Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing

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

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Participate

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

Climateprediction.net and BBC Climate Change Experiment: 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.
SIMAP: calculate protein similarity data for use by many biological research projects.
SZTAKI Desktop Grid: search for generalized binary number systems..
World Community Grid: advance our knowledge of human disease (requires 5.2.1 or greater).
Cell Computing biomedical research (Japanese; requires nonstandard client software).

You can participate in more than one project, and you control how much of your computing power 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

If you are a scientist with a computationally-intensive task, you 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.

If you lack the resources (manpower, server capacity, or network bandwidth) to operate a BOINC project directly, organizations such as World Community Grid may be able to assist you. Please contact us for information.

More info

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
- Local editing of preferences

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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