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… More EditThe Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is a non-commercial middleware system for volunteer computing, originally developed to support the SETI@home project, but intended to be useful for other applications in areas as diverse as mathematics, medicine, molecular biology, climatology, and astrophysics.
The intent of BOINC is to make it possible for researchers to tap into the enormous processing power of personal computers around the world.
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Did you create this app?| Website: | boinc.berkeley.edu |
| Developer: | Space Sciences Laboratory |
| License: | Open source |
| Version: | 7.0.27 |
| Rating: | Features: Interface: Performance: Price/value: Overall: |
| Usage: | 6 months, 1 week, 1 day, 11 hours, 48 minutes and 39 seconds |
| Usage since: | 17 May 2007 |
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Excellent software for background Science applications computing. Currently running the software on 2 laptops, 1 Windows 7 tablet, and some PCs on the school I attend. I have it to use all the available processors at 100% and it works with no problems or slowing down the computers, as long as you have enough memory, you will not run into problems.
It works fine on my computer. On my sister's, it will run the program for a moment, stop it, and start, stop, ad inf. This is because of the preferences saying "Don't go beyond 50%." I'd expect there to be an optimisation, so BOINC would take things slower. There is no option to change the process priority. The GUI needs some work. I wish attaching was quicker. I'd also wish there'd be an option to crunch without registering (make trying out things easier).
It is great app to donate computer time to science.
My way to bring a new life to old computers and have them helping science 24/7!
crunching on on on
Great to donate your spare processing power (CPU/GPU) if you have any!!
if you have a desktop system that's always running with its fan at full speed, use the idle CPU cycles for a good purpose. with boinc you can support these computationally expensive scientific algorithms that help cure cancer, fight AIDS, or deal with other problems of the today's society.
still wondering what it's actually calculating
Who doesn't want to help science?
It's always good to donate your spare cycles.
Great to contribute spare cycles to good causes. Have been helping with SETI@home for years now...
It's very good to help scientific projects as mush as we can...
I am running SETI@home, Milkyway@home and Cosmology@home right now :D .I hope I can participate in more projects :)
2Twiguard: Exactly! I have the same feeling. :o)
I like the feeling that I'm actually doing something for the science. =)