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<div class="bs-cta-body">The [[BOINC projects|List of all BOINC projects]] table is the heart of this wiki — a structured, sortable reference covering project name, research field, institution, supported platforms, active status, GPU support, and more. It is the primary reason this resource exists and the most complete registry of BOINC projects available anywhere.</div>
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<div class="bs-cta-body">Before modern power management made them obsolete, every BOINC project shipped a real-time animated screensaver showing the computation in progress, including protein chains folding, star fields sweeping and climate models spinning. All 71 known screensaver recordings, spanning projects from SETI@home to Pirates@Home, are now preserved in one place.</div>
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| * [[Rosetta@home]] protein structure prediction
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| * [[RNA World (beta)]] RNA folding and molecular evolution
| * [[GPUGRID]] GPU-accelerated biomolecular simulations
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| * [[SPT]] Subspace Polynomial Traversal
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| * [[Radioactive@home]] background radiation monitoring
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| * [[BOINC Central]] BOINC infrastructure project
| * [[BOINC Central]] BOINC infrastructure project
| * [[WUProp@Home]] work unit propagation statistics
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| colspan="2" | * [[DENIS@home]] cardiac electrophysiology research, currently paused
| * [[DENIS@home]] cardiac electrophysiology research, currently paused
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<div class="bs-group-footer">''See the [[BOINC projects|master BOINC projects table]] for the most current status of all projects.''</div>
<div class="bs-group-footer">''See the [[BOINC projects|master BOINC projects table]] for the most current status of all projects.''</div>
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| * [[Albert@Home]] test site for Einstein@Home
| * [[Albert@Home]] developement site for Einstein@Home
| * [[Amicable Numbers]] amicable pair enumeration
| * [[Amicable Numbers]] amicable pair enumeration
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|* [[AQUA@home]] model the performance of superconducting adiabatic quantum computers
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| * [[Axiom Distributed AI]] distributed AI model training
| * [[Axiom Distributed AI]] distributed AI model training
| * [[BlackHoles@Home]] black hole binary merger waveforms
| * [[BlackHoles@Home]] black hole binary merger waveforms
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|* [[Big and Ugly Rendering Project]] distributed video rendering
|* [[CAS@home]]  hosted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, best known for running the TreeThreader protein structure
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|* [[CAS@home|Cels@Home]]  hosted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, best known for running the TreeThreader protein structure
|* [[Collatz Conjecture]] testing the 3x+1 conjecture
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| * [[Cosmology@Home]] astronomical research
| * [[Distributed Hardware Evolution Project]] synthesize self-checking digital hardware circuits
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| * [[Data freezer]] long-term data archival research
| * [[Data freezer]] long-term data archival research
| * [[GoofyxGrid@Home NCI]] non-covalent interaction analysis
| * [[Docking@Home]] CHARMM-based protein-ligand docking simulations to search for new pharmaceutical drugs
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|* [[GoofyxGrid@Home NCI]] non-covalent interaction analysis
|* [[HashClash]] search for MD5 and SHA-1 hash collisions, culminating in the 2008 rogue certificate authority attack
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|* [[GoofyxGrid@Home NCI|Ibercivis]] simulations in nuclear fusion, protein docking, materials science, and number theory
|* [[Leiden Classical]] submit personal classical mechanics and molecular dynamics simulations
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| * [[nanoHUB@Home]] nanotechnology simulation
| * [[nanoHUB@Home]] nanotechnology simulation
| * [[Parlea]] RNA 3D structure motif analysis
| * [[Parlea]] RNA 3D structure motif analysis
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| * [[RALPH@home]] BOINC testing and development
|* [[Malariacontrol.net]] simulate the transmission dynamics and health effects of malaria
|* [[MindModeling@Home]] computational cognitive modeling to study human performance and learning
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| * [[Predictor@home]] protein folding and the first BOINC project
| * [[Pirates@Home]] help to develop Einstein@Home screensaver and test BOINC software
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| * [[proteins@home]] tackled the inverse protein folding problem
| * [[QMC@Home]] develop and apply Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods for use in quantum chemistry
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|* [[QuChemPedIA@home]] run density functional theory (DFT) quantum chemistry calculations
|* [[Rectilinear Crossing Number Project]] determine the rectilinear crossing number of the complete graph K18
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| * [[RALPH@home]] developement site for Rosetta@home
| * [[Ramanujan Machine]] conjectured mathematical identities
| * [[Ramanujan Machine]] conjectured mathematical identities
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| * [[RNA World (beta)]] RNA folding and molecular evolution
| * [[SETI@home]] search for extraterrestrial intelligence
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|* [[SAT@home]] solve hard instances of the Boolean satisfiability problem
|* [[SIMAP]] pre-calculated protein sequence similarities for a database used by bioinformaticians
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|* [[Spinhenge@home]] simulating spin dynamics in nanoscale molecular magnets
|* [[SZTAKI Desktop Grid]] MTA SZTAKI in Budapest, running mathematics, physics, and digital humanities applications
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|* [[TANPAKU]] used a Brownian dynamics method to study protein folding
|* [[Proteins@home|T.Brada Experimental Grid]] the PADLS Total subproject aimed to find new pseudo-associative DLS
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|* [[The Lattice Project]] Condor and PBS clusters, chiefly supporting phylogenetic analysis with the GARLI software
|* [[MLC@Home]] understanding and interpreting complex machine learning models
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| * [[Universe@Home]] stellar evolution modelling
| * [[Universe@Home]] stellar evolution modelling
| * [[WEP-M+2 Project]] Mersenne-related prime search
| * [[WEP-M+2 Project]] mersenne-related prime search
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<div class="bs-step-title">1. Download BOINC</div>
<div class="bs-step-title">1. Download BOINC</div>
<div class="bs-step-body">Get the free BOINC client from [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php boinc.berkeley.edu]. Available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android.</div>
<div class="bs-step-body">Get the free [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php BOINC client]. Available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android.</div>
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<div class="bs-step-body">Register on the project's website, attach via the BOINC client, and your idle computer begins processing work units automatically.</div>
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Latest revision as of 13:01, 14 July 2026



