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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:

  1. Choose projects
  2. Download and run BOINC software
  3. Enter an email address and password.

Or, if you run several projects, try an account manager such as GridRepublic or BAM!.

Compute with BOINC
Documentation · Software updates
Related software:
  • Bolt: middleware for web-based education and training
  • Bossa: middleware for distributed thinking projects
The BOINC project

NSF logo 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.
Computing power
Top 100 volunteers · Statistics
Active: 332,416 volunteers, 578,382 computers.
24-hour average: 2,085.95 TeraFLOPS.
zjones is contributing 1,115 GFLOPS.
Country: United States
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News

June 23, 2009
Read an article about Docking@Home in Newswise Science News.

June 10, 2009
Check out BOINC! How your computer can benefit all of mankind, a story in the online Dish Magazine.

June 5, 2009
ICVolunteers is conducting an online poll to study motivation in volunteer computing. Volunteers are encouraged to complete this poll.

June 1, 2009
Mac users: check out BOINCMenubar 2, an alternative to the BOINC Manager for Mac OS X.

May 17, 2009
Check out Citizen Scientists, a podcast by the 365 Days of Astronomy project.

May 14, 2009
Planet BOINC is a new RSS feed that combines many different sources of news about BOINC and volunteer computing.
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News is available as an RSS feed RSS logo


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Last modified 4:43 PM UTC, May 21 2009.
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