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Learn to contribute to science using BOINC software

Important scientific projects need you!

After completing this challenge you will be able to participate in scientific projects which are working to cure diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars and conduct other types of research all over the world. You will be able to contribute processing time on your PC or laptop, and through the message boards of the projects, you will have the chance to learn more about the research that is motivating these projects.

This challenge will show you how to download, install and run the software you need to enable you to join the volunteer computing projects that are supported by the open source platform, BOINC.

P Time it should take to complete:
1 hrs

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Nils at Become a Citizen Scientist

posted message: I have been participating in these projects since 2005, and now, I'm in two - Seti and Rosetta. Setting up my last PC, I found it easier to set up BAM account (http://boincstats.com/en/page/profile/user/123875). If anyone needs any help setting up BOINC on Windows machine, I'm avilable for giving step by step instructions :) Still, I haven't managed to set up BOINC on my unix stations, but their computing power is too low, for significant results. Good luck and have fun being citizen scientist! :)

22 May 2012 via courses.p2pu.org

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Daniel Lombraña González said:

Hi,

Thanks for offering your help! We hope to start adding new challenges soon, so you will be able to help people sooner than you think :-)

Daniel

on May 23, 2012, 2:22 a.m.

Nils said:

Cool, if possible, send me a notification about that - I disabled basic notifications, as my mail box started growing too fast...

on May 27, 2012, 8 a.m. in reply to Daniel Lombraña González

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Daniel Lombraña González said:

Nils said: