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 | World Community Grid has announced that it is migrating fully to BOINC. Welcome to all WCG participants!
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 David Anderson |
10016 |
17 Aug 2007 |
| BOINC finally has a new logo! Many thanks Michal Krakowiak, the graphic designer who created it. The logo (and icons based on it) will soon appear on the BOINC client software as well as the web site.
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David Anderson |
9840 |
25 Jul 2007 |
| The Africa@home workshop on volunteer computing with BOINC, sponsored by the Geneva International Academic Network (GIAN), was held recently at the African Institut
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David Anderson |
9401 |
23 Jul 2007 |
| Team leaders: check out the BOINC Team Leaders Forum, a place to chat and discuss team-building on BOINC projects.
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David Anderson |
10068 |
20 Jul 2007 |
| A newly-launched project, Eternity2.net, offers a chance to compute for a share of a US$2,000,000 prize.
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David Anderson |
10101 |
20 Jul 2007 |
| BOINC is now the preferred client software at World Community Grid.
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David Anderson |
9871 |
16 Jul 2007 |
| If you use the Yahoo! Widget Engine, check out version 1.1 of the BOINC Server Status widget.
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David Anderson |
9481 |
16 Jul 2007 |
| Leiden Classical is using BOINC for education - it provides a high-performance computing resource for students of Theoretical Chemistry at Le
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David Anderson |
10293 |
12 Jul 2007 |
| A growing number of 'skins' for the BOINC simple GUI are available from crunching-family.at.
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David Anderson |
13697 |
10 Jul 2007 |
| Welcome to a new web site with cross-project BOINC statistics: Team Starfire World BOINC Stats 'N Stones.
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David Anderson |
20028 |
6 Jul 2007 |
| Docking@home is moving from Texas to Delaware
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David Anderson |
9214 |
4 Jul 2007 |
| Read Volunteer computing: Grid or not Grid? on International Science Grid This Week.
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David Anderson |
10047 |
2 Jul 2007 |
| Amir Alexander of The Planetary Society talks about SETI, distributed computing, and space exploration in an interview by Mike of BOINC UK.
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David Anderson |
9947 |
2 Jul 2007 |
| Linux users: if you use bash, check out a cool script that provides command completion in both boinc_cmd and boinc_client (thanks to Frank S
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David Anderson |
9694 |
28 Jun 2007 |
| Help increase volunteer computing power - publicize BOINC by writing to computer magazines.
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David Anderson |
9345 |
27 Jun 2007 |
| There are reports that version 5.10.8 of the BOINC client software causes a problem on Windows XP Pro in which the desktop becomes empty. If you see this, please uninstall 5.10.8 and install version 5.8.16.
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David Anderson |
9607 |
26 Jun 2007 |
| There's a great new statistics site, BOINC All Project Stats. It has lists of the top users and teams, recent changes in rankings, graphs showing history and breakdown by project, and many other
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David Anderson |
18098 |
26 Jun 2007 |
| BOINCstats and BAM! are now viewable in Finnish (http://fi.boincstats.com)
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David Anderson |
9875 |
3 Jun 2007 |
| Sony Playstation 3 owners: researchers at the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park have launched PS3GRID, a BOINC-based project whose application (molecular dynamics simulations) runs on the PS3's Cell
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David Anderson |
10646 |
31 May 2007 |
| Check out a video promoting BOINC on YouTube.[/url]
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David Anderson |
9742 |
29 May 2007 |
| A Flash guide to using BOINC with IBM World Community Grid is available in Czech and English.
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David Anderson |
10687 |
28 May 2007 |
| The 3rd Pan-Galactic BOINC Workshop will be held 5-6 September 2007 in Geneva, Switzerland.
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David Anderson |
9363 |
14 May 2007 |
| The BOINC Virtual Server - a VMWare virtual machine preconfigured with BOINC and all prerequisite software - is now available. This greatly simplifies the task of creating a BOINC pro
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David Anderson |
13417 |
9 May 2007 |
| As of about May 1, BOINC projects have had over one million volunteers.
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David Anderson |
9315 |
8 May 2007 |
| BOINCstats and BAM! are now available in 15 languages. As of today, they are now viewable in Swedish ( http://se.boincstats.com).
