BOINC Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Folding@Home: We empower anyone to become a citizen scientist

  Or alternatively: Boinc[1], which has a bunch of different projects. [1] https://boinc.berkeley.edu/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Distributed Inference and Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models over the Internet

  Made me think of Gridcoin and BOINC https://boinc.berkeley.edu/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Have you ever donated your computing power with BOINC? Take 5 minutes to fill out the 2023 BOINC Census!

  The BOINC Census is back for another year! BOINC is an open source software and network for volunteer computing. People can use it do donate their CPU/GPU power to various scientific research areas like cancer, drug discovery, mapping the galaxy, and more. Source: 5 months ago

• Ask HN: What should I do with my leftover bandwidth?

  A few years back, I was in a similar situation and found BOINC(https://boinc.berkeley.edu/) to be a great way to contribute. It's a platform that lets you support various scientific research projects by sharing your computational power and bandwidth. However, it's worth noting that BOINC might tends to be more CPU/GPU intensive rather than bandwidth-heavy. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• It's never too late for Mapping the Mayo Way! Get crunching (mapping)!

  Sign up or login to the Milky Way MayoCoin team (CPU only) and Einstein MayoCoin team (GPU and CPU) using a BOINC account. Use your Reddit or Discord username. Source: 7 months ago

• Ash HN: How can I make my idle CPU time useful to others?

  Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) https://boinc.berkeley.edu/ https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php Has a unified management experience with the ability to subscribe to various projects, and set priorities/schedules for work units. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Ash HN: How can I make my idle CPU time useful to others?

  You can pick a program that you want to contribute at BOINC[1], which 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. If you want to contribute to people working on climate, then ClimatePrediction is a good option (they use BOINC) -... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Scientific computing on a personal machine vs university resources

  Probably BOINC (https://boinc.berkeley.edu/) could be a good solution for you. You can write me a DM, and I could help you to clarify is this something that could help you with your research. By default, to run your computations on BOINC you need to create a server, but we can deal with that and run your research on our own server first, so this could help you to start faster, and then later decide if you need a... Source: 10 months ago

• Back to work

  Https://boinc.berkeley.edu. It’s a program that lets you attach to projects like World community grid that does cancer research. You could do a shit load of research. Put that rig to work. There is a project called Gridcoin that incentivizes research into various projects. There are 17 projects currently whitelisted on Gridcoin including folding@home, World community Grid, and Einstein@home. Source: 10 months ago

• ⟳ 1 apps added, 17 updated at f-droid.org

  BOINC (version 7.22.2): Use your device to advance scientific research. Source: 11 months ago

• Why doesn't something like SETI@Home exist for AI training?

  There is https://boinc.berkeley.edu/ which sounds like what you are proposing. Source: 12 months ago

• Why doesn't something like SETI@Home exist for AI training?

  There is something I think already: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/. Source: 12 months ago

• Got a few raspberry pi's collecting dust. Any cool audio projects to use them for?

  Not audio related, but you could set them up to run BOINC and help out some good causes! Source: about 1 year ago

• [D] Grid computing for LLMs

  Around 2011, I used the BOINC program a lot using my PC's computational power in idle time (not running games, for example) to help projects like The Clean Energy Project. Source: about 1 year ago

• /u/KaiserTom breaks down the results of SETI@home, the big data citizen science project from the 90s/2000s

  You can still participate in distributed computing projects, just check out Science United which is one that uses BOINC for the project management. I've got it running on my Raspberry Pi (which primarily runs Magic Mirror so its nice to let somebody else get some benefit since its primarily a relatively static display). Also, Folding@Home did do some of the research into COVID, so it is staying up to date. Source: about 1 year ago

• An app where you can share part of your PC's processor/GPU and/or hard drive space for $

  Https://boinc.berkeley.edu/ Whoa, this is pretty sweet - but basically yeah, it would incentivize more people to do it if they could make a few bucks every week -. Source: about 1 year ago

• Astrophysics?

  BOINC is a distributed computing/citizen science community that support various space/math projects. The OG was the seti@home project. Since then it has spawned 100s of different projects. I would suggest Einstein@home, milkyway@home, universe@home. Something to look into if you are looking for a rabbit hole. Or you want to actively participate in current science projects. https://boinc.berkeley.edu. Source: about 1 year ago

• SETI Home Is in Hibernation

  There is still https://boinc.berkeley.edu/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Just another casualty...

  That torrent-style community driven model is interesting. I don’t think current LLMs would be able to run in a distributed compute environment like that though. ChatGPT pointed me toward BOINC a platform for providing distributed compute access in a similar fashion to torrents. Source: about 1 year ago

• Do you let your homelab turned on when not home?

  BOINC is a way to volunteer your spare compute power to science. There's a ton of interesting projects from mapping the galaxy to finding targets for cancer drugs. Homelab even has BOINC teams you can join. Source: about 1 year ago

• YSK: You can contribute your computer's spare processing power to COVID research, no computer science degree required

  BOINC projects are great because you can participate in multiple projects at once through a single program. BOINC is based out of the University California (Berkeley). Source: about 1 year ago