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MilkyWay@home

BOINC based volunteer computing project researching astronomy
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Summary

MilkyWay@home is a volunteer computing[1]. MilkyWay@home draws 16 Wikipedia views per month (volunteer_computing category, ranking #7 of 27).[2]

Key Facts

  • MilkyWay@home's image is recorded as Milkyway.gif[3].
  • MilkyWay@home's instance of is recorded as volunteer computing[4].
  • MilkyWay@home's instance of is recorded as Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing projects[5].
  • MilkyWay@home's instance of is recorded as free software[6].
  • MilkyWay@home's instance of is recorded as online service[7].
  • MilkyWay@home's developer is recorded as Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute[8].
  • MilkyWay@home's copyright license is recorded as GNU General Public License, version 3.0[9].
  • MilkyWay@home's operating system is recorded as cross-platform[10].
  • MilkyWay@home's software version identifier is recorded as 1.00 Windows[11].
  • MilkyWay@home's software version identifier is recorded as FreeBSD[12].
  • MilkyWay@home's software version identifier is recorded as 1.01 Linux[13].
  • MilkyWay@home's software version identifier is recorded as macOS[14].
  • MilkyWay@home's Commons category is recorded as MilkyWay@home[15].
  • MilkyWay@home's platform is recorded as X86[16].
  • MilkyWay@home's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/065y8q9[17].
  • MilkyWay@home's official website is recorded as https://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/[18].
  • MilkyWay@home's depends on software is recorded as Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing[19].
  • MilkyWay@home's copyright status is recorded as copyrighted[20].
  • MilkyWay@home's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 62812483[21].

Why It Matters

MilkyWay@home draws 16 Wikipedia views per month (volunteer_computing category, ranking #7 of 27).[2] MilkyWay@home has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22]

Related Entities

Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing projects cross-platform free software volunteer computing

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). MilkyWay@home. Retrieved October 14, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/milkyway-home
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