Project list
This page lists the Complete BOINC-based projects that we are aware of. Note that some have not been verified, some are Test sites for other projects and some may have been inactive for some time but not yest declared Retired.
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N.B.: Not all projects listed are continuously active, or have work to be done, and may not be recognized by BOINC. Each project's status is subject to change at any time based on work provided it, server functionality, and other factors.
Contents
1 Astronomy/Physics/Chemistry
2 Biology and Medicine
3 Cognitive Science
4 Earth and Environmental Science
5 Mathematics, Computing, and Games
6 Multi-Application Projects
7 Miscellaneous and Unclassified
Astronomy/Physics/Chemistry
Albert@Home
URL: http://albertathome.org
Institution: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Official launch: 2005?
Project status: Active
Platforms: Unknown
Description: Albert@Home is a Test site used for testing Einstein@Home programs searching for gravitational waves from spinning Neutron Stars.
Asteroids@home
URL: http://asteroids@home.net/boinc/
Institution: Charles University in Prague
Official launch: June,2012.
Project status: Active
Platforms: <platforms>http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/</platforms>
Description: The project Asteroids@home was started with the aim to significantly enlarge our knowledge of physical proportions of asteroids.
Atlas@Home
URL: http://atlasathome.cern.ch/
Institution: European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN)
Official launch: June,2014
Project status: Active
Platforms: <platforms>http://atlasathome.cern.ch/</platforms>
Description: ATLAS is a particle physics experiment at the Large Hedron Collider at CERN, that searches for new particles and processes using head-on collisions of protons od extraordinary high energy.
CMS-dev
URL: http://boincai05.cern.ch/CMS-dev/
Institution: ?
Official launch: 13 Feb 2015
Project status: Active
Platforms: Unknown
Description: Search for fundamental particles and physics at CERN's LHC
Cosmology@Home
URL: http://www.cosmologyathome.org/
Institution: Departments of Astronomy and Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Official launch: 31-03-2007
Project status: Active
Platforms: <platforms>http://www.cosmologyathome.org/</platforms>
Description: 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.
Einstein@home
URL: http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/
Institution: University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee and the Albert Einstein Institute
Official launch: 19 February 2005 (beta testing began 19 November 2004)
Project status: Active
Platforms: <platforms>http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/</platforms>
Description: Einstein@Home searches through data collected by the LIGO and GEO600 gravitational wave detectors for evidence of periodic sources (such as spinning neutron stars), which would be the gravitational equivalent of pulsars. Einstein@Home was launched as part of the World Year of Physics 2005.
Leiden Classical
URL: http://boinc.gorlaeus.net/
Institution: Leiden University
Official launch: 05-12-2005
Project status: Active
Platforms: <platforms>http://boinc.gorlaeus.net/</platforms>
Description: Surface science calculations using Classical Dynamics. In contrast to other projects, Leiden Classical allows volunteers, students and other scientists to submit their personal calculations to the grid. Each user has his own personal queue for Classical Dynamics jobs. In this way students have used the grid to simulate liquid argon, or to test the validity of the ideal gas law by actually doing the simulations through the grid.
LHC@home
URL: http://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/
Institution: CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Official launch: 01-09-2004
Project status: Active
Platforms: <platforms>http://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/</platforms>
Description: LHC@home studies the stability of the orbits of particles traveling around the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a particle accelerator built at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Geneva, Switzerland. When it switches on in late 2009, the LHC will be the most powerful instrument ever built to investigate the properties of sub-atomic particles.
MilkyWay@Home
URL: http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/
Institution: Computer Science Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Official launch: 07-07-2007
Project status: Active
Platforms: <platforms>http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/</platforms>
Description: Research in modeling and determining the evolution of the Milkyway galaxy.
SETI@home
URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/
Institution: Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, with support from Sun Microsystems, the Planetary Society, and others
Official launch: 17 May 1999
Project status: Active
Platforms: Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Mac OS X (PowerPC), SPARC Solaris, SPARC Solaris 2.7, Windows, Linux/x64
Description: SETI@home searches through data from the radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, looking for narrow-bandwidth radio signals which might be taken as evidence of extraterrestrial technology. (SETI stands for Search for Extra-Terestrial Intelligence.)
SETI@home/Astropulse Beta
URL: http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/beta/
Institution: University of California
Official launch: 15 Jun 2005
Project status: Active
Platforms: Unknown
Description: Astropulse is a new type of SETI. It expands on the original SETI@home but does not replace it. Astropulse listens for broader-band short-time signals as opposed to the narroband signals searched for in SETI@home. Since 2005 this site was also used as a Test site for SETI@Home.
theSkyNet POGS
URL: http://pogs.theskynet.org/pogs/
Institution: The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (Perth, Australia
Official launch: 03-08-2012
Project status: Active
Platforms: <platforms>http://pogs.theskynet.org/pogs/</platforms>
Description: We will combine the spectral coverage of GALEX, Pan-STARRS1, and WISE to generate a multi-wavelength UV-optical-NIR galaxy atlas for the nearby Universe. We will measure physical parameters (such as stellar mass surface density, star formation rate surface density, attenuation, and first-order star formation history) on a resolved pixel-by-pixel basis using spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting techniques in a distributed computing mode.
