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Metapackage for the boinc client and the manager
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http://boinc.berkeley.edu/

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21 reviews

Description:

The berkeley open infrastructure for network computing (boinc) is a software platform for distributed computing: several initiatives of various scientific disciplines all compete for the idle time of desktop computers. the developers' web site at the university of berkeley serves as a common portal to the otherwise independently run projects.

this package depends both on the boinc core client program that is required to participate in any project that uses boinc, and the boinc manager, a graphical monitor and control utility for the boinc core client.

User reviews:

		Score	Comment
2 weeks ago	Falconet	5	BOINC is great. I crunch mainly for WCG. Also, while BOINC won't start on startup, the science applications do.
3 months ago	zapbuzz	4	does the job reliably
3 months ago	ChiefPoints	4	Great way to get involved with Citizen Science. Don't worry about it being a resource hog, you can easily configure it to use as few or as many as you want.
3 months ago	jmt95	5	Been calculating for years now!
4 months ago	ChrisOfBristol	3	I have struggled to get BOINC to work in the past, but on Mint-14/Cinnamon at least it runs. It doesn't start automatically when the computer is idle though. Download and install 7.0.28 which does.
5 months ago	acerayl	5	I use it on an old netbook and pc, just letting it run 24/7. Love the concept.
5 months ago	ttttrrrr	5	Разум когда-нибудь победит.
1 year ago	ari_1	5	Electric consumption is not a great problem , first because you can consider it as a donation to science , second because the differences between a cpu in idle and one at 100% is not so great to impact on the bill so much , the only power consumption more than normal you will have is if you decide to let the pc on only to work on boinc in these moments when normally you would have shut it down. The projects are on a various range of human utility , you can choose one only or a group of your interest , all over an utility that must be default on every pc in the world , one of the few really worth using a pc.
1 year ago	moeller	5	Hello, I am helping with the maintenance of the BOINC Debian package. I have no idea if Mint provides a BOINC package of its own or if it is falling back on something we provide. The Debian and Ubuntu folks collaborate closely on the BOINC packaging, which is very rewarding. Especially now for all those NVidia and OpenCL libraries to run stuff on graphics cards that are named differently across distributions it would be great to hear back about the compatibility of our newer packages like that of 7.0.24 with the Mint environment. WorldCommunityGrid, Einstein@Home and Rosetta are my pet projects. Many thanks for your contributions, keep going.
1 year ago	nzc3	4	Excellent idea, but resources will be eaten easily. So we will give it a 4x instead of a 5x. Excellent that it can use the CUDA GPU's, nice!
1 year ago	Vegan	5	Good, but not all the projects are worth and increased electicity consumption and a faster aging of a computer.
1 year ago	acidjazz	5	It works very well and was easy to install compared to what is offered on the Boinc website. Allows allocation of computer resources. The extra electrical consumption I justify as a donation to supporting worthy projects.
1 year ago	RayWoods	3	Be warned; it is a resource Hog!
2 years ago	Steampunk-Nick	5	Great app!
2 years ago	mdbader	5	11 years and counting - join my team
2 years ago	furcalor	5	The reason to justify high uptimes!
2 years ago	Da_Londo	4	Great prog but keep in mind the electrical consumption
2 years ago	nagalman	5	This should be pre-installed with every computer. This software acutally saves lives and makes our world a better place
2 years ago	angelhjose	5	Must have
2 years ago	digimaus	5	Best reason to justify leaving my computer on all the time.
2 years ago	akanashiro	3	contributing with the science :)

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