Astronomy & Astrophysics - Arts
Biology & Medicine - Chemistry - Climate study
Cognitive science - Computer science - Cryptography
Earth & Environmental science - History - Language & Literature - Social science
Mathematics (Integer factorization, Number theory, Prime numbers)
Physics (Large Hadron Collider) - Software testing (Chess engines) - Statistics - Others
Cosmology@Home - Find the most accurate models that best describe the universe
Milkyway@Home - Create a highly accurate three-dimensional model of the Milky Way galaxy using data collected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Stardust@home - Scans/analyzes the collection grid from the NASA Stardust mission to capture particles from the coma of comet Wild 2
Universe@Home - 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
Astronomy / Physics / Chemistry
Asteroids@home - To significantly enlarge our knowledge of the physical properties of asteroids
Einstein@Home - Search for pulsars using radio signals and gravitational wave data
Galaxy Zoo - Classifies galaxy types from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
AstroQuest - Complete quests to help Australian scientists understand how galaxies grow and evolve.
Zooniverse - 20 space projects:
BURP - Rendering of 3D animations
Electric Sheep - Screen Saver for desktop and laptop computers
Zooniverse - 7 arts projects:
Folding@home - Understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases, with a minor emphasis in protein structure prediction; computing power also harnessed the power of PlayStation 3s
RNA World - Uses bioinformatics software to study RNA structure
Rosetta@home - Protein structure prediction for disease research
GPUGRID - Many graphics cards (GPUs) joined together to deliver high-performance all-atom biomolecular simulations
Zooniverse - 61 biology projects:
DENIS@Home - Research in Cardiac Electrophysiology
DreamLab - Breast, ovarian, prostate and pancreatic cancer
Zooniverse - 7 medicine projects:
Climateprediction.net - Investigates the approximations that have to be made in state-of-the-art climate models
Zooniverse - 12 climate projects:
Cleanmobility.now - Find safer and greener materials for e-vehicle batteries
Quantum Medicinal Chemistry at Home - Do quantum-mechanical computations on medically relevant biomolecular systems, to help with developing quantum-mechanics-based approaches for computational drug design
MindModeling@Home - Builds cognitive models of the human mind
iThena - Generally computer networks
Distributed.net - Crack the RC5-72 cipher, find optimal Golomb rulers of length 28
Enigma@Home - Decode 3 unbroken Enigma messages from World War II
Moo! Wrapper - Combines BOINC with distributed.net to try to break the RC5 cipher
Quake Catcher Network - Seismic Monitoring - An accelerometer is needed to run this project, for others an USB attachment is necessary
Zooniverse - 64 nature projects:
Zooniverse - 26 history projects:
Zooniverse - 12 social science projects:
Collatz Conjecture - Study the Collatz conjecture, an unsolved conjecture in mathematics
Gerasim@Home - Researched in discrete mathematics and logic control systems
SRBase - Solving Mathematical problems of Sierpinski/Riesel Base
Van Der Waerden Numbers - Mathematical solutions relating to Van Der Waerden Theorem
NFS@Home - Performs parts of the Number Field Sieve in the factorization of large integers
NumberFields@Home - Search for number fields with special properties to assist with the formulation of mathematical conjectures
Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) - Searches for Mersenne primes of world record size
Primaboinca - Search for counterexamples to Agrawal's conjecture and Popovych's conjecture, which relate to the identification of prime numbers
Twin Prime Search - Searches for large twin primes
WEP-M+2 Project - Investigates the factorization of Mersenneplustwo prime numbers
PrimeGrid - Searching for large twin primes of the form k*2^n+1 and k*2^n-1
Radioactive@home - Real-time radioactivity monitoring, detected by gamma sensors connected to volunteer computers
Zooniverse - 13 physics projects:
LHC@home - Improve the design of the Large Hadron Collider and its detectors
Albert@home - Testing project for Einstein@Home
RALPH@home - Test project for Rosetta@home
SETI@home Beta - Test project of SETI@home
YAFU - Test BOINC server software, integer factorization
Pirates@Home - Always under development, so please don't expect it to work all the time; in fact, right now we have very little work, just occasional tests
Fishtest - Validates patches to the Stockfish chess engine by playing thousands of chess games at fast time controls between different versions of the engine
Leela Chess Zero - Trains chess neural-networks with deep reinforcement learning, experiments with training parameters and net architectures
WUProp@Home - Collect various statistics about other BOINC projects
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
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
Cohesion Platform is a Java-based modular peer-to-peer multi-application desktop grid computing platform for irregularly structured problems developed at the University of Tübingen (Germany)
The European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) is 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
GridECON takes a user-oriented perspective and creates solutions to grid challenges to promote widespread use of grids
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 is 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 is 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.
BEinGRID - Business Experiments in Grid
Legion is a grid computing platform developed at the University of Virginia
DiaGrid is a grid computing network centered at Purdue University
SARA Computing and Networking Services in Netherlands
The Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) - formerly Teragrid