Volunteer computing projects are a type of distributed computing where volunteers donate computing time to specific causes. The donated computing power comes from idle CPUs and GPUs in personal computers, video game consoles, and Android devices. Each project seeks to utilize the computing power of many internet-connected devices to solve problems and perform large-scale computational research in a cost-effective manner.
Active projects
Project Launched Sponsor Category Research focus BOINC based Processing units Performance in TeraFLOPS Albert@Home2011-12-23 University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Max Planck Institute Astrophysics Testing project for Einstein@Home (Mar 2020) (Mar 2020)Amicable Numbers2017-01-05IndependentMathematics Research project to find new amicable pairs (Mar 2023) (Mar 2023)ArchiveTeam Warrior2013-12-22Archive TeamDigital preservationA virtual archiving appliance that will download sites and upload them to the Archive Team archive and the Internet Archive Wayback MachineAsteroids@home2012-06-18Charles University in Prague, Czech RepublicAstrophysicsTo significantly enlarge our knowledge of the physical properties of asteroids (Mar 2023) (Mar 2023) BOID 2018-06-20 BOID DAC, decentralized communityResearch The Social Supercomputer for data-driven medical and scientific research involving blockchain technology (Mar 2023) (Sep 2021) climateprediction.net 2003-12-09 Oxford University Climate change Analyse ways to improve climate prediction models (Mar 2023) (Mar 2023) Collatz Conjecture 2009-01-06 Independent Mathematics Study the Collatz conjecture, an unsolved conjecture in mathematics (Mar 2020) (Mar 2020)DENIS@Home2015-04-08Universidad San Jorge. Zaragoza, SpainMedicine and Biology Simulation of the electrical activity of the cardiac cells (Mar 2023) (Mar 2023) Distributed.net 1997-01-28 Independent Cryptography, Mathematics Crack the RC5-72 cipher (Mar 2023) Einstein@Home 2005-02-19 University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Max Planck Institute Astrophysics Search for pulsars using radio signals and gravitational wave data (Mar 2023) (Mar 2023) Electric Sheep 1999-09-30 Visual arts Make computer art with fractal flames (May 2015)Fishnet2016-03-07IndependentChessProvides server analysis for games played on lichess.org using the Stockfish chess engine (Mar 2023) Fishtest 2013-02-13 Independent Software testing, chess Validates patches to the Stockfish chess engine by playing thousands of chess games at fast time controls between different versions of the engine (Apr 2024) Folding@home 2000-10-01 Washington University in St. Louis Molecular biology Understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases, with a minor emphasis in protein structure prediction. Computing power also harnessed the power of PlayStation 3s (Mar 2023) (Mar 2023)Gaia@home2019-08-21Astronomical Observatory Institute, Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz UniversityAstronomy Provide additional computing power to scientists studying the Gaia (spacecraft) data releases (Mar 2023) (Mar 2023) Gerasim@Home 2007-02-10 Southwest State University, Russia Mathematics Research in discrete mathematics and logic control systems (Mar 2023) (Mar 2023) Golem Network 2016 Independent Software Developing a permissionless distributed computing marketplace (Mar 2023) GPUGRID 2007-12-05 Barcelona Biomedical Research Park Molecular biology Perform full-atom molecular simulations of proteins on Nvidia GPUs for biomedical research (Mar 2023) (Mar 2023) Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) 1996-01-early Independent Mathematics Searches for Mersenne primes of world record size (Mar 2023) (Mar 2023) iThena.Measurements 2019-09-25 Cyber-Complex Foundation Computer science Generally computer networks (Mar 2023) (Mar 2023) iThena.Computational 2021-10-31 Cyber-Complex Foundation Computer science Generally computer networks (Mar 2023) (Mar 2023) Leela Chess Zero 2018-03-04 