BOINC Projects
The most comprehensive encyclopedia of BOINC volunteer computing projects on the web
➜ Browse the Complete BOINC Projects Table
The definitive, community-maintained table documenting every known active and retired BOINC project. The most comprehensive BOINC project list anywhere on the internet.
335
Projects listed
77
Projects documented
71
Screensavers archived
10+
Research fields
2026
Continuously updated

What is a BOINC project? A BOINC project is a website and associated server set up by an individual or group to distribute applications to BOINC volunteer computing devices. Those devices deliberately attach to receive, process, and return results for further scientific research — at no cost to the researcher, and no cost to the volunteer beyond electricity.

BOINC stands for Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing, developed at the University of California, Berkeley. Any researcher can create a BOINC project; any person can donate their idle CPU or GPU time to one.

📋 The BOINC Projects Master Table
The List of all BOINC projects table is the heart of this wiki — a structured, sortable reference covering project name, research field, institution, supported platforms, active status, GPU support, and more. It is the primary reason this resource exists and the most complete registry of BOINC projects available anywhere.

View the complete list of BOINC projects →

📺 BOINC Project Screensaver Archive
Before modern power management made them obsolete, every BOINC project shipped a real-time animated screensaver showing the computation in progress, including protein chains folding, star fields sweeping and climate models spinning. All 71 known screensaver recordings, spanning projects from SETI@home to Pirates@Home, are now preserved in one place.

View the BOINC Screensaver Archive →

Local BOINC project wiki pages

Each project below has its own dedicated article on this wiki. Projects are grouped by research domain and activity status.

✦ Active BOINC projects

🔭 Astrophysics, Cosmology & Space
* Einstein@Home gravitational wave and pulsar detection * MilkyWay@home mapping the Milky Way's structure
* LHC@home CERN particle physics simulations * Gaia@home ESA Gaia mission data reduction
* SPACIOUS@home space situational awareness
🧬 Biology, Medicine & Biochemistry
* GPUGRID GPU-accelerated biomolecular simulations * TN-Grid neurological research
* Rosetta@home protein structure prediction
🔢 Mathematics, Number Theory & Cryptography
* Gerasim@home multi-project. number field sieve factorisation
* PrimeGrid prime number searches across many sub-projects * NFS@Home number field sieve factorisation
* SRBase Sierpinski-Riesel base search * NumberFields@Home algebraic number field tables
* YAFU yet another factorisation utility * LODA integer sequence program synthesis
* Moo! Wrapper distributed.net RC5-72 wrapper * ODLK orthogonal diagonal Latin squares
* ODLK1 ODLK variant 1 * ODLK2025 ODLK 2025 campaign
* Rakesearch Latin square searches * SPT Symmetric Prime Tuples
🌍 Climate, Environment & Earth Sciences
* climateprediction.net global climate ensemble modelling * Asteroids@home asteroid orbit determination
* Radioactive@home background radiation monitoring
🤖 Artificial Intelligence, Computing & Infrastructure
* IThena.Computational computational measurement network * IThena.Measurements network performance metrics
* BOINC Central BOINC infrastructure project * WUProp@Home work unit propagation statistics
* Yoyo@home scientific and mathematical subprojects
🧪 Physics, Chemistry & Materials Science
* USPEX@HOME crystal structure prediction * World Community Grid multi-domain humanitarian research
🕹️ Community, Recreation & Miscellaneous
* Minecraft@Home Minecraft world-seed research * PRIVATE GFN SERVER private Generalized Fermat Number server
🧫 Test & Development Projects
These projects serve as active testing and development platforms for BOINC software and infrastructure rather than primary research goals.
* Cpdnboinc dev cpdn development and testing server

