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BOINC 64-bit is the information technology infrastructure for distributing work in the form of work units and downloading the distributed applications that process them. The BOINC Manager can be used for keeping track of all the projects you volunteered for and viewing their status and progress rate. It allows you to organize tasks and communicate with other team members, viewing shared resources, updating or cancelling commands, viewing new tasks that must be performed and removing existing commands.

Many different projects use BOINC, such as - BBC Climate Change Experiment, Folding@Home, Einstein@Home and many others. Projects are independent; each one operates its own servers and databases. BOINC Manager can also be used for closing connected clients or running CPU performance tests. It features HTTP and SOCKS proxy support and can be run in multiple instances, with various configurations for each project.

Participants can participate in multiple projects; they control which projects they participate in, and how their resources are divided among these projects. When a project is down or has no work, the resources of its participants are divided among other projects.

Projects do not rely on powerful supercomputers for its data processing; instead, the primary contributors to the projects are many thousands of personal computer users who have installed BOINC client program.

The client runs in the background, and makes use of the CPU when it is not busy.