BySaiyasodharan. R

Before seeing what is BOINC lets see what BOINC is doing right now

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BOINC, short for Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing, is open source software for volunteer and grid computing. Its used by science research projects like SETI@Home, Rosetta@home, World Community Grid, Climateprediction.net and many other Universities and Organizations around the world.

BOINC is a software program that was developed by a team in Berkeley University California. The concept behind the BOINC software is using the power of peoples home computers to carry out science research. This idea was incredibly popular and millions of people were volunteering their computers spare capacity. So BOINC was made avalable to other scientists around the world so that they could use the power of volunteer computing to carry out their scientific research in the same way.

Scientific projects need the power of Super computers to do their research.

But it is impossible for a University to build a Supercomputer.

So, they use BOINC to distribute the massive computational works to the volunteers computers and then they integrate the results when they return back.

When you install the BOINC client on your computer, it will download the scientific data and process the data, when your computer is idle.

After the processing is over, it return the results back to the server and gets the next packet of data.

Sense of accomplishment, community involvement, or scientific duty

Potential for fame (if your computer “finds” an alien planet, you can name it!)

“Bragging rights” for computing more units “BOINC Credits”

BOINC - http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ SETI@Home - setiathome.berkeley.edu/ Rosetta@Home -

http://boinc.bakerlab.org/