Astronomy/Physics/Chemistry

• Cosmology@Home

• URL: www.cosmologyathome.org/
• Institution: Departments of Astronomy and Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Official launch: 31-03-2007
• Platforms: Linux/x86, Windows, Linux/x86_64
• Description: The goal of Cosmology@Home is to search for the model that best describes our Universe and to find the range of models that agree with the available astronomical and particle physics data.
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• Einstein@home

• URL: einstein.phys.uwm.edu/
• Institution: Albert Einstein Institute, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
• Official launch: 19-11-2004
• Platforms: Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Mac OS X (PowerPC), SPARC Solaris 2.7, Windows
• Description: Search for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors. Einstein@Home is a World Year of Physics 2005 project supported by the American Physical Society (APS) and by a number of international organizations.
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• Hydrogen@Home

• URL: hydrogenathome.org/
• Institution: private
• Official launch: 11-05-2007
• Platforms: Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Mac OS X (PowerPC), Windows
• Description: To enhance clean energy technology by improving hydrogen production and storage.
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• LHC@home

• URL: lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/
• Institution: CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)
• Official launch: 01-09-2004
• Platforms: Linux/x86, Windows, Windows/x86_64, Linux/x86_64
• Description: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator which is being built at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear research, the world's largest particle physics laboratory. When it switches on in 2008, the LHC will be the most powerful instrument ever built to investigate particle properties. LHC@home simulates particles traveling around the LHC to study the stability of their orbits.
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• MilkyWay@Home

• URL: milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/
• Institution: Computer Science Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Official launch: 07-07-2007
• Platforms: amd64-unknown-freebsd, i386-unknown-freebsd, Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Mac OS X (PowerPC), SPARC Solaris, Windows, Windows/x86_64, Linux/x86_64
• Description: Research in modeling and determining the evolution of the Milkyway galaxy.
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• Orbit@Home

• URL: orbit.psi.edu/oah/
• Institution: Planetary Science Institute
• Official launch: 04-03-2008
• Platforms: Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Windows
• Description: Study Solar System dynamics, at first focusing on Near Earth Asteroid (NEA) research specifically NEA seaarch strategies and NEA impact hazard monitoring.
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• Quantum Monte Carlo at Home

• URL: qah.uni-muenster.de/
• Institution: University of Münster
• Official launch: 03-03-2006
• Platforms: Linux/x86, Windows, Linux/x86_64
• Description: Study the structure and reactivity of molecules using Quantum Chemistry.
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• SETI@home

• URL: setiathome.berkeley.edu/
• Institution: Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California
• Official launch: 22-06-2004
• Platforms: Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Mac OS X (PowerPC), SPARC Solaris, SPARC Solaris 2.7, Windows, Linux/x86_64,
• Description: SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is a scientific area whose goal is to detect intelligent life outside Earth. One approach, known as radio SETI, uses radio telescopes to listen for narrow-bandwidth radio signals from space. Such signals are not known to occur naturally, so a detection would provide evidence of extraterrestrial technology.
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• Spinhenge@home

• URL: spin.fh-bielefeld.de/
• Institution: Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences
• Official launch: 19-05-2006
• Platforms: Linux/x86, Windows, Windows/x86_64
• Description: The study of molecular magnets and controlled nanoscale magnetism. These magnetic molecules may be used to develop tiny magnetic switches, with applications in medicine (such as local tumor chemotherapy) and biotechnology.
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Earth and Environmental Science

• Climateprediction.net

• URL: climateprediction.net/
• Institution: University of Oxford
• Official launch: Unknown
• Platforms: Linux/x86, Windows, Mac OS X (Intel), Linux/x86_64, Windows/x86_64
• Description: Investigates 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.
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Biology & Medicine

• Cels@Home

• URL: cels-at-home-dev.dyndns.org/cels/
• Institution: University of Texas at Austin
• Official launch: 25-02-2008
• Platforms: Windows
• Description: Cels@Home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in cell adhesion. One of the many applications of this is in cancer research, as the point at which cancerous cells quit staying in place, and instead break free to move throughout the body, is a critical event that makes the disease much harder to treat.
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• Malariacontrol.net

• URL: www.malariacontrol.net
• Institution: The Swiss Tropical Institute
• Official launch: 19-12-2006
• Platforms: Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Windows, Linux/x86_64,
• Description: Simulation models of the transmission dynamics and health effects of malaria are an important tool for malaria control. They can be used to determine optimal strategies for delivering mosquito nets, chemotherapy, or new vaccines which are currently under development and testing. Such modeling is extremely computer intensive, requiring simulations of large human populations with a diverse set of parameters related to biological and social factors that influence the distribution of the disease.
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• Poem@Home

• URL: boinc.fzk.de/poem/
• Institution: Biomolecular Structure Prediction Group
• Official launch: 13-11-2007
• Platforms: Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Windows
• Description: Models protein folding using Anfinsen's dogma.
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• Predictor@home

• URL: predictor.chem.lsa.umich.edu/
• Institution: University of Michigan
• Official launch: 12-06-2004
• Platforms: Linux/x86, Windows, Max OS X, Mac OS X (Intel)
• Description: Protein structure prediction starts from a sequence of amino acids and attempts to predict the folded, functioning, form of the protein. Predicting the structure of an unknown protein is a critical problem in enabling structure-based drug design to treat new and existing diseases.
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• The Lattice Project

• URL: boinc.umiacs.umd.edu/
• Institution: University of Maryland Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
• Official launch: 17-05-2007
• Platforms: Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Mac OS X (PowerPC), Windows
• Description: The Lattice Project supplies computing power to scientists at the University of Maryland studying evolutionary relationships based on DNA sequence data; bacterial, plasmid, and virus protein sequences; and biological diversity in nature reserves.
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Cognitive Science

• Artificial Intelligence System

• URL: www.intelligencerealm.com/aisystem/
• Institution: Intelligence Realm Inc.
• Official launch: 20-01-2008
• Platforms: Linux/x86, Windows
• Description: This distributed computing project is part of a larger project that is reverse engineering the brain in order to build a large scale artificial intelligence system.
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• MindModeling@Home

• URL: MindModeling.org/beta/
• Institution: Cognitive Engineering Research Institute
• Official launch: 17-03-2007
• Platforms: Mac OS X, Linux/x86, Windows, Linux/x86_64
• Description: The research focuses on utilizing computational cognitive process modeling to better understand the human mind and to improve on the scientific foundations that explain the mechanisms and processes that enable and moderate human performance and learning.
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Mathematics and Games

• PrimeGrid

• URL: www.primegrid.com/
• Institution: Private
• Official launch: July 12, 2005
• Platforms: Linux/x86, Windows, Windows/x86_64, Linux/x86_64
• Description: Primegrid is generating a public sequential prime number database, and is searching for large twin primes of the form k*2n+1 and k*2n-1
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• Riesel Sieve

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• URL: boinc.rieselsieve.com/
• Institution: Riesel Sieve community
• Official launch: 28-10-2007
• Platforms: Linux/x86, Linux/PowerPC64, Windows_amd64, Windows, Windows/x86_64, Linux/x86_64
• Description: Find prime numbers of the form k*2n-1
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