Universe@Home
URL: http://universeathome.pl/universe/
Institution: University of Warsaw, Poland
Official launch: 21 Feb 2015
Project status: Active
Platforms: Unknown
Description: Research in Physics and Astronomy
VirtualLHC@Home
URL: http://lhcathome2.cern.ch/vLHCathome/
Institution: European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
Official launch: 2011
Project status: Active
Platforms: Unknown
Description: The theory simulations that have been running as Test4Theory since 2011, were the first of a series of physics applications running on the LHC@home platform. Soon the theory simulations will be followed by more simulations from the LHC experiment collaborations. These applications exploit virtual machine technology, enabling volunteers to contribute to the huge computational task of searching for new fundamental particles and physics at CERN's LHC.
Biology and Medicine
DENIS@Home
URL: http://denis.usj.es/denisathome/
Institution: San Jorge University, Zargoza, Spain.
Official launch: 20 Mar 2015.
Project status: Active
Platforms: Unknown
Description: Research in Cardiac Electrophysiology.
GPUGrid
URL: http://www.gpugrid.net
Institution: University Pompeu Fabra
Official launch: 12-05-2007
Project status: Active
Platforms: <platforms>http://www.ps3grid.net</platforms>
Description: GPUGrid is a volunteer computing project on the PlayStation3 for full-atom molecular simulations of proteins.Your contribution is very important because our CellMD software runs over an order of magnitude faster on the PlayStation3 opening the way to innovative scientific experiments.
Malariacontrol.net
URL: http://www.malariacontrol.net
Institution: The Swiss Tropical Institute
Official launch: 19-12-2006
Project status: Active
Platforms: <platforms>http://www.malariacontrol.net</platforms>
Description: Simulation models of the transmission dynamics and health effects of malaria are an important tool for malaria control. They can be used to determine optimal strategies for delivering mosquito nets, chemotherapy, or new vaccines which are currently under development and testing. Such modeling is extremely computer intensive, requiring simulations of large human populations with a diverse set of parameters related to biological and social factors that influence the distribution of the disease.
Poem@Home
URL: http://boinc.fzk.de/poem/
Institution: Biomolecular Structure Prediction Group
Official launch: 13-11-2007
Project status: Active
Platforms: <platforms>http://boinc.fzk.de/poem/</platforms>
Description: Models protein folding using Anfinsen's dogma.
RNA World
URL: http://www.rnaworld.de/rnaworld/
Institution: based at Rechencraft.net
Official launch: 21 May 2009
Project status: Active
Platforms: Unknown
Description: Indentify, analyze, structurally predict and design RNA molecules
RALPH@Home
URL: http://ralph.bakerlab.org
Institution: University of Washington
Official launch: Feb 2006
Project status: Active
Platforms: Unknown
Description: RALPH@Home is the official test project for Rosetta@Home. The goal for RALPH@Home is to improve Rosetta@Home working on Molecular Biology.
Rosetta@home
URL: http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/
Institution: University of Washington
Official launch: 26-06-2005
Project status: Active
Platforms: <platforms>http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/</platforms>
Description: Determine the 3-dimensional shapes of proteins in research that may ultimately lead to finding cures for some major human diseases. By running Rosetta@home 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.
Sat@Home
URL: http://sat.isa.ru/pdsat/
Institution: Institute for Information Transmission Problems of Russian Academy of Sciences, department of Distributed Computing.
Official launch: 29 Sep 2011
Project status: Active
Platforms: <platforms>http://sat.isa.ru/</platforms>
Description: Sat@home is a research project to solve hard and practically important problems,(dysreate functions in version problems, dyscreat optimizations, bioinformatics, etc.)
The Lattice Project
URL: http://boinc.umiacs.umd.edu/
Institution: University of Maryland Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Official launch: 17-05-2007
Project status: Active
Platforms: <platforms>http://boinc.umiacs.umd.edu/</platforms>
Description: The Lattice Project, developed and administered at the University of Maryland, supplies computing power to researchers worldwide who are studying evolutionary relationships using DNA and protein sequence data.
Cognitive Science
MindModeling@Home
URL: http://MindModeling.org/beta/
Institution: Cognitive Engineering Research Institute
Official launch: 17-03-2007
Project status: inactive
Platforms: <platforms>http://MindModeling.org/beta/</platforms>
Description: The research focuses on utilizing computational cognitive process modeling to better understand the human mind and to improve on the scientific foundations that explain the mechanisms and processes that enable and moderate human performance and learning.
