BURP meaning in General ?

Big and Ugly Rendering Project (BURP) is a non-commercial distributed computing project using the BOINC framework. It was under development to work as a publicly distributed system for the rendering of 3D graphics, but has been abandoned as of late 2004.

BURP also refers to the volunteer and grid computing software BOINC, as BURP needs BOINC in order to distribute computing task among their users. BURP is free software distributed under the GNU General Public License V3 licence. Because BURP is used to refer to both BOINC project and BURP back-end software, some confusion can arise when talking about other services running the BURP software.

BOINC users who are considering joining BURP should know that they will not always have work available, as the projects depend on users to submit sessions that need rendering. This may be confusing to new users, as the BOINC client may report "Got 0 new tasks" or other error messages without explaining the reason for not getting any work.