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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.

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BOINC Presentation

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.

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By

Saiyasodharan. R
Before seeing what is BOINC lets see what
BOINC is doing right now
People living with AIDS world map
 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/

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