Earth and Environmental Science
Climateprediction.net
URL: http://climateprediction.net/
Institution: University of Oxford
Official launch: 12-09-2003
Project status: Active
Platforms: <platforms>http://climateprediction.net/</platforms>
Description: Investigates the approximations that have to be made in state-of-the-art climate models. By running the model thousands of times 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.
Radioactive@Home
URL: http://radioactiveathome.org/boinc/
Institution: Private. Polish Scientific project
Official launch: 16 Apr 2011
Project status: Active
Platforms: Unknown
Description: The goal of the project is to create a constantly update map of radiation available to all. You will need to purchase additional equipment to participate.
Quake Catcher Network - Seismic Monitoring
URL: http://qcn.caltech.edu/sensor
Institution: A joint project between Stanford University and University of California at Riverside
Official launch: 03-02-2008
Project status: Active
Platforms: <platforms>http://qcn.stanford.edu/sensor/</platforms>
Description: Research, education, and outreach in seismology. This is a 'non-CPU' intensive project. The project was formerly known as "QCN Alpha" or "QCN Alpha Test" but is now an active 'live' project. An accelerometer is needed to run this project. Some computers have this built in (i.e. Apple Macbook laptops & IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad laptops). For others, a USB attachment is necessary. The aim of the project is to detect seismic events via attached (internal laptop or external USB) accelerometers; which are then reported to the system servers at Caltech.
Mathematics, Computing, and Games
Collatz Conjecture
URL: http://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/
Institution: private
Official launch: 1-6-2009
Project status: Active
Platforms: <platforms>http://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/</platforms>
Description: The Collatz Conjecture project does research in mathematics, specifically testing the Collatz Conjecture, also known as 3x+1 or HOTPO (half or triple plus one).
Enigma@Home
URL: http://www.enigmaathome.net/
Institution: unknown
Official launch: 09-09-2007
Project status: Active
Platforms: <platforms>http://www.enigmaathome.net/</platforms>
Description: Enigma@Home is a wrapper between BOINC and Stefan Krah's M4 Project. The M4 Project is an effort to break 3 original Enigma messages with the help of distributed computing. The signals were intercepted in the North Atlantic in 1942 and are believed to be unbroken.
Moo! Wrapper
URL: http://www.moowrap.net/
Institution: Private
Official launch: 02-05-2011
Project status: Active
Platforms: <platforms>http://www.moowrap.net/ http://www.moowrap.net/</platforms>
Description: Wrapper to help solving RC5-72
NFS@Home
URL: http://escatter11.fullerton.edu/nfs/
Institution: California State University Fullerton
Official launch: 5 Sep 2009
Project status: Active
Platforms: Unknown
Description: Performing Lattice Sieving step in the Number Field Sieve factorization of large integers.
Number Fields@home
URL: http://numberfields.as.edu/NumberFields/
Institution: School of Mathematics Arizona State University
Official launch: 8 Aug 2011
Project status: Active
Platforms: Unknown
Description: Research in number theory
Primaboinca
URL: http://www.primaboinca.com
Institution: University of Applied Sciences Wiesbaden
Official launch: 26 Jul 2010
Project status: Active
Platforms: Unknown
Description: Hypothesis in number theory
PrimeGrid
URL: http://www.primegrid.com/
Institution: Private
Official launch: July 12, 2005
Project status: Active
Platforms: <platforms>http://www.primegrid.com/</platforms>
Description: Primegrid is generating a public sequential prime number database, and is searching for large twin primes of the form k*2n+1 and k*2n-1
SRBase
URL: http://srbase.myfirewall.org/sr5/
Institution: Private
Official launch: 27 Nov 2014
Project status: Active
Platforms: Windows, Linux, Macintosh
Description: Solving Mathematical problems of Sierpinski/Riesel Base
SZTAKI Desktop Grid
URL: http://szdg.lpds.sztaki.hu/szdg/
Institution: Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems
Official launch: ?
Project status: Active
Platforms: <platforms>http://szdg.lpds.sztaki.hu/szdg/</platforms>
Description: Find all the generalized binary number systems (in which bases are matrices and digits are vectors) up to dimension 11.
Van Der Waerden Numbers
URL: http://www.vdwnumbers.org/vdwnumbers/
Institution: Private. A project of Daniel Monroe who is a student at Takoma Park Middle School.
Official launch: Mar 2015
Project status: Active
Platforms: Unknown
Description: Mathematical solutions relating to Van Der Waerden Theorem
WEP-M+2 Project
URL: http://bearnol.is-a-geek.com/wanless2/
Institution: ?
Official launch: 05-12-2006
Project status: Active
Platforms: <platforms>http://bearnol.is-a-geek.com/wanless2/</platforms>
Description: WEP-M+2 (wanless2) is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in number theory.
