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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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: 287,349 volunteers, 553,049 computers.
24-hour average: 5.580 PetaFLOPS.

Speedmax is contributing 10,043 GFLOPS.
Country: International; Team: Sicituradastra.

News

Welcome SAT@home
The SAT@home project, from the Institute for Systems Analysis of Russian Academy of Sciences, solves hard and practically important problems (discrete functions inversion problems, discrete optimization, bioinformatics, etc) that can be effectively reduced to the Boolean satisfiability problem.
7 Feb 2012 | 18:40:20 UTC · Comment

Citizen Cyberscience Summit, 16-18 February 2012
The Second London Citizen Cyberscience Summit, involving volunteer computing and other forms of citizen science, will be held 16-18 February 2012 in London. 3 Jan 2012 | 8:52:14 UTC · Comment

IBM World Community Grid News
IBM World Community Grid recently celebrated its 7th birthday and announced the release of a new application to find treatments for malaria. 21 Nov 2011 | 5:00:39 UTC · Comment

Welcome Mersenne@home
Mersenne@home is a new project, based in Poland, that searches for 'Mersenne primes' - prime numbers of the form 2^p-1. 20 Nov 2011 | 17:10:10 UTC · Comment

Unplanned server outage
The BOINC server (including web site and SVN repository) was offline from 31 Oct to 2 Nov. Things are back up now. 3 Nov 2011 | 3:33:21 UTC · Comment

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