Helping Scientific Research
BOINC@AUSTRALIA is a group of ordinary computer users with a strong interest in helping Scientific Research. By using the idle time on our computers we assist scientists in finding cures for cancer, influenza and other diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, search for extraTerrestrial intelligence and help with numerous other scientific projects.
Scientists use a program called BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) to create a volunteer computing project, giving them access to computing power from thousands of computers world wide. In some cases, the computing power they are able to access rivals that of supercomputers.
BOINC Client
To participate, you download the BOINC Client from http://boinc.berkeley.edu/. After installing it on your computer you can connect to your choice of over 50 projects, most of which are shown on the left hand side of this page. Now you can participate in scientific research. Why leave a computer idle when it could be doing something beneficial?
The BOINC client runs in the background. It runs the scientists' applications using CPU power that would otherwise be unused. As a result, it does not interfere with your normal everyday use of the computer(s).
Reward
There is no monetary reward for participating in a BOINC project but you get the satisfaction that you are helping mankind. You get recognition for work completed in a project in another way. The project's database keeps track of how much work your computer has done and issues points (usually referred to as credits). It is a metric that allows participants to monitor their individual contributions.
Similarly, credit as it applies to a Team works on a simple rule, while you are a member of a team all the credit that you earn is also added to the total credit of the Team. Please consider joining BOINC@AUSTRALIA at the time of registering for any projects to help advance an Aussie Team in the ranks of contributors. Information as to how to do this is on the projects Home Site where you are registering.
BOINC@AUSTRALIA Forum
please visit our Team Forum. You will find lots of useful information on projects, Team Statistics, Help Pages on how to set up your computer for best results, what hardware to use and lots of How To's provided by helpful and friendly members. Our forum provides a place for members to exchange views and experiences with not just BOINC Related topics.
Forum Membership
Due to heavy spamming we have limited forum membership to members of BOINC@AUSTRALIA. Visitors have read-only access to part of the forum. In order for your registration to be accepted, you must currently be actively gaining credit for BOINC@AUSTRALIA in at least one BOINC project. Please register using the same name and email address you use in BOINC projects, so we can verify that you are a team member.
BOINC@Australia - Aussie Alliance
BOINC@Australia is the top Australian team participating in BOINC distributed computing projects, giving a definite Aussie Presence.
BOINC@Australia has a team in all the BOINC projects listed on this page (and more). Join us in one or more of them to help the advancement of science and advance an Aussie team in the ranks of contributors.
Who can join our team?
Whether you are contributing a little to one project with one old computer or participate in several projects with a building full of the latest equipment, your contribution is always welcome.
While our emphasis is on Australians living anywhere in the world (including Australia) and anyone living in, or having some connection with Australia, anyone is welcome to join us.
Help us keep the momentum going
At last count there were well over 30,000 Australian participants in combined BOINC projects. There are over 1,100 Australian teams, with BOINC@Australia leading the pack on both the total combined BOINC credits and recent average credit (RAC).
We are by far the most successful Aussie team and are in the top 10 globally (see BOINCStats) Why set up another Aussie team when our combined computing power can keep the best placed Aussie team in the top 10 worldwide?
As the song goes: "Come on Aussie come on, come on".
User of the day stats:
On most days, at least one of our members is chosen as "User of the Day" (or UOTD) in one or more projects. Today's UOTD awards are shown below.