[Info] List of BOINC Projects

This is a list of all projects currently supported by BOINC, and their goals. More detail can be found at the homepage of each project:

• ABC@home
(Homepage)
Aim: Finding abc-triples related to the ABC Conjecture.

• Albert@Home
(Homepage)
Aim: Help us test features or fixes that may later be transferred to Einstein@Home.

Supports AMD GPUs

Supports Nvidia GPUs

• AlmereGrid Boinc Grid
(Homepage)
Aim:enables people and businesses knowing a helping hand by unused computing capacity for scientific range, this in turn.

• AlmereGrid Test Grid
(Homepage)
Aim: Tests projects and BOINC versions for the AlmereGrid BOINC Grid.

• Asteroids@home
(Homepage)
Aim: Significantly enlarge our knowledge of physical properties of asteroids by using photometric measurements of asteroids observed by professional big all-sky surveys as well as backyard astronomers.

• Biochemical Library
(Homepage)
Aim: Research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in BCL.

• BOINC alpha test
(Homepage)
Aim: Testing new versions of BOINC software, thereby increasing the reliability of software released to the public.

• BURP
(Homepage)
Aim: Develop a publicly distributed system for rendering 3D animations.

• CAS@home
(Homepage)
Aim: To encourage and assist scientists in China to adopt the technologies of volunteer computing and volunteer thinking for their research.

• Chess960@home
(Homepage)
Aim: Build a huge database with at least 1000 games per starting position (better 10000). Then use these games to develop some opening theory.

• Climateprediction.net
(Homepage)
Aim: To produce predictions of the Earth's climate up to 2100 and to test the accuracy of climate models.

• Collatz Conjecture
(Homepage)
Aim: Research in mathematics, specifically testing the Collatz Conjecture, also known as 3x+1 or HOTPO (half or triple plus one).
Supports AMD GPUs

Supports Nvidia GPUs

• Constellation
(Homepage)
Aim: Platform for research projects that use Internet-connected computers to do research in various aerospace related sciences and engineering

• Correlizer
(Homepage)
Aim: Revealing the Mysteries of Genome Organization

• Cosmology@home
(Homepage)
Aim: To search for the model that best describes out Universe, and to find the range of models that agree with the available astronomical and particle physics data.

• DG@Putra
(Homepage)
Aim: A Universiti Putra Malaysia implementation of a desktop grid network.

• DistributedDataMining
(Homepage)
Aim:Uses Internet-connected computers to perform research in the various fields of Data Analysis and Machine Learning.

• DistrRTgen
(Homepage)
Aim:improving the rainbow table technology, making them even smaller and faster than rainbow tables found elsewhere, and the best thing is, those tables are freely available to download from our site by anyone!

Support AMD GPUs

Support Nvidia GPUs

• DNA@Home
(Homepage)
Aim: Discover what regulates the genes in DNA.

•Docking@home
(Homepage)
Aim: To create molecular models and simulate their interactions to reveal possible candidates for effective drugs to help cure diseases such as HIV.

•Donate@Home
(Homepage)
Aim: Using GPUs to mine for BitCoins.

Supports AMD GPUs

Supports Nvidia GPUs

• DrugDiscovery@home
(Homepage)
Aim: To model the behavior of leading compounds that could be developed into new medicines.

• EDGeS@home
(Homepage)
Aim: To support the execution of Integrator of Stochastic Differential Equations in Plasmas, and several other applications.

• Einstein@home
(Homepage)
Aim: To search for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars). It also searches for radio pulsars in binary systems.

• eOn
(Homepage)
Aim: To simulate the time evolution of an atomic scale system where, for example, chemical reactions and/or diffusion occur.

• Enigma@home
(Homepage)
Aim: 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.

• Evo@home
(Homepage)
Aim: Research in Machine Learning. This project uses Evolutionary Algorithms to optimize the parameters of different kind of machine learning algorithms.

• FightMalaria@Home
(Homepage)
Aim: To discover novel targets for antimalarial drugs.

