Evolution@Home
- Distributed computing program for evolutionary biology.
- http://evolutionary-research.net

Boitho
- Boitho distributed crawler (BETA). Goal is to make a general internet search engine with a thumbnail picture of all the pages.
- http://www.searchdaimon.com/dc/

How to Join Distributed Computing Projects That Benefit Humanity
- An annotated directory of projects combined with commentary and illustrations or screenshots.
- http://www.hyper.net/dc-howto.html

SZTAKI Desktop Grid
- Project based on the Public Resource Computing model, aiming to support computation intensive research tasks with supercomputing-like performance.
- http://szdg.lpds.sztaki.hu/

Distributed Computing Projects - infoAnarchy Wiki
- Long annotated list.
- http://www.infoanarchy.org/en/Distributed_Computing_Projects

Center for Distributed Computing
- Distributed computing projects directory.
- http://www.distcomputing.com/

Leiden Classical
- BOINC project, dedicated to general Classical Dynamics for any scientist or science student.
- http://boinc.gorlaeus.net/

PCP@HOME
- A distributed project to find short Post Correspondence Problems with large shortest solutions.
- http://www.theory.informatik.uni-kassel.de/~stamer/pcp/pcpcontest_en.html

Gómez PEER Community
- Project pays select computer users to run a client that tests internet performance.
- http://peer.gomez.com/

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Computing Grid
- Place to find the grid middleware developed for the future Large Hydron Collider in CERN.
- http://lcg.web.cern.ch/LCG/

Rosetta@home
- BOINC project to predict and design protein structures and protein-protein and protein-ligand interactions. The goal is to develop methods that accurately predict and design protein structures and complexes.
- http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/

NGrid
- NGrid is a .Net open source grid computing framework written in C#. NGrid provides a transparent multithread and garbage collected programming model for grid programming.
- http://ngrid.sourceforge.net

P2P Distributed Computing Framework
- JNGI is a open-source generic P2P distributed computing framework.
- http://jngi.jxta.org

The DBGlobe Project
- Aims at developing novel data management techniques to deal with the challenge of global computing.
- http://softsys.cs.uoi.gr/dbglobe/index1.html

Majestic 12
- Distributed Computing Project aimed towards building the largest search engine index on the Internet using Distributed Crawlers.
- http://www.majestic12.co.uk

Distributed Hardware Evolution Project (DHEP)
- Using a desktop's idle time, arrive at designs of self-diagnosing circuits superior to those produced by conventional design. FAQ, statistics, news, academic papers, forum, and source code.
- http://dhep.dbestern.com/

The EON Project
- Software for the long time scale simulation of solids. From University of Washington Chemistry Department.
- http://eon.cm.utexas.edu/

World Community Grid
- Mission is to create the largest public computing grid benefiting humanity. Currently supporting the Human Proteome Folding project to provide scientists with data that predicts the shape of a very large number of human proteins.
- http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/

Distributed Proofreaders Europe
- Modeled after the Digital Proofreaders project, this variation focuses on digitization of works considered to be in the public domain in Europe.
- http://dp.rastko.net/

Distributedcomputing.info
- Kirk Pearson's directory of current distributed computing projects as well as news articles and related materials.
- http://www.distributedcomputing.info/

Compute Against Cancer
- Corporate-sponsored project exploring cancer development, prevention and treatment. [Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME]
- http://www.computeagainstcancer.org/

Distributed Computing Arcana
- A forum for discussing SETI, RC5, F@H, G@H, the UD Cancer Project, and other distributed computing efforts.
- http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/ubb.x?a=frm&s=50009562&f=122097561

Mobius
- Research project developing tools and middleware components to coherently share and manage data and metadata in a Grid or distributed computing environment.
- http://projectmobius.osu.edu

XGrid@Stanford
- Project of a postdoctoral fellow in Brian Kobilka's lab, in the Molecular and Cellular Physiology department, Stanford University running large calculations, the purpose being to modelize the conformational changes of the beta 2 adrenergic receptor and ha
- http://cmgm.stanford.edu/~cparnot/xgrid-stanford/

