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Welcome!
Here is a list of distributed computing projects, most of which The FPS Team participates in. They vary in areas like Astronomy, Mathematics, Medicine and many more. Hopefully these listed here will help you decide which project(s) are the most interesting for you.
If you need help or want more info please ask on the forums or Discord and we will do our best find an answer for you.
BOINC Projects
These projects all use the BOINC wrapper.
While most are hard coded into BOINC some may have to have their URL added manually.
Once you have BOINC installed go to the 'Tools' tab and select 'Add project'. Select the project you wish to participate in and follow the prompts. Your project will have been add to BOINC and you are on your way.
To join The FPS Team go to the project home page and find the "join new team" and click on that. Search for The FPS Team and click on the team name in the search results, then click on the " join this team" . Thats it. Welcome!!!!!
Asteroids@home
The aim of the project is to derive shapes and spin for a significant part of the asteroid population. As input data, we use any asteroid photometry that is available. The results are asteroid convex shape models with the direction of the spin axis and the rotation period.
Climate Prediction
Investigate the approximations that have to be made in state-of-the-art climate models. By running the model thousands of times 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.
DENIS@Home
More than 17 million people die each year of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). That represents 31% of all global deaths, making these diseases the leading cause of death worldwide. Can you help us investigate it?
By join DENIS@home you will donate the iddle times of your computer to develop and simulate mathematical models that investigate the heart. You only need to download and run a free program on your computer.
Einstein@home
Search for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors, and from the Arecibo radio observatory. Einstein@Home is a World Year of Physics 2005 project supported by the American Physical Society (APS) and by a number of international organizations.
Eternity II
256 pieces. 480 edges.
Eternity II is the puzzle that defeated everyone who tried to win its $2 million prize. Your computer searches real candidate boards while it is idle, and every good board it finds is checked and credited to you.
gaia@home
Long period comets
Calculating long-period comet orbits under the simultaneous Galactic and stellar perturbations. (N-body problem with N of the order of 400).
more details: Królikowska, M and Dybczynski, P.A., 2020: The catalogue of cometary orbits and their dynamical evolution
Stellar close approaches
The aim of this work is to investigate the proximity parameters and the influence of the close approach of stars on the basis of Gaia DR2 and DR3. Using a numerical integration in an axisymmetric Galactic model, we determine new parameters of the close encounter for stars. Adding ten thousand clones drawn with the use of a covariance matrix, we estimate the most probable position and velocity of stars at the minimum distance from the Sun.
more details: Berski, F and Dybczynski, P.A., 2020: Close approach parameters recalculated based on the first Gaia data release
Gerasim@home
Testing and comparison of heuristic methods for getting separations of parallel algorithms working in the CAD system for designing logic control systems
GPUGrid
GPUGrid.net opens novel computational scenarios by the first full-atom molecular dynamics code (CellMD) specially optimized to run on NVIDIA GPUs. New biomedical applications suddenly become possible giving a new role to computational biology for biomedical research.
LHC@home
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the world's largest particle physics laboratory. It is the most powerful instrument ever built to investigate on particles proprieties. LHC@home runs simulations to improve the design of LHC and its detectors.
VLHCatHome and ATLAS@Home are now part of this project.
LODA
LODA is an assembly language, a computational model, and a distributed tool for mining programs. You can use it to generate and search programs that compute integer sequences from the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences® (OEIS®). The goal of the project is to reverse engineer formulas and efficient algorithms for a wide range of non-trivial integer sequences.
Milkyway@home
The goal of Milkyway@Home is to create a highly accurate three dimensional model of the Milky Way galaxy using data gathered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
MilkyWay@H - Benchmark thread and discussion by Assimilator1
Minecraft@Home
This is a volunteer computing project which allows anyone on the internet to contribute resources to research projects related to Minecraft.
Moo! Wrapper
Run applications from distributed.net
NFS@home
NFS@Home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do the lattice sieving step in the Number Field Sieve factorization of large integers. As a young school student, you gained your first experience at breaking an integer into prime factors, such as 15 = 3 * 5 or 35 = 5 * 7. NFS@Home is a continuation of that experience, only with integers that are hundreds of digits long.
