Science United

Science UnitedDeveloper(s)| University of California, Berkeley

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Initial release| 9 December 2017; 8 years ago (2017-12-09)
Operating system| Windows
macOS
Linux
Type| Grid computing and volunteer computing
License| LGPL-3.0-or-later[1]

Website| scienceunited.org

Science United is a volunteer distributed computing platform launched in 2017[2] which uses the BOINC middleware to distribute computing tasks to volunteers. It was created at UC Berkeley under the direction of research scientist David P. Anderson with funding by National Science Foundation[3][4]. It is also an open-source BOINC Account Manager by the same name[5]. Science United runs on Windows, Linux, OS X, and FreeBSD.

### Comparison to BOINC

BOINC is an ecosystem of many projects, which requires users to research which projects to contribute to and a user must register with each project separately (or have an account manager perform this for them). Science United was created to remove this complexity so unlike in BOINC where users choose specific projects to contribute to, Science United users simply choose "research areas" such as "biology and medicine" or "astronomy". From there, they are assigned work units from various projects which have been vetted by Science United.

As of September 2021, current projects running under Science United include BOINC@TACC, Citizen Science Grid, ODLK, ODLK1, World Community Grid, NFS@home, MindModeling@home, QuChemPedIA@home, NumberFfields@home, Gerasim@Home, LHC@home, RNA World, Asteroids@Home, Ibercivis BOINC, GPUGrid.net, RakeSearch, Einstein@home, Rosetta@home, Milkyway@home, Climateprediction.net, nanoHUB@Home, Universe@Home, MLC@Home, Amicable Numbers, iThena, PrimeGrid, Cosmology@Home, and SIDock@Home[6].

## References

1. ↑ "Science United License". https://github.com/davidpanderson/science_united/blob/master/LICENSE.
2. ↑ "Commits · davidpanderson/science_united" (in en). https://github.com/davidpanderson/science_united/commits/master?after=b5c6ee5d2cea7919cf94ef00edd8d8d39a176165+104&branch=master.
3. ↑ "NSF Award Search: Award # 1664190 - Collaborative Research: SI2-SSI: Expanding Volunteer Computing" (in en). https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1664190&HistoricalAwards=false.
4. ↑ "NSF Award Search: Award # 1550601 - Collaborative Research: SI2-SSI: Adding Volunteer Computing to the Research Cyberinfrastructure". https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1550601&HistoricalAwards=false.
5. ↑ "GitHub - davidpanderson/science_united: Source code for Science United, an interface to BOINC." (in en). https://github.com/davidpanderson/science_united.
6. ↑ "Science". https://scienceunited.org/su_science.php.

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