Distributed computing projects

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Name	Distributed computing projects
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Distributed computing projects

Distributed computing projects (or volunteer or grid computing) are projects that make use of the spare computing cycles of many volunteers' computers in order to do large-scale projects which would otherwise require expensive supercomputers. Various protocols and file formats are used to store and transfer the raw projects and their finished results.

• ArchiveTeam Warrior
• BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing)
• SETI@Home (classic) (original SETI@Home system from before they switched to BOINC)

Links

• Web-based distributed computing project using JavaScript to solve chess problem