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 | 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 |
12162 |
7 Jan 2007 |
| MySpace users: check out the BOINC on MySpace group.
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David Anderson |
10067 |
6 Jan 2007 |
| A paper about BOINC client scheduling
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David Anderson |
10807 |
29 Dec 2006 |
| The Proteins@Home project is now open
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David Anderson |
10448 |
28 Dec 2006 |
| Some AOL users are unable to attach to some projects. A work-around for this problem is described here.
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David Anderson |
9690 |
21 Dec 2006 |
| Olaf Bornack of Team BOINC@Halle/Saale has supplied [url=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/http://boinc.berkeley.edu/
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David Anderson |
10983 |
8 Dec 2006 |
| Linux users: check out the new BOINCTail add-on.
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David Anderson |
19377 |
6 Dec 2006 |
| It hasn't been released yet, but already several skins are available for BOINC Manager version 5.8 (currently under test as version 5.7.x). Check out Crunching Family Skin Downloads.
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David Anderson |
11417 |
4 Dec 2006 |
| BOINC's new Online Help system lets you get help from volunteers by talking with them using Skype. Volunteers speak several languages.
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David Anderson |
10756 |
4 Dec 2006 |
| A recent article in the Bulletin of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, A Cast of Thousands, discusses the [url=http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/]Rosetta@home project and its a
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David Anderson |
10581 |
4 Dec 2006 |
| Jean-Michel Penasse of L'Alliance Francophone has create a web site, www.myboinc.com, showing the User of the Day of all BOINC projects going back to October 8 2006
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David Anderson |
11057 |
27 Nov 2006 |
| Docking@home participants: the project is unreachable because of a campus-wide network connection failure at Univ
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David Anderson |
9700 |
23 Nov 2006 |
| BOINCstats is now available in Spanish. Thanks to Miquel Pericas for the translation. BOINCstats in Spanish can be visited at http://es.boincstats.com.
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David Anderson |
10515 |
15 Nov 2006 |
| Check out new add-on software: the SETI@home Toolbar for Firefox and IE on Windows (SETI@home-specific), and [url=http://
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David Anderson |
11089 |
7 Nov 2006 |
| We are preparing to release client software with a new GUI that is simpler, smaller, and more graphical than the current BOINC manager. Projects can supply their own graphics (icons, application-specific slideshows) for use in this GUI;
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David Anderson |
10898 |
7 Nov 2006 |
| Issue 3 of bunc (BOINC UK newsletter) is now online, with articles on a wide range of topics.
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David Anderson |
11416 |
17 Oct 2006 |
| Interested in getting a one-CPU-month job finished in five minutes? BOINC can potentially help you do this, but some work is needed.
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David Anderson |
10326 |
9 Oct 2006 |
| Versions of BOINC (and some applications) are now available for Solaris (x86, i686, SPARC), Linux (Alpha, SPARC), FreeBSD (x86, Alpha) and HPUX (including the BOINC Manager) from [url=http://www.lb.shuttle.de/apastron/boincDown.sh
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David Anderson |
17133 |
8 Oct 2006 |
| Eric Korpela and David Anderson were interviewed today by Mike O'Connell of BOINC UK. Many topics were covered, including the question of credit and optimized clients. Download a recording of the conversation (MP3, 13.5 MB) from [url=
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David Anderson |
10631 |
4 Oct 2006 |
| The 2nd Annual Pangalactic BOINC Workshop was held in Geneva on 20-21 September. Read the online workshop proceedings.
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David Anderson |
9491 |
26 Sep 2006 |
| UW-Madison CAE, the first BOINC user to top the 1 TERAFLOPS barrier, now has surpassed 2 TERAFLOPS
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David Anderson |
10529 |
11 Sep 2006 |
| The Spinhenge project has moved into public beta test, and is accepting new participant accounts.
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David Anderson |
10125 |
2 Sep 2006 |
| GridRepublic, a BOINC account manager, recently moved into beta test. It was written up by CNET.
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David Anderson |
10451 |
24 Aug 2006 |
| BOINC and SETI@home are featured in an article in Asahi-shinbun, one of the most popular newspapers in Japan.
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David Anderson |
11072 |
20 Aug 2006 |
| New documents discuss using BOINC for Desktop Grid Computing and for creating Virtual Campus Supercomputing Centers.
