BOINC

Open-source software for volunteer computing and grid computing.

Volunteer
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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!.

Compute with BOINC
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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: 248,675 volunteers, 486,186 computers.
24-hour average: 9.161 PetaFLOPS.

mm67 is contributing 21,261 GFLOPS.
Country: Finland; Team: Overclock.net

News

Portuguese article on BOINC
A new Portuguese-language article discusses BOINC and several of the projects that use it. 2 Dec 2013, 0:57:33 UTC · Comment

New BOINC installer includes VirtualBox
Starting with version 7.2.28, the recommended BOINC installer for Windows also installs VirtualBox, open-source virtualization software. This allows volunteered computer to run VM applications, benefitting both scientists and volunteers. 19 Nov 2013, 6:09:53 UTC · Comment

BOINC 7.2.28 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. 8 Nov 2013, 18:24:05 UTC · Comment

New BoincTasks version release
A new version of BoincTasks interface is available. New features include a "cloud mode" that lets you control BOINC clients from any web browser, and improved support for dynamic client IP addresses. 30 Oct 2013, 6:42:11 UTC · Comment

Client configuration add-on
BOINC Client Configuration is a Windows GUI for editing the BOINC client configuration. 18 Oct 2013, 18:59:21 UTC · Comment

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