Computing with BOINC

BOINC is a platform for 'volunteer computing': using consumer devices (desktops, laptops, tables, phones) to do scientific computing. The goal of BOINC is to give scientists large computing power at small cost.

• Features of BOINC
• Projects and apps

The easiest way to use BOINC is BOINC Central. This lets you submit batches of jobs for common applications (currently Autodock Vina) through a web interface.

You can also create and operate a BOINC project:

• Creating a BOINC server on Ubuntu
• Documentation index

For help, post to the BOINC projects email list.

Other (perhaps outdated) docs:

• Create a BOINC server using a VM image with BOINC software pre-installed. Note: this image is out of date.
• Create a BOINC server on AWS using the same VM image.
• Create a BOINC server using Docker Note: the Docker images are out of date.
• External docs