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BOINC-Based Volunteer Computing Projects: Dynamics and Statistics

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Abstract

Citizen science brings together civil crowd resources to help the scientific community. It is widely recognized as a scientific approach with huge and global potential with the ability to involve individual volunteers and community groups in tackling large global challenges. In this way, volunteer computing is a shining example of citizen science. It is characterized by ease of participation, indifferentiation to geography, understandable contribution, and many other magnetic issues promoting permanent interest of volunteers. The BOINC community offers a number of scientific volunteer computing projects to participate, both fundamental and applied. In this paper we analyze changes in the number and structure of volunteer computing projects, share of fundamental and applied science, number of volunteers and the role of the Russian community. This study can help to understand current trends in the evolution of volunteer computing.

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Notes

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    https://www.birdscanada.org/bird-science/christmas-bird-count/.

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    https://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/.

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    https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/flora-rossii-i-kryma-flora-of-russia-and-the-crimea.

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    https://wikipedia.org/wiki/BOINC.

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    https://www.boincstats.com/.

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    https://boinc.tacc.utexas.edu/.

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    https://boinc.tbrada.eu/.

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    https://wuprop.boinc-af.org/

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    https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/rah/rah_about.php.

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    https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about/.

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    https://www.sidock.si/sidock/.

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    https://rake.boincfast.ru/rakesearch/.

  13. 13.

    https://www.boincstats.com/stats/175/project/detail.

  14. 14.

    https://sech.me/boinc/Amicable/.

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    https://www.boincstats.com/stats/169/project/detail.

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    https://www.boincstats.com/stats/123/project/detail.

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    https://gerasim.boinc.ru/.

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    https://boinc.progger.info/odlk/.

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    https://boinc.multi-pool.info/latinsquares/.

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    https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/OPTIMA@HOME.

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    https://boinc.ru/proekty/proekt-uspexhome/.

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Ivashko, V., Ivashko, E. (2022). BOINC-Based Volunteer Computing Projects: Dynamics and Statistics. In: Voevodin, V., Sobolev, S., Yakobovskiy, M., Shagaliev, R. (eds) Supercomputing. RuSCDays 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13708. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22941-1_45

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