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David Anderson |
10030 |
6 May 2007 |
| An excellent article on BOINC and the projects using it appeared today in the Catalan newspaper AVUI. It is available in PDF (pages one and [url=http://media.avui.cat/pdf/07/
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David Anderson |
10518 |
6 May 2007 |
| The source code behind BOINC Combined Stats is now available via Subversion
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David Anderson |
11050 |
3 May 2007 |
| GridRepublic announces a significant upgrade to their web site, including improved registration workflow and better integration with IBM World Community Grid (including WCG sub-project registration).
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David Anderson |
10967 |
24 Apr 2007 |
| Krystof Dolezal's Flash-based BOINC tutorials are now available in English and Slovak, as well as Czech.
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David Anderson |
10014 |
23 Apr 2007 |
| BOINCstats and BAM! are now available in the Czech language (http://cz.boincstats.com). Thanks to Zelvuska for the translation.
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David Anderson |
9850 |
23 Apr 2007 |
| Desktopgrid.hu has been created by the Computer and Automation Research Institute (SZATAKI) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA). It provides information (and software downloads) for using BOINC for
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David Anderson |
11365 |
17 Apr 2007 |
| BOINC is now using Trac, an integrated software project management system. In particular: 1) the BOINC source code repository now uses Subversion; 2) the BOINC bug database has been moved to Trac;
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David Anderson |
9916 |
16 Apr 2007 |
| The BBC documentary 'Meltdown', which highlights Climateprediction.net, has been nominated for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts academy
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David Anderson |
10603 |
11 Apr 2007 |
| Dr
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David Anderson |
10738 |
4 Apr 2007 |
| If you can read Czech, czech out some excellent Flash-based BOINC tutorials.
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David Anderson |
9522 |
29 Mar 2007 |
| Africa@home (with support from the Geneva International Academic Network) is sponsoring an intensive one-week workshop on volunteer computing for qualified African students, to be held at
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David Anderson |
16599 |
23 Mar 2007 |
| Don't use them for postage, but check out the BOINC stamps created by Myster65 and Rebirther.
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David Anderson |
9682 |
9 Mar 2007 |
| The article Idle Cycles - building distributed applications with BOINC Seil appears in the Oct 2006 issue of [url=http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/71]Linux Magaz
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David Anderson |
10418 |
6 Mar 2007 |
| With BOINCpe you can run a dedicated BOINC machine using a RAM disk, starting from only 256 MB of total RAM. This lets you operate a BOINC farm more energy-efficiently or to use machines without h
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David Anderson |
11494 |
1 Mar 2007 |
| The BOINC web server recently underwent a hardware and software upgrade
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David Anderson |
13654 |
28 Feb 2007 |
| Marc Seil gave a talk on setting up a BOINC server at the recent LinuxDays conference in Luxembourg. His slides are here.
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David Anderson |
10223 |
8 Feb 2007 |
| GridRepublic has been selected as a finalist for the Web Awards at the 2007 SXSW Interactive Festival
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David Anderson |
9615 |
5 Feb 2007 |
| The documentation on Creating BOINC Projects is now available as one big PDF file.
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David Anderson |
9878 |
3 Feb 2007 |
| The BOINC FAQ Service answers many questions about using BOINC. It is available in English, German, and Dutch.
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David Anderson |
10094 |
24 Jan 2007 |
| Check out a TV news segment and a web site about the results of the recently-completed BBC Climate Change Experiment. On January 2
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David Anderson |
10239 |
19 Jan 2007 |
| The paper "Reporting@Home: Delivering Dynamic Graphical Feedback to Participants in Community Computing Projects" describes how Rosetta@home delivers per
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David Anderson |
10064 |
18 Jan 2007 |
| Linux users: check out KBoincMgr, a replacement for the BOINC Manager. KBoincMgr can manage multiple BOINC clients, and has other features too numerous to mention.
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David Anderson |
10760 |
17 Jan 2007 |
| On Sunday 21 Jan
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David Anderson |
10326 |
17 Jan 2007 |
| The ABC@home project, based at Leiden University in Holland, is now open. ABC@home is studying the ABC conjecture
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David Anderson |
11664 |
7 Jan 2007 |
| MySpace users: check out the BOINC on MySpace group.
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David Anderson |
9849 |
6 Jan 2007 |
