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Our Motto: Together we will accomplish something amazing!
On March 24, 2005 Team SETI.USA was created to consolidate United States users and become the #1 SETI Team in the world. This goal was achieved within 24 months of inception thanks to the extraordinary efforts of our dedicated membership. To parlay that effort, and for the benefit of all BOINC distributed computing projects, Team SETI.USA's commitment to extend beyond a single project has begun. SETI.USA is now BOINCing the world! Join with us as we boldly go where no team has gone before!
Our Mission: Respectfully consolidate and assimilate users into one focused USA powerhouse. Accomplish Our Goal through the collective contributions of individual members. All for one, and one for all.
Our Goal: Continue team success by maintaining the #1 Top Team rank in SETI@Home and BOINC Combined. Expand our contribution throughout the BOINC community and defend our position with maximum effort.
Our Promise: Promote team spirit and support individual achievement.
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You can participate in any of the following projects by running a free
program called BOINC which can be downloaded here.
You will need to attach to one or more of the listed project in order to participate in the BOINC
grid. Each project will download and run applications on your computer to meet the needs of the
project once you attach to the project. When you run any of the BOINC projects on your computer,
it will use part of the computer's CPU power, disk space, and network bandwidth. You can control
how much of your resources are used by each project, and when it uses them. The work done by your
computer contributes to the goals of SETI.USA, as described on its web site. The application programs
may change from time to time.
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| SETI@Home: |
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SETI@home is a scientific experiment that uses Internet-connected computers in the Search for
ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI). It analyzes Radio telemetry from large radio telescopes
to find unnatural forms or radio waves.
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Project URL: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu
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| 3x+1@home: |
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3x+1@home is a distributed non-profit project trying to find high 3x+1 conjecture stopping times.
The 3x+1 conjecture is also known as Collatz conjecture, more information can be obtained here and here.
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Project URL: http://allprojectstats.com/collatz/
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| ABC@home: |
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We're trying to find all abc triples up till around 10^15
or maybe higher, that have a quality greater than 1. You can wiki/google on the abc conjecture and
find out what an abc triple is. In the end, when we have a lot of these triples with a quality
greater than 1, we can do some data analysis on it, and hopefully detect some features about them.
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Project URL: http://abcathome.com/
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| APS@Home: |
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APS@home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research into the effects of atmospheric dispersion as it relates to the accuracy of measurements used in climate prediction. More details are in the Science message board, and we may be diversifying into other areas of atmospheric science soon.
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Project URL: http://www.apsathome.org
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| AQUA@home: |
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D-Wave's AQUA (Adiabatic Quantum Algorithms) is a research project whose goal is to predict the performance of superconducting adiabatic quantum computers on a variety of hard problems arising in fields ranging from materials science to machine learning. AQUA@home uses Internet-connected computers to help design and analyze quantum computing algorithms, using Quantum Monte Carlo techniques. You can participate by running a free program on your computer.
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Project URL: http://aqua.dwavesys.com/
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| Artificial Intelligence System: |
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This distributed computing project is part of a larger project that is reverse engineering the brain in order to build a large scale artificial intelligence system. The first of its kind. Because we are a very small company (2 people) that is tackling an enormous challenge, we are asking the public at large to get involved by donating computer time. We will also pursue an alternative path, through commercialization, in order to be able to support and accelerate its development.
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Project URL: http://www.intelligencerealm.com/aisystem/system.php
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| BBC Climate Change: |
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The BBC has teamed up with Oxford University to conduct the world's most
ambitious climate modelling experiment. We want to do better than the world's supercomputers, using a
technique known as distributed computing. The experiment adds the processing power of your home or office
computer to thousands of others to predict climate change. The same model that the Met Office uses to make
daily weather forecasts has been adapted by climateprediction.net to run on home PCs. The model
incorporates many variable parameters, allowing thousands of sets of conditions. Your computer will run one
individual set of conditions - in effect your individual version of how the world's climate works - and then report
back to the climateprediction.net team what it calculates.
