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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Or download BOINC and choose specific projects.

News from BOINC Projects

[SRBase] base R684 Megaprime / proven

A lucky hit after starting the Formula BOINC challenge.

416Ed4Gqcz8tpVzmSFSdVynvgyKP found a megaprime for base R684.
The prime 39*684^519468-1 has 1.472.723 digits and entered the TOP5000 in Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database. With this find it also has proven the base!

View article · Fri, 25 Aug 2023 10:44:22 +0000


[SRBase] base R684 Megaprime / proven

A lucky hit after starting the Formula BOINC challenge.

416Ed4Gqcz8tpVzmSFSdVynvgyKP found a megaprime for base R684.
The prime 39*684^519468-1 has 1.472.723 digits and entered the TOP5000 in Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database. With this find it also has proven the base!

View article · Fri, 25 Aug 2023 10:44:22 +0000


[SRBase] Formula BOINC 2023 24.08.2023 23:00 (UTC) - 27.08.2023 22:59 (UTC)

The project was choosen. Pls note that the linux app suspending is still not working.

Welcome to everyone!

View article · Fri, 25 Aug 2023 04:32:25 +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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