Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC)

Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC)
is a software platform for projects, like distributed.net and SETI@home, that use millions of volunteer computers as a parallel supercomputer.

Overview of BOINC

Participating in BOINC projects
How to donate your unused computing power to BOINC-based projects.

Creating a BOINC project
How to use BOINC for resource-intensive applications

Developing BOINC
How you can help debug and enhance the BOINC software.

BOINC on SourceForge
The SourceForge BOINC Project Homepage

Contact us

BOINC is hosted at

Status and news

August 24, 2002: BOINC is under development. The basic features are working on UNIX platforms. We plan to release the first public application of BOINC later this year.