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Project URL: http://bbc.cpdn.org
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| BRaTS@Home: |
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BRaTS@Home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do various calculations in Gravitational Ray Tracing. BRaTS stands for BRaTS Ray Trace Simulator.
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Project URL: http://maxwell.dhcp.umsl.edu/brats/
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| BURP: |
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BURP aims to develop a publicly distributed system for rendering 3D animations. Currently this is a
pre-alpha project which means that you cannot yet upload your own animation for rendering. Periodically we are
doing test animations - sometimes you will not be able to contact the schedulers.
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Project URL: http://burp.boinc.dk
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| Cels@Home: |
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Cels@Home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in cell adhesion. One of the many applications of this is in cancer research, as the point at which cancerous cells quit staying in place, and instead break free to move throughout the body, is a critical event that makes the disease much harder to treat.
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Project URL: http://cels-at-home-dev.dyndns.org/cels/
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| Chess960@Home: |
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Project idea: Chess960 is a young innovative chess variant. In Chess960, just before
the start of every game, the initial configuration of the chess pieces is determined randomly, that means that
the king, the queen, the rook, the bishop and the knight are not necessarily placed on the same home squares
as in classical chess. The past few years, there have been World Championships taking place in "Chess Classic Mainz"
event in August every year. GM Peter Svidler is the current Champion. In this project we try to combine
Chess960 and the idea of distributed computing. With the BOINC software framework from the University of
Berkeley exists a platform we want to use in this project to perform these computing intensive tasks. With it we
want to give this chess variant some basics in theory of this game. We know the fascination of this chess
variant is the incredible amount of variations. That will not change with this project but some guidelines seem to be
useful in each starting position.
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Project URL: http://chess960athome.org/alpha
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| Clean Energy @ Harvard: |
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The Clean Energy project uses computational chemistry and the willingness of people to help look for the best molecules possible for: organic photovoltaics to provide inexpensive solar cells, polymers for the membranes used in fuel cells for electricity generation, and how best to assemble the molecules to make those devices. By helping us search combinatorially among thousands of potential systems, you can contribute to this effort.
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Project URL: http://cleanenergy.harvard.edu/go/
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| ClimatePrediction.net: |
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The aim of Climateprediction.net is to investigate the approximations that have to
be made in state-of-the-art climate model. By running the model thousands of times (a 'large ensemble') 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. In the
past estimates of climate change has had to be made using one or, at best, a very small ensemble (tens rather
than thousands!) of model runs. By using your computers, we will be able to improve our understanding of, and
confidence in, climate change predictions more than would ever be possible using the supercomputers currently
available to scientists.
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Project URL: http://climateprediction.net
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| Cosmology@Home: |
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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. In order to achieve this goal,
participants in Cosmology@Home (i.e. you!) will compute the observable predictions of millions of theoretical
models with different parameter combinations. We will use the results of your computations to compare all the
available data with these models. In addition, the results from Cosmology@Home can help design future
cosmological observations and experiments, and prepare for the analysis of future data sets, e.g. from the
Planck spacecraft.
More information can be found here: http://www.cosmologyathome.org/wandelt_letter.php
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Project URL: http://cosmologyathome.org/
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| DepSpid: |
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The DepSpid application currently runs under windows only. There may be a linux application sometime in the
future but this is not sure yet.
DepSpid is a distributed type of a web crawler (like the ones used by search engines) and has two major goals:
1st: Build up a database containing the dependencies between individual web sites and groups of web sites.
2nd: Collect statistical data about the structure of the web.
All information collected by the spider will be made publicly available.
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The goal of FreeRainbowTables.com is to prove the insecurity of using simple hash routines to protect valuable passwords, and force developers to use more secure methods.
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| Docking@Home: |
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Docking@home is a collaborative project that aims to accomplish both bioscience and computer science goals.
