Participants

To ask questions, or to report bugs in the BOINC client software, please go to the Message board area of SETI@home.

There are web sites for BOINC participants in various languages.

See also GUIs and add-on software for BOINC.

Mailing lists

The follow mailing lists are available. Click to subscribe or post to a list.
boinc_projects
This list is for people operating BOINC projects. Use it to ask questions, report bugs, or request enhancements to the BOINC server software. Announcements of modifications and upgrades to BOINC will posted here.
boinc_dev
This list is for people developing, debugging or porting the BOINC software.
boinc_stats
This list is for people developing web sites showing statistics for BOINC projects.
boinc_opt
This list is for people porting and optimizing BOINC applications.

Getting source code

At any given point there are two different versions of the BOINC source code (maintained as separate CVS projects):

You can get the BOINC source code in several ways:

Source code for a typical BOINC application, SETI@home, is here.

Bug database

You can browse the BOINC bug-tracking database.

News feeds

RSS-based news feeds are available from BOINC and from several BOINC-based projects:

Other

A good summary of distributed computing projects, including those based on BOINC, is at www.aspenleaf.com.

For inquiries about BOINC, contact Dr. David P. Anderson, the director of the BOINC project, at davea at ssl.berkeley.edu. If you have problems with the BOINC software for Windows please email Rom Walton: rwalton at ssl.berkeley.edu. "; page_tail(); ?>