The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is asoftware platform for distributed computing: several initiatives ofvarious scientific disciplines all compete for the idle time ofdesktop computers. The developers' web site at the University ofBerkeley serves as a common portal to the otherwise independently runprojects..This package contains the BOINC core client program that is requiredto participate in any project that uses BOINC. A central serverdistributes work units and collects results via this client. Whenattaching a local machine to a project, this client will alsodynamically download the scientific data and executables to be thenwrapped by the BOINC core client.