From the bioscience point of view, the project aims to further knowledge of the atomic details of protein-ligand
interactions and, by doing so, will search for insights into the discovery of novel pharmaceuticals. From the computer
science point of view, this project aims to extend volunteer computing to enable adaptive multi-scale modeling of
the docking applications" ... "Docking@home is part of the DAPLDS project (or Dynamically Adaptive Protein-Ligand
Docking System project) and is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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Project URL: http://docking.cis.udel.edu/
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| Einstein@Home: |
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Einstein@Home is a project developed to search data from the Laser Interferometer
Gravitational wave Observatory (LIGO) in the US and from the GEO 600 gravitational wave observatory in
Germany for signals coming from extremely dense, rapidly rotating stars. Such sources are believed to be either
quark stars or neutron stars, and subclasses of these are already observed by conventional means as pulsars or
X-ray emitting celestial objects. Scientists believe that some of these compact stars may not be perfectly
spherical, and if so, they should emit characteristic gravitational waves, which LIGO and GEO 600 may begin to
detect in coming months. Bruce Allen of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's LIGO Scientific
Collaboration (LSC) group is leading the development of the Einstein@Home project. Einstein@Home is one,
small part of the LSC scientific program. It is being set up as a distributed computing project, which means that
it relies on computer time donated by private computer users like you to search for gravity wave-emitting
compact stars.
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Project URL: http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/
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| Enigma@Home: |
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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.' [read more]
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Project URL: http://www.enigmaathome.net/
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| Eternity2.net: |
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Download a program and run this project at a chance to win $2million. Note that without dowloading the program first, this project is a waste of time, for you cannot win. Most advid BOINCers are avoiding this project for it will not increase your chance to win, just the admin heading up the project's chance.
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Project URL: http://eternity2.net
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| FreeHAL@home: |
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FreeHAL@home is based at FreeHAL, an artificial intelligence that uses semantic networks, stemmers, part of speech databases, and part of speech taggers,
in order to imitate a very close human behavior within conversations.
For more info see: FreeHAL WIKI and FreeHAL Functionality
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Project URL: http://boinc.freehal.org/projects/freehal_at_home/
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| Genetic Life: |
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Genetic Life is a not-for-profit research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research into Genetic Algorithms.
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Project URL: http://genlife.is-a-geek.org/genlife/
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| Gridfinity: |
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Not yet active, but will pay for computation time you give to the project. They contract out the computing power to other companies in need to massive computing power, and inreturn pay you a % of that income to compensate for the work you comtribute to the project.
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Project URL: http://www.gridfinity.com/gridfinity/
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| HashClash: |
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The HashClash project was developed to try and clarify the nature of the vulnerabilities in applications
of the MD5 algorithm. The MD5 (Message-Digest algorithm 5) is a widely-used cryptographic hash function
employed in a wide variety of security applications, and is also commonly used to check the integrity of files.
At a later stage the project also intends to work on collision finding for SHA-1.
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Project URL: http://boinc.banaan.org/hashclash/
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| Hydrogen@Home: |
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Hydrogen@Home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in Hydrogen Production. When the project reaches Production Phase, you can participate by downloading and running a free program on your computer. Hydrogen@Home is not affiliated with any research Institute or University.
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Project URL: http://hydrogenathome.org
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| The Lattice Project: |
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The Lattice Project is developing a community-based Grid system that integrates Grid middleware technologies
and widely used life science applications. This system is based on a novel Grid architecture that encompasses
resources from high-end clusters and multiprocessors to individual desktop computers. We are strongly
committed to the principles of open source software development, and we intend to release all software as
freely-available source code except in those very few cases where commercial software is used.
For more detailed information on the project: http://serine.umiacs.umd.edu
To view a list of subprojects which are being ported to BOINC: http://lattice.umiacs.umd.edu/gridservices.php
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Project URL: http://boinc.umiacs.umd.edu/
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| Leiden Classical: |
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Leiden University - Leiden Institute of Chemistry - Theoretical Chemistry Department. From
the Project Scientist: "The water model is based on a forcefield of Ferguson and the SPC/E model. It allows for
the water molecule to be a non-rigid rotor. This means that it allows for the H-O bond to vibrate and for the H-
O-H bonding angle to change. At the moment the simulations run a water-vapor at 273K. When you join in and
look at the graphics of the simulation, or look at the screensaver if you are running windows, you can actually
see the molecules move real-time and rotate your view if you want to. The simulation will run the water-vapor
for about 100 pico seconds and will take roughly 40 minutes on your computer. In the forecomming future I'll be
adjusting the model parameters and the molecular dynamics code to get some more statistics and a better
model for flexible water"...
