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BOINCBerkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing


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One can install a free, open-source software program called BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing), developed at the University of California, and link up to the Docking Server at the University of Delaware to become part of the network.
The software for SETI and many other distributed computer projects is BOINC, the Berkeley Infrastructure for Network Computing.
The BBC and Oxford University are running what they claim is 'the world's largest climate change experiment'--using downloadable BOINC software developed at the University of California, Berkeley, to harness the collective idle computing power of at least 10 000 personal computers, generating more model calculations per second than the largest supercomputer.
 
 
 
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