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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!.

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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
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Active: 326,655 volunteers, 559,122 computers.
24-hour average: 1,153.27 TeraFLOPS.
NEZ is contributing 4,279 GFLOPS.
Country: United States
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News

September 30, 2008
An article on the recent BOINC workshop in Grenoble appeared in International Science Grid This Week.

September 29, 2008
An article on PS3grid.net project, which does scientific computing on Sony Playstations, appeared recently in Science.

September 27, 2008
See an open letter to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

September 25, 2008
Read an article about Quake Catcher Network in Economist.com.

September 25, 2008
Ibercivis, a joint project of several Spanish universities and research institutes, is now open to the public. Sign up and support Spanish research.

September 20, 2008
Welcome back to Docking@Home, a project at the University of Delaware that studies protein-ligand interactions (and BOINC itself).
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