Open Source Approaches in Science & Technology

This thread is related to discussing various Open Science Initiatives and spreading awareness on the same. Open Source Methodologies are gradually becoming very significant in scientific endeavours both in academia, industry and beyond.

Our goal here is to keep exploring the same and uncover new scientific innovations that is being powered by Open Source. We aspire to provide the reader with useful information in a simple manner that would be both educational and resourceful.

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BOINC is a free and open source distributed computer network software that uses your computer’s idle time to crunch numbers for science. It works on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

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Quite an interesting program :grinning:. Looks great for projects like Folding@Home. Thanks, @TrekJunky :+1:!

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It does quite a lot more. I prefer SETI@Home myself.

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I read that and it was very interesting. Has there been any further developments since?

all kinds of great projects to contribute to with boinc over at the world community grid as well:

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i forgot to add that it is also available on android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=edu.berkeley.boinc

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