# BOINC/boinc

Open-source software for volunteer computing and grid computing.

Repository: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/boinc
Homepage: https://boinc.berkeley.edu
Language: C++
License: LGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: boinc, distributed-computing, volunteer-computing, high-performance-computing, citizen-science, scientific-computing, grid-computing, science, high-throughput-computing, php, c-plus-plus, hacktoberfest, android, java, kotlin
Last push: 2026-08-26T13:02:42+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 95/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 88, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4229, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 82, "gap_med": 12, "n_releases_24m": 26}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2452, forks 524 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:53.003798+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: stable
- function: concurrency, scheduling, developer-tools
- domain: microservices
- platform: cross-platform, windows
- tags: volunteer-computing, grid-computing, high-throughput-computing, distributed-computing, c-plus-plus, scientific-computing, high-performance-computing, citizen-science, linux, macos, android

## Member repositories
- BOINC/boinc (main) score 95

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:53.003798+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:30:09.847346+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:53.003798+00:00, sha 61308f31ad04)
  - homepage: https://boinc.berkeley.edu (fetched 2026-08-29T10:11:25.319249+00:00, sha 85699b9a8ff8)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.