Rechenkraft.net, DGLR, Selfnet, and shack", "Aerospace-related science and engineering", "Constellation is a platform for aerospace-related simulations, including trajectory optimization of launchers, satellites and probes, simulation of Moon's near-surface exosphere, and analysis of dynamic systems of exploration-rovers", "constellation2.png", "", "Perform aerospace-related simulations" ), // array( // "eOn", // "http://eon.ices.utexas.edu/eon2/", // tra("University of Texas at Austin"), // tra("Chemistry"), // tra("A common problem in theoretical chemistry, condensed matter physics and materials science is the calculation of the time evolution of an atomic scale system where, for example, chemical reactions and/or diffusion occur. Generally the events of interest are quite rare (many orders of magnitude slower than the vibrational movements of the atoms), and therefore direct simulations, tracking every movement of the atoms, would take thousands of years of computer calculations on the fastest present day computer before a single event of interest can be expected to occur. Our research group is interested in calculating the long time dynamics of systems."), // "", // "", // "Study the time evolution of atomic systems" // ), // array( // "Orbit@home", // "http://orbit.psi.edu/oah/", // tra("Planetary Science Institute"), // tra("Astronomy"), // tra("Monitor and study the hazard posed by near-Earth asteroids"), // "http://orbit.psi.edu/" // ), // array( // "Cosmology@Home", // "http://www.cosmologyathome.org/", // tra("University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"), // tra("Astronomy"), // tra("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."), // "cosmo.jpg", // "", // "Study the evolution of the Universe" // ), array( "Universe@Home", "universeathome.pl/universe/", "University of Warsaw", tra("Astronomy"), "Universe@Home aims to create the first database of the simulated stellar content of the Universe, from the earliest stars to the most exotic black hole binaries.", "universe_at_home.png", "", "Do research in physics and astronomy" ), array( "Milkyway@home", "http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/", tra("Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute"), tra("Astronomy"), tra("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."), "mw.png", "", "Study the structure of the Milky Way galaxy" ), array( "Leiden Classical", "http://boinc.gorlaeus.net/", tra("Leiden University, The Netherlands"), tra("Chemistry"), tra("Surface science calculations using Classical Dynamics. 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."), "leiden_classical.png", "", "Help students do atomic simulations" ), // array( // "uFluids@home", // "http://www.ufluids.net/", // tra("Purdue University"), // tra("Physics/Aeronautics"), // tra("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."), // "ufluids.gif" // ), array( "Einstein@home", "http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/", tra("Univ. of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Max Planck Institute"), tra("Astrophysics"), tra("Search for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors, and from the Arecibo radio observatory. Einstein@Home is a World Year of Physics 2005 project supported by the American Physical Society (APS) and by a number of international organizations."), "einstein.jpg", "", "Help detect pulsars and gravitational waves" ), // array( // "Albert@home", // "http://albert.phys.uwm.edu/", // tra("Univ. of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Max Planck Institute"), // tra("Astrophysics"), // "Test project for Einstein@home", // "" // ), array( "LHC@home", "http://lhcathomeclassic.cern.ch/sixtrack/", tra("CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)"), tra("Physics"), tra("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."), "lhc.jpg", "", "Improve the design of the Large Hadron Collider" ), array( "vLHCathome", "http://lhcathome2.cern.ch/vLHCathome/", tra("CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)"), tra("Physics"), tra("This project uses CERN-developed virtual machine technology for LHC event physics simulation on volunteer computers. Requires that you install VirtualBox on your computer"), "t4t.png", "", "Simulate high-energy particle collisions" ), array( "ATLAS@Home", "http://atlasathome.cern.ch/", tra("CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)"), tra("Physics"), tra("ATLAS@Home uses volunteer computing to run simulations for ATLAS, a particle physics experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. ATLAS searches for new particles and processes using head-on collisions of protons of extraordinary high energy."), "atlas_at_home.jpg", "", "Simulate high-energy particle collisions for CERN" ), array( "SETI@home", "http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/", tra("University of California, Berkeley"), tra("Astrophysics, astrobiology"), tra("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."), "seti_logo.png", "", "Search for evidence of extra-terrestrial life" ), // array( // "Quantum Monte Carlo at Home", // "http://qah.uni-muenster.de/", // tra("University