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Volunteer computing
Climateprediction.net: Climate research
Compute Against Cancer: Cancer research
FightAIDS@Home: HIV/AIDS research
Folding@Home: Disease research
Grid Republic: Multiple research projects
LHC@home: High energy physics
GIMPS: Mathematics
SETI@home: Extraterrestrial intelligence
World Community Grid: Multiple research projects

 


PROJECT DETAILS Climateprediction.net Climate research
SYNOPSIS Climateprediction.net uses idle processor cycles contributed by volunteers to investigate state-of-the-art climate models, studying the response of climate to slight tweaks in the models.
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PROJECT DETAILS Compute Against Cancer Cancer research
SYNOPSIS Compute Against Cancer uses idle processor cycles contributed by volunteers to help researchers study the structure and behaviour of cancer cells and create better ways to screen new cancer drugs.
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PROJECT DETAILS FightAIDS@Home HIV and AIDS research
SYNOPSIS FightAIDS@Home uses idle processor cycles contributed by volunteers to model the evolution of HIV drug resistance and to evaluate prospective candidates for HIV drug discovery. The project recently joined World Community grid, which now has more than one million volunteers signed up. Run by the Olson Lab at the Scripps Research Institute in the U.S.
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PROJECT DETAILS Folding@Home Disease research
SYNOPSIS Folding@Home uses idle processor cycles contributed by volunteers to study protein folding, misfolding, aggregation and related diseases. Run by Standord University with partners from around the globe.
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PROJECT DETAILS Grid Republic Supports multiple volunteer computing projects
SYNOPSIS GridRepublic members can choose to contribute their computer's idel cycles to research for a variety of public-interest projects.
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PROJECT DETAILS LHC@home High energy physics
SYNOPSIS Since 2004, LHC@home has been supporting accelerator physicists simulating the proton beam stability of the future Large Hadron Collider.
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PROJECT DETAILS Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search Mathematics
SYNOPSIS The GIMPS project seeks to discover new world-record-size Mersenne primes (Prime numbers of the form 2n-1 )
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PROJECT DETAILS SETI@home Extraterrestrial intelligence
SYNOPSIS

SETI@home uses volunteer computers to search for intelligent life outside Earth. Run from the University of California-Berkeley in the US.
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PROJECT DETAILS World Community Grid Supports multiple volunteer computing projects.
SYNOPSIS World Community Grid tackles projects that benefit humanity. All results are made public for the global research community. Sponsored by IBM.
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