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:

Choose projects
Download BOINC software
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.

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: 334,376 volunteers, 489,789 computers.
24-hour average: 6.246 PetaFLOPS.

DooKey is contributing 12,903 GFLOPS.
Country: United States; Team: [H]ard|OCP

News

BOINC servers down Thursday 17 July
This web site, along with Trac, Pootle, and other BOINC server functions, will be off-line on Thursday 17 July due to machine room power-system maintenance. 16 Jul 2014, 5:44:20 UTC · Comment

ATLAS@Home launched at CERN

ATLAS@Home is a new project from the ATLAS experiment at CERN. Their current app simulates the creation and decay of supersymmetric bosons and fermions. Participants will need to install VirtualBox. 25 Jun 2014, 2:10:42 UTC · Comment

BOINC Workshop to be held in Budapest
The 10th BOINC Workshop will be held at the SZTAKI Institute in Budapest, 29 Sept to 2 Oct 2014. 20 May 2014, 5:58:04 UTC · Comment

Citizen science portal launches crowdfunding campaign
Scikick.org, a proposed non-profit portal for citizen science, has launched a crowdfunding campaign. 7 May 2014, 20:17:14 UTC · Comment

BOINC Pentathlon announced
SETI.Germany invites all BOINC teams to the 5th BOINC Pentathlon, a competition inspired by the Pentathlon in ancient Greece. Teams will compete between May 5 and May 19 at five different BOINC projects to determine the overall winner. 17 Apr 2014, 22:47:19 UTC · Comment

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