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![]() On July 25, 2008, the project owners began releasing work units for SETI@home's Astropulse project. The project passed 2 billion credits on July 14, 2005. The project received its 1 billionth BOINC result on September 24, 2008. In 2010 the project hopes to implement some major new features, including a "Near-Time Persistency Checker (NTPCkr) which makes SETI@home more efficient in identifying candidate signals," a web-based distributed human project to view and help rank candidate signals, improved methods for identifying and rejecting Earth-generated radio frequency interference (RFI), and expanding its frequency search beyond the current 2.5 MHz band. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. Version 4.18 of the SETI@home application (which runs inside the BOINC client) is available for Windows and Mac OSX as of June 22, 2005. Version 4.02 is available for Linux and Solaris as of August 29, 2004. Version 5.27 of the SETI@home Enhanced client is available for Windows and Linux as of August 8, 2007. Version 5.28 is available for Linux and Mac OSX as of October 8, 2007. Version 5.12 is available for Solaris and Linux as of May 1, 2006. SETI@home Enhanced "is a factor of two more sensitive to Gaussian signals and to some kinds of pulsed signals than the original SETI@home." As of January 3, 2008, seven new receivers on the Arecibo telescope are generating 500 times more data for the project, and the project needs many more volunteers to process the new data. As of December 16, 2008, version 6.4.5 and later of the BOINC client support computing in NVIDIA GPUs (i.e. graphics cards) with CUDA technology. See more information about how to use the GPU client for SETI@home. See a guide for customizing the SETI@Home BOINC client graphics, and unsupported add-on tools available for the client. See information about porting and optimizing the BOINC SETI@home client. See a Powerpoint slide presentation about Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC), the open-source software architecture used for the new SETI@home. These slides were used for a presentation at the 2002 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. See a paper, New SETI Sky Surveys for Radio Pulses (PDF), co-written by the CASPER, SETI@home and Astropulse teams on November 14, 2008. The paper will be published in Acta Astronautica. See the status of the project servers. Also see the project's latest technical news and its future plans. See The Planetary Society's latest newsletter about SETI@home, published January 15, 2008. Listen to a September 15, 2008 audio interview with Dan Werthimer about the Astropulse project. See the SETI@home bookstore and learn more about SETI and the science behind it.
View the SETI@home BOINC discussion forum. |
SETI@home: 17,616,564,009 credits |
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![]() On October 24, 2002, Laurence Loewe published the first scientific paper, "evolution@home: Experiences with work units that span more than 7 orders of magnitude in computational complexity," based on the results of the project. This paper was presented at CCGrid 2002 in May, 2002. On May 31, 2008, the project published results from a study of Muller's ratchet in the Amazon Molly, a fish species which has no males, reproduces asexually and should go extinct due to genetic degradation, but which hasn't. See links in the article Muller's ratchet quantified in the Amazon molly on the project website. On September 30, 2008, the project announced that it has quantified Muller's ratchet in the worm C. elegans. On November 15, 2008, the project began a new project, Project 6, "to further investigate how two different types of slightly harmful DNA changes interact with each other's evolutionary behaviour in a population." Work units which take less than two days to process on a 500-MHz Pentium 3 CPU will be handled by the yoyo@home EvoHo project. Longer work units will be handled by the semi-automated Simulator005 client. To participate, download the client, then select a run-file based on the amount of RAM you can dedicate to the application and the amount of time you want the application to run, then run the application and email the results file. See more information about the client in a quick start guide. Release 6, for Windows and Macintosh, is available as of October 7, 2002. Please upgrade to this version if you are using an older version. Scheduling session 7 of the run-files is available as of March 27, 2003. BOINC users can participate in this project via the yoyo@home EvoHo project. evolution@home GUI, a third-party tool, provides a graphical interface for the semi-automated version of the evolution@home client. See high scores for the project. See the latest changes to the project website. Join a discussion forum about the project. |
