BOINC for Windows 6.5.0 (Development)

4.6 out of 5 stars 4.6 (150 votes)

BETA (December 18, 2008)

Windows (All) / Open Source / 3,653 downloads

BOINC is an open source software platform to allow distributed computing projects like SETI@Home and Climateprediction.net (CPDN) which use volunteered computer resources to run. Why leave a computer idle when it could be doing something beneficial?

You can participate in several projects, ensuring that your computer will be kept busy even when one project has no work. You can control how your resources (such as computer time and disk space) are divided among these projects.

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  1. 5 out of 5 stars
    darthbeads

    Reviewing 6.5.0 (Development) (Dec 22, 2008)

    $700 on electricity for having computers running? Please. Unless you have a library of HAL 9000's running in your apparent Batcave, then, yes: there is either something wrong with your rigs and/or your wiring, or you were roughly raped by your electric company. Congrats on that.

  2. 5 out of 5 stars
    ttrimble

    Reviewing 6.5.0 (Development) (Dec 21, 2008)

    Boinc is an excellent tool for contributing to real research. If you spent $700 on electricity for not shutting down your computer then something is wrong with your computer or your home wiring. Compared to the cost for research foundations to perform these calculations, it is far more effective to distribute these processes to idle computers. If you don't want to help then that is your choice. If you do, then Boinc is a great way to contribute resources and do your part to help out.

  3. 5 out of 5 stars
    chadamus

    Reviewing 6.5.0 (Development) (Dec 20, 2008)

    Also 5 for the effort and functionality of the software.

    I use to run this on my computers in the background... until I got a $700 electric bill.

    Save the environment by just NOT using this software. Let your computer idle or shut them down and just donate periodically to the good causes.

    I would imagine my $700 that I spent on electricity could have done more good as a donation than any work my computers got done for the same price.

    Edit: Computers, plural. Didn't say how many computers now did I? Nothing wrong with my computers or wiring, I assure you.

    Edit again: I'm so glad the concept that computers running at 100% CPU usage really generate a lot of heat is being missed here. 8 quad-core systems running at 100% CPU usage really generate a LOT of heat. So in addition to the power usage of 8 systems running at 100% usage, you have the heat to deal with as well. The heat dissipation systems and air conditioning were also a factor in the $700. Oh, and it was July, so my fault for even messing with this stuff in the summer.

  4. 5 out of 5 stars
    belthurgp

    Reviewing 6.5.0 (Development) (Dec 19, 2008)

    5 for the effort but Zero for harming the environment.

    I used to run SETI before it even became part of BOINC and then BOINC for a couple of years. But then, it's much more practical to save energy, save earth by shutting down computers than try to find aliens.

    People shut down those computers if you don't need them running.

  5. 5 out of 5 stars
    4tehlulz

    Reviewing 6.3.21 (Development) (Nov 3, 2008)

    Oh noes! We must not research cancer cures to prevent Big Pharma from making money!

    Five stars because it works.

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