BOINC message boards: News

BOINC client 8.2.4 released

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 21:46:02 GMT

The 8.2.4 version of the BOINC client has been released for all platforms. Download it here. Release notes are here. The new version supports Docker apps - an important step for BOINC.

Lines of code visualization

Sun, 16 Mar 2025 09:07:20 GMT

Vitalii made a visualization of the number of lines of code in BOINC going back to 2002.

Grafana project dashboards

Sat, 15 Feb 2025 21:03:13 GMT

Check out Grafana project dashboards showing time-varying graphs of project info such as number of unsent and in-progress jobs.

Contributor history video

Thu, 02 Jan 2025 03:33:26 GMT

Vitalii made a video showing the top 25 BOINC committers, based on CVS, Subversion and Git data, every month going back to 2002.

50 new papers from Rosetta@home

Fri, 27 Dec 2024 20:29:57 GMT

David Baker's research group published over 50 journal papers since our last update. Wow! (And thanks to Alex Piskun for maintaining the list of publications by BOINC projects.)

Rosetta@home leader wins Nobel Prize

Wed, 09 Oct 2024 23:23:34 GMT

Dr. David Baker of the University of Washington, creator of Rosetta@home, has won the 2024 Nobel prize in Chemistry. Congratulations!

Should BOINC boycott Russian projects?

Tue, 10 Sep 2024 02:18:10 GMT

This has been suggested. We're not going to do it, but the idea merits thought and discussion.

Windows malware reported

Wed, 26 Jun 2024 23:01:38 GMT

We have received several reports of malware that installs and runs the 8.0.2 BOINC client on Windows computers. We are investigating this; we currently don't know how the malware works or how to defeat it. We'll report whatever we learn here.

This is not a vulnerability in BOINC; rather, it's malware that illegally installs BOINC.

User Manual moved to Github

Sat, 15 Jun 2024 21:26:02 GMT

As part of our effort to move documentation to Github, we have moved the User Manual from Mediawiki on the UCB server to Markdown on Github.

BOINC client 8.0.2 released

Thu, 30 May 2024 11:07:49 GMT

The 8.0.2 version of the BOINC client has been released for all platforms. Download it here. Release notes are here.

BOINC Workshop 2024

Tue, 30 Apr 2024 05:26:29 GMT

The 20th annual BOINC Workshop will be held 29-31 May,
at CERN in Geneva. Learn more and register.

BOINC wins a prize

Thu, 18 Apr 2024 03:11:38 GMT

BOINC is a prize winner in the WSIS competition for E-Science projects. Congratulations to all of us!

BOINC needs your vote (by Thu 4 April) for a UN-sponsored award

Mon, 25 Mar 2024 22:06:52 GMT

The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) is a United Nations-sponsored initiative aimed at building inclusive and equitable information societies worldwide. BOINC has been nominated for a prize at the 2024 WSIS forum, and has passed initial hurdles; the last step involves public voting.

Vote for BOINC! Instructions are here.

BOINC in schools

Tue, 13 Feb 2024 09:36:35 GMT

Registration is open for The Computation Moonshot, a competition for high schools which encourages students to learn about scientific computing.

YouTube video on BOINC server setup

Sun, 11 Feb 2024 21:04:50 GMT

A new YouTube video shows how to set up a BOINC server. Thanks to Alex Bryan for producing this.

BOINC 7.24.3 released for Mac

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 20:27:45 GMT

This version fixes a problem that causes GPU apps to fail after a Mac OS upgrade to Sonoma. Download it here.

BOINC-related paper published

Wed, 22 Nov 2023 21:47:24 GMT

A paper about public participation in science (including BOINC) was published in PLOS One.

Einstein@home launches Zooniverse project

Mon, 13 Nov 2023 20:48:31 GMT

Einstein@home has launched a Zooniverse project called "Pulsar Seekers" to help classify radio pulsar candidates.

BOINC client 7.24.2 released for Mac

Mon, 30 Oct 2023 06:19:22 GMT

This release fixes problems with the BOINC screensaver on MacOS 14.0 Sonoma. We recommend that you install it if you use that version of MacOS.

Promo materials from SCI

Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:03:26 GMT

The Science Commons Initiative has created some images that you can use to make posters and flyers about BOINC, and also videos about installing BOINC on Windows and Mac. See it all here.

MacOS 14 Sonoma breaks BOINC screensaver

Sun, 08 Oct 2023 21:48:16 GMT

The screensaver doesn't exit properly. To force it to exit, hold down the command and shift keys while pressing Q to log out of the system, then log back in.

We hope to fix this problem soon. Until then, if you run MacOS 14, disable the BOINC screensaver.

BOINC client 7.24.1 released

Thu, 07 Sep 2023 22:17:32 GMT

The 7.24.1 version of the BOINC client software has been released for Windows, Mac, and Android. Download it here. Release notes are here. Thanks to everyone who contributed to developing and testing this release.

Video and paper from The Ramanujan Machine

Thu, 31 Aug 2023 19:04:48 GMT

Check out a new video and paper from The Ramanujan Machine, which has used BOINC to discover new expressions for fundamental mathematical constants.

Italian Masters thesis on BOINC

Sun, 06 Aug 2023 16:13:06 GMT

Check out The democratization of science: Analysis of the voluntary distributed
computing platform BOINC, a Masters thesis by Antonio Cerrato. Also in the original Italian.

Client version 7.22 released

Wed, 21 Jun 2023 23:20:38 GMT

A new version of the BOINC client is available for Windows, Mac, and Android. Download it here. Release notes are here. Thanks to BOINC volunteer developers and testers.

Control BOINC from Home Assistant

Tue, 30 May 2023 07:58:34 GMT

A control for BOINC is available for the Home Assistant home automation system, making it possible to control BOINC in response to various environmental factors.

Welcome YAFU

Tue, 25 Apr 2023 08:26:52 GMT

The goal of the YAFU project is to factor numbers of up to 149 digits which are needed to bring Aliquot Sequences to a size of at least 140.

BOINC wiki now on Github

Tue, 25 Apr 2023 00:14:28 GMT

The BOINC wiki, which contains technical documentation for scientists and developers, has been moved from Trac to the BOINC Github repository.

BOINC workshop video

Thu, 16 Mar 2023 08:06:31 GMT

A video of the recent BOINC workshop is now available on YouTube.

BOINC Workshop 2023 to be held March 1 and 8

Tue, 03 Jan 2023 00:50:15 GMT

The annual BOINC Workshop aims to stimulate new developments and activities related to volunteer computing, and to guide the future development of BOINC.

Date: March 1 and 8, for 3 hours each day
Time: 09:00 PST / 11:00 CST / 12:00 EST / 17:00 GMT / 18:00 CET / 19:00 EET
Where: Zoom (link available upon registration)
How: Please register here: https://www.boincworkshop.org/register

Uania fights COVID with SiDock and Science United

Tue, 04 Oct 2022 04:39:37 GMT

The Italian networking company Uania has arranged to run SiDock@home on their routers, contributing to research on the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Thanks to Uania for taking this pioneering step in volunteer computing. Thanks also to Vitalii Koshura and Natalia Nikitina for their work in getting BOINC and the SiDock app running on the Uania platform.

BOINC client 7.20.2 released

Wed, 27 Jul 2022 00:46:28 GMT

A new version of the client has been released for Windows and Mac OS. Download it here. Release notes are here.

BOINC in Retrospect

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 08:53:46 GMT

Read BOINC in Retrospect, an essay on the history of BOINC.

Welcome LODA

Fri, 13 May 2022 20:24:14 GMT

LODA is a new BOINC project that "mines" programs - it automatically discovers new algorithms for efficiently computing interesting number sequences.

RIP Scott Drannon

Thu, 24 Mar 2022 18:58:02 GMT

Scott Drannon, a long-time contributor to many BOINC projects, has passed away.

Welcome Ramanujan Machine

Fri, 21 Jan 2022 01:03:11 GMT

Ramanujan Machine is a new BOINC project that seeks to discover new mathematical identities and formulas.

Myles Allen, CBE

Tue, 04 Jan 2022 21:50:26 GMT

Myles Allen, founder of Climateprediction.net, has been appointed CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in recognition of his work in climate research.

BOINC in Astronomy

Sat, 27 Nov 2021 07:53:35 GMT

From the National Academy of Science's decadal review, "Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s":

"Software and information technology are other areas where the footprints of astronomy have left clear marks. Grid computing is a prime example. The open source infrastructure “BOINC” developed in the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley for volunteer and grid computing was developed to search data obtained with radio telescopes for signals from extraterrestrial life (SETI@home). It has since been used in many other areas in astrophysics (LIGO (+Virgo) application of BOINC is looking for evidence of continuous, monochromatic gravitational waves from non-axisymmetric, unknown single neutron stars in the Milky Way galaxy and LIGO noise diagnostics, for example) but also in many non-astronomical contexts including medical, environmental and humanitarian research sponsored by IBM Corporate Citizenship in the non-profit “world community grid”, and even has been used for COVID-19 research"

Windows client 7.16.20 released

Mon, 18 Oct 2021 05:08:00 GMT

Download it here.

This version fixes a problem that prevented BOINC from communicating with several projects and account managers.

Windows communication failure: temporary workaround

Tue, 05 Oct 2021 07:47:49 GMT

Recently, the Windows BOINC client stopped being able to communicate with some projects and with Science United. This is because of an expired entry in a file called the "certificate authority bundle".

To fix this problem, download a new version of the file and put it in the

C:/Program Files/BOINC

directory.

This is a temporary fix. We hope to release a new version of the client that won't have this problem in the future.

Certificate of computation

Tue, 07 Sep 2021 22:09:50 GMT

Get a Certificate of computation showing how much you've computed across all BOINC projects. It's suitable for framing!

Paper on Science United published

Wed, 01 Sep 2021 21:18:38 GMT

Check out Globally Scheduling Volunteer Computing, recently published in the journal Future Internet.

Flatpak installer available

Wed, 11 Aug 2021 08:04:36 GMT

A Flatpak installer for the BOINC 7.18.1 Linux client is available on Flathub

Android client version 7.18.1 released.

Thu, 05 Aug 2021 08:19:40 GMT

Version 7.18.1 of the BOINC Android client has been released. Thanks to Vitalii Koshura, Tal Regev, and Isira Seneviratne for their work on this.

The new version is available from the BOINC web site.

2021 BOINC workshop

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 20:59:44 GMT

The workshop, showcasing BOINC-based research and providing an open forum, will be held online, on three Wednesdays in April: 14, 21, 28. Learn more and register at boincworkshop.org.

Android client available on F-Droid

Thu, 04 Mar 2021 20:50:06 GMT

The latest BOINC client for Android is now available from F-Droid, a repository of open-source apps.

New BOINC Android client released

Mon, 15 Feb 2021 23:47:10 GMT

Version 7.16.16 of the BOINC Android client has been released. This is the first new Android version in over 4 years, and is a major rewrite of the GUI. Thanks to Vitalii Koshura, Tal Regev, and Isira Seneviratne for their work on this.

The new version is available from the BOINC web site and (for Amazon Fire tablets) from the Amazon app store. It's not on the Google play store because of new restrictions imposed by Google; hopefully this will be resolved in a future version.

Server outage

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 01:06:06 GMT

The BOINC and Science United servers will be down from this evening until (hopefully) the morning of Jan. 3.

Happy New Year to everyone!

Welcome SIDock@home

Wed, 23 Dec 2020 04:28:55 GMT

SIDock@home is a new BOINC project that studies drugs to fight COVID-19. It's sponsored by the COVID.SI project and the Karelian Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Web site makeover

Wed, 07 Oct 2020 19:35:14 GMT

We made the BOINC web site smaller and simpler. Material for scientists and developers was moved down a level. Volunteers are directed to Science United in order to encourage new projects.

Welcome iThena

Fri, 11 Sep 2020 06:34:42 GMT

The goal of the iThena project is to generate a dynamic topological model of the Internet, based on measurements from distributed devices.

7.16.11 client released

Tue, 08 Sep 2020 21:19:29 GMT

Version 7.16.11 of the BOINC client software has been released for Mac OS and Windows. Release notes are here.

Workshop volunteers sought

Thu, 03 Sep 2020 00:19:01 GMT

The BOINC Community is seeking volunteers for an online workshop.

THOR Challenge 2020

Wed, 12 Aug 2020 16:32:54 GMT

CRUNCHERS SANS FRONTIERES is sponsoring THOR Challenge 2020, a team crunching competition to benefit IBM World Community Grid. It will take place from September 7 to November 8, 2020.

Welcome QuChemPedIA@home

Sat, 25 Jul 2020 08:08:40 GMT

QuChemPedIA@home is a new project, based at Université Anger in France. Its goal is to build an open "encyclopedia" of quantum chemical information, then use artificial intelligence and optimization methods to efficiently explore it.

New BOINC project studies machine learning

Mon, 20 Jul 2020 02:17:57 GMT

Welcome to MLC@Home, a new project dedicated to understanding and explaining machine learning models. It's based at the CORAL lab at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). It supports Linux/amd64 and Windows/x64.

Rosetta@home expands COVID-19 research

Thu, 09 Jul 2020 06:28:00 GMT

The computing power supplied by BOINC volunteers is allowing Rosetta@home to do exciting new research in the fight against COVID-19.

Article about WCG on Raspberry Pi

Wed, 01 Jul 2020 08:29:58 GMT

Check out Volunteer your Raspberry Pi to IBM’s World Community Grid, an article in the Raspberry Pi blog.

Minecraft@Home launched

Wed, 24 Jun 2020 07:16:58 GMT

Minecraft@Home studies questions related to Minecraft, such as the properties of worlds that can be generated from different random seeds.

SUNET client released

Tue, 16 Jun 2020 18:42:43 GMT

SUNET has released a BOINC client that simplifies participation. Learn more here.

Einstein@Home video

Fri, 15 May 2020 20:35:57 GMT

The Einstein@Home project has released a video describing their search for continuous gravitational waves.

World Community Grid launches COVID-19 research project

Fri, 15 May 2020 04:27:39 GMT

The OpenPandemics - COVID-19 project aims to accelerate the search for treatments for the disease caused by the SARS-CoV2 virus. Learn more about the project here.

BOINC workshop cancelled

Wed, 29 Apr 2020 18:31:47 GMT

The 2020 BOINC workshop, scheduled for 7-10 September, has been cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

New BOINC server

Thu, 02 Apr 2020 04:28:02 GMT

BOINC and Science United have moved to a new server, running up-to-date versions of Linux (Ubuntu), MariaDB, PHP, GNU tools, Mediawiki, and so on. Thanks to Jeff Cobb for overseeing this; it wasn't easy. Let me know if any problems.

Rosetta@home studies coronavirus

Fri, 06 Mar 2020 22:37:15 GMT

Rosetta@home, from the University of Washington, is using BOINC to model important coronavirus proteins.

Top 100 user list

Wed, 26 Feb 2020 09:27:03 GMT

The top 100 user list has been updated for the first time in several years.

