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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This is a great post at summarising BOINC. You may also be interested in learning out GridRepublic. GridRepublic is working in collaboration with BOINC to make discovering the various projects, joining them, and managing the preferences for one or more projects and computers as easy as possible.
GridRepublic is a non-profit and is focused on increasing awareness and participation. Check out Progress Thru Processors on Facebook to see one of their efforts. http://www.facebook.com/progressthruprocessors
GridRepublic site: http://www.gridrepublic.org
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