Choosing BOINC projects
Choosing BOINC projects |
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BOINC is used by many volunteer computing projects. Some are based at universities and research labs, others are run by companies and individuals. You can participate in any number of these projects.
In deciding whether to participate in a project, read its web site and consider the following questions:
The following projects are known to us at BOINC, and we believe that their descriptions are accurate. See also a complete list of projects.
Projects have different requirements such as memory size; a partial summary is here.
If your computer is equipped with a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), you may be able to use it to compute faster.
| Project Mouse over for details; click to visit web site | Home | Research area | Supported platforms | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spinhenge@home | Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences | Chemical engineering and nanotechnology | Unknown | ||||
| Orbit@home | Planetary Science Institute | Astronomy | Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Windows | ||||
| SETI@home | University of California, Berkeley | Astrophysics, astrobiology | Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Mac OS X (PowerPC), SPARC Solaris, SPARC Solaris 2.7, Windows, Windows (NVIDIA GPU), Linux/x64 | ||||
| LHC@home | CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) | Physics | Linux/x86, Windows, Windows/x64, Linux/x64 | ||||
| Milkyway@home | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Astronomy | amd64-pc-freebsd, amd64-unknown-freebsd (multicore), Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Linux/x86 (ATI GPU), Linux/x86 (multicore), Linux/x86, Mac OS X (PowerPC), powerpc-linux-gnu, Windows, Windows (ATI GPU), Windows (multicore), Windows, Windows/x64, Windows/x64 (ATI GPU), Windows/x64 (multicore), Windows/x64, Mac OS X 64-bit, Mac OS X 64-bit (multicore), x86_64-pc-freebsd, x86_64-pc-freebsd (multicore), Linux/x64, Linux/x64 (ATI GPU), Linux/x64 (multicore), Linux/x64 | ||||
| Quantum Monte Carlo at Home | University of Muenster (Germany) | Chemistry | Linux/x86, Windows, Linux/x64 | ||||
| eOn | University of Texas at Austin | Chemistry | Linux/x86, Windows, Mac OS X 64-bit, Linux/x64 | ||||
| Cosmology@Home | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Astronomy | Linux/x86, Windows, Linux/x64 | ||||
| Leiden Classical | Leiden University, The Netherlands | Chemistry | Unknown | ||||
| uFluids@home | Purdue University | Physics/Aeronautics | Windows | ||||
| Einstein@home | Univ. of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Max Planck Institute | Astrophysics | Mac OS X, Mac OS X (NVIDIA GPU), Mac OS X, Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Linux/x86 (NVIDIA GPU), Linux/x86, Linux/x86, Linux/x86, Linux/x86, Linux/x86, Mac OS X (PowerPC), Mac OS X (PowerPC), SPARC Solaris 2.7, Windows, Windows (NVIDIA GPU), Windows, Windows, Windows, Windows, Windows, Windows, Windows, Linux/x64 | ||||
| FreeHAL | Private | Artificial intelligence | Linux/x86, Windows, Linux/x64 | ||||
| Superlink@Technion | Technion, Israel | Genetic linkage analysis | Unknown | ||||
| Rosetta@home | University of Washington | Biology | Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Mac OS X (PowerPC), Windows, Windows/x64, Linux/x64 | ||||
| SIMAP | University of Vienna | Biology | Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Mac OS X (PowerPC), Windows, Windows/x64, Linux/x64 | ||||
| The Lattice Project | University of Maryland Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology | Life science research | Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Mac OS X (PowerPC), Windows, Windows/x64 | ||||
| Malariacontrol.net | The Swiss Tropical Institute | Epidemiology | Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Windows, Linux/x64 | ||||
| Docking@Home | University of Delaware | Study of protein - ligand interactions | Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Mac OS X (PowerPC), Windows/Opteron, Windows, Windows/x64, Linux/x64 | ||||
