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American Scientist: Collective Wisdom
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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.
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ClimatePrediction.Net
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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.
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Distributed Computing Over P2P Networks
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Open framework that will allow P2P file sharing networks to make Distributed Parallel Computing.
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Distributed computing projects
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Distributed computing projects links and short descriptions in English and in Finnish.
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Distributed Hardware Evolution Project (DHEP)
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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.
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Distributedcomputing.info
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Kirk Pearson's directory of current distributed computing projects as well as news articles and related materials.
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Evolution@Home
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Distributed computing program for evolutionary biology.
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Globus Project
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Research project developing a software infrastructure for distributed computing on a world-wide scale.
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GPU, a Global Processing Unit
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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.
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Grid.org
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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.
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Gómez PEER Community
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Project pays select computer users to run a client that tests internet performance.
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Java Grid Project (jCluster Project)
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Software project investigating the possibilities in creating a distributed computer system - a so called grid - based on the distributed nature of Java and Jini. It is the intension to allow computer resources and data to be shared and to provide a dynamic high availability system for hosting services.
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Legion: A Worldwide Virtual Computer
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Research project homed at the University of Virginia. An open specification and prototype for a worldwide virtual computer.
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Majestic 12
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Distributed Computing Project aimed towards building the largest search engine index on the Internet using Distributed Crawlers.
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Mobius
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Research project developing tools and middleware components to coherently share and manage data and metadata in a Grid or distributed computing environment.
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Muon1 Optimisation Project
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Uses PC idle time to simulate and design a particle accelerator.
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NGrid
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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.
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Distributed Computing Project
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Project goal is a single run-time environment that ties together several networked supercomputers. Intended users are the community of scientists and engineers addressing "grand challenge" computations.
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P2P Distributed Computing Framework
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JNGI is a open-source generic P2P distributed computing framework.
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PCP@HOME
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A distributed project to find short Post Correspondence Problems with large shortest solutions.
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Power of Supercomputer on a Desktop
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Grid computing analogy, meaning, capabilities, uses and limitations.
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Quite Advanced Distributed Parallel Zystem (QADPZ)
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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.
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Repository of Grid Research Projects
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News and resources on grid computing.
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Rosetta@home
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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.
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The ChessBrain Network
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Distributed network chess experiment. Intends to create a single playing program using donated time.
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The DBGlobe Project
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Aims at developing novel data management techniques to deal with the challenge of global computing.
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The EON Project
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Software for the long time scale simulation of solids. From University of Washington Chemistry Department.
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The Hunting of the Snark Project
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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.
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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Computing Grid
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Place to find the grid middleware developed for the future Large Hydron Collider in CERN.
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The NorduGrid Project
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The Grid middleware development and testbed deployment project in the Nordic countries
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The Virtual Laboratory Project
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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.
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World Community Grid
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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.
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XGrid@Stanford
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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.
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12121 Search
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Help this distributed computing project by donating CPU cycles to find primes of the form 121*2^N-1.
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Boitho
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Boitho distributed crawler (BETA). Goal is to make a general internet search engine with a thumbnail picture of all the pages.
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Center for Distributed Computing
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Distributed computing projects directory.
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Computing Minimum Equal Sums of Like Power
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Includes client software download, computation records, and project description on its research into mathematical problems.
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DevChannel
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A distributed computing development and knowledge community. Become involved in Open Source distributed computing projects. Read news, articles, papers, guided opinions, or participate in forums.
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Distributed Computing Arcana
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A forum for discussing SETI, RC5, F@H, G@H, the UD Cancer Project, and other distributed computing efforts.
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Distributed Proofreaders
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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.
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Distributed Proofreaders Europe
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Modeled after the Digital Proofreaders project, this variation focuses on digitization of works considered to be in the public domain in Europe.
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Leiden Classical
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BOINC project, dedicated to general Classical Dynamics for any scientist or science student.
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MoneyBee
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Generates stock forecasts by application of artificial intelligence with the aid of artificial neural networks.
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NETI@home
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Open-source software package designed to run on end-user machines while collecting various statistics about Internet performance.
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Repdigit Prime Problems, The
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Distributed Computing Project aimed towards finding prime numbers of the form n*k. This project uses the software Primeform to test workunits.
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SDSC Matrix Project for P2P Grid Workflows
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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.
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Search for Fermat Number Dividers
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Screensaver program tries to find divisors of Fermat numbers.
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