SETI@Home – http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu SETI is a scientific program, which searches intelligent alien lifeforms or indicated clues in space, mostly with radio astrological methods.  They’re looking for signs that cannot occur in nature, so their term of existence is Intelligence.  The GRID system is being used to process the huge amount of data. RC5-break – www.distributed.net/rc5/ The project is in connection with the development of the digital encrypting algorithms.  Technology must be enhanced with the computers’ expanding computing capacity. Longer keys must be used, in order to prevent the crack of the encryption with brute force. OGR prímszabálykeresés – www.distributed.net/ogr/   Cancer research – www.grid.org/projects/cancer/ In the framework of the Intel-UD Cancer Research Project the anti-cancer effect of more than 100 million molecules are being rated in a computer model. This model examines the molecules’ effect on four proteins that have keyrole in the conformation of leukemia. Human Proteome Folding – www.grid.org/projects/hpf/ The project’s objective is to solve the structure and function of the proteins encoded in the human genome.   On-line climate research – http://climaprediction.net Einstein@Home – www.physics2005.org/events/einsteinathome/ The essence of Einstein@home is that it tries to detect the gravitational fluctuation from periodic sources, the pulsars. And what does pulsar mean? In fact these are imprints from certain events stretching in space. (like „waves” of an earthquake on Earth) For example the collapse of a black hole, supernova explosion.  Albert Einstein in his Theory of Relativity presumes their existence, however the technique to prove it only exists today. LHC@Home – http://athome.web.cern.ch/athome