boinc

metapackage for the BOINC client and the manager
  https://boinc.berkeley.edu/
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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.
Latest reviews
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Hugo_Couto 1 year ago

The user is not added to the boinc group in the installation (Mint 21.1). You need to do it by your own to make the software work.

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sgroey 1 year ago

not working in mint 21.2. Use the flatpack one.

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FinixFighter 4 years ago

Very interesting software!

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root3r 7 years ago

A must-have app for anyone who wants to donate their idle computer resources towards scientific research

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alper_034 8 years ago

Not stability working! please update (mint 18.1 serena)

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cmoi 8 years ago

Top, pour aider la science

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balcobulls 9 years ago

I have a strong dislike for windows (thats a given), nevertheless, I prefer BOINC on windows currently. Only big thing that continues to be a hangup is the graphic support. BOINC works fine, dont get me wrong, the cosmetic side is lacking.

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draco1 10 years ago

I have used BOINC in Windows (gag) for a few years and now that I "wised up" and "RAN" from Micro, I was hoping to use this again. GREAT software!

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Yacy 11 years ago

Participating in distributed computing projects is so much fun with this tool!

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playforvoices 11 years ago

Getting involved in science and help to find answers for the medicinic problems with other peoples around the world!

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twisted87 11 years ago

Very good software! 4 years of computing. This is my little donation to the sicence.

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rildolho 11 years ago

Muito bom!

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Falconet 11 years ago

BOINC is great. I crunch mainly for WCG. Also, while BOINC won't start on startup, the science applications do.

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zapbuzz 12 years ago

does the job reliably

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ChiefPoints 12 years ago

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.

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jmt95 12 years ago

Been calculating for years now!

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ChrisOfBristol 12 years ago

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.

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acerayl 12 years ago

I use it on an old netbook and pc, just letting it run 24/7. Love the concept.

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ttttrrrr 12 years ago

Разум когда-нибудь победит.

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ari_1 12 years ago

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.