Further down this page is a list of some of the research science projects that you can connect your computer to but first i have a short explaination for what BOINC is.
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BOINC is a simple software program that was developed by a team in Berkeley University California led by Dr David Anderson who started one of the original volunteer computing projects called SETI@home. BOINC was originally started back in the late 1990's but only became public in early 2000. Since it started, all most 10 million people around the world have downloaded and ran the BOINC program. Today there is about 1.5 million people running BOINC on their home or work PC's and putting their computers spare capacity to good use for science.
Simply put, by downloading the BOINC software onto your computer, you can connect YOUR COMPUTER to one, or any number of science projects around the world. This is volunteer computing, that means that if you connect your computer to one of the BOINC projects, some of your computers spare time and capacity will be used to process scientific data for that project. The BOINC software just runs in the background on your computer and will have very little effect on the way you normally use your computer from day to day.
So by allowing BOINC to run in the background on your computer, you will be helping science in many areas like Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Medicine, Mathematics, Astronomy and much more.
This is a link to the BOINC website in Berkeley University, San Francisco, California:
http://boinc.berkeley.edu
This is a short video that just tells you a little bit about BOINC and what it is. This video has been made by an ordinary BOINC user but i think it is very well made.
Do you BOINC?, 2 minutes 21 seconds.
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There is a special BOINC wiki that has lots of information about BOINC
Click here for BOINC wiki: http://www.boinc-wiki.info/Main_Page
Here is a list of some of the projects that use BOINC and allow you to volunteer your computers spare time for different scientific research.
BOINC Projects that are in the Fully Operational Stage :
Seti@home - SETI@home is a simple program that runs on your computer and listens to the background radio noise coming from space. There are currently 650,000 people involved in the project world wide. The object of SETI@home is to find a signal that has been transmitted by other intelligent life somewhere in the universe. SETI@home does this by listening on the world’s largest radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. It then sends small pieces of radio telescope data to your computer to be analysed and then sent back to Berkeley University in California for processing by the Scientists. BOINC is the name of the software that will allow you to connect your computer to SETI@home. When the BOINC program runs on your computer, you can see the data being analysed on your screen in a cool graphic screen saver. (Fully open to new users)
Einstein@Home - Is a program that uses your computer's idle time to search for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors. Einstein@Home is a World Year of Physics 2005 project supported by the American Physical Society (APS) and by a number of international organizations. Einstein@Home is currently searching the most sensitive 840 hours of data from LIGO's first science run at design sensitivity (S5). For more information, please see the "Science information" section on the left of this page. (Always open to new users)
Rosetta@Home - Determine the 3-dimensional shapes of proteins in research that may ultimately lead to finding cures for some major human diseases. By running the Rosetta program on your computer while you don't need it you will help us speed up and extend our research in ways we couldn't possibly attempt without your help. You will also be helping our efforts at designing new proteins to fight diseases such as HIV, Malaria, Cancer, and Alzheimer's. (Always open to new users)
ClimatePrediction.Net - The aim of climateprediction.net is to investigate the approximations that have to be made in state-of-the-art climate models (read more about this). By running the model thousands of times (a 'large ensemble') we hope to find out how the model responds to slight tweaks to these approximations - slight enough to not make the approximations any less realistic. This will allow us to improve our understanding of how sensitive our models are to small changes and also to things like changes in carbon dioxide and the sulphur cycle. This will allow us to explore how climate may change in the next century under a wide range of different scenarios. (Open to all Users as of this writing)
BBC Climate Change Experiment - The BBC Climate Change Experiment, launched as a collaboration with climateprediction.net in spring 2006, has closed to new participants. If you are a confident computer user you can still download and install similar climate experiments, although the BBC cannot support you. (Closed at all new users at this point)
Predictor@home - Is a world-community experiment and effort to use distributed world-wide-web volunteer resources to assemble a supercomputer able to predict protein structure from protein sequence. Our work is aimed at testing and evaluating new algorithms and methods of protein structure prediction. Our goal is to utilize these approaches together with the immense computer power that can be harnessed through the Internet and volunteers all over the world (you!) to address critical biomedical questions of protein-related diseases. (Open to new users as of this writing)
World Community Grid - World Community Grid's mission is to create the world's largest public computing grid to tackle projects that benefit humanity. Our work has developed the technical infrastructure that serves as the grid's foundation for scientific research. Our success depends upon individuals collectively contributing their unused computer time to change the world for the better. This project is focused on several different "Mini" projects it runs, Versus the usual one. As of today the current project list available to participate in are : (Always open to new users)
Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy
Fiocruz Genome Comparison
Human Protein Folding - Phase 2
FightAIDS@Home
LHC@Home - The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator which is being built at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the world's largest particle physics laboratory. When it will switch on in 2007, it will be the most powerful instrument ever built to investigate on particles proprieties. (Open to new Users as of this writing, Although work is very sporadic at best)
The LHC will take the place of CERN's Large Electron Positron (LEP) collider, and will sit in its 27 Km long tunnel, about 100m underground. It will accelerate 2 separate beams of protons up to an energy of 7 TeV , and then bring them into head-on collisions (from here the name "collider"). The protons collision energy will then be of 14 TeV. But the LHC will not be limited to the study of proton-proton collisions as it can also collide heavy ions, such as lead, with a collision energy of 1148 TeV.
