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Everything about Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing
Open source middleware system for volunteer and grid computing
The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing is an open-source middleware system for volunteer computing. Developed originally to support SETI@home, it became the platform for many other applications in areas as diverse as medicine, molecular biology, mathematics, linguistics, climatology, environmental science, and astrophysics, among others. The purpose of BOINC is to enable researchers to utilize processing resources of personal computers and other devices around the world. Wikipedia →
🧠Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network ComputingA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: BOINCThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: A simple grid implementation with Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing using BLAST as a modelCited 9 times
- Go sideways: SETI@home betaA closely related topic
- Go sideways: List of volunteer computing projectsA closely related topic
đź“– Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
đź“š Books worth reading
- 📕BOINCChristian Benjamin Ries · 2012
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
đź”— Related topics
- SETI@home beta SETI@home beta, is a hibernating volunteer computing project using the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) platform, as a test environmen…
- List of volunteer computing projects Volunteer computing projects are a type of distributed computing where volunteers donate computing time to specific causes. The donated computing power…
- SETI@home SETI@home ("SETI at home") is a project of the Berkeley SETI Research Center to analyze radio signals with the aim of searching for signs of extraterrestrial…
- Volunteer computing Volunteer computing is a type of distributed computing in which people donate their computers' unused resources to a research-oriented project, sometimes…
- PrimeGrid PrimeGrid is a volunteer computing project that searches for very large (up to world-record size) prime numbers whilst also aiming to solve long-standing…
- Grid computing Grid computing is the use of widely distributed computer resources to reach a common goal. A computing grid can be thought of as a distributed system with…
- Predictor@home Predictor@home was a volunteer computing project that used BOINC software to predict protein structure from protein sequence in the context of the 6th…
- GridRepublic GridRepublic is a BOINC Account Manager. It focuses on creating a clean and simple way to join and interact with BOINC. GridRepublic was started with a…