Synecdoche is a platform for distributed computing grids. Applications for Synecdoche include volunteer computing projects, and virtual supercomputing for universities and research organisations.

Synecdoche is a fork of Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC). The goals of the fork are to:

• Remain compatible with BOINC
• Provide better usability
• Work on bugs and features ignored by BOINC
• Maintain stable releases