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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News from BOINC Projects

[Einstein@home] Einstein@Home offline August 14/15

Due to necessary maintenance work on the electricity supply we need to shut down the E@H severs on Monday, August 14th at around 6 AM UTC. We plan to be back online on the following day, Tuesday, around 5 PM UTC.

View article · Tue, 8 Aug 2023 12:06:31 +0000


[iThena] [August 7, 2023] Planned maintenance breaks

We are scheduling project temporary outages on August 7, 2023.

There may be temporary access issues (up to a few hours maximum) in the availability of the project from 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM (Central European Time).

These will be temporary access issues.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/iThenaProject/status/1688292093565800448

View article · Sun, 6 Aug 2023 20:46:26 +0000


[RakeSearch] Processing of the square # 23 completed

Dear participants, processing of the square # 23 is fully completed! The square:

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B
1 2 0 4 5 3 8 9 A B 6 7
2 0 1 5 3 4 A B 6 7 8 9
8 A 6 B 7 9 2 4 0 5 1 3
7 9 B A 6 8 3 2 4 0 5 1
9 B 7 6 8 A 4 0 5 1 3 2
5 3 4 2 0 1 7 8 9 A B 6
A 6 8 7 9 B 0 5 1 3 2 4
B 7 9 8 A 6 5 1 3 2 4 0
6 8 A 9 B 7 1 3 2 4 0 5
4 5 3 1 2 0 B 6 7 8 9 A
3 4 5 0 1 2 9 A B 6 7 8

has 1024457772 orthogonal mates which puts it on the 9th place of the rating which include now 5395 positions.

Now "high part" of spectra of ODLS-12 looks like this (square # 23 marked by red):


Thank you for project attention, support and donation of CPU time!

View article · Fri, 4 Aug 2023 20:17:31 +0000


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News

Italian Masters thesis on BOINC
Check out The democratization of science: Analysis of the voluntary distributed
computing platform BOINC
, a Masters thesis by Antonio Cerrato. Also in the original Italian.
6 Aug 2023, 16:13:06 UTC · Discuss


Client version 7.22 released
A new version of the BOINC client is available for Windows, Mac, and Android. Download it here. Release notes are here. Thanks to BOINC volunteer developers and testers.
21 Jun 2023, 23:20:38 UTC · Discuss


Control BOINC from Home Assistant
A control for BOINC is available for the Home Assistant home automation system, making it possible to control BOINC in response to various environmental factors.
30 May 2023, 7:58:34 UTC · Discuss


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