ongoing: 831,970.601 billion individuals observed in 54.289 years of CPU time since mid-March, 2003 |
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![]() The project uses the BOINC computing platform to run various applications. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. Join a discussion forum about this project. |
ongoing: 625,007,145 total results |
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![]() From February 14, 2006 to February 10, 2007, the project ran the BBC Climate Change Experiment in collaboration with the BBC and BOINC. That project used the Transient Coupled Model with a dynamic ocean, rather than the "slab model," or unchanging ocean, used in previous climateprediction.net experiments. Work units for that experiment took about 2.3 times longer to complete than climateprediction.net's sulphur cycle work units, and about 6.6 times longer than climateprediction.net's slab model work units. Results from the BBC Climate Change Experiment were published on February 10, 2007. On August 8, 2005, the project was approved for funding to build a regional climate model into the project. This model is generating higher-resolution forecasts for limited areas of the world. Scientists from countries which cannot perform their own client modeling could propose regions for which to generate forecasts, and project participants could choose a region they wanted to help. This feature was planned to be integrated into the project by the end of 2006. The first climate models for a full 45-year beta-test simulation were successfully completed on March 6, 2003. The project received its 5,000th result on November 7, 2003. See some normal and abnormal results. In the 3 months after the project launch, it achieved: 9,796 completed full runs, 882,272 modelled years, 43,548 registered users, and the web site was translated into 14 languages. By April 6, 2004, the project completed 1.5 million years of simulation in over 22,000 runs. By July 5, 2004, the project completed 2 million years of simulation in over 30,000 runs. By October 18, 2004, the project completed 3 million years of simulation in over 40,000 runs. By December 14, 2004, the project completed 50,000 runs. By January 25, 2005, the project completed 60,000 runs. By July 14, 2005, the project completed 100,000 standard runs. By August 16, 2005, the project completed 8 million years of simulation in over 110,000 runs. The project began supporting a BOINC-based client on August 26 2004. The project turned 1 on September 14, 2004: by that date "78,000 people in over 130 countries had completed 35,000 45-year GCM runs, computed 2.5 million model years and donated 6,000 years of computing time." On September 17, 2004, a book about using new technologies to sustain and protect natural ecosystems was released: chapter 12 of the book is about climateprediction.net and was written by several climateprediction.net team members. By December 22, 2005, the project completed 10 million model years. By July 1, 2008, the project completed 33 million model years. The project uses a BOINC-based client. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. See the project's applications page for a list of its latest clients and versions. An advanced visualization package is available for some Windows platforms as of July 15, 2004. Also, Windows users with Photoshop can download a Photoshop plug-in to make a 3D model of their simulation results. Version 2.0 of the package is available for the classic and BOINC clients, for Windows, Linux and Mac OSX, as of April 8, 2005. A research paper about the project "has been accepted for the 1st IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing in Melbourne Australia this December. It outlines the challenges of running a large-scale long-term application via volunteer computing, compares CPDN with other volunteer computing projects, and shows how using BOINC has really helped the project both obtain and retain users." Students and teachers can access school resources for the project. Subscribe to the project's RSS feed. Join a discussion forum for this project. |
ongoing: model years completed; HadSM3: 302,962 runs, HadAM3: 29,249 runs, HadCM3: 23,726 runs, Sulphur Cycle: 14,988 runs, Spinup: 61 runs, HadSM3MH: 18,208 runs; 1,843,939,076.04 credits (128,660 BOINC runs) completed |
