BOINC lets you help cutting-edge science research using your computer (Windows, Mac, Linux) or Android device. BOINC downloads scientific computing jobs to your computer and runs them invisibly in the background. It's easy and safe.
About 30 science projects use BOINC; examples include Einstein@Home, IBM World Community Grid, and SETI@home.These projects investigate diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research.
You can participate in either of two ways:
Choose science areas
To contribute to science areas (biomedicine, physics, astronomy, and so on) use Science United. Your computer will do work for current and future projects in those areas.
Choose projects
To contribute to specific projects, download BOINC and follow the directions.
High-Throughput Computing with BOINC
BOINC is a platform for high-throughput computing on a large scale (thousands or millions of computers). It can be used for volunteer computing (using consumer devices) or grid computing (using organizational resources). It supports virtualized, parallel, and GPU-based applications.
BOINC is distributed under the LGPL open source license. It can be used for commercial purposes, and applications need not be open source.
Software
The BOINC Project
Computing power
Active: 143,052 volunteers, 556,776 computers.
Top 100 volunteers Statistics
Country: United States; Team: US NAVY
News
BOINC workshop agenda update
The agenda for the upcoming BOINC workshop has been updated. View the agenda.
13 May 2019, 17:39:21 UTC
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Paper about BOINC
A paper about BOINC has been posted on arXiv.org.
6 Mar 2019, 9:06:28 UTC
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Voice/chat channel for team founders announced
BOINC Founders Club is a meeting place for BOINC team founders, based on the Discord voice/chat system. If you're a team founder, ask to join by emailing boinc.founders.club@gmail.com.
10 Feb 2019, 5:38:04 UTC
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2019 BOINC Workshop
The 2019 BOINC workshop will be held July 9-12 in Chicago.
7 Feb 2019, 20:06:10 UTC
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Client version 7.14.2 released
Version 7.14.2 of the BOINC client for Windows and Mac has been released. Release notes are here.
18 Oct 2018, 22:41:33 UTC
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BOINC is supported by the
National Science Foundation
through awards SCI-0221529, SCI-0438443, SCI-0506411,
PHY/0555655, and OCI-0721124.
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