FOSS Distributed Computing active project

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Vanack Sabbadium
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Hi everyone.

Does anyone know if there's a still active (which means that is currently distributing projects) distributed computing project? For those of who don't know what that is, think about Seti@Home or Folding@Home.

For instance, Seti@Home was FOSS but it's not active anymore.
Folding@Home is proprietary.

Thanks for your help.

Malsasa
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Joined: 12/01/2016

Hello, Vanack. How about this list?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_projects

On 8/19/21, name at domain <name at domain> wrote:
> Hi everyone.
>
> Does anyone know if there's a still active (which means that is currently
> distributing projects) distributed computing project? For those of who don't
>
> know what that is, think about Seti@Home or Folding@Home.
>
> For instance, Seti@Home was FOSS but it's not active anymore.
> Folding@Home is proprietary.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>

Vanack Sabbadium
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Joined: 03/05/2019

Thanks, i've already seen it.
However, many of those projects, which are "active", actually are not active anymore. Also, it does not say if the project is FOSS based or not, so i was looking for a "short answer" or a "quick tip" from this community.

eric23
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Joined: 06/30/2017

It does say if the projects are BOINC based (colored column). BOINC is listed on the FSF free software directory. I clicked on a random project (Einstein@home) that is BOINC based and wikipedia says it GPL v 2.

andyprough
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Joined: 02/12/2015

Einstein@home is active: https://einsteinathome.org/
Says it is GPL licensed: https://einsteinathome.org/application-source-code-and-license

Lots more projects here, although not all are active: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php

I haven't checked individual licensing, but if they are using BOINC, then it is GPL'd: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc

Magic Banana

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As far as I understand, BOINC's license does not imply anything on the license of the software that runs on it. Am I wrong?

andyprough
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Joined: 02/12/2015

True. Be vigilant. I'd want to know a lot about the code I'm running before I agreed to hook up to one of these distributed networks.

Legimet
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Joined: 12/10/2013

That is correct.