The Current List of Alpha Test/Beta Test Projects
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[edit] General
These BOINC Powered Projects are in testing and are not recommended to be joined by the general public. The Science Applications are likely to be unstable and may damage the software installed on the computer.
[edit] BOINC Projects in Beta Test Phase
These BOINC Powered Projects are more stable than those in the Alpha Test phase of their life-cycle. Though more stable than those BOINC Powered Projects in Alpha Test, the Science Applications may still "crash" unexpectedly.
| Project | Project Web Site (if public) | Project Goal or Comments | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABC@home Beta | ABC@home Beta Project Web Site | Beta test project for ABC@home | |
| Climateprediction.net Coupled model Ocean Spin Up | Required to get some stable ocean and atmosphere pairs in order to start the hindcast planned for Feb 2006. 200 year model. | ||
| Cosmology960@Home | Cosmology0@Home Web Site | The goal of Cosmology@Home 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. Account creation closed. | |
| Genetic Life | Genetic Life Web Site | Genetic Life is a not-for-profit research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research into Genetic Algorithms. Specialy to simulate the evolution of simple life forms. | |
| Nanohive | NanoHive Web Site | ... | |
| Orbit@Home | orbit@home web site | orbit@home is a project that seeks to calculate the orbits of near-earth orbit-crossing asteroids. | |
| Poem@Home Project | Poem@Home Web Site | POEM@Home (Protein Optimization with Energy Methods) is a Beta Test Project that is modeling the "folding" of protein structures. | |
| PS3Grid | PS3Grid Web Site | PS3GRID is a volunteer computing project based on BOINC for full-atom molecular dynamics simulations and other scientific applications specially optimized for the Cell processor and the PlayStation3. | |
| QMC@Home | QMC Web Site | currently performing test production runs | |
| Rieselsieve | RieselSieve Web Site | ... | |
| SETI@Home Beta Test | SETI@Home Beta Test Web Site | Tests upcoming versions of the SETI@Home Science Application. | ... |
| Spinhenge@Home | Spinhenge@Home Web Site | Calculating and simulating spin dynamics in nanoscale molecular magnets. | |
| Superlink@Technion | Superlink@Technion Web Site | Superlink@Technion helps geneticists all over the world find disease-provoking genes causing some types of diabetes, hypertension (high blood pressure), cancer, schizophrenia and many others. | |
| yoyo@home | yoyo@home Web Site | yoyo@home brings existing distributed computing projects to the Boinc world using the Boinc Wrapper technology. yoyo@home is currently running the following sub-projects:
- evolution@home (beta) simulates evolution of a simplified model of biological reality. - the distributed.net client and runs OGR work units. This project searches for the shortest Optimal Golumb Ruler of the length 25. |
[edit] Projects, Science Applications, and Platforms for Beta-Projects
Below is a table of the known BOINC Powered Projects, their Science Applications vs. support by Platform.
Please note, being beta, the info can change fairly often. Will recommend to check projects own web-pages regularly, for any updated information.
| Project | Science Application | Operating System | Installed Memory-requirement (MB) | Disk Space Required (MB) | Process time (CPU dependant) | Download Size (MB) | Upload Size (MB) | Deadline (days) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC@home Beta | ABC finder | Windows, Linux, MacOS Intel | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Cosmology@home | CAMB | Windows, Linux | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Genetic Life | GenLife | Windows, Linux, MacOS, Other (*1) | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Nanohive | Nano-hive | Windows | 95.37 | 96 | ? | 0.01 | ? | 7 |
| NHAH Quantum Search | Windows | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | |
| Orbit@Home | rng (test application) | Windows, Linux | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Poem@Home Project | Poem | Windows, Linux, MacOS Intel | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | 7 |
| PS3Grid | Gramicidin A potassium ion permeation | Linux on PS3 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| QMC@Home | Amolqc | Windows, Linux | 85.84 | 29 | 8-14h | 1 | ? | 14-18 |
| Rieselsieve | llr | Windows, Linux x86 and PPC | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Sieve | Windows, Linux | 95.37 | 39 | 1.25h | 0.01 | ? | 7 | |
| SETI@Home Beta Test | Astropulse | Windows, Linux | ? | ? | 48h+ | 8 | ? | 14 |
| setiathome-enhanced | Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris | 31.00 | 0.489 | 1.5-24h | 0.36 | 0.02 | 4.3-55.1 | |
| Spinhenge@Home | Monte Carlo Metropolis | Windows | 64 | 10 | 0.25 - 2 h per WU | variating | 200 Byte | 7 - 14 |
| Monte Carlo Metropolis Beta Test Checkpointing/Screensaver | Windows, Linux | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | |
| Superlink@Technion | Superlink | Windows, Linux, MacOS PPC | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| yoyo@home | Cruncher | Windows, Linux x86+PS3, MacOS, FreeBSD, Solaris | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| evolution@home | Windows | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
- Note on memory, this is computers total installed memory, but remember a little bit is always "lost" in bios so a computer needs more memory than noted in the table to get any work.
