List of volunteer computing projects

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Volunteer computing projects are a type of distributed computing where volunteers donate computing time to specific causes. The donated computing power comes from idle CPUs and GPUs in personal computers, video game consoles, and Android devices. Each project seeks to utilize the computing power of many internet connected devices to solve problems and perform large scale computational research in a cost-effective manner.

Active projects

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! Project

! Launched

! Sponsor

! Category

! Research focus

! BOINC based

! Processing units

! Performance in TeraFLOPS

| Albert@Home

|2011-12-23

| University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Max Planck Institute

| Astrophysics

| Testing project for Einstein@Home

| (Mar 2020)

| (Mar 2023)

|Archive Team

|Digital preservation

|A virtual archiving appliance that will download sites and upload them to the Archive Team archive and the Internet Archive Wayback Machine

|Asteroids@home

|2012-06-18

|Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

|Astrophysics

|To significantly enlarge our knowledge of the physical properties of asteroids

| (Mar 2023)

| BOID DAC, decentralized community

|Research

| The Social Supercomputer for data-driven medical and scientific research involving blockchain technology

| (Mar 2023)

| climateprediction.net

| 2003-12-09

| Oxford University

| (Mar 2023)

| Collatz Conjecture

| 2009-01-06

| Independent

| (Mar 2020)

|Medicine and Biology

| Simulation of the electrical activity of the cardiac cells

| (Mar 2023)

| Independent

| Cryptography, Mathematics

| Crack the RC5-72 cipher

| (Mar 2023)

| Einstein@Home

| 2005-02-19

| University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Max Planck Institute

| (Mar 2023)

| Visual arts

| Make computer art with fractal flames

| (May 2015)

|Fishnet

|2016-03-07

|Independent

|Chess

|Provides server analysis for games played on lichess.org using the Stockfish chess engine

| (Mar 2023)

| Fishtest

| 2013-02-13

| Independent

| 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

| Folding@home

| 2000-10-01

| Washington University in St. Louis

| Molecular biology Computing power also harnessed the power of PlayStation 3s

| (Mar 2023)

| Southwest State University, Russia

| Mathematics

| Research in discrete mathematics and logic control systems

| (Mar 2023)

| Independent

| Software

| Developing a permissionless distributed computing marketplace

| (Mar 2023)

| GPUGRID

| 2007-12-05

| Barcelona Biomedical Research Park

| (Mar 2023)

| Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS)

| 1996-01-early

| Independent

| Mathematics

| Searches for Mersenne primes of world record size

| (Mar 2023)

| Cyber-Complex Foundation

| Computer science

| Generally computer networks

| (Mar 2023)

| iThena.Computational

| 2021-10-31

| Cyber-Complex Foundation

| (Mar 2023)

| Leela Chess Zero

| 2018-03-04

| Software testing, chess

| Trains chess neural networks with deep reinforcement learning. Experiments with training parameters and net architectures

| (Mar 2023)

| LHC@home

| 2004-01-09

| CERN

| (Mar 2023)

| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

| (Mar 2023)

| Independent

| (Mar 2023)

| Purdue University

| Nanoscience

| Research in nanoscience and nanotechnology| Research in nanoscience and nanotechnology

| (Mar 2023)

| California State University, Fullerton

| (Mar 2023)

| Arizona State University's School of Mathematics

| Number theory

| Search for number fields with special properties to assist with the formulation of mathematical conjectures

| (Mar 2023)

| Independent

| (Mar 2023)

| Poland

| Physics

| Real-time radiation monitoring, detected by gamma sensors connected to volunteer computers

| Karelian Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences

| Mathematics

| Search of diagonal Latin squares

| (Mar 2023)

| University of Washington

| Software testing

| Test project for Rosetta@home

| (Mar 2023)

| Ramanujan machine

| 2021-10-14

| Independent

| Mathematics

| Conjecturing new mathematical formulas

| (Mar 2023)

