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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: - Choose projects
- Download and run BOINC software
- Enter an email address and password.
Or, if you run several projects, try an account manager such as GridRepublic or BAM!.
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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.
And check out:
- Bolt (software for web-based education and training)
- Bossa (software for distributed thinking projects)
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The BOINC project
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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.
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Computing power
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Active: 335,501 volunteers, 583,494 computers.
24-hour average: 1,155.85 TeraFLOPS.
Nite Owl
is contributing 258 GFLOPS.
Country: United States; Team: Teddies
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News
May 9, 2008
BOINC volunteer Werner Klein is
interviewed
in Sternengucker.org (German).
May 9, 2008
The BOINC FAQ Service
is now available in Spanish and French
(as well as English, German, and Dutch).
May 7, 2008
CASP8,
a competition for protein structure prediction, starts soon.
Rechenkraft.net is
sponsoring a team credit-race to support
POEM@home,
one of the CASP participants.
Results will be reported at
Planet BOINC.
May 6, 2008
Alpha testing of BOINC software is done by volunteers.
Many thanks to this month's top testers.
May 5, 2008
Version 3.0 of Boinc LCS (a free PHP script for monitoring remote BOINC clients) has been released.
Apr 20, 2008
The BOINC user documentation has been moved from
Trac
to Mediawiki,
which provides better navigation and editing interfaces.
Please help us fix the remaining broken links.
... more
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