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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:

  1. Choose projects
  2. Download and run BOINC software
  3. Enter an email address and password.

Or, if you run several projects, try an account manager such as GridRepublic or BAM!.

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Computing power
Top 100 volunteers · Statistics
Active: 346,548 volunteers, 547,334 computers.
24-hour average: 3,345.59 TeraFLOPS.
mdhittle is contributing 3,747 GFLOPS.
Country: United States; Team: Sicituradastra.
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News

BOINC: Tu Tambien Puedes
Check out Computación distribuida BOINC, tu tambien puedes, an article on BOINC in Trucoteca.com, a Spanish website about video games. 7 Sep 2010 15:55:27 UTC · Comment


Primaboinca launched; PS3 app available
A new project, Primaboinca, seeks participants. The project, from Hochschule RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, studies prime numbers. It offers applications for Windows, Linux, and the Sony Playstation 3 running Linux. 24 Aug 2010 7:40:22 UTC · Comment


Online discussion about citizen science
Join an online discussion about citizen science and the Einstein@Home project hosted by Public Radio International. 18 Aug 2010 19:00:50 UTC · Comment


Einstein@Home pulsar discovery
The recent discovery of a new pulsar by Einstein@Home is described in an article in Science and on the National Science Foundation web site. 14 Aug 2010 14:01:15 UTC · Comment


Nature News article on citizen science
An article in Nature News discusses recent trends and progress in citizen science, including volunteer computing. 10 Aug 2010 23:00:13 UTC · Comment


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