2020 BOINC Workshop

Tue, 11 Feb 2020 17:42:12 GMT

The 2020 BOINC Workshop will take place 7-10 September 2020 in Marburg, Germany.

BOINC paper published

Thu, 16 Jan 2020 23:24:46 GMT

A paper about BOINC has been published in the Journal of Grid Computing.

View credit stats on Apple devices

Mon, 30 Dec 2019 23:32:12 GMT

A new app for iOS and watchOS lets you view your BOINC credit statistics from Apple devices. It's open source, and you can help develop it.

The BOINC out-of-box experience for scientists

Wed, 04 Dec 2019 23:44:22 GMT

Read a proposal for improving the out-of-box experience for scientists interested in using BOINC.

BOINC roadmap / wish list

Wed, 04 Dec 2019 23:42:10 GMT

Read a discussion of possible long-term directions for BOINC development.

Article on nanoHUB@Home

Wed, 11 Sep 2019 22:42:42 GMT

Check out an article about nanoHUB@home, a BOINC project providing computing power to nanoscience researchers around the world.

BOINC: the planet-sized computer

Mon, 09 Sep 2019 06:54:25 GMT

Check out The 42 Question Answered By Planet-Sized Computer, an article about math research using BOINC.

THOR Challenge 2019

Thu, 15 Aug 2019 21:36:05 GMT

CRUNCHERS SANS FRONTIERES is sponsoring THOR Challenge 2019, a team crunching competition to benefit IBM World Community Grid. It will take place from September 09 to November 10, 2019.

BOINC@TACC article

Wed, 26 Jun 2019 05:13:33 GMT

Check out For the Love of Science, a new article about the BOINC@TACC project at the Texas Advanced Computing Center.

BOINC web server fails, gets replaced

Wed, 26 Jun 2019 03:09:27 GMT

The machine hosting the BOINC web site, and Science United, failed last Friday, just after everyone had left for the weekend. Fortunately we were able to move the disks to another computer and we're back online as of this morning. We apologize for the inconvenience.

BOINC workshop agenda update

Mon, 13 May 2019 17:39:21 GMT

The agenda for the upcoming BOINC workshop has been updated. View the agenda.

Paper about BOINC

Wed, 06 Mar 2019 09:06:28 GMT

A paper about BOINC has been posted on arXiv.org.

Voice/chat channel for team founders announced

Sun, 10 Feb 2019 05:38:04 GMT

BOINC Founders Club is a meeting place for BOINC team founders, based on the Discord voice/chat system. If you're a team founder, ask to join by emailing boinc.founders.club@gmail.com.

2019 BOINC Workshop

Thu, 07 Feb 2019 20:06:10 GMT

The 2019 BOINC workshop will be held July 9-12 in Chicago.

Client version 7.14.2 released

Thu, 18 Oct 2018 22:41:33 GMT

Version 7.14.2 of the BOINC client for Windows and Mac has been released. Release notes are here.

Welcome DBN Upper Bound

Tue, 25 Sep 2018 22:01:37 GMT

DBN Upper Bound is a new project doing research involving the Riemann zeta function and the Reimann hypothesis.

Web site changes

Wed, 05 Sep 2018 23:06:54 GMT

The BOINC message boards are now in boinc.berkeley.edu/ rather than boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/. This means, among other things, that when you select a language, it applies to both front page and message boards.

Also, the front page now presents the option of participating using Science United. Current volunteers should consider doing this. By making it easier for new projects to get volunteers, SU will encourage the creation of new BOINC projects.

THOR Challenge 2018

Thu, 30 Aug 2018 20:32:20 GMT

CRUNCHERS SANS FRONTIERES is sponsoring THOR Challenge 2018, a team crunching competition to benefit IBM World Community Grid. It will take place from September 24 to November 11, 2018.

Welcome Distributed Hardware Evolution Project

Wed, 25 Jul 2018 14:25:47 GMT

The Distributed Hardware Evolution Project uses a Genetic Algorithm to synthesise future super-reliable electronics such as those used in autonomous vehicles, power stations, medical equipment, aerospace. It's based at the University of Sussex in England.

Client version 7.12 released

Sun, 15 Jul 2018 01:23:51 GMT

Version 7.12 of the BOINC client has been released.
View release notes.

Client version 7.10.2 released

Mon, 21 May 2018 18:04:25 GMT

Version 7.10.2 of the BOINC client software has been released. It incorporates many bug fixes; a list of changes is here.

BOINC Workshop 2018

Thu, 05 Apr 2018 00:07:25 GMT

The 2018 BOINC Workshop will be held July 24-27 at the University of Oxford, England.

DENIS@home returns

Wed, 21 Mar 2018 00:42:26 GMT

The DENIS@Home project, based at San Jorge University, Zaragoza, Spain, is back online.

Einstein@Home pulsar paper published

Fri, 02 Mar 2018 09:46:41 GMT

A paper about Einstein@Home's discovery of a radio-quiet gamma-ray pulsar was published recently in Science Advances.

Client version 7.8.6 released for Mac

Mon, 15 Jan 2018 05:54:38 GMT

This version fixes screensaver functionality on Mac OS 10.13 High Sierra.

Welcome ODLK and ODLK1

Sun, 24 Dec 2017 23:06:30 GMT

The OLDK and OLDK1 projects are building a database of canonical forms of diagonal Latin squares of the 10th order.

PMC meeting minutes posted

Wed, 20 Dec 2017 23:19:13 GMT

The BOINC Project Management Committee (PMC) met on Dec. 15. Minutes of the meeting are here.

Welcome SourceFinder

Thu, 07 Dec 2017 00:09:45 GMT

Sourcefinder studies algorithms that process 'cubes' of data that contain radio sources, identifying the location of the sources within the cube. It is operated by The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (Perth, Australia).

Client version 7.8.4 release for Mac

Fri, 10 Nov 2017 22:32:38 GMT

A new client version has been release for Mac. It fixes the calculation of GPU memory when running under OS 10.13 High Sierra.

Client version 7.8.3 released

Mon, 16 Oct 2017 20:49:52 GMT

Version 7.8.3 of the BOINC client has been released for Windows and Mac OS X.

Welcome Amicable Numbers

Sun, 15 Oct 2017 18:52:42 GMT

Amicable Numbers is a new project in experimental number theory.

Welcome Acoustics@home

Tue, 05 Sep 2017 11:05:27 GMT

Acoustics@home studies underwater acoustics. It is sponsored by V.I. Ilichev Pacific Oceanological Institute, Far Eastern Federal University, Matrosov Institute for System Dynamics and Control Theory, A.A. Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems, and Dorodnicyn Computing Centre.

Client version 7.8.2 released

Tue, 05 Sep 2017 11:02:09 GMT

Version 7.8.2 of the BOINC client has been released for Windows and Mac OS X.

Project management changes proposed

Fri, 01 Sep 2017 22:24:38 GMT

In July 2017 a committee was formed to propose improvements to the BOINC project. Two draft documents are now available for discussion and review: development workflow and governance model. Please give feedback by replying to this thread or posting to the boinc_dev email list.

CSF sponsors crunching challenge for WCG

Tue, 29 Aug 2017 20:12:48 GMT

The Crunchers sans Frontieres team is sponsoring the "THOR crunching challenge" from 18 Sept to 5 Nov 2017, to benefit IBM World Community Grid.

Testers needed

Tue, 29 Aug 2017 20:07:00 GMT

BOINC needs volunteers to help test new versions of the client software. If you're interested, please visit the Alpha test site and read the instructions. Thanks!

New Japanese site

Tue, 29 Aug 2017 01:46:05 GMT

BOINC@TOKYO is a new Japanese-language site promoting BOINC and some of the major projects.

BOINC Workshop 2017

Fri, 14 Jul 2017 17:31:11 GMT

The BOINC Workshop 2017 will be held 6-8 Sept in Paris. Everyone with a significant involvement in BOINC is welcome to attend. Thanks to Marius Millea and the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris for hosting, and to Laurence Field and David Wallom for organizing.

Welcome Xansons4COD

Sun, 02 Jul 2017 00:11:56 GMT

XANSONS for COD is a research project aimed at creating an open access database of simulated x-ray and neutron powder diffraction patterns for the nanocrystalline phase of the materials presented in the Crystallography Open Database (COD). Xansons4COD is supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research.

BOINC Monitor 9.70 released

Thu, 15 Jun 2017 07:33:03 GMT

BOINC Monitor is a very cool Windows gadget for monitoring the progress of lots of tasks. Version 9.70 was released recently.

NSF funds new model for BOINC

Tue, 06 Jun 2017 21:15:59 GMT

The National Science Foundation has funded a 3-year project by UC Berkeley, Purdue University, and Texas Advanced Computing Center to develop a new framework for BOINC-based volunteer computing, in which volunteers sign up for science goals rather than projects. Details are here.

BOINC story in Nature Index

Fri, 24 Feb 2017 19:41:45 GMT

A story in Nature Index discusses volunteer computing.

BOINC:FAST'2017 conference announced

Tue, 27 Dec 2016 02:56:54 GMT

The Third International Conference on BOINC-based High-performance computing: Fundamental and Applied Science for Technology (BOINC:FAST'2017) will be held August 28 – September 1, 2017, in Petrozavodsk, Russia.

Thanks to Kathryn for 10 years of moderation

Tue, 20 Dec 2016 01:29:00 GMT

Kathryn Marks has been moderating the BOINC message boards for 10 years now. Her contributions have been stellar, and are much appreciated. Thanks, Kathryn!

Einstein@home discovers record-breaking pulsar-neutron star system

Tue, 20 Dec 2016 00:54:09 GMT

Einstein@home has announced the discovery of the most massive double neutron star system ever observed.

New recommended client for Windows and Mac

Thu, 08 Dec 2016 08:07:41 GMT

Version 7.6.33 is now the recommended version for Windows and Mac.

Welcome TN-Grid

Wed, 07 Dec 2016 10:13:33 GMT

TN-Grid is a new project based at the Research Area of Trento of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) and currently hosted by the University of Trento (UNITN). The first project they are hosting is gene@home, a collaboration with Fondazione Edmund Mach (FEM) & the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI) of UNITN.

PowerShell module for BOINC released

Tue, 06 Dec 2016 00:04:08 GMT

If you run BOINC on multiple Windows computers, check out PSBoinc. It's a PowerShell module for automation of local and remote clients from the shell.

Einstein@home discovers new gamma-ray pulsar

Sat, 26 Nov 2016 19:07:40 GMT

Einstein@home has announced the discovery of the youngest known radio-quiet gamma-ray pulsar.

Big discovery by PrimeGrid

Fri, 25 Nov 2016 04:53:30 GMT

The PrimeGrid project has discovered a new prime number, 10223*2^31172165+1, which is the largest known Proth prime and the largest known non-Mersenne prime. Read about it in New Scientist and in PrimeGrid's announcement.

New .NET GUI RPC binding

Tue, 15 Nov 2016 07:24:00 GMT

If you're interested in building a BOINC GUI in .NET, check out this new .NET binding of the GUI RPCs.

CERN launches gigabit project in Kansas City

Fri, 01 Jul 2016 17:57:50 GMT

CERN has launched the CERN+KC Gigabit Challenge, which uses gigabit optical fiber Internet connections now available in Kansas city to handle data-intensive computing problems.

Book about volunteer computing

Thu, 30 Jun 2016 19:17:29 GMT

The book Community, Competition and Citizen Science by Anne Holohan documents the history of volunteer computing.

WCG launches Zika drug search

Tue, 24 May 2016 20:09:43 GMT

IBM World Community Grid has launched an application that searches for drugs to combat the Zika virus.

Ageless: a decade of moderation

Thu, 28 Apr 2016 18:27:06 GMT

As of today, Jorden van der Elst (AKA Ageless) has been moderating the BOINC message boards for 10 years! He's maintained order on the boards and has conveyed important posts to BOINC developers. We at BOINC are profoundly grateful for his dedicated and excellent work.

New pulsar discoveries by Einstein@home

Fri, 18 Mar 2016 21:22:56 GMT

Check out two new papers about the discovery of unusual pulsars by Einstein@home.

CPDN paper in Nature Climate Change

Mon, 01 Feb 2016 23:09:46 GMT

CPDN recently published a paper about human influence on extreme weather events. The paper is summarized in an article in New Scientist.

WCG presentation at SXSW, March 13

Sat, 30 Jan 2016 00:50:49 GMT

IBM WCG will give a presentation "Clean Water Through Crowdsourcing and Nanotech" on March 13 at the SXSW event in Austin, TX.

BOINC 7.6.22 for Windows

Sat, 16 Jan 2016 16:54:45 GMT

Re-released to include VirtualBox 5.0.12

BOINC 7.6.22 release for Windows and Mac

Wed, 30 Dec 2015 19:33:55 GMT

A new version of BOINC is ready for public use. You can download it here. See the release notes and version history for details.

Article on volunteer computing at Inverse

Tue, 29 Dec 2015 22:45:27 GMT

Check out How to Start Volunteer Computing in 2016, an article on BOINC and WCG in Inverse, a new science- and tech-centric publication.

Android developer needed

Wed, 16 Dec 2015 20:25:26 GMT

The BOINC Android app has a number of problems. If you're familiar with Android development and would like to help, please contact David or Rom or visit the BOINC Github repo.

New AWS BOINC server image available.

Tue, 17 Nov 2015 20:13:34 GMT

A new BOINC server image for AWS is now available, making it easy to deploy a BOINC server in the Amazon cloud.

Dealing with unpredictable job sizes

Tue, 20 Oct 2015 20:13:21 GMT

The paper "Subdividing Long-Running, Variable-Length Analyses Into Short, Fixed-Length BOINC Workunits" recently appeared in the Journal of Grid Computing.

BOINC:FAST2015 conference proceedings available

Wed, 07 Oct 2015 21:02:31 GMT

The BOINC:FAST 2015 conference was held 14-18 Sept. at the Karelian Research Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences. Slides are available online.

Welcome SRBase

Wed, 07 Oct 2015 20:57:59 GMT

SRBase is a mathematical research project trying to solve Sierpinski / Riesel Bases up to 1030.

BOINC wallpaper

Sat, 26 Sep 2015 06:30:35 GMT

A BOINC wallpaper image created by Francois Normandin:

BOINC on reddit

Wed, 23 Sep 2015 22:33:35 GMT

Check out the BOINC subreddit, which aggregates BOINC news from various sources.

Tell the White House about BOINC

Tue, 15 Sep 2015 20:44:11 GMT

The White House is staging a webcast forum on citizen science on Sept. 30. Let's make sure that BOINC and volunteer computing are represented in this event! Please tell the White House about your experience with volunteer computing, and why it's important.

New version of Linux monitor/control script released

Tue, 15 Sep 2015 19:53:51 GMT

An improved version of the BOINC bash script add-on is available.

