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.
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.
| Name Mouse over for details; click to visit web site | Category | Area | Sponsor | Supported platforms |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asteroids@home | Physical Science | Astrophysics | Charles University in Prague |        Details |
| ATLAS@Home | Physical Science | Physics | CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) |  Details |
| CAS@home | Multiple applications | Physics, biochemistry, and others | Chinese Academy of Sciences | Details |
| Citizen Science Grid | Multiple applications | Molecular biology, Computer Science | University of North Dakota | Details |
| Climateprediction.net | Earth Sciences | Climate study | Oxford University | Details |
| Collatz Conjecture | Mathematics, computing, and games | Mathematics | Private |   Details |
| Cosmology@Home | Physical Science | Astronomy | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Details |
| DENIS@Home | Biology and Medicine | Medical physiology | San Jorge University, Zaragoza, Spain | Details |
| Einstein@home | Physical Science | Astrophysics | Univ. of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Max Planck Institute | Details |
| Enigma@Home | Mathematics, computing, and games | Cryptography | Private | Details |
| FiND@Home | Biology and Medicine | Antimalarial drug discovery | University College Dublin | Details |
| Gerasim@Home | Mathematics, computing, and games | Computer engineering | Southwest State University (Russia) | Details |
| GPUGrid.net | Biology and Medicine | Molecular simulations of proteins | Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB) | Details |
| Ibercivis | Multiple applications | Various Spanish research projects | Spanish universities and research centers | Details |
| Leiden Classical | Physical Science | Chemistry | Leiden University, The Netherlands | Details |
| LHC@home | Physical Science | Physics | CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) | Details |
| Malariacontrol.net | Biology and Medicine | Epidemiology | The Swiss Tropical Institute | Details |
| Milkyway@home | Physical Science | Astronomy | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Details |
| MindModeling@Home | Cognitive science and artifical intelligence | Cognitive Science | University of Dayton and Wright State University | Details |
| Moo! Wrapper | Mathematics, computing, and games | Cryptography and combinatorics | Private | Details |
| NFS@home | Mathematics, computing, and games | Factorization of large integers | California State University Fullerton | Details |
| NumberFields@home | Mathematics, computing, and games | Mathematics | Arizona State University, school of Mathematics | Details |
| POEM@HOME | Biology and Medicine | Protein structure prediction | University of Karlsruhe (Germany) | Details |
| primaboinca | Mathematics, computing, and games | Mathematics | Hochschule RheinMain University of Applied Sciences | Details |
| PrimeGrid | Mathematics, computing, and games | Mathematics | Private | Details |
| Quake Catcher Network | Distributed sensing | Seismology | Caltech | Unknown |
| Radioactive@Home | Distributed sensing | Environmental research | BOINC Poland Foundation | Details |
| RNA World | Biology and Medicine | Molecular biology | Rechenkraft.net e.V. | Details |
| Rosetta@home | Biology and Medicine | Biology | University of Washington | Details |
| SAT@home | Mathematics, computing, and games | Computer Science | Institute for System Dynamics and Control Theory and Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Science | Details |
| SETI@home | Physical Science | Astrophysics, astrobiology | University of California, Berkeley | Details |
| SRBase | Mathematics, computing, and games | Mathematics | Private | Details |
| SZTAKI Desktop Grid | Mathematics, computing, and games | Mathematics | MTA-SZTAKI Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems (Hungary) | Details |
| The Lattice Project | Biology and Medicine | Life science research | University of Maryland Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology | Details |
| theSkyNet POGS | Physical Science | Astronomy | The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (Perth, Australia) | Details |
| Universe@Home | Physical Science | Astronomy | University of Warsaw | Details |
| vLHCathome | Physical Science | Physics | CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) | Details |
| World Community Grid | Multiple applications | Medical, environmental and other humanitarian research | IBM Corporate Citizenship | Details |
| Yoyo@home | Multiple applications | Mathematics, physics, evolution | Private | Details |
If you run a BOINC-based project and would like it to be included on this list, please contact us.
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