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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Yes quite a few as other commenters have indicated. Another good one is [email protected]. BOINC is an open source platform for volunteer computing that also has hundreds of scientific papers and citations under its belt. There are BOINC projects for medical research, space research, math, you name it, there's probably a BOINC project for it. Anybody can start a BOINC project and you choose which projects you contribute CPU/GPU time to. You can pick more than one at a time. You may recognize some of the people hosting BOINC projects: Large Hardon Collider, Max Planck Institute, University of Washington Institute for Protein Design, etc

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I forgot there is also the SETI@home project working on the same principle. Searching Extra Terrestrial Intelligence ๐Ÿ‘ฝ๐Ÿ‘ฝ๐Ÿ‘ฝ