Distributed.net runs many different programs including RC5-64, a program to crack encryption codes. With the human genome decoded, scientists are now turning their attention to proteins. Help mathematicians search for new Mersenne primes, a special class of prime numbers. Four new Mersenne primes have already been discovered by this project. Those that move the fastest will survive the longest.
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PiHex is a distributed computing effort that computed the five trillionth, forty trillionth and quadrillionth bit of pi. Join the search for a new influenza vaccine as well as other science projects. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Help scientists at University of California at Berkeley anaylze radio signals for signs of extraterrestrial life. These are just a few select projects.