Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing

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

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)

To participate in a project:
1) Go to the project's web site and create an account.
2) Download and run BOINC software.

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.

Web sites for BOINC participants.

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Create a volunteer computing project

Scientists with computationally-intensive tasks 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 CPUs. ... more

Software

Getting source code
Software development and testing
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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