Motherboard article on volunteer computing

Tue, 08 Sep 2015 05:15:25 GMT

An article about volunteer computing and BOINC appeared in the tech news web site Motherboard.

BOINC 7.6.9 release for Windows and Mac

Tue, 01 Sep 2015 02:28:12 GMT

A new version of BOINC is ready for public use. You can download it here. See the release notes and version history for details.

BOINC 7.6 released for Windows and Mac

Mon, 24 Aug 2015 04:55:23 GMT

A new version of BOINC is ready for public use. You can download it here. See the release notes and version history for details.

Einstein@Home discovers elusive gamma ray pulsar

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 23:24:55 GMT

The Einstein@Home project announced the discovery of a new gamma-ray pulsar in data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.

Vote for WCG entry for SXSW 2016

Fri, 14 Aug 2015 20:56:13 GMT

Help spread the word about volunteer computing - vote for IBM World Community Grid's bid to make a presentation of the SXSW 2016 conference.

Add-on Linux screensaver released

Tue, 28 Jul 2015 07:40:56 GMT

Diet BOINC is a no-graphics, lightweight XScreenSaver compatible alternative BOINC screen saver, developed by P.K. Carlisle. It avoids libraries not included with default Linux or Python.

CNET article on volunteer computing

Mon, 20 Jul 2015 07:34:38 GMT

Check out Save the world using your PC or phone, an article on CNET.com about volunteer computing with BOINC.

WCG research result announced

Thu, 09 Jul 2015 20:59:19 GMT

An important research result from World Community Grid's Computing for Clean Water project was announced in a paper in Nature Nanotechnology.

New governance model

Fri, 03 Jul 2015 17:39:36 GMT

The BOINC project has transitioned to a community-based governance model. This model is summarized here and described in detail here.

BOINC Pentathlon announced

Thu, 16 Apr 2015 06:44:07 GMT

SETI.Germany invites all BOINC teams to the BOINC Pentathlon. The competition is battled out in five disciplines at five projects between May 5 and May 19.

BOINC talk at MICS

Tue, 14 Apr 2015 20:27:53 GMT

David Anderson gave a keynote talk about BOINC at the 2015 Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium (MICS) at the Univ. of North Dakota on April 10, 2015.

Alantu seeks beta testers

Tue, 14 Apr 2015 07:08:27 GMT

Alantu, a mobile computing startup using BOINC, seeks beta testers.

Welcome DENIS@Home

Wed, 08 Apr 2015 19:13:33 GMT

Welcome to DENIS@Home, a new project from San Jorge University in Zaragoza, Spain. DENIS@Home does cardiac electrophysiological simulations, studying the electrical activity of the heart.

BOINC 7.4.42 released for Windows and Mac

Tue, 24 Mar 2015 17:30:49 GMT

A new version of BOINC is ready for public use. You can download it here. See the release notes and version history for details.

Localization system migrated to Transifex

Wed, 11 Feb 2015 20:32:20 GMT

BOINC's localization system has been migrated to Transifex. BOINC Translation System (BTS) is now shut down.

Migrating to GitHub

Thu, 05 Feb 2015 02:07:20 GMT

BOINC is migrating project management functions (bug database, project documentation, source code) from Trac to GitHub.

Welcome Gerasim@Home

Thu, 22 Jan 2015 00:13:29 GMT

The Gerasim@Home project, from Southwest State University (Russia), studies computer engineering. Its current goal: testing and comparison of heuristic methods for CAD systems for designing logic control systems.

Welcome Citizen Science Grid

Thu, 22 Jan 2015 00:02:26 GMT

The Citizen Science Grid is based at the University of North Dakota. It subsumes the DNA@Home and SubsetSum@Home projects, and includes scientific crowdsourcing as well (volunteer brainpower as well as computing power).

Survey from Argentine startup

Sun, 18 Jan 2015 19:11:07 GMT

Alantu, a startup in the mobile volunteer computing area, is conducting a survey of mobile users.

BOINC 7.4.36 released to the public

Thu, 01 Jan 2015 19:10:56 GMT

A new version of BOINC is ready for public use. You can download it here. See the release notes and version history for details.

FightMalaria@Home relaunched

Wed, 17 Dec 2014 19:04:30 GMT

The FightMalaria@Home project from University College Dublin has been relaunched as FightNeglectedDiseases@Home.

BOINC:FAST conference Sept. 2015 in Russia

Wed, 10 Dec 2014 01:20:35 GMT

The Second International Conference “BOINC-based High-performance computing: Fundamental and Applied Science for Technology” will be held at the Institute of Applied Mathematical Research (Karelian Research Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences), Petrozavodsk, Russia, September 14-18, 2015.

AP story on WCG Ebola application

Fri, 05 Dec 2014 23:44:51 GMT

The Associated Press released a story about IBM World Community Grid's Ebola-related research.

BOINC is Editor's Choice at Komputer Swiat

Tue, 02 Dec 2014 00:12:04 GMT

BOINC was named an Editor's Choice at the Polish technology web site Komputer Swiat.

SAT@home papers

Fri, 21 Nov 2014 09:18:46 GMT

The SAT@home project has published two papers about solving cryptanalysis problems for stream ciphers.

XTC entry video

Tue, 18 Nov 2014 09:10:31 GMT

A group created this video about their entry in the Extreme Tech Challenge competition:

Crowdfunding campaign from Ibercivis

Wed, 12 Nov 2014 00:57:34 GMT

The Ibercivis Foundation, from Spain, is conducting a crowdfunding campaign to fund the porting of a new biomedical application to their BOINC-based platform.

BOINC 7.4.26/.27 released to the public

Tue, 11 Nov 2014 20:58:21 GMT

A new version of BOINC is ready for public use. You can download it here. See the release notes and version history for details.

BOINC Workshop proceedings

Wed, 15 Oct 2014 19:16:08 GMT

The 10th BOINC Workshop was held recently. Slides from many of the talks are available.

A new tool for running BOINC on clusters

Mon, 13 Oct 2014 07:17:50 GMT

Researchers at the Russian Acadamy of Sciences have released CluBORun (Cluster for BOINC Run), a tool for running BOINC on clusters. A paper describing it is here.

BOINC cloud powers European science grid

Mon, 06 Oct 2014 05:55:36 GMT

Recent papers in Future Generation Computer Systems describe how BOINC is being used as a cloud platform and as an extension of gLite-based European service grids.

BOINCstats/BAM! seeks donations

Mon, 22 Sep 2014 04:50:28 GMT

BOINCstats/BAM! needs donations for server and network costs. Please support these valuable resources for BOINC users.

Paper describes use of BOINC in India.

Thu, 11 Sep 2014 17:45:43 GMT

The paper De Novo Assembly in Your Own Lab: Virtual Supercomputer Using Volunteer Computing appeared in the British Journal of Research.

BOINC servers down Thursday 17 July

Wed, 16 Jul 2014 05:44:20 GMT

This web site, along with Trac, Pootle, and other BOINC server functions, will be off-line on Thursday 17 July due to machine room power-system maintenance.

ATLAS@Home launched at CERN

Wed, 25 Jun 2014 02:10:42 GMT

ATLAS@Home is a new project from the ATLAS experiment at CERN. Their current app simulates the creation and decay of supersymmetric bosons and fermions. Participants will need to install VirtualBox.

BOINC Workshop to be held in Budapest

Tue, 20 May 2014 05:58:04 GMT

The 10th BOINC Workshop will be held at the SZTAKI Institute in Budapest, 29 Sept to 2 Oct 2014.

Citizen science portal launches crowdfunding campaign

Wed, 07 May 2014 20:17:14 GMT

Scikick.org, a proposed non-profit portal for citizen science, has launched a crowdfunding campaign.

BOINC Pentathlon announced

Thu, 17 Apr 2014 22:47:19 GMT

SETI.Germany invites all BOINC teams to the 5th BOINC Pentathlon, a competition inspired by the Pentathlon in ancient Greece. Teams will compete between May 5 and May 19 at five different BOINC projects to determine the overall winner.

Power to Give story in The Daily Californian

Tue, 15 Apr 2014 23:17:20 GMT

The UC Berkeley newspaper featured a story on Power to Give, the HTC/BOINC partnership to promote scientific computing on smartphones.

New BOINC server VM image available

Mon, 14 Apr 2014 19:58:30 GMT

A BOINC server VM image, based on Debian 7 and the latest BOINC code, is available. Thanks to Christian Beer and the University of Halle.

Volunteer motivation study published

Thu, 03 Apr 2014 17:11:13 GMT

The paper Scientists@Home: What Drives the Quantity and Quality of Online Citizen Science Participation? has been published in the journal PLOS One.

World Community Grid enables drug discovery

Wed, 05 Mar 2014 07:15:08 GMT

A recent paper in Cancer Medicine describes seven promising drug candidates - identified with the help of World Community Grid – for neuroblastoma, a common form of childhood cancer.

BOINC 7.2.42 released to the public

Fri, 28 Feb 2014 20:28:32 GMT

A new version of BOINC is ready for public use. You can download it here. See the release notes and version history for details.

HTC announces Power to Give

Thu, 27 Feb 2014 09:43:21 GMT

HTC is supporting Android-based volunteer computing through a new program called Power to Give. This is described in two YouTube videos: one about how to participate and another about the science being done.

BOINCCalculator 0.5.1 released

Thu, 27 Feb 2014 04:31:04 GMT

Climateprediction.net users: a new version of BOINCCalculator has been released.

HTC/BOINC partnership

Tue, 18 Feb 2014 01:21:27 GMT

BOINC has been working with HTC - one of the world's leading smartphone manufacturers - to bring volunteer computing to Android devices. On February 24th we'll release an exciting result of this partnership - stay tuned!

BOINC 7.2.39 released to the public

Wed, 12 Feb 2014 17:37:33 GMT

A new version of BOINC is ready for public use. You can download it here. See the release notes and version history for details.

New project studies mechanical engineering problems

Tue, 04 Feb 2014 07:13:53 GMT

The CONVECTOR project is open and looking for volunteers. The project, based at the Czech Technical University in Prague, studies the optimization of mechanical systems - currently, a system called the "52-bar truss".

BOINC-rendered movie released

Thu, 19 Dec 2013 02:58:34 GMT

The animated short Big Buck Bunny has been released in hi-res (4Kx2K), high frame rate (60 FPS) and stereo. The rendering was done using BOINC by the Big and Ugly Rendering Project.

Portuguese article on BOINC

Mon, 02 Dec 2013 00:57:33 GMT

A new Portuguese-language article discusses BOINC and several of the projects that use it.

New BOINC installer includes VirtualBox

Tue, 19 Nov 2013 06:09:53 GMT

Starting with version 7.2.28, the recommended BOINC installer for Windows also installs VirtualBox, open-source virtualization software. This allows volunteered computer to run VM applications, benefitting both scientists and volunteers.

BOINC 7.2.28 released to the public

Fri, 08 Nov 2013 18:24:05 GMT

A new version of BOINC is ready for public use. You can download it here. See the release notes and version history for details.

New BoincTasks version release

Wed, 30 Oct 2013 06:42:11 GMT

A new version of BoincTasks interface is available. New features include a "cloud mode" that lets you control BOINC clients from any web browser, and improved support for dynamic client IP addresses.

Client configuration add-on

Fri, 18 Oct 2013 18:59:21 GMT

BOINC Client Configuration is a Windows GUI for editing the BOINC client configuration.

BOINC Workshop proceedings posted

Mon, 07 Oct 2013 06:51:19 GMT

The 9th Annual BOINC Workshop was held last week. See video and slides of the talks, and notes on the Hackfest activities.

WCG announces member study results

Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:04:45 GMT

World Community Grid has summarized the results of a study of volunteer attitudes and motivations.

Einstein@Home pulsar discoveries

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 05:07:50 GMT

Einstein@Home has published a paper reporting the discovery of 24 pulsars in the Parkes multi-beam
pulsar survey.

.NET GUI RPC binding available

Thu, 15 Aug 2013 19:00:46 GMT

A .NET interface to BOINC's GUI RPCs is now available. This may be useful for people interested in developing
BOINC GUIs on Windows.

BOINC/Android article in Bloomberg.com

Thu, 08 Aug 2013 23:45:34 GMT

Bloomberg.com recently posted an article on BOINC/Android in their Tech News section.

Einstein@Home publishes pulsar discoveries

Tue, 30 Jul 2013 22:28:27 GMT

Einstein@Home recently published a paper on pulsars they've discovered in The Astrophysical Journal.

BOINC/Android articles

Mon, 22 Jul 2013 19:44:42 GMT

Articles about BOINC on Android are in The UC Berkeley web site, Citizen IBM, and KQED Science.

BOINC for Android launched

Mon, 22 Jul 2013 19:40:34 GMT

A version of BOINC for Android-based mobile devices was released today, and is available in the Google Play store and the Amazon appstore (for Kindle Fire). Six projects now offer Android applications.

Italian BOINC project publishes research paper

Thu, 18 Jul 2013 21:17:02 GMT

Simulation One, a project developed by the Molecular Modeling Group of Università degli Studi, Milan, has published a paper in Chemical Physical Letters.

Seeking testers for BOINC on Android

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:37:59 GMT

We're developing BOINC for Android. Because of the wide range of Android devices (phones, tablets, ultrabooks) we need help with testing. We've set up a Google group to coordinate the testing. If you'd like to help, please join the group and follow the instructions there.

SETIspirit (Windows GUI for SETI@home) released

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:40:47 GMT

SETIspirit is free add-on tool for SETI@home users which provides useful information about the tasks, the SETI@home project status, workunits and credits. It also includes graphical statistic charts and a detailed sky map.

BOINC 7.0.64/7.0.65 released to the public

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:33:43 GMT

A new version of BOINC is ready for public use. You can download it here. See the release notes and version history for details.

AMD Application Showcase features BOINC

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:38:41 GMT

The AMD Application Showcase lists two BOINC-based projects, Poem@Home and Einstein@Home, with applications that use AMD GPUs.

SubsetSum@Home

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 05:55:20 GMT

SubsetSum@Home, based at the University of North Dakota Computer Science Department, is doing research in complexity theory - in particular, the properties of an NP-complete problem called Subset Sum.

BOINC Monitor (KDE desktop plasmoid) released

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 22:31:29 GMT

BOINC Monitor, an add-on for Linux/KDE, lets you monitor the activities of BOINC directly on your desktop.

BOINC servers down 22-24 February

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:29:29 GMT

The BOINC web site will be down from Friday 22 Feb 3 PM (Pacific time) to Sunday 24 Feb noon.

RNA World

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 08:20:59 GMT

Welcome to RNA World. This project, sponsored by Rechenkraft.net, seeks to identify, analyze, structurally predict and design RNA molecules on the basis of established bioinformatics software.

New project studies asteroid properties

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 06:33:43 GMT

Welcome to Asteroids@home. This project, based at Charles University in Prague, computes the shape and spin of asteroids based on photometric data.

