Recent items from the news feeds of various BOINC projects.

[PrimeGrid] Windows/ARM suppport for GFN apps

PrimeGrid is happy to announce the release of ARM apps for Windows! For many GFN apps that support GPU tasks, we now offer Windows/ARM applications. Just select the CPU tasks in the project preferences page. The list of GFN apps that support Windows/ARM is subject to change. For the most up to date list, see the applications page. Look for "Microsoft Windows running on an ARM 64-bit CPU".

View article · Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:26:09 +0000

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[YAFU] Aliquot sequence 3758388 has terminated!!!

View article · Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:52:26 +0000

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[YAFU] Aliquot sequence 3714280 has terminated!!!

View article · Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:31:43 +0000

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[Gerasim@Home] Gerasim@home:

View article · Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:46:50 +0000

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[SRBase] mfakto-test / fix for 6xxx/7xxx+

Download

Pls run it on windows or linux

win

linux


GPUtype = AUTO /nothing need to be changed

View article · Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:10:40 +0000

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[Amicable Numbers] The search up to 10^21 is finished

After more than 6 years, the BOINC project to find all amicable numbers up to 10²¹ is finished!

There are 4,810,863 21-digit amicable numbers, and 4,661,814 (96.9%) of them were found by BOINC volunteers. More than 60 million WUs were created and crunched through over the years.

Congratulations everyone and thank you all for your participation!

There are no plans to run the search up to 10²² at the moment - it will take more than 60 years, which is impractical. If, and that's a big IF, a new more efficient exhaustive search method is discovered in the future, then it will make sense to start the project again.

View article · Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:17:02 +0000

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[SRBase] Trial Factoring 76-77bit range started

A new batch of 50k tests is uploading.

The runtime is ~4h40min on a RX5500 XT and decreasing on higher ranges.

The batch name has TF_76-77_ ...

After all 75-76 WUs + resends are done you will see an increase in runtime. GPU in progress will be changed after the challenge.

View article · Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:14:29 +0000

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[Yoyo@home] New App "ECM P2 (20 GB RAM)" in test

I'm currently testing a new app for ECM which requires up to 20 GB of RAM. If you have such a system and want to help testing, please enable the app in your project settings. Validation and credit granting is not yet implemented for this app.

View article · Sat, 18 Apr 2026 22:00:00 +0000

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[SRBase] base R42 Megaprime

cjC28bhZdErecrLJfh5u8APsMVa, a member of the team Gridcoin found a megaprime for base R42.
The prime 6964*42^650337-1 has 1.055.663 digits digits and entered the T5k PrimePages.

View article · Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:22:02 +0000

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[SRBase] Formula BOINC 2026-04-16 20:00 UTC - 2026-04-19 20:00 UTC

Good luck everyone and welcome to our new users!

We are nearly done with 75-76bit TF work. The next bitlvl double the runtime starting with 4h40min on an AMD RX5500XT@167M. Keep in mind that AMD 6xxx/7xxx are still not working yet.

View article · Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:56:42 +0000

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[NFS@home] New Cunningham project record

The recently completed factorization of 12,311- into 155-digit and 181-digit prime factors set a new Cunningham project record for the largest penultimate prime factor. Congratulations to all of the project volunteers!

View article · Wed, 8 Apr 2026 23:05:00 +0000

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[Minecraft@Home] Diamond Badges and Progress Update

Hello,

As promised, badges have been added for the diamond ore vein project, there are currently 3 badges, the first is given to all diavein project contributors, second is reserved for the top 10% of credit holders and third is reserved for the top 5% this gets updated every 24 hours so it is possible to loose a badge if your credit amount no longer meets those requirements.

As for a project progress update, things are going well, we have generated the next 65k workunits, and the largest vein we've found so far is 58 vein. We're gunning for the first 60+



Happy Crunching!
- scriptline

View article · Wed, 8 Apr 2026 20:59:55 +0000

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[YAFU] Aliquot sequence 3678234 has terminated!!!

Aliquot sequence 3678234 has terminated!!!

View article · Tue, 7 Apr 2026 18:35:25 +0000

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[RakeSearch] Work generation disabled for several days

Hello!

Due to a failure of one of the mirrored drives, we disabled workunits generation for several days (for reduce server load) until drives replacing.

Thank you for attention and project support!

View article · Mon, 6 Apr 2026 22:17:51 +0000

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[RakeSearch] Project server maintenance 06th April 2026

Dear participants, tomorrow, 2026.04.06 due to server maintenance, the project will stopped for several hours.

Thank you for attention and project participation!

View article · Sun, 5 Apr 2026 21:08:14 +0000

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[SIDock@home] Project server maintenance 06th April 2026

Dear participants, tomorrow, 2026.04.06 due to server maintenance, the project will stopped for several hours.

Thank you for attention and project participation!

View article · Sun, 5 Apr 2026 21:07:28 +0000

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[Minecraft@Home] Diamond Ore Veins v1

Hello everyone,

We've got a new project up and running: diamond ore veins, the goal of this project is to search for chunk seeds which form large veins of diamond ore composed of multiple placement attempts colliding with each other. These collisions can cause veins of over 50 blocks to form, we're aiming for chunk seeds where this vein forms in one of the chunks corners, that way we can apply further techniques in order to find world seeds with additional diamond ore being contributed by neighboring chunks.

This is version 1 because we'll almost certainly need another project for the second phase of turning these chunk seeds back into world seeds. There are 65536 workunits up right now, which cover a seedspace of 2^60 depending on how long this takes to complete and how many candidate chunk seeds we end up with, we may generate more work in the near future.

