Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC)
combines PCs into supercomputers.
Overview of BOINC

Creating a BOINC project
    Use BOINC to develop resource-intensive applications

Participating in BOINC projects
    Donate your unused computing power to BOINC-based projects.

Developing BOINC
    Help debug and enhance the BOINC software.

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Status

BOINC is under development. The source code is available. We are currently conducting a beta test of BOINC using the SETI@home and Astropulse applications (thanks, but we don't need more beta testers at this point). The public release will be announced on the SETI@home web site. Several other distributed computing projects are evaluating BOINC.

News

September 11, 2003
BOINC is mentioned in an article by Joan Oleck in the New York TImes.

September 4, 2003
We've released BOINC version 2.0. All BOINC components must be upgraded to major version 2. We've upgraded the Astropulse server to 2.01 and released BOINC core client 2.01. This was due to an architecture and protocol change in specifying resource estimates and limits.

September 1, 2003
BOINC server tools are now Python-based. A database back-end API allows quick development of data-manipulation utilities.

August 15, 2003
We rewrote parts of the scheduling server architecture to make operations more flexible and efficient. The timeout_check daemon has been replaced by a more general transitioner daemon.

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