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BOINC

Open Source by University of California | Link to website

BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) is a software platform for volunteer computing and desktop grid and volunteer computing. The everyday person can use the idle time of their computer to cure diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars and do many other types of scientific research. All that is needed is to install and select the projects desired. The rest of the participation is automatic. More info »

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cloud-computing, research, scientific +4 more, distributed-computing, grid-computing, volunteer-computing, desktop-grid

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