Spinhenge@Home - Uses the not used processor resources of your computer. This also if your screen saver is active. Instead of the Windows display, one of our graphics will show up. With your participation you actively support the research of nano-magnetic molecules. In the future these molecules will be used in the local tumor chemotherapy and to develop tiny memory-modules. (Currently open to new users)
SIMAP - Is a public database of pre-calculated protein similarities that plays a key role in many bio informatics methods. It contains about all currently published protein sequences and is continuously updated. The computational effort for keeping SIMAP up-to-date is constantly increasing. Please help to update SIMAP by calculating protein similarities on your computer. The computing power you donate supports manifold biological research projects that make use of SIMAP data. Today, protein sequence comparison is the most powerful tool in computational biology for characterizing protein sequences because of the enormous amount of information that is preserved throughout the evolutionary process. (Open to new Users as of this writing, Although work is very sporadic at best)
QMC@Home - Is a project designed to further develop the Quantum Monte Carlo method for general use in Quantum Chemistry. With the help of volunteers all over the world we want to acquire the computing power that is needed to test and further develop the opportunities of the promising new approach of Quantum Monte Carlo. (Currently open to new users)
SZTAKI - The aim of the project is to find all the generalized binary number systems up to dimension 11. Below we give a short description of the number system concept and mention a few possible applications. (Open to all Users as of this writing)
Proteins@Home - Is part of a large-scale protein structure prediction project and help to advance an important area of science By increasing our knowledge of proteins, you will contribute to a better understanding of many diseases and pathologies, and to progress in both medicine and technology.(Currently open to new users)
TANPAKU -"TANPAKU" is the project that is aiming at attacking "protein structure prediction" problem by using "distributed computing" method. This project is developed in collaboration with Yamato lab.(in the Department of Biological Science and Technology) and Takeda lab.(in the Department of Information Sciences) groups at Tokyo University of Science. Now, the project finished a preliminary test within our university and it is open for public volunteers.
Malariacontrol.Net - Is an application that makes use of network computing for stochastic modelling of the clinical epidemiology and natural history of Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Click here for more information. (Currently open to new users)
Seasonal Attribution Project - Focuses on extreme weather events that occur on seasonal timescales, and the event we are currently trying to attribute to human-induced climate change is one like the United Kingdom floods of Autumn 2000. We are using a high spatial resolution version of the standard climateprediction.net model to do this. (Not generating any more work at this time, Only finishing up on existing work units)
ABC@home - Is a distributed computing project enabling a great search for so called abc-triples. The ABC conjecture is currently one of the greatest open problems in mathematics. If it is proven to be true, a lot of other open problems can be answered directly from it. More information can be found here . (Open to all Users as of this writing)
BRaTS@Home - BRaTS@Home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do various calculations in Gravitational Ray Tracing. BRaTS stands for BRaTS Ray Trace Simulator. You can participate by downloading and running a free program on your computer. (Invite only as of now, Very limited work supply also)
BOINC Projects that are in the Beta Stage :
The Lattice Project - A community of researchers, scientists, and staff at the University of Maryland are working to integrate and deploy computing resources, Grid middle ware, specialized scientific application software and semantic web services in a comprehensive Grid system for scientific analysis. (Currently open to new users)
Rectilinear Crossing Number - The main goal of the current project is to use sophisticated mathematical methods (abstract extension of order types) to determine the rectilinear crossing number for small values of n. So far we have been successful for n <= 17. From very recent (not even published yet) mathematical considerations the rectilinear crossing numbers for n=19 and n=21 are also known. So the most tantalizing problem now is to determine the true value for n=18, which is the main focus of this project. (Currently open to new users)
Riesel Sieve - Their goal is to implement the prime testing software used by the Riesel Sieve Project under the BOINC system. The project's goal is to prove that 509203 is the smallest odd k where for every n >= 1, k*2^n-1 is composite. Currently, 70 of the original 101 K's that were left when Riesel Sieve started remain. Preliminary testing is being done on n values around 2.3 million right now, or 650000-700000 digits. (Currently open to new users)
Nano-Hive@Home - The goal of NanoHive@Home is to perform large-scale nanosystems simulation and analysis that is otherwise too intensive to be calculated via normal means, and thereby enable further scientific study in the field of nanotechnology. (Currently open to new users)