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![]() On July 16, 2010, the project reached the 20 quadrillion (20,000,000,000,000,000) particle time-steps (pts) milestone. This is the amount of work needed to simulate a particle for 55 hours, 33 minutes and 20 seconds, which at an average of 90% of the speed of light (0.9c) would cover a distance of 360 Astronomical Units--ten times the average distance between Pluto and the Sun, and three times further than the most distance man-made object (Voyager 1) has traveled. See technical reports and papers from this project. The client does not need to contact a project server to get work. It submits results via ftp whenever it accumulates more than 100 Kbytes of results. The software also includes a separate ftp client which you can use to submit results manually. The Windows version of the client can be run as a screen-saver or from the command-line. Version 4.44d of the client is available for Windows as of 2008. Version 4.33 and later can be run under Linux using Wine. BOINC users can participate in this project via the yoyo@home Muon project. Join a discussion forum about the project. |
ongoing: 63,453486 simulations completed |
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![]() The project released its first status report on November 3, 2004. It successfully completed over 500,000 jobs by that date with the help of 6,000 registered users and 7,500 active computers. It released its fourth status report on September 8, 2005. The project is in production mode as of July 13, 2005. The project officially relaunched in the UK (where it is now based) on October 12, 2007. The project will run the SixTrack application until the LHC starts in 2008, and will continue running after the LHC launch to compare simulation data with real data. The project will also begin running the Garfield application (which simulates two- and three-dimensional drift chambers (i.e. gaseous detectors) sometime in the near future, and may eventually run another application "simulating particle collisions for the ATLAS experiment, one of the four major LHC experiments." The project uses a BOINC-based client, which runs an application called SixTrack. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. SixTrack's graphical screensaver displays a cross-section of the beam of particles that SixTrack is simulating. Version 4.67 of the application is available for Windows as of April 12, 2005. Version 4.66 is available for Linux as of April 8, 2005. Linux users with NFS-mounted work directories should read the Known Bugs for the client. Version 7.11 of the Garfield application is available for Windows and Linux as of September 7, 2007. Join a discussion forum about the project. |
ongoing; 264,198,108 credits |
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![]() The project published its first formal scientific publication on April 11 2008--the results from its search of LIGO S4 data. As of January 27, 2006, the project had more than 100,000 participants with computation credit. The project uses a BOINC-based client. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. The project initially ran one application, an all-sky pulsar search. On December 23, 2005 it began releasing Albert, an improved and more sensitive version of the pulsar search application. Note: Each work unit is 12 MB, and the deadline for returning the results of a work unit is 7 days. A work unit takes about 9 hours to finish on a Pentium 4 2.5 GHz CPU. Because of these factors, the project is recommended for users with faster systems and a broadband Internet connection. The graphical screensaver displays "a rotating celestial sphere showing the known constellations, along with the current zenith positions of three gravity wave detectors. Also shown are the positions of the known pulsars and supernovae remnants, and a marker indicating the positions being searched as the calculations proceed." See a detailed description of the screensaver. Version 6.02 of the "Hierarchical all-sky pulsar search" application is available for Windows as of August 4, 2008. Version 6.04 of the pulsar search application is available for Linux as of August 4, 2008. Version 6.03 of the pulsar search application is available for Mac OSX as of August 4, 2008. A beta testing page contains test clients for the project. Version 4.46 of the Windows test client is available as of May 9, 2008. Version 4.43 of the Mac OSX test client is available as of April 24, 2008. Version 4.49 of the Linux test client is available as of May 14, 2008. See the status of the project servers. Join a discussion forum about the project. |
ongoing: 15,127,892,160 credits |
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Join the
Leiden Classical
project, and help create a desktop computing grid for any scientist or
science student to use to study general
classical dynamics.
This is the first project which allows its users to submit calculations for the project to compute.
