Cell Computing was

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project that was operated by

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to perform

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. It used the

Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC, pronounced – rhymes with "oink") is an open-source middleware system for volunteer computing (a type of distributed computing). Developed originally to support SETI@home, it beca ...

(BOINC) platform; however, it was initially launched using the United Devices

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platform in 2002. The project ended in 2008 due to lack of popularity.

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