BOINC
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Volunteer Computing with BOINC
PLEASE NOTE THAT THESE PAGES ARE BEING CONSTRUCTED AS AN EXERCISE BY STUDENTS OF THE AIMS / Africa@home Workshop, July 16-21, 2007
Daniel Lombraña González, July 14 2007 ("teleyinex")
The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is a middle-ware system for volunteer computing. The goal of this project is to harness the idle CPU cycles of desktop machines for running scientific applications.