NumberFields@home
NumberFields@home searches for fields with special properties. The primary application of this research is in the realm of algebraic number theory. Number theorists can mine the data for interesting patterns to help them formulate conjectures about number fields. Ultimately, this research will lead to a deeper understanding of the profound properties of numbers, the basic building blocks of all mathematics.
ODLK
A Latin square project.
ODLK1
BOINC-project ODLK1 continues to solve the problem of BOINC-project ODLK.
The project generates a database of canonical forms (CF) of diagonal Latin squares (DLS) of order 10 having orthogonal diagonal Latin squares (ODLS).
PrimeGrid
Primegrid has multiple projects searching for different forms of very large prime numbers, including searching for the largest known prime number.
PrimeGrid: CPU benchmarks and discussion by StefanR5R
Private GFN Server
GFN is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research on Generalized Fermat numbers. You can participate by downloading and running a free program on your computer.
Rakesearch
The enormous size of the diagonal Latin squares space makes it unfeasible to enumerate all its objects straightforwardly in reasonable time. So, in order to discover the structure of this space, sophisticated search methods are needed. In RakeSearch project, we implement an application that picks up separate pairs of mutually orthogonal DLSs, which allows to reconstruct full graphs of their orthogonality.
RALPH@home
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.
The Ramanujan Machine
Fundamental constants like e and π are ubiquitous in diverse fields of science, including physics, biology, chemistry, geometry, and abstract mathematics. Nevertheless, for centuries new mathematical formulas relating fundamental constants are scarce and are usually discovered sporadically by mathematical intuition or ingenuity.
The Ramanujan Machine is a novel way to do mathematics by harnessing your computer power to make new discoveries. The Ramanujan Machine already discovered dozens of new conjectures.
Our algorithms search for new mathematical formulas. The community can suggest proofs for the conjectures or even propose or develop new algorithms. Any new conjecture, proof, or algorithm suggested will be named after you.
We hope that the Ramanujan Machine project will inspire future generations about mathematics and AI-driven science.
Rosetta@home
Determine the 3-dimensional shapes of proteins in research that may ultimately lead to finding cures for some major human diseases. By running Rosetta@home you will help us speed up and extend our research in ways we couldn't possibly attempt without your help. You will also be helping our efforts at designing new proteins to fight diseases such as HIV, malaria, cancer, and Alzheimer's.
SRBase
SRBase is a mathematical research project that uses Internet-connected computers trying to solve Sierpinski / Riesel Bases up to 1030.
TN-Grid
TN-Grid is a platform that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in various scientific projects.
World Community Grid
To further critical non-profit research on some of humanity's most pressing problems by creating the world's largest volunteer computing grid. Research includes HIV-AIDS, cancer, tropical and neglected diseases, solar energy, clean water and many more.
WUProp@home
Collects time and project information from Boinc running on your computer
Yafu
YAFU is a alpha project, which main goal is
to test the latest BOINC server code for bugs, please report any error which you find in the webpages in the forum
to factorize numbers up to 140 digit length which are needed to bring Aliquot Sequences to a size of at least 140.
to test the latest versions of yafu.
Yoyo@home
Yoyo@home is an adapter between BOINC and several existing volunteer computing projects: ECM, Muon, Evolution@home, and distributed.net
NON BOINC Projects
Folding@Home
To join The FPS Team use Team ID 1068228 when setting up your client.
Help Stanford University scientists studying Alzheimer's, Huntington's, Parkinson's, and many cancers by simply running a piece of software on your computer.
Just a few of the major projects, look for more on the Free-DC side menu
Other sources for project info, lots more than listed here.
BOINC at Berkeley
Free-DC
BOINC Stats
I have only listed projects that are currently working.
I will continue to go through some of the projects and list them here as I can.
Please let me know if I have missed any major ones that people are contributing to.
