Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing

An open-source software platform for computing using volunteered resources. ... more

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Donate computing power

BOINC lets you donate computing power to scientific research projects such as:

Climateprediction.net: study climate change
Einstein@home: search for gravitational signals emitted by pulsars
LHC@home: improve the design of the CERN LHC particle accelerator
Predictor@home: investigate protein-related diseases
Rosetta@home : help researchers develop cures for human diseases
SETI@home: Look for radio evidence of extraterrestrial life
Cell Computing biomedical research (Japanese; requires nonstandard client software)
World Community Grid: advance our knowledge of human disease. (Requires 5.2.1 or greater)

You can participate in more than one project, and you control the fraction of your computing power that goes to each project. If you participate in several projects, your computer will be kept busy even when one project has no work.

To participate:

Select projects
Download and run BOINC software
Enter the project's URL (visit the project's web site, and copy the URL from your browser's address field).

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Create a volunteer computing project

Scientists with computationally-intensive tasks may be able to use BOINC. A BOINC project with a single Linux server can provide computing power equivalent to a cluster with tens of thousands of CPUs.

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Software

Getting and building BOINC software
Software development process
Translation of web and GUI text
Write 'add-on' software:
- Client GUIs
- Credit statistics web sites
- Account managers
- Server status web sites
- Web RPCs for info about users and hosts

Other info

BOINC is supported by the National Science Foundation through awards SCI/0221529, SCI/0438443 and SCI/0506411. 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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