Choosing BOINC projects

BOINC is used by many projects. You can participate in any number of these projects.

To decide whether to participate in a project, read its web site and consider:

• Does the project clearly describe its goals? Are these goals important and beneficial?
• Has the project published results in peer-reviewed journals or conferences? See a list of publications by BOINC projects .
• Do you trust the project to use proper security practices?
• Who owns the results of the computation? Will they be freely available? Will they belong to a company?

The following projects are known to us at BOINC, and we believe their descriptions are accurate.

Name Mouse over for details; click to visit web site	Category	Area	Sponsor	Supported platforms More details at WUProp@Home
Amicable Numbers	Mathematics, computing, and games	Mathematics	Independent	Details
Asteroids@home	Physical Science	Astrophysics	Charles University in Prague	Details
BOINC Central	Multiple applications	Multiple science areas	University of California, Berkeley	Details
Climateprediction.net	Earth Sciences	Climate study	Oxford University	Details
DENIS@Home	Biology and Medicine	Medical physiology	San Jorge University, Zaragoza, Spain	Details
Einstein@home	Physical Science	Astrophysics	University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee (USA), Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics - Hanover (Germany)	Details
Gerasim@Home	Mathematics, computing, and games	Computer engineering	Southwest State University (Russia)	Details
GPUGrid.net	Biology and Medicine	Molecular simulations of proteins	Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB)	Details
iThena	Mathematics, computing, and games	Computer science	Cyber-Complex Foundation	Details
LHC@home	Physical Science	Physics	CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)	Details
LODA	Mathematics, computing, and games	Mathematics	Independent	Details
Milkyway@home	Physical Science	Astronomy	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Details
Moo! Wrapper	Mathematics, computing, and games	Cryptography and combinatorics	Independent	Details
NFS@home	Mathematics, computing, and games	Factorization of large integers	California State University Fullerton	Details
NumberFields@home	Mathematics, computing, and games	Mathematics	Arizona State University, school of Mathematics	Details
ODLK	Mathematics, computing, and games	Mathematics	Independent	Details
ODLK1	Mathematics, computing, and games	Mathematics	Independent	Details
PrimeGrid	Mathematics, computing, and games	Mathematics	Independent	Details
RakeSearch	Mathematics, computing, and games	Mathematics	Karelian Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences	Details
Ramanujan Machine	Mathematics, computing, and games	Mathematics	Independent	Details
RNA World	Biology and Medicine	Molecular biology	Rechenkraft.net e.V.	Details
Rosetta@home	Biology and Medicine	Biology	University of Washington	Details
SIDock@home	Biology and Medicine	Biomedicine	The COVID.SI project and the Karelian Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences	Details
SRBase	Mathematics, computing, and games	Mathematics	Independent	Details
World Community Grid	Multiple applications	Medical, environmental and other humanitarian research	Krembil Research Institute	Details
YAFU	Mathematics, computing, and games	Mathematics	Independent	Details
Yoyo@home	Multiple applications	Mathematics	Independent	Details

If you run a BOINC-based project and would like it to be included on this list, please contact us, and answer the four questions above.

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