Project Neuron - This project aims to provide a trial BOINC environment in which a set of dummy applications will run. The purpose of this being to record, observe and understand BOINC activity and data with a view to developing metrics that will establish or otherwise the quality/reliability/dependability of particular BOINC projects. A central reference point will be developed and updated automatically to which users can refer. User feedback may also be permitted at this reference point. (Currently open to new users)
PS3GRID - Is a volunteer computing project based on the PlayStation3 and BOINC for full-atom molecular dynamics simulations and other scientific applications specially optimized for the Cell processor. Your contribution is very important because our Cell MD molecular dynamics software runs over an order of magnitude faster on the PlayStation3 opening the way to innovative computational experiments. . (Currently open to new users)
Superlink@Technion - Superlink@Technion helps geneticists perform genetic linkage analysis, which is a statistical method used to associate functionality of genes with their location on chromosomes. It typically serves for detecting mutated disease-provoking genes. This analysis can be extremely computationally intensive and has been paralleled for simultaneous execution on many computers. Geneticists submit the data for the analysis via Superlink-online linkage analysis portal. The tasks are then automatically paralleled and scheduled for execution on many computers in the Technion, in the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and also on many computers all over the world. (Currently open to new users)
BOINC Projects that are in the Alpha Stage :
Alpha is usually the first stage of a project that is just getting off the ground. Being that most of the projects are started by different people or groups or colleges, Many have to learn to details of starting up a BOINC project themselves, And how to fine tune it. Thus making the Alpha projects the most unstable and with the highest amount of errors for the users to deal with. This is also the reasoning behind why they usually only allow a certain number of users that have abit more experience into these projects at first, So they can give the project administrators feed back on what errors they have found while testing.
Below is a listing on the current projects that are listed in the Alpha Stage of progress.
Burp - BURP aims to develop a publicly distributed system for rendering 3D animations.
PrimeGrid - Prime Numbers are of great interest to mathematicians for a variety of reasons. Primes also play a central role in the cryptographic systems which are used for computer security. Through the study of Prime Numbers it can be shown how much processing is required to crack an encryption code and thus to determine whether current security schemes are sufficiently secure.
PrimeGrid is currently running three sub-projects:
Primegen: generating a public sequential prime number database.
Twin Prime Search (testing): searching for large twin primes of the form k*2n + 1 and k*2n - 1.
Cullen-Woodall search (testing): searching for large primes of forms n*2n + 1 and n*2n - 1.
XtremLab - Is a project using the Boinc platform. Contrary to other projects, we do not use grid for computations about physics, mathematics or biology: we study the grid technology itself. We perform performances analysis in order to find how to improve performances of all others projects.
μFluids - Is a massively distributed computer simulation of two-phase fluid behavior in microgravity and microfluidics problems.The goal is to design better satellite propellant management devices and address two-phase flow in microchannel and MEMS devices.
Leiden Classical - Join in and help to build a Desktop Computer Grid dedicated to general Classical Dynamics for any scientist or science student!
Orbit@Home - Is a project based on BOINC and ORSA, monitoring the orbit of all the asteroids passing near the Earth. Every time a new asteroid is discovered or re-observed, the orbit of the asteroid is updated and propagated in future to check for possible impacts with the Earth.
HashClash - We are trying to find collisions which are more flexible. More concretely, we will allow the first blocks of two messages to be chosen at will. This attack is in ongoing research, however it is already clear that it requires large scale computational power. Therefore project HashClash was started.
Chess960atHome - Is a young innovative chess variant. In Chess960, just before the start of every game, the initial configuration of the chess pieces is determined randomly, that means that the king, the queen, the rook, the bishop and the knight are not necessarily placed on the same home squares as in classical chess. Since a few years there are World Championsships taking place in "Chess Classic Mainz" event in August every year. GM Peter Svidler is the current Champion. In this project we try to combine Chess960 and the idea of distributed computing. With the BOINC software framework from the University of Berkeley exists a platform we want to use in this project to perform these computing intensive tasks. With it we want to give this chess variant some basics in theory of this game. We know the fascination of this chess variant is the incredible amount of variations. That will not change with this project but some guidelines seems to be useful in each starting position.
