I donate idle compute time to scientific research via
BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing).
BOINC credits are a unit of computing work completed, roughly proportional to CPU/GPU time donated. Recent average credit measures current activity as an exponential average over the past week. My contributions range across 14 projects, over 20 years.
| Current Projects (updated 3 April) |
Recent Average Credit |
Total Credit |
| BOINC Central (multi-project coordination and testing) | 4,226.2 | 33,952,893 |
| LODA (mining programs that compute integer sequences from the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences) | 219,783.7 | 214,731,919 |
| Rosetta@home (predicting protein structures to advance drug discovery and disease research) | 78,192.4 | 1,425,423,682 |
| World Community Grid (running biomedical research projects to improve human health) | 3,457,995.1 | 4,450,004,144 |
Other projects
| Amicable Numbers (searching for pairs of numbers whose divisors sum to each other) | | 110,581,789,193 |
| SRBase (searching for primes to resolve Sierpiński and Riesel conjectures) | | 38,043,091,791 |
| GPUGrid (simulating molecular dynamics for biomedical research) | | 34,316,135,331 |
| Asteroids@Home (computing asteroid orbits to assess planetary impact risk) | | 2,147,037,926 |
| SiDock@home (screening drug candidates against disease targets) | | 651,346,478 |
| YAFU | | 333,923,445 |
| DENIS@home (modelling the dynamics of galaxies using Newtonian N-body simulations) | | 152,104,975 |
| Ramanujan Project | | 99,032,650 |
| SETI@home (analysing radio telescope data for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence; hibernating since 2020) | | 601,632 |
| RNA World (modelling RNA structures to understand the origins of life) | | 140,843 |