New project seeks testers

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 04:55:07 GMT

Volpex@UH, a project at University of Houston, seeks alpha testers. Volpex@UH is studying how to use BOINC to do parallel computing across multiple hosts.

Fullscreen text-based user interface for Linux released

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 09:00:52 GMT

boinctui, a full-featured curses-based text user interface for BOINC, is now available. It can manage local and remote clients, and allows you to switch between clients with a hot key.

GPUgrid.net announces AIDS breakthrough

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 21:34:08 GMT

In a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from GPUgrid.net describe a breakthrough in AIDS research achieved using BOINC-based volunteer computing.

World Community Grid celebrates its 8th birthday today

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 23:15:17 GMT

IBM World Community Grid celebrates 8 years of computing for humanitarian causes. Congratulations to WCG, which has also contributed greatly to the development of BOINC.

Volunteer to transcribe Bushman text

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 19:24:13 GMT

Volunteer thinking lets you contribute to research using your brain. The Transcribe Bushman project, based at the University of Capetown, seeks volunteers to help with research in linguistics. The project uses Bossa, a software offshoot of BOINC.

New book features BOINC

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 06:33:55 GMT

The new book Desktop Grid Computing, published by CRC Press, contains several chapters involving BOINC.

OProject@Home launches

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 20:25:49 GMT

OProject@Home recently launched and invites volunteers to participate. OProject does research in number theory, quantum computing, and artificial intelligence.

BoincTasks Mobile introduced

Sat, 08 Sep 2012 05:05:44 GMT

Introducing BoincTasks Mobile, an iPad, iPhone and Android compatible visual BOINC interface.

BOINC server downtime

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:15:37 GMT

The BOINC web site will be offline some of the time between now and Thursday morning PST.

Welcome FightMalaria@Home

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 07:50:58 GMT

The FightMalaria@Home project was launched recently and is looking for volunteers. Based at University College Dublin, the project is studying how antimalarial drugs work, and hopes to find new targets for drug discovery and development.

BAM! introduces triggered actions

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 23:25:50 GMT

This new BAM! feature lets you arrange for actions, such as adding, removing, suspending, or resuming projects, to be performed when given thresholds of queued tasks, credit, and time are reached.

BOINC book published

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 20:47:19 GMT

A book about BOINC (in German), written by Christian Benjamin Ries, has been published by Springer.

WCG reaches billion-job milestone

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 05:47:02 GMT

IBM World Community Grid recently processed its one billionth job. Congratulations to the project and its volunteers!

BOINC server downtime

Tue, 29 May 2012 20:43:27 GMT

Due to a planned power outage, the BOINC web site will be down tomorrow (Wed 30 May) from:
3:45 AM to 11:00 AM
5:00 PM to 8:00 AM the next day.

BOINCstats/BAM! relaunched

Fri, 18 May 2012 22:03:56 GMT

BOINCstats (a cross-project statistics site) and BAM! (a full-featured account manager) have been completely renovated and enhanced. Check out the sites to see what's new!

Major Power Outage at SSL

Fri, 18 May 2012 16:42:03 GMT

There was a major power outage on Tuesday evening that affected several buildings here on campus including the entire Space Sciences Laboratory. Power has been restored this morning.

WCG launches Computing for Sustainable Water application

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:14:36 GMT

IBM World Community Grid has launched a new application, Computing for Sustainable Water, enabling researchers at the University of Virginia to study the effects of human activity on large watersheds.

BOINC 7.0 released to public

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 20:45:27 GMT

The next version of BOINC is now ready for public use. Check the release notes and version history for details.

BOINC Pentathlon

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:46:59 GMT

Team SETI.Germany continues its new challenge and invites all BOINC Teams to participate in the 3rd BOINC PENTATHLON, following the ideals of the ancient Greek Pentathlon.
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Promoting BOINC to local computer user's groups

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 22:24:47 GMT

Want to help spread the word about BOINC? One way is to talk about it at a meeting of your local computer user's group. A BOINC user describes his experience doing this.

Welcome SAT@home

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:40:20 GMT

The SAT@home project, from the Institute for Systems Analysis of Russian Academy of Sciences, solves hard and practically important problems (discrete functions inversion problems, discrete optimization, bioinformatics, etc) that can be effectively reduced to the Boolean satisfiability problem.

Citizen Cyberscience Summit, 16-18 February 2012

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 08:52:14 GMT

The Second London Citizen Cyberscience Summit, involving volunteer computing and other forms of citizen science, will be held 16-18 February 2012 in London.

IBM World Community Grid News

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 05:00:39 GMT

IBM World Community Grid recently celebrated its 7th birthday and announced the release of a new application to find treatments for malaria.

Welcome Mersenne@home

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 17:10:10 GMT

Mersenne@home is a new project, based in Poland, that searches for 'Mersenne primes' - prime numbers of the form 2^p-1.

Unplanned server outage

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 03:33:21 GMT

The BOINC server (including web site and SVN repository) was offline from 31 Oct to 2 Nov. Things are back up now.

Kevin Reed profiled on A Smarter Planet

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 21:35:08 GMT

Kevin Reed of IBM World Community Grid is profiled in a blog entry on A Smarter Planet.

BOINC/Wordpress integration

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:21:35 GMT

Thanks to recent work by Carl Christensen, BOINC projects can now use Wordpress (a popular content management system) as the basis for their web sites. This is described here.

WCG/Harvard Clean Energy Project Video

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 02:25:04 GMT

A video on the Clean Energy Project is featured in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.

WCG targets Leishmaniasis

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 03:48:50 GMT

Leishmaniasis is one of the most neglected tropical diseases. Each year it infects more than two million people in 97 countries. To date, there are no available vaccines to prevent the disease. Researchers at the University of Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia, are running the Drug Search for Leishmaniasis project on World Community Grid to identify drug compounds that could possibly be developed into treatments for Leishmaniasis.

BOINC-based computing at University of Westminster

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 23:11:01 GMT

The University of Westminster in London has been operating a BOINC-based campus grid since Mar 2011. The university estimates that this yields savings of £125,000 per year.

LHC@home 2.0 article in iSGTW

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 05:12:12 GMT

An article entitled Virtual atom smasher in LHC@Home 2.0 appeared recently in International Science Grid This Week (iSGTW).

BoincTasks version 1.16 released

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:22:29 GMT

A new version of BoincTasks, an alternative BOINC manager, has been released. The new version has improved handling of large number of computers, a web server for mobile users, and improved graphic to show received tasks. It is compatible with the upcoming BOINC client version 7.

Clean Energy Project announces early results

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:30:48 GMT

An article in Nature News describes preliminary results from The Clean Energy Project at IBM World Community Grid.

DistrRTgen

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 05:17:38 GMT

DistrRTgen has been added to the BOINC project list. Its goal is to give the world's security experts the best tools available for detecting weak hashes, helping to improve methods of password protection.

LHC@home 2.0 begins public testing

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:55:11 GMT

LHC@home 2.0, the first volunteer computing project based on virtual machine technology, began public testing today. The CERN-based project uses home computers to simulate particle collisions.

Renderfarm.fi wins World Summit Award

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 03:31:41 GMT

Congratulations to Renderfarm.fi, a winner of the 2011 World Summit Award in the e-Science and Technology category.

GPUGRID.net computes against cancer

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:13:28 GMT

GPUGRID.net announced a collaboration with researchers at the Hospital del Mar in Barcelona to study the effects of a well-known drug for colorectal cancer.

Gears: browser-based volunteer computing

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:06:19 GMT

Researchers at IIT in Budapest, Hungary have announced the release of a system for volunteer computing in web browsers that can use BOINC servers for job distribution.

New project: Surveill@Home

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 23:13:16 GMT

Surveill@Home, from the University of Coimbra in Portugal, is a research project that conducts end-to-end fine-grained monitoring of web sites, providing end-user failure and performance statistics.

Einstein@OSG

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 04:56:12 GMT

Since 2008, the Einstein@OSG project from Caltech has used grid resources on the Open Science Grid and on the German D-Grid to supply about 150,000 CPU hours daily to the Einstein@Home project.

Quake Catcher Network article

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 03:45:13 GMT

An article on Quake Catcher Network appeared in Stanford University News.

BOINC 6.12.33 released to public

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:50:12 GMT

The next version of BOINC is now ready for public use. Check the release notes and version history for details.

BoincTasks on Linux and Mac OS X

Sat, 02 Jul 2011 17:17:51 GMT

BoincTasks, a powerful GUI for managing multiple BOINC clients, now runs on Linux and Mac OS X under Wine.

Open Science Panel in Berlin, 30 June

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:55:12 GMT

The Open Science Panel at the upcoming Open Knowledge Workshop will feature several talks related to BOINC (Berlin, 30 June).

Papers from IBM World Community Grid

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:50:53 GMT

Science projects hosted by IBM World Community Grid have recently published papers in Phys. Rev. E and BioMed Central Research Notes.

New publications from GPUGRID.net

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:12:41 GMT

The GPUGRID.net project has recently published three papers, one in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and two in Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation.

sudoku@vtaiwan

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 05:57:53 GMT

The sudoku@vtaiwan project, from National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan, addresses the mathematical problem of whether there is a 16-clue Sudoku with a unique solution.

Virtual Prairie results published

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 16:44:48 GMT

The Virtual Prairie project recently published a paper Large scale parameter study of an individual-based model of clonal plant with volunteer computing in the journal Ecological Modeling.

Brasil@home talk videos online

Tue, 31 May 2011 23:19:57 GMT

Videos of talks at the recent Brasil@home event are available here.

BoincTasks 1.00 released

Thu, 19 May 2011 16:18:06 GMT

Version 1.00 of BoincTasks (a Windows program for managing BOINC clients) has been released after 2 years of hard work and with the help of many volunteers.

BOINC 6.12.26 released to public

Tue, 17 May 2011 20:21:03 GMT

The next version of BOINC is now ready for public use. Check the release notes and version history for details.

BOINC Monitor

Sat, 14 May 2011 21:56:49 GMT

BOINC Monitor, a desktop gadget for Windows Vista/7 that shows the status of running tasks, has been released.

Brasil@home, 2-6 May

Mon, 02 May 2011 17:07:24 GMT

Brasil@home is a series of events in Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro, and Sao Paolo intended to promote and catalyze citizen science in Brazil.

BOINC Workshop

Sun, 01 May 2011 12:17:56 GMT

The 7th BOINC Workshop will be held 18-19 August 2011 in Hannover, Germany.

PTP animation on YouTube

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 02:18:25 GMT

A YouTube video promotes the Intel Progress Thru Processors initiative.

Asia@home Hackfest videos available

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 02:07:34 GMT

Videos of several talks at the recent Asia@home Hackfest are now available.

Grid/BOINC bridge demonstrated

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 05:38:23 GMT

A recent press release describes an EDGI demonstration of job submission to a Volunteer Desktop Grid at the EGI User Forum in Vilnius, Lithuania.

6.8 billion core-hours

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 01:59:45 GMT

In the past year, BOINC volunteers have contributed over 6.8 billion CPU core-hours to a variety of research projects. Thanks, and congratulations on being the world's biggest computing cloud!

Einstein@home discovery published

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 19:41:43 GMT

A paper in The Astrophysical Journal describes the recent discovery of a binary pulsar by Einstein@home.

New version of BOINC LCS available

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 04:36:51 GMT

Version 3.1 of BOINC LCS is available. BOINC LCS is a web application, written in PHP, for monitoring a set of BOINC clients.

New version of TThrottle available

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 23:03:36 GMT

TThrottle version 3.41 has been released. This utility enforces limits on CPU and GPU temperature by controlling BOINC's activity.

WCG included in top 100 IBM innovations

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 22:52:17 GMT

The World Community Grid project has been honored by IBM as one of the top 100 innovations in its 100-year history.

BOINC server outage March 15-16

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 23:09:58 GMT

Due to electrical work at Space Sciences Lab, the BOINC web site will be offline from 4 PM March 15 to 10 AM March 16 (Pacific time).

2011 China Drumbeat Hackfest

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 06:44:48 GMT

A Hackfest will be held March 23-25 in Beijing to develop volunteer computing and citizen science applications. Programmers are welcome!

Climateprediction.net paper in Nature

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:27:52 GMT

A paper by Climateprediction.net appeared in a recent issue of Nature.

Asia@home Hackfest

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 18:07:03 GMT

The Asia@home Hackfest, at Academia Sinica in Taiwan on 21-22 March, will focus on porting seismology applications to BOINC.

Jeopardy! success benefits WCG

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 20:13:17 GMT

An article in HPCwire discusses Watson's victory on Jeopardy!, and its benefit to IBM World Community Grid.

Article on World Community Grid

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 01:15:04 GMT

An article about IBM World Community Grid appeared on the Royal Society of Chemistry web site.

EU Desktop Grid road map released

Fri, 04 Feb 2011 18:37:54 GMT

The EU-funded DEGISCO project has released a Desktop Grids for eScience Road Map describing how to set up desktop grid computing infrastructure.

Jeopardy! to benefit volunteer computing

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:42:23 GMT

On January 13th IBM announced that World Community Grid will receive half of the winnings from a man vs. machine contest on the Jeopardy! game show, to air February 14, 15 and 16, 2011.

FightAIDS@home online lecture

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:33:07 GMT

A lecture by Dr Alex Perryman of The Scripps Research Institute discusses FightAIDS@home, a subproject of IBM World Community Grid.

Android app for BOINC available

Sat, 27 Nov 2010 03:48:27 GMT

As reported on the BOINC Message boards: "I just published AndroBOINC on Android Market. It is BOINC Manager for Android phones - it can remotely control several BOINC clients, similar as default BOINC Manager. You can find it on Market from phone, just search for "androboinc" or simply "boinc"."

Sony to bundle BOINC with new VAIO computers

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 22:09:44 GMT

Sony Electronics today announced that its VAIO computers now come equipped with BOINC software that users can opt to run. Once activated, the software connects with IBM World Community Grid, supporting a variety of humanitarian research.

BOINC Project Server Upgraded

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 21:48:38 GMT

A new server is in place, and should improve the performance of BOINC web site, wikis, and translation system.

Article in TechNewsDaily

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 19:19:14 GMT

Check out 8 Cool Science Projects That Can Run Right on Your Home Computer , an article on volunteer computing in TechNewsDaily.

BoincLite: a thin BOINC client library

Sat, 18 Sep 2010 00:14:12 GMT

Sony Computer Science Laboratory has released BoincLite, an LGPL library that allows any C application to act as a simple BOINC client - possibly useful in mobile devices and game consoles.

Orbit@home enters production mode

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 17:55:45 GMT

Orbit@home, which monitors and studies near-Earth asteroids, is now in production mode with real data, and seeks volunteers to handle its 300K jobs per week.

BOINC helps recover stolen laptop

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:54:15 GMT

A stolen laptop has been found with the help of BOINC.