of Muenster (Germany)"), // tra("Chemistry"), // tra("Study the structure and reactivity of molecules using Quantum Chemistry."), // "logo_oben.jpg" // ), // array( // "Spinhenge@home", // "http://spin.fh-bielefeld.de/", // tra("Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences"), // tra("Chemical engineering and nanotechnology"), // tra("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."), // "rotating-fe30-h90px.gif", // "", // "Study nanoscale magnetism" // ), ), ); $mixed = array( tra("Multiple applications"), array( array( "Citizen Science Grid", "http://csgrid.org", "University of North Dakota", "Molecular biology, Computer Science", "The Citizen Science Grid is dedicated to supporting a wide range of research and educational projects using volunteer computing and citizen science.", "", "", "Support science from the University of North Dakota" ), array( "CAS@home", "http://casathome.ihep.ac.cn/", tra("Chinese Academy of Sciences"), tra("Physics, biochemistry, and others"), tra("The objective of CAS@home is to encourage and assist scientists in China to adopt the technologies of volunteer computing and volunteer thinking for their research."), "cas_at_home.jpg", "", "Help Chinese researchers" ), array( "Yoyo@home", "http://www.rechenkraft.net/yoyo/", tra("Private"), tra("Mathematics, physics, evolution"), tra("Yoyo@home is an adapter between BOINC and several existing volunteer computing projects: ECM, Muon, Evolution@home, and distributed.net"), "", "", "Do research in math, physics, and evolution" ), array( "EDGeS@Home", "http://home.edges-grid.eu/home/", tra("MTA-SZTAKI Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems (Hungary)"), tra("European research projects"), tra("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."), "logo_edges.png", "", "Help European researchers" ), array( "Ibercivis", "http://registro.ibercivis.es/", tra("Spanish universities and research centers"), tra("Various Spanish research projects"), tra("Research in physics, material science, and biomedicine"), "cabecera2.jpg", "", "Help Spanish researchers" ), array( "World Community Grid", "http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/", tra("IBM Corporate Citizenship"), tra("Medical, environmental and other humanitarian research"), tra("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, tropical and neglected diseases, solar energy, clean water and many more."), "wcg.jpg", "", "Do biomedical and environmental research" ), ), ); $math = array( tra("Mathematics, computing, and games"), array( // array( // "SubsetSum@Home", // "http://volunteer.cs.und.edu/subset_sum/", // "University of North Dakota, Computer Science Department", // tra("Computer Science"), // "Research in computational complexity", // "", // "", // "Study the Subset Sum problem" // ), // array( // "OProject@Home", // "http://oproject.info/", // tra("Private"), // tra("Mathematics, Physics, Artificial Intelligence"), // tra("Simulation of quantum computing; Goldbach's conjecture."), // "oproject_logo.png", // "", // "Do research in math, physics, and Artificial Intelligence" // ), array( "NumberFields@home", "http://numberfields.asu.edu/NumberFields/", "Arizona State University, school of Mathematics", "Mathematics", "NumberFields@home searches for fields with special properties. The primary application of this research is in the realm of algebraic number theory. Number theorists can mine the data for interesting patterns to help them formulate conjectures about number fields. Ultimately, this research will lead to a deeper understanding of the profound properties of numbers, the basic building blocks of all mathematics.", "nf_banner_10.jpg", "", "Do research in algebraic number theory" ), // array( // "VolPEx", // "http://volpex.cs.uh.edu/VCP/", // "University of Houston", // "Computer science", // "Creating effective parallel computing on multiple volatile nodes. Apply research on REMD Protein Folding.", // "", // "", // "Study parallel computing across multiple computers" // ), array( "SAT@home", "http://sat.isa.ru/pdsat/", "Institute for System Dynamics and Control Theory and Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Science", "Computer Science", "Solve hard and practically important problems (discrete functions inversion problems, discrete optimization, bioinformatics, etc.) that can be effectively reduced to Boolean satisfiability problem.", "sat_logo.png", "", "Study computational complexity" ), // array( // "Mersenne@home", // "http://mersenneathome.net/", // tra("Private"), // tra("Mathematics"), // tra("Mersenne@home searches for 'Mersenne primes' - prime numbers of the form 2p-1."), // // "mersenne_logo80.png" // ), // array( // "DistrRTgen", // "http://boinc.freerainbowtables.com/distrrtgen/", // "Private", // tra("Cryptography"), // "To give the world's security experts the best tools available for detecting weak hashes. This can help them to force developers to use more secure methods of password protection.", // "freerainbowtables_logo.png", // "", // "Study hash functions" // ), array( "Moo! Wrapper", "http://moowrap.net/", "Private", tra("Cryptography and