- Mac-support, projects marked Mac OS X (Not Intel) does not support Intel-Macs.
- Some projects have Tasks with various Process-times, these are marked yellow.
- Process Times is for roughly a 2 GHz computer, and is by no means exact. Also, other things like cpu-type, cache-size and memory-speed can greatly influence Process Times, so same computer can perform better in one project while significantly worse in another. Still, the table should hopefully give a rough idea how a computer will perform in different projects.
- Other (*1) : Genetic Life binaries are available for FreeBSD i386, HPUX(PARISC), Linux (Alpha, IAA4, PPC/Power/PS3), MacOS (Intel, PPC), NetBSD (i386), OpenBSD (i386), Solaris (SPARC, x86_64)
[edit] BOINC Projects in Alpha Test Phase
These BOINC Powered Projects are unstable and the Science Application is usually not "feature complete". There is a real high probability that the Science Application will not run at all and that it will fault and possibly take the BOINC Client Software down also, making everything stop.
| Project | Project Web Site (If public) | Project Goal or Comments |
|---|---|---|
| APS@home | APS@home Web Site | APS@home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research into the effects of atmospheric dispersion as it relates to the accuracy of measurements used in climate prediction. Invite code needed. |
| Big and Ugly Rendering Project (BURP) | BURP Web Site | BURP aims to develop a publicly distributed system for rendering 3D animations.. |
| BOINC Alpha Test | BOINC Alpha Web Site | BOINC Core Client Test Project By invitation only. |
| BRaTS@home | BRaTS@home Web Site | BRaTS@Home do various calculations in Gravitational Ray Tracing. BRaTS stands for BRaTS Ray Trace Simulator. Account creation closed. |
| Chess960@Home | Chess960@Home Web Site | alpha, account creation enabled , Windows (not Win9x) and Unix clients supported |
| DepSpid | DepSpid Web Site | DepSpid is a distributed type of a web crawler (like the ones used by search engines) and has two major goals:
1st: Build up a database containing the dependencies between individual web sites and groups of web sites. 2nd: Collect statistical data about the structure of the web. |
| Docking@home | Docking@home Web Site | From the bioscience point of view, the project aims to further knowledge of the atomic details of protein-ligand interactions and, by doing so, will search for insights into the discovery of novel pharmaceuticals. |
| Enigma@home | Enigma@home Web Site | Enigma@Home is a wrapper between BOINC and Stefan Krah's M4 Project. 'The M4 Project is an effort to break 3 original Enigma messages with the help of distributed computing. The signals were intercepted in the North Atlantic in 1942 and are believed to be unbroken |
| Feynman@Home | Feynman@Home Web Site | announced |
| Folding@Home | Folding@Home Web Site | Announced April 2005, but now in October 2006 nothing happened for 6 months |
| Hydrogen@Home | Hydrogen@Home Web Site | Hydrogen@Home studies clean technologies for the production of hydrogen for energy purposes. Invitation code required. |
| LHC@Home Alpha | LHC@Home Alpha Web Site | LHC@Home Test Project. By invitation only. |
| Milkyway@Home | Milkyway@Home | ... |
| Neuron | Neuron Web Site | ... |
| ORSA@Work | ORSA@Work Web Site | pre-alpha', non-BOINC' |
| PlanetQuest | PlanetQuest Web Site | |
| Pirates@Home | Pirates@Home Website | Pirates@Home was originally set up as a prototype and test stand to prepare for the development of Einstein@Home. It was then used to test graphics development for Einstein@Home, along with the development of a number of more general BOINC tests and demonstration applications. It was shut down at the end of June of 2005.
