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 | As the number of BOINC-based projects has increased, a problem has emerged - if a computer is attached to lots of projects, it may have trouble finishing work in time. We are revising the BOINC client's [url=sched.php]CPU scheduling and w
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 David Anderson |
10064 |
10 May 2005 |
| LHC@home is a BOINC-based project being used to simulate the orbits of particles in CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Read about it in the CERN Bulletin.
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David Anderson |
10214 |
10 May 2005 |
| Volunteers have ported SETI@home and BOINC to a variety of platforms, including Solaris/x86-64, Linux/x86-64, Linux/PPC, HP-UX, and FreeBSD.
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David Anderson |
9761 |
11 Apr 2005 |
| We released the BOINC Menubar, a user-friendly client software version for Macintosh OS X. It can be installed and run through a GUI interface - no Unix commands. We also released the Windows installer announced in the January 1 2005
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David Anderson |
9815 |
8 Mar 2005 |
| The Einstein@home project was officially launched this morning. BOINC users are encouraged to participate in this project, which searches for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data
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David Anderson |
11073 |
19 Feb 2005 |
| We've added a framework for web-site translations (both BOINC-supplied and project-specific parts). We are adding support for account management systems that simplif
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David Anderson |
10063 |
17 Feb 2005 |
| BOINC source code is now distributed under the Lesser GNU Public License (LPGL).
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David Anderson |
10135 |
20 Jan 2005 |
| BOINC-based projects projects now have 80,721 participants in 188 countries. Based on current credit statistics, together they supply 106 TeraFLOPS of computing power - far more
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David Anderson |
9866 |
19 Jan 2005 |
| BOINC's message board system supports moderation.
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David Anderson |
10480 |
18 Jan 2005 |
| With help from the Einstein@home group, we have refined BOINC's locality scheduling mechanism, It can now interact with project-specific programs that generate work on demand, and that maintain a 'working set
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David Anderson |
9762 |
10 Jan 2005 |
| The Windows version of BOINC can now be configured to run when a particular user is logged in, to run when any user is logged in, or run all the time (as a service) even when no users are logged in.
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David Anderson |
10723 |
1 Jan 2005 |
| With considerable help from the Einstein@home group, we have application graphics working on all platforms, including Linux. To handle hosts without graphics libraries, we have developed a new architecture in which
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David Anderson |
12899 |
10 Dec 2004 |
| Added prioritization to work distribution.
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David Anderson |
9612 |
6 Dec 2004 |
| We have created a new email list, [email protected]. A summary of each CVS checkin to the BOINC source tree will be posted to this list.
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David Anderson |
10279 |
3 Dec 2004 |
| A technical paper about BOINC is here. This paper appeared in the 5th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing, November 8, 2004, Pittsburgh, USA.
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David Anderson |
9632 |
2 Dec 2004 |
| BOINC servers can now use read-only database replicas for increased throughput.
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David Anderson |
9190 |
21 Nov 2004 |
| The message-board system now supports self-moderation (i.e., 'ignore lists').
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David Anderson |
10234 |
21 Nov 2004 |
| The application graphics framework now works on all platforms, including Mac OS X.
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David Anderson |
9937 |
21 Nov 2004 |
| A new utility, db_purge, allows projects to flush old entries from the result and workunit tables, so that these tables have a bounded size.
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David Anderson |
9395 |
21 Nov 2004 |
| We have developed a new Windows installer that lets you run BOINC as a service, and that is compatible with the Microsoft MSI framework.
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David Anderson |
9339 |
21 Nov 2004 |
| We have developed a GUI for the core client. It's similar to the old Windows GUI but is implemented using wxWidgets so it runs on all platforms. It offers new features such as the ability to suspen
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David Anderson |
10515 |
21 Nov 2004 |
| XML Schemas for the statistics data exported by BOINC projects is here, and graphical representations are here.
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David Anderson |
10342 |
21 Sep 2004 |
| We have created an email list, [email protected], for people interested in porting and optimizing BOINC applications. Sign up here.
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David Anderson |
9664 |
14 Sep 2004 |
| We are working on a new type of work distribution, called Locality scheduling, that sends work to hosts that already have the needed files.
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David Anderson |
9551 |
11 Sep 2004 |
| The Lattice project from the University of Maryland is developing a Grid system that integrates Globus, BOINC, and several other software components.
