Many projects are shown to the public before they are in there final form. This section contains these projects. Some projects are meant to stay in testing for their parent projects and others are intended to be released after testing is finished.
These projects are in alphabetical order. The information is short so that the reader may browse quickly then choose to read more about a certain project of interest.
Africa@home is a collaborative effort to study African humanitarian issues through the use of distributed computing. Africa@home enlists the help of African Universities and institutions during the development of these applications. This project is intended to host multiple research projects, the first of which is MalariaControl.net, which analyzes the spread of malaria in Africa and the theoretical impact of new anti-malarial drugs.
The Artificial Intelligence System project is "reverse engineering the brain in order to build a large scale artificial intelligence system." The company is very small (2 people) so they are proceeding slowly through this large and complex process.
You can download and test future versions of the BOINC software platform from here. This is the software that many of the active projects are currently using and it relies on open source code that is tested by the community.
BRaTS@Home uses the BOINC Platform to perform calculations in gravitational lensing and ray tracing. These calculations deal with how light from a distant source bends due to the influence of a massive object. Some pictures that have been distorted by this simulation can be found here and the project developer's forum post on the subject of the project is here.
This is an early stage project that is designed to render 3D images. Everyone loves nice pictures. Eventually you should be able to upload your own work to be rendered.
The Cels@Home research project is assisting The University of Texas at Austin's Laboratory for Molecular and Cellular Dynamics in its research. Cels@Home uses computational chemistry to explore cell adhesion and migration. One application of this research is the study of metastatic cancer. When cancer metastasises, the cells lose their adhesion and travel to different parts of the body.
Cosmology@Home's goal is to search for the model that best describes our Universe and to find the range of models that agree with the available astronomical and particle physics data. This goal is going be reached through the computation of millions of observable predictions of theoretical models with different parameter combinations from particpants in the project. This software runs on the BOINC Platform.
DepSpid, say that five times fast, works by first analyzing one website and all of the pages of that site that are linked to it. This first step consumes a large amount of bandwidth but very little CPU capacity. The second step of the two step process is more CPU intensive and does not consume much bandwidth. In this second step, dependencies between the pages are calculated.
This project is investigating protein ligand interaction at the atomic scale. These interactions can prove useful in the development of pharmaceuticals. Docking@Home was first released for public testing in September, 2006.
Einstein@Home Beta Testing will stay in permanent beta to test new versions of its parent project Einstein@Home. This is for people who wish to become more actively involved in projects and who have the skills and time needed. Check out Einstein@Home in the active projects section here.
GPU is an open source project hosted on Sourceforge. Features Gnutella client that allows users to share CPU-resources. Right now, this client allows rendering of Rendering Software Terragen movies. An experimental search engine is also included.
Hydrogen@Home has set out to find a clean method of producing hydrogen. Methane Reformation, the most economical method currently available, produces greenhouse gases. If hydrogen can be produced cleanly and used in fuel cells, the entire process could be free of CO2 greenhouse gas emissions. Hydrogen@Home is going to study the interaction of the structures of proteins and substrate involved in clean methods of hydrogen production. The structures used in this study will be obtained from Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics (RCSB)'s database.
This software is open-source and runs on the BOINC Platform.
From the website: "Milkyway@home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in modeling and determining the evolution of the Milkyway galaxy. You can participate by downloading and running a free program on your computer."
This software runs on the BOINC Platform. No other information regarding the science behind the project could be found.
This project allows users to help design 3-D nano-machines. The distributed computing component, NanoHive@Home, is needed to process the complex molecular structures. Check out a cool Google Video about the possible nano-future.
This software is open-source and runs on the BOINC Platform. The website of the parent company is here.
Moved to Active Projects section as of December 2006.
This project will participate in the RSA factoring challenge while at the same time serving as a test bed for PerlBOINC. PerlBOINC is a rewrite of the BOINC Platform in the Perl programming language. Currently in the alpha development phase so it may be a bumpy ride.
Proteins@Home is an effort sponsored by a French Unviersity, École Polytechnique, to build a database of energy functions that describe folded proteins. You can visit here for a lengthier explanation.
QMC@Home is using the BOINC Platform to try a new method of predicting the structure and reactivity of molecules. The method uses the Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method of Quantum Chemistry. They have a pretty good explanation of the science behind the project on their home page.
RALPH@Home will stay in permanent beta to be used to test new versions of its parent project Rosetta@Home. I nominate this project for the coolest name award. It is really fun to say...RALPH@Home RALPH@Home RALPH@Home. Check out Rosetta@Home in the active projects section here.
The University of California Berkeley is developing Astropulse to search for black holes, pulsars, and extra terrestrial life by re-examining the tapes recorded for their SETI@home project. Astropulse is in the beta testing stage and is only appropriate for users that can check for and help solve problems daily.
Moved to the Active Projects section as of February 2007.
Spinhenge@home is a Nanotechnology pursuit based in Germany. Although the term can be used loosely, Nanotechnology is the ability to control matter at the atomic level. This project is attempting to model nano sized electronic "switches". More information about is provided on the project's about page. This project uses the BOINC Platform.
Haven't you been wishing that someone would study the simulation of two-phase fluid behavior in microgravity and microfluidics problems? I know I have! According to the people at uFluids, whomever they may be, this may help us design better satellite propellant management devices and Uses the address two-phase flow in microchannel and MEMS devices. Uses the BOINC Platform.
*The organization that created this website, Open Web Design, LLC, assumes no liability for the programs mentioned on this website. Do not install any of these programs without reading and understanding the information provided by each project's website.