New project: CAS@home

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:40:56 GMT

Welcome to CAS@home, a new project from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) which seeks to encourage and assist scientists in China to adopt the technologies of volunteer computing and volunteer thinking for their research.

New project: eOn

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:38:38 GMT

Welcome to the eOn project from the University of Texas at Austin, which studies the dynamic simulation of physical and chemical processes over a time scale which is much longer than can be reached with traditional molecular dynamics.

BOINC workshop proceedings

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:35:41 GMT

The 6th annual BOINC workshop took place last week in London. Powerpoint slides from many of the talks are available here.

BOINC: Tu Tambien Puedes

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:55:27 GMT

Check out Computación distribuida BOINC, tu tambien puedes, an article on BOINC in Trucoteca.com, a Spanish website about video games.

Primaboinca launched; PS3 app available

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:40:22 GMT

A new project, Primaboinca, seeks participants. The project, from Hochschule RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, studies prime numbers. It offers applications for Windows, Linux, and the Sony Playstation 3 running Linux.

Online discussion about citizen science

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:00:50 GMT

Join an online discussion about citizen science and the Einstein@Home project hosted by Public Radio International.

Einstein@Home pulsar discovery

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 14:01:15 GMT

The recent discovery of a new pulsar by Einstein@Home is described in an article in Science and on the National Science Foundation web site.

Nature News article on citizen science

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:00:13 GMT

An article in Nature News discusses recent trends and progress in citizen science, including volunteer computing.

Citizen Cyberscience Summit tickets available

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:11:56 GMT

Tickets for the Citizen Cyberscience Summit in London (2-3 Sept.) can now be booked online at www.citizencyberscience.net/summit

6th BOINC Workshop

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:28:26 GMT

The 6th BOINC Workshop will be held 31 Aug - 1 Sept. in London.

London Citizen Cyberscience Summit

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 03:53:47 GMT

The London Citizen Cyberscience Summit on September 2-3 will be a chance for scientists and citizens to learn about the latest breakthroughs in citizen cyberscience. The event will feature speakers from a number of BOINC projects.

GPU example apps available

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:45:16 GMT

Sample BOINC applications for NVIDIA/CUDA, NVIDIO/OpenCL, and ATI Stream OpenCL, together with instructions for building on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, are now available. Thanks to Tuan Le for developing these.

Campus Party kick-off event streaming video

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:35:14 GMT

A speech (in Spanish) launching the Campus Party / Rosetta@home campaign will broadcast by streaming video on Thursday 1 July at 19:00 GMT-5 (Channel 5).

CPDN scientist wins award

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:55:02 GMT

Myles Allen, director of Climateprediction.net, has won the 2010 Appleton Prize, which rewards distinguished research in environmental, earth or atmospheric physics.

Campus Party Colombia to boost Rosetta@home

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 23:28:43 GMT

Campus Party Colombia plans a promotion of Rosetta@home. (Spanish, English)

Video on MalariaControl.net

Mon, 31 May 2010 22:18:49 GMT

Check out a video on the use of volunteer computing to fight malaria (2 minutes, available in Spanish and English).

New version of BoincTasks available

Tue, 25 May 2010 21:27:10 GMT

A new version of BoincTasks, with multi-language support, is available. BoincTasks is a GUI application for Windows that lets you monitor and control up to 300 BOINC clients from a single window.

BOINC 6.10.56 released

Mon, 24 May 2010 20:08:58 GMT

The next version of BOINC is now ready for public use. Check the release notes and version history for details.

BOINC project name service

Mon, 24 May 2010 18:26:35 GMT

New or experimental BOINC-based projects without a domain name can now get a name of the form http://myproject.boincproject.com/. Thanks to Willy de Zutter of BOINCStats.com for offering this service.

BOINC simulator released at Univ. of Delaware

Mon, 24 May 2010 17:52:13 GMT

EmBOINC, a simulator for studying scheduling policies in large volunteer computing projects, is available for use by researchers.

AQUA@home deploys first OpenCL application on BOINC

Mon, 17 May 2010 16:07:34 GMT

Congratulations to the AQUA@home project, which has deployed the first OpenCL application on BOINC. OpenCL is a new programming system for GPUs and multicore CPUs.

Interview on www.seti.cl (Spanish)

Tue, 11 May 2010 22:24:12 GMT

David Anderson, director of BOINC and SETI@home, is interviewed on www.seti.cl (in Spanish).

German WW II message cracked by Enigma@home

Tue, 11 May 2010 04:12:51 GMT

The Enigma@Home project has decrypted one of 22 previously unbroken German Army messages encrypted with the Enigma machine.

BOINC 6.10.43/44 withdrawn

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:50:51 GMT

Due to a bug in .43/.44, the currently stable BOINC client has been rolled back to 6.10.18. The bug in question only affects volunteers using GPUs that do not have enough GPU RAM to execute their desired project applications. This bug is fixed in 6.10.46 or newer.

Article in Fast Company

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:58:18 GMT

Fast Company magazine has an article on IBM World Community Grid.

BOINC web site now available in Finnish

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:06:04 GMT

A Finnish translation of the BOINC web site is now available, thanks to Sami Nordlund.

BOINC 6.10.43/44 released

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:32:47 GMT

A new version of the client software is available for download

New BOINC/Ubuntu ISO image available

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:53:24 GMT

Version 1.2 of Dotsch/UX, an ISO-format Ubuntu image with the 6.10.17 client, for USB, diskless, and CD-ROM install, is available for download.

Support for Mac OS 10.6.3

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:34:55 GMT

Mac users, if you upgrade to OS 10.6.3, 2 issues may arise:

The upgrade may delete your login item for BOINC Manager. If this happens, BOINC will not launch automatically when you log in or restart your Mac. Just run the BOINC installer again to fix this.
If you are running CUDA tasks, you must upgrade to version 3.0 of the CUDA drivers, which you can download here.

Article on volunteer computing

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:20:55 GMT

Check out Volunteer Computing Needs You, an article in Computer Power User magazine.

Article on Einstein@OSG

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:45:17 GMT

An article in iSGTW discusses the use of Grid resources by Einstein@home.

QCN article

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:30:57 GMT

An article about Quake Catcher Network recently appeared in the Los Angeles Times.

Almere Desktop Grid event

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:50:04 GMT

The 3rd AlmereGrid Grid Experience workshop, and the EDGeS@Home launch event, will take place March 29/30, 2010 in Almere, The Netherlands.

Italian citizen science site

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:16:14 GMT

Check out Calcolo Distribuito, an Italian-language web site about volunteer computing and other public-participation science.

New project: QuantumFIRE alpha

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:33:30 GMT

QuantumFIRE alpha is a test project for QuantumFIRE, which will be dedicated to research into Quantum Foundations and Solid State Physics. The project is based at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

German BOINC glossary released

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:20:28 GMT

The crunchers@freiburg team has released a German glossary of BOINC terms.

Boinc.NET released

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:37:36 GMT

Boinc.NET, a 3rd-party BOINC GUI for Windows based on .NET 3.5, has been released. It lets you manage multiple clients from one place.

Motivation study published

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:07:58 GMT

An study of cybervolunteer motivation by Viola Krebs has been published in FirstMonday.org, a journal devoted to Internet studies.

BOINC supports GPU computing on Mac OS X

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:04:50 GMT

GPU-based volunteer computing is now available on the Macintosh! Mac owners with NVIDIA GPUs can run GPU-enabled applications from Einstein@home and Collatz Conjecture. You'll need the latest development version of BOINC (6.10.28) and NVIDIA's CUDA driver.

P-GRADE Portal supports BOINC

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:40:55 GMT

The P-GRADE Grid Portal developed by the SZTAKI Institute in Hungary now supports BOINC as a computational back end.

An article on volunteer computing appeared today in the Argentine newspaper La Nacion.

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

An article on volunteer computing appeared today in the Argentine newspaper La Nacion.

Version 6.10 of the BOINC client software has been released for general use

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Version 6.10 of the BOINC client software has been released for general use. Download it here.

The Fifth BOINC Workshop was held Oct

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The Fifth BOINC Workshop was held Oct. 22-23 in Barcelona. There were 35 attendees and 21 excellent talks; many of the presentation slides and discussion notes are online.

The Windows versions of 6.6.41 have been recalled due to a version mismatch with recent Microsoft updates. Please use the 6.6.38 version until 6.10 is released.

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The Windows versions of 6.6.41 have been recalled due to a version mismatch with recent Microsoft updates. Please use the 6.6.38 version until 6.10 is released.

An article in the Wall Street Journal discusses the use of volunteer computing in medical research.

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

An article in the Wall Street Journal discusses the use of volunteer computing in medical research.

Welcome to NFS@home, a new project from California State University Fullerton. NFS@Home uses volunteer computing to do the lattice sieving step in the Number Field Sieve factorization of large integ

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Welcome to NFS@home, a new project from California State University Fullerton. NFS@Home uses volunteer computing to do the lattice sieving step in the Number Field Sieve factorization of large integers.

BoincTasks, a new visual interface to BOINC, has been released for Windows

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

BoincTasks, a new visual interface to BOINC, has been released for Windows. BoincTasks lets you manage a single computer locally, or all your computers remotely.

An article in the NY Times describes a project using BOINC to simulate the development of life at the molecular level.

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

An article in the NY Times describes a project using BOINC to simulate the development of life at the molecular level.

The Brazilian TV networks Globonews and Futura recently broadcast a report on IBM World Community Grid (i

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The Brazilian TV networks Globonews and Futura recently broadcast a report on IBM World Community Grid (in Portuguese).

An article in PCWorld, 12 Worthy Causes Seek Your Spare PC Cycles, describes BOINC and 12 projects that use it.

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

An article in PCWorld, 12 Worthy Causes Seek Your Spare PC Cycles, describes BOINC and 12 projects that use it.

Facebook users: check out the BOINC Milestones app.

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Facebook users: check out the BOINC Milestones app.

UNITAR, UNIGE and CERN have agreed to collaborate on a Citizen Cyberscience Centre which, among other things, will promote volunteer computing.

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT

UNITAR, UNIGE and CERN have agreed to collaborate on a Citizen Cyberscience Centre which, among other things, will promote volunteer computing.

The EDGeS project is offering a tutorial on using BOINC for desktop grid computing on 20 Sept 2009 in Barcelona.

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The EDGeS project is offering a tutorial on using BOINC for desktop grid computing on 20 Sept 2009 in Barcelona.

Check out an article in The Sydney Morning Herald about volunteer computing in Australia.

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Check out an article in The Sydney Morning Herald about volunteer computing in Australia.

Intel (in partnership with GridRepublic and BOINC) announces Progress Thru Processors, a Facebook application that makes participating in BOINC simpler and more sociable.

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Intel (in partnership with GridRepublic and BOINC) announces Progress Thru Processors, a Facebook application that makes participating in BOINC simpler and more sociable.

Videos of the talks at the recent Asia@home workshop in Taiwan are now online.

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Videos of the talks at the recent Asia@home workshop in Taiwan are now online.

Listen to a Podcast of an interview with David Anderson on RCE.

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Listen to a Podcast of an interview with David Anderson on RCE.

The Consejeria de Educacion, Spain, is using Jarifa to harness the power of 12,000 PCs

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The Consejeria de Educacion, Spain, is using Jarifa to harness the power of 12,000 PCs.

The First Pangalactic BOINC Workshop was held at CERN, bringing together people from ClimatePrediction.net, Einstein@home, CERN, and BOINC.

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:05:00 GMT

The First Pangalactic BOINC Workshop was held at CERN, bringing together people from ClimatePrediction.net, Einstein@home, CERN, and BOINC.

Read an article about Docking@Home in Newswise Science News.

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Read an article about Docking@Home in Newswise Science News.

Check out BOINC! How your computer can benefit all of mankind, a story in the online Dish Magazine.

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Check out BOINC! How your computer can benefit all of mankind, a story in the online Dish Magazine.

ICVolunteers is conducting an online poll to study motivation in volunteer computing. Volunteers are encouraged to complete

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

ICVolunteers is conducting an online poll to study motivation in volunteer computing. Volunteers are encouraged to complete this poll.

Mac users: check out BOINCMenubar 2, an alternative to the BOINC Manager for Mac OS X.

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Mac users: check out BOINCMenubar 2, an alternative to the BOINC Manager for Mac OS X.

Check out Citizen Scientists, a podcast by the 365 Days of Astronomy project.

Sun, 17 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Check out Citizen Scientists, a podcast by the 365 Days of Astronomy project.

Planet BOINC is a new RSS feed that combines many different sources of news about BOINC and volunteer computing.

Thu, 14 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Planet BOINC is a new RSS feed that combines many different sources of news about BOINC and volunteer computing.

Francois Grey talks about citizen cyber-science at TEDx Warwick.

Thu, 14 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Francois Grey talks about citizen cyber-science at TEDx Warwick.

See a video (in Spanish with English subtitles) about Extremadura@home and volunteer computing.

Wed, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

See a video (in Spanish with English subtitles) about Extremadura@home and volunteer computing.

An article in EMBO reports discusses citizen cyber-science.

Tue, 12 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

An article in EMBO reports discusses citizen cyber-science.

Simon Lin of Academia Sinica discusses volunteer computing (and thinking) in Asia on a Podcast on BBC World Service.

Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Simon Lin of Academia Sinica discusses volunteer computing (and thinking) in Asia on a Podcast on BBC World Service.

An article in Cornell's Chronicle Online discusses a new application in Einstein@home that searches for pulsars in binary s

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT

An article in Cornell's Chronicle Online discusses a new application in Einstein@home that searches for pulsars in binary star systems.

Francois Grey discusses Citizen Cyberscience (and BOINC) in The CERN Courier.

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Francois Grey discusses Citizen Cyberscience (and BOINC) in The CERN Courier.

A workshop on volunteer computing with BOINC was held in Taipei on 16-17 April. Lecture outlines and slides are available online.

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT

A workshop on volunteer computing with BOINC was held in Taipei on 16-17 April. Lecture outlines and slides are available online.

BOINC 6.6 has been released to public for Windows and MacOS X

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT

BOINC 6.6 has been released to public for Windows and MacOS X. Please visit the download page and upgrade today.

Check out a new French-language web site about volunteer computing.

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Check out a new French-language web site about volunteer computing.

VTU@home, a project from the Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, is now listed on the Choose Projects page. VTU@home serves Lithuanian

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

VTU@home, a project from the Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, is now listed on the Choose Projects page. VTU@home serves Lithuanian scientists. It is currently studying the automated testing of complex software systems.

Volunteer computing goes East - a story on upcoming events in Taiwan and Beijing - appears in International Science Grid This Week.

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Volunteer computing goes East - a story on upcoming events in Taiwan and Beijing - appears in International Science Grid This Week.

A new add-on for Windows, BOINCcalculator, shows details (trickles, credit, timesteps, checkpoints) of runn

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

A new add-on for Windows, BOINCcalculator, shows details (trickles, credit, timesteps, checkpoints) of running CPDN jobs.