YAFU
URL: http://yafu.myfirewall.org/yafu/
Institution: Private
Official launch: 28 Aug 2011
Project status: Active
Platforms: Unknown
Description: Factorizing Utility. Factoring numbers of 80 - 110 digits length.
Multi-Application Projects
CAS@HOME
URL: http://casathome.ihep.ac.cn/
Institution: Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
Official launch: 2010
Project status: Active
Platforms: <platforms>http://casathome.ihep.ac.cn/</platforms>
Description: A Multi-Application project in Biochemistry, Physics etc.
Citizen Science Grid
URL: http://csgrid.org/csg/
Institution: University of North Dakota (UND). It is hosted by the UND's Computaional Research Center and IT Systems and services.
Official launch: 23 April, 2013
Project status: Active
Platforms: Unknown
Description: The project is dedicated to supporting a wide range of research and educational projects.
FiND@Home
URL: http://findah.ucd.ie/
Institution: Complex of Adaptive Systems Laboratory(CASL) University College Dublin (UCD)
Official launch: 20/07/2012
Project status: Active
Platforms: Unknown
Description: The goal of CASL is to become a globally recognised institute in applied mathematics, computational science and informatics.
IBERCIVIS
URL: http://registro.ibercivis.es/
Institution: Spanish Universities and Research Centers.
Official launch: September,2008
Project status: Active
Platforms: Unknown
Description: Research in Physics, material science and biomedicine
TN-Grid
URL: http://gene.disi.unitn.it/test/
Institution: University of Trento Italy
Official launch: 19 Dec 2013
Project status: Active
Platforms: Unknown
Description: The first project is gene@home hosted by the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science
World Community Grid
URL: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/
Institution: IBM Corporate Community Relations
Official launch: 16 Nov 2004
Project status: Active
Platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac
Description: To further critical non-profit research on some of humanity's most pressing problems by creating the world's largest volunteer computing grid. Research includes HIV/AIDS, cancer, muscular dystrophy, dengue fever, and many more.
Yoyo@home
URL: http://www.rechenkraft.net/yoyo/
Institution: Rechenkraft.net
Official launch: 19-07-2007
Project status: Active
Platforms: <platforms>http://www.rechenkraft.net/yoyo/</platforms>
Description: Yoyo@home brings existing distributed computing projects to the Boinc world using the Boinc Wrapper technology.
Volpex
URL: http://volpexathome,cs.uh.edu/VolPEx/
Institution: University of Houston
Official launch: 2011
Project status: Active
Platforms: Unknown
Description: An execution environment for Robust Parallel Computing on Volunteer PC Grids
Miscellaneous and Unclassified
Bitcoin Utopia
URL: http://www.bitcoinutopia.net/bitcoinutopia/
Institution: private
Official launch: 8 March 2014
Project status: Active
Platforms: <platforms>http://www.bitcoinutopia.net/bitcoinutopia/</platforms>
Description: Bitcoin Utopia is a commercial platform for crowd-donations that uses Internet-connected computers to mine cryptocurrencies for incentive awards and science projects.
BURP
URL: http://burp.renderfarming.net/
Institution: ?
Official launch: 16 Jun, 2004
Project status: Active
Platforms: Unknown
Description: A publicly distributed system rendering 3D animation
DistributedDataMining
URL: http://www.distributeddatamining.org/
Institution: Private, project management by Nicko Schlitter
Official launch: March,2010
Project status: Active
Platforms: Unknown
Description: Research in Simulations, Data analysis and Machine Learning.
Gerasim@Home
URL: http://gerasim.boinc.ru/gerasim/
Institution: based in Russia, further details unavailable
Official launch: 02-10-2007
Project status: Active
Platforms: <platforms>http://gerasim.boinc.ru/gerasim/</platforms>
Description: As of May 2008, Gerasim is in the development stage and lacks a specific science goal. Apparently project administrators are setting up the essentials of a BOINC project with the intention of finding a researcher to use the project.
Pirates@Home
URL: http://pirates.spy-hill.net/
Institution: Spy Hill Research (under contract to LIGO)
Official launch: 02-06-2004
Project status: intermittent (permanent test project)
Platforms: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
Description: Pirates@Home was originally set up as a prototype for Einstein@Home. The name was chosen to make it clear that it was only a test project, not the beginning of Einstein@Home. The original Pirates@Home was shut down in June 2005 after Einstein@Home was underway. The project reappeared in January 2006 on a different server to act as a test stand for another LIGO-related project, called Interactions in Understanding the Universe (I2U2).
WUProp@Home
URL: http://wuprop.boinc-af.org
Institution: Private
Official launch: 27 Mar 2010
Project status: Active
Platforms: Unknown
Description: Collects Work Unit properties of BOINC projects such as computation time, memory and disk space requirements, checkpoint intervals and report times.
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