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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.
http://www.pgdp.net/
Includes client software download, computation records, and project description on its research into mathematical problems.
http://euler.free.fr/
Research project homed at the University of Virginia. An open specification and prototype for a worldwide virtual computer.
http://legion.virginia.edu/
A distributed web-crawling project aiming to search and log into a database every webpage online.
http://www.grub.org/
Project working on the 3x+1 (or Collatz) sequences and their properties.
http://personal.computrain.nl/eric/wondrous/
Distributed network chess experiment. Intends to create a single playing program using donated time.
http://www.chessbrain.net
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 dynamic high availability system for hosting services.
http://www.mycgiserver.com/~jcluster
News and resources on grid computing.
http://www.enterthegrid.com/
Research project developing a software infrastructure for distributed computing on a world-wide scale.
http://www.globus.org/
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.
http://www.gridbus.org/vlab/
Distributed computing projects links and short descriptions in English and in Finnish.
http://koti.mbnet.fi/aquarius/links/link_distributedpower.html
The Grid middleware development and testbed deployment project in the Nordic countries
http://www.nordugrid.org
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.
http://qadpz.sourceforge.net
GPU is an Open Source Gnutella/Pastella client that allows users to share CPU-resources on a truly P2P based cluster. Applications include a Landscape Generator able to generate movies and an experimental Distributed Search Engine. The client is under development.
http://gpu.sourceforge.net
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.
http://www.klomp.org/snark/
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.
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ClimatePrediction.Net gateway Join the climateprediction.net experiment! What is climateprediction.net? Climateprediction.net is the largest experiment to try and produce a forecast of the climate in the 21st century. To do this, we need people around the world to give us time on their...Grid computing analogy, meaning, capabilities, uses and limitations.
http://www.geocities.com/bhupeshreddy/grid.html
LHC Computing Grid distribution site. Place to find the grid middleware devellop for the future Large Hydron Collider in CERN.
http://cern.ch/grid-deployment/
Open framework that will allow P2P file sharing networks to make Distributed Parallel Computing.
http://www.geocities.com/tiagonmas/
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.
http://www.grid.org/
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 to be bought, sold or traded.
http://www.americanscientist.org...ues/Comsci98/compsci1998-03.html
Distributed computing program for evolutionary biology.
http://www.evolutionary-research.org/
Aims at developing novel data management techniques to deal with the challenge of global computing.
http://softsys.cs.uoi.gr/dbglobe/
Generates stock forecasts by application of artificial intelligence with the aid of artificial neural networks.
http://www.moneybee.net/
Screensaver program tries to find divisors of Fermat numbers.
http://www.fermatsearch.org/
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.
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DevChannel: Resources for Enterprise Developers Secure puts locks in a box Appliance mixes slow setup, fast performance, and strong data securityNiksun appliance brings TiVo-like abilities to enterprise networks Niksun's NetVCR brings protocol analysis to another levelMirapoint RazorGate returns spam to senders MailHurdle technology rejects unwanted...Help this distributed computing project by donating CPU cycles to find primes of the form 121*2^N-1.
http://12121.vocabulate.com/
Open-source software package designed to run on end-user machines while collecting various statistics about Internet performance.
http://www.neti.gatech.edu/
Uses PC idle time to simulate and design a particle accelerator.
http://www.stephenbrooks.org/muon1/
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 have a better understanding of its pharmacology. Runs through Mac OSX-only software called XGrid. How to install and configure the software, news about the project, and a FAQ.
http://cmgm.stanford.edu/~cparnot/xgrid-stanford/
Project pays select computer users to run a client that tests internet performance.
http://peer.gomez.com/peernetwork/jsp/index.jsp
Research project developing tools and middleware components to coherently share and manage data and metadata in a Grid or distributed computing environment.
http://projectmobius.osu.edu
Help search for primes of the form b^8192+1(b > 99999999).
http://netnews.gotdns.org/WallStreet/6351/gfn/
A forum for discussing SETI, RC5, F@H, G@H, the UD Cancer Project, and other distributed computing efforts.
http://episteme.arstechnica.com/...b.x?a=frm&s=50009562&f=122097561
Corporate-sponsored project exploring cancer development, prevention and treatment. [Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME]
http://www.computeagainstcancer.org/
Kirk Pearson's directory of current distributed computing projects as well as news articles and related materials.
http://www.distributedcomputing.info/
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.
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/
Software for the long time scale simulation of solids. From University of Washington Chemistry Department.
http://eon.cm.utexas.edu/
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.
http://dhep.dbestern.com/
Distributed Computing Project aimed towards finding prime numbers of the form n*k. This project uses the software Primeform to test workunits.
http://www.freewebs.com/dries5/prime_problems.htm
Distributed Computing Project aimed towards building the largest search engine index on the Internet using Distributed Crawlers.
http://www.majestic12.co.uk
Distributed Computing information containing the concept of Grid computing and active projects in the feild of distributed computing to help solve problems and questions.
http://www.infosharkz.com/dc/
Modeled after the Digital Proofreaders project, this variation focuses on digitization of works considered to be in the public domain in Europe.
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DP Welcome If you are visiting us from www.pgdp.net, do see our Guide for DP-INT Proofers to account for differences between the sites.This is the site of Distributed Proofreaders Europe, which is a service of Project Gutenberg Europe, Project Rastko, and the...Aims at developing novel data management techniques to deal with the challenge of global computing.
http://softsys.cs.uoi.gr/dbglobe/index1.html
JNGI is a open-source generic P2P distributed computing framework.
http://jngi.jxta.org
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.
http://ngrid.sourceforge.net
BOINC project to predict and design protein structures and protein-protein and protein-ligand interactions. The goal is to develop methods that accurately predict and design protein structures and complexes.
http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/
Place to find the grid middleware developed for the future Large Hydron Collider in CERN.
http://lcg.web.cern.ch/LCG/
Project pays select computer users to run a client that tests internet performance.
http://peer.gomez.com/
A distributed project to find short Post Correspondence Problems with large shortest solutions.
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