Computer Science

ABC@home ABC@home- Distributed computing project for finding abc-triples related to the mathematical A+B=C, or ABC conjecture. How to Join Distributed Computing Projects That Benefit Humanity How to Join Distributed Computing Projects That Benefit Humanity- An annotated directory of projects combined with commentary and illustrations or screenshots. Leiden Classical Leiden Classical- BOINC project, dedicated to general classical dynamics for any scientist or science student. NGrid NGrid- 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. Majestic 12 Majestic 12- Distributed Computing Project aimed towards building the largest search engine index on the Internet using Distributed Crawlers. World Community Grid World Community Grid- Mission is to create the largest public computing grid benefiting humanity. Currently supporting the Human Proteome Folding project to provide scientists wit… Distributedcomputing.info Distributedcomputing.info- Kirk Pearson's directory of current distributed computing projects as well as news articles and related materials. Muon1 Optimisation Project Muon1 Optimisation Project- Uses PC idle time to simulate and design a particle accelerator. Search for Fermat Number Dividers Search for Fermat Number Dividers- Screensaver program tries to find divisors of Fermat numbers. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Distributed Computing Project Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Distributed Computing Project- Project goal is a single run-time environment that ties together several networked supercomputers. Intended use… Grid.org Grid.org- A distributed computing effort by the United Devices Global MetaProcessor with the participation of over 2 million PCs worldwide for cancer, anthrax, and smallpox resear… ClimatePrediction.Net ClimatePrediction.Net- Large-scale simulation where each participant is given one slightly different scenario to run. Those that successfully model past weather patterns will be m… The Hunting of the Snark Project The Hunting of the Snark Project- Explores distributed file sharing through BitTorrent and experiments with the GNU Compiler for Java. It also produces a regular BitTorrent client… GPU, a Global Processing Unit GPU, a Global Processing Unit- GPU is an Open Source Gnutella/Pastella client that allows users to share CPU-resources on a truly P2P based cluster. Applications include a Landsca… Quite Advanced Distributed Parallel Zystem (QADPZ) Quite Advanced Distributed Parallel Zystem (QADPZ)- The system allows the management/use of the computational power of idle computers in a network. Based on a client-master-slave … The NorduGrid Project The NorduGrid Project- Research and Development collaboration aiming at development, maintenance and support of the free Grid middleware known as the Advance Resource Connector (A… Globus Project Globus Project- Research project developing a software infrastructure for distributed computing on a world-wide scale. Legion: A Worldwide Virtual Computer Legion: A Worldwide Virtual Computer- Research project homed at the University of Virginia. An open specification and prototype for a worldwide virtual computer. Repository of Grid Research Projects Repository of Grid Research Projects- News and resources on grid computing. The ChessBrain Network The ChessBrain Network- Distributed network chess experiment. Intends to create a single playing program using donated time. Computing Minimum Equal Sums of Like Power Computing Minimum Equal Sums of Like Power- Includes client software download, computation records, and project description on its research into mathematical problems. Distributed Proofreaders Distributed Proofreaders- Founded to support the digitization of public domain books. Originally conceived to assist Project Gutenberg, Distributed Proofreaders is now the main so… JXTA JXTA- Language- and platform-independent protocol for peer-to-peer networking, developed by Sun. Initial implementation in Java. [Open Source, BSD-like] IBM Distributed Computing Environment IBM Distributed Computing Environment- IBM's product offering based on the DCE open standard for distributed computing. Microsoft's Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) Microsoft's Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM)- Protocol that enables software components to communicate over a network in a reliable, secure, and efficient manner. Apple Advanced Computation Group - Xgrid Apple Advanced Computation Group - Xgrid- Clustering software intended primarily for scientific researchers. Mac OS X only. IBM Distributed Computing Platform (DCP) IBM Distributed Computing Platform (DCP)- A standardised approach for effective management of large numbers of desktops, devices, servers, applications and LAN’s from one centrali… GridRepublic GridRepublic- A non-profit organization created to provide supercomputing resources to public interest research, by use of volunteer distributed computing. Distributed Computing with HTTP, XML, SOAP, and WSDL Distributed Computing with HTTP, XML, SOAP, and WSDL- Learn how various protocols fit into the big picture of the distributed computing arena. MacDevCenter.com: Integrating Xgrid into Cocoa Applications, Part 1 MacDevCenter.com: Integrating Xgrid into Cocoa Applications, Part 1- In this first of two articles exploring Xgrid, Drew McCormack provides a little background information, then m… MacDevCenter.com: Integrating Xgrid into Cocoa Applications, Part 2 MacDevCenter.com: Integrating Xgrid into Cocoa Applications, Part 2- In Part 1, Drew McCormack showed how to install and start using Xgrid. Now in Part 2, he covers integration wi… Clustopium Cluster Server/Client System Clustopium Cluster Server/Client System- The next step to distributed computer systems, A complete Java framework for implementing MultiNodal processor farms. There is a demo, but… Q²ADPZ - Collaborative Computing Q²ADPZ - Collaborative Computing- An Open-Source project that provides software to distribute work over many computers in a network. The machines are only used during idle-time. ZetaGrid ZetaGrid- An open source and platform independent grid system that uses idle CPU cycles from participating computers. ZetaGrid solves one problem in practice: numerical verificati… Economy Grid Economy Grid- Research on the development of economic resource management and scheduling system for global grid computing. Description and papers. Cosm Cosm- Provides an infrastructure for true distributed computing projects. This includes applications as well as APIs for users to design and build their own projects. Internet Based Distributed Super Computer Internet Based Distributed Super Computer- Build a supercomputer using wasted CPU cycles of home and office computers. (A fledgling project looking for a sponsor and participants.) Object Management Group Object Management Group- Distributed object computing industry standards group founded in 1989. Defined standards include CORBA and IIOP. Legion Legion- Generic middleware for creating a worldwide virtual computer. OSF Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) OSF Distributed Computing Environment (DCE)- An industry-standard, vendor-neutral set of distributed computing technologies. Provides scalable organization of users and shared dat… Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC)- Software platform for distributed computing using volunteered computer resources, allowing participants to participate … ICDCS 2000 ICDCS 2000- The 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems. Taipei, Taiwan; 10--13 April 2000. Proceedings. EDOC 2001 EDOC 2001- IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Conference. September 4-7, 2001, in Seattle, Washington, USA. UbiComp UbiComp- Venue for presenting research and development achievements in the design, implementation, deployment and evaluation of computing technology that migrates beyond our deskt… DISC - International Symposium on DIStributed Computing DISC - International Symposium on DIStributed Computing- DISC is an international symposium on the theory, design, analysis, implementation and application of distributed systems … High Performance Distributed Computing Symposium Home page High Performance Distributed Computing Symposium Home page- The International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing is a forum for presenting the latest research fin… P2P2002 P2P2002- The Second IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing. Linkoping, Sweden; 5--7 September 2002. IPDPS 2002 IPDPS 2002- Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA; 15--19 April 2002. PODC 2000 PODC 2000- Nineteenth Annual ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing. July 16-19. Portland, Oregon. ICDCS 2002 ICDCS 2002- International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems. July 2-5, 2002, in Vienna, Austria.