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<h1>Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing</h1>
A software platform for distributed computing using volunteered
computer resources
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<a href="intro.php"><b>Overview of BOINC</b></a>
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<a href=participate.php><b>Participating</b></a>
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Donate your spare computing power to BOINC-based projects.</font>
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<a href=create_project.php><b>Creating BOINC projects</b></a>
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Use BOINC to develop resource-intensive applications
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<a href=boinc_dev.php><b>Developing BOINC</b></a>
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Help debug and enhance BOINC software.
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<a href=translations.php><b>Web resources</b></a>
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BOINC-related sites in other languages
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<a href=contact.php><b>Contact us</b></a>
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BOINC is supported by the
<a href=http://nsf.gov>National Science Foundation</a>
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<h2>Status</h2>
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BOINC is under development.
The <a href=source/>source code</a> and
<a href=http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/taskbase/database.cgi>bug-tracking database</a>
are available.
We are currently conducting a
<a href=http://maggie.ssl.berkeley.edu/ap/>beta test of BOINC</a>
using the <a href=http://setiathome.berkeley.edu>SETI@home</a> and
Astropulse applications.
The public release will be announced on the
<a href=http://setiathome.berkeley.edu>SETI@home</a> web site.
Several other distributed computing projects are evaluating BOINC.
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<h2>News</h2>
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<b>February 11, 2004</b>
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BOINC is being used at the Scripps Research Institute
to run a distributed version of CHARMM
(a program for macromolecular simulations).
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<b>February 1, 2004</b>
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BOINC now has an <b>anonymous platform mechanism</b>
which 1) allows computers of any type to participate
in a BOINC project, and 2) allows participants to
run only software they have compiled themselves,
should they so desire.
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<b>January 22, 2004</b>
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The BOINC core client now provides a set of RPCs allowing
separate GUIs to be developed.
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<b>November 26, 2003</b>
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The CVS repository of BOINC code (including web pages) is now visible through
<a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/>a web-based interface</a>.
This may be useful for people maintaining web-site translations.
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<b>November 26, 2003</b>
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A <a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/talks/madrid_03/madrid.html>paper
about the goals of BOINC</a> was presented at a recent conference.
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<b>November 25, 2003</b>
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The beta test project is accepting new users.
CPU time measurement accuracy improved.
Scheduler respects disk usage limits.
Web site can issue cookies.
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<b>November 5, 2003</b>
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The graphics of running application are updated whenever
preferences are changed.
The scheduler now issues only as many results as will fit in
the allotted amount of disk space.
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<a href=old_news.php>Archived news</a>
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