BOINC

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BOINC

BOINC is a program that lets you donate your idle computer time to science projects such as those listed below. To run the program you need to download and install the BOINC software from from http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php
Once done, the software will ask you to choose a project to attach to. Obviously you can choose any project(s) you like, but those projects with pre-existing twofo teams are listed below. You can attach to as many projects you like and BOINC will distribute your computer's time between them at whatever ratio you desire. Finally, once attached simply go to the link for the team as listed below, sign into the website and add your credit to twofo by joining.

BOINC twofo teams

BOINC Stats:
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Cross project BOINC statistics
Twofo Team: http://boincstats.com/stats/boinc_user_stats.php?pr=bo&st=0&teamid=65621a9530d615445cc0f233557fbc22
Combined BOINC statistics across all projects, as well as the Account Manager function which is useful to control BOINC if you run it on several machines.


Climateprediction.net:
Twofo Team: http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/team_display.php?teamid=5411
Study climate change


Collatz Conjecture:
Twofo Team: http://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/team_display.php?teamid=1067
Help prove the Collatz Conjecture (also known as 3x+1 or HOTPO).


Constellation:
Twofo Team: http://aerospaceresearch.net/constellation/team_display.php?teamid=1231
Constellation is a platform for all kind of aerospace related simulation. Currently working on:

  • TrackJack: trajectory optimization of launchers, satellites and probes (subtask for DGLR-Group HyEnD - Hybrid Engine Development)
  • On The Moon: simulation of Moon's near-surface exosphere
  • Extreme Machine: analysis of dynamic systems of exploration-rovers


Cosmology@Home:
Twofo Team: http://www.cosmologyathome.org/team_display.php?teamid=210
Search for the model that best describes our Universe and find the range of models that agree with the available astronomical and particle physics data.


DNETC@Home:
Twofo Team: http://dnetc.net/team_display.php?teamid=906
DNETC@Home is a wrapper for the distributed.net project which tackles the RSA Data Security Secret Key Challenge.


Einstein@Home:
Twofo Team: http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/team_display.php?teamid=6774
Search for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO gravitational wave detector


FreeHAL:
Twofo Team: http://boinc.freehal.org/team_display.php?teamid=214
FreeHAL@home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to parse and convert big open source semantic nets for use in FreeHAL
NCI (Non CPU Intensive project) so can be run in parallel with other work units.


LHC@Home:
Twofo Team: http://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/team_display.php?teamid=2527
Improve the design of the CERN LHC particle accelerator


Magnetism@Home: (WARNING: High RAM Usage)
Twofo Team: http://kinetic.dnsalias.org/magnetism/team_display.php?teamid=519
Explore the equlibrium, metastable and transient magnetization patterns (first and foremost in nano-scale magnetic elements and their arrays, but later other systems may be considered)


MilkyWay@Home:
Twofo Team: http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/team_display.php?teamid=99
Creating a highly accurate three dimensional model of the Milky Way galaxy using data gathered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey


Orbit@Home:
Twofo Team: http://orbit.psi.edu/oah/team_display.php?teamid=785
Predict the hazards of Near Earth Asteroid (NEA)


Predictor@Home: (Offline)
Twofo Team: http://predictor.chem.lsa.umich.edu/team_display.php?teamid=3503
Predict protein structure from protein sequence


Rosetta@Home:
Twofo Team: http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/team_display.php?teamid=3967
Determine the 3-dimensional shapes of proteins in research that may ultimately lead to finding cures for some major human diseases


Seti@Home:
Twofo Team: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/team_display.php?teamid=128154
Little Green Men


uFluids:
Twofo Team: http://www.ufluids.net/team_display.php?teamid=749
Simulation of two-phase fluid behavior in microgravity and microfluidics problems


World Community Grid:
Twofo Team: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=0B3CM7Z0R1
Parent project for running:

  • Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy
  • Influenza Antiviral Drug Search
  • Help Fight Childhood Cancer
  • The Clean Energy Project
  • Nutritious Rice for the World
  • Help Conquer Cancer
  • Discovering Dengue Drugs
  • Human Proteome Folder
  • FightAIDS@Home


WUProp:
Twofo Team: http://wuprop.boinc-af.org/team_display.php?teamid=878
Collect statistics about the cpu, memory and network usage of BOINC projects.
NCI (Non CPU Intensive project) so can be run in parallel with other work units.


yoyo@home:
Twofo Team: http://www.rechenkraft.net/yoyo/team_display.php?teamid=469
Parent project for running:

  • Elliptic Curve Factorization which is used by a couple of projects to find factors for different kind of numbers.
  • Muon simulates and designs parts of a particle accelerator.
  • evolution@home represents the first and so far only distributed computing project addressing evolutionary research.
  • distributed.net searches for the shortest Optimal Golumb Ruler of the length 27.