Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing

A software platform for distributed computing using volunteered computer resources

Donate computing power to science

If you have a computer (Windows, Mac, Linux or Unix) you can participate in many scientific research projects:

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 biomedical research (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, and you control the percentage of your computing power that goes to each project. By participating in several projects, you ensure that your computer will be kept 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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Other Info

Personnel and contact info
BOINC email lists
BOINC message boards
An overview of BOINC, and links to papers
Wikis (user-editable information and documentation):
- The Unofficial BOINC Wiki (in English)
- Deutsche BOINC FAQ (in German)
- BOINCFrance.org (in French)
Web sites for BOINC participants
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.
Logos and graphics

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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