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David Anderson |
10039 |
16 Aug 2006 |
| A BBC Radio program on 'Citizen Science' - including a segment on volunteer computing and BOINC - will air tomorrow, 16 Aug 2006, 9 PM British Time. It will also be available [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/citizenscience.shtml]
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David Anderson |
12117 |
15 Aug 2006 |
| Participants with preferences for different venues (home, school, work) can now view these side-by-side in a multi-column format. Also, preference values are now checked for validity. Thanks to Christian Beer for the PHP programming behin
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David Anderson |
10117 |
14 Aug 2006 |
| An article about Quantum Monte Carlo at Home appeared 03.08.2006 in the German newspaper WAZ.
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David Anderson |
10314 |
11 Aug 2006 |
| A recent update of McAfee security software on Windows causes BOINC 5.4.9 to not work (details). We have released a new version, 5.4.11, that fixes the problem and works with the latest McAfee software.
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David Anderson |
10215 |
3 Aug 2006 |
| The 2nd Pan-Galactic BOINC Workshop will be held 20-21 September at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Anyone actively involved with BOINC is encouraged to attend.
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David Anderson |
9890 |
2 Aug 2006 |
| Chess960@home is open for testers. This project studies a game that is like classical chess except that the initial configuration of pieces is chosen randomly from among 960 possibilities.
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David Anderson |
11440 |
26 Jul 2006 |
| Welcome to three new BOINC-based projects. Two are mathematical: Riesel Sieve looks for prime numbers of the form k2n-1, and Rectilinear Crossing Number
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David Anderson |
10602 |
25 Jul 2006 |
| BOINC user survey: due to a bug in our software, answers to the question 'Which are the most important factors when you decide whether to participate in a BOINC project?' were not recorded correctly. Please [url=poll.php]fill out the survey f
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David Anderson |
10873 |
22 Jul 2006 |
| The BOINC survey is now available in Japanese. If you'd like to translate it to another language, please contact us.
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David Anderson |
20121 |
21 Jul 2006 |
| Articles in Nature, The Economist and [url=http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=16636]W
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David Anderson |
20968 |
13 Jul 2006 |
| We are conducting an online survey of BOINC participants. Please fill out the survey form - your responses will help us improve BOINC and the projects that use it
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David Anderson |
21515 |
13 Jul 2006 |
| The TANPAKU project, based at the Tokyo University of Science, is open for participation. TANPAKU (from the Japanese word tanpaku-shitsu, meaning 'protein') studies protein structure a
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David Anderson |
11674 |
7 Jul 2006 |
| Want to deploy BOINC quickly and easily on a Windows network? Read The Lazy Slug's Guide to easy deployment and maintenance of BOINC on your network.
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David Anderson |
11899 |
30 Jun 2006 |
| A paper about BOINC's API and runtime system will appear in the SC06 conference.
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David Anderson |
10124 |
29 Jun 2006 |
| A new Secure BOINC Client for the Macintosh is available for testing. This version limits BOINC applications' access to your system and data, thus protecting your computer from accide
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David Anderson |
19751 |
28 Jun 2006 |
| Pav Lucistnik has developed boinc_curses, a Unix console-based program (like 'top') to monitor and control BOINC.
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David Anderson |
11466 |
22 Jun 2006 |
| BOINCstats and the BAM! account manager are now available in Japanese.
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David Anderson |
10533 |
21 Jun 2006 |
| BOINC's CPU scheduler has become smarter: it now waits until an application has checkpointed to preempt it and remove it from memory. This can save significant CPU time, especially on multiprocessors. Technical details are [url=sched.php]
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David Anderson |
10523 |
15 Jun 2006 |
| We have added preliminary support for legacy applications that do not use the BOINC API (e.g
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David Anderson |
9638 |
14 Jun 2006 |
| The BOINC UK Newsletter Circular (bunc) has released its June 2006 edition, featuring an interview with David Anderson.
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David Anderson |
10190 |
10 Jun 2006 |
| Windows users: if BOINC applications are repeatedly crashing on your computer, it's possibly that you need to upgrade to the latest version of DirectX.
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David Anderson |
9670 |
7 Jun 2006 |
| Recent newspaper articles on BOINC and Rosetta@home: Worldwide, 690,000 help computer effort and [url=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420AP_WA_Resear
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David Anderson |
10907 |
31 May 2006 |
| The BOINCStats Account Manager (BAM!) is now available for use. BAM! provides 'one-stop shopping' for finding and attaching to BOINC project; see the news item of May 11. Thanks to Willy de Zutter
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David Anderson |
10654 |
30 May 2006 |
| BOINC has added preliminary support for 'low-latency' computing; e.g
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David Anderson |
10891 |
25 May 2006 |
| The costs of electricity, both monetary and environmental, are high. Be aware of the energy considerations associated with BOINC and volunteer computing.
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David Anderson |
9921 |
17 May 2006 |