• FreeHAL
(Homepage)
Aim: To develop an artificial intelligence that uses semantic networks, stemmers, parts of speech databases, and part of speech taggers, in order to imitate a very close human behavior within conversations.

• GPUGrid.net
(Homepage)
Aim: To deliver high-performance all-atom biomolecular simulations.
Supports Nvidia GPUs.

• Ibercivis
(Homepage)
Aim: Ibercivis includes a growing number of research projects such as molceular simulation of confined fluids, simulation of quantum wires, simulation of magnetic systems, Docking and fusion.

• Ideologias@Home
(Homepage)
Aim: Study how people in a certain region evolve ideologically over time with respect to an idea.

• Leiden Classical
(Homepage)
Aim: To enable scientists or science students to submit their own test simulations of various molecules and atoms in a classical mechanics environment.

• LHC@home
(Homepage)
Aim: To help physicists develop and exploit particle accelerators, such as CERN's Large Hadron Collider.

• Magnestism@home 
(Homepage)
Aim: Explore the equilibrium, metastable and transient magnetization patterns in nano-scale magnetic elements and their arrays.

• Malariacontrol.net
(Homepage)
Aim: An application that makes use of network computing for stochastic modelling of the clinical epidemiology and natural history of malaria.

• Milkyway@home
(Homepage)
Aim: To create a highly accurate three dimensional model of the Milky Way galaxy using data gathered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
Supports nVidia GPUs.
Supports ATi GPUs.

• MindModelling@home

(Homepage)
Aim: Advancement of cognitive science by utilizing computational cognitive process modelling to better understands the human mind. 

• Moo! Wrapper
(Homepage)
Aim: Moo! Wrapper brings together BOINC volunteer computing network resources and the Distributed.net projects. It allows a BOINC Client to participate in the RC5-72 challenge.
Supports nVidia GPUs.
Supports ATi GPUs.

• Najmanovich Research Group
(Homepage)
Aim: Research molecular recognition and computational biology.

• Neurona@Home
(Homepage)
Aim: Simulating the behaviour of a large assembly of celluar automata neurons connected in a complex network.

• NFS@home
(Homepage)
Aim: To do the lattice sieving step in the Number Field Sieve factorization of large integers into prime numbers.

• NumberFields@home
(Homepage)
Aim: Searches for fields with special properties that could lead to a deeper understanding of the profound properties of numbers.

• OProject
(Homepage)
Aim: Analysis of computer algorithms

• OPTIMA@HOME 
(Homepage)
Aim: Solve challenging large-scale optimization problems.

• Orbit@home 
(Homepage)
Aim: To focus on Near Earth Asteroid (NEA) research, focusing on NEA search strategies and NEA impact hazard monitoring.

• Pirates@Home 
(Homepage)
Aim: Have fun testing BOINC

• POEM@home
(Homepage)
Aim: To predict the biologically active structure of proteins, understand the signal-processing mechanisms when the proteins interact with one another and understand diseases related to protein malfunction.

Supports AMD GPUs

Supports Nvidia GPUs

• Primaboinca
(Homepage)
Aim: A research project that searchs for a counterexample to some conjectures.

• PrimeGrid
(Homepage)
Aim: To determine how much processing is required to crack an encryption code and thus to determine whether current security schemes (in which primes play a central role) are sufficiently secure.

Supports AMD GPUs
Supports Nvidia GPUs.

• Quake-Catcher Network
(Homepage)
Aim: Develop the world's largest low-cost strong-motion seismic network by utilizing sensors in and attached to internet-connected computers.

• Quantum Monte Carlo@home
(Homepage)
Aim: Reactions between molecules are important for virtually all parts of our lives. The structure and reactivity of molecules can be predicted by Quantum Chemistry.

• RADIOACTIVE@HOME
(Homepage)
Aim: Create free and constantly updated map of radiation available for all people, by gathering information about gamma radiation using using sensors connected to computers of volunteers willing to participate in the project.