Software testing, chess Trains chess neural networks with deep reinforcement learning. Experiments with training parameters and net architectures (Mar 2023) LHC@home 2004-01-09 CERN Physics Helping physicists compare theory with experiment, in the search for new fundamental particles and answers to questions about the Universe (Mar 2023) (Mar 2023) MilkyWay@home 2007-07-07 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Astronomy Create a highly accurate three-dimensional model of the Milky Way galaxy using data collected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (Mar 2023) (Mar 2023) Moo! Wrapper 2011-02-05 Independent Cryptography Combines BOINC with distributed.net to try to break the RC5 cipher (Mar 2023) (Mar 2023) nanoHUB@Home 2015-01-30 Purdue University Nanoscience Research in nanoscience and nanotechnology (Mar 2023) (Mar 2023) NFS@Home 2009-09-05 California State University, Fullerton Integer factorization Performs parts of the number field sieve in the factorization of large integers (Mar 2023) (Mar 2023) NumberFields@Home 2011-08-12 Arizona State University's School of Mathematics Number theory Search for number fields with special properties to assist with the formulation of mathematical conjectures (Mar 2023) (Mar 2023) ODLK 2017-04-06 Independent Mathematics (Mar 2023) (Mar 2023) ODLK1 2017-10-22 Independent Mathematics (Mar 2023) (Mar 2023) PrimeGrid 2005-06-12 Independent Mathematics Search for world record sized prime numbers, search for particular types of primes, such as 321 primes, Cullen-Woodall primes, Proth prime, and prime Sierpinski numbers. Subprojects also include Seventeen or Bust, and the Riesel problem. (Mar 2023) (Mar 2023) Radioactive@home 2011-10-21 Poland Physics Real-time radiation monitoring, detected by gamma sensors connected to volunteer computers (Mar 2023) (Mar 2023) RakeSearch 2017-09-14 Karelian Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences Mathematics Search of diagonal Latin squares (Mar 2023) (Mar 2023)RALPH@home 2006-02-15 University of Washington Software testing Test project for Rosetta@home (Mar 2023) (Mar 2023) Ramanujan machine 2021-10-14 Independent Mathematics Conjecturing new mathematical formulas (Mar 2023) (Mar 2023) RNA World 2009-05-21 Independent research group in Marburg, Germany Molecular biology Uses bioinformatics software to study RNA structure (Mar 2023) (Mar 2023) Rosetta@home 2005-10-06 University of Washington Molecular biology Protein structure prediction for disease research (Mar 2023) (Mar 2023) SheepIt Renderfarm Art Rendering of 3D Animations (Jun 2023) SiDock@home2020-12-19Russian Academy of SciencesMolecular biologyCitizen science project for independent decentralized drug design by distributed computing (Mar 2023) (Mar 2023)SRBaseSRBase home page2013-01-02IndependentMathematics Trying to solve the generalized Sierpinski problems and the generalized Riesel problems with bases up to 1030, the project is Conjectures 'R UsConjectures 'R Us home page (Mar 2023) (Mar 2023)TN-Grid2014-05-01Research Area of Trento of the National Research Council of Italy, University of TrentoGeneticsGene@home is a scientific project belonging to the infrastructure TrentoGrid. It aims to expand networks of genes. (Mar 2023) (Mar 2023) Twin Prime Search 2006-04-13 Mathematics Searches for large twin primes (Mar 2023) Universe@Home2015-02-19 Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences Astronomy Computational astrophysics, computer simulation of stars, galaxies, and the Universe (Mar 2023) (Mar 2023) WEP-M+2 Project 2006-05-12 London, England, United Kingdom Mathematics Factorization of Mersenne+2 numbers (Mar 2023) (Mar 2023) World Community Grid 2004-11-16 Krembil Research Institute Humanitarian research on disease, natural disasters, and hunger Disease research, various worldwide humanitarian problems. Subprojects include(d) GO Fight Against Malaria, Drug Search for Leishmaniasis, Computing for Clean Water, Clean Energy