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David Anderson |
20072 |
6 Sep 2004 |
| The new project LHC@home announces its first beta test, initially restricted to 1000 users. Please sign up at lhcathome.cern.ch.
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David Anderson |
10326 |
1 Sep 2004 |
| The Climateprediction.net project is now open to the public.
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David Anderson |
10770 |
26 Aug 2004 |
| Users can choose whether applications should quit or suspend when they're not executing.
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David Anderson |
12628 |
6 Aug 2004 |
| The core client now checks whether disk usage exceeds user-specified limits, and if so it deletes projects files in a way that respects project resource shares.
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David Anderson |
10231 |
5 Aug 2004 |
| Large BOINC projects (like SETI@home) were getting on the order of a million files in upload/download directories. This caused OS performance problems. We fixed this by providing a two-level directory hierarchy for upload/download directo
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David Anderson |
10034 |
5 Aug 2004 |
| The Climateprediction.net project recently held an Open Day, describing its status and its plans to use BOINC.
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David Anderson |
10267 |
3 Aug 2004 |
| We made the core/app interface more flexible and general, providing better support for applications that consist of separate controller, worker, and graphics programs. We also added mechanisms that prevent multiple applications from runni
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David Anderson |
9477 |
9 Jul 2004 |
| We changed the SQL queries used by the performance-critical server components, such as the transitioner and feeder, to boost maximum server throughput.
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David Anderson |
9513 |
9 Jul 2004 |
| The core client now does preemptive scheduling of results. It time-slices between results, maintaining the approximate project resource shares. The work-fetch policy has also been modified; a single 'connection frequency' parameter replac
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David Anderson |
9433 |
9 Jul 2004 |
| We have added a mechanism that allows projects to upload and download 'persistent files'. This is the first step to using participant hosts for storage as well as computation, possibly creating the world's largest storage server.
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David Anderson |
9743 |
9 Jul 2004 |
| The statistics export mechanism has been redesigned to give projects more control over what they export; e.g
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David Anderson |
9557 |
20 Jun 2004 |
| New features: support for multi-program applications. Daily result quota per host. Applications can supply a static graphic (for screensaver) without writing code. Improved support for FORTRAN. Support for GUI RPCs in Windows client.
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David Anderson |
9723 |
16 Jun 2004 |
| BOINC news is available as an RSS feed; see Community and Resources.
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David Anderson |
9724 |
31 May 2004 |
| CPU benchmarking (and credit) are now based on the Dhrystone and Whetstone benchmarks. Memory bandwidth is no longer measured.
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David Anderson |
10132 |
19 May 2004 |
| Source code is now available directly via CVS. Improved Unix signal handling. Support app versions, workunits and results with lots of files (changed XML fields from 4KB to 64KB). Added [url=homogeneous_redundancy.php]homogeneo
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David Anderson |
10061 |
18 May 2004 |
| General preferences are now propagated from client to server, but only to accounts with the same email address as where the preferences originated.
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David Anderson |
9710 |
2 May 2004 |
| Added cross-project identification system. Added support for caching of PHP web pages, and restored leaderboard pages.
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David Anderson |
19559 |
20 Apr 2004 |
| Recent fixes and features: trickle messages for long-running work units; benchmarking for hyperthreaded CPUs; don't propagate preferences from hosts to projects; check for file existence before running app
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David Anderson |
9571 |
12 Apr 2004 |
| An unauthorized BOINC graphic.
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David Anderson |
18158 |
16 Mar 2004 |
| BOINC is being used at the Scripps Research Institute to run a distributed version of CHARMM (a program for macromolecular simulations).
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David Anderson |
10264 |
11 Feb 2004 |
| BOINC now has an anonymous platform mechanism which 1) allows computers of any type to participate in a BOINC project, and 2) allows participants to run only software they have compiled the
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David Anderson |
10353 |
1 Feb 2004 |
| The BOINC core client now provides a set of RPCs allowing separate GUIs to be developed.
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David Anderson |
10184 |
22 Jan 2004 |
| The CVS repository of BOINC code (including web pages) is now visible through a web-based interface. This may be useful for people maintaining web-site translations.
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David Anderson |
10073 |
26 Nov 2003 |
| A paper about the goals of BOINC was presented at a recent conference.
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David Anderson |
11311 |
26 Nov 2003 |
| The beta test project is accepting new users. CPU time measurement accuracy improved. Scheduler respects disk usage limits. Web site can issue cookies.
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David Anderson |
9977 |
25 Nov 2003 |