Here is a list of distributed computing projects, most of which The FPS Team participates in. They vary in areas like Astronomy, Mathematics, Medicine and many more. Hopefully these listed here will help you decide which project(s) are the most interesting for you.
If you need help or want more info please ask on the forums or Discord and we will do our best find an answer for you.
BOINC Projects
These projects all use the BOINC wrapper.
While most are hard coded into BOINC some may have to have their URL added manually.
Once you have BOINC installed go to the 'Tools' tab and select 'Add project'. Select the project you wish to participate in and follow the prompts. Your project will have been add to BOINC and you are on your way.
To join The FPS Team go to the project home page and find the "join new team" and click on that. Search for The FPS Team and click on the team name in the search results, then click on the " join this team" . Thats it. Welcome!!!!!
Asteroids@home
The aim of the project is to derive shapes and spin for a significant part of the asteroid population. As input data, we use any asteroid photometry that is available. The results are asteroid convex shape models with the direction of the spin axis and the rotation period.
Climate Prediction
Investigate the approximations that have to be made in state-of-the-art climate models. By running the model thousands of times 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.
DENIS@Home
More than 17 million people die each year of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). That represents 31% of all global deaths, making these diseases the leading cause of death worldwide. Can you help us investigate it?
By join DENIS@home you will donate the iddle times of your computer to develop and simulate mathematical models that investigate the heart. You only need to download and run a free program on your computer.
Einstein@home
Search for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors, and from the Arecibo radio observatory. Einstein@Home is a World Year of Physics 2005 project supported by the American Physical Society (APS) and by a number of international organizations.
Eternity II
256 pieces. 480 edges.
Eternity II is the puzzle that defeated everyone who tried to win its $2 million prize. Your computer searches real candidate boards while it is idle, and every good board it finds is checked and credited to you.
gaia@home
Long period comets
Calculating long-period comet orbits under the simultaneous Galactic and stellar perturbations. (N-body problem with N of the order of 400).
more details: Królikowska, M and Dybczynski, P.A., 2020: The catalogue of cometary orbits and their dynamical evolution
Stellar close approaches
The aim of this work is to investigate the proximity parameters and the influence of the close approach of stars on the basis of Gaia DR2 and DR3. Using a numerical integration in an axisymmetric Galactic model, we determine new parameters of the close encounter for stars. Adding ten thousand clones drawn with the use of a covariance matrix, we estimate the most probable position and velocity of stars at the minimum distance from the Sun.
more details: Berski, F and Dybczynski, P.A., 2020: Close approach parameters recalculated based on the first Gaia data release
Gerasim@home
Testing and comparison of heuristic methods for getting separations of parallel algorithms working in the CAD system for designing logic control systems
GPUGrid
GPUGrid.net opens novel computational scenarios by the first full-atom molecular dynamics code (CellMD) specially optimized to run on NVIDIA GPUs. New biomedical applications suddenly become possible giving a new role to computational biology for biomedical research.
LHC@home
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the world's largest particle physics laboratory. It is the most powerful instrument ever built to investigate on particles proprieties. LHC@home runs simulations to improve the design of LHC and its detectors.
VLHCatHome and ATLAS@Home are now part of this project.
LODA
LODA is an assembly language, a computational model, and a distributed tool for mining programs. You can use it to generate and search programs that compute integer sequences from the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences® (OEIS®). The goal of the project is to reverse engineer formulas and efficient algorithms for a wide range of non-trivial integer sequences.
Milkyway@home
The goal of Milkyway@Home is to create a highly accurate three dimensional model of the Milky Way galaxy using data gathered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
MilkyWay@H - Benchmark thread and discussion by Assimilator1
Minecraft@Home
This is a volunteer computing project which allows anyone on the internet to contribute resources to research projects related to Minecraft.
Moo! Wrapper
Run applications from distributed.net
NFS@home
NFS@Home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do the lattice sieving step in the Number Field Sieve factorization of large integers. As a young school student, you gained your first experience at breaking an integer into prime factors, such as 15 = 3 * 5 or 35 = 5 * 7. NFS@Home is a continuation of that experience, only with integers that are hundreds of digits long.
