Help this distributed computing project by donating CPU cycles to find primes of the form 121*2^N-1.

Article discusses the "early days" (pre-1998) of distributed computing projects, explains the basics of how they work and how to get them to work well, describes some early successes, and considers how CPU cycles may someday become a commodity to be bought, sold or traded.

Boitho distributed crawler (BETA). Goal is to make a general internet search engine with a thumbnail picture of all the pages.

Distributed computing projects directory.

Aims to harness the power of PCs in homes and businesses to predict the climate of the 21st century. Individuals can register to take part when the experiment starts (likely sometime 2001).

Corporate-sponsored project exploring cancer development, prevention and treatment. [Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME]

Includes client software download, computation records, and project description on its research into mathematical problems.

A forum for discussing SETI, RC5, F@H, G@H, the UD Cancer Project, and other distributed computing efforts.

Open framework that will allow P2P file sharing networks to make Distributed Parallel Computing.

Long annotated list.

Using a desktop's idle time, arrive at designs of self-diagnosing circuits superior to those produced by conventional design. FAQ, statistics, news, academic papers, forum, and source code.

Founded to support the digitization of public domain books. Originally conceived to assist Project Gutenberg, Distributed Proofreaders is now the main source of PG e-books.

Modeled after the Digital Proofreaders project, this variation focuses on digitization of works considered to be in the public domain in Europe.

Distributed computing projects links and short descriptions in English and in Finnish.

Kirk Pearson's directory of current distributed computing projects as well as news articles and related materials.

Distributed computing program for evolutionary biology.

GPU is an Open Source Gnutella/Pastella client that allows users to share CPU-resources on a truly P2P based cluster. Applications include a Landscape Generator able to generate movies and an experimental Distributed Search Engine. The client is under development.

Research project developing a software infrastructure for distributed computing on a world-wide scale.

A distributed computing effort by the United Devices Global MetaProcessor with the participation of over 2 million PCs worldwide for cancer, anthrax, and smallpox research projects.

Project pays select computer users to run a client that tests internet performance.

An annotated directory of projects combined with commentary and illustrations or screenshots.

Research project homed at the University of Virginia. An open specification and prototype for a worldwide virtual computer.

BOINC project, dedicated to general Classical Dynamics for any scientist or science student.

Distributed Computing Project aimed towards building the largest search engine index on the Internet using Distributed Crawlers.

Research project developing tools and middleware components to coherently share and manage data and metadata in a Grid or distributed computing environment.

Prognosen und Handelssignale eines computergesteuerten Handelsystems.

Uses PC idle time to simulate and design a particle accelerator.

Open-source software package designed to run on end-user machines while collecting various statistics about Internet performance.

NGrid is a .Net open source grid computing framework written in C#. NGrid provides a transparent multithread and garbage collected programming model for grid programming.

Oak Ridge National Lab has developed a world-wide reputation for its parallel and distributed computing research.

A distributed project to find short Post Correspondence Problems with large shortest solutions.

Grid computing analogy, meaning, capabilities, uses and limitations.

The system allows the management/use of the computational power of idle computers in a network. Based on a client-master-slave architecture, using message based communication.

Distributed Computing Project aimed towards finding prime numbers of the form n*k. This project uses the software Primeform to test workunits.

News and resources on grid computing.

BOINC project to predict and design protein structures and protein-protein and protein-ligand interactions. The goal is to develop methods that accurately predict and design protein structures and complexes.

The SDSC Matrix Project performs research and open-sourced development to deliver the grid workflow protocols and workflow language descriptions necessary to build a peer-to- peer infrastructure for Grid Workflow Management Systems.

Project based on the Public Resource Computing model, aiming to support computation intensive research tasks with supercomputing-like performance.

Screensaver program tries to find divisors of Fermat numbers.

Distributed network chess experiment. Intends to create a single playing program using donated time.

Aims at developing novel data management techniques to deal with the challenge of global computing.

Software for the long time scale simulation of solids. From University of Washington Chemistry Department.

Explores distributed file sharing through BitTorrent and experiments with the GNU Compiler for Java. It also produces a regular BitTorrent client, torrent creator and tracker program.

Place to find the grid middleware developed for the future Large Hydron Collider in CERN.

The Grid middleware development and testbed deployment project in the Nordic countries

Engaged in research, design, and development of Grid technologies that help in solving large-scale compute and data intensive science applications in the area of molecular biology.

Mission is to create the largest public computing grid benefiting humanity. Currently supporting the Human Proteome Folding project to provide scientists with data that predicts the shape of a very large number of human proteins.

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