The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC)
Saturday, 12. July 2008, 22:57:56
I always liked the concept of BOINC. Do you know what it is?
"The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is a non-commercial middleware system for volunteer and grid computing. It was 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."
It started with SETI@home but now you have so many projects to choose from... Some very useful! I decided to help with "Climate Prediction" but there so many specially in the medicine field. Rosetta@home, Einstein@Home, RieselSieve Project, etc. It runs in background and to me, it doesn't slow down my PC at all.. I have the feeling to participate to some important research!
"The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is a non-commercial middleware system for volunteer and grid computing. It was 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."
It started with SETI@home but now you have so many projects to choose from... Some very useful! I decided to help with "Climate Prediction" but there so many specially in the medicine field. Rosetta@home, Einstein@Home, RieselSieve Project, etc. It runs in background and to me, it doesn't slow down my PC at all.. I have the feeling to participate to some important research!
