BOINC
Compute for Science

  • BOINC lets you help cutting-edge science research using your computer. The BOINC app, running on your computer, downloads scientific computing jobs and runs them invisibly in the background. It's easy and safe.

  • About 30 science projects use BOINC. They investigate diseases, study climate change, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research.

  • The BOINC and Science United projects are located at the University of California, Berkeley and are supported by the National Science Foundation.
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To contribute to science areas (biomedicine, physics, astronomy, and so on) use Science United. Your computer will help current and future projects in those areas.

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News from BOINC Projects

[PrimeGrid] AP27 now supports Intel ARC GPUs

The AP27 project now supports Intel ARC GPUs on both Windows and Linux. This version of the app is faster than the previous version and all GPUs under Linux and Windows should see faster run times. For discussion and more information, please see this forum thread.

View article · Fri, 5 May 2023 22:50:37 +0000


[Yoyo@home] 2 factors found by Pentathlon

The next 2 factors were found by the BOINC Pentathlon, a 55 digit factor by JayPi2 of team SETI.Germany anda 58 digit factor by biodoc of team TeAm AnandTech.

View article · Fri, 5 May 2023 22:00:00 +0000


[World Community Grid] Research update from the Microbiome Immunity Project team (May 2023)

The Microbiome Immunity Project team has published a new article about the structure and function of human microbiome proteins.

View article · Fri, 5 May 2023 18:21:45 +0000


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News

Welcome YAFU
The goal of the YAFU project is to factor numbers of up to 149 digits which are needed to bring Aliquot Sequences to a size of at least 140.
25 Apr 2023, 8:26:52 UTC · Discuss


BOINC wiki now on Github
The BOINC wiki, which contains technical documentation for scientists and developers, has been moved from Trac to the BOINC Github repository.
25 Apr 2023, 0:14:28 UTC · Discuss


BOINC workshop video
A video of the recent BOINC workshop is now available on YouTube.
16 Mar 2023, 8:06:31 UTC · Discuss


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