BOINC
Compute for Science

  • BOINC lets you help cutting-edge science research using your computer. The BOINC app, running on your computer, downloads scientific computing jobs and runs them invisibly in the background. It's easy and safe.

  • About 30 science projects use BOINC. They investigate diseases, study climate change, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research.

  • The BOINC and Science United projects are located at the University of California, Berkeley and are supported by the National Science Foundation.
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To contribute to science areas (biomedicine, physics, astronomy, and so on) use Science United. Your computer will help current and future projects in those areas.

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News from BOINC Projects

[SRBase] base R815 Magaprime / proven

magic_sam, a member of the team Gridcoin found a megaprime for base R815.
The prime 8*815^559138-1 has 1.627.740 digits and entered the TOP5000 in Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database. With this find it also has proven the base!

View article · Sat, 16 Mar 2024 22:07:17 +0000


[PrimeGrid] "Einstein" anniversary challenge

From March 20th 03:14:00 UTC to March 25th 03:14:00 PrimeGrid will be running a 5 day challenge on the Extended Sierpinsky project (ESP). Note the unusual start and end times! For more information, please see this forum thread.

View article · Fri, 15 Mar 2024 21:54:57 +0000


[World Community Grid] Research update from the MCM team (March 2024)

We continue to characterise lung cancer biomarkers identified in the MCM1 project. This update focuses on HSD17B11, a gene associated with lung cancer survival. HSD17B11 is a protein coding gene, relatively ubiquitously expressed across organs and tissues. It is a short-chain alcohol dehydrogenase that metabolises secondary alcohols and ketones.

View article · Thu, 14 Mar 2024 20:03:19 +0000


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News

BOINC in schools
Registration is open for The Computation Moonshot, a competition for high schools which encourages students to learn about scientific computing.
13 Feb 2024, 9:36:35 UTC · Discuss


YouTube video on BOINC server setup
A new YouTube video shows how to set up a BOINC server. Thanks to Alex Bryan for producing this.
11 Feb 2024, 21:04:50 UTC · Discuss


BOINC 7.24.3 released for Mac
This version fixes a problem that causes GPU apps to fail after a Mac OS upgrade to Sonoma. Download it here.
30 Jan 2024, 20:27:45 UTC · Discuss


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