BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) is an open-source software — and community — that enables volunteers to donate spare processing power from their PCs, laptops, and phones, to power vital scientific and medical research.

Aggregated, these resources enable cutting edge research across mathematics, biology, physics, quantum chemistry, climate prediction and more.

The BOINC Workshop has three aims: First to showcase projects that using BOINC, and highlight the role of citizen participation in advancing scientific research. Second to provide a forum for BOINC projects to discuss the technology, their accomplishments in the past year, and technical needs moving forward. And third to provide a context for open-ended community discussion.