 2012) | 7002555440000000000555.440 (Feb 2012) |
| MindModeling@home | 2007-03-17 | University of Dayton Research Institute and Wright State University | Cognitive science | Builds cognitive models of the human mind | Yes | 7002791000000000000791 (Feb 2012) | 69976000000000000000.006 (Feb 2012) |
| MoneyBee | ? | ? | Finance | Generates stock forecasts by applying artificial intelligence with the aid of artificial neural networks | ? | ? | ? |
| Moo! Wrapper | 2011-02-05 | Private | Cryptography | Combines BOINC with distributed.net to try to break the RC5 cipher | Yes | 70032942000000000002,942 (Feb 2012) | 7002807208000000000807.208 (Feb 2012) |
| MQL5 Cloud Network | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | |
| Muon1 Distributed Particle Accelerator Design | ? | ? | Physics | Simulate and design parts of the Neutrino Factory particle accelerator | No | ? | ? |
| Najmanovich Research Group | ? | Université de Sherbrooke | Molecular biology | Research in molecular recognition | Yes | 7002811000000000000811 (Feb 2012) | 69993900000000000000.390 (Feb 2012) |
| Neurona@home | 2011-06-14 | Complutense University of Madrid, Spain | Neural network | Simulating the behavior of a large and complex network of cellular automata neurons | Yes | 7002272000000000000272 (Feb 2012) | 69991570000000000000.157 (Feb 2012) |
| NFS@home | 2009-09-05 | California State University Fullerton | Integer factorization | Performs parts of the Number Field Sieve in the factorization of large integers | Yes | 70031896000000000001,896 (Feb 2012) | 70003106000000000003.106 (Feb 2012) |
| NumberFields@home | 2011-08-12 | Arizona State University's School of Mathematics | Number theory | Search for number fields with special properties to assist with the formulation of mathematical conjectures | Yes | 7002852000000000000852 (Feb 2012) | 70003130000000000003.130 (Feb 2012) |
| Optima@home | ? | Institute for Systems Analysis of Russian Academy of Sciences | Optimization | Solve various large-scale optimization problems, currently finding molecular conformations which have minimal potential energy | Yes | 7002242000000000000242 (Feb 2012) | 69992410000000000000.241 (Feb 2012) |
| Orbit@home | 2008-04-03 | Planetary Science Institute | Astronomy | Monitor and study the hazards posed by near-earth asteroids | Yes | 700118000000000000018 (Feb 2012) | 50000000000000000000 (Feb 2012) |
| Pirates@home | 2004-02-06 | Spy Hill Research | Software testing | Test of BOINC, no current scientific computation | Yes | 70002000000000000002 (Feb 2012) | 69977000000000000000.007 (Feb 2012) |
| POEM@Home | 2007-13-11 | University of Karlsruhe, Germany | Molecular biology | Protein structure prediction, cellular signaling, protein aggregation, and drug design | Yes | 70039662000000000009,662 (Feb 2012) | 7002107756000000000107.756 (Feb 2012) |
| Primaboinca | ? | RheinMain University of Applied Sciences | Mathematics | Search for counterexamples to Agrawal's conjecture and Popovych's conjecture, which relate to the identification of prime numbers | Yes | 70031160000000000001,160 (Feb 2012) | 70005543900000999995.544 (Feb 2012) |
| QMC@home | 2006-03-03 | University of Muenster, Germany | Chemistry | Study the structure and reactivity of molecules using quantum chemistry and Monte Carlo techniques | Yes | 70037472000000000007,472 (Feb 2012) | 700112460000000000012.460 (Feb 2012) |
| Quake Catcher Network | 2008-02-03 | Stanford University | Seismology | Uses accelerometers connected to personal computers to detect earthquakes and to perform education about seismology | Yes | 70031161000000000001,161 (Feb 2012) | 69991409999999000000.141 (Feb 2012) |
| Radioactive@home | 2011-04-01 | Poland | Physics | Real-time radioactivity monitoring, detected by gamma sensors connected to volunteer computers | Yes | 700162000000000000062 (Feb 2012) | 69982800000000000000.028 (Feb 2012) |
| RALPH@home | 2006-02-15 | University of Washington | Software testing | Test project for Rosetta@home | Yes | 7002824000000000000824 (Feb 2012) | 69984000000000000000.040 (Feb 2012) |
| Renderfarm.fi | 2009-summer | Private (Finnish) | Art | 2D and 3D rendering for animation artists | Yes | 70031092000000000001,092 (Feb 2012) | 69993570000000000000.357 (Feb 2012) |
| RNA World | 2009-05-21 | Private research group in Marburg, Germany | Molecular biology | Uses bioinformatics software to study RNA structure | Yes | 70032032000000000002,032 (Feb 2012) | 70004117000000000004.117 (Feb 2012) |
| Rosetta@home | 2005-10-06 | University of Washington | Molecular biology | Protein structure prediction for disease research | Yes | 700459677000000000059,677 (Feb 2012) | 700158031000000000058.031 (Feb 2012) |
