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Use the idle time on your computer (Windows, Mac, or Linux) to cure diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research. It's safe, secure, and easy: - Choose projects
- Download and run BOINC software
- Enter an email address and password.
Or, if you run several projects, try an account manager such as GridRepublic or BAM!.
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Compute with BOINC
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Related software:
- Bolt: middleware for web-based education and training
- Bossa: middleware for distributed thinking projects
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The BOINC project
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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.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in
this material are those of the author(s)
and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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Computing power
Top 100 volunteers
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Active: 326,142 volunteers, 586,019 computers.
24-hour average: 2,088.75 TeraFLOPS.
Kirdnem-Vince
is contributing 3,202 GFLOPS.
Country: Australia; Team: Cruncher Junkies
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News
October 30, 2009
The Fifth BOINC Workshop was held Oct. 22-23 in Barcelona.
There were 35 attendees and 21 excellent talks;
many of the presentation slides and discussion notes are online.
October 30, 2009
Version 6.10 of the BOINC client software has been released for general use. Download it here.
October 28, 2009
The Windows versions of 6.6.41 have been recalled
due to a version mismatch with recent Microsoft updates.
Please use the 6.6.38 version until 6.10 is released.
October 21, 2009
An article in the Wall Street Journal
discusses the use of volunteer computing in medical research.
October 12, 2009
Welcome to NFS@home,
a new project from California State University Fullerton.
NFS@Home uses volunteer computing to do the lattice sieving step in the Number Field Sieve factorization of large integers.
October 4, 2009
BoincTasks, a new visual interface to BOINC, has been released for Windows. BoincTasks lets you manage a single computer locally, or all your computers remotely.
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