Participating in BOINC projects
Donate your spare computing power to BOINC-based projects.
Creating BOINC projects
Use BOINC to develop resource-intensive applications
Developing BOINC
Help debug and enhance the BOINC software.
Non-English pages about BOINC
Translations of this web page.
Contact us
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National Science Foundation
Status
BOINC is under development. The source code and bug-tracking database are available. We are currently conducting a beta test of BOINC using the SETI@home and Astropulse applications. The public release will be announced on the SETI@home web site. Several other distributed computing projects are evaluating BOINC.
News
The CVS repository of BOINC code (including web pages) is now visible through a web-based interface. This may be useful for people maintaining web-site translations.
November 26, 2003
A paper about the goals of BOINC was presented at a recent conference.
November 25, 2003
The beta test project is accepting new users. CPU time measurement accuracy improved. Scheduler respects disk usage limits. Web site can issue cookies.
November 5, 2003
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.
October 30, 2003
New minor versions of the core client and beta-test apps have been released. XML statistics data for the beta test is available; it's intended for graphical or tabular representation.
October 18, 2003
A SETI@home application has been added to the beta test. The scheduling server detect results that can't be sent to any hosts, and flags them. HTTP 404 errors on downloads are treated as unrecoverable. Graphics can be limited by frame rate or percent of CPU. Don't send two results from the same workunit to a single user. Added JPEG support to application graphics. Added "confirm before accept executable" mechanism.
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