![]() ![]() In essence, BOINC is software that can use the unused CPU and GPU cycles on a computer to do scientific computing-what one individual does not use of his/her computer, BOINC uses. Most BOINC projects are nonprofit and rely heavily, if not completely, on volunteers. BOINC is free software which is released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General PublicīOINC is designed to be a free structure for anyone wishing to start a volunteer computing project. The framework is supported by various operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Android and various Unix-like systems including GNU/Linux and FreeBSD. BOINC is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through awards SCI/0221529, SCI/0438443 and SCI/0721124. The intent of BOINC is to make it possible for researchers to tap into the enormous processing power of personal computers around the world.īOINC has been developed by a team based at the Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL) at the University of California, Berkeley led by David Anderson, who also leads As a high performance distributed computing platform, BOINC has about 596,224 active computers (hosts) worldwide processing on average 9.2 petaFLOPS as of March 2013. It was originally developed to support the before it became useful as a platform for other distributed applications in areas as diverse as mathematics, medicine, molecular biology, climatology, and astrophysics. ![]() The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing ( BOINC) is an open source middleware system for volunteer and grid computing. BOINC Developer(s) University of California, Berkeley Stable release 7.0.65 Mac OS X GNU/Linux, 7.0.64 Windows / 17 April 2013 3 months ago Preview release 7.2.5 / 17 July 2013 22 days ago Operating system GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Android Type Grid computing and Volunteer computing License LGPL Website ![]()
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