Web resources for BOINC participants

Contents

• Help and Information
• Credit statistics
• Signature images
• Team statistics
• Project status
• Miscellaneous
• Skins for the BOINC Manager
• Other BOINC-related sites (Information, message boards, and teams)
• BOINC-related videos

Help and Information

• The BOINC FAQ Service (English, German, Dutch, Spanish and French)
• The Unofficial BOINC Wiki (in English)
• Crunching Family Wiki (In German)
• Flash-based BOINC tutorials (in Czech, English, and Slovak)
• The Big BOINC! Projects and Chronology Page (by John Koulouris)
• BOINCFrance.org (in French)
• Deutsche BOINC FAQ (in German)
• BOINC Team Leaders Forum (a meeting place to chat and discuss team building on BOINC projects)
• How to participate in grid computing projects that benefit humanity (survey of volunteer computing, including non-BOINC projects)
• BOINC Argentina (in Spanish)

Credit statistics

The following web sites show statistics for one or more BOINC projects. These sites use XML-format data exported by BOINC projects, as described here. If you're interested in running your own site or participating in the development efforts, please contact the people listed below.

• Team OcUK stats
• BOINCstats by Willy de Zutter
• DC-Vault (Include non-BOINC projects)
• The Knights Who Say 'Ni' stats
• Team Starfire World BOINC Stats 'N Stones
• BOINC Combined Statistics developed by James Drews
• SETI@Netherlands stats page
• BOINC Statistics for the WORLD! developed by Zain Upton (email: zain.upton at boincsynergy.com)
• Every Earthly Hour developed by Hydnum Repandum.
• Free-DC (Includes non-BOINC projects and completed projects.)
• Formula BOINC (Team ranking based on position within projects, as in Formula 1 racing, rather than total points)
• BOINC UK
• BOINC All Project Stats

Signature images

The following sites offer dynamically-generated images showing your statistics in BOINC projects, and/or news from projects. Use these in your email or message-board signature.

• BOINC All Project Stats (Signature files for both users and teams)
• boinc.be
• BOINC UK (Highly configurable!)
• BOINCstats by Willy de Zutter
• United BOINC (Images showing the latest news from your choice of projects)
• http://boinc.mundayweb.com (User-configurable stats counters. Cool!)

Team statistics

• Team Art Bell
• BOINC@Denmark (Danish)
• L'Alliance Francophone
• crunchers@freiburg (German)
• Boinc.be team stats
• BOINC@Denmark (English)
• BOINC.Italy
• Spacepage
• BOINC@Austria

Project status sites

• BOINC Project Status

Miscellaneous

• BOINC Users of the Day
• bunc (excellent newsletter produced by BOINC UK)
• BOINC Users group on LinkedIn

Skins for the BOINC Manager

• Crunching Family Skin Download
• Skin for Equipe France (WCG)
• Skin for team UserFriendly.org

Other BOINC-related web sites

If you'd like to add a web site to this list, please contact us.

BOINC-related videos

• Francois Grey at Lift, Feb 2008
• David Anderson talks about BOINC (2006)
• David Anderson talks at CPDN Open Day (2004) (33 minutes).
• David Baker talks about Rosetta@home

Last modified 11:30 PM UTC, June 10 2009.
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