Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) combines volunteer PCs into a parallel supercomputer.
Overview of BOINC

Creating a BOINC project
    Use BOINC to develop resource-intensive applications

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

Developing BOINC
    Help debug and enhance the BOINC software.

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Contact us


BOINC development is hosted at Sourceforge.net

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Status and news

March 19, 2003
New account parameters and preferences: URL, limit number of processors, frequency of writes to disk, whether to show your computers on the web.

March 5, 2003
Version 0.15 of BOINC is available on SourceForge.net.

March 4, 2003
Participants can have separate preferences (such as network and disk usage limits) for computers at home, work, and school.

February 25, 2003
Participants can limit their upstream and downstream network bandwidth.

February 22, 2003
Participants can control the parameters (color, transparency, timing) of the Astropulse graphics.

February 19, 2003 New feature: secure, verified email address update.

January 29, 2003
A screenshot of the BOINC client running AstroPulse (the first test application) demonstrates 3D graphics, workunit caching, and the use of multiple CPUs.

December 10, 2002
We have started a beta test of BOINC using the Astropulse application. Many bugs have been found and fixed.

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.