Website review: BOINC
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•50 reviews since Dec 8, 2003
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•boinc.berkeley.edu
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afroboi rated 12 days ago- Use the idle time on your computer (Windows, Mac, or Linux) to cure diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research. It's safe, secure, and easy: 1. Choose projects 2. Download and run BOINC software 3. Enter an email address and password.
- baron1984 rated 4 weeks ago
- Turn your computer into a paperweight that helps Eli Lilly, Pfizer, and Merck make new dugs to turn around and sell for $500 a bottle to people with no health insurance.
- dtopps rated 5 weeks ago
- Lots of wonderful pure science computational projects, many of which are medicine related. But none that are immediately useful to us.
- onlineoverlord rated 5 months ago
- uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
- tallhearted rated 5 months ago
- Projects like BOINC help scientist and doctors do research that they would not normally be able to do without passing along the computing cost to us, because of lack of resources. BOINC which stands for... Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing is a really great program. Most of these projects are medical related, but not all. On the BOINC client website there is a link to all the projects so you can research them for yourself and see which ones you would like to join or participate in. You can join as many or as few of the projects as you would like. I would also recommend using the GridRepublic account manager. I have tried both GridRepublic and BAM! and find BAM! harder to use. GridRepublic link is: http://www.gridrepublic.org/
- NiaValydia rated 7 months ago
- nnnnnnnnnnnn Open-source software for volunteer computing and desktop grid computing Use the idle time on your computer to cure diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research. It's safe, secure, and easy.
- androidny rated 7 months ago
- Turn your computer into a little piece of supercomputer! At the risk of being presumptuous, are you sitting there mouse in one hand, your *ahem* in the other... why not put that idle process to some good use in-between your mouse-clicks? I've been doing SETI for years. You can do multiple tasks for various worthwhile projects. You won't even notice it running. It's not a resource hog by virtue of using the idle process to do its work. Pretty clever indeed.
- duligavin rated 8 months ago
- beijing china all of us like it
- arleas rated 10 months ago
- I already do folding@home... no need to add more to the pile, though if I ever decide to fix/upgrade my old computer I may run a second copy of it...
