Most of the distributed computing projects have applications for both Windows and Linux, and many have Mac applications, as well. There are usually both 32-bit and 64-bit applications, but this varies. When you attach to a project under BOINC, the correct application and files will automatically be downloaded based on your operating system and CPU architecture.

Our website is constantly in a state of flux, with new material and HOW-TO articles currently being written and many more articles planned. This is very time consuming work. We are always happy to get whatever help we can with content material. Some features of the site are still under construction or may even be completely empty. We will be adding to these as we find the time to do it. Folks with good writing skills are encouraged to contribute to this process. Feel free to contact us with your ideas.

FEATURED PROJECT Climateprediction.net is a BOINC distributed computing project that is designed to produce predictions of the Earth's climate up to the year 2100, and to test the accuracy of such climate models. Climate change, and human responses to it, are issues that are of global importance, affecting food production, water resources, ecosystems, energy demand, insurance costs and much more. Current research suggests that the Earth will probably warm over the coming century; Climateprediction.net should be able, for the first time, to tell us what is most likely to happen as a result of this trend. This kind of computer modeling requires very large amounts of computing power, something that distributed computing is good at providing. There are people who question the value of such research. There were people who questioned the value of all of the research that has led to most of the things we now take for granted, most of which we can't imagine being without. Science isn't about sitting around waiting for things to happen, then whining about how somebody should have known, or how somebody should have done something. This is important work.

The Guru Mountain DC Team does not maintain its own statistics site, and we have no immediate plans for doing so. There are currently quite a few such sites that our members can rely upon for team statistics information. At this time, the amount of work required to build and maintain such functionality into our site is not, to our thinking, warranted or desirable. The nature of the BOINC server software is such that it is unlikely that we could provide any statistical information of greater relevance, convenience or accuracy than what current stats sites are providing.