Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing

A software platform for distributed computing using volunteered computer resources

Overview of BOINC

Participating
    Donate computing power to BOINC-based projects.

Creating BOINC projects
    Use BOINC to develop distributed applications

Developing BOINC
    Help debug and enhance BOINC software.

Community and resources

Acknowledgements

BOINC is supported by the National Science Foundation through award SCI/0221529.

Projects

BOINC-based distributed computing projects include:

  • Climateprediction.net: Improve the accuracy of long-range climate prediction.
  • LHC@home: Help to build the CERN LHC accelerator.
  • Predictor@home: Solve biomedical questions of protein-related diseases.
  • SETI@home: Analyze radio-telescope data, looking for evidence of extraterrestrial life.
Visit any of these sites to download BOINC client software. We encourage you to participate in multiple projects, so that your computer will be kept busy even while projects are down or out of work.

News

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