GridRepublic
BOINC Account Manager for volunteer computing projects
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GridRepublic is a BOINC Account Manager. It focuses on creating a clean and simple way to join and interact with BOINC. GridRepublic was started with a mission to raise public awareness and participation in volunteer computing with BOINC. GridRepublic was formed in 2004 by Matthew Blumberg as a mechanism to control the multiple projects from one place. The code for the BOINC software had to be redesigned to allow for the Account Manager system to be implemented.
| Founded | 2004 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Matthew Blumberg[1] |
| Focus | Charity |
| Location | |
| Origins | USA |
Area served | Global |
Key people | Matthew Blumberg |
| Website | www |
| GridRepublic software | |
|---|---|
| Developer | GridRepublic in coordination with BOINC |
| Stable release | 5.10.30 (Win), 5.2.5 (Mac)
/ July 18, 2009 |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Grid computing and Volunteer computing |
| Website | www |
GridRepublic's website has won numerous awards including being named finalist at the 2007 SXSW Interactive Festival[2] and the 2008 Stockholm Challenge.[3] GridRepublic has also been the recipients of a Google Grant allowing for advertising through Google.[4]
Projects
GridRepublic supports a wide range of the BOINC projects.[5] The list of supported projects and the development status of projects are periodically updated. Some of its popular projects include:
- Climateprediction.net
- Climate change modeling on personal computers
- Einstein@home
- Pulsar stars from LIGO and GEO data
- Rosetta@home
- Protein folding research
- SETI@home
- Searching radio and light data for signs of intelligent life