BOINC

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Today we would like to point out a really interesting application, it's called BOINC and will allow you to help scientific projects with your smartphone.

Some of you may have already heard of projects like Asteroids@home or Climateprediction.net it's still Rosetta@home. They are all scientific projects that require significant computing power and which also allow the powers of individual smartphones/computers to be exploited in their downtime.

Each of these projects has a different objective and thanks to the application BOINC you can help them without doing anything except leaving the application active on your smartphone.

BOINC: help science projects with your smartphone

No fear though: BOINC it calculates only and exclusively when your device is connected to electricity and charged, so it will not drain your battery. It also only transfers data over WiFi, so it won't use your monthly mobile data subscription.

The application is really simple to use and does not require any type of technical or scientific knowledge.

The first time you open it you can choose the project you want to contribute to: you can even choose more than one, you have no limits. If you are more interested in climate change then you can think about letting him work for the project Climateprediction.net. If instead you want to help study the properties of asteroids you can select for example Asteroids@home.

To be able to do these operations you need to create an account (all you need is an email and a password, you could use AnonAddy for example) and then follow the various steps. As mentioned, the methods for making it work are essential and extremely simple:

• the smartphone must be charging;

• must be connected to WiFi;

• open BOINC and leave it running in the background;

• turn off the screen.

We recommend this application to you on F-Droid It is on Play Store, however keep in mind that it is also available for desktop (Windows).

If you remember well we already talked about something similar some time ago: Solve puzzles for science.

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