| SAT@home | 2011-09-29 | Russian Academy of Sciences | Cryptanalysis, Mathematics | Various applications related to the boolean satisfiability problem, inversion of specific stream cipher functions | Yes | 70031541000000000001,541 (Feb 2012) | 70001453000000000001.453 (Feb 2012) |
| Second Computing | ? | ? | ? | Assesses biopolymer dynamics, and models the behavior of clonal colonies in a prairie ecosystem | ? | ? | ? |
| SETI@home | 1999-05-17 | University of California, Berkeley | Astrobiology | Search for extraterrestrial life by analyzing specific radio frequencies emanating from space | Yes | 7005225534000000000225,534 (Feb 2012) | 7002593650000000000593.650 (Feb 2012) |
| SETI@home Beta | ? | University of California, Berkeley | Software testing | Test project of SETI@home | Yes | 70032097000000000002,097 (Feb 2012) | 70001403000000000001.403 (Feb 2012) |
| SIMAP | 2006-04-26 | University of Vienna | Molecular biology | Calculate similarities between proteins | Yes | 700410598000000000010,598 (Feb 2012) | 70005891000000000005.891 (Feb 2012) |
| SLinCA | ? | G.V.Kurdyumov Institute for Metal Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine | Materials science | Studies scaling laws in cluster aggregation | Yes | 700187000000000000087 (Feb 2012) | 69985300000000000000.053 (Feb 2012) |
| Spinhenge@home | 2006-05-19 | Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences | Nanotechnology | Study nano-magnetic molecules for research into localized tumor chemotherapy and micro-memory | Yes | 70008000000000000008 (Feb 2012) | 50000000000000000000 (Feb 2012) |
| Stardust@home | ? | ? | ? | Scans/analyzes the collection grid from a recent NASA mission to capture particles from a comet | No | ? | ? |
| Sudoku@vtaiwan | 2011-10-21 | National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan | Mathematics | Determine whether unique-solution sudoku puzzles with only 16 clues exist | Yes | 70034087000000000004,087 (Feb 2012) | 70001926000000000001.926 (Feb 2012) |
| Superlink@Technion | 2007-05-03 | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology | Genetic linkage analysis | Uses genetic linkage analysis to help find disease-provoking genes | Yes | 70036655000000000006,655 (Feb 2012) | 70001084000000000001.084 (Feb 2012) |
| theSkyNet | 2011-09-13 | International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research | Astronomy | Analysis of radio astronomy data from telescopes such as the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder and The Square Kilometre Array | No | 70033000000000000003,000 (Sept 2011) | ? |
| Twin Prime Search | 2006-04-13 | ? | Mathematics | Searches for large twin primes | ? | ? | ? |
| μFluids@home | 2005-09-19 | Purdue University | Physics, Aeronautics | Simulate microfluidics problems and two-phase flows in microgravity | Yes | 50000000000000000000 (Feb 2012) | 50000000000000000000 (Feb 2012) |
| Virtual Prairie | 2008 | University of Houston | Botanical ecosystems | Provide ecological guidelines on the design of prairies with the best potential for water purification | Yes | 50000000000000000000 (Feb 2012) | 50000000000000000000 (Feb 2012) |
| Volpex@UH | ? | University of Houston | Various | Develop distributed computing methods, run the inCell@home application which focuses on simulating protein functions in cellular environments which has implications in drug design | Yes | 70001000000000000001 (Feb 2012) | 69972000000000000000.002 (Feb 2012) |
| WEP-M+2 Project | 2006-05-12 | London, England, United Kingdom | Mathematics | Investigates the factorization of Mersenneplustwo prime numbers | Yes | 7002269000000000000269 (Feb 2012) | 69992889900000000000.289 (Feb 2012) |
| Wieferich@Home | 2007-12-29 | ? | Mathematics | Searches for new Wieferich primes | No | 70031509000000000001,509 (Feb 2012) | ? |
| WUProp@home | 2010-03-27 | Private | Statistics | Collect various statistics about other BOINC projects | Yes | 70037960000000000007,960 (Feb 2012) | 70001135900000999991.136 (Feb 2012) |
| YAFU | ? | ? | Software testing, Mathematics | Test BOINC server software, integer factorization | Yes | 7002389000000000000389 (Feb 2012) | 69993330000000000000.333 (Feb 2012) |
| Yoyo@home | 2007-07-19 | Private | Mathematics, physics, and evolution | Data structure analysis to help prove a conjecture, elliptic curve factorization, pion creation in a particle accelerator, evolution research, find the shortest optimal Golomb ruler of length 27 | Yes | 70034882000000000004,882 (Feb 2012) | 700112998000000000012.998 (Feb 2012) |
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