For more info: http://boinc.gorlaeus.net/forum_thread.php?id=9&nowrap=true#1592
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Project URL: http://boinc.gorlaeus.net
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| LHC@Home: |
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Most of the scientific computing challenges that the LHC experiments are facing will require
access to huge amounts of storage - the LHC will produce 15 Petabytes (15 million Gigabytes) of data per
year. This data requirement means that most analysis programs cannot be run on individual PCs. This is
why CERN is leading the development of Grid computing, which aims to link hundreds of major computing centers
around the world. However, there are exceptions where public computing makes sense for the LHC.
CERN's IT Department is interested in evaluating the sort of technology that is used by SETI@home for future
use. A program called SixTrack, which simulates particles traveling around the LHC to study the stability of
their orbits, can fit on a single PC and requires relatively little input or output. Typically SixTrack simulates 60
particles at a time as they travel around the ring, and runs the simulation for 100000 loops (or sometimes 1
million loops) around the ring. That may sound like a lot, but it is less than 10s in the real world. Still, it is
enough to test whether the beam is going to remain on a stable orbit for a much longer time, or risks losing
control and flying off course into the walls of the vacuum tube. Such beam instability would be a very serious
problem that could result in the machine being stopped for repairs if it happened in real life.
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Project URL: http://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/
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| Malaria Control.Net: |
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The Malaria Control.net project is an application that makes use of network
computing for stochastic modeling of the clinical epidemiology and natural history of Plasmodium falciparum
malaria.
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Project URL: http://malariacontrol.net/
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| Magnetism@home: |
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Magnetism@home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to explore the equlibrium, metastable and transient magnetization patterns (first and foremost in nano-scale magnetic elements and their arrays, but later other systems may be considered).
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Project URL: http://kinetic.dnsalias.org/magnetism/
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| MilkyWay@home: |
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Milkyway@home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in modeling and determining the evolution of the Milkyway galaxy. You can participate by downloading and running a free program on your computer.
Milkyway@home is based at the Rensselaer Computer Science Department. This particular project is being developed to better understand the power of volunteer computer resources.
http://www.cs.rpi.edu/
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Project URL: http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/
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| MindModeling@Home: |
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MindModeling@Home (Beta) is a research project that uses volunteer computing for the advancement of cognitive science. The research focuses on utilizing computational cognitive process modeling to better understand the human mind. We need your help to improve on the scientific foundations that explain the mechanisms and processes that enable and moderate human performance and learning. Please join us in our efforts! MindModeling@home is not for profit.
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Project URL: http://mindmodeling.org/beta/
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| NanoHive@Home: |
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NanoHive@Home is a distributed computing system used to simulate large-scale nanotech systems that draws
its computing power from otherwise idle computers sitting in people's homes. The goal of NanoHive@Home
is to accurately simulate nanosystems too large to be calculated via normal means, and thereby enable
further scientific study in the field of nanotechnology.
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Project URL: http://nanohive-1.org/atHome/
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| NQueens Project: |
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This project is solving the "nQueens" problem. n queens puzzle is where you place n number of queens on an n×n chessboard(n = 4), where n is always the same number. As an example, eight queens puzzle is the problem of putting eight chess queens on an 8×8 chessboard such that none of them is able to capture any other using the standard chess queen's moves. This means it is as if all the queens are different colors. The queens must be placed in such a way that no two queens would be able to attack each other. Thus, a solution requires that no two queens share the same row, column, or diagonal.
