Computing with BOINC

BOINC is a platform for 'volunteer computing': using consumer devices (desktops, laptops, tables, phones) to do scientific computing. The goal of BOINC is to give scientists large computing power at small cost.

• BOINC overview
• BOINC projects
• Features of BOINC

You can use BOINC Central. to process batches of jobs for common applications (currently Autodock Vina) through a web interface. You don't have to know anything about BOINC.

For help with BOINC, post to the BOINC projects email list.

Introductory docs

• Creating a BOINC server on Ubuntu
• Deploying apps with VirtualBox

Advanced docs

• Documentation index

Old (largely outdated) docs:

• Create a BOINC server using a VM image with BOINC software pre-installed. Note: this image is out of date.
• Create a BOINC server on AWS using the same VM image.
• Create a BOINC server using Docker Note: the Docker images are out of date.
• External docs