BOINC

Open-source software for volunteer computing and grid 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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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: 253,468 volunteers, 368,980 computers.
24-hour average: 8.267 PetaFLOPS.

verstapp is contributing 11,114 GFLOPS.
Country: Australia; Team: Sicituradastra.

News

World Community Grid enables drug discovery
A recent paper in Cancer Medicine describes seven promising drug candidates - identified with the help of World Community Grid – for neuroblastoma, a common form of childhood cancer. 5 Mar 2014, 7:15:08 UTC · Comment

BOINC 7.2.42 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. 28 Feb 2014, 20:28:32 UTC · Comment

HTC announces Power to Give
HTC is supporting Android-based volunteer computing through a new program called Power to Give. This is described in two YouTube videos: one about how to participate and another about the science being done. 27 Feb 2014, 9:43:21 UTC · Comment

BOINCCalculator 0.5.1 released
Climateprediction.net users: a new version of BOINCCalculator has been released. 27 Feb 2014, 4:31:04 UTC · Comment

HTC/BOINC partnership
BOINC has been working with HTC - one of the world's leading smartphone manufacturers - to bring volunteer computing to Android devices. On February 24th we'll release an exciting result of this partnership - stay tuned! 18 Feb 2014, 1:21:27 UTC · Comment

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