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Project URL: http://nqueens.ing.udec.cl/
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| Orbit@home: |
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Orbit is a project dedicated to keeping track of asteroids in our solar system and predicting where they will be in the future.
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Project URL: http://orbit.psi.edu/
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| Poem@home: |
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POEM@HOME implements a novel approach to understand these aspects of protein structure, which lends itself very well to worldwide distributed computing. The scientific approach behind POEM@HOME is a computational realization of the thermodynamic hypothesis that won C. B. Anfinsen the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972.
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Project URL: http://boinc.fzk.de/poem
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| pPot Tables: |
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pPot Tables is computing relative hand strength and 1-card look ahead positive potential for all possible flop, turn and hole card combinations for 2 to 10 players in Texas Hold'em. Supports 64bit OSs.
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Predictor@home is a world-community experiment and effort to use distributed world-
wide-web volunteer resources to assemble a supercomputer able to predict protein structure from protein
sequence. Our work is aimed at testing and evaluating new algorithms and methods of protein structure
prediction. We recently performed such tests in the context of the Sixth Biannual CASP (Critical Assessment of
Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction) experiment, and now need to continue this development and
testing with applications to real biological targets. Our goal is to utilize these approaches together with the
immense computer power that can be harnessed through the Internet and volunteers all over the world (you!)
to address critical biomedical questions of protein-related diseases. Predictor@home is a pilot project of the
Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC)
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Project URL: http://predictor.scripps.edu/
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| Primegrid: |
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PrimeGrid is currently under development, as is PerlBOINC. PrimeGrid is a project for factoring
the number in the RSA Factoring Challenge, and also to test PerlBOINC. PerlBOINC is an attempt to
implement BOINC system in Perl programming language.
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Project URL: http://primegrid.com/
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| Project Neuron: |
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This project aims to provide a trial BOINC environment in which a set of dummy applications will run.
The purpose of this being to record, observe and understand BOINC activity and data with a view to
developing metrics that will establish or otherwise the quality/reliability/dependability of particular
BOINC projects. A central reference point will be developed and updated automatically to which users can
refer. User feedback may also be permitted at this reference point.
There are 4 distinct phases to the project.
More information can be found here
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Project URL: http://neuron.mine.nu/neuron/
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| Proteins@Home: |
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The amino acid sequence of a protein determines its three-dimensional structure, or 'fold'. Conversely,
the three-dimensional structure is compatible with a large, but limited set of amino acid sequences.
Enumerating the allowed sequences for a given fold is known as the 'inverse protein folding problem'. We
are working to solve this problem for a large number of known protein folds (a representative subset:
about 1500 folds). The most expensive step is to build a database of energy functions that describe all
these structures. For each structure, we consider all possible sequences of amino acids. Surprisingly,
this is computationally tractable, because our energy functions are sums over pairs of interactions. Once
this is done, we can explore the space of amino acid sequences in a fast and efficient way, and retain the
most favorable sequences.
This large-scale mapping of protein sequence space will have applications for predicting protein structure
and function, for understanding protein evolution, and for designing new proteins.
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Project URL: http://biology.polytechnique.fr/proteinsathome/
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| PS3GRID: |
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The ps3grid.net project gives a new powerful tool to computational scientists and you are an important part of it. PS3GRID opens novel computational scenarios by using BOINC and the first full-atom molecular dynamics code (CellMD) specially optimized to run on the Cell processor and the PlayStation3. New biomedical applications suddenly become possible giving a new role to computational biology for biomedical research.
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Project URL: http://www.ps3grid.net/PS3GRID
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| QCN Alpha Test: |
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The Quake Catcher Network (QCN) is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research, education, and outreach in seismology.
NOTE: This project requires a supported laptaop with a built-in accelerometer (Hard drive protection) or USB accelerometer (available for purchace) attached to your computer.
QCN is a joint project between Stanford University and University of California at Riverside.