✦ Paused BOINC projects

⏯ Paused projects (expand)
These projects are temporarily suspended but have not formally closed. Work may resume in future.
* DENIS@home cardiac electrophysiology research, currently paused * SiDock@home drug candidate screening
See the master BOINC projects table for the most current status of all projects.

✦ Retired & inactive BOINC projects

⏸ Retired projects (expand)
These projects have suspended operations or are no longer accepting new work units. Their pages are preserved here for historical reference and research continuity.
* Albert@Home developement site for Einstein@Home * Amicable Numbers amicable pair enumeration
* AQUA@home model the performance of superconducting adiabatic quantum computers
* Axiom Distributed AI distributed AI model training * BlackHoles@Home black hole binary merger waveforms
* Big and Ugly Rendering Project distributed video rendering * CAS@home hosted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, best known for running the TreeThreader protein structure
* Cels@Home hosted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, best known for running the TreeThreader protein structure * Collatz Conjecture testing the 3x+1 conjecture
* Cosmology@Home astronomical research * Distributed Hardware Evolution Project synthesize self-checking digital hardware circuits
* Data freezer long-term data archival research * Docking@Home CHARMM-based protein-ligand docking simulations to search for new pharmaceutical drugs
* GoofyxGrid@Home NCI non-covalent interaction analysis * HashClash search for MD5 and SHA-1 hash collisions, culminating in the 2008 rogue certificate authority attack
* Ibercivis simulations in nuclear fusion, protein docking, materials science, and number theory * Leiden Classical submit personal classical mechanics and molecular dynamics simulations
* nanoHUB@Home nanotechnology simulation * Parlea RNA 3D structure motif analysis
* Malariacontrol.net simulate the transmission dynamics and health effects of malaria * MindModeling@Home computational cognitive modeling to study human performance and learning
* Predictor@home protein folding and the first BOINC project * Pirates@Home help to develop Einstein@Home screensaver and test BOINC software
* proteins@home tackled the inverse protein folding problem * QMC@Home develop and apply Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods for use in quantum chemistry
* QuChemPedIA@home run density functional theory (DFT) quantum chemistry calculations * Rectilinear Crossing Number Project determine the rectilinear crossing number of the complete graph K18
* RALPH@home developement site for Rosetta@home * Ramanujan Machine conjectured mathematical identities
* RNA World (beta) RNA folding and molecular evolution * SETI@home search for extraterrestrial intelligence
* SAT@home solve hard instances of the Boolean satisfiability problem * SIMAP pre-calculated protein sequence similarities for a database used by bioinformaticians
* Spinhenge@home simulating spin dynamics in nanoscale molecular magnets * SZTAKI Desktop Grid MTA SZTAKI in Budapest, running mathematics, physics, and digital humanities applications
* TANPAKU used a Brownian dynamics method to study protein folding * T.Brada Experimental Grid the PADLS Total subproject aimed to find new pseudo-associative DLS
* The Lattice Project Condor and PBS clusters, chiefly supporting phylogenetic analysis with the GARLI software * MLC@Home understanding and interpreting complex machine learning models
* Universe@Home stellar evolution modelling * WEP-M+2 Project mersenne-related prime search
See the master BOINC projects table for definitive active/inactive status on all documented projects.

How to participate in BOINC projects

1. Download BOINC
Get the free BOINC client. Available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android.
2. Choose a project
Browse the complete BOINC projects list on this wiki. Filter by research field, platform support, or GPU availability.
3. Attach & contribute
Attach via the BOINC client, and your idle computer begins processing work units automatically.

About this wiki

This BOINC projects MediaWiki is researched, written, and maintained by BOINC Synergy — a volunteer initiative dedicated to documenting the global BOINC ecosystem. The projects table is considered the flagship resource: a single, structured, continuously-updated registry of every known BOINC project, past and present.

Corrections, additions, and edits are welcome. If you know of a BOINC project not yet listed, please use the talk page or contact BOINC Synergy directly.

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