How it works It's easy to participate in a BOINC project: download and install BOINC. You will be asked to enter the project's URL, your email address, and a password. That's it!

When you run BOINC on your PC, it does the following:


  1. Your PC gets a set of instructions from the project's scheduling server. The instructions depend on your PC: for example, the server won't give it work that requires more RAM than you have. The instructions may include many multiple pieces of work. Projects can support several applications, and the server may send you work from any of them.
  2. Your PC downloads executable and input files from the project's data server. If the project releases new versions of its applications, the executable files are downloaded automatically to your PC.
  3. Your PC runs the application programs, producing output files.
  4. Your PC uploads the output files to the data server.
  5. Later (up to several days later, depending on your preferences) your PC reports the completed results to the scheduling server, and gets instructions for more work.
This cycle is repeated indefinitely. BOINC does this all automatically; you don't have to do anything.

Credit

The project's server keeps track of how much work your computer has done; this is called credit. To ensure that credit is granted fairly, most BOINC projects work as follows:

Please keep in mind:

How the software works

The BOINC client software looks and acts like a single program, but it's actually made up of several separate programs :


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