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Project URL: http://qcn.stanford.edu/qcnalpha/
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| Quantum Monte Carlo At Home (QMC@HOME): |
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QMC@HOME is a project designed to further develop the Quantum
Monte Carlo method for general use in Quantum Chemistry. With the help of volunteers all over the world we
want to raise the computing power that is needed to test and further develop the opportunities of the
promising new approach of Quantum Monte Carlo. Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) - is a very promising
method new to Quantum Chemistry. One of the major advantages of QMC is the ability to perform massively
parallel calculations, which can be utilized to broaden the horizon of calculable systems by distributing the work
over hundreds or even thousands of processors.
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Project URL: http://qah.uni-muenster.de
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| RALPH@home: |
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RALPH@home is the official alpha test project for Rosetta@home. New application versions, work units,
and updates in general will be tested here before being used for production. The goal for RALPH@home
is to improve Rosetta@home.
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Project URL: http://ralph.bakerlab.org/
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| Ramsey@Home: |
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Ramsey@Home is a distributed computing project designed to find new lower bounds for various Ramsey Numbers using a host of different techniques. It was inspired by the research of Dr. David Furcy, Dr. Thomas Naps, Dr. Linda Eroh, and Nick Peterson during the 2008 spring and summer semester at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.
If your interested in the mathematics this project deals with, you can read about Ramsey Numbers here. Also, the proposal for our research can be viewed here.
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Project URL: http://www.ramseyathome.com/ramsey/
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| Rectilinear Crossing Number: |
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Many questions in computational and combinatorial geometry are based on finite sets of points in the
Euclidean plane. Historically, numbers N<=9 have been proved within this geometrical math area. The goal
of the Rectilinear Crossing Number Project is to solve N=18.
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Project URL: http://dist.ist.tugraz.at/cape5/
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| RenderFarm@Home: |
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The RenderFarm@Home project is designed to test the rendering of Fractal Flames or algorithmically generated
images and animations under BOINC.
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| Reversi: |
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Reveri is a project that uses Internet-connected computers to find an Ultra-weak solution to the symmetric board-game Reversi.
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Project URL: http://dawn.ynet.sk/test1/
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| RieselSieve: |
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Riesel Sieve is currently under development, as is PerlBOINC. PerlBOINC is an attempt to implement BOINC
server system in Perl programming language.
Their goal is to implement the prime testing software used by the Riesel Sieve Project under the BOINC system.
The project's goal is to prove that 509203 is the smallest odd k where for every n >= 1, k*2^n-1 is composite.
Currently, 70 of the original 101 k's that were left when Riesel Sieve started remain. Primality testing is
being done on n values around 2.3 million right now, or 650000-700000 digits.
At this point, only the Sieve portion of the project is being implemented in BOINC. The Sieve attempts to
eliminate large amounts of k/n pairs quickly (think shotgun blast) rather than primality testing each k/n pair (think sniper rifle).
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| RND@Home: |
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Radio Network Design (RND) is a telecommunication problem which consists in covering a geographic area with radio signal using the fewer number of transmitters that cover the maximum area. Therefore, it is an important topic to solve nowadays, for example in the mobile wireless technology domain, mobile telephony,... Bio-inspired algorithms are a good choice to solve the RND problem, because this is an NP-hard optimization problem which fits bio-inspired algorithms very well. In this project it is used the PBIL (Population-Based Incremental Learning) algorithm. This is a modern algorithm, and we hope to get good results with it. PBIL is based on genetic algorithms and competitive learning (typical in neural networks).
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Rosetta@home is a scientific research project that uses internet-connected computers to
predict and design protein structures, and protein-protein and protein-ligand interactions. Our goal is to develop
methods that accurately predict and design protein structures and complexes, an endeavor that may ultimately
help researchers develop cures for human diseases such as cancer, HIV/AIDS, and malaria. Our project relies on
individuals, like you, who donate time on their computers to collectively provide the computing power necessary
to further develop, test, and improve our methods.
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Project URL: http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta
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| SciLINC: Scientific Literature Indexing on Networked Computers: |
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Missouri Botanical Garden proposes a public-resource computing application that will automatically
index large amounts of digitized scientific literature, ultimately providing users with an integrated
Web portal, available at www.botanicus.org, for the discovery of information about plants.
