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 2 April) |
Recent Average Credit |
Total Credit |
| DENIS@home (modelling the dynamics of galaxies using Newtonian N-body simulations) | 0.1 | 152,104,975 |
| BOINC Central (multi-project coordination and testing) | 5,151.8 | 33,952,893 |
| RNA World (modelling RNA structures to understand the origins of life) | 0.1 | 140,843 |
| Rosetta@home (predicting protein structures to advance drug discovery and disease research) | 70,938.4 | 1,425,273,774 |
| World Community Grid (running biomedical research projects to improve human health) | 3,371,103.0 | 4,448,090,326 |
Other projects
| SRBase (searching for primes to resolve Sierpiński and Riesel conjectures) | | 37,970,583,731 |
| GPUGrid (simulating molecular dynamics for biomedical research) | | 34,316,135,331 |
| Asteroids@Home (computing asteroid orbits to assess planetary impact risk) | | 2,146,353,478 |
| SiDock@home (screening drug candidates against disease targets) | | 650,746,900 |
| SETI@home (analysing radio telescope data for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence; hibernating since 2020) | | 601,632 |