| Independent research group in Marburg, Germany

| Molecular biology

| Uses bioinformatics software to study RNA structure

| (Mar 2023)

| University of Washington

| (Mar 2023)

| SheepIt Renderfarm

| Art

| Rendering of 3D Animations

| (Jun 2023)

|SiDock@home

|2020-12-19

|Russian Academy of Sciences

|Molecular biology

|Citizen science project for independent decentralized drug design by distributed computing

| (Mar 2023)

|2013-01-02

|Independent

|Mathematics

|Trying to solve Sierpinski / Riesel Bases up to 1030| Trying to solve Sierpinski / Riesel Bases up to 1030, the project is Conjecture 'R Us

| (Mar 2023)

|Research Area of Trento of the National Research Council of Italy, University of Trento

|Genetics

|Gene@home is a scientific project belonging to the infrastructure TrentoGrid. It is aimed to expand networks of genes.|Gene@home is a scientific project belonging to the infrastructure TrentoGrid. It aims to expand networks of genes.

| (Mar 2023)

| Mathematics

| Searches for large twin primes

| Universe@Home

|2015-02-19

| Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences

| Astronomy

| Computational astrophysics, computer simulation of stars, galaxies, and the Universe

| (Mar 2023)

| London, England, United Kingdom

| Mathematics

| Factorization of Mersenne+2 numbers

| (Mar 2023)

| Krembil Research Institute

| Humanitarian research on disease, natural disasters, and hunger

| Disease research, various worldwide humanitarian problems. Subprojects include(d) GO Fight Against Malaria, Drug Search for Leishmaniasis, Computing for Clean Water, Clean Energy Project, Discovering Dengue Drugs – Together, Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy, Help Fight Childhood Cancer. Smash Childhood Cancer, Help Conquer Cancer, Help Defeat Cancer, Mapping Cancer Markers, Human Proteome Folding Project, FightAIDS@Home, Uncovering Genome Mysteries, Let's outsmart Ebola together, Help Stop TB, OpenZika.

| (Mar 2023)

| Independent

| Statistics

| Collect various statistics about other BOINC projects

| (Mar 2023)

| Software testing, Mathematics

| Test BOINC server software, integer factorization

| (Mar 2023)

| Independent

| (Mar 2023)

2014-06-01

| Mathematical Institute of Leiden University, Kennislink

| Mathematics

| Find triples related to the abc conjecture, one of the greatest open problems in mathematics.

| Almere, the Netherlands

| AlmereGrid TestGrid

| 2008-02-24

|Multiple applications

| Test of the AlmereGrid project.

| AndrOINC

| Independent

| Cryptography

| Broke Motorola's 1024-bit RSA key used to sign the boot and recovery partition partitions on the Motorola Milestone smartphone.

| D-Wave Systems, Canada

| Quantum computing

| Used Quantum Monte Carlo to predict the performance of superconducting adiabatic quantum computers on a variety of problems.

2017-04-07

| CERN

| Biochemical Library

| Vanderbilt University

| Molecular biology

| Performed research using the Biochemical Algorithms Library into proteins and their interactions with small molecules for disease research.

2022-09

|Texas Advanced Computing Center

|Multiple

| aerospace engineering, computational biology, and earthquake engineering | aerospace engineering, computational biology, and earthquake engineering

| BURP

| 2004-06-17

| Art

| Rendering of 3D Animations

|CAS@home

|2010-07-19

|Chinese Academy of Sciences

| Independent

|Citizen Science Grid

|2012-01-01

|University of North Dakota

|Multiple applications

|Animals, Biology, Birds, Climate and weather, Education, Nature, and outdoors

| Chemistry

| Find safer and greener materials for e-vehicle batteries

| Comcute

| 2010

2016

| Gdańsk University of Technology, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics

| Mathematics, Artificial intelligence, Physics

| Genetic positioning of fire stations, image processing techniques, Mersenne-number finding, and distributed detection selected features in data streams |

| Compute for Humanity

| 2015-08

2017

| Independent

| Aerospace, Engineering

| 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.