Project, Discovering Dengue Drugs – Together, Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy, Help Fight Childhood Cancer. Smash Childhood Cancer, Help Conquer Cancer, Help Defeat Cancer, Mapping Cancer Markers, Human Proteome Folding Project, FightAIDS@Home, Uncovering Genome Mysteries, Let's outsmart Ebola together, Help Stop TB, OpenZika. (Mar 2023) (Mar 2023) WUProp@Home 2010-03-27 Independent Statistics Collect various statistics about other BOINC projects (Mar 2023) (Mar 2023) YAFU2011-09-01 Software testing, Mathematics Test BOINC server software, integer factorization (Mar 2023) (Mar 2023) 2007-07-19 Independent Mathematics, physics, and evolution Elliptic curve factorization, Riesel/Sierpinski siever, M queens puzzle (Mar 2023) (Mar 2023)
Completed projects Project Launched Completed Sponsor Category Research focus BOINC basedProcessing unitsPerformance in TeraFLOPS ABC@Home 2006-11-21 2014-06-01 Mathematical Institute of Leiden University, Kennislink Mathematics Find triples related to the abc conjecture, one of the greatest open problems in mathematics. AlmereGrid 2006-09-27 Almere, the NetherlandsMultiple applications A number of applications from local researchers. AlmereGrid TestGrid 2008-02-24Multiple applications Test of the AlmereGrid project. AndrOINC Independent Cryptography Broke Motorola's 1024-bit RSA key used to sign the boot and recovery partition partitions on the Motorola Milestone smartphone. AQUA@home 2008-12-10 2011-08-23 D-Wave Systems, Canada Quantum computing Used Quantum Monte Carlo to predict the performance of superconducting adiabatic quantum computers on a variety of problems. Artificial Intelligence SystemIntelligence Realm IncSimulate the brain using Hodgkin–Huxley models via an artificial neural network ATLAS@Home 2014-06-19 2017-04-07 CERN Physics Ran simulations of the ATLAS experiment at CERN. Background Pi Computed decimal digits of pi using digit extraction method. Biochemical Library Vanderbilt University Molecular biology Performed research using the Biochemical Algorithms Library into proteins and their interactions with small molecules for disease research. BOINC@TACC2018-07-30 2022-09Texas Advanced Computing CenterMultiple aerospace engineering, computational biology, and earthquake engineering BURP 2004-06-17 Art Rendering of 3D Animations CAS@home2010-07-19Chinese Academy of SciencesPhysics, biochemistry, and others Provide computing power to Chinese Researchers Cell Computing2008NTT Databiomedical research Chess960@home 2006-03-20 Independent Games and Puzzles Analysis of chess 960. Citizen Science Grid2012-01-01University of North DakotaMultiple applications Animals, Biology, Birds, Climate and weather, Education, Nature, and outdoors Cleanmobility.now2013-08 Chemistry Find safer and greener materials for e-vehicle batteries Comcute 2010 2016 Gdańsk University of Technology, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics Mathematics, Artificial intelligence, Physics Compute for Humanity 2015-08 2017 Independent Cryptocurrencies, Charitable Organizations Constellation Students at the University of Stuttgart, Germany Aerospace, Engineering Various aerospace-related science and engineering problems. Correlizer2011 EpiGenSys Consortium and EraSysBio+, part of the Seventh Framework Program of the European Union Genetics The sequential organization of genomes, and its connection to their 3D architectural organization. Cosmology@Home 2007-06-26 2024-01 Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris Astronomy Find the most accurate models that best describe the universe (Mar 2023) (Mar 2023)DIMESMaps the structure and evolution of the Internet infrastructure, letting users see how the Internet looks from their home DistributedDataMining 2010-03-04 2018-04-20 Data analysis, machine learning Research in the various fields of data analysis and machine learning, such as prediction of market value of companies'shares and analysis of medical data DistrRTgen 2008-01-12