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BOINC Projects that are in the Fully Operational Stage :
Most if not all projects will have four main stages of development, The below shows how they are listed :
- Fully Operational - Completed all levels of initial testing, and processing "Live" work.
- Beta - Majority of "Bugs" solved and open to more users to join.
- Alpha - First stage of any project. Limited users allowed due to the "Bugs" in the software.
- Permanent Testing - Used for testing updates before going Fully Operational
In this section, We will look at the current "Fully Operation Projects" that are available for users to participate in, And a little about what each of them are about. We will start out with what's probably the most known amounst the group of projects, And will work our way down accordingly.
Seti@home - SETI@home is a scientific experiment that uses Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). You can participate by running a free program that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data. This is an extention of the original project that started it all, Now currently refered to as "Seti Classic". (Fully open to new users)
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)
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)
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.
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. (Alway's 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)
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. (Alway's open to new users)
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 praticipate in are : (Alway's open to new users)
- Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy
- Fiocruz Genome Comparison
- Human Proteome Folding - Phase 2
- FightAIDS@Home
SIMAP - Is a public database of pre-calculated protein similarities that plays a key role in many bioinformatics 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)
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)
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 exisiting 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 middleware, specialized scientific application software and semantic web services in a comprehensive Grid system for scientific analysis. (Currently open to new users)
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)
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 aquire 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)
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 - Thier 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. Primality testing is being done on n values around 2.3 million right now, or 650000-700000 digits. (Currently open to new users)
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)
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)
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 medecine and technology.(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 parallelized for simultaneous execution on many computers. Geneticists submit the data for the analysis via Superlink-online linkage analysis portal. The tasks are then automatically parallelized 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)
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