Talk:List of distributed computing projects

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[edit] For-Profit/Not-for-profit research

Maybe it should specifiy if the research results are open to everyone, if they are for-profit etc.GeoAtreides (talk) 10:08, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Should be grid computing

Distributed computing in wikipedia has a connotation of being much more tightly coupled than this type of project. The wikipedia entry that best describes this sort of project is grid computing. I suggest a move is desirable to List of grid computing projects. --David Woolley

I partly agree, but I also disagree with you. Yes, it fits better as far as the wikipedia articles for grid computing. However, in the actual distributed computing communities all over the Internet, I have always seen it referred to as "distributed computing" and never "grid computing" so from that viewpoint, I still think it should be left as is ("List of distributed computing projects"). PS2pcGAMER 14:08, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
I'll admit, I have very limited experience in this topic, but as a layperson let me mention that I have only heard of these projects referred to as "distributed computing," even if it is true that this term has a more general meaning than specifically this type of project. If you all do decide to change the name of this article, I suggest you make the change a wikipedia-wide policy, and make sure any articles referring to articles of this type use the accepted vocabulary. Perhaps this issue should be posted on related talk pages as well to draw input.Shaggorama 13:14, 18 January 2006 (UTC)


Hi, I think the list of distributed computing research projects should be categorized by field of study (economics, mathematics, Internet, cryptography, biology, physics, etc.) Do you agree? /Gary Germeil /4th of April 2006

[edit] SETI@home computes data at more than 100 TFLOPS

According to Boinc Stats page the average computation speed is around 235 TFLOPS. - G3, 12:20, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Project statistics and reference from Distributed computing

This just appeared in the Distributed computing article, but seems better placed here. --Allan McInnes (talk) 14:02, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Popular projects in volunteer distributed computing:

Project Start Where Area Peak_#hosts
GIMPS 1996 ? mathematics 10,000
distributed.net 1997 ? cryptography 100,000
SETI@home I 1999 University of California, Berkeley SETI 600,000
Folding@home 1999 Stanford University biology 200,000
Grid.org 2002 commercial (United Devices) biomedicine 200,000
Climateprediction.net 2003 University of Oxford climate change 150,000
LHC@home 2004 CERN physics 60,000
Predictor@home 2004 Scripps Research Institute biology 100,000
World Community Grid 2004 commercial (IBM) biomedicine 200,000
Einstein@home 2005 LIGO astrophysics 200,000
SETI@home II 2005 University of California, Berkeley SETI 850,000
Rosetta@home 2005 University of Washington biology 100,000
SIMAP 2005 Technical University of Munich bioinformatics 10,000

Source: A Million Years of Computing - David P. Anderson, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley

[edit] Most popular projects

In the section "Most popular projects" the number of hosts for the World Community Grid is given by a link to grid.org. As fas as I know, these two projects are not the same thing. Page Up 19:08, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Use a category

I have created a category Category:Distributed_computing_projects. That should be used in place of having a page such as Listing.Chirag 15:17, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Folding@Home

This project is listed as using the BOINC infrastructure as well as under custom, running the "COSM" infrastructure. Is this a mistake?? SuperMidget 16:34, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

 Corrected. 71.146.131.14 23:25, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Other projects

Shouldn't Open Science Grid (www.opensciencegrid.org) be on this page somewhere? --Bill.albing 15:34, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

this doesn't look real to me:

Spot 03:42, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

What about M4, the Enigma code breaking project?--VAcharon 08:49, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Is this list intended to be limited to voluntary distributed computing projects? It seems that a platform like Storm botnet should certainly qualify for listing in terms of scale. Or, if this is intended for voluntary efforts, or some other form of restriction that excludes such projects, it would be worth making a note to that effect. In either case, it would be worth including a link to information about botnets, since some of them clearly are major distributed computing projects. Zodon (talk) 19:56, 16 March 2008 (UTC)