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 | 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 |
11599 |
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 |
12967 |
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 |
12779 |
30 May 2006 |
| BOINC has added preliminary support for 'low-latency' computing; e.g
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David Anderson |
14881 |
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 |
11918 |
17 May 2006 |
| Version 5.4 of the BOINC client software has been released. This version lets you use account managers - special web sites that let you browse BOINC projects, attach/detach, change resource share and setti
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David Anderson |
15241 |
11 May 2006 |
| The first-ever BOINC birthday cake appeared at the 7th SETI@home-Catalonia Meeting (and 1st BOINC-Catalonia Meeting), held in Girona last April 22nd. Also: [url=http://www.boinc.cat]BOINC.cat[
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David Anderson |
12905 |
9 May 2006 |
| The latest German BOINCcast discusses ClimatePrediction.net; earlier BOINCcasts cover SIMAP, LHC@home, and uFluids.
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David Anderson |
12161 |
30 Apr 2006 |
| The CERN Courier's Computer Newsletter features an article on BOINC activities at CERN.
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David Anderson |
12931 |
14 Apr 2006 |
| We have developed an example application, together with project files and Makefiles for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The application demonstrates how to do checkpoint/restart and graphics. Projects can use this as a framewo
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David Anderson |
12041 |
13 Apr 2006 |
| According to various statistics sites, over one million computers have now contributed processing power to BOINC projects. We're currently achieving a sustained processing rate of over 400 TeraFLOPS - the world's most
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David Anderson |
24690 |
13 Apr 2006 |
| Thanks to the efforts of volunteers, BOINC is now officially part of the Debian Linux distribution. Packages for the BOINC [url=http://packages.debian.org/boinc-client]core client[/u
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David Anderson |
13047 |
6 Apr 2006 |
| Windows users: new versions of Intellipoint and [url=http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/
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David Anderson |
13631 |
4 Apr 2006 |
| BOINCstats.com is one of several excellent web sites showing BOINC statistics. It's available in a number of languages, now including Chinese.
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David Anderson |
11940 |
3 Apr 2006 |
| The Seasonal Attribution Project, a spin-off of Climateprediction.net, seeks to determine the extent to which extreme weather events are attributable to human-induced climate change. Its application
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David Anderson |
13290 |
15 Mar 2006 |
| Tony/Knightrider/Chuggybus has created BOINC coinage. See the large and small versions. The Latin text means 'Berkeley open and shared resources'.
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David Anderson |
11825 |
5 Mar 2006 |
| Quantum Monte Carlo at Home announces the public release of the first chemistry BOINC project.
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David Anderson |
12218 |
3 Mar 2006 |
| A significant step has been made towards integrating BOINC and Grid software: beginning with Condor version 6.7.17, Condor can be configured to run BOINC when it has no other work to perform. This capability is described in [url=http://ww
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David Anderson |
12759 |
24 Feb 2006 |
| BOINC announces its support for the Macintosh/Intel platform.
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David Anderson |
11992 |
22 Feb 2006 |
| BOINCcast is the first German Podcast about BOINC. Weekly episodes of 5 minutes length will explain Distributed Computing and the Goals of BOINC to the German public, and will present and explain th
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David Anderson |
12619 |
19 Feb 2006 |
| View a video clip about the BBC Climate Change Experiment.
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David Anderson |
20980 |
15 Feb 2006 |
| BOINC and Climateprediction.net have joined forces with the BBC to launch a new experiment -- a full simulation of climate change from 1920 to 2080. The experiment is described on a BBC television documentary Meltdown (BBC-4, F
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David Anderson |
14900 |
14 Feb 2006 |
| The SZTAKI Desktop Grid is now in production. The project, based at the MTA-SZTAKI Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems in Budapest, Hungary, is attempting to find all the generalized
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David Anderson |
12528 |
8 Feb 2006 |
| The Similarity Matrix of Proteins (SIMAP) project is now in production. SIMAP, based at the Technical University of Munich, uses volunteer computers to calculate similarities between proteins
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David Anderson |
12993 |
6 Feb 2006 |
| A story about SETI@home's transition to BOINC appears in the Nature web site.
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David Anderson |
12185 |
15 Dec 2005 |
| A new paper, The Computational and Storage Potential of Volunteer Computing, explores the limits of BOINC-based projects.
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David Anderson |
11575 |
12 Dec 2005 |
| BOINC has a job opening for an experienced programmer (C++/Python/PHP/SQL/HTML). For more information go to http://jobs.berkeley.edu/. The job is number 003496, and is listed under Information Technol
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David Anderson |
12041 |
9 Dec 2005 |
| We have created a new email list, [email protected], for announcements of new versions of BOINC client software.