Public-resource computing applications use internet-connected PCs to analyze data when the PC is not
active. These applications generally run in the form of a screensaver, taking advantage of unused
computer processing power to analyze vast amounts of data.
Our application will analyze text from digitized botanical literature in order to return a
full-text index and a keyword index for each page. These keywords will be annotated with links to
other online resources-i.e. Web pages about a particular plant-allowing users of the portal to search
for terms, discover where they reside in a body of digitized literature, view the appropriate pages,
and click through to discover other online resources associated with that keyword. This Web portal will
be an essential tool for anyone interested in learning about plants, including scientists, students,
and the general public.
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Project URL: http://www.scilinc.org/SciLINC/
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| Seasonal Attribution Project: |
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Recent extreme weather events have prompted the debate about effects of human activity on the world's
climate. Now you can help us to determine the extent to which extreme weather events like the United
Kingdom floods of Autumn 2000 are attributable to human-induced climate change.
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Project URL: http://attribution.cpdn.org
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| SIMAP - Similarity Matrix of Proteins: |
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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. The computational effort for keeping SIMAP up-to-date is constantly increasing. This project
is designed help to update SIMAP by calculating protein similarities on your computer.
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Project URL: http://boinc.bio.wzw.tum.de/boincsimap
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| Sudoku project: |
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Sudoku is a research project that is searching for the smallest possible start configuration (least number of starting numbers) of Sudoku puzzle.
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Project URL: http://dist2.ist.tugraz.at/sudoku/
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| Superlink@Technion: |
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Superlink@Technion helps geneticists perform genetic linkage analysis, which is a statistical method used to associate functionality of genes with their location on chromosomes. It typically serves for detecting mutated disease-provoking genes. This analysis can be extremely computationally intensive and has been parallelized for simultaneous execution on many computers. Geneticists submit the data for the analysis via Superlink-online linkage analysis portal. The tasks are then automatically parallelized and scheduled for execution on many computers in the Technion, in the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and also on many computers all over the world.
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Project URL: http://cbl-link02.cs.technion.ac.il/superlinkattechnion
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| SZTAKI Desktop Grid: |
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The aim of the project is to find all the generalized binary number systems up to
dimension 11. The program aims at finding many generalized binary number systems. An extensive search is
performed in the finite set of matrices of given size fulfilling some necessary conditions. The difficulty is that the
size of this finite set is an exponential function of the dimension. It now seems possible to attack the case of 11
x 11 matrices. To check further necessary conditions the program performs a lot of floating-point calculation.
Thus, a lot of CPU time is needed. Luckily, parallelization is possible and we can benefit of running on several
machines. The program outputs a list of matrices (being more precise characteristic polynomials) that are
already likely to be number system bases. This list is processed by another program (which does not need so
much CPU). The final result is then a (complete) list of binary number systems in a fixed dimension. Finally,
knowing all matrices up to a given dimension could help us to a deeper understanding of the mathematics of
generalized number systems.
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Project URL: http://szdg.lpds.sztaki.hu/szdg
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| TANPAKU: |
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The project "TANPAKU" is taken from the Japanese word tanpaku-shitsu, meaning protein. This project
was developed to predict protein structures.
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| TMRL Distributed Rainbow Table Generator: |
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This is the Distributed Rainbow Table Generator project of TheMinouche Research Laboratories.
It is a community project dedicated to large scale distributed calculation of huge Rainbow Tables.
If you have never heard anything about Rainbow Tables, then read this excellent Wikipedia article to get an idea why we do this.
Featured by the BOINC framework, we have developed an advanced method to rapidly calculate even the biggest tables.
