Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing
(ver 6.6.38)
Freeware


BOINC is an Internet communicating program that allows 
your computer to engage in distributed scientific 
research projects during its idle time.  Once you 
choose an available project, your computer in the 
background will download an assignment, process the 
data, then send the results back up to the server 
and download its next assignment.  

Make sure that the program can pass through any 
local firewalls (e.g. give Internet access to the 
files "boinc.exe" and "boincmgr.exe").  

Participation by others has already lead to several 
important scientific discoveries and confirmations.  


NOTE: This is the last Win2k version (however, 
many projects do NOT require a more up-to-date 
version of BOINC in order to participate).