2024-01

| Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris

| Astronomy

| Find the most accurate models that best describe the universe

| (Mar 2023)

2018-04-20

| Data analysis, machine learning

| 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

| DistrRTgen

| 2008-01-12

2014-06

| Independent

| DNA@home

| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

| Discovered what regulates the genes in DNA using statistical algorithms.

2014-05-23

|University of Delaware

|models protein-ligand docking using the CHARMM program.

| DreamLab

| 2015-09-112025-04-02

| Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia

| Cancer research

| Breast, ovarian, prostate and pancreatic cancer; COVID-19

| DrugDiscovery@home

| Independent

| Drug design

| Supported in silico drug design of chemical compounds for medicines in the fields of cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.

|Cryptography

|Decode three unbroken Enigma messages from World War II

| eOn

|2014-05-08

| University of Texas at Austin

| Evolution@Home

| 2001-04-03

| Uses evolutionary algorithms to optimize the parameters of different kinds of machine learning algorithms

| Five or Bust

| 2011-02

| Find a prime or probable prime of the form 2n+k for all odd k < 78557, the last probable prime found is 29092392+40291, and this project stopped when this probable prime was found.

| FreeHAL

| 2006

2012

| Independent

| Stanford University

| Molecular biology

| Designed new genes that can form working proteins in the cell that have not been found in nature.

|GoofyxGrid@Home

|2016

|Independent

|Mathematics

|Look for Infinite monkey theorem

| Goldbach's Conjecture

| 2009-11-09

2011-06

| Tests Goldbach's weak conjecture.

| Golem@home

| 2000

2001-09-03

| Brandeis University

| Robotics

| Used evolutionary computation to design robotic locomotion systems.

| Graceful Tree Verification Project

| 2008-11-22

2010-02-21

| Independent

| Mathematics

| Used a computational approach to the graceful tree conjecture, proving that every tree with at most 35 vertices is graceful

|HashClash

|2005-11-24

|Cryptography

|Find collisions in the MD5 hash algorithm

| Hydrogen@Home

| 2007-10-22

2011-02

| Searches for the most efficient method of hydrogen production

| Ibercivis

| 2008-06-22

2016-07

| Spanish universities and research centers |

| Ideologias@home

| 2011-05-19

| Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

| Society

| Used social networking mathematical models to study the ideological evolution of a group of people over time.

2018-06-05

| Leiden University, the Netherlands

| vLHCathome (not to be confused with LHC@home above)

| 2011-08-01

2017-03

| CERN

| Physics

| M4 Project

| 2006-01-09

| History

| Decrypts Enigma messages from World War II

| Majestic-12

|Uses a distributed web crawler program to index web sites for a distributed search engine

| Magnetism@home

| 2008-06-09

| Donetsk Institute for Physics and Technology, Ukraine

| Magnetism, nanotechnology

| Explored magnetization patterns.

2016-01-28

| Swiss Tropical Institute

| Mersenne@home

| 2012

| Independent Discontinued because the creator lacked time to administer it

| MindModeling@Home

| 2007-03-17

| University of Dayton Research Institute and Wright State University

| Cognitive science

| Independent

| Games

| University of Maryland, Baltimore County

| Mathematics

| Understanding and interpreting complex machine learning models

|MoneyBee

|2000-09

2010

|Finance

| Muon1 Distributed Particle Accelerator Design

|2017

| Physics

| Simulate and design parts of the Neutrino Factory particle accelerator

| Najmanovich Research Group

| Université de Sherbrooke

| Molecular biology

| Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

| Neural network

| Simulating the behavior of a large and complex network of cellular automata neurons.

