BOINC

Open-source software for volunteer computing

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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:

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

For Android devices, download the BOINC app from the Google Play Store or (for Kindle) the Amazon App Store.

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

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Computing power
Top 100 volunteers · Statistics

Active: 239,727 volunteers, 1,026,291 computers.
24-hour average: 10.923 PetaFLOPS.

JAMES DORISIO is contributing 3,337 GFLOPS.
Country: United States; Team: SHLM.COM TEAM

News

Dealing with unpredictable job sizes
The paper "Subdividing Long-Running, Variable-Length Analyses Into Short, Fixed-Length BOINC Workunits" recently appeared in the Journal of Grid Computing. 20 Oct 2015, 20:13:21 UTC · Comment

BOINC:FAST2015 conference proceedings available
The BOINC:FAST 2015 conference was held 14-18 Sept. at the Karelian Research Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences. Slides are available online. 7 Oct 2015, 21:02:31 UTC · Comment

Welcome SRBase
SRBase is a mathematical research project trying to solve Sierpinski / Riesel Bases up to 1030. 7 Oct 2015, 20:57:59 UTC · Comment

BOINC wallpaper
A BOINC wallpaper image created by Francois Normandin:

26 Sep 2015, 6:30:35 UTC · Comment

BOINC on reddit
Check out the BOINC subreddit, which aggregates BOINC news from various sources. 23 Sep 2015, 22:33:35 UTC · Comment

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