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Title: Project Overview
Post by: Dingo on November 07, 2026, 04:29:22 PM
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Invitation Code  lighthouse

BEACON@HOME is a Non Intensive CPU project
 
Project Summary

Beacon@Home is a volunteer computing project for citizen science that needs almost none of your CPU. Our applications sit quietly in the background and keep watch — the way a lighthouse does.

Radiation Monitor builds a continuously updated map of background radiation from GQ GMC Geiger counters connected to volunteers' computers, continuing the work of the retired Radioactive@Home project. Every reading is statistically verified before it earns credit, and your exact location is never stored or shown — only a coarse ~17 km map cell.

The Monkeys — Scribe, Scholar, Bard and Poet — test the infinite monkey theorem, one random keystroke per second: real English words and fragments of Shakespeare, found by pure chance and verified on our servers. A tribute to the Monkeys of GoofyxGrid@Home. Unlike the Radiation Monitor, the Monkeys need no dedicated hardware — any ordinary x86 or ARM computer (Windows, Linux, or Raspberry Pi) can run them, and new accounts start with the Monkeys selected.

Applications

The following applications are supported:

Please see their Applications page as they change with ne applications HERE (https://beaconathome.org/apps.php)

Connecting to the Project

Connect to Project:  https://beaconathome.org/

The projects Home Page is at: https://beaconathome.org/

Don't forget to join BOINC@Australia at home Team following your registration.

Statistics

View our Team Members List and their current score here (http://coming%20soon/)
View detailed BOINCStats for our Team here (http://coming%20soon/)