BOINC Manager

Contribute computing power to projects doing research in many scientific areas

edu.berkeley.BOINC

BOINC lets you help cutting-edge science research using your computer. The BOINC app, running on your computer, downloads scientific computing jobs and runs them invisibly in the background. It's easy and safe.

About 30 science projects use BOINC. They investigate diseases, study climate change, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research.

The BOINC and Science United projects are located at the University of California, Berkeley and are supported by the National Science Foundation.

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Screenshots

A screenshot of the projects tab in the BOINC Manager

A screenshot of the tasks tab in the BOINC Manager

A screenshot of the statistics tab in the BOINC Manager

A screenshot of the disk tab in the BOINC Manager

Observed history

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Upstream releases

Release notes supplied by the developer. These dates are not Flathub package publication times.

8.2.1230 Apr 2026

BOINC Manager 8.2.12 includes these changes:

Support Wayland-based OSs

8.2.1120 Apr 2026

BOINC Manager 8.2.11 includes these changes:

Fix credit accounting when using Science United
Make app_config.xml settings apply to BUDA jobs
Show GPU flops as TFLOPS/GFLOPS/MFLOPS depending on value
Fix bug: no work fetch if reset project with max_concurrent

8.2.924 Mar 2026

BOINC Manager 8.2.9 includes these changes:

Fix problem with Podman container cleanup
Allow projects to dynamically change resource usage of app versions
If client has a Podman job but no Podman, don't try to run it
Make Podman jobs pause (not quit) when quit the client
Show resuming-computation message even if throttled
Fix wrong suspend reason messages in Manager

8.2.824 Nov 2025

BOINC Manager 8.2.8 includes these changes:

Improve measurement of non-BOINC CPU usage
Fix Docker image cleanup
Fixed Simple GUI when using Dark Mode
Event log displays 0 bytes for certain files
Update NVIDIA FLOPS calculation for Blackwell
Docker hello-world: delete the created container, keep image
Don't run GPU job if all GPUs of that type are excluded
Fix CPU throttling bugs
Remove spurious error messages about WU FLOPS
Preserve existing MRU cComputers when saving
Avoid erroneous 'suspended - non-BOINC CPU' when running Docker apps
Run benchmarks on startup if new install or upgrade
Manager: change size of email and user name wxTextCtrl to default
Link to platform-specific wiki pages about installing Docker
Add no_disk_usage flag in cc_config.xml