Cosmology@Home, a project from the University of Illinois whose goal is to search for the model that best describes our Universe, is now listed on the [url=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/choose_projects.p

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Cosmology@Home, a project from the University of Illinois whose goal is to search for the model that best describes our Universe, is now listed on the Choose Projects page.

BOINC was the subject of a 40-minute radio program (in Polish) on Tok FM (click on 'O sile polaczonych komputerow').

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

BOINC was the subject of a 40-minute radio program (in Polish) on Tok FM (click on 'O sile polaczonych komputerow').

We have released BOINC 6.4.7 for Windows

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

We have released BOINC 6.4.7 for Windows. This release contains a screensaver fix as well as updates to LibCurl(7.19.4) and OpenSSL(0.9.8j) for some recently published security advisories.

United BOINC now offers signature images containing the latest news from your choice of projects.

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

United BOINC now offers signature images containing the latest news from your choice of projects.

We have rolled back to 6.4.5 for our latest stable version until 6.4.7 can be built

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

We have rolled back to 6.4.5 for our latest stable version until 6.4.7 can be built. Something happened to 6.4.6 on our mirrors.

A new add-on program for Windows, TThrottle, throttles CPU usage to keep its temperature below a limit you select.

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

A new add-on program for Windows, TThrottle, throttles CPU usage to keep its temperature below a limit you select.

A workshop on volunteer computing will take place 16-17 April 2009 at the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan, in conjunction with the International Symposium on Grid Computing.

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

A workshop on volunteer computing will take place 16-17 April 2009 at the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan, in conjunction with the International Symposium on Grid Computing.

Congratulations to SETIBR, the Brazilian team which, across several BOINC-based projects, has achieved the levels of 100K average credit and 50M total credit.

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Congratulations to SETIBR, the Brazilian team which, across several BOINC-based projects, has achieved the levels of 100K average credit and 50M total credit.

Scientists: it's easier than ever to create a BOINC project - you don't even need a server! Instead, you can use the Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud, with a virtual machine image creat

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Scientists: it's easier than ever to create a BOINC project - you don't even need a server! Instead, you can use the Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud, with a virtual machine image created by Derrick Kondo of INRIA.

Extremadura@home is a new kind of account manager in which the choice of projects is a group decision

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Extremadura@home is a new kind of account manager in which the choice of projects is a group decision. It's targeted at Spanish computer owners but is open to everyone.

Dotsch/UX is an ISO-format Linux distribution, based on Ubuntu Linux, with the 6.2.15 BOINC client pre-installed. It lets you easily install and boot from a USB stick, hard disk and fro

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Dotsch/UX is an ISO-format Linux distribution, based on Ubuntu Linux, with the 6.2.15 BOINC client pre-installed. It lets you easily install and boot from a USB stick, hard disk and from diskless clients, and it also has some interfaces to set up the diskless server and the clients automatically. Download info is here.

A paper about Quake-Catcher Network appeared in Seismological Research Letters, Jan/Feb 2009.

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

A paper about Quake-Catcher Network appeared in Seismological Research Letters, Jan/Feb 2009.

A paper about BOINC, "Celebrating Diversity in Volunteer Computing", has won a Best Paper award at the 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

A paper about BOINC, "Celebrating Diversity in Volunteer Computing", has won a Best Paper award at the 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

The Docking@home project has a spiffy new web site, and welcomes new volunteers.

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The Docking@home project has a spiffy new web site, and welcomes new volunteers.

An article about AQUA@home appeared in today's New York Times online.

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

An article about AQUA@home appeared in today's New York Times online.

BOINC now supports computing using NVIDIA GPUs. Two projects currently have GPU-enabled applications: GPUgrid.net and SETI@home. If your compute

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

BOINC now supports computing using NVIDIA GPUs. Two projects currently have GPU-enabled applications: GPUgrid.net and SETI@home. If your computer has a recent NVIDIA GPU, you can compute 2X to 10X faster than with your CPU alone.

A press release from NVIDIA announcing BOINC's GPU support is available in English, Spanish, and [url=http://www.imim.es/noticies/view

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A press release from NVIDIA announcing BOINC's GPU support is available in English, Spanish, and Catalan.

Version 6.4 of the BOINC client software has been released. This is the recommended version for Windows and Linux

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Version 6.4 of the BOINC client software has been released. This is the recommended version for Windows and Linux. Upgrade now.

AQUA@home is now open to volunteers

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

AQUA@home is now open to volunteers. AQUA (Adiabatic QUantum Algorithms) is a research project, based at D-Wave Systems, Inc., whose goal is to predict the performance of superconducting adiabatic quantum computers on a variety of hard problems arising in fields ranging from materials science to machine learning.

IBM World Community Grid and Harvard launch an application to study a new type of photovoltaic solar cells.

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

IBM World Community Grid and Harvard launch an application to study a new type of photovoltaic solar cells.

Wikipedia'a featured article for today is about Rosetta@home.

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Wikipedia'a featured article for today is about Rosetta@home.

Check out BOINC.Italy, a new Italian BOINC portal.

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Check out BOINC.Italy, a new Italian BOINC portal.

Rechenkraft.net is petitioning the German government to use non-security sensitive institutional computers to assist scientific research.

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Rechenkraft.net is petitioning the German government to use non-security sensitive institutional computers to assist scientific research.

See a video celebrating the fourth anniversary of IBM World Community Grid.

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

See a video celebrating the fourth anniversary of IBM World Community Grid.

Jarifa, a system for organizational grid computing using BOINC, has a new name, logo, and domain.

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Jarifa, a system for organizational grid computing using BOINC, has a new name, logo, and domain.

On 27-28 November 2008, AlmereGrid and EDGeS will organise a two-day Desktop Grid workshop in Almere, The Netherlands.

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

On 27-28 November 2008, AlmereGrid and EDGeS will organise a two-day Desktop Grid workshop in Almere, The Netherlands.

Read Reaching for the Exa-scale with volunteer computing in International Science Grid This Week.

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Read Reaching for the Exa-scale with volunteer computing in International Science Grid This Week.

An article on the recent BOINC workshop in Grenoble appeared in International Science Grid This Week.

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

An article on the recent BOINC workshop in Grenoble appeared in International Science Grid This Week.

An article on PS3grid.net project, which does scientific computing on Sony Playstations, appeared recently in Science.

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

An article on PS3grid.net project, which does scientific computing on Sony Playstations, appeared recently in Science.

See an open letter to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

See an open letter to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Read an article about Quake Catcher Network in Economist.com.

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Read an article about Quake Catcher Network in Economist.com.

Ibercivis, a joint project of several Spanish universities and research institutes, is now open to the public. Sign up and support Spanish research.

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Ibercivis, a joint project of several Spanish universities and research institutes, is now open to the public. Sign up and support Spanish research.

Welcome back to Docking@Home, a project at the University of Delaware that studies protein-ligand interactions (and BOINC itself).

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Welcome back to Docking@Home, a project at the University of Delaware that studies protein-ligand interactions (and BOINC itself).

OGM (Organizational Grid Manager) has been released by the University of Extremadura. OGM is a system for grid computing on organizational resources using BOINC.

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

OGM (Organizational Grid Manager) has been released by the University of Extremadura. OGM is a system for grid computing on organizational resources using BOINC.

The talks and tutorials from the upcoming BOINC Workshop (Sept 10-12) will be broadcast live on the Web.

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The talks and tutorials from the upcoming BOINC Workshop (Sept 10-12) will be broadcast live on the Web.

BOINC is featured on the University of Delaware news site.

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

BOINC is featured on the University of Delaware news site.

Welcome to the NQueens@home project, from the Universidad de Concepción in Chile, which seeks to find the solutions to the N Queens problem for values of 26 and greater.

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Welcome to the NQueens@home project, from the Universidad de Concepción in Chile, which seeks to find the solutions to the N Queens problem for values of 26 and greater.

LinkedIn users: join a BOINC Users group.

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

LinkedIn users: join a BOINC Users group.

BOINC 6.2 is now the recommended version for all platforms

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

BOINC 6.2 is now the recommended version for all platforms. Upgrade now.

The Quake Catcher Network detected today's magnitude 5.4 earthquake in Los Angeles within 7 seconds.

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Quake Catcher Network detected today's magnitude 5.4 earthquake in Los Angeles within 7 seconds.

The First East Coast BOINC Meeting will take place August 29 2008 at the University of Delaware.

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The First East Coast BOINC Meeting will take place August 29 2008 at the University of Delaware.

GPU computing has arrived to BOINC! The GPUGRID.net project from the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB) uses CUDA-capable NVIDIA chips to create an infrastructure for biomolecular simulations.

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

GPU computing has arrived to BOINC! The GPUGRID.net project from the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB) uses CUDA-capable NVIDIA chips to create an infrastructure for biomolecular simulations. (Currently available for Linux64; other platforms to follow soon. To participate, follow the instructions on the web site).

BOINC-logo merchandise (T-shirts, mouse pads) is now available.

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

BOINC-logo merchandise (T-shirts, mouse pads) is now available.

New add-on software: phpBOINCer, a PHP script to display BOINC stats on a webpage, and store or retrieve these stats to a mySQL database.

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

New add-on software: phpBOINCer, a PHP script to display BOINC stats on a webpage, and store or retrieve these stats to a mySQL database.

3-D versions of the BOINC logo are now available; thanks to John from Ireland for creating these.

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

3-D versions of the BOINC logo are now available; thanks to John from Ireland for creating these.

BOINCstats and BAM! are now available in Brazilian Portuguese and Turkish.

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

BOINCstats and BAM! are now available in Brazilian Portuguese and Turkish.

The Orbit@home project from the Planetary Science Institute is open for public beta test. Orbit@home focuses on celestial mechanics, Their first scientific application, Surve

Sat, 31 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Orbit@home project from the Planetary Science Institute is open for public beta test. Orbit@home focuses on celestial mechanics, Their first scientific application, SurveySimulator, simulates the performance of astronomical surveys searching for Near Earth Objects (NEOs) such as asteroids and comets.

The source code for BOINCoid (a port of BOINC to Java and to Google's Android platform, by computer scientists from Technion) has been released on Sourceforge.net.

Sun, 18 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The source code for BOINCoid (a port of BOINC to Java and to Google's Android platform, by computer scientists from Technion) has been released on Sourceforge.net.

BOINC volunteer Werner Klein is interviewed in Sternengucker.org (German).

Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

BOINC volunteer Werner Klein is interviewed in Sternengucker.org (German).

The BOINC FAQ Service is now available in Spanish and French (as well as English, German, and Dutch).

Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The BOINC FAQ Service is now available in Spanish and French (as well as English, German, and Dutch).

CASP8 starts soon

Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

CASP8, a competition for protein structure prediction, starts soon. Rechenkraft.net is sponsoring a team credit-race to support POEM@home, one of the CASP participants. Results will be reported at Planet BOINC.

Alpha testing of BOINC software is done by volunteers. Many thanks to this month's top testers.

Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Alpha testing of BOINC software is done by volunteers. Many thanks to this month's top testers.

Version 3.0 of Boinc LCS (a free PHP script for monitoring remote BOINC clients) has been released.

Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Version 3.0 of Boinc LCS (a free PHP script for monitoring remote BOINC clients) has been released.

The BOINC user documentation has been moved from Trac to Mediawiki, which provides better navigation and editing interfaces. Please help us fix the remaining broken links.

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The BOINC user documentation has been moved from Trac to Mediawiki, which provides better navigation and editing interfaces. Please help us fix the remaining broken links.

Congratulations to NEZ, whose contribution to BOINC-based projects recently exceeded 10 TeraFLOPS. This would (and should) ran

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Congratulations to NEZ, whose contribution to BOINC-based projects recently exceeded 10 TeraFLOPS. This would (and should) rank 136th on the Top 500 Supercomputer list.

The BOINC client software is now available for Fedora 7 and higher from official repositories. To install it, just type yum install boinc-client boinc-manager as root. Thanks to Milos Jakubicek, with help from Eric Myers and Debarshi Ray.

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The BOINC client software is now available for Fedora 7 and higher from official repositories. To install it, just type yum install boinc-client boinc-manager as root. Thanks to Milos Jakubicek, with help from Eric Myers and Debarshi Ray.

Read about a new BOINC-based project, Quake Catcher Network, in Wired and [url=http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080326/full/

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Read about a new BOINC-based project, Quake Catcher Network, in Wired and Nature News.

Watch an excellent talk by CERN's Francois Grey, From distributed computing to distributed thinking.

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Watch an excellent talk by CERN's Francois Grey, From distributed computing to distributed thinking.

Read Volunteer Computing and the Search for Big Answers, an article about BOINC and volunteer computing on LinuxInsider.com.

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Read Volunteer Computing and the Search for Big Answers, an article about BOINC and volunteer computing on LinuxInsider.com.

Scientific progress goes BOINC! Read about the Scientific publications of BOINC-based projects.

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Scientific progress goes BOINC! Read about the Scientific publications of BOINC-based projects.

Where is BOINC headed? Marcin Cieslak's vision: BOINC on JXTA.

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Where is BOINC headed? Marcin Cieslak's vision: BOINC on JXTA.

Bulgarian BOINC users: find forums and information in your language at BOINC Bulgaria.

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Bulgarian BOINC users: find forums and information in your language at BOINC Bulgaria.

Proteins@Home has resumed operations

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Proteins@Home has resumed operations. Check out their paper on computational protein design in the Journal of Computational Chemistry.

BOINC has broken the PetaFLOP barrier! According to BOINCStats, 106 million units of credit were granted yesterday, which translates to 1.06 PetaFLOP/sec. Congratulations to all projects and participants.

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

BOINC has broken the PetaFLOP barrier! According to BOINCStats, 106 million units of credit were granted yesterday, which translates to 1.06 PetaFLOP/sec. Congratulations to all projects and participants.

The TSP project is featured in International Science Grid This Week: Traveling salesman meets distributed computing.

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The TSP project is featured in International Science Grid This Week: Traveling salesman meets distributed computing.

A paper describing results of the Quantum Monte Carlo at Home project recently appeared in the [url=http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/jpcafh/asap/abs/jp077592t.html]Journal of Physical Chemistry A (JPCA)[

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A paper describing results of the Quantum Monte Carlo at Home project recently appeared in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A (JPCA).

A new article from the Planetary Society: [url=http://www.planetary.org/programs/projects/setiathome/setiathome_20080115.html]From SETI@home to Hominid Fossils: Citizen Cyberscience Reshapes Research Landscape[/ur

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A new article from the Planetary Society: From SETI@home to Hominid Fossils: Citizen Cyberscience Reshapes Research Landscape.

The cross-project statistics site All Project Stats.com has many improvements and new features, include credit-based signature images for users

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The cross-project statistics site All Project Stats.com has many improvements and new features, include credit-based signature images for users and teams.

A new competition for BOINC teams, Formula BOINC, is based on their position with projects (as in Formula 1 racing) rather than overall credit. This rewards teams that are diversified across

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A new competition for BOINC teams, Formula BOINC, is based on their position with projects (as in Formula 1 racing) rather than overall credit. This rewards teams that are diversified across many projects.

