What is Public Resource Computing? Public resource computing (PRC) is an innovative approach to high performance computing that relies on volunteers who donate their personal computers' unused resources to a computationally intensive research project. Prominent PRC projects include SETI@home, Folding@Home, and the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS).

What is SLINC? Many PRC projects are built upon a PRC framework that abstracts functionality that is common to all PRC projects, such as network communications, database access, and project management. These PRC frameworks tend to be complex, limiting, and difficult to use. We have designed and implemented a new PRC framework called the Simple Light-weight Infrastructure for Network Computing (SLINC) that addresses the disadvantages we identified with existing frameworks. SLINC is a flexible and extensible PRC framework that enables researchers to more easily build PRC projects. See the Documentation section for instructions on how to develop a PRC project using the SLINC framework.

Project News 2006-11-05 SLINC version 0.2 has been released. Changes include support for an assimilator component, updates to the example and template components, documentation updates, and build improvements. This release can be obtained from the File Releases section of the SLINC project page on SourceForge. 2006-09-01 SLINC version 0.1.1 has been released. This release can be obtained from the File Releases section of the SLINC project page on SourceForge. 2006-07-07 All SLINC documentation has been converted to HTML and is available in the documentation section. 2006-07-03 All SLINC documentation except for the XML-RPC Interface Specification has been converted to HTML. 2006-06-07 The SLINC documentation is currently being converted from PDF format to HTML. Until the conversion is complete, the SLINC documentation can be downloaded in PDF format from the SLINC SourceForge site here. 2006-06-03 Version 0.1 of SLINC has been released. This release can be obtained from the File Releases section of the SLINC project page on SourceForge. 2006-05-16 SLINC has been approved as a SourceForge project!