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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
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Related software:
  • Bolt: middleware for web-based education and training
  • Bossa: middleware for distributed thinking projects
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Computing power
Top 100 volunteers · Statistics
Active: 319,830 volunteers, 564,691 computers.
24-hour average: 1,491.17 TeraFLOPS.
Slicker @ SETI.USA is contributing 547 GFLOPS.
Country: United States; Team: SETI.USA
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News

November 20, 2008
See a video celebrating the fourth anniversary of IBM World Community Grid.

November 20, 2008
Jarifa, a system for organizational grid computing using BOINC, has a new name, logo, and domain.

November 7, 2008
On 27-28 November 2008, AlmereGrid and EDGeS will organise a two-day Desktop Grid workshop in Almere, The Netherlands.

October 17, 2008
Read Reaching for the Exa-scale with volunteer computing in International Science Grid This Week.

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.
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