Our Technology
Alantu is powered by BOINC — Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing — the world's leading open-source platform for volunteer computing, developed by UC Berkeley.
We believe that computing power should not be exclusive. Alantu bridges the gap between individuals and high-performance computing through the simplest interface imaginable — a mobile game.
Everything we build is guided by three principles that define who we are and why we exist.
The internet is evolving into a distributed network of powerful personal devices. We design Alantu so that anyone — regardless of technical background — can participate in this shift. No expertise required, just an Android phone.
Progress happens when people come together. Our gamified approach transforms individual smartphone owners into a collective supercomputer. The more players join, the more powerful the network — and the greater the scientific impact.
We partner exclusively with transparent, peer-reviewed research projects distributed via the BOINC platform. Every CPU cycle donated through Alantu goes toward real work that benefits humanity — from mapping the universe to fighting disease.
The world's supercomputers are expensive, centralized, and largely inaccessible. Meanwhile, billions of smartphones sit idle every night — fully charged, connected to WiFi, doing nothing.
We saw an enormous untapped resource. Collectively, the processing power of smartphones in use today rivals that of major data centers. The challenge was not capability — it was motivation and simplicity.
What if contributing to the world's most important research problems felt as effortless — and as fun — as playing a mobile game?
That question became Alantu. By building on BOINC's proven infrastructure and wrapping it in an engaging game experience, we created a platform that makes crowd-sourced scientific computing accessible to everyone.
Alantu was built by a multidisciplinary team of engineers, designers, scientists, and entrepreneurs united by a single belief: that technology should empower ordinary people to do extraordinary things.
We come from diverse backgrounds — mobile development, distributed systems, game design, and academic research — but we share the same drive to make volunteer computing as mainstream as social media or streaming.
"We're not just building an app. We're building a new kind of infrastructure for science — one that runs on the collective willpower of millions of players who want to make a difference."
Alantu is powered by BOINC — Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing — the world's leading open-source platform for volunteer computing, developed by UC Berkeley.