BOINC stands for the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing. The Wikipedia page for BOINC says: "It is a non-commercial middle-ware system for volunteer and grid computing. Originally developed to support the SETI@home project before it became useful as a platform for other distributed 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."
Remember the SETI@Home project? The idea behind SETI@Home was to analyze radio signals from space for any form of intelligent communication from another world using ordinary home computers. BOINC is similar though on a much bigger scale. The BOINC network is very valuable and participation in it is worth your while and will benefit all of us in the long run.
Examples of BOINC projects
- Climate Change research
- Protein folding
- Build a 3D model of the Milky Way
- Malariacontrol.net
Many of the projects on the BOINC platform have published their results. The published results can be read online here.
You can participate by visiting this link
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