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| The Traveling Salesman Problem: |
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The TSP or Traveling Salesman Problem is not hard to explain. For a given set of cites, visit each city one (once and only once) and minimize the distance you travel. This deceptively simple problem is trivial given a small set of cities; however, as you add more cities the number of possible paths goes through the roof. It should come as no surprise that the TSP is classified as an NP-Hard problem, with the number of Hamiltonian paths being equal to n!/2 where n is equal to the number of cities in the problem.
An efficient general solution has not been found. Mathematicians have decided that the best case scenario is an algorithm that has a polynomial variation with respect to the number of cities. The best solutions to date vary exponentially with respect to the number of cities. This is where the BOINC project TSP comes in. The Search Problem (TSP) is under taking the arduous task of using the brute force method to find an optimal solution to a 48 city TSP. With the optimal path known evaluation of other algorithms for speed, accuracy can begin.
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| UCT Malaria: |
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The UCT : malariacontrol.net project is a test project in collaboration with MalariaControl.net in Switzerland that aims to test the correct operation of our server for future BOINC-based projects. MalariaControl.net is an application that makes use of network computing for stochastic modelling of the clinical epidemiology and natural history of Plasmodium falciparum malaria.
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Project URL: http://boinc.cs.uct.ac.za/malaria/
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| µFluids: |
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µFluids project is a massively distributed computer simulation of two-phase fluid behavior in
microgravity and microfluidics problems. Our goal is to design better satellite propellant management devices
and address two-phase flow in microchannel and MEMS devices. Voluntary collaboration of individual computer
users, like you, can participate by donating idle computer time using the BOINC software.
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Project URL: http://www.ufluids.net/
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| Virtual Prairie: |
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The ambitious character of this project may conduct to large-scale simulations either through the extensive investigation of the parameter space and the use of optimization procedures in evolutionary computing such as genetic algorithms. For one individual, a coarse approximation of the parameter space requires of the order of 1000 000 simulations which should take 10 years on a single PC. The study of one evolutionary path should take of the order of a year at least on a single PC. The complexity of the simulation is about two orders of magnitude higher for a prairie.
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Project URL: http://vcsc.cs.uh.edu/virtual-prairie/
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| vtu@home: |
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vtu@home is a test project. The aim of the project is to count the quantity of prime numbers in a large interval.
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Project URL: http://boinc.vtu.lt/vtuathome/
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| WEP-M+2 Project: |
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*nix and MAC OS X only. Mersenneplustwo numbers are those integers that are two more than a Mersenne prime. Mersenne primes are of the form 2^p-1 (http://www.mersenne.org/). This makes Mersenneplustwo numbers of the form 2^p+1. This project aims to find the factors (ie integer divisors) of Mersenneplustwo numbers
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Project URL: http://bearnol.is-a-geek.com/wanless2/
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| World Community Grid: |
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World Community Grid's mission is to create the world's largest public computing grid to tackle projects that benefit humanity. World Community Grid is making technology available only to public and not-for-profit organizations to use in humanitarian research that might otherwise not be completed due to the high cost of the computer infrastructure required in the absence of a public grid.
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Project URL: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org
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| XtremLab: |
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XtremLab is a BOINC project for measuring the free resources available on personal computers involved in large-scale distributed computing. Ultimately, these measurements will be used to improve the design and implementation of current systems, such as BOINC.
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| Zebra RSA Bruteforce: |
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| Zivis Superordenador Ciudadano: |
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Spanish for "Zivis Citizen Supercomputer". Part of the sponsorship comes from the Major of Zaragoza, Spain.
"Zivis project aims to create a distributed infrastructure in Zaragoza but it is open for everybody. At this moment, the only difference is the fact that the awards are only offered to people living in this great city.
Of course, we encourage all of you to participate and collaborate in this project which aim always included to increase the knowledge about Zaragoza abroad.
About the science behind the application, let me offer you a short introduction. What we are sending to the participants to calculate are particles trajectories inside a fusion device. Each work unit includes several particles to calculate. The result of the computation include significant values of the simulation, and sometimes values for its visualization. As you suppose, dynamics in plasma is a complex problem and we solve them with stochastical differential equations. That's why the name of the application in BOINC is langevin."
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