To submit a calculation to the project, download a standalone version of the Classical client and follow the instructions for using it, then submit your calculation to the project's computing grid. As of March 13, 2007, the project has a Classical-Builder Java 3D graphical user interface tool for building input files for the Classical application. The project uses a BOINC-based client, which runs five applications: Classical, upperCASE, trajtou-cu111 trajtou-pt111, and trajtou-pd110paw. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. Version 5.50 of Classical is available for Windows, Linux, Mac OSX and FreeBSD as of December 10, 2007. Version 5.36 of the trajtou clients is available for Windows and Linux as of June 12, 2007. Join a discussion forum about the project. |
ongoing; 191,587,859 credits |
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![]() The project began a new project, 'Mindless' DFT Benchmarking in December, 2009. This project generates thermochemical benchmark sets from test sets of randomly generated "artificial molecules" that "rely on systematic constraints rather than uncontrolled chemical biases." It began another new project, QASINO, on March 4, 2010. QASINO is the QMC@Home version of CASINO, which performs "quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) electronic structure calculations for finite and periodic systems." The project uses a BOINC-based client. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. The project reached its beta test phase, and released a new screensaver, on May 23 2006. Join a discussion forum about the project. |
ongoing; 2,108,136,609 credits |
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![]() The project uses the BOINC computing platform to run various applications. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. Version 4.10 of the project's evolver software application is available for Windows as of August 14, 2006. The client is currently only available for Windows, but the project owners will develop a Linux client in the near future, followed by a Mac OSX client. Join a discussion forum about this project. |
ongoing; 166,677,785 credits |
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![]() The project uses the BOINC computing platform to run various applications. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. Version 2.42 of the project's Monte Carlo Metropolis software application is available for Windows as of August 29 2006. The client is currently only available for Windows, but a Linux client will be available eventually. Join a discussion forum about this project. |
ongoing; 948,651,805 credits |
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![]() The project uses the BOINC computing platform to run various applications. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. Version 2.00 of the project's CAMB software application is available for Windows and Linux as of October 24, 2007. Join a discussion forum about this project. |
ongoing; 1,024,330,361 credits |
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![]() The project uses the BOINC PS3 computing platform to run various applications. Join a discussion forum about this project. |
ongoing; credits |
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![]() The project uses the BOINC GPU computing platform to run various applications. Join a discussion forum about this project. |
ongoing; 4,149,495,355 credits |
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NVIDIA CUDA GPUs |
![]() ![]() The project uses the BOINC computing platform to run various applications. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. If you already have BOINC installed, you can join this and other World Community Grid BOINC-based project by attaching to the project URL www.worldcommunitygrid.org. You can select/de-select World Community Grid projects in your World Community Grid member page, under My Grid --> My Projects. This project is discussed in the World Community Grid forums. |
ongoing; 33,028 results returned |
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![]() The project uses the BOINC computing platform to run various applications. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. Version 1.13 of the project's MilkyWay@home software application is available for Windows, Linux, Mac OSX, Solaris and FreeBSD as of December 13, 2007. Join a discussion forum about this project. |
ongoing; 9,135,531,429 credits |
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![]() The project uses the BOINC computing platform to run various applications. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. Join a discussion forum about this project. |
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![]() The project uses a BOINC-based client. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. Version 1.04 of the project's evolution@home client is available for Windows as of January 6, 2008. Join a discussion forum about yoyo@home. |
567,135,297 credits for all yoyo@home projects as of May 6, 2010 |
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![]() The project uses a BOINC-based client. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. Version 1.06 of the project's Muon client is available for Windows as of March 8, 2008. Join a discussion forum about yoyo@home. |
567,135,297 credits for all yoyo@home projects as of May 6, 2010 |
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![]() ![]() To participate in the project, click on the Intelligent Design logo on the project's main web page. This will launch a Java Webstart application on your computer which will automatically download and run the Intelligent Design application. Instructions for using the application are displayed within the application itself. The application should run on any computing platform which supports Java. You may need to install the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in order to run the application. Version 20070511 of the application is available as of May 11, 2007. |
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![]() The project uses a BOINC-based client. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. Version 1.06 of the project's Muon client is available for Windows as of March 8, 2008. Join a discussion forum about the project. |
ongoing; 3,385,073 credits |
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![]() See the project's latest results. As of June 13, 2008, the project has simulated over 52.2 billion neurons. The human brain has about 100 billion neurons. The project uses a BOINC-based client. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. Version 1.05 of the project's Neuronal Simulator client is available for Windows and Linux as of March 18, 2008. Join a discussion forum about the project. |
ongoing; credits |
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![]() The project uses a BOINC-based client. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. Version 4.00 of the project's ray_trace_ellipse client is available for Windows and Linux as of February 18, 2008. Version 4.00 of the project's test_app client is available for Windows as of February 12, 2008. Version 4.01 of test_app is available for Linux as of February 15, 2008. Join a discussion forum about the project. |
ongoing; 74,389 credits |
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![]() The project completed its testing phase on May 28, 2008, and began its public beta test on May 31, 2008. The project uses a BOINC-based client. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. Version 1.31 of the project's SurveySimulator client is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OSX as of May 28, 2008. Join a discussion forum about this project. |
ongoing; 16,093,278 credits |
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Help Virtual Prairie
"do research in understanding clonal strategies in complex ecological systems."
