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  1. BOINC: Compute for Science

    09 May 2024

    BOINC lets you help cutting-edge science research using your computer (Windows, Mac, Linux) or Android device. BOINC downloads scientific computing jobs to your computer and runs them invisibly in the background. It's easy and safe. About 30 science projects use...

  2. Citizen Science Alliance

    09 May 2024

    The CSA is a collaboration of scientists, software developers and educators who collectively develop, manage and utilise internet-based citizen science projects in order to further science itself, and the public understanding of both science and of the scientific...

  3. RNA World

    09 May 2024

    RNA World (beta) is a distributed supercomputer that uses Internet-connected computers to advance RNA-related research. You can participate by downloading and running a free program on your computer.

  4. Milkyway@Home

    09 May 2024

    Milkyway@Home uses the BOINC platform to harness volunteered computing resources, creating a highly accurate three dimensional model of the Milky Way galaxy using data gathered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. This project enables research in both astroinformatics...

  5. FieldScope

    09 May 2024

    Learn about FieldScope on this page and then select from one of the existing projects to explore or join (find a list of projects here). Projects currently in progress investigate topics such as water quality, phenology, and environmental restoration. More...

  6. PrimeGrid

    09 May 2024

    PrimeGrid's primary goal is to bring the excitement of prime finding to the "everyday" computer user. By simply downloading and installing BOINC and attaching to the PrimeGrid project, participants can choose from a variety of prime forms to search. With a little...

  7. Rosetta@Home

    09 May 2024

    Rosetta@home needs your help to determine the 3-dimensional shapes of proteins in research that may ultimately lead to finding cures for some major human diseases. By running the Rosetta program on your computer while you don't need it you will help us speed up and...

  8. POEM@Home

    09 May 2024

    Models protein folding using Anfinsen's dogma

  9. NSF@Home

    09 May 2024

    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...

  10. SETI@Home

    09 May 2024

    SETI@home is a scientific experiment, based at UC Berkeley, that uses Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). You can participate by running a free program that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data.

  11. MindModeling@Home

    09 May 2024

    MindModeling@Home (Beta) is a research project that uses volunteer computing for the advancement of cognitive science. The research focuses on utilizing computational cognitive process modeling to better understand the human mind. We need your help to improve on the...

  12. Mozilla Science Lab

    09 May 2024

    The Mozilla Science Lab is an initiative of the Mozilla Foundation exploring how the power of open source can change the way science is done on the web. We believe a community of peers that work, learn and build together can make research thrive on the open web. We...

  13. Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)

    09 May 2024

    The Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) is an open, networked community that brings together science, data and information technology practitioners. Participation in ESIP is beneficial because it provides an intellectual commons to expose, gather...

  14. Citizen Science Alliance

    09 May 2024

    The CSA is a collaboration of scientists, software developers and educators who collectively develop, manage and utilise internet-based citizen science projects in order to further science itself, and the public understanding of both science and of the scientific...

  15. Einstein@Home

    09 May 2024

    Einstein@Home is a program that uses your computer's idle time to search for gravitational waves from spinning isolated compact objects (among which are pulsars) using data from the LIGO gravitational wave detector.

  16. Gerasim@Home

    09 May 2024

    The project uses Internet-connected computers to do research in discrete mathematics and logic control. The current goal: testing and comparison of heuristic methods for getting separations of parallel algorithms working in the CAD system for designing logic control...

  17. ATLAS@Home

    09 May 2024

    ATLAS@Home is a research project that uses volunteer computing to run simulations of the ATLAS experiment at CERN. You can participate by downloading and running a free program on your computer.

  18. LHC@Home

    09 May 2024

    LHC@Home is a volunteer computing platform where you donate idle time on your computer to help physicists compare theory with experiment, in the search for new fundamental particles and answers to questions about the Universe.

  19. DENIS@Home

    09 May 2024

    DENIS uses volunteer hosts to compute large packets of cardiac electrophysiology simulations. You can participate by downloading and running a free program on your computer. By using the idle time of your computer, you’d be helping researchers on their research...

  20. Comology@Home

    09 May 2024

    Cosmology@Home lets you volunteer your spare computer time (like when your screen saver is on) to help search for the model which best describes our Universe and to find the range of models that agree with available cosmological and particle physics data.

  21. Asteroids@Home

    09 May 2024

    Asteroids@home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in Asteroids@home. You can participate by downloading and running a free program on your computer.

  22. Universe@Home

    09 May 2024

    Universe@Home is a research project that uses volunteers to do research in physics and astronomy. You can participate by downloading and running free program on your computer.

  23. FieldScope

    09 May 2024

    Learn about FieldScope on this page and then select from one of the existing projects to explore or join (find a list of projects here). Projects currently in progress investigate topics such as water quality, phenology, and environmental restoration. More...

  24. CyVerse

    09 May 2024

    CyVerse fills a niche created by the computing epoch and a rapidly evolving world. Developing solutions to today’s grand scientific challenges means that we must understand how the organisms that contribute to our food, fuels, and ecosystem are shaped by interactions...

  25. ATLAS@Home

    09 May 2024

    ATLAS@Home is a research project that uses volunteer computing to run simulations of the ATLAS experiment at CERN. You can participate by downloading and running a free program on your computer.