Pirates@home was resurected in January of 2006 to test the use of the BOINC discussion forum software and related software for a non-BOINC project called Interactions in Understanding the Universe. Pirates@Home is always just a test. |
| PrimeGrid (Formerly Message@Home) | PrimeGrid Web Site | PrimeGrid FAQ. |
| Proteins | Proteins Web Site | ... |
| RALPH@Home | RALPH Web Site | Rosetta@Home Test Project. |
| Rectilinear Crossing Number | Rectilinear Crossing Number Web Site | ... |
| SciLINC | SciLINC Web Site | |
| Sudoku | Sudoku Web Site | Sudoku search for the smallest possible start configuration of Sudoku |
| SHA-1 Collision Search Graz | SHA-1 Collision Search Graz Web Site | research in cryptanalysis. |
| TANPAKU | TANPAKU Web Site | TANPAKU is aiming to predict protein structures with the help of your comutational resources. |
| The Lattice Project | Lattice Web Site | The Lattice Project is an effort by a community of scientists at the University of Maryland to develop and deploy a comprehensive Grid system for scientific analysis |
| uFluids@Home | μFluids@Home Web Site | μFluids project is a massively distributed computer simulation of two-phase fluid behavior in microgravity and microfluidics problems. Our goal is to design better satellite propellant management devices and address two-phase flow in microchannel and MEMS devices. |
| XtremLab | XtremLab Web Site | The goal of the XtremLab project is to characterize the availability of volunteer computing resources. The results of the project will be used to improve modelling and simulation of volunteer computing systems, and ultimately, will be used to improve their design and implementation. |
[edit] Projects, Science Applications, and Platforms for Alpha-Projects
Below is a table of the known BOINC Powered Projects, their Science Applications vs. support by Platform.
Please note, being Alpha, the info can change fairly often. It is highly recommended to check projects own web-pages regularly.
| Project | Science Application | Operating System | Installed Memory-requirement (MB) | Disk Space Required (MB) | Process time (CPU dependant) | Download Size (MB) | Upload Size (MB) | Deadline (days) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| APS@home | Lagrangian stochastic transport model | Windows, Linux, MacOS, FreeBSD, Solaris | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Big and Ugly Rendering Project (BURP) | blender | Windows, Linux | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| BOINC Alpha Test | upper case | Windows, Linux, Mac OS X | 95.37 | 96 | 1 minute | 4.41 | 4.41 | 1.1 |
| BRaTS@home | ray_trace_ellipse | Windows, Linux | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Chess960@Home | Chess960 | Windows, Linux | 156.41 | 96 | 5 minutes | 0.01 | 0.01 | 1 |
| DepSpid | Spider | Windows | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Docking@home | Charm | Windows, Linux, MacOS | ? | ? | 3-5 h | ? | ? | ? |
| Enigma@home | enigma | Windows, Linux, MacOS | 32 | 5 | 3 | ? | ? | ? |
| Folding@Home | none | none yet | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| HashClash | MD5 | Windows, Linux | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Hydrogen@Home | Autodock | Windows, Linux x86+PS3, MacOS, FreeBSD, HPUX, Solaris | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| MilkyWay@Home | MilkyWay@home | Windows, Linux, MacOS, FreeBSD, Solaris | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Neuron | map analysis | Windows, Linux | 95.37 | 96 | 0.5h | 0.01 | ? | 7 |
| PlanetQuest | none | none yet | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Pirates@Home | ? | Windows, Linux, MacOS | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| PrimeGrid | primegen | Windows | 95.37 | 39 | 0.4h | 0 | ? | 7 |
| Proteins | pah-xplor | Windows | 47.69 | 77 | 0.5-1h | 0.1 | ? | 7 |
| RALPH@Home | Rosetta Beta | Windows, Linux, MacOS | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Renderfarm | povray | Windows, Linux | Depends on workunit | 5 | Depends on workunit | 0.2 | ? | 2 |
| Rectilinear Crossing Number | Cape | Windows, Linux | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| tcape-crossing | Windows, Linux, MacOS Intel | 95.37 | 96 | ? | 0.02 | ? | 20 | |
| RCross | Windows, Linux, MacOS Intel | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | |
| SciLINC | TaxonGrab | Windows | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| SHA-1 Collision Search Graz | SHA-1 Collision Search Graz | Windows, Linux | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Sudoku | sudoku | Windows, Linux, MacOS | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| TANPAKU | BD | Windows, Linux, MacOS Intel | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| The Lattice Project | HMMPfam | Windows, Linux, MacOS | ? | ? | 1-2 h | 2.5 | 0,06 | 3 |
| GARLI | Windows, Linux, MacOS | 300-400 | ? | 12 | ? | ? | ? | |
| MARXAN | Windows | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | |
| uFluids@Home | evolver | Windows | 95.37 | 96 | 0-10h | 0.01 | ? | 7 |
| XtremLab | Xtremlab | Windows, Linux | 0 | 3.8 | 10 minutes | 0 | ? | 5 |
- Note on memory, this is computers total installed memory, but remember a little bit is always "lost" in BIOS so a computer needs more memory than noted in the table to get any work.
- Mac-support, projects marked Mac OS X (Not Intel) does not support Intel-Macs.
- Some projects have Tasks with various Process-times, these are marked yellow.
- Process Times is for roughly a 2 GHz computer, and is by no means exact. Also, other things like CPU-type, cache-size and memory-speed can greatly influence Process Times, so same computer can perform better in one project while significantly worse in another. Still, the table should hopefully give a rough idea how a computer will perform in different projects.