A story in the Chicago Tribune, "Bit by bit, home computers aid science", highlights [url=http://www.cosmologyathome.org/]Cosmology@

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT

A story in the Chicago Tribune, "Bit by bit, home computers aid science", highlights Cosmology@home.

The Lattice Project, based at the University of Maryland Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, is now open to volunteers. Lattice runs several applications, and supplies computing pow

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT

The Lattice Project, based at the University of Maryland Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, is now open to volunteers. Lattice runs several applications, and supplies computing power to a number of Life Sciences researchers. Current areas of study include evolutionary relationships based on DNA sequence data; bacterial, plasmid, and virus protein sequences; and biological diversity in nature reserves.

Watch a YouTube video about the science behind Rosetta@home.

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Watch a YouTube video about the science behind Rosetta@home.

The TSP (Traveling Salesman Problem) project is using BOINC to find the shortest path between the capitals of the lower 48 states.

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT

The TSP (Traveling Salesman Problem) project is using BOINC to find the shortest path between the capitals of the lower 48 states.

This web site, and the BOINC-Wide Teams site, will be down for about 18 hours starting at 3 PM PST, Dec 6.

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT

This web site, and the BOINC-Wide Teams site, will be down for about 18 hours starting at 3 PM PST, Dec 6.

Live in Washington DC? Get together with other BOINC users via Meetup (or create a Meetup in your own city).

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Live in Washington DC? Get together with other BOINC users via Meetup (or create a Meetup in your own city).

Leiden Classical allows students (and the public) to submit particle-system simulation jobs, and is thus a resource for both education and research. The job-submission system used by Leiden Classical is n

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Leiden Classical allows students (and the public) to submit particle-system simulation jobs, and is thus a resource for both education and research. The job-submission system used by Leiden Classical is now included in the BOINC source code distribution.

BOINC needs more volunteer programmers! If you're proficient in PHP and MySQL, C++ and WxWidgets, or C++ system programming, please read about how you can help.

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

BOINC needs more volunteer programmers! If you're proficient in PHP and MySQL, C++ and WxWidgets, or C++ system programming, please read about how you can help.

The BOINC-based BBC Climate Change Experiment has won the prestigious Prix Europa award in the Internet category.

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT

The BOINC-based BBC Climate Change Experiment has won the prestigious Prix Europa award in the Internet category.

Conmunix has released version 3.0 beta of Boinc LCS (Live Client State), a PHP script that allows you to monitor the current state and other information from each of your BOINC clients.

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Conmunix has released version 3.0 beta of Boinc LCS (Live Client State), a PHP script that allows you to monitor the current state and other information from each of your BOINC clients.

BOINC user John Koulouris has written The Big BOINC! Projects and Chronology Page, a brief history of BOINC.

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT

BOINC user John Koulouris has written The Big BOINC! Projects and Chronology Page, a brief history of BOINC.

An article in Nature, The shape of protein structures to come, discusses the goals and progress of the Rosetta@home project from the

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT

An article in Nature, The shape of protein structures to come, discusses the goals and progress of the Rosetta@home project from the University of Washington.

Congratulations to the UK BOINC Team, which today became the first UK-specific team to pass the 100 million combined credits mark.

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Congratulations to the UK BOINC Team, which today became the first UK-specific team to pass the 100 million combined credits mark.

LHC@home has moved from CERN to the University of London. Read about it here.

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT

LHC@home has moved from CERN to the University of London. Read about it here.

The National Science Foundation has awarded a three-year grant, NSF award #OCI-0721124, to the BOINC project. This will support our development efforts through August 2010.

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT

The National Science Foundation has awarded a three-year grant, NSF award #OCI-0721124, to the BOINC project. This will support our development efforts through August 2010.

The Third Pan-Galactic BOINC Workshop took place 5-6 Sept

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

The Third Pan-Galactic BOINC Workshop took place 5-6 Sept. in Geneva. The proceedings, including talk slides and notes from the breakout sessions, are here.

Check out the SHA-1 Collision Search Graz project, which is based at the Graz University of Technology and does research in cryptography.

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Check out the SHA-1 Collision Search Graz project, which is based at the Graz University of Technology and does research in cryptography.

A one-day session on BOINC will be presented at the Advanced Computing and GRID technologies for Research school in Hanoi, November 5-16, 2007.

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

A one-day session on BOINC will be presented at the Advanced Computing and GRID technologies for Research school in Hanoi, November 5-16, 2007.

Team founders: you can now make your team BOINC-wide, meaning that it will be created on all current and future BOINC projects.

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Team founders: you can now make your team BOINC-wide, meaning that it will be created on all current and future BOINC projects.

A paper about scheduling in BOINC will appear in the 3rd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

A paper about scheduling in BOINC will appear in the 3rd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing. Banagalore, India, December 10-13 2007.

The new BOINC logo is now available in a variety of formats and resolutions.

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

The new BOINC logo is now available in a variety of formats and resolutions.

World Community Grid has announced that it is migrating fully to BOINC. Welcome to all WCG participants!

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT

World Community Grid has announced that it is migrating fully to BOINC. Welcome to all WCG participants!

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.

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT

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.

The Africa@home workshop on volunteer computing with BOINC, sponsored by the Geneva International Academic Network (GIAN), was held recently at the African Institut

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT

The Africa@home workshop on volunteer computing with BOINC, sponsored by the Geneva International Academic Network (GIAN), was held recently at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Muizenberg, South Africa.

A newly-launched project, Eternity2.net, offers a chance to compute for a share of a US$2,000,000 prize.

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT

A newly-launched project, Eternity2.net, offers a chance to compute for a share of a US$2,000,000 prize.

Team leaders: check out the BOINC Team Leaders Forum, a place to chat and discuss team-building on BOINC projects.

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Team leaders: check out the BOINC Team Leaders Forum, a place to chat and discuss team-building on BOINC projects.

If you use the Yahoo! Widget Engine, check out version 1.1 of the BOINC Server Status widget.

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT

If you use the Yahoo! Widget Engine, check out version 1.1 of the BOINC Server Status widget.

BOINC is now the preferred client software at World Community Grid.

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT

BOINC is now the preferred client software at World Community Grid.

Leiden Classical is using BOINC for education - it provides a high-performance computing resource for students of Theoretical Chemistry at Le

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Leiden Classical is using BOINC for education - it provides a high-performance computing resource for students of Theoretical Chemistry at Leiden University.

A growing number of 'skins' for the BOINC simple GUI are available from crunching-family.at.

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT

A growing number of 'skins' for the BOINC simple GUI are available from crunching-family.at. Here's an example.

Welcome to a new web site with cross-project BOINC statistics: Team Starfire World BOINC Stats 'N Stones.

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Welcome to a new web site with cross-project BOINC statistics: Team Starfire World BOINC Stats 'N Stones.

Docking@home is moving from Texas to Delaware

Wed, 04 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Docking@home is moving from Texas to Delaware. Volunteers should detach from the project; you will be emailed when the project is alive in Delaware.

Read Volunteer computing: Grid or not Grid? on International Science Grid This Week.

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Read Volunteer computing: Grid or not Grid? on International Science Grid This Week.

Amir Alexander of The Planetary Society talks about SETI, distributed computing, and space exploration in an interview by Mike of BOINC UK.

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Amir Alexander of The Planetary Society talks about SETI, distributed computing, and space exploration in an interview by Mike of BOINC UK.

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

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

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. Thomas).

Help increase volunteer computing power - publicize BOINC by writing to computer magazines.

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Help increase volunteer computing power - publicize BOINC by writing to computer magazines.

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

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

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 features. You can also see the stats and rankings of an individual volunteer or team across all BOINC projects. Thanks to Markus Tervooren for putting this together!

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.

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

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.

BOINCstats and BAM! are now viewable in Finnish (http://fi.boincstats.com)

Sun, 03 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

BOINCstats and BAM! are now viewable in Finnish (http://fi.boincstats.com).

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

Thu, 31 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT

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 processor, on Linux.

Check out a video promoting BOINC on YouTube.[/url]

Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Check out a video promoting BOINC on YouTube.[/url]

A Flash guide to using BOINC with IBM World Community Grid is available in Czech and English.

Mon, 28 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT

A Flash guide to using BOINC with IBM World Community Grid is available in Czech and English.

The 3rd Pan-Galactic BOINC Workshop will be held 5-6 September 2007 in Geneva, Switzerland.

Mon, 14 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT

The 3rd Pan-Galactic BOINC Workshop will be held 5-6 September 2007 in Geneva, Switzerland.

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

Wed, 09 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT

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 projects. Thanks to Christian Beer for creating this.

As of about May 1, BOINC projects have had over one million volunteers.

Tue, 08 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT

As of about May 1, BOINC projects have had over one million volunteers.

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/

Sun, 06 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT

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 two) and also as a web page. Thanks to Dr. Jordi Portell i de Mora for telling us about it.

BOINCstats and BAM! are now available in 15 languages. As of today, they are now viewable in Swedish ( http://se.boincstats.com).

Sun, 06 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT

BOINCstats and BAM! are now available in 15 languages. As of today, they are now viewable in Swedish ( http://se.boincstats.com).

The source code behind BOINC Combined Stats is now available via Subversion

Thu, 03 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT

The source code behind BOINC Combined Stats is now available via Subversion. This may be helpful for other statistics site developers.

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).

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT

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).

BOINCstats and BAM! are now available in the Czech language (http://cz.boincstats.com). Thanks to Zelvuska for the translation.

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT

BOINCstats and BAM! are now available in the Czech language (http://cz.boincstats.com). Thanks to Zelvuska for the translation.

Krystof Dolezal's Flash-based BOINC tutorials are now available in English and Slovak, as well as Czech.

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Krystof Dolezal's Flash-based BOINC tutorials are now available in English and Slovak, as well as Czech.

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

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT

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 desktop Grid computing.

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;

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT

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; 3) documentation will be moved to a Wiki. See the BOINC/Trac page.

The BBC documentary 'Meltdown', which highlights Climateprediction.net, has been nominated for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts academy

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT

The BBC documentary 'Meltdown', which highlights Climateprediction.net, has been nominated for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts academy award.

Dr

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Dr. Anderson gave the keynote talk, Volunteer Computing: Planting the Flag, at the PCGrid 2007 workshop, held at the IPDPS conference in Long Beach on March 30.

If you can read Czech, czech out some excellent Flash-based BOINC tutorials.

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT

If you can read Czech, czech out some excellent Flash-based BOINC tutorials.

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

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT

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 the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Muizenberg, South Africa, 16-22 July 2007.

Don't use them for postage, but check out the BOINC stamps created by Myster65 and Rebirther.

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Don't use them for postage, but check out the BOINC stamps created by Myster65 and Rebirther.

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

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT

The article Idle Cycles - building distributed applications with BOINC Seil appears in the Oct 2006 issue of Linux Magazine. In it, author Marc Seil provides a detailed description of how to set up a BOINC project.

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

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT

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 hard disk drives for BOINC.

The BOINC web server recently underwent a hardware and software upgrade

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

The BOINC web server recently underwent a hardware and software upgrade. Certain projects and pages may still be offline as we continue to configure the new system.

Marc Seil gave a talk on setting up a BOINC server at the recent LinuxDays conference in Luxembourg. His slides are here.

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Marc Seil gave a talk on setting up a BOINC server at the recent LinuxDays conference in Luxembourg. His slides are here.

GridRepublic has been selected as a finalist for the Web Awards at the 2007 SXSW Interactive Festival

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

GridRepublic has been selected as a finalist for the Web Awards at the 2007 SXSW Interactive Festival. Please click here to cast your vote for them at the SXSW website.

The documentation on Creating BOINC Projects is now available as one big PDF file.

Sat, 03 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

The documentation on Creating BOINC Projects is now available as one big PDF file.

The BOINC FAQ Service answers many questions about using BOINC. It is available in English, German, and Dutch.

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT

The BOINC FAQ Service answers many questions about using BOINC. It is available in English, German, and Dutch.

Check out a TV news segment and a web site about the results of the recently-completed BBC Climate Change Experiment. On January 2

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Check out a TV news segment and a web site about the results of the recently-completed BBC Climate Change Experiment. On January 21 BBC aired a documentary on the results of this project; an excerpt is here.

The paper "Reporting@Home: Delivering Dynamic Graphical Feedback to Participants in Community Computing Projects" describes how Rosetta@home delivers per

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT

The paper "Reporting@Home: Delivering Dynamic Graphical Feedback to Participants in Community Computing Projects" describes how Rosetta@home delivers personalized graphical progress reports to its volunteers.

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.

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT

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.

On Sunday 21 Jan

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT

On Sunday 21 Jan. at 8pm BBC 1 will broadcast Climate Change: Britain Under Threat. This will include results from the BBC and CPDN experiments, and an interview with CPDN staff. In addition, results should appear on the BBC Climate Change website.

The ABC@home project, based at Leiden University in Holland, is now open. ABC@home is studying the ABC conjecture

Sun, 07 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT

The ABC@home project, based at Leiden University in Holland, is now open. ABC@home is studying the ABC conjecture, a major open problem in mathematics.

MySpace users: check out the BOINC on MySpace group.

Sat, 06 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT

MySpace users: check out the BOINC on MySpace group.

A paper about BOINC client scheduling

Fri, 29 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT

A paper about BOINC client scheduling will appear in the Workshop on Large-Scale, Volatile Desktop Grids held in conjunction with the IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), March 30, 2007, Long Beach.

The Proteins@Home project is now open

Thu, 28 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT

The Proteins@Home project is now open. Proteins@Home is a large-scale protein structure prediction project, and is based at the École Polytechnique in Paris.

Some AOL users are unable to attach to some projects. A work-around for this problem is described here.

Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Some AOL users are unable to attach to some projects. A work-around for this problem is described here.

Olaf Bornack of Team BOINC@Halle/Saale has supplied [url=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/http://boinc.berkeley.edu/

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Olaf Bornack of Team BOINC@Halle/Saale has supplied stencils for creating skins for the new BOINC GUI. These have been used to make skins with BOINCcast, BOINC@Halle/Saale, and BOINCmas! themes.

Linux users: check out the new BOINCTail add-on.

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Linux users: check out the new BOINCTail add-on.

BOINC's new Online Help system lets you get help from volunteers by talking with them using Skype. Volunteers speak several languages.

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT

BOINC's new Online Help system lets you get help from volunteers by talking with them using Skype. Volunteers speak several languages.

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

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT

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 army of dedicated volunteers.

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.

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT

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.

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

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT

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. Check it out!

Docking@home participants: the project is unreachable because of a campus-wide network connection failure at Univ

Thu, 23 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Docking@home participants: the project is unreachable because of a campus-wide network connection failure at Univ. of Texas - El Paso. Please check back periodically.

