Boitho
- http://www.searchdaimon.com/dc/
- Boitho distributed crawler (BETA). Goal is to make a general internet search engine with a thumbnail picture of all the pages.
ClimatePrediction.Net
- http://www.climateprediction.net/
- Large-scale simulation where each participant is given one slightly different scenario to run. Those that successfully model past weather patterns will be more likely to accurately predict the future.
Distributed Proofreaders
- http://www.pgdp.net/
- 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.
GPU, a Global Processing Unit
- http://gpu.sourceforge.net
- 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.
Globus Project
- http://www.globus.org/
- Research project developing a software infrastructure for distributed computing on a world-wide scale.
Grid.org
- http://www.grid.org/
- A distributed computing effort by the United Devices Global MetaProcessor with the participation of over 2 million PCs worldwide for cancer, anthrax, and smallpox research projects.
Majestic 12
- http://www.majestic12.co.uk
- Distributed Computing Project aimed towards building the largest search engine index on the Internet using Distributed Crawlers.
Mobius
- http://projectmobius.osu.edu
- Research project developing tools and middleware components to coherently share and manage data and metadata in a Grid or distributed computing environment.
MoneyBee
- http://www.moneybee.net/
- Generates stock forecasts by application of artificial intelligence with the aid of artificial neural networks.
NETI@home
- http://www.neti.gatech.edu/
- Open-source software package designed to run on end-user machines while collecting various statistics about Internet performance.
NGrid
- http://ngrid.sourceforge.net
- 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.
Rosetta@home
- http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/
- 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.
SDSC Matrix Project for P2P Grid Workflows
- http://www.npaci.edu/DICE/SRB/matrix/
- 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.
SZTAKI Desktop Grid
- http://szdg.lpds.sztaki.hu/
- Project based on the Public Resource Computing model, aiming to support computation intensive research tasks with supercomputing-like performance.
The Hunting of the Snark Project
- http://www.klomp.org/snark/
- 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.
The Virtual Laboratory Project
- http://www.gridbus.org/vlab/
- 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.
World Community Grid
- http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/
- 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.
XGrid@Stanford
- http://cmgm.stanford.edu/~cparnot/xgrid-stanford/
- Project of a postdoctoral fellow in Brian Kobilka's lab, in the Molecular and Cellular Physiology department, Stanford University running large calculations, the purpose being to modelize the conformational changes of the beta 2 adrenergic receptor and have a better understanding of its pharmacology. Runs through Mac OSX-only software called XGrid. How to install and configure the software, news about the project, and a FAQ.