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David Anderson |
11705 |
29 Nov 2005 |
| Check out A BOINC seminar by Juan Antonio Lopez Perez of CERN, presented at CIEMAT in Madrid, November 2005. Also available in a [url=https://uimon.cern.ch
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David Anderson |
14080 |
27 Nov 2005 |
| Aggregate credit data (user and host credit data summed over all BOINC projects) is now available in XML format. This data can be used for applications (like the 'Featured participant' above) that reflect overall
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David Anderson |
16332 |
15 Nov 2005 |
| IBM's World Community Grid has launched a BOINC-based project (currenly Linux only).
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David Anderson |
12437 |
1 Nov 2005 |
| David Anderson talks about BOINC and volunteer computing in a podcast at www.enterpriseleadership.org.
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David Anderson |
12125 |
28 Oct 2005 |
| Version 5.2.2 of the BOINC client software has been released. It includes a simpler registration procedure, security enhancements, and numerous other improvements.
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David Anderson |
11532 |
20 Oct 2005 |
| Rosetta@home, a BOINC-based project at the University of Washington, has launched and is seeking participants. Its goal is "..
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David Anderson |
14294 |
25 Sep 2005 |
| High-Performance Task Distribution for Volunteer Computing, a paper about BOINC server performance, will appear in the e-Science 2005 conference in December.
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David Anderson |
24992 |
23 Sep 2005 |
| Searching for Gravity @ Home[/url], an article about Einstein@home and BOINC, appears in the September 2005 issue of IEEE's The Institute.
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David Anderson |
12389 |
6 Sep 2005 |
| A conversation with David Anderson in ACM Queue Magazine.
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David Anderson |
12611 |
29 Aug 2005 |
| We are redesigning BOINC to use a user-supplied identifier and password instead of a system-supplied random key for identifying an account. Comments on the design are welcome.
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David Anderson |
11961 |
14 Aug 2005 |
| BOINC is transitioning to use libcurl for HTTP operations. This will allow BOINC to use HTTPS (secure HTTP) for scheduler requests and file transfers.
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David Anderson |
12749 |
9 Aug 2005 |
| Non-open-source code (RSAEuro and GLUT) has been removed from BOINC. OpenSSL's crypto library is used for encryption.
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David Anderson |
19394 |
3 Aug 2005 |
| A group of students from Cornell have written Distributing Science, a very nice article about BOINC and some of the projects using it.
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David Anderson |
12469 |
25 Jul 2005 |
| A paper by Jakob Pedersen and Christian Søttrup discusses the interoperation of the Grid and BOINC.
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David Anderson |
15061 |
24 Jul 2005 |
| BOINC statistics sites continue to evolve. Check out Every Earthly Hour, developed by Hydnum Repandum
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David Anderson |
12067 |
25 Jun 2005 |
| BOINC now works in Windows 'service' mode on computers with dialup connections and the 'confirm before connect' preference set. The connection confirmation and setup process has been moved to the BOINC manager, which (unlike a service) is
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David Anderson |
12048 |
24 Jun 2005 |
| Account management system are web sites that let participants sign up for multiple projects with just a few clicks (and no account keys). The BOINC manager (development version) now lets you select, ch
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David Anderson |
12393 |
24 Jun 2005 |
| We've improved and simplified the CPU scheduling and work-fetch policies, using a detailed simulation of BOINC's weighted round-robin scheduling. When the simulator predicts that a deadline will be missed, the client switches to earliest-dead
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David Anderson |
12466 |
24 Jun 2005 |
| We have added new API calls that allow applications to do their own CPU benchmarking, or directly report their floating-point operation count. This will give more accurate credit numbers
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David Anderson |
11438 |
24 Jun 2005 |
| We've added two mechanisms that give better estimates of result completion time (and thus better scheduling and fewer missed deadlines): 1) we track the 'CPU efficiency': the average fraction of CPU time that BOINC apps receive while they
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David Anderson |
11568 |
24 Jun 2005 |
| Climateprediction.net is featured in an article in the journal of the Institute of Electrical Engineers.
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David Anderson |
12223 |
16 Jun 2005 |
| Two Wiki-based BOINC informational sites have been launched recently: The Unofficial BOINC Wiki (in English) and Deutsche BOINC FAQ (in German). Because these sites ar
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David Anderson |
12557 |
3 Jun 2005 |
