BOINC

Open-source software for volunteer computing and grid computing.

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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:

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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

Jens-Ola* is contributing 5,578 GFLOPS.
Country: Sweden; Team: Sicituradastra.

News

BOINCstats/BAM! relaunched
BOINCstats (a cross-project statistics site) and BAM! (a full-featured account manager) have been completely renovated and enhanced. Check out the sites to see what's new! 18 May 2012 | 22:03:56 UTC · Comment

Major Power Outage at SSL
There was a major power outage on Tuesday evening that affected several buildings here on campus including the entire Space Sciences Laboratory. Power has been restored this morning. 18 May 2012 | 16:42:03 UTC · Comment

WCG launches Computing for Sustainable Water application
IBM World Community Grid has launched a new application, Computing for Sustainable Water, enabling researchers at the University of Virginia to study the effects of human activity on large watersheds. 20 Apr 2012 | 19:14:35 UTC · Comment

BOINC 7.0 released to public
The next version of BOINC is now ready for public use. Check the release notes and version history for details. 9 Apr 2012 | 20:45:27 UTC · Comment

BOINC Pentathlon
Team SETI.Germany continues its new challenge and invites all BOINC Teams to participate in the 3rd BOINC PENTATHLON, following the ideals of the ancient Greek Pentathlon.
. 3 Apr 2012 | 0:46:59 UTC · Comment

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