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<h2>Introduction</h2>
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<p>
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Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC)
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is a software platform for public-participation
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distributed computing projects like distributed.net and SETI@home.
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BOINC is distributed under the Mozilla license.
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BOINC supports applications that can be divided into large parallel parts
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with few data dependencies;
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it is not intended for fine-grained parallel applications.
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<p>
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The features of BOINC include:
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<ul>
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<li> BOINC allows multiple independent projects
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to share a common set of participants.
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Participants download a single <b>core client</b> program,
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which in turn downloads and executes project-specific executables.
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Participants can control how their resources are divided among the projects.
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<li> BOINC supports applications that produce or consume large amounts of data.
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It allows data distribution and collection to be
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spread across large numbers of servers,
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and it allows participant hosts to transfer data transparently
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over long time periods.
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<li> BOINC supports applications with extreme requirements for
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memory or other resources.
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Work is dispatched only to hosts able to handle it.
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<li> BOINC applications can be developed in any compiled language
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(C, C++, Fortran).
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New versions of applications can be released without participant download.
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Separate alpha, beta, and production versions
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are distributed to the appropriate set of hosts.
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<li> The BOINC core client can run on almost any platform
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(Mac, Windows, Linux and other Unix-type systems).
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</ul>
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