Surf these sites: Climate Dynamics At RAL -- A project called Casino-21 is in the works to use distributed computing efforts to calculate the climate of the Earth in the future. Computing Science: Collective Wisdom -- From American Scientist -- excellent article. Cosm -- Cosm provides an infrastructure for true distributed computing projects. This includes applications as well as APIs for users to design and build their own projects. DCypher.Net -- Newest distributed computing group. They are currently working on the Gamma Flux Project, which is useful in designing safer containers for nuclear waste. Distributed.net -- A project linking volunteers that cooperatively tackle grand scale distributed computing challenges. EFF Cooperative Computing Awards -- Between $50,000 and $250,000 will go to the first individual or group who discovers a new prime number above 1 million digits. Entropia.com -- A world-wide Internet community dedicated to performing real research on a massive scale using ordinary home and office computers connected through the Internet. Membership is free, with no obligations. GIMPS: Mersenne Prime Search -- An organized search for Mersenne prime numbers, free software provided. Java based distributed scientific simulations -- A small site with an objective to use Java as a base for distributed scientific simulations. K-Optimal Lattice Rules -- Search for K-Optimal Lattice Rules. Legion: A Worldwide Virtual Computer -- A worldwide virtual computer. PiHex -- PiHex is a distributed computing project that is calculating specific parts of Pi using computers from all over the world. SETI@Home -- A distributed computing project sorting through radio signals to search for extra-terrestrial intelligence. Currently the largest distributed effort with over 1,600,000 users. SUM99 -- A distributed computing project trying to calculate the "Minimal Equal Sums Of Like Powers". SYMERA -- Internet-based computing system that will corral Windows-NT workstations into supercomputer-like clusters.
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