Volunteer computing is a type of distributed computing in which people donate their computers' unused resources to a research-oriented project, and sometimes...
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comprehensive list of volunteer computing projects, which are a type of distributed computing where volunteers donate computing time to specific causes...
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SETI@home (category Volunteer computing projects)
intelligence. Until March 2020, it was run as an Internet-based public volunteer computing project that employed the BOINC software platform. It is hosted by...
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computation: scientific computing, including cluster computing, grid computing, cloud computing, and various volunteer computing projects, distributed rendering...
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Grid computing is the use of widely distributed computer resources to reach a common goal. A computing grid can be thought of as a distributed system...
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volunteer computing project by Eric Roosendaal verifies the Collatz conjecture for larger and larger values. Another ongoing volunteer computing project...
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Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC, pronounced /bɔɪŋk/ –rhymes with "oink") is an open-source middleware system for volunteer computing (a type of distributed...
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United Devices (category Volunteer computing)
privately held, commercial volunteer computing company that focused on the use of grid computing to manage high-performance computing systems and enterprise...
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Prime95 (category Volunteer computing projects)
official client of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), a volunteer computing project dedicated to searching for Mersenne primes. It is also used...
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Supercomputer (redirect from Super computing)
computing whereby a "super virtual computer" of many loosely coupled volunteer computing machines performs very large computing tasks. Grid computing...
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Genome@home (category Volunteer computing projects)
Genome@home was a volunteer computing project run by Stefan Larson of Stanford University, and a sister project to Folding@home. Its goal was protein...
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LHC@home (category Volunteer computing projects)
LHC@home is a volunteer computing project researching particle physics that uses the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) platform...
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Grid.org (category Distributed computing projects)
in 2001 for cluster computing and grid computing software users. For six years it operated several different volunteer computing projects that allowed...
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Big and Ugly Rendering Project (category Volunteer computing projects)
until 2027. BURP utilizes the volunteer and grid computing software BOINC, to distribute computing tasks to volunteer computers. BURP is free software...
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Utility computing, or computer utility, is a service provisioning model in which a service provider makes computing resources and infrastructure management...
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Proteins@home (category Volunteer computing projects)
proteins@home was a volunteer computing project that used the BOINC architecture. The project was run by the Department of Biology at École Polytechnique...
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Distributed.net (redirect from Distributed Computing Technologies, Incorporated)
Distributed.net is a volunteer computing effort that is attempting to solve large scale problems using otherwise idle CPU or GPU time. It is governed...
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CHARMM (section Volunteer computing)
of the projects which use an open-source platform for the distributed computing, BOINC, used CHARMM to analyze the atomic details of protein-ligand interactions...
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DreamLab (category Volunteer computing projects)
DreamLab was a volunteer computing Android and iOS app launched in 2015 by Imperial College London and the Vodafone Foundation. It was discontinued on...
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Docking@Home (category Volunteer computing projects)
Docking@Home was a volunteer computing project hosted by the University of Delaware and running on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC)...
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and files distributed computing managing other online volunteers In the developing world, innovative synergies between volunteerism and technology typically...
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ABC@Home (category Volunteer computing projects)
network computing project finding abc-triples related to the abc conjecture in number theory using the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC)...
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MilkyWay@home (category Volunteer computing projects)
MilkyWay@home is a volunteer computing project in the astrophysics category, running on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) platform...
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Rosetta@home (category Volunteer computing projects)
Rosetta@home is a volunteer computing project researching protein structure prediction on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) platform...
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source project licensed under the GPL. List of volunteer computing projects Distributed computing Java Heterogeneous Java Distributed Computing v t e...
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DIMES (category Volunteer computing projects)
project collected over 2.2 billion measurements. ETOMIC List of volunteer computing projects Network mapping "About DIMES". netdimes.org. Archived from...
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MD5CRK (category Volunteer computing projects)
In cryptography, MD5CRK was a volunteer computing effort (similar to distributed.net) launched by Jean-Luc Cooke and his company, CertainKey Cryptosystems...
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David P. Anderson (redirect from Bossa (computing))
software for distributed computing.[citation needed] In 2002 he created the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) project, which develops...
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Human Proteome Folding Project (category Volunteer computing projects)
tissues), human secreted proteins and malaria. Phase 1 ran on two volunteer computing grids: on United Devices' grid.org, and on the World Community Grid...
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parallel computing: bit-level, instruction-level, data, and task parallelism. Parallelism has long been employed in high-performance computing, but has...
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