|NNGenerator

|2014-10-20

2016

|Independent

|Mathematics, finance, and artificial neural networks

|Distributed system based on neural networks for analysis and forecasting time series

|OProject@Home

|2012-08-13

|Olin Library, Rollins College

|Mathematics

|Algorithm analysis. The library is open and available in the Code.google.com SVN repository.

| Optima@home

| Institute for Systems Analysis, Russian Academy of Sciences

| Optimization

2013-02-16

| Planetary Science Institute

| Pi Segment

| 2006

| Independent project

| Mathematics

| Looked for specific digits (in binary) of Pi and make volunteer computing more popular in China

| Pirates@Home

| 2004-02-06

| 1 Vassar College

2 Spy Hill Research

Tested BOINC's forum software for possible use by Interactions in Understanding the Universe

| POEM@Home

| 2007-13-11

2016-10-04

| University of Karlsruhe, Germany

|Predictor@home

|2004-05-04

|The Scripps Research Institute

|Molecular biology

|Test and evaluate new algorithms and methods of protein structure prediction in the context of the Sixth Biannual CASP experiment

|Primaboinca

|2010-07-30

2020-05-31

|RheinMain University of Applied Sciences

|Proteins@home

|2006-09-15

|École polytechnique

|Protein structure prediction

|Contribute to a better understanding of many diseases and pathologies and to progress in Medicine and Technology

2013-01

|University of Münster, Germany

|Quake Catcher Network

|2008-02-03

2023-06-01

|Stanford University

|Seismology

| (Mar 2023)

| Independent (Finnish)

| Rendering

| 2D and 3D rendering for animation artists

| RSA Lattice Siever

| 2009

2012-08

| Integer factorization

| Assisted other factoring projects to achieve their academic goals. Merged into NFS@Home because its server was outdated

|SAT@home

|2011-09-29

2017-02

|Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

|Cryptanalysis, Mathematics

|Various applications related to the boolean satisfiability problem, inversion of specific stream cipher functions

|Second Computing

|2008-04-10

2012-08

|Assesses biopolymer dynamics, and models the behavior of clonal colonies in a prairie ecosystem

| SETI@home

| 1999-05-17

2020-03-31

| University of California, Berkeley

|SETI@home beta

|2006-01-12

2020-03-31

|Software testing

|Test project of SETI@home

2014-05-30

| University of Vienna

| SLinCA@Home

| G.V.Kurdyumov Institute for Metal Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

| Materials science

2011-09-28

| Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences

|Stop@home

|2017-02-28

2018-01

|Independent

|Mathematics

|Looking for prime k-tuples

| Sudoku@vtaiwan

| 2011-01-05

2013-09-05

| National Center for High-performance Computing (NCHC), Hsinchu Science and Industrial Park, Hsinchu City, Taiwan.

| 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

| Superlink@Technion

| 2007-05-03

| Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

|Surveill@Home

|University of Coimbra

|Monitor and test websites for failure rates and overall performance

| theSkyNet

| 2011-09-13

2018-05-02

| 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

| uFluids@Home

| 2005-09-19

2010-11

| Purdue University

|USPEX@Home

|2017-04-04

2019-03

|Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russian Academy of Science, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology

|Chemistry, Physics, Materials science

|Computational prediction of structure and properties of new chemical compounds (crystals, nanoparticles etc.) for various applications

| Virtual Prairie

| 2008

2019-03

| VTU@home

| Vilnius Gediminas Technical University and Kaunas University of Technology

|Wieferich@Home

|2007-12-29

2017

|Mathematics

|Searches for new Wieferich primes

| EDGeS@Home

| 2009-10

| MTA SZTAKI Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Hungary

| SZTAKI Desktop Grid

| 2005-05-26

| MTA SZTAKI Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Hungary

|TANPAKU

|2005-08-02

|Tokyo University of Science

|Molecular biology

|Protein structure prediction using the Brownian dynamics method

| The Lattice Project

| 2004-06-30

| University of Maryland Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

List of volunteer computing projects

Active projects

See also

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