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ChessBrain
"seeks to create a massive chess playing computer by
utilizing the idle processing power of networked machines." This project
is an experiment "to allow internet-connected computers to work together to
play a game of chess." On December 17, 2002, the project completed its first
distributed game of chess without human intervention. The project's current record of total active machines,
set on January 30, 2004, is 2,070.
Stage one of the project completed on August 9, 2002. 63,261,631 jobs were completed by 265 Peernode operators for this stage. Stage two of the project began on March 1, 2003. "On January 30th 2004, ChessBrain became the first distributed network to play a game against a single human opponent and earned an official Guinness World Record for 'the largest networked chess computer' in history!" 2,070 machines from over 50 countries competed against one chess Grand Master. The game ended in a draw. As of September 1, 2004, this record is an official 2005 Guiness World Record for "The World's Largest Networked Chess Computer." The project software is available as a GUI client for Windows and as a command-line client for Windows, Linux, Mac OSX and FreeBSD. Version 3.0126.02 of the Windows graphical client is available as of January 26, 2004. Version 3.0129.01 of the Linux command-line client is available as of January 29, 2004. Version 3.0124.01 of the Mac OSX command-line client is available as of January 24, 2004. The Linux client can be run on FreeBSD (if you have Linux binary compatibility loaded under FreeBSD). |
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Chess960@home use distributed
computing to play
Chess 960, a
variant of traditional chess in which "the initial configuration of the
chess pieces is determined randomly: that means that the king, the queen,
the rook, the bishop and the knight are not necessarily placed on the same
home squares." This variant has 960 possible starting positions. The
project is in the alpha phase of testing as of June 28, 2006.
The project added its 3000th game to its database on September 24, 2006. The project uses the BOINC computing platform. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. |
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Help
Eternity2.net solve
the Eternity II puzzle and
win a prize of US$1,000,000. Note that to participate in this project
you must purchase an Eternity II puzzle and create some piece
definition files
to prove you own the puzzle. US$2,000,000 will be awarded to the
person who solves the puzzle. If this project solves the puzzle, the
project owners will split the prize 50/50 with the project participant
who finds the solution.
Note: the project website is unreachable as of February 15, 2008, and the project may have ended. The project uses the BOINC computing platform. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. The project runs the "Eternity2 Solver A" application within the BOINC client. Version 1.16 of the application is available for Windows and Linux as of July 29, 2007. Join a discussion forum about the project. |
active status unknown; 241,193 total credits |
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Help
Sudoku find the
minimum sudoku puzzle (i.e. find the minimum amount of number clues that
need to be given for a sudoku puzzle in order to generate a puzzle with a
unique solution).
The project uses the BOINC computing platform. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. The project runs the Sudoku application within the BOINC client. Version 5.37 of the application is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OSX as of October 12, 2007. Join a discussion forum about the project. |
1,900,700 total credits |
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Help
NQueens Project solve the
n queens puzzle. The
puzzle involves placing n queens on an n×n
chessboard(n >= 4) such that no queen is able to capture any other
queen using the standard chess queen's moves. The project is searching for
solutions to the puzzle for board sizes n = 19 and larger. See
more information about
the project.
See the project's current results. The project uses the BOINC computing platform. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. The project runs the "NQueen@Home Project" application within the BOINC client. Version 5.10 of the application is available for Windows and Linux as of October 22, 2007. Join a discussion forum about the project. |
899,399 total credits |
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