Computers, Computer Science, Distributed Computing, Projects
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- Grid computing analogy, meaning, capabilities, uses and limitations.
- 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.
- A forum for discussing SETI, RC5, F@H, G@H, the UD Cancer Project, and other distributed computing efforts.
- 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.
- 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.
- Software download, computation records, and project description.
- Project pays select computer users to run a client that tests internet performance.
- Project working on the 3x+1 (or Collatz) sequences and their properties.
- Corporate-sponsored project exploring cancer development, prevention and treatment. [Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME]
- Aims at developing novel data management techniques to deal with the challenge of global computing.
- 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 dynami
- Open-source software package designed to run on end-user machines while collecting various statistics about Internet performance.
- Mathematical project with a somewhat technically intimidating site. Whitepapers and software for Linux, UNIX, MacOS X, Windows.
- Screensaver program tries to find divisors of Fermat numbers.
- Help search for primes of the form b^8192+1(b > 99999999).
- Research project homed at the University of Virginia. An open specification and prototype for a worldwide virtual computer.
- 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.
- 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.
- Research project developing tools and middleware components to coherently share and manage data and metadata in a Grid or distributed computing environment.
- Software for the long time scale simulation of solids. From University of Washington Chemistry Department.
- Modeled after the Digital Proofreaders project, this variation focuses on digitization of works considered to be in the public domain in Europe.
- 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 ha
- 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.
- Distributed network chess experiment. Intends to create a single playing program using donated time.
- Open framework that will allow P2P file sharing networks to make Distributed Parallel Computing.
- Help this distributed computing project by donating CPU cycles to find primes of the form 121*2^N-1.
- A distributed project to find short Post Correspondence Problems with large shortest solutions.
- Generates stock forecasts by application of artificial intelligence with the aid of artificial neural networks.
- Uses PC idle time to simulate and design a particle accelerator.
- News and resources on grid computing.
- 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.
- 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.
- Distributed computing program for evolutionary biology.
- Distributed web-crawling project to improve search capabilities of the web.
- The Grid middleware development and testbed deployment project in the Nordic countries
- LHC Computing Grid distribution site. Place to find the grid middleware devellop for the future Large Hydron Collider in CERN.
- Research project developing a software infrastructure for distributed computing on a world-wide scale.
- Kirk Pearson's directory of current distributed computing projects as well as news articles and related materials.
- 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.
- 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.
- A non-professional, Open Source project based on a Gnutella client. Anyone can get and has to provide CPU-time. The client is under development.
- 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 t
- Distributed computing projects links and short descriptions in English and in Finnish.
- 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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