Dr. Christopher Bird

Distributed Computing Projects

• BOINC - A general program that includes many projects
• VolunteerComputer.org - A general website collecting other projects
• Distributed Particle Accelerator Design - Simulate new particle accelerator designs
• GalaxyZoo - Classify the SDSS galaxy catalog
• LHC@Home - Provide simulations for the Large Hadron Collider
• Mersenne - Search for larger Mersenne prime numbers
• Fold-It - Try to make better protein foldings
• Kaggle - (Not a DCP) Competitions to improve machine learning algorithms.
• Gridcoin - Get paid to do distributed computing
• Monopole Quest - Search through LHC data for signs of a magnetic monopole or other exotic particles.

Free eBooks:

• Manybooks
• Internet Archive
• OpenLibrary
• Digital Book Index

Free Email:

• Yahoo.ca
  
• Hotmail.com
• GMX.com

Free Website Hosts:

• Yola.com
• Orgfree.com
• Webs.com
• wix.com

Programming:

• Microsoft Visual Studio - The standard for C++ and VB development
• Eclipse - An open source development IDE
• Python - A powerful scripting/programming language

• DarkGDK - A useful development kit for graphics and game design
• Unreal Development Kit - The basis for many leading games
• XNA Development Kit - A set of classes for game and graphics development on Windows or XBox.
• Android SDK - A SDK for developing smartphone apps

• Sourceforge - A repository of programming code
• NASA Opensource - A collection of code provided by NASA

Web Design & Programming:

• XAMPP - free Apache, MySQL, and etc.
  
• Dev-PHP - free PHP IDE
• Python - Programming language

• Webify - commercial site for scripts and widgets

Mindless Piffle:

• MyDogface - Collection of dog comic strips
  
• Wisequacks - Collection of medical information

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