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Active Distributed Computing Projects

Does your computer spend most of the day running screensavers or otherwise wasting its computing cycles? Why not use those spare cycles to help solve some huge problems? Try a project in one of the following categories. Note: if a project is followed by parentheses, the project is run on a distributed computing platform.
Science SETI@home (BOINC) evolution@home eOn climateprediction.net (BOINC) Muon1 LHC@home (BOINC) Einstein@Home (BOINC) Leiden Classical (BOINC) QMC@home (BOINC) μFluids@Home (BOINC) Spinhenge@home (BOINC) Cosmology@Home (BOINC) PS3GRID (BOINC) GPUGRID (BOINC) AfricanClimate@Home (World Community Grid) MilkyWay@home (BOINC) QCN Alpha Test (BOINC) yoyo@home EvoHo (BOINC) yoyo@home Muon (BOINC) Intelligent Design Hydrogen@Home (BOINC) Artificial Intelligence System (BOINC) BRaTS (BOINC) orbit@home (BOINC) Virtual Prairie (BOINC) Ibercivis (BOINC) Magnetism@home (BOINC) Genetic Life (BOINC) The Clean Energy Project (World Community Grid) AQUA@home (BOINC) QMulus Life Sciences Compute Against Cancer (Parabon) Folding@home FightAIDS@home The Virtual Laboratory Project Predictor@home (BOINC) Human Proteome Folding (World Community Grid) Rosetta@home (BOINC) RALPH@home (BOINC) SIMAP (BOINC) malariacontrol.net (BOINC) TANPAKU (BOINC) Docking@Home (BOINC) proteins@home (BOINC) Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy (World Community Grid) Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together (BOINC) The Lattice Project (BOINC) POEM@HOME (BOINC) Help Conquer Cancer (BOINC) Cels@Home (BOINC) MindModeling@Home (BOINC) Nutritious Rice for the World (BOINC) UCT : malariacontrol.net (BOINC) Help Fight Childhood Cancer (BOINC) Influenza Antiviral Drug Search (BOINC) DrugDiscovery@Home (BOINC) Cryptography distributed.net M4 Free Rainbow Tables SHA-1 Collision Search Graz (BOINC) Enigma@Home (BOINC) RSA Lattice Siever (2.0) (BOINC) Creating A5/1 Rainbow Tables   Internet Gómez Performance Network Peer NETI@home DIMES Majestic-12 Boitho PeerFactor DepSpid Pingdom GIGRIB Grub Financial MoneyBee GStock Mathematics Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search Proth Prime Search ECMNET Minimal Equal Sums of Like Powers MM61 Project 3x + 1 Problem Distributed Search for Fermat Number Divisors PCP@Home Generalized Fermat Prime Search PSearch Seventeen or Bust Factorizations of Cyclotomic Numbers Goldbach Conjecture Verification The Riesel Problem The 3*2^n-1 Search NFSNET Search for Multifactorial Primes 15k Prime Search ElevenSmooth Riesel Sieve The Prime Sierpinski Project P.I.E.S. - Prime Internet Eisenstein Search Factors of k*2^n±1 XYYXF 12121 Search 2721 Search Operation Billion Digits SIGPS Primesearch Lone Mersenne Hunters Factoring 100 Million digits prefactor project Repdigit Prime Problems Mersenneplustwo Factorizations Sierpinski/Riesel Base 5 SZTAKI Desktop Grid (BOINC) PrimeGrid (BOINC) Riesel Prime Search Rectilinear Crossing Number (BOINC) ABC@home (BOINC) WEP-M+2 Project (BOINC) yoyo@home OGR (BOINC) TSP (BOINC) Wieferich@Home No Prime Left Behind k6465 Ramsey@Home (BOINC) NFS@Home (BOINC)   Language FreeHAL@home (BOINC) Art electric sheep Internet Movie Project (IMP) RenderFarm@Home (BOINC) BURP (BOINC) Puzzles/Games ChessBrain Chess960@home (BOINC) Eternity2.fr Sudoku (BOINC) NQueens (BOINC) Reversi (BOINC) Optimal Solution Finder   Miscellaneous Project Neuron (BOINC) Pirates@Home (BOINC)     The categories below contain projects which are not technically distributed computing projects: in these projects your computer connects to a project server or website to get work, but you do the work.   Distributed Human Projects Distributed Proofreaders Distributed Proofreaders Europe Distributed Proofreaders Canada Twenty Questions Open Mind Indoor Common Sense The ESP Game questsin Amazon Mechanical Turk Stardust@Home Herbaria@home systemic Galaxy Zoo Project Budburst Foldit Looking for Mars Polar Lander They Work for You reCAPTCHA Project Squirrel Galaxy Zoo Supernovae Galaxy Zoo Mergers NASA Be A Martian Collaborative Knowledge Bases dmoz Open Directory Project The WWW Virtual Library Nupedia Wikipedia Wiktionary Wikinews Wikibooks Wikispecies Wikia Search MusicBrainz FreeDB Internet Movie Database Everything2 JoeAnt.com Logos Open Site Merriam-Webster's Open Dictionary Where's George? Where's Willy? EuroBillTracker WikiProfessional Forvo OpenStreetMap Charity The Hunger Site The Rainforest Site The Breast Cancer Site The Animal Rescue Site The Child Health Site The Literacy Site Race for the Rainforest Race for the Big Cats Race for the Ocean Climb Against Breast Cancer Race for the Primates Race for Pets in Need Race for Children in Need Race to Stop Violence Against Women Race to Save Baby Seals Race to Stop Global Warming Race to Protect Threatened Wolves EcologyFund.com die Waldseite iGive.com KlickDieSpende SolvePoverty PovertyFighters Land Care Niagara The Stop HIV Site giveaminute.org Ett klick för skogen (A Click for the Forest) Polska Strona Gtodu (The Polish Hunger Site) TheEnvironmentSite.org Polskie Sztuczne Serce (Polish Artificial Heart) Habitat for Humanity Poland Dodaj Swoje Serce (Add/Give your Heart) FreeRice FreeFlour Hunger Fighters HungryChildren	Current status of active BOINC project servers:

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