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| category = Astronomy, Astrophysics ...CPU processing power from their personal computers to support research in astronomy, astrophysics, stellar dynamics, and statistical analysis of large observat ...

...Astronomy BOINC project run by [[wikipedia:International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research|ICRAR]] that combined GALEX, Pan-STARRS1 and WISE imaging to measu | category = Astronomy ...

| category = Astrophysics, gravitational-wave astronomy, stellar evolution ...n astrophysics, stellar evolution, compact objects, and gravitational-wave astronomy. The project uses the computing power donated by volunteers around the worl ...

| category = Astronomy ....<ref>{{cite web |url=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php |title=BOINC Projects List |publisher=University of California, Berkeley |access-date=2026-05-18} ...

| category = Astronomy ...BOINC distributed computing project for asteroid shape reconstruction]. ''Astronomy and Computing'' (2015). DOI: 10.1016/j.ascom.2015.09.004.</ref> By studying ...

Unlike many BOINC projects focused on astronomy, biology, or physics, LODA focuses almost entirely on mathematical discover ...ite web |url=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php |title=Choosing BOINC projects |publisher=BOINC |access-date=2026-05-21}}</ref> ...

...e, Pirates@Home, World Community Grid, and dozens more volunteer computing projects. |image=Boinc-projects-seo.png ...

...|access-date=2026-05-21}}</ref> MilkyWay@home was among the earliest BOINC projects to deploy GPU applications at scale, releasing CUDA support for NVIDIA GPUs ...Jo Newberg]], then an associate professor of physics, applied physics, and astronomy at RPI. Her work to map the three-dimensional distribution of stars and mat ...

...tions of general relativity and marked the beginning of gravitational wave astronomy<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/detection-companion-pa BOINC has been widely used in scientific distributed computing projects such as SETI@home and Einstein@Home. ...

...ole in the creation of [[Einstein@Home]], one of the most successful BOINC projects ever launched, and later helped develop BOINC's social software tools.<ref ...here'' screensaver. Eric Myers, then an Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at [[Vassar College]] in Poughkeepsie, New York, and a member of the LIGO S ...

...hysical Society|American Physical Society]], making it one of the earliest projects to run on the [[wikipedia:Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computin Since its founding, it has become one of the four largest volunteer computing projects in the world, by any metric: number of volunteers, computing power, or peer ...

Unlike many BOINC projects focused on astronomy or biomedical research, iThena concentrates on network science and Internet ...a.Computational had been publicly indexed compared to longer-running BOINC projects. ...

The project was originally hosted at the Departments of Astronomy and Physics at the [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]] (UIUC). I ...y@Home and has since been adopted as a general framework for hosting BOINC projects using Docker containers.<ref name="boinc_server_docker">{{cite web |url=htt ...

|title=All BOINC projects ...plete list of all active, private, and completed BOINC volunteer computing projects. ...

...rs/cacm.php |access-date=2026-06-20}}</ref> Prior to SETI@home, radio SETI projects relied on special-purpose supercomputers located at the telescope facility ...by SETI@home, now supports dozens of computationally intensive scientific projects across many disciplines.<ref name="wikipedia-seti"/> The first goal, as of ...