Welcome to the BOINC Wiki

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The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is a distributed computing framework which allows you to contribute unused processing time on your computer to scientific and mathematical research projects of your choosing. It works on Windows, Mac, and Linux computers.

How to Participate      For those who are new to BOINC, or are already participating in one or more BOINC projects:	How BOINC Works      A general overview of how BOINC works, along with links to some of the more technical details
Creating BOINC Projects      For those who are creating or managing BOINC projects, or for those developing BOINC applications:	BOINC Software Development      For those who are working behind the scenes on the underlying BOINC software:

If you are not sure where to start, then start with How to Participate

This wiki is an evolving and growing repository for information about BOINC. Anybody can contribute what they know about BOINC. To do so, please see the article Using The Unofficial BOINC Wiki — An Overview.

News

30 April 2007

• This BOINC wiki is now fully open. You will need to create an account to modify pages, but you can now create an account without having to first contacting anyone. If you are unsure about an edit, please use the discussion page first!

You can see what’s new in Recent Changes. You can even receive the ““Recent Changes”” data via the “Recent Changes” syndication feed.

Contact

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