Muon1 Optimisation Project
- Uses PC idle time to simulate and design a particle accelerator.
- http://www.stephenbrooks.org/muon1/

NETI@home
- Open-source software package designed to run on end-user machines while collecting various statistics about Internet performance.
- http://www.neti.gatech.edu/

12121 Search
- Help this distributed computing project by donating CPU cycles to find primes of the form 121*2^N-1.
- http://12121.vocabulate.com/

Search for Fermat Number Dividers
- Screensaver program tries to find divisors of Fermat numbers.
- http://www.fermatsearch.org/

MoneyBee
- Generates stock forecasts by application of artificial intelligence with the aid of artificial neural networks.
- http://www.moneybee.net/

American Scientist: Collective Wisdom
- Article discusses the "early days" (pre-1998) of distributed computing projects, explains the basics of how they work and how to get them to work well, describes some early successes, and considers how CPU cycles may someday become a commodity t
- http://www.americanscientist.org/amsci/issues/Comsci98/compsci1998-03.html

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Distributed Computing Project
- Project goal is a single run-time environment that ties together several networked supercomputers. Intended users are the community of scientists and engineers addressing "grand challenge" computations.
- http://www.csm.ornl.gov/cs/DistComp.html

Grid.org
- A distributed computing effort by the United Devices Global MetaProcessor with the participation of over 2 million PCs worldwide for cancer, anthrax, and smallpox research projects.
- http://www.grid.org/

SDSC Matrix Project for P2P Grid Workflows
- The SDSC Matrix Project performs research and open-sourced development to deliver the grid workflow protocols and workflow language descriptions necessary to build a peer-to- peer infrastructure for Grid Workflow Management Systems.
- http://www.npaci.edu/DICE/SRB/matrix/

Distributed Proofreaders
- Founded to support the digitization of public domain books. Originally conceived to assist Project Gutenberg, Distributed Proofreaders is now the main source of PG e-books.
- http://www.pgdp.net/

ClimatePrediction.Net
- Large-scale simulation where each participant is given one slightly different scenario to run. Those that successfully model past weather patterns will be more likely to accurately predict the future.
- http://www.climateprediction.net/

The Hunting of the Snark Project
- Explores distributed file sharing through BitTorrent and experiments with the GNU Compiler for Java. It also produces a regular BitTorrent client, torrent creator and tracker program.
- http://www.klomp.org/snark/

GPU, a Global Processing Unit
- GPU is an Open Source Gnutella/Pastella client that allows users to share CPU-resources on a truly P2P based cluster. Applications include a Landscape Generator able to generate movies and an experimental Distributed Search Engine. The client is under dev
- http://gpu.sourceforge.net

Quite Advanced Distributed Parallel Zystem (QADPZ)
- The system allows the management/use of the computational power of idle computers in a network. Based on a client-master-slave architecture, using message based communication.
- http://qadpz.sourceforge.net

The NorduGrid Project
- The Grid middleware development and testbed deployment project in the Nordic countries
- http://www.nordugrid.org

Distributed computing projects
- Distributed computing projects links and short descriptions in English and in Finnish.
- http://koti.mbnet.fi/aquarius/links/link_distributedpower.html

The Virtual Laboratory Project
- Engaged in research, design, and development of Grid technologies that help in solving large-scale compute and data intensive science applications in the area of molecular biology.
- http://www.gridbus.org/vlab/

Globus Project
- Research project developing a software infrastructure for distributed computing on a world-wide scale.
- http://www.globus.org/

Legion: A Worldwide Virtual Computer
- Research project homed at the University of Virginia. An open specification and prototype for a worldwide virtual computer.
- http://legion.virginia.edu/

Repository of Grid Research Projects
- News and resources on grid computing.
- http://www.enterthegrid.com/

The ChessBrain Network
- Distributed network chess experiment. Intends to create a single playing program using donated time.
- http://www.chessbrain.net