BOINC/boinc
Open-source software for volunteer computing and grid computing. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
95/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 88
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 12
- age_days: 4229
- days_rel: 82
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 26
Adoption not part of the score
2452 stars · 524 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
BOINC is an open-source platform for volunteer computing, enabling large-scale distributed high-throughput computing using volunteered home computers and other devices. It includes client software that downloads and runs scientific computing jobs in the background, plus server components for project operators.
Use cases
- donate spare computer cycles to scientific research projects
- run a volunteer computing project server for citizen science
- participate in distributed computing competitions or Gridcoin
- aggregate idle compute from many machines for high-throughput workloads
- contribute computing power to climate, biomedical, or astronomy research
When to choose
- you want to donate idle compute to scientific research
- you need a proven platform to distribute large batch workloads to volunteers
- you run a citizen-science project needing client/server volunteer computing infrastructure
When to avoid
- you need low-latency or tightly-coupled HPC (e.g., MPI clusters)
- you want a commercial distributed computing platform with SLAs
- your workload requires centralized cloud orchestration rather than volunteered devices
Facets
application · maturity stable
concurrency scheduling developer-tools microservices cross-platform windows volunteer-computing grid-computing high-throughput-computing distributed-computing c-plus-plus scientific-computing high-performance-computing citizen-science linux macos android
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc · fetched 2026-08-28 · 61308f31ad04
- homepage: https://boinc.berkeley.edu · fetched 2026-08-29 · 85699b9a8ff8
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| BOINC/boinc | main | 95 |
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