{"id":7655,"date":"2009-03-03T18:58:23","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T17:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/use-your-pc-to-help-important-research-projects\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:24:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:24:38","slug":"use-your-pc-to-help-important-research-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/use-your-pc-to-help-important-research-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Use your PC to help important research projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even when you&#8217;re not sitting in front of your computer, you can still use it for something productive. No, I&#8217;m not talking about leaving your favorite BitTorrent client on all night long: I mean collaborating on serious projects such as <a href=\"http:\/\/boinc.bakerlab.org\/rosetta\/\">finding a cure for important diseases<\/a> like cancer or AIDS, <a href=\"http:\/\/climateprediction.net\/\">investigating climatic change<\/a> and other environmental issues or <a href=\"http:\/\/setiathome.berkeley.edu\/\">looking for extraterrestrial life<\/a>, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Doing your bit in any of these important projects is as easy as installing the <a href=\"http:\/\/boinc.berkeley.edu\/download.php\">BOINC software<\/a>, a tool developed by the University of Berkeley, and <a href=\"http:\/\/boinc.berkeley.edu\/projects.php\">choosing the project<\/a> you want to help with. BOINC will enable you to join a massive network of computers all over the world and use the extraordinary power of thousands of processors working together in a collaborative computing system.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2009\/03\/boinc.png\" alt=\"BOINC software\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The BOINC client can be configured to work only at certain hours and also limited to use only a certain percentage of your disk space and processor power, so that your daily workflow is not affected. You can also access real-time statistics that show how your computer is performing. Oh, and by the way: BOINC works in most platforms \u2013 some of the projects are even available on the PS3 \u2013 so if you&#8217;ve always wanted to contribute in a project to improve society, this is your perfect chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even when you&#8217;re not sitting in front of your computer, you can still use it for something productive. No, I&#8217;m not talking about leaving your favorite BitTorrent client on all night long: I mean collaborating on serious projects such as finding a cure for important diseases like cancer or AIDS, investigating climatic change and other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/use-your-pc-to-help-important-research-projects\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Use your PC to help important research projects&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-7655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335656,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7655\/revisions\/335656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7655"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=7655"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=7655"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=7655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}