| POEM@HOME | University of Karlsruhe (Germany) | Protein structure prediction | Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Windows, Windows (ATI GPU), Mac OS X 64-bit, Linux/x64, Linux/x64 (ATI GPU), Linux/x64 | ||||
| GPUGrid.net | Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB) | Molecular simulations of proteins | Windows (NVIDIA GPU), Linux/x64 (NVIDIA GPU) | ||||
| primaboinca | Hochschule RheinMain University of Applied Sciences | Mathematics | Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Windows | ||||
| Enigma@Home | Private | Cryptography | Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Mac OS X (PowerPC), Windows | ||||
| Chess960@home | Chess-960.org | Game-playing | Unknown | ||||
| VTU@home | Vilnius Gediminas Technical University and Kaunas University of Technology (Lithuania) | Software testing | Windows, Windows/x64, Linux/x64 | ||||
| Mersenne@home | Private | Mathematics | i386-pc-freebsd, Linux/x86, Linux/x86, Linux/x86, Windows, Windows, Windows, Windows/x64, Windows/x64, Windows/x64, Windows/x64, Windows/x64, Linux/x64, Linux/x64, Linux/x64, Linux/x64, Linux/x64 | ||||
| SAT@home | Institute for Systems Analysis and Institute for System Dynamics and Control Theory, Russian Academy of Science | Computer Science | Linux/x86, Windows, Linux/x64 | ||||
| sudoku@vtaiwan | National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan | Mathematics | Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Windows, Windows/x64, Linux/x64 | ||||
| NFS@home | California State University Fullerton | Factorization of large integers | Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Windows, Linux/x64 | ||||
| Surveill@Home | University of Coimbra, Portugal | Web performance | Unknown | ||||
| SZTAKI Desktop Grid | MTA-SZTAKI Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems (Hungary) | Mathematics | Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Mac OS X (PowerPC), Windows, Windows/x64, Mac OS X 64-bit, Linux/x64 | ||||
| ABC@home | Mathematical Institute of Leiden University / Kennislink | Mathematics | Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Mac OS X (PowerPC), powerpc-linux-gnu, Windows, Windows/x64, Mac OS X 64-bit, Linux/x64 | ||||
| DistrRTgen | Private | Cryptography | i386-pc-freebsd, Linux/x86, Windows, Windows (NVIDIA GPU), Windows/x64, Linux/x64, Linux/x64 (NVIDIA GPU) | ||||
| PrimeGrid | Private | Cryptography | Mac OS X, Mac OS X, Mac OS X (NVIDIA GPU), Linux/x86, Linux/x86 (ATI GPU), Linux/x86 (NVIDIA GPU), Mac OS X (PowerPC), Playstation3/Linux, Windows, Windows (ATI GPU), Windows (NVIDIA GPU), Windows/x64, Mac OS X 64-bit, Mac OS X 64-bit (ATI GPU), Mac OS X 64-bit (NVIDIA GPU), Linux/x64, Linux/x64 (ATI GPU), Linux/x64 (NVIDIA GPU), Solaris/x64 | ||||
| Collatz Conjecture | Private | Mathematics | Mac OS X, Mac OS X (NVIDIA GPU), Linux/x86, Windows (ATI GPU), Windows (NVIDIA GPU), Windows, Windows, Windows/x64 (ATI GPU), Windows/x64 (NVIDIA GPU), Windows/x64, Mac OS X 64-bit, Mac OS X 64-bit (NVIDIA GPU), Mac OS X 64-bit, Linux/x64 | ||||
| Climateprediction.net | Oxford University | Climate study | Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Windows | ||||
| Virtual Prairie | University of Houston | Study of botanical ecosystems | Linux/x86, Windows, Windows/x64, Linux/x64 | ||||
| Ibercivis | Spanish universities and research centers | Various Spanish research projects | Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Mac OS X (PowerPC), Windows, Windows/x64, Mac OS X 64-bit, Linux/x64 | ||||
| World Community Grid | IBM Corporate Community Relations | Humanitarian research on disease, natural disasters and hunger. | Windows, Linux/x86, Mac OS X, Mac OS X (PowerPC), Linux/x64, FreeBSD/x86 | ||||
| EDGeS@Home | MTA-SZTAKI Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems (Hungary) | European research projects | Linux/x86, Windows, Linux/x64 | ||||
| CAS@home | Chinese Academy of Sciences | Physics, biochemistry, and others | Linux/x86, Windows | ||||
| Yoyo@home | Private | Mathematics, physics, evolution | Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Mac OS X (PowerPC), Playstation3/Linux, SPARC Solaris, Windows, Windows/x64, Mac OS X 64-bit, Linux/x64 | ||||
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