Wikipedia list article

This is a list of distributed computing and grid computing projects. For each project, donors volunteer computing time from personal computers to a specific cause. The donated computing power comes typically from CPUs and GPUs, but can also come from home video game systems.[1] Each project seeks to solve a problem which is difficult or infeasible to tackle using other methods.

Distributed computing projects [ edit ]

Active projects [ edit ]

Inactive projects [ edit ]

(Work on these projects was either finished, or the project was discontinued).

Grid computing projects [ edit ]

While distributed computing functions by dividing a complex problem among diverse and independent computer systems and then combine the result, grid computing works by utilizing a network of large pools of high-powered computing resources.[288] These are typically "umbrella" projects that have a number of sub-projects underneath them, with multiple research areas.

Grid computing infrastructure [ edit ]

BREIN uses the Semantic Web and multi-agent systems to build simple and reliable grid systems for business, with a focus on engineering and logistics management.

A-Ware is developing a stable, supported, commercially exploitable, high quality technology to give easy access to grid resources. [309]

AssessGrid addresses obstacles to wide adoption of grid technologies by bringing risk management and assessment to this field, enabling use of grid computing in business and society. [310]

Cohesion Platform – A Java-based modular peer-to-peer multi-application desktop grid computing platform for irregularly structured problems developed at the University of Tübingen (Germany) [311]

The European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) – A series of projects funded by the European Commission which links over 70 institutions in 27 European countries to form a multi-science computing grid infrastructure for the European Research Area, letting researchers share computer resources

GridCOMP provides an advanced component platform for an effective invisible grid. [312]

GridECON takes a user-oriented perspective and creates solutions to grid challenges to promote widespread use of grids. [313]

neuGRID develops a new user-friendly grid-based research e-infrastructure enabling the European neuroscience community to perform research needed for the pressing study of degenerative brain diseases, for example, Alzheimer's disease.

OMII-Europe – An EU-funded project established to source key software components that can interoperate across several heterogeneous grid middleware platforms

OurGrid aims to deliver grid technology that can be used today by current users to solve present problems. To achieve this goal, it uses a different trade-off compared to most grid projects: it forfeits supporting arbitrary applications in favor of supporting only bag-of-tasks applications.

ScottNet NCG – A distributed neural computing grid. A private commercial effort in continuous operation since 1995. This system performs a series of functions including data synchronization amongst databases, mainframe systems, and other data repositories. E-commerce transaction processing, automated research and data retrieval, content analysis, web site monitoring, scripted and dynamic user emulation, shipping and fulfillment API integration and management, RSS and NNTP monitoring and analysis, real time security enforcement, and backup/restore functions. [314]

BEinGRID Business Experiments in Grid

Legion – A grid computing platform developed at the University of Virginia

Related projects [ edit ]

Project Status Launched Home Category Research focus BOINC based Active processing units DIMES Maps the structure and evolution of the Internet infrastructure, letting users see how the Internet looks from their home Majestic-12 Uses a distributed web crawler program to index web sites for a distributed search engine[315] NESSI-GRID Aims to provide a unified view for European research in service architectures and software infrastructures that will define technologies, strategies and deployment policies fostering new, open, industrial solutions and societal applications that enhance the safety, security and well-being of citizens[316] OMII-UK Provides free open source software and support to enable a sustained future for the UK e-research community Storage@home Distributed storage infrastructure developed to solve the problem of backing up and sharing petabytes of scientific results using a distributed model of volunteer managed hosts. Data is maintained by a mixture of replication and monitoring, with repairs done as needed. StrataGenie Searches for trading strategies in intraday stock market data and distributes trading signals to subscribers[317] Surveill@Home Active, Alpha[318] University of Coimbra, Portugal[13] Web performance Monitor and test websites for failure rates and overall performance (minimal CPU work)[319] Yes 1,657 (Feb 2012)[320]

Physical infrastructure projects [ edit ]

These projects attempt to make large physical computation infrastructures available for researchers to use: