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 7 April) |
Recent Average Credit |
Total Credit |
| BOINC Central (multi-project coordination and testing) | 2,844.0 | 33,952,893 |
| LODA (mining programs that compute integer sequences from the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences) | 286,600.6 | 216,351,941 |
| Rosetta@home (predicting protein structures to advance drug discovery and disease research) | 108,307.5 | 1,426,100,478 |
| World Community Grid (running biomedical research projects to improve human health) | 2,244,842.7 | 4,450,308,547 |
Other projects
| Amicable Numbers (searching for pairs of numbers whose divisors sum to each other) | | 111,360,062,490 |
| SRBase (searching for primes to resolve Sierpiński and Riesel conjectures) | | 38,094,694,321 |
| GPUGrid (simulating molecular dynamics for biomedical research) | | 34,316,135,331 |
| Asteroids@Home (computing asteroid orbits to assess planetary impact risk) | | 2,153,078,646 |
| SiDock@home (screening drug candidates against disease targets) | | 653,387,915 |
| YAFU (factoring large numbers to advance aliquot sequence research) | | 337,027,934 |
| 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 |