BOINC descriptionUse the idle time on your computer to cure diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, and do scientific researchThe Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) software is a distributed computing infrastructure, originally developed out of the SETI home project, but intended to be useful to fields beyond SETI.

BOINC is the information technology infrastructure for distributing work in the form of work units and downloading the distributed applications that process them.

BOINC does no useful scientific work itself. Scientific computations are run on user computers and results are analyzed after they