Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing

BOINC - the "Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing" - is the system being developed by SETI@home project director David Anderson and his team to spread the credo of distributed computing to fields beyond SETI. The success of SETI@home, which after its launch in 1999 quickly became the most powerful computing network ever assembled, made it clear that distributed computing could be used for many other computing-intensive scientific projects.

BOINC will make it possible for researchers in areas as diverse as molecular biology, climatology, and astrophysics to tap into the enormous but under-utilized calculating power of personal computers world-wide.

BOINC is currently only released in a beta version, but is due for immediate release [[1]]