combinatorics"), "Run applications from distributed.net", "", "", "Run applications from distributed.net" ), array( "Enigma@Home", "http://www.enigmaathome.net/", tra("Private"), tra("Cryptography"), tra("Attempt to decode 3 original Enigma messages. The signals were intercepted in the North Atlantic in 1942 and are believed to be unbroken."), "", "", "Decode WWII submarine messages" ), array( "Collatz Conjecture", "http://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/", tra("Private"), tra("Mathematics"), tra("Study the Collatz Conjecture, an unsolved conjecture in mathematics"), "", "", "Study the Collatz Conjecture" ), array( "NFS@home", "http://escatter11.fullerton.edu/nfs/", tra("California State University Fullerton"), tra("Factorization of large integers"), tra("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."), "NFS_Logo.jpg", "", "Study the factorization of large integers" ), // array( // "VTU@home", // "http://boinc.vgtu.lt/vtuathome/", // tra("Vilnius Gediminas Technical University and Kaunas University of Technology (Lithuania)"), // tra("Software testing"), // tra("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."), // "vtuathome-white.gif", // "", // "Help Lithuanian researchers" // ), // array( // "AQUA@home", // "http://aqua.dwavesys.com/", // tra("D-Wave Systems, Inc."), // tra("Quantum computing"), // tra("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."), // "logo_dwave2.png" // ), // array( // "SHA-1 Collision Search Graz", // "http://boinc.iaik.tugraz.at/sha1_coll_search/", // tra("Graz University of Technology (Austria)"), // tra("Cryptography"), // tra("Search for collisions (weaknesses) of the widely-used SHA-1 hash function."), // "LogoKryptoGroup_klein.jpg" // ), // array( // "ABC@home", // "http://abcathome.com/", // tra("Mathematical Institute of Leiden University / Kennislink"), // tra("Mathematics"), // tra("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."), // "abclogo.jpg", // "", // "Study the ABC conjecture" // ), array( "PrimeGrid", "http://www.primegrid.com/", tra("Private"), tra("Mathematics"), tra("Primegrid has multiple projects searching for different forms of very large prime numbers, including searching for the largest known prime number."), "primegrid_logo.png", "", "Search for large prime numbers" ), array( "primaboinca", "http://www.primaboinca.com/", tra("Hochschule RheinMain University of Applied Sciences"), tra("Mathematics"), tra("Search for counterexamples to two conjectures related to the identification of prime numbers"), "logo_primaboinca.gif", "", "Study the properties of prime numbers" ), array( "SZTAKI Desktop Grid", "http://szdg.lpds.sztaki.hu/szdg/", tra("MTA-SZTAKI Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems (Hungary)"), tra("Mathematics"), tra("Find all the generalized binary number systems (in which bases are matrices and digits are vectors) up to dimension 11."), "szdg1_small.jpg", "", "Study number theory" ), // array( // "Riesel Sieve", // "http://boinc.rieselsieve.com/", // tra("Riesel Sieve community"), // tra("Mathematics"), // tra("Find prime numbers of the form k*2n-1"), // "" // ), // array( // "Rectilinear Crossing Number", // "http://dist.ist.tugraz.at/cape5/", // tra("Graz University of Technology (Austria)"), // tra("Mathematics"), // tra("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."), // "" // ), // array( // "Chess960@home", // "http://www.chess960athome.org/alpha/", // tra("Chess-960.org"), // tra("Game study"), // tra("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."), // "chess960athome.jpg" // ), // array( // "NQueens@home", // "http://nqueens.ing.udec.cl/", // tra("Universidad de ConcepciĆ³n, Chile"), // tra("Mathematics"), // tra("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."), // "NQueens-Logo1b.png" // ), // array( // "sudoku@vtaiwan", // "http://sudoku.nctu.edu.tw/", // "National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan", // tra("Mathematics"), // "Sudoku@vtaiwan seeks to solve the minimum Sudoku problem, a well-known problem in mathematics and computer science.", // "sudoku.png", // "", // "Find the minimum Sudoku puzzle" // ), // array( // "Surveill@Home", // "http://surveill.dei.uc.pt/surveill", // "University of Coimbra, Portugal", // "Web performance", // tra("Surveill@Home is a research project that conducts end-to-end fine-grained monitoring of web sites. The project will deploy thousands of probes, each of which repeatedly performs transactions on web sites. This approach provides end-user failure and performance statistics."), // "surveill.png" // ), array( "Gerasim@Home", "http://gerasim.boinc.ru/", "Southwest State University (Russia)", "Computer engineering", "Testing and comparison of heuristic methods for getting separations of parallel algorithms working in the CAD system for designing logic control systems", "gerasim.gif", "", "", ), ), ); $areas = array($biomed, $astro_phys_chem, $math, $earth, $mixed, $cogsci, $sensing); function lookup_project($url) { foreach ($areas as $area) { foreach ($area as $p) { if ($p[1] == $url) return $p; if (sizeof($p)>6 && $p[6] == $url) return $p; } } return null; } ?>