BOINC
BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) is a software platform for volunteer computing and desktop grid and volunteer computing.
What is BOINC?
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.
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BOINC information
- Developed byUniversity of California
- LicensingOpen Source (LGPL-3.0) and Free product.
- Written in
- RatingAverage rating of 4
- Alternatives14 alternatives listed
Supported Languages
- English
GitHub repository
- 1,674 Stars
- 410 Forks
- 533 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
Tags
- science-helping
- volunteer-computing
- desktop-grid
- Cloud Computing
- Research
- scientific
Recent user activities on BOINC
- RemovedUser liked BOINCRe
drliu1202 liked BOINC
dog_funtom Upvoted a comment on Folding@home as an alternative to BOINCIt is easier to set up and you don't need an account
I just wanted to give an update and say that BOINC is wonderful on a Mac. I'm not as interested in the "screen saver" effects, although they are quite interesting now. I'm just glad that i'm help[ing to solve real world problems with almost zero cost (yes, a little more electricity). BOINC has come a long way since it's "Beta" days.
easy to setup, does the job without foss and it has enough parameters to configure it according to your digital lifestyle
The concept of using idle CPU time to do something productive is admirable, but this software is Beta at best. Screen saver stopped working correctly two versions ago and they still haven't fixed it. Trying to get it up and running on Linux is a considerable challenge. That's unfortunate when there's so much potential here.
Absolutely a wonderful piece of software. It allows you to volunteer your extra computer time, which is normally wasted. A great combination with this is world community grid, which will help manage which projects you're computing for.