Welcome to the BOINC Wiki
From Unofficial BOINC Wiki
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.
This wiki is an evolving and growing repository for information about BOINC.
You may also find useful information about BOINC from the primary BOINC site at Berkeley
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How to Participate
For those who are new to BOINC, or for those who are already participating in one or more BOINC projects:
- An Overview of BOINC
- Installing the BOINC client software
- Participating in BOINC projects
- Getting HELP!
- Add-on software
- Reference materials
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Creating BOINC Projects
For those who are creating or managing BOINC projects, or for those developing BOINC applications:
- Starting a BOINC project
- Creating a BOINC application
- Getting work done
- Managing distributed data
- Managing a Project website
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BOINC Software Development
For those who are working behind the scenes on the underlying BOINC software:
- Obtaining BOINC software
- Building BOINC
- BOINC development process
- BOINC coding style
Anybody can contribute what they may know about BOINC to this wiki. To do so, please see the article Using The Unofficial BOINC Wiki - An Overview
[edit] 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 tab first!
You can see what's new here from the recent changes page. You can even subscribe to that page as an RSS news feed.
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