Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing

A software platform for distributed computing using volunteered computer resources

Participate in scientific research

If you own a computer (Windows, Mac, Linux or Unix) you can help scientific research projects in many areas:

Climateprediction.net: study climate change
Einstein@home: search for gravitational signals coming from pulsars
LHC@home: improve the design of the CERN LHC particle accelerator
Predictor@home: investigate protein-related diseases
SETI@home: Look for radio evidence of extraterrestrial life
Cell Computing (Japanese; requires nonstandard client software)

To participate in a project:
1) Visit the project's web site and create an account.
2) Download and run BOINC software.

You can participate in any or all projects -- the choice is up to you. You control the percentage of your computing power that goes to each project. If you participate in several projects, your computer will be busy even when one project has no work.

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Create a BOINC project

If you're a scientist with a computationally-intensive task, you may be able to use BOINC.

A BOINC project requires just a single Linux server, and can provide computing power equivalent to a cluster with tens of thousands of nodes.

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Resources

Web sites for BOINC participants
Email lists
An overview of BOINC, and links to papers
Software development
BOINC is free software, distributed under the Lesser GNU Public License (LGPL). If you are fluent in C++, PHP, SQL, and/or Python, you may be able to help debug and enhance BOINC.
Non-English translations of project web sites and the BOINC manager.
Other resources
Personnel and contact info

BOINC is supported by the National Science Foundation through award SCI/0221529. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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