BOINC is used by many volunteer computing projects. Some are based at universities and research labs, others are run by companies and individuals. You can participate in any number of these projects.

In deciding whether to participate in a project, read its web site and consider the following questions:

Does it clearly describe its goals? Are these goals important and beneficial?
Do they have any published results? See A list of scientific publications of BOINC projects.
Do you trust it to use proper security practices?
Who owns the results of the computation? Will they be freely available to the public? Will they belong to a company?

The following projects are known to us at BOINC, and we believe that their descriptions are accurate. See also a complete list of projects.

Projects have different requirements such as memory size; a partial summary is here.

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If you run a BOINC-based project and would like it to be included on this list, please contact us. "; page_tail(); ?>