a few hours on a standard CPU. The Cosmology@Home application is proprietary. Milestones 2007-06-30 Project launches for closed alpha testing - invitation only. 2007-08-23 Project opens registration for public alpha testing. 2007-11-05 Project enters beta testing stage. 2016-12-15 Project moved to the Institut Lagrange de Paris and the Institut d'astrophysique de Paris, both of which are located at the Pierre and Marie Curie University. See also List of volunteer computing projects Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) References External links Website of the Research Group running Cosmology@Home ApJ paper on PICO The PICO home page Volunteer computing projects Free science software French National Centre for Scientific Research University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Science in society