  We present the project Asteroids@home that uses distributed computing to
solve the time-consuming inverse problem of shape reconstruction of asteroids.
The project uses the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC)
framework to distribute, collect, and validate small computational units that
are solved independently at individual computers of volunteers connected to the
project. Shapes, rotational periods, and orientations of the spin axes of
asteroids are reconstructed from their disk-integrated photometry by the
lightcurve inversion method.
