Help find genes correlated with cancer, map the galaxies, or develop an open-source covid therapeutic. Whatever area of science you are interested in, there is a BOINC project you can participate in. Some of them (like the black hole database) will even credit you for your findings!
BOINC is a free app that runs on every OS (Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android) that enables you to volunteer your spare computational power towards scientific research.
BOINC has been around for decades and has produced hundreds of scientific papers.
Been running boinc / World Community Grid jobs for like 10+ years straight. Has all sorts of throttling settings, so it’s pretty much set it and forget it, it doesn’t interfere with other apps I run.
Always good to see a BOINC veteran in the wild 🍻
What a strange coincidence. It’s been a while since I donated some of mine, but I turned it all on an hour ago as power is very cheap for us right now. And now there’s this post. :D
BOINC also runs on old android phones!!! I used mine to run protein folding experiments on COVID during the beginning of the pandemic. Felt like I was doing my part 🤪
Anyone know of specific things that have been accomplished from people donating power to boinc?
The first 3d model of the covid spike protein (rosetta@home and folding@home), finding new drug candidates which are being tested now in wetlabs (sidock), and identifying new genes associated with lung cancer (world community grid) are just a few of its accomplishments in the past 5 years. That and continually adding to publicly accessible databases of pulsars, black holes, asteroids, and other astronomical objects found by BOINC users (einstein@home, universe@home, asteroids@home)
A list of scientific papers published by BOINC projects https://boinc.berkeley.edu/pubs.php
That’s awesome, thanks for sharing!
Scientific progress goes BOINC!
They could pay me instead
There are some cryptocurrencies that reward you for your BOINC work. Gridcoin is the most well known and has been around over a decade (they also reward Folding@home). I definitely turn a profit doing BOINC work in winter since I’m using the waste heat. The rest of the year is a little more variable.