NumberFields@home
NumberFields@home searches for fields with special properties. The primary application of this research is in the realm of algebraic number theory. Number theorists can mine the data for interesting patterns to help them formulate conjectures about number fields. Ultimately, this research will lead to a deeper understanding of the profound properties of numbers, the basic building blocks of all mathematics.
ODLK
A Latin square project.
ODLK1
BOINC-project ODLK1 continues to solve the problem of BOINC-project ODLK.
The project generates a database of canonical forms (CF) of diagonal Latin squares (DLS) of order 10 having orthogonal diagonal Latin squares (ODLS).
PrimeGrid
Primegrid has multiple projects searching for different forms of very large prime numbers, including searching for the largest known prime number.
PrimeGrid: CPU benchmarks and discussion by StefanR5R
Private GFN Server
GFN is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research on Generalized Fermat numbers. You can participate by downloading and running a free program on your computer.
Rakesearch
The enormous size of the diagonal Latin squares space makes it unfeasible to enumerate all its objects straightforwardly in reasonable time. So, in order to discover the structure of this space, sophisticated search methods are needed. In RakeSearch project, we implement an application that picks up separate pairs of mutually orthogonal DLSs, which allows to reconstruct full graphs of their orthogonality.
RALPH@home
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.
The Ramanujan Machine
Fundamental constants like e and π are ubiquitous in diverse fields of science, including physics, biology, chemistry, geometry, and abstract mathematics. Nevertheless, for centuries new mathematical formulas relating fundamental constants are scarce and are usually discovered sporadically by mathematical intuition or ingenuity.
The Ramanujan Machine is a novel way to do mathematics by harnessing your computer power to make new discoveries. The Ramanujan Machine already discovered dozens of new conjectures.
Our algorithms search for new mathematical formulas. The community can suggest proofs for the conjectures or even propose or develop new algorithms. Any new conjecture, proof, or algorithm suggested will be named after you.
We hope that the Ramanujan Machine project will inspire future generations about mathematics and AI-driven science.
Rosetta@home
Determine the 3-dimensional shapes of proteins in research that may ultimately lead to finding cures for some major human diseases. By running Rosetta@home you will help us speed up and extend our research in ways we couldn't possibly attempt without your help. You will also be helping our efforts at designing new proteins to fight diseases such as HIV, malaria, cancer, and Alzheimer's.
SRBase
SRBase is a mathematical research project that uses Internet-connected computers trying to solve Sierpinski / Riesel Bases up to 1030.
TN-Grid
TN-Grid is a platform that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in various scientific projects.
World Community Grid
To further critical non-profit research on some of humanity's most pressing problems by creating the world's largest volunteer computing grid. Research includes HIV-AIDS, cancer, tropical and neglected diseases, solar energy, clean water and many more.
WUProp@home
Collects time and project information from Boinc running on your computer
Yafu
YAFU is a alpha project, which main goal is
to test the latest BOINC server code for bugs, please report any error which you find in the webpages in the forum
to factorize numbers up to 140 digit length which are needed to bring Aliquot Sequences to a size of at least 140.
to test the latest versions of yafu.
Yoyo@home
Yoyo@home is an adapter between BOINC and several existing volunteer computing projects: ECM, Muon, Evolution@home, and distributed.net
NON BOINC Projects
Folding@Home
To join The FPS Team use Team ID 1068228 when setting up your client.
Help Stanford University scientists studying Alzheimer's, Huntington's, Parkinson's, and many cancers by simply running a piece of software on your computer.
Just a few of the major projects, look for more on the Free-DC side menu
Other sources for project info, lots more than listed here.
BOINC at Berkeley
Free-DC
BOINC Stats
I have only listed projects that are currently working.
I will continue to go through some of the projects and list them here as I can.
Please let me know if I have missed any major ones that people are contributing to.
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