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BOINC Radio #01

What is BOINC?

--- **BOINC Radio** is a participatory podcast brought to you by the BOINC community. On it @Delta1512 and @jringo discuss BOINC, BOINC developments, BOINC projects, the BOINC community and network, and SCIENCE! The audience is welcome to participate through voice-comms or via the discord text chat. You can join the BOINC community on the first and third Friday of the month at 5pm EST on the BOINC [discord](https://discord.gg/wPRafUq) server.

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Recorded on October 4th

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What is BOINC?

Welcome to the first episode of BOINC Radio! In this recording @delta1512 and @jringo introduce the show and give a broad overview of BOINC. As mentioned in the beginning of the show, we're looking for help developing the show. Definitely definitely definitely reach out if you can already or want to learn how to: - Host a segment - Graphic design - Music - Production - Talk about science - Talk about BOINC - Tell a story - Get involved with the BOINC community - Organize - Whatever you think we should do Otherwise, enjoy the show and see you next time! |Time|Subject| |---|---| |1:45|About the show| |5:20|What is BOINC?| |7:55|Why is BOINC?| |11:30|How is BOINC?| |13:10|[Cost savings of BOINC](https://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/BoincOverview)| |16:10|Using existing hardware| |17:40|Connecting scientists and participants| |22:15|BOINC as an open-source product| |24:00|A brief history of BOINC| |27:00|New unique BOINC project: ithena| |28:00|Other unique BOINC project: Radioactive@home| |29:30|Other possible sensor projects| |30:00|A major drawback to BOINC| |33:00|Results from BOINC projects| |37:15|What is BOINC? Pt 2| --- ---

What is BOINC?

The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is an open-source grid computing infrastructure which provides open access to a global volunteer-based distributed computing network. To date, BOINC has been the driving force behind numerous computationally intensive research programs, such as pulsar identification, the creation of patient specific cancer treatments, the simulation of candidate molecules for next-generation solar panels, along with many others. While BOINC has been used primarily for science and mathematics, it can host data from any open or commercial field so long as the data can be formatted for BOINC’s processes. Examples of projects include tasks on engineering, cryptography, rendering, weather and climate prediction, as well as social, market, and resource analytics. Enigma@home, for example, worked to break remaining WWII messages encrypted by an Enigma machine.

Want to Learn More?

Discord: https://discord.gg/wPRafUq Website: http://boinc.berkeley.edu Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BOINC/ GitHub Repo: https://github.com/BOINC/