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About 30 science projects use BOINC. They investigate diseases, study climate change, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research.
The BOINC and Science United projects are located at the University of California, Berkeley and are supported by the National Science Foundation.

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[LODA] Upcoming maintenance

We will go into a planned maintenance in the next few weeks. In the first phase, we will stop creating new workunits and wait until the majority of in-progress work is finished. During the maintenance, the BOINC server will be offline. We will post updates at https://loda-lang.org/. Thanks for your contributions and patience!

View article · Fri, 29 May 2026 09:48:54 +0000

[PrimeGrid] National Egg Day Challenge

From June 3 21:00 to June 10 21:00 PrimeGrid will be running a 7 day challenge on the 321 Prime Search (LLR) project. For more information, please see this forum thread.

View article · Wed, 27 May 2026 12:01:27 +0000

[Minecraft@Home] Maintance Saturday 2026-05-23 | 9 AM UTC

Hi all,

Heads up: The Minecraft@Home infrastructure will be down for maintenance tomorrow, Saturday (May 23rd) starting at ~ 8:30 AM UTC, for some hardware and software updates.

Downtime will last for a few hours. I can't give an exact ETA, but I'll do my best to get everything back up and running as fast as I can.

Cheers,
Philipp

View article · Fri, 22 May 2026 18:55:18 +0000

[YAFU] Aliquot sequence 3622890 has terminated!!!

View article · Thu, 21 May 2026 20:02:56 +0000

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BOINC client 8.2.11 released
Version 8.2.11 of the BOINC client has been released for all platforms. Download it here. Release notes are here.
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