BOINC Space Sciences Laboratory, U.C. Berkeley
winget install --id=UCBerkeley.BOINC -e BOINC lets you help cutting-edge science research using your computer. The BOINC app, running on your computer, downloads scientific computing jobs and runs them invisibly in the background. It's easy and safe. About 30 science projects use BOINC. They investigate diseases, study climate change, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research. The BOINC and Science United projects are located at the University of California, Berkeley and are supported by the National Science Foundation.
BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) is a distributed computing platform designed to enable volunteer computing for scientific research. It allows individuals to contribute their computer's processing power to help solve complex computational problems across various fields such as biomedicine, physics, astronomy, and climate science.
Key Features:
- Distributed Processing: BOINC efficiently distributes scientific tasks across participating computers, enabling large-scale computations that would otherwise require expensive supercomputers.
- Support for Multiple Projects: Users can choose to contribute to over 30 different scientific projects, such as studying diseases, analyzing climate data, or searching for pulsars in space.
- Background Processing: The BOINC app runs scientific computations invisibly in the background, ensuring minimal disruption to the user's computer usage.