What is BOINC Central?
BOINC Central uses BOINC - a system for 'volunteer computing', allowing people to donate computing power to science research. We let scientists in multiple areas access the power of volunteer computing without having to create their own BOINC project.
We're operated by the U.C. Berkeley BOINC project.
Computer owners:
Support computational research in multiple areas.
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Scientists:
Need high-throughput computing power and can't afford commercial clouds? We may be able to help, by giving you access to thousands of computers at no charge. We provide computing to independent researchers as well as those from academic institutions.
BOINC Central currently supports
- Any application packaged with Docker.
- Autodock from the Scripps Research Institute.
... or contact us.
News
Updates
Thanks to the computing power (450 CPU-years!) supplied by BOINC Central volunteers, the Boolean Chains project was successfully completed; results are discussed here. More recently, we completed the Cislunar Orbit Stability Analyzer project, which studies the stability of orbits in the Earth/Moon system. This led to a paper that is currently in review.
Both of these projects used BUDA, BOINC's new framework for Docker-based apps. We encountered and solved lots of technical problems, mostly related to scaling (batches of 10,000 jobs, multi-GB output file downloads); thanks the Oliver and Gao (the scientists) for their patience.
We're looking for new projects to support; tell your computational-scientist friends about BOINC Central!
24 Mar 2026, 1:27:51 UTC
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Boolean Chains project reaches milestone
The Boolean Chains project (the first hosted by BOINC Central) has reached a milestone: the search space for N=15, L=21 is done. See a discussion of the results. 37,444,981,252,103,000 chains were generated, using 2,139 days of computing. The next phase of the project will explore the N=16, L=22 case.
31 May 2025, 9:05:41 UTC
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Welcome to BOINC Central
BOINC Central is on the air!
26 Nov 2021, 10:14:12 UTC
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