VTU@Home - Are looking for primes and we are useing the wors algorythm. New serious project is coming soon. We are just working on it. (Very early stage still, No definite new goal set as of this writing).
Docking@Home - Is a collaborative project that aims to accomplish both bioscience and computer science goals. From the bioscience point of view, the project aims to further knowledge of the atomic details of protein-ligand interactions and, by doing so, will search for insights into the discovery of novel pharmaceuticals. From the computer science point of view, this project aims to extend volunteer computing to enable adaptive multi-scale modeling of the docking applications: different models that represent the same phenomena in nature with different level of accuracy and resource requirements will be chosen at run-time based on results collected so far and characteristics of the protein-ligand complex.
DepSpid - Is still under development, as is PerlBOINC (PerlBOINC is an attempt to implement the BOINC server system in Perl programming language). The DepSpid application currently runs under windows only. There may be a linux application sometime in the future but this is not sure yet. DepSpid is a distributed type of a web crawler (like the ones used by search engines) and has two major goals:
1st: Build up a database containing the dependencies between individual web sites and groups of web sites.
2nd: Collect statistical data about the structure of the web.
All information collected by the spider will be made publically available.
Gerasim@home - Project in the beginning stage.
Belgian Beer@Home - We are currently brainstorming about possible applications to run.
Zivis Superordenador Ciudadano -
Cosmology@Home - The goal of Cosmology@Home is to search for the model that best describes our Universe and to find the range of models that agree with the available astronomical and particle physics data. In order to achieve this goal, participants in Cosmology@Home (i.e. you!) will compute the observable predictions of millions of theoretical models with different parameter combinations. We will use the results of your computations to compare all the available data with these models. In addition, the results from Cosmology@Home can help design future cosmological observations and experiments, and prepare for the analysis of future data sets, e.g. from the Planck spacecraft.
APS@Home -APS@home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research into the effects of atmospheric dispersion as it relates to the accuracy of measurements used in climate prediction. More details are in the Science message board, and we may be diversifying into other areas of atmospheric science soon. Watch this space!
Hydrogen@Home - Hydrogen@Home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in Hydrogen Production. Hydrogen@Home studies clean technologies for the production of hydrogen for energy purposes. Hydrogen used in fuel cell technologies has zero emissions of greenhouse gases. However, the most economical method of producing hydrogen (Methane Reformation) produces greenhouse gases.
NCSSM Grid - Just Starting Up.
SciLINC - SciLINC project began it had four primary goals:
1. Increase public access to nationally significant scientific literature.
2. Enhance the usefulness of digitized materials by creating a Web repository of scanned literature, keywords, and online resources with tools for searching and analysis.
3. Create an educational tool for learning about plant life. While the screensaver application is indexing keywords, the participant's computer will display information about plant life within the United States and around the world. The information displayed will describe each plant name or term currently being indexed on the participant's computer, and will include descriptive data, images, maps, and the annotated outlinks for that term.
4. Provide a model for adopting public-resource computing applications within the library community.
BOINC Projects in Permanent Testing.
Project's listed under the Permanent Testing section are project's that mostly based on a full operational project of the same name. Their function is one of testing update's and other project side software before it is then sent to the Fully Operational side for implimentation. Pirates@home is the one project that has always been listed as a Permanent Testing project without the addition of a Fully Operational side to it.
These projects may or may not have work to send out at any time, And also aren't always accepting new users all the time. The following projects are as described above as test projects for the Fully Operational ones. (Seti/AstroPulse will also be a different aspect of Seti@Home once the coding and software testing for it specifically has completed).
Seti Beta (AstroPulse)
BOINC Alpha
Pirates@Home - is an ongoing test of BOINC, the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing. Pirates@Home is currently being used to test BOINC's forum software for possible use by another project, Interactions in Understanding the Universe. At present Pirates@Home is not doing any real scientific computation, we are just having 'fun' with BOINC.
LHC@Home Alpha
Rosetta@Home Alpha (Ralph)
ABC@Home Beta
Cunning Plan - Testing project for BOINC Alpha
And Finially this brings us to the last section of Dead or Inactive Projects. These are projects that have already completed their original goals, or never really got off the ground level to begin with. If in the future they do become active once again, They will be moved onto the appropiate section.
Folding@Home
Resource Measurement
Crash Collection
Alife@Home
Translator@Home
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