The team "BOINC@Halle/Saale" defines itself as a basis for a local community and as a worldwide team community of BOINC project participants. The team thought is in this case a motivation, current scientific investigations know learn. A competition of the team members within the team around most, for a project or for all projects produced service is in this case less of immediate importance. The competition occurs - provided that for the respective team member of interest - with other project participants and/or with other teams. The team set the target, to belong permanently to the Germany-wide best 25 and/or 0.5 % of all BOINC teams as well as to the worldwide best 350 and/or 0.5 % of all BOINC teams. Up to now 66 BOINC project participants joined the team "BOINC@Halle/Saale" and participated in an acting way in BOINC projects. The name of the team is formed from "BOINC" and "Halle/Saale".

"BOINC" (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) forms the infrastructure technology and software platform for "Distributed Computing" on whose basis different scientific projects carry out investigations and evaluations for the respective science field by means of "Distributed Computing". In this case the project recipients make available the unused computer power of the domestic computers for the scientific projects of their choice. The projects are independent of each other, that is every project has his own servers and databases. "Distributed Computing" is a technique of the application programming with which the distribution of an application occurs not only on different processes but on different computers, and is used in many fields of the investigation, especially at very computer-bound utilization for whose processing the performance of traditional supercomputers does not suffice or for which only insufficient financial averages stand availably. BOINC was an is developed at the "University of California" in Berkeley, USA.

German-speaking information about BOINC and BOINC projects are put through the team "BOINC@Halle/Saale" under "BOINC projects" as well as as "BOINCcast" (first German-speaking Podcast on the topic "Distributed Computing") availably. Further English information are available on the part of BOINC under http://boinc.berkeley.edu.

"Halle/Saale" is the biggest city of the Saxony-Anhalt state in Germany. The city lies on the fringe of the North German lowland. The field was since prehistoric time settled. Rich salt springs were used for the salt extraction, that here in the younger Bronze Age and later even intense once in the early Iron Age was practiced.  Beginning with the first dokumentary mention in the year 806 the city developed to what she is today - a green University-, Culture- and Haendelstadt. Halle/Saale can look back upon a long history and scientific tradition. In Halle the oldest scholar society of Germany, the Leopoldina (German academy of the natural researchers), is resident. Germany's oldest museum of prehistoric archeology, today also world confessed through the famous "stellar pane", is to be found in Halle/Saale. The Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg is the biggest and oldest educational facility in the Saxony-Anhalt state and belongs to the oldest universities of the German-speaking area. Halle/Saale is shaped especially by the historical old town and the pasture landscape of the Saale. Halle/Saale was destroyed to little in the World War II. In this respect almost the entire city area with his numerous beautiful buildings was maintained. The city offers therefore an attractive mixture of modern new buildings as well as restored alto buildings. Further information about Halle/Saale are to be found under "Halle information". One gains a small impression of Halle/Saale as well as of the charm and the enchanting aura of the city ...