Boinc@Canada is a website devoted to team members participating in Seti@home, climateprediction.net, Predictor@home and LHC@Home, four distributed computing projects run on the University of California Berkeley's BOINC platform. Due to the inclusion of new Boinc projects this website is undergoing changes and the name has also changed to Boinc@Canada to reflect the teams involvement in multiple projects.

SETI, or the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, is a scientific effort seeking to determine if there is intelligent life outside Earth. SETI researchers use many methods. One popular method, radio SETI, listens for artificial radio signals coming from other stars. SETI@home is a radio SETI project that lets anyone with a computer and an Internet connection participate.

Predictor@home is a world-community experiment and effort to use distributed world-wide-web volunteer resources to assemble a supercomputer able to predict protein structure from protein sequence. The connection between protein structure and protein sequence remains as one of the premier challenges to physicists, chemists, biologists and information and computer scientists today.

climateprediction.net's aim is to investigate the approximations that have to be made in state-of-the-art climate models. By running the model thousands of times we hope to find out how the model responds to slight tweaks to these approximations. By using your computers, we will be able to improve our understanding of, and confidence in, climate change predictions more than would ever be possible using the supercomputers currently available to scientists.

The Large Hadron Collider Project is an accelerator which brings protons and ions into head-on collisions at higher energies than ever achieved before, allowing scientists to penetrate still further into the structure of matter and recreate the conditions prevailing in the early universe, just after the "Big Bang". When a new magnet is installed on the LHC, measurements are made and if it deviates significantly from the specified values LHC@Home is used to study what impact this might have on the machine. Getting the results as soon as possible makes a big difference for the engineers installing the magnets. So your participation in LHC@home really does help to build the LHC!

Boinc@Canada is a team designed for Canadians -but open to anyone who wishes to join - to help in the search for life elsewhere and helping cure diseases here on earth, and hopefully have some fun trying to outdo the other team members while pushing our team scores towards the top.