Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing
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| Developer(s) | University of California, Berkeley |
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| Initial release | 10 April 2002 |
| Stable release |
7.6.33 / 8 December 2016
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| Repository | github |
| Development status | Active |
| Written in |
C++ (client/server) PHP (project CMS) Java (Android client) |
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Linux macOS Windows Android FreeBSD |
| Type | Grid computing and Volunteer computing |
| License |
GNU Lesser General Public License Project licensing varies |
| Website | boinc |
The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC, pronounced /bɔɪŋk/ - rhymes with "oink"), an open-source middleware system, supports volunteer and grid computing. Originally developed to support the SETI@home project, it became generalized as a platform for other distributed applications in areas as diverse as mathematics, linguistics, medicine, molecular biology, climatology, environmental science, and astrophysics, among others. BOINC aims to enable researchers to tap into the enormous processing resources of multiple personal computers around the world.
BOINC development originated with a team based at the Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL) at the University of California, Berkeley and led by David Anderson, who also leads SETI@home. As a high-performance distributed computing platform, BOINC brings together about 311,742 active participants and 834,343 active computers (hosts) worldwide processing on average 16.912 PetaFLOPS as of 13 January 2017[update]. The National Science Foundation (NSF) funds BOINC through awards SCI/0221529, SCI/0438443 and SCI/0721124.Guinness World Records ranks BOINC as the largest computing grid in the world.
BOINC code runs on various operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, macOS, Android,Linux and FreeBSD. BOINC is free software released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).
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