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BOINC: compute for science

BOINC: compute for science
BOINC is a program that lets you donate your idle computer time to science projects like SETI@home, Climateprediction.net, Rosetta@home, World Community Grid, and many others.
After installing BOINC on your computer, you can connect it to as many of these projects as you like.
Windows
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6.2.19 for Windows (7.13 MB)

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6.2.19 for Windows 64-bit (7.72 MB)

Mac OS X
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6.2.18 for Mac OS X (6.27 MB)
Linux/x86
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6.2.15 for Linux x86 (4.35 MB)

The current release is known to work with these Linux versions:

Fedora Core 7 and 8
Debian 4.1
Ubuntu 7.10 and 8.04
Mandriva, Sabayon, Mint, Gentoo, other Debian-based distributions

For other Linux versions, check if a BOINC package is offered by your Linux distribution.
Fedora 7 and higher: type
yum install boinc-client boinc-manager
as root.
Debian and Ubuntu: package names boinc-client, boinc-manager (more info here). Also boinc-dev (for project developers).
Gentoo: package name sci-misc/boinc
Alternatively, download the BOINC client for older Linux versions. This doesn't have a graphical interface, but it should work on all Linux systems, both x86 and x64.
Download BOINC
6.2.15 for Linux x64 (4.55 MB)

The current release is known to work with these Linux versions:

Fedora Core 7 and 8
Debian 4.1
Ubuntu 7.10 and 8.04
Mandriva, Sabayon, Mint, Gentoo, other Debian-based distributions

For other Linux versions, check if a BOINC package is offered by your Linux distribution.
Fedora 7 and higher: type
yum install boinc-client boinc-manager
as root.
Debian and Ubuntu: package names boinc-client, boinc-manager (more info here). Also boinc-dev (for project developers).
Gentoo: package name sci-misc/boinc
Alternatively, download the BOINC client for older Linux versions. This doesn't have a graphical interface, but it should work on all Linux systems, both x86 and x64.
Download BOINC
6.2.15 for Older Linux x86 and x64 (2.11 MB)
System requirements | Release notes | Help | All versions
If your computer is not of one of the above types, you can

make your own client software or
download executables from a third-party site (available for Solaris/Opteron, Linux/Opteron, Linux/PPC, HP-UX, and FreeBSD, and others).
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Download BOINC from pirates.spy-hill.net:

Computer type
click to download Version Release Date MD5 Checksum

Linux/x86 4.19 19 Mar 2005 ec1415775f2fb27eb90108686582ee65

MacOS X (PPC) 4.39 13 Feb 2005 e274866954e5a0a90378f65a8f09915c

Windows/x86 4.19 19 Mar 2005 04f79ffa7409400536e80dc6d3fa50ba

Computer type click to download	Version	Release Date	MD5 Checksum
Linux/x86	4.19	19 Mar 2005	ec1415775f2fb27eb90108686582ee65
MacOS X (PPC)	4.39	13 Feb 2005	e274866954e5a0a90378f65a8f09915c
Windows/x86	4.19	19 Mar 2005	04f79ffa7409400536e80dc6d3fa50ba

Instructions for installing and running BOINC are here.

If your computer is not one of the above types, you can

BOINC can be customized for languages other than English

BOINC is distributed computing software developed at the University of California by the SETI@home project.

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