• RALPH@Home
(Homepage)
Aim: Official alpha test project for Rosetta@Home to test new application versions, work units, and updates.

• Rectilinear Crossing Number
(Homepage)
Aim: Many questions in computational and combinatorial geometry are based on finite sets of points in the Euclidean plane; it is not hard to see that we can place four points in a way so that no crossing occurs. The most tantalizing problem now is to determine the true value for n=18, which is the main focus of this project.

• Rioja Science
(Homepage)
Aim: Platform for biomedical research.

• RNA World
(Homepage)
Aim: A distributed supercomputer used to advance RNA-related research.

• Rosetta@home
(Homepage)
Aim: To determine the 3-dimensional shapes of proteins in research that may ultimately lead to finding cures for some major human diseases such as HIV, Malaria, Cancer, and Alzheimer's.

• SAT@home 
(Homepage)
Aim: Solve hard and practically important problems (such as discrete functions inversion problems, discrete optimization, bioinformatics, etc) that can be effecitvely reduced into boolean satisfiability problem.

• SETI@home

(Homepage)
Aim: to detect intelligent life outside Earth. One approach, known as radio SETI, uses radio telescopes to listen for narrow-bandwidth radio signals from space.

Supports AMD GPUs
Supports Nvidia GPUs.

• SETI@home Beta
(Homepage)
Aim: Tests new applications and work units for the SETI@Home project

Supports AMD GPUs
Supports Nvidia GPUs.

• SLinCA@Home

(Homepage)
Aim: Research in the field of materials science.

• SIMAP
(Homepage)
Aim: 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.

• SimOne@home
(Homepage)
Aim: Focus on the osmoprotection phenomenon.

• Spinhenge@home
(Homepage)
Aim: The research of nano-magnetic molecules. In the future, these molecules will be used in localised tumor chemotherapy and to develop tiny memory-modules.

• SubsetSum@Home
(Homepage)
Aim: Attempts to answer the question 'given a set of positive integers S and a target sum T, is there a subset of S whose sum is T?' 

• Sudoku@vtaiwan
(Homepage)
Aim: Research in sudoku.

• Superlink@Technion
(Homepage)
Aim: To find disease-provoking genes causing some types of diabetes, hypertension (high blood pressure), cancer, schizophrenia and many others.

• SZTAKI Desktop Grid
(Homepage)
Aim: SZTAKI currently hosts one mathematical project; the BinSYS Project.

• Test4Theory
(Homepage)
Aim: To demonstrate the use of the CERN-developed CernVM and BOINCVM systems to harness volunteer cloud computing power for full-fledged LHC event physics simulation on volunteer computers..

• The Lattice Project
(Homepage)
Aim: The research in Grid computing conducted by the Laboratory of Molecular Evolution.
Supports Nvidia GPUs.

• The SkyNet POGS 
(Homepage)
Aim: Combine spectral coverage of GALEX, Pan-STARRS1, and WISE to generate a multi-wavelength UV-optical-NIR galaxy atlas for the nearby Universe.

• uFluids@home
(Homepage)
Aim: To design better satellite propellant management devices and address two-phase flow in microchannel and MEMS devices.

• Virtual Prairie
(Homepage)
Aim: There are 3 major steps: Elaborating an Individual-Based Model for simulating one plant, a prairie which can be considered as interactions of plant populations, and a coupling of the prairie model with a model simulating water nitrate or pesticides in the soil.

• VTU@home
(Homepage)
Aim: To provide a powerful distributed computing platform for scientists of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University as well as other Lithuanian academic institutions.

• World Community Grid
(Homepage)
Aim: To create the world's largest public computing grid, made available only to public and not-for-profit organizations to use for humanitarian research.

Supports AMD GPUs


• Yoyo@home
(Homepage)
Aim: Currently running the following projects: computes minimal equal sums of power 6, Elliptic Curve Factorization, simulating and designing parts of a particle accelerator, and others.