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IDENTIFICATION

BOINC homepage

• Number of project: 50
  
• Number of users: 234998

Start date :

• Beta start date : N/A
• End date :

Active projects

Einstein@home, Test4Theory

Retired projects

⇳ Description BOINC is a program that lets you donate your idle computer time to science projects like SETI@home, Climateprediction.net, Rosetta@home, World Community Grid, and many others. After installing BOINC on your computer, you can connect it to as many of these projects as you like. ➠ Purpose This project serves several communities.

• Scientists: use BOINC to create a volunteer computing project giving you the computing power of thousands of CPUs.
• Universities: use BOINC to create a Virtual Campus Supercomputing Center.
• Companies: use BOINC for desktop Grid computing.

COMMUNITY

COMMUNITY TOOLS

• Communication: other
• Social Network: N/A
• Main news site: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/

MEMBERS

• Visibility of member profiles:: minimal
• Member profile elements:

⏣ Description

DEVELOPERS

SOFTWARE

Uses Citizen science software:

Provides online tool to create applications: N/A

SUPPORT

Provides support team for development: N/A

Provides documentation for development and hosting: N/A

MAIN TEAM LOCATION

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University of California, Berkeley, USA.

♜ DEVELOPERS TEAM Official team page:
Leader: David P. Anderson
Contact: David P. Anderson http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/ProjectPeople
+ Information about the team

OVERVIEW

▣ SYSTEM OVERVIEW

The system is comprised of:

• Sever software
• Client software (Win/Mac/Linux/others)

	field_project_name	BOINC
field_project_purpose	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:
field_home_page_URL	http://boinc.berkeley.edu/
Total number of projects (estimate)	50
Total individual participants (estimate)	234998
Uses Citizen science software
Programming languages (for custom development)	PHP, C++, Python
field_project_start_date
field_comments	This is just an early test for the form. Please ignore its contents
The system is comprised of: Sever software Client software (Win/Mac/Linux/others)	Completion level

Documented projects in this wiki:

	Has infrastructure
Einstein@home	BOINC
Test4Theory	BOINC

Definition of volonteer computing

• Read Volunteer computing @ BOINC

To do

• Read a study of volunteer attitudes and motivations from World Community Grid, 23 Aug 2013

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