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open source middleware system for volunteer and grid computing

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Developer: University of California, Berkeley
Initial release: 10 April 2002 ; 24 years ago ( 2002-04-10 )
Stable release: 8.2.4 Windows , 10 July 2025 ; 10 months ago ( 2025-07-10 ) 8.2.5 macOS , 16 July 2025 ; 10 months ago ( 2025-07-16 ) 8.2.8 Linux , 7 December 2025 ; 5 months ago ( 2025-12-07 ) 8.0.2 Android , 30 May 2024 ; 2 years ago ( 2024-05-30 )
Preview release: 8.2.5 / 15 July 2025 ; 10 months ago ( 2025-07-15 )
Written in: C++ (client/server), PHP (project CMS), Java / Kotlin (Android client)
Operating system: Windows , macOS , Linux , Android , FreeBSD , Raspberry Pi OS
Type: Grid computing and volunteer computing
License: LGPL-3.0-or-later , Project licensing varies
Website: boinc .berkeley .edu
Repository: github .com /BOINC /boinc

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Official website: boinc.berkeley.edu
Image: BOINC Manager Screenshot.jpg

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inception: 2002-04-10
software version identifier: 8.2.4
publication date: 2002-04-10
short name: BOINC
source code repository URL: github.com/BOINC/boinc
web feed URL: boinc.berkeley.edu/rss_main.php
hashtag: boinc
user manual URL: boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/User_manual
Commons category: Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing
Commons gallery: Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing

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BOINC Manager Advanced ViewThe Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC, pronounced /bɔɪŋk/ –rhymes with "oink") is an open-source middleware system for volunteer computing (a type of distributed computing). Developed originally to support SETI@home, it became the platform for many other applications in areas as diverse as medicine, molecular biology, mathematics, linguistics, climatology, environmental science, and astrophysics, among others. The purpose of BOINC is to enable researchers to utilize processing resources of personal computers and other devices around the world.

BOINC development began with a group based at the Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL) at the University of California, Berkeley, and led by David P. Anderson, who also led SETI@home. As a high-performance volunteer computing platform, BOINC brings together 34,236 active participants employing 136,341 active computers (hosts) worldwide, processing daily on average 20.164 PetaFLOPS as of 16 November 2021 (it would be the 21st largest processing capability in the world compared with an individual supercomputer). 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.