<description>To investigate 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.</description>
<description>D-Wave's AQUA (Adiabatic QUantum Algorithms) is a research project whose goal is to predict the performance of superconducting adiabatic quantum computers on a variety of hard problems arising in fields ranging from materials science to machine learning. AQUA@home uses Internet-connected computers to help design and analyze quantum computing algorithms, using Quantum Monte Carlo techniques.</description>
<description>The aim of this project is to provide a powerful distributed computing platform for scientists of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU) as well as others Lithuanian academic institutions. Current applications involve the study of Monte-Carlo based software testing.</description>
<home>Vilnius Gediminas Technical University and Kaunas University of Technology (Lithuania)</home>
<general_area>Mathematics, computing, and games</general_area>
<specific_area>Game-playing</specific_area>
<description>The eight queens problem consists of trying to place eight queens on a chessboard so that no queen attacks any other queen. I has long been known that there are 92 solutions, of which 12 are distinct. NQueens@home studies the generalization to N queens on an NxN board, for N=19 and greater.</description>
<general_area>Mathematics, computing, and games</general_area>
<specific_area>Mathematics</specific_area>
<description>Search for 'abc-triples': positive integers a,b,c such that a+b=c, a < b < c, a,b,c have no common divisors and c > rad(abc), where rad(n) is the product of the distinct prime factors of n. The ABC conjecture says that there are only finitely many a,b,c such that log(c)/log(rad(abc)) > h for any real h > 1. The ABC conjecture is currently one of the greatest open problems in mathematics. If it is proven to be true, a lot of other open problems can be answered directly from it.</description>
<home>Mathematical Institute of Leiden University / Kennislink</home>
<general_area>Mathematics, computing, and games</general_area>
<specific_area>Game-playing</specific_area>
<description>This project studies Chess 960, a variant of orthodox chess. In classical chess the starting position of the game never changes. In Chess 960, just before the start of every game, the initial configuration of the chess pieces is determined randomly.</description>
<general_area>Mathematics, computing, and games</general_area>
<specific_area>Mathematics</specific_area>
<description>What is the least number of crossings a straight-edge drawing of the complete graph on top of a set of n points in the plane obtains? From very recent (not even published yet) mathematical considerations the rectilinear crossing numbers for n=19 and n=21 are also known. So the most tantalizing problem now is to determine the true value for n=18, which is the main focus of this project.</description>
<home>Graz University of Technology (Austria)</home>
<general_area>Mathematics, computing, and games</general_area>
<specific_area>Cryptography</specific_area>
<description>Primegrid is generating a public sequential prime number database, and is searching for large twin primes of the form k*2<sup>n</sup>+1 and k*2<sup>n</sup>-1</description>
<general_area>Mathematics, computing, and games</general_area>
<specific_area>Factorization of large integers</specific_area>
<description>NFS@Home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do the lattice sieving step in the Number Field Sieve factorization of large integers. As a young school student, you gained your first experience at breaking an integer into prime factors, such as 15 = 3 * 5 or 35 = 5 * 7. NFS@Home is a continuation of that experience, only with integers that are hundreds of digits long.</description>
<home>California State University Fullerton</home>
<specific_area>Humanitarian research on disease, natural disasters and hunger.</specific_area>
<description>To further critical non-profit research on some of humanity's most pressing problems by creating the world's largest volunteer computing grid. Research includes HIV/AIDS, cancer, muscular dystrophy, dengue fever, and many more.</description>
<specific_area>Scientific research in multiple areas</specific_area>
<description>The EDGeS@Home Beta project integrates volunteer computing into the service grid network of Europe by allowing service grids to send workunits to be processed by the volunteers of this project. The scientific projects covered by the project include math, physics, biology, etc.</description>
<home>MTA-SZTAKI Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems (Budapest)</home>
<description>Superlink@Technion helps geneticists all over the world find disease-provoking genes causing some types of diabetes, hypertension (high blood pressure), cancer, schizophrenia and many others.</description>
<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. </description>
<home>University of Maryland Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology</home>
<description>Determine the 3-dimensional shapes of proteins in research that may ultimately lead to finding cures for some major human diseases. By running Rosetta@home you will help us speed up and extend our research in ways we couldn't possibly attempt without your help. You will also be helping our efforts at designing new proteins to fight diseases such as HIV, Malaria, Cancer, and Alzheimer's</description>
<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. </description>
<specific_area>Study of protein - ligand interactions</specific_area>
<description>Docking@Home has both bioscience and computer science goals. The project aims to further knowledge of the atomic details of protein-ligand interactions and, by doing so, will search for insights into the discovery of novel pharmaceuticals.</description>
<description>Calculate similarities between proteins. SIMAP provides a public database of the resulting data, which plays a key role in many bioinformatics research projects.</description>
<specific_area>Molecular simulations of proteins</specific_area>
<description>GPUGrid.net opens novel computational scenarios by the first full-atom molecular dynamics code (CellMD) specially optimized to run on NVIDIA GPUs. New biomedical applications suddenly become possible giving a new role to computational biology for biomedical research.</description>
<home>Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB)</home>
<description>POEM@HOME uses a computational approach to predict the biologically active structure of proteins, to understand the signal-processing mechanisms when the proteins interact with one another, to understand diseases related to protein malfunction or aggregation, and to develop new drugs on the basis of the three-dimensions structure of biologically important proteins.</description>
<description>The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the world's largest particle physics laboratory. It is the most powerful instrument ever built to investigate on particles proprieties. LHC@home runs simulations to improve the design of LHC and its detectors.</description>
<home>CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)</home>
<description>Surface science calculations using Classical Dynamics. In contrast to other projects, Leiden Classical allows volunteers, students and other scientist to submit their personal calculations to the grid. Each user has his own personal queue for Classical Dynamics jobs. In this way students have used the grid to simulate liquid argon, or to test the validity of the ideal gas law by actually doing the simulations through the grid.</description>
<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.</description>
<home>U.C. Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory</home>
<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 particle physics data.</description>
<home>University of Illinois at Urbana-Chamapign</home>
<description>The goal of Milkyway@Home is to create a highly accurate three dimensional model of the Milky Way galaxy using data gathered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.</description>
<specific_area>Chemical engineering and nanotechnology</specific_area>
<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.</description>
<home>Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences</home>
<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.</description>
<home>Univ. of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Albert Einstein Institute</home>
<description>The uFluids project simulates two-phase fluid behavior in microgravity and microfluidics problems. Our goal is to design better satellite propellant management devices and address two-phase flow in microchannel and MEMS devices.</description>
<description>BAM assists you in creating and managing your BOINC project accounts and helps you with setting preferences, joining or creating teams, connecting your computers to projects, and much more. Whether you're a new or an existing BOINC user, BAM will help you get the most out of BOINC.</description>
<description>GridRepublic members run a screensaver that allows their computers to work on public-interest research projects when the machines are not otherwise in use. This screensaver does not affect performance of the host computer any more than an ordinary screensaver does.</description>
<description>When you join Extremadura@home, you will contribute computing power to projects selected by the Extremadura@home community and to research projects from the Spanish province of Extremadura.</description>
