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:

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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: 283,525 volunteers, 882,594 computers.
24-hour average: 8.464 PetaFLOPS.

Michael Hamm is contributing 4,533 GFLOPS.
Country: United States

News

Localization system migrated to Transifex
BOINC's localization system has been migrated to Transifex. BOINC Translation System (BTS) is now shut down. 11 Feb 2015, 20:32:20 UTC · Comment

Migrating to GitHub
BOINC is migrating project management functions (bug database, project documentation, source code) from Trac to GitHub. 5 Feb 2015, 2:07:20 UTC · Comment

Welcome Gerasim@Home
The Gerasim@Home project, from Southwest State University (Russia), studies computer engineering. Its current goal: testing and comparison of heuristic methods for CAD systems for designing logic control systems. 22 Jan 2015, 0:13:29 UTC · Comment

Welcome Citizen Science Grid
The Citizen Science Grid is based at the University of North Dakota. It subsumes the DNA@Home and SubsetSum@Home projects, and includes scientific crowdsourcing as well (volunteer brainpower as well as computing power). 22 Jan 2015, 0:02:26 UTC · Comment

Survey from Argentine startup
Alantu, a startup in the mobile volunteer computing area, is conducting a survey of mobile users. 18 Jan 2015, 19:11:07 UTC · Comment

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