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 5 April) |
Recent Average Credit |
Total Credit |
| BOINC Central (multi-project coordination and testing) | 3,466.9 | 33,952,893 |
| LODA (mining programs that compute integer sequences from the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences) | 242,746.4 | 215,300,218 |
| Rosetta@home (predicting protein structures to advance drug discovery and disease research) | 100,536.9 | 1,425,779,873 |
| World Community Grid (running biomedical research projects to improve human health) | 3,136,365.1 | 4,450,187,301 |
Other projects
| Amicable Numbers (searching for pairs of numbers whose divisors sum to each other) | | 110,984,263,255 |
| SRBase (searching for primes to resolve Sierpiński and Riesel conjectures) | | 38,068,907,971 |
| GPUGrid (simulating molecular dynamics for biomedical research) | | 34,316,135,331 |
| Asteroids@Home (computing asteroid orbits to assess planetary impact risk) | | 2,148,059,294 |
| SiDock@home (screening drug candidates against disease targets) | | 652,506,450 |
| YAFU (factoring large numbers to advance aliquot sequence research) | | 335,220,510 |
| DENIS@home (modelling the dynamics of galaxies using Newtonian N-body simulations; on hiatus) | | 152,104,975 |
| Ramanujan Project (discovering new mathematical formulas for fundamental constants like e and pi) | | 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 |