Berkeley open infrastructure for network computing (BOINC)

Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing

Open-source software for volunteer computing and desktop grid computing. The project aims to use the idle time on volunteers' computers (Windows, Mac, or Linux) as a resource to compute a variety of projects agreed to be beneficial to the community at large. Examples may be projects to control disease or various scientific research.

External link to BOINC homepage

 * BOINC