Kalavai contributes to science now!

Now you can contribute to science literally from your sofa

Dec 24, 2024

This is part of our wider effort to contribute to community computing. If you are interested, check out our BitTorrent-style LLMs pool.

We are on a quest to transform access to AI infrastructure. And part of our strategy is to recognise those who came before us that pursued the same goal. We believe in the community and want to lift up and empower any project that is aligned with our mission.

Today we are proud to announce our newest public pool for BOINC, the leading Volunteering Computing platform for science.

Join our discord community for updates and to help shape the future of collaborative computing.

What you get

Eternal kudos from the community

The pride of knowing you are contributing to actual scientific progress in areas such as Astronomy, Chemistry, Physics, Biology and Medicine

Credits on Kalavai, which can be used in all of our future computing pools.

How to join

1. Install Kalavai

Create a free Kalavai account. Then, follow the instructions here to install the client app in the machine you want to use as worker. These are the requirements for workers:

4+ CPUs
4GB+ RAM

2. Authenticate kalavai

Run the following command, using your account credentials:

$ kalavai login

[10:33:16] Kalavai account details. If you don't have an account, create one at https://platform.kalavai.net                                                                 
User email: <your email>
Password: <your password>

[10:33:25] <email> logged in successfully

3. Join the pool

Clicking Join will reveal the information on how to make your worker join the pool. Run the command displayed in your local machine;

$ kalavai pool join <token>

[16:28:14] Token format is correct
           Joining private network

[16:28:24] Scanning for valid IPs...
           Using 100.10.0.8 address for worker
           Connecting to BOINC @ 100.10.0.9 (this may take a few minutes)...
[16:29:41] Worskpace created
           You are connected to BOINC

Watch the contributions go up

Head over to Science United’s leaderboard and look for the Kalavai.net entry.

As a user you can also check how much compute you have contributed via the home page in our platform. Once you are logged in, click on the button displaying your user name on the left panel. This view will show how much of each key resource you have contributed thus far (CPUs, RAM, GPU).

Want to know more

Check out our BOINC page in our documentation

What’s next

After the release of the BitTorrent-style LLMs and BOINC volunteer computing, we have big plans for the collaborative computing community, specially for those interested in AI. Stay tuned!