awesome-volunteer-computing

Graph neural network with attention for predicting cryptic pockets and allosteric communication (bioRxiv, 2026).

Overview of how AI accelerates Folding@home research in structure prediction, data analysis, and software development.

Attention-enabled PocketMiner predicts cryptic pockets and allosteric coupling for drug discovery.

Climate modeling research studying weather patterns, climate change, and environmental impacts.

Medical physiology research from San Jorge University studying human physiological systems.

Cryptographic challenges and optimal Golomb ruler searches, completed OGR-28 in 2022.

Blockchain-based decentralized AI training with 600+ training nodes and 63K delegators.

Describes the architecture, features, and implementation of the widely used BOINC middleware.

First open-source model matching AlphaFold3 accuracy. (

Uses BOINC and deep learning for 1M orbit stability analysis.

70-90% cost reduction using volunteer computing paradigm for distributed deep learning.

Examines task retrieval policies and techniques to increase productivity.

Crowdsourced volunteer GPU cluster for free AI image and text generation. Kudos-based incentive system. By Haidra, a registered non-profit in Luxembourg. Published at SciTS 2024 (IEEE International Conference on eScience).

Asteroid shape and spin determination from photometric observations using volunteer computing.

A collaborative, SETI@home-style fork of autoresearch where multiple agents on different GPUs share results to improve language models through the Ensue shared memory network.

The gold standard in open-source volunteer computing, powering dozens of scientific research projects.

Turns donated computing power into charitable donations or rewards for users.

Vodafone Foundation's mobile app that powers medical and nutritional research while your phone charges.

Comprehensive guide covering the SDK, APIs, server/client setup, and creating BOINC-compatible applications.

A federated learning framework that enables training machine learning models across distributed devices while preserving data privacy. Supports PyTorch Lightning and other ML frameworks.

Resources for integrating blockchain-based incentives (GridCoin) with distributed computing (primarily BOINC).

Decentralized cross-NAT communication framework for distributed AI. Features NAT traversal, CRDT-based data store, and DHT content discovery. (

A library for building scalable WebRTC P2P mesh networks in a tree overlay structure, useful for browser-based distributed applications.

Explanation from the perspective of a major project.

Discusses volunteer computing as a form of citizen science.

Petals now supports Llama 3.1 405B through decentralized volunteer GPUs (Jul 2026).

Comprehensive encyclopedia article.

General overview article.

Hub for discovering citizen science projects.

Popular platform for web-based citizen science projects (classification, transcription).

Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence using volunteer computing. Ran 1999-2020, analyzing radio signals from space.

Technical overview of SETI@home's distributed data processing architecture (The Astronomical Journal, 2025).

Final scientific analysis of SETI@home signal data (The Astronomical Journal, 2025).

21 years of citizen science: 12B signals analyzed, 100 candidate signals identified (Berkeley News, 2025).