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The most comprehensive encyclopedia of BOINC volunteer computing projects on the web

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The definitive, community-maintained table documenting every known active and retired BOINC project. The most comprehensive BOINC project list anywhere on the internet.

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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 →

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 Subspace Polynomial Traversal

🌍 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
* Axiom Distributed AI distributed AI model training	* BlackHoles@Home black hole binary merger waveforms
* Data freezer long-term data archival research	* GoofyxGrid@Home NCI non-covalent interaction analysis
* nanoHUB@Home nanotechnology simulation	* Parlea RNA 3D structure motif analysis
* RALPH@home developement site for Rosetta@home	* Ramanujan Machine conjectured mathematical identities
* Universe@Home stellar evolution modelling	* WEP-M+2 Project Mersenne-related prime search
RNA World (beta) RNA folding and molecular evolution	* SETI@home search for extraterrestrial intelligence

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 from boinc.berkeley.edu. 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

Register on the project's website, 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.