Choosing BOINC projects

BOINC software is used by many volunteer computing projects. These projects are completely independent. Some are based at universities and research labs, others are run by companies and individuals. When you participate in a project, you entrust it with the health of your computer and the privacy of your data. In deciding whether to participate in a project, read its web site and consider the following questions:

• Does it clearly describe its goals, and are these goals important and beneficial?
• Do you trust that its applications won't damage your computer or violate your privacy?
• Do you trust it to use proper security practices on its servers?
• Who owns the results of the computation? Will they be freely available to the public or will they belong to a for-profit business?

The following list of projects is provided for your information; they are not endorsed by BOINC or U.C. Berkeley. You can find other projects using Google.

Project name Mouse over for details; click to visit web site	Project URL Copy and paste into BOINC client
Earth Sciences
Climateprediction.net	http://climateprediction.net
Mathematics and strategy games
SZTAKI Desktop Grid	http://szdg.lpds.sztaki.hu/szdg/
Chess960@home	http://www.chess960athome.org/alpha/
SHA-1 Collision Search Graz	http://boinc.iaik.tugraz.at/sha1_coll_search/
Riesel Sieve	http://boinc.rieselsieve.com/
PrimeGrid	http://www.primegrid.com
Rectilinear Crossing Number	http://dist.ist.tugraz.at/cape5/
ABC@home	http://abcathome.com/
Biology and Medicine
Malariacontrol.net	http://www.malariacontrol.net
Predictor@home	http://predictor.chem.lsa.umich.edu/
SIMAP	http://boinc.bio.wzw.tum.de/boincsimap/
Rosetta@home	http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/
World Community Grid	http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/
The Lattice Project	http://boinc.umiacs.umd.edu/
Tanpaku	http://issofty17.is.noda.tus.ac.jp/
Astronomy/Physics/Chemistry
SETI@home	http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/
Leiden Classical	http://boinc.gorlaeus.net/
LHC@home	http://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/
uFluids@home	http://www.ufluids.net/
Einstein@home	http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/
Quantum Monte Carlo at Home	http://qah.uni-muenster.de/
Spinhenge@home	http://spin.fh-bielefeld.de/

You can participate in several projects, ensuring that your computer will be kept busy even when one project has no work. You can control how your resources (such as computer time and disk space) are divided among these projects. When you attach to a project, you will be asked for its URL. This is simply the address of its web site; copy it from your browser's address field or from the list above.

Last modified 4:07 AM UTC, March 16 2008.
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