See more information about the
project. The project is run by the
Department of Computer Science at
the University of Houston.
The project uses a BOINC-based client. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. Version 0.08 of the project's "Application simulating the growth of a clonal plant" client is available for Windows and Linux as of May 14, 2008. Join a discussion forum about this project. |
ongoing; 58,667,988 credits |
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![]() ![]() The project uses a BOINC-based client. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. |
ongoing; 160,009,576 credits |
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Help Magnetism@home
"explore equlibrium, metastable and transient magnetization patterns (first
and foremost in nano-scale magnetic elements and their arrays, but later other
systems may be considered)."
As of June 9, 2008, the project is calculating "the magnetostatic energy of low-energy magnetic configurations in circular cylidrical nano-element. The resolution is not very high yet, but will be increased as more people join." The project uses a BOINC-based client. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. Version 0.02 of the project's circleFMM client is available for Windows and Linux as of June 10, 2008. Version 0.05 of the project's circleFMMNC client is available for Windows and Linux as of June 16, 2008. Join a discussion forum about this project. |
ongoing; 24,646,349 credits |
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![]() The project uses a BOINC-based client. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. Gamma version 1.60 of the project's Genetic Life client is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OSX as of October 14, 2008. Join a discussion forum about this project. |
ongoing; 95,488,868 credits |
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![]() ![]() Phase 1 of the project ended October 27, 2009. Project participants contributed 2,181 years 57 days of calculation. Phase 2 of the project began June 28, 2010. The project uses the BOINC computing platform to run various applications. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. If you already have BOINC installed, you can join this and other World Community Grid BOINC-based project by attaching to the project URL www.worldcommunitygrid.org. You can select/de-select World Community Grid projects in your World Community Grid member page, under My Grid --> My Projects. Join a discussion forum about this project. |
ongoing; 1,901,975 results returned |
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![]() The project completed computations for its 96-variable benchmark problems (a.k.a. 96-qubit problems) and published the results on its website on January 13, 2009. "So far the running time of the adiabatic algorithm is linear with the problems size." The project uses a BOINC-based client. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. The project's "D-Wave's Adiabatic QUantum Algorithms" client is available for Windows and Linux. Join a discussion forum about this project. |
ongoing; 1,428,827,966 credits |
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![]() To participate in the project, download and install the project software. The software does not have a visible user interface unless you configure it to display its screensaver. |
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![]() The project uses a BOINC-based client. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. The project's LOUIS client (currently called casinoAlpha) is available for Windows and Linux. Join a discussion forum about this project. |
ongoing; unknown credits |
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![]() ![]() CAS@home's first two projects are a "Short-Cut Threading" protein structure prediction project from Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and a water purification project from Tsinghua University. As of July 7, 2010, the project is also developing particle physics applications. The project uses a BOINC-based client. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. Join a discussion forum about this project. |
ongoing; unknown credits |
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![]() ![]() ![]() The project uses the BOINC computing platform to run various applications. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. If you already have BOINC installed, you can join this and other World Community Grid BOINC-based project by attaching to the project URL www.worldcommunitygrid.org. You can select/de-select World Community Grid projects in your World Community Grid member page, under My Grid --> My Projects. Join a discussion forum about this project. |
ongoing; 1,481,561 results returned |
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