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Scientists: use BOINC to create a volunteer computing project, giving you the power of thousands of CPUs and GPUs.

Universities: use BOINC to create a Virtual Campus Supercomputing Center.

Companies: use BOINC for desktop Grid computing.

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BOINC is a software platform for volunteer computing. It includes client, server, and web components, and APIs for connecting other components.

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BOINC is distributed under the LGPL open-source license.

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24-hour average: 17.619 PetaFLOPS.
Active: 350,091 volunteers, 887,822 computers.

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o.g.richter@gmx.net is contributing 8,991 GFLOPS.
Country: United States

BOINC story in Nature Index
A story in Nature Index discusses volunteer computing.
24 Feb 2017, 19:41:45 UTC · Discuss

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BOINC:FAST'2017 conference announced
The Third International Conference on BOINC-based High-performance computing: Fundamental and Applied Science for Technology (BOINC:FAST'2017) will be held August 28 – September 1, 2017, in Petrozavodsk, Russia.
27 Dec 2016, 2:56:54 UTC · Discuss

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Thanks to Kathryn for 10 years of moderation
Kathryn Marks has been moderating the BOINC message boards for 10 years now. Her contributions have been stellar, and are much appreciated. Thanks, Kathryn!
20 Dec 2016, 1:29:00 UTC · Discuss

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Einstein@home discovers record-breaking pulsar-neutron star system
Einstein@home has announced the discovery of the most massive double neutron star system ever observed.
20 Dec 2016, 0:54:09 UTC · Discuss

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New recommended client for Windows and Mac
Version 7.6.33 is now the recommended version for Windows and Mac.
8 Dec 2016, 8:07:41 UTC · Discuss

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