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 10 projects, over 20 years.
| Current Projects (updated 30 March) |
Recent Average Credit |
Total Credit |
| NFS@Home (factoring large integers using the number field sieve algorithm) | 1,408,439.4 | 1,755,907,996 |
| Rosetta@home (predicting protein structures to advance drug discovery and disease research) | 73,197.1 | 1,425,045,465 |
| World Community Grid (running biomedical research projects to improve human health) | 39,589,525.8 | 4,843,811,287 |
Other projects
| Amicable Numbers (searching for pairs of numbers whose divisors sum to each other) | | 110,222,041,341 |
| SRBase (searching for primes to resolve Sierpiński and Riesel conjectures) | | 37,540,917,481 |
| GPUGrid (simulating molecular dynamics for biomedical research) | | 34,316,135,331 |
| Asteroids@Home (computing asteroid orbits to assess planetary impact risk) | | 2,143,797,465 |
| SiDock@home (screening drug candidates against disease targets) | | 649,099,710 |
| BOINC Central (multi-project coordination and testing) | | 33,952,893 |
| 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 |