BOINC

Open-source software for volunteer computing and grid computing.

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Use the idle time on your computer (Windows, Mac, or Linux) to cure diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research. It's safe, secure, and easy:

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Compute with BOINC
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Scientists: use BOINC to create a volunteer computing project giving you the computing power of thousands of CPUs.
Universities: use BOINC to create a Virtual Campus Supercomputing Center.
Companies: use BOINC for desktop Grid computing.

The BOINC project

BOINC is supported by the National Science Foundation through awards SCI-0221529, SCI-0438443, SCI-0506411, PHY/0555655, and OCI-0721124. 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.

Computing power
Top 100 volunteers · Statistics

Active: 294,472 volunteers, 527,317 computers.
24-hour average: 2,539.83 TeraFLOPS.

Kevint is contributing 12,555 GFLOPS.
Country: United States; Team: SETI.USA

News

6th BOINC Workshop
The 6th BOINC Workshop will be held 31 Aug - 1 Sept. in London. 22 Jul 2010 18:28:26 UTC · Comment

London Citizen Cyberscience Summit
The London Citizen Cyberscience Summit on September 2-3 will be a chance for scientists and citizens to learn about the latest breakthroughs in citizen cyberscience. The event will feature speakers from a number of BOINC projects. 7 Jul 2010 3:53:47 UTC · Comment

GPU example apps available
Sample BOINC applications for NVIDIA/CUDA, NVIDIO/OpenCL, and ATI Stream OpenCL, together with instructions for building on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, are now available. Thanks to Tuan Le for developing these. 6 Jul 2010 19:45:16 UTC · Comment

Campus Party kick-off event streaming video
A speech (in Spanish) launching the Campus Party / Rosetta@home campaign will broadcast by streaming video on Thursday 1 July at 19:00 GMT-5 (Channel 5). 30 Jun 2010 17:35:14 UTC · Comment

CPDN scientist wins award
Myles Allen, director of Climateprediction.net, has won the 2010 Appleton Prize, which rewards distinguished research in environmental, earth or atmospheric physics. 29 Jun 2010 21:55:02 UTC · Comment

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