Choosing BOINC projects
BOINC is used by many projects. You can participate in any number of these projects.
To decide whether to participate in a project, read its web site and consider:
- Does the project clearly describe its goals? Are these goals important and beneficial?
- Has the project published results in peer-reviewed journals or conferences? See a list of publications by BOINC projects .
- Do you trust the project to use proper security practices?
- Who owns the results of the computation? Will they be freely available? Will they belong to a company?
The following projects are known to us at BOINC, and we believe their descriptions are accurate.
| Name Mouse over for details; click to visit web site | Category | Area | Sponsor | Supported platforms More details at WUProp@Home |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amicable Numbers | Mathematics, computing, and games | Mathematics | Independent | 
Details |
| Asteroids@home | Physical Science | Astrophysics | Charles University in Prague |
Details |
| BOINC Central | Multiple applications | Multiple science areas | University of California, Berkeley |
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| Climateprediction.net | Earth Sciences | Climate study | Oxford University |
Details |
| DENIS@Home | Biology and Medicine | Medical physiology | San Jorge University, Zaragoza, Spain |
Details |
| Einstein@home | Physical Science | Astrophysics | University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee (USA), Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics - Hanover (Germany) |
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| Gerasim@Home | Mathematics, computing, and games | Computer engineering | Southwest State University (Russia) |
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| GPUGrid.net | Biology and Medicine | Molecular simulations of proteins | Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB) |
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| iThena | Mathematics, computing, and games | Computer science | Cyber-Complex Foundation |
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| LHC@home | Physical Science | Physics | CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) |
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| LODA | Mathematics, computing, and games | Mathematics | Independent |
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| Milkyway@home | Physical Science | Astronomy | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
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| Moo! Wrapper | Mathematics, computing, and games | Cryptography and combinatorics | Independent |
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| NFS@home | Mathematics, computing, and games | Factorization of large integers | California State University Fullerton |
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| NumberFields@home | Mathematics, computing, and games | Mathematics | Arizona State University, school of Mathematics |
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| ODLK | Mathematics, computing, and games | Mathematics | Independent |
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| ODLK1 | Mathematics, computing, and games | Mathematics | Independent |
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| PrimeGrid | Mathematics, computing, and games | Mathematics | Independent |
Details |
| Radioactive@Home | Distributed sensing | Environmental research | BOINC Poland Foundation |
Details |
| RakeSearch | Mathematics, computing, and games | Mathematics | Karelian Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences |
Details |
| Ramanujan Machine | Mathematics, computing, and games | Mathematics | Independent |
Details |
| RNA World | Biology and Medicine | Molecular biology | Rechenkraft.net e.V. |
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| Rosetta@home | Biology and Medicine | Biology | University of Washington |
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| SIDock@home | Biology and Medicine | Biomedicine | The COVID.SI project and the Karelian Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences |
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| SRBase | Mathematics, computing, and games | Mathematics | Independent |
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| World Community Grid | Multiple applications | Medical, environmental and other humanitarian research | Krembil Research Institute |
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| YAFU | Mathematics, computing, and games | Mathematics | Independent |
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| Yoyo@home | Multiple applications | Mathematics | Independent |
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If you run a BOINC-based project
and would like it to be included on this list,
please contact us,
and answer the four questions above.
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