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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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: 272,578 volunteers, 392,192 computers.
24-hour average: 7.316 PetaFLOPS.

Beyond is contributing 13,316 GFLOPS.
Country: United States; Team: Ars Technica

News

SETIspirit (Windows GUI for SETI@home) released
SETIspirit is free add-on tool for SETI@home users which provides useful information about the tasks, the SETI@home project status, workunits and credits. It also includes graphical statistic charts and a detailed sky map. 13 Jun 2013, 8:40:47 UTC · Comment

BOINC 7.0.64/7.0.65 released to the public
A new version of BOINC is ready for public use. You can download it here. See the release notes and version history for details. 23 Apr 2013, 19:33:43 UTC · Comment

AMD Application Showcase features BOINC
The AMD Application Showcase lists two BOINC-based projects, Poem@Home and Einstein@Home, with applications that use AMD GPUs. 16 Apr 2013, 17:38:41 UTC · Comment

SubsetSum@Home
SubsetSum@Home, based at the University of North Dakota Computer Science Department, is doing research in complexity theory - in particular, the properties of an NP-complete problem called Subset Sum. 12 Mar 2013, 5:55:20 UTC · Comment

BOINC Monitor (KDE desktop plasmoid) released
BOINC Monitor, an add-on for Linux/KDE, lets you monitor the activities of BOINC directly on your desktop. 22 Feb 2013, 22:31:29 UTC · Comment

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