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The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC, pronounced - rhymes with "oink"〔 〕), an open-source middleware system, supports volunteer and grid computing. Originally developed to support the SETI@home project, it became generalized as a platform for other distributed applications in areas as diverse as mathematics, medicine, molecular biology, climatology, environmental science, and astrophysics. BOINC aims to enable researchers to tap into the enormous processing power of multiple personal computers around the world. BOINC development originated with a team based at the Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL) at the University of California, Berkeley and led by David Anderson, who also leads SETI@home. As a high-performance distributed computing platform, BOINC has about 235,980 active participants and 692,208 active computers (hosts) worldwide processing on average 9.871 petaFLOPS .〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= BOINC )〕 The National Science Foundation (NSF) funds BOINC through awards SCI/0221529,〔(Research and Infrastructure Development for Public-Resource Scientific Computing ), The National Science Foundation〕 SCI/0438443〔(SCI: NMI Development for Public-Resource Computing and Storage ), The National Science Foundation〕 and SCI/0721124.〔(SDCI NMI Improvement: Middleware for Volunteer Computing ), The National Science Foundation〕 BOINC code runs on various operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Android,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Put your Android device to work on World Community Grid! )〕 Linux and FreeBSD.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】title= Manual sites of FreeBSD system ) 〕 BOINC is free software released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). ==History== BOINC was originally developed to manage the SETI@home project. The original SETI client was a non-BOINC software exclusively for SETI@home. As one of the first volunteer grid computing projects, it was not designed with a high level of security. Some participants in the project attempted to cheat the project to gain "credits", while some others submitted entirely falsified work. BOINC was designed, in part, to combat these security breaches. The BOINC project started in February 2002 and the first version was released on April 10, 2002. The first BOINC-based project was Predictor@home launched on June 9, 2004. In 2009, AQUA@home deployed multi-threaded CPU applications for the first time, followed by the first OpenCL application in 2010. As of January 2015, 68 BOINC projects are active. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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