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BOINC Encyclopedia Articles @ LaunchBase.org (Launch Base) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21) |
 | | Currently BOINC is being developed by a team based at the University of California, Berkeley led by David Anderson, the project director of SETI@home — a project which uses this software. |
 | | The intent of BOINC is to make it possible for researchers in areas as diverse as molecular biology, climatology, and astrophysics to tap into the enormous but under-utilized calculating power of personal computers world-wide. |
 | | BOINC is simply the information technology infrastructure for distributing work in the form of work units and downloading the distributed applications that process them. |
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