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Use the idle time on your computer (Windows, Mac, Linux, or Android) 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 BOINC software
  3. Enter an email address and password.

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

For Android devices, download the BOINC or HTC Power To Give app from the Google Play Store.

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Computing power
Top 100 volunteers · Statistics
Active: 229,756 volunteers, 792,968 computers.
24-hour average: 7.275 PetaFLOPS.
emgoa is contributing 11,024 GFLOPS.
Country: Canada; Team: Overclock.net
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News

Crowdfunding campaign from Ibercivis
The Ibercivis Foundation, from Spain, is conducting a crowdfunding campaign to fund the porting of a new biomedical application to their BOINC-based platform. 12 Nov 2014, 0:57:34 UTC · Comment


BOINC 7.4.26/.27 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. 11 Nov 2014, 20:58:21 UTC · Comment


BOINC Workshop proceedings
The 10th BOINC Workshop was held recently. Slides from many of the talks are available. 15 Oct 2014, 19:16:08 UTC · Comment


A new tool for running BOINC on clusters
Researchers at the Russian Acadamy of Sciences have released CluBORun (Cluster for BOINC Run), a tool for running BOINC on clusters. A paper describing it is here. 13 Oct 2014, 7:17:50 UTC · Comment


BOINC cloud powers European science grid
Recent papers in Future Generation Computer Systems describe how BOINC is being used as a cloud platform and as an extension of gLite-based European service grids. 6 Oct 2014, 5:55:36 UTC · Comment


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