Journals

American Scientist: Collective Wisdom American Scientist: Collective Wisdom- Article discusses the "early days" (pre-1998) of distributed computing projects, explains the basics of how they work and how to get them to… Gómez PEER Community Gómez PEER Community- Project pays select computer users to run a client that tests internet performance. Boitho Boitho- Boitho distributed crawler (BETA). Goal is to make a general internet search engine with a thumbnail picture of all the pages. SZTAKI Desktop Grid SZTAKI Desktop Grid- Currently searches for generalized binary number systems. Einstein@Home Einstein@Home- Uses a computer's idle time to search for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors. 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… Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems and Artificial Life Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems and Artificial Life- Article on a much debated subject by John Sullins III published in Philosophy and Technology. Agents2Go, Ratsimor O., Korolev K., Joshi A., and Finin T. Agents2Go, Ratsimor O., Korolev K., Joshi A., and Finin T.- an infrastructure for location-dependent service discovery in the mobile electronic commerce environment Claude Claude- A shareware clone of Racter.