Happy crunching!

View article · Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:57:54 +0000

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[SETI@home] Dr. Korpela on CBC's "Quirks and Quarks"

An interview with Eric Korpela about SETI@home's investigation of the most promising signal candidates aired on CBC's "Quirks and Quarks" on Saturday.

You can find it here. You'll have to scroll down a bit to find it.

View article · Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:54:27 +0000

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[BOINC Central] Updates

Thanks to the computing power (450 CPU-years!) supplied by BOINC Central volunteers, the Boolean Chains project was successfully completed; results are discussed here. More recently, we completed the Cislunar Orbit Stability Analyzer project, which studies the stability of orbits in the Earth/Moon system. This led to a paper that is currently in review.

Both of these projects used BUDA, BOINC's new framework for Docker-based apps. We encountered and solved lots of technical problems, mostly related to scaling (batches of 10,000 jobs, multi-GB output file downloads); thanks the Oliver and Gao (the scientists) for their patience.

We're looking for new projects to support; tell your computational-scientist friends about BOINC Central!

View article · Tue, 24 Mar 2026 01:27:51 +0000

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[DENIS@Home] We haven’t forgotten about you // No nos hemos olvidado de vosotros

Dear volunteers,
First of all, please accept my apologies for this long period without any news from us. At the end of last academic year, two events occurred that blocked us from moving forward with the work we were doing in DENIS: on the one hand, Iván finished his grant and started working at a company; and on the other hand, the Rector of the University asked me to take on a Vice-Rector position for this academic year. This latter responsibility has meant that, since the beginning of the year, all my working time has been completely overtaken by this new role. Yesterday in a meeting, someone made me realize that I have already been in the position for six months! In this new situation, time goes by incredibly fast, and I am sometimes unaware that, from the outside, it must seem like a very long period.

My sincere apologies for not having shared any updates earlier. For quite some time I have had several tasks on my list of things to post here, and I kept saying nothing with the intention of completing them before reporting back… but as you can see, so much time has passed.

Marta Gómez has published an article which, although it has not been counted within DENIS, she uses the same simulator that we know is robust and reliable thanks to the large battery of tests we conducted with you. We still have to complete a few more simulations from Iván’s work, but what we already have looks very promising, and we would like to submit it to a conference at some point. I also need to finish some aspects of the model optimization work, and I have pending simulations that I want to resume when possible. I hope to stabilize myself in the new position and manage my administrative duties alongside my research, but for now, it seems we will have to take a break here for a while. I hope to resume this project as soon as possible.

Thank you very much to all of you for still being here. Even if I don’t show it often, I never forget about you (which is impossible, given all the good things you have contributed).

Kind regards,
Jesús

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Estimados voluntarios:
Lo primero de todo disculpad este largo período sin que hayáis tenido noticias nuestras. A final del curso pasado tuvimos dos hechos que han marcado el no poder avanzar con el trabajo que estábamos haciendo en DENIS: por un lado Iván terminó la beca y comenzó a trabajar en una empresa, y por otro lado, la Rectora de la Universidad me solicitó que asumiera este curso un puesto de Vicerrector. Esto último ha hecho que, desde principio de curso, todo mi tiempo de trabajo se haya visto desbordado por esta nueva responsabilidad. Ayer en una reunión, una persona me hizo darme cuenta de que ¡ya son 6 meses en el cargo! En esta nueva situación el tiempo se me pasa rapidísimo y no soy consciente, a veces, de que visto desde fuera es un período enorme.

Mil disculpas por no haber dado noticias antes. Llevo bastante tiempo con varias tareas en mi lista de cosas a poner por aquí y no decía nada con la intención de hacerlas y comunicarlas... pero ya veis cuánto ha pasado.

Marta Gómez ha publicado un artículo, que aunque no se ha computado en DENIS, sí que ha utilizado el mismo simulador que sabemos que es robusto y fiable gracias a la gran batería de pruebas que hemos hecho con vosotros. Tenemos que terminar alguna simulación más del trabajo de Iván, pero lo que ya tenemos tiene muy buena pinta y querríamos enviarlo en algún momento a una conferencia. Tengo que terminar alguna cosa de la optimización de los modelos y tengo simulaciones pendientes, quiero retomarlas en algún momento.

Espero poder estabilizarme en el nuevo puesto y compatibilizar mejor la gestión con mi investigación, pero de momento, creo que va a tocar una temporada de parón por aquí. Espero volver lo antes posible a reactivar este proyecto.

Muchas gracias a todos por seguir aquí, aunque no lo demuestre muchas veces, no me olvido nunca de vosotros (es imposible con todo lo bueno que nos habéis dado).

Un saludo,
Jesús.

View article · Thu, 19 Mar 2026 06:42:21 +0000

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[LHC@home] Downtime for database upgrade

There will be some server downtime Wednesday morning from 9 UTC due to a database upgrade.

View article · Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:13:35 +0000

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[PrimeGrid] Telephone Challenge

From March 7 10:00 to March 17 10:00 PrimeGrid will be running a 10 day challenge on the Seventeen or Bust (LLR) project. For more information, please see this forum thread.

View article · Mon, 2 Mar 2026 09:07:47 +0000

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[NFS@home] Server upgrade is complete

The server upgrade is complete. Thanks for your patience during the few hours of downtime.

View article · Sun, 1 Mar 2026 01:46:28 +0000

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