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{{Infobox software
{{Infobox software
| name                = WUProp@Home
| name                = WUProp@Home
| logo                = Default water.jpg
| logo caption        = BOINC Server Default Water image
| status              = Active
| status              = Active
| category            = Distributed computing infrastructure / Benchmarking
| category            = Distributed computing infrastructure / Benchmarking
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| author              = Sébastien
| author              = Sébastien
| sponsor              = Self-hosted; community-supported
| sponsor              = Self-hosted; community-supported
| released            = 28 March 2010
| released            = {{Start date and age|2010|03|28}}
| repository          = {{URL|https://wuprop.boinc-af.org/}}
| repository          = {{URL|https://wuprop.boinc-af.org/}}


| operating system    = Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, ARM
| operating system    = Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, ARM


| stats as of          = 25 May 2026
| stats as of          = {{Start date and age|2026|05|25}}
| active users        = 691
| active users        = 691
| total users          = 9465
| total users          = 9465
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| website              = {{URL|https://wuprop.statseb.fr/}}
| website              = {{URL|https://wuprop.statseb.fr/}}
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[https://wuprop.statseb.fr/ '''''WUProp@Home'''''] is a '''''[[wikipedia:Volunteer computing|volunteer distributed computing]]''''' project that uses [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/ '''''BOINC'''''] and needs your help to continuously collect and share performance data about the [[wikipedia:BOINC|Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing]] ecosystem itself. Unlike most BOINC projects, which direct donated CPU cycles toward science problems like protein folding or pulsar searching, WUProp@Home turns that computing community inward: its lightweight agent silently observes the work units running alongside it on volunteers' computers and reports back statistics about computation time, memory consumption, checkpointing behaviour, and report deadlines for dozens of active BOINC projects.<ref name="boinc-wiki">{{cite web |url=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/WUProp@Home |title=WUProp@Home |publisher=BOINC |date=19 March 2015 |access-date=25 May 2026}}</ref> The result is a living, crowd-sourced benchmark database that helps crunchers the world over make informed decisions about which projects to join and how to configure their hardware.
[https://wuprop.statseb.fr/ '''''WUProp@Home'''''] is a '''''[[wikipedia:Volunteer computing|volunteer distributed computing]]''''' project that uses [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/ '''''BOINC'''''] and needs your help to continuously collect and share performance data about the [[wikipedia:BOINC|Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing]] ecosystem itself. Unlike most BOINC projects, which direct donated CPU cycles toward science problems like protein folding or pulsar searching, WUProp@Home turns that computing community inward: its lightweight agent silently observes the work units running alongside it on volunteers' computers and reports back statistics about computation time, memory consumption, checkpointing behaviour, and report deadlines for dozens of active BOINC projects.<ref name="boinc-wiki">{{cite web |url=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/WUProp@Home |title=WUProp@Home |publisher=BOINC |date=19 March 2015 |access-date=25 May 2026}}</ref> The result is a living, crowd-sourced benchmark database that helps crunchers the world over make informed decisions about which projects to join and how to configure their hardware.