BOINC
Compute for Science

  • BOINC lets you help cutting-edge science research using your computer. The BOINC app, running on your computer, downloads scientific computing jobs and runs them invisibly in the background. It's easy and safe.

  • About 30 science projects use BOINC. They investigate diseases, study climate change, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research.

  • The BOINC and Science United projects are located at the University of California, Berkeley and are supported by the National Science Foundation.
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News from BOINC Projects

[Gerasim@Home] Gerasim@home:

For those who were wondering, the decic apps on Gerasim are helping to complete the final search over subfield 3.

Eric

View article · Sun, 26 Mar 2023 17:16:23 +0000


[World Community Grid] SCC Project starts a new phase in their quest for curing childhood cancers

The SCC project has entered the next phase of the research and new workunits have been prepared for the BOINC restart.

View article · Wed, 22 Mar 2023 20:14:29 +0000


[World Community Grid] Research update from the MCM team (March 2023)

The MCM team’s research into lung cancer biomarkers has identified 26 genes that are present with top scores across all the signature sizes considered. This update focuses on VAMP1, a gene linked to patient survival and differentially expressed in normal lung compared to lung cancer.

View article · Mon, 20 Mar 2023 17:42:52 +0000


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BOINC workshop video
A video of the recent BOINC workshop is now available on YouTube.
16 Mar 2023, 8:06:31 UTC · Discuss


BOINC Workshop 2023 to be held March 1 and 8
The annual BOINC Workshop aims to stimulate new developments and activities related to volunteer computing, and to guide the future development of BOINC.

Date: March 1 and 8, for 3 hours each day
Time: 09:00 PST / 11:00 CST / 12:00 EST / 17:00 GMT / 18:00 CET / 19:00 EET
Where: Zoom (link available upon registration)
How: Please register here: https://www.boincworkshop.org/register
3 Jan 2023, 0:50:15 UTC · Discuss


Uania fights COVID with SiDock and Science United
The Italian networking company Uania has arranged to run SiDock@home on their routers, contributing to research on the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Thanks to Uania for taking this pioneering step in volunteer computing. Thanks also to Vitalii Koshura and Natalia Nikitina for their work in getting BOINC and the SiDock app running on the Uania platform.
4 Oct 2022, 4:39:37 UTC · Discuss


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