BOINCstats is now available in Spanish. Thanks to Miquel Pericas for the translation. BOINCstats in Spanish can be visited at http://es.boincstats.com.

Wed, 15 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT

BOINCstats is now available in Spanish. Thanks to Miquel Pericas for the translation. BOINCstats in Spanish can be visited at http://es.boincstats.com.

Check out new add-on software: the SETI@home Toolbar for Firefox and IE on Windows (SETI@home-specific), and [url=http://

Tue, 07 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Check out new add-on software: the SETI@home Toolbar for Firefox and IE on Windows (SETI@home-specific), and Boinctray, a system tray application for Linux.

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;

Tue, 07 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT

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; see instructions for how to do this. In addition, the GUI itself is skinnable; a skin consists of an XML file and a collection of images.

Issue 3 of bunc (BOINC UK newsletter) is now online, with articles on a wide range of topics.

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Issue 3 of bunc (BOINC UK newsletter) is now online, with articles on a wide range of topics.

Interested in getting a one-CPU-month job finished in five minutes? BOINC can potentially help you do this, but some work is needed.

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Interested in getting a one-CPU-month job finished in five minutes? BOINC can potentially help you do this, but some work is needed.

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

Sun, 08 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

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 www.lb.shuttle.de.

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=

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

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 BOINC UK or a mirror at Berkeley.

The 2nd Annual Pangalactic BOINC Workshop was held in Geneva on 20-21 September. Read the online workshop proceedings.

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT

The 2nd Annual Pangalactic BOINC Workshop was held in Geneva on 20-21 September. Read the online workshop proceedings.

UW-Madison CAE, the first BOINC user to top the 1 TERAFLOPS barrier, now has surpassed 2 TERAFLOPS

Mon, 11 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT

UW-Madison CAE, the first BOINC user to top the 1 TERAFLOPS barrier, now has surpassed 2 TERAFLOPS. Congratulations!

The Spinhenge project has moved into public beta test, and is accepting new participant accounts.

Sat, 02 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT

The Spinhenge project has moved into public beta test, and is accepting new participant accounts.

GridRepublic, a BOINC account manager, recently moved into beta test. It was written up by CNET.

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT

GridRepublic, a BOINC account manager, recently moved into beta test. It was written up by CNET.

BOINC and SETI@home are featured in an article in Asahi-shinbun, one of the most popular newspapers in Japan.

Sun, 20 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT

BOINC and SETI@home are featured in an article in Asahi-shinbun, one of the most popular newspapers in Japan.

New documents discuss using BOINC for Desktop Grid Computing and for creating Virtual Campus Supercomputing Centers.

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT

New documents discuss using BOINC for Desktop Grid Computing and for creating Virtual Campus Supercomputing Centers.

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]

Tue, 15 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT

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 online.

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

Mon, 14 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT

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 behind these improvements.

An article about Quantum Monte Carlo at Home appeared 03.08.2006 in the German newspaper WAZ.

Fri, 11 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT

An article about Quantum Monte Carlo at Home appeared 03.08.2006 in the German newspaper WAZ.

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.

Thu, 03 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT

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.

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.

Wed, 02 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT

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.

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.

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

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.

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

Tue, 25 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

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 studies a problem in computational geometry. The third, Spinhenge@home, studies molecular magnets and controlled nanoscale magnetism, which may have applications in medicine and biotechnology.

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

Sat, 22 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

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 fill out the survey form again. We apologize for the inconvenience.

The BOINC survey is now available in Japanese. If you'd like to translate it to another language, please contact us.

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

The BOINC survey is now available in Japanese. If you'd like to translate it to another language, please contact us.

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

Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

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.

Articles in Nature, The Economist and [url=http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=16636]W

Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Articles in Nature, The Economist and WebWire describe Africa@home, an initiative that supports African humanitarian causes. Their first BOINC-based project, malariacontrol.net, studies malaria epidemiology. Africa@home is a collaboration of the Swiss Tropical Institute, CERN, and a group of universities (three of them from Africa).

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

Fri, 07 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

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 and function using a novel method called Brownian Dynamics.

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.

Fri, 30 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT

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.

A paper about BOINC's API and runtime system will appear in the SC06 conference.

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT

A paper about BOINC's API and runtime system will appear in the SC06 conference.

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

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT

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 accidental or malicious damage or data theft.

Pav Lucistnik has developed boinc_curses, a Unix console-based program (like 'top') to monitor and control BOINC.

Thu, 22 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Pav Lucistnik has developed boinc_curses, a Unix console-based program (like 'top') to monitor and control BOINC.

BOINCstats and the BAM! account manager are now available in Japanese.

Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT

BOINCstats and the BAM! account manager are now available in Japanese.

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]

Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT

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 here. The new scheduler is in the development version of BOINC, and will appear in the 5.6 release. Volunteer developer John McLeod VII was the driving force behind the new scheduler.

We have added preliminary support for legacy applications that do not use the BOINC API (e.g

Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT

We have added preliminary support for legacy applications that do not use the BOINC API (e.g. because their source code is not available). This feature will work with the next version (5.6) of the BOINC client software.

The BOINC UK Newsletter Circular (bunc) has released its June 2006 edition, featuring an interview with David Anderson.

Sat, 10 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT

The BOINC UK Newsletter Circular (bunc) has released its June 2006 edition, featuring an interview with David Anderson.

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.

Wed, 07 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT

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.

Recent newspaper articles on BOINC and Rosetta@home: Worldwide, 690,000 help computer effort and [url=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420AP_WA_Resear

Wed, 31 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Recent newspaper articles on BOINC and Rosetta@home: Worldwide, 690,000 help computer effort and Medical researcher taps the power of home computing.

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

Tue, 30 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT

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 for developing BAM!.

BOINC has added preliminary support for 'low-latency' computing; e.g

Thu, 25 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT

BOINC has added preliminary support for 'low-latency' computing; e.g. delay bounds of minutes rather than days. This requires having clients contact the server frequently; we've added a mechanism that lets the server specify the connection interval. This will be available in the next release (5.6) of the client software. Projects that are interested in using this mechanism should contact us.

The costs of electricity, both monetary and environmental, are high. Be aware of the energy considerations associated with BOINC and volunteer computing.

Wed, 17 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT

The costs of electricity, both monetary and environmental, are high. Be aware of the energy considerations associated with BOINC and volunteer computing.

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

Thu, 11 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT

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 settings, all with point-and-click simplicity. Account managers are also great if you have several computers - you make changes on the web site, and they take effect on all of your computers. A couple of excellent account managers are nearly ready for use; stay tuned for details.

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[

Tue, 09 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT

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: BOINC.cat, a BOINC site in Catalan, has recently opened.

The latest German BOINCcast discusses ClimatePrediction.net; earlier BOINCcasts cover SIMAP, LHC@home, and uFluids.

Sun, 30 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT

The latest German BOINCcast discusses ClimatePrediction.net; earlier BOINCcasts cover SIMAP, LHC@home, and uFluids.

The CERN Courier's Computer Newsletter features an article on BOINC activities at CERN.

Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT

The CERN Courier's Computer Newsletter features an article on BOINC activities at CERN.

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

Thu, 13 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT

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 powerful supercomputer by a wide margin. Congratulations and thanks to everyone!

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

Thu, 13 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT

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 framework for building their own applications.

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

Thu, 06 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Thanks to the efforts of volunteers, BOINC is now officially part of the Debian Linux distribution. Packages for the BOINC core client and Manager are available for 13 different platforms (alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-i386, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc).

Windows users: new versions of Intellipoint and [url=http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/

Tue, 04 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Windows users: new versions of Intellipoint and Intellitype are available from Microsoft. Upgrading to these may fix problems with the BOINC screensaver.

BOINCstats.com is one of several excellent web sites showing BOINC statistics. It's available in a number of languages, now including Chinese.

Mon, 03 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT

BOINCstats.com is one of several excellent web sites showing BOINC statistics. It's available in a number of languages, now including Chinese.

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

Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT

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 is a high-resolution simulation of the world's climate, and is recommended only for computers with at least 1 GB of RAM, and a 2.4GHz Pentium or faster processor.

Tony/Knightrider/Chuggybus has created BOINC coinage. See the large and small versions. The Latin text means 'Berkeley open and shared resources'.

Sun, 05 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Tony/Knightrider/Chuggybus has created BOINC coinage. See the large and small versions. The Latin text means 'Berkeley open and shared resources'.

Quantum Monte Carlo at Home announces the public release of the first chemistry BOINC project.

Fri, 03 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Quantum Monte Carlo at Home announces the public release of the first chemistry BOINC project. This project, based at the University of Münster in Germany, studies the structure and reactivity of molecules using Quantum Chemistry, whose vastly complex equations require huge amounts of computing power.

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

Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

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 the Condor manual.

BOINC announces its support for the Macintosh/Intel platform.

Wed, 22 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

BOINC announces its support for the Macintosh/Intel platform.

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

Sun, 19 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

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 the projects that use BOINC.

View a video clip about the BBC Climate Change Experiment.

Wed, 15 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

View a video clip about the BBC Climate Change Experiment.

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

Tue, 14 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

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, February 20th, for UK BOINCers). Simplified client software is available at bbc.co.uk/climatechange. Experienced BOINCers can attach to http://bbc.cpdn.org (check out the new graphics!). Be warned that a 160-year climate simulation is a long workunit even by Climateprediction.net's extravagant standards. But if you have a fast machine and are prepared to give us first call on your CPU, just for the next couple of months, then you could see your results in a second BBC television programme scheduled for May.

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

Wed, 08 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

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 binary number systems (bases are matrices and digits are vectors) up to dimension 11.

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

Mon, 06 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

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. It provides a public database of the resulting data, which plays a key role in many bioinformatics research projects. SIMAP is the first German BOINC-based project.

A story about SETI@home's transition to BOINC appears in the Nature web site.

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT

A story about SETI@home's transition to BOINC appears in the Nature web site.

A new paper, The Computational and Storage Potential of Volunteer Computing, explores the limits of BOINC-based projects.

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT

A new paper, The Computational and Storage Potential of Volunteer Computing, explores the limits of BOINC-based projects.

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

Fri, 09 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT

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 Technology.

We have created a new email list, boinc_announce@ssl.berkeley.edu, for announcements of new versions of BOINC client software.

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT

We have created a new email list, boinc_announce@ssl.berkeley.edu, for announcements of new versions of BOINC client software.

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

Sun, 27 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Check out A BOINC seminar by Juan Antonio Lopez Perez of CERN, presented at CIEMAT in Madrid, November 2005. Also available in a print version.

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

Tue, 15 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT

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 contribution to BOINC project.

IBM's World Community Grid has launched a BOINC-based project (currenly Linux only).

Tue, 01 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT

IBM's World Community Grid has launched a BOINC-based project (currenly Linux only).

David Anderson talks about BOINC and volunteer computing in a podcast at www.enterpriseleadership.org.

Fri, 28 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT

David Anderson talks about BOINC and volunteer computing in a podcast at www.enterpriseleadership.org.

Version 5.2.2 of the BOINC client software has been released. It includes a simpler registration procedure, security enhancements, and numerous other improvements.

Thu, 20 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Version 5.2.2 of the BOINC client software has been released. It includes a simpler registration procedure, security enhancements, and numerous other improvements.

Rosetta@home, a BOINC-based project at the University of Washington, has launched and is seeking participants. Its goal is "..

Sun, 25 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Rosetta@home, a BOINC-based project at the University of Washington, has launched and is seeking participants. Its goal is "... to develop methods that accurately predict and design protein structures and complexes, an endeavor that may ultimately help researchers develop cures for human diseases."

High-Performance Task Distribution for Volunteer Computing, a paper about BOINC server performance, will appear in the e-Science 2005 conference in December.

Fri, 23 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT

High-Performance Task Distribution for Volunteer Computing, a paper about BOINC server performance, will appear in the e-Science 2005 conference in December.

Searching for Gravity @ Home[/url], an article about Einstein@home and BOINC, appears in the September 2005 issue of IEEE's The Institute.

Tue, 06 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Searching for Gravity @ Home[/url], an article about Einstein@home and BOINC, appears in the September 2005 issue of IEEE's The Institute.

A conversation with David Anderson in ACM Queue Magazine.

Mon, 29 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMT

A conversation with David Anderson in ACM Queue Magazine.

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.

Sun, 14 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMT

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.

BOINC is transitioning to use libcurl for HTTP operations. This will allow BOINC to use HTTPS (secure HTTP) for scheduler requests and file transfers.

Tue, 09 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMT

BOINC is transitioning to use libcurl for HTTP operations. This will allow BOINC to use HTTPS (secure HTTP) for scheduler requests and file transfers.

Non-open-source code (RSAEuro and GLUT) has been removed from BOINC. OpenSSL's crypto library is used for encryption.

Wed, 03 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Non-open-source code (RSAEuro and GLUT) has been removed from BOINC. OpenSSL's crypto library is used for encryption.

A group of students from Cornell have written Distributing Science, a very nice article about BOINC and some of the projects using it.

Mon, 25 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMT

A group of students from Cornell have written Distributing Science, a very nice article about BOINC and some of the projects using it.

A paper by Jakob Pedersen and Christian Søttrup discusses the interoperation of the Grid and BOINC.

Sun, 24 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMT

A paper by Jakob Pedersen and Christian Søttrup discusses the interoperation of the Grid and BOINC.

BOINC statistics sites continue to evolve. Check out Every Earthly Hour, developed by Hydnum Repandum

Sat, 25 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT

BOINC statistics sites continue to evolve. Check out Every Earthly Hour, developed by Hydnum Repandum

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

Fri, 24 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT

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 for applications that are optimized for specific architectures or that use non-CPU computing resources such as GPUs.

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

Fri, 24 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT

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're running (this can be less than one on systems that run compute-intensive tasks other than BOINC); 2) we dynamically maintain a per-project upper bound on the ratio of actual CPU time to predicted CPU time.

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

Fri, 24 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT

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-deadline-first scheduling. When the simulator predicts that fetching additional work will cause a deadline to be missed, it suspends work fetch.

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

Fri, 24 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT

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, change, or get updated account info from an account manager.

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

Fri, 24 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT

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 able to do GUI activities.

Climateprediction.net is featured in an article in the journal of the Institute of Electrical Engineers.

Thu, 16 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Climateprediction.net is featured in an article in the journal of the Institute of Electrical Engineers.

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

Fri, 03 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT

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 are Wikis, participants can add and modify content.

BOINC is featured in The Berkeley Science Review.

Tue, 31 May 2005 00:00:00 GMT

BOINC is featured in The Berkeley Science Review.

Eric Myers and Charlie Fenton have written excellent documents on how to compile BOINC and BOINC applications on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

Sat, 14 May 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Eric Myers and Charlie Fenton have written excellent documents on how to compile BOINC and BOINC applications on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

BOINC and BOINC-based projects are discussed in the article 'Grassroots Computing' in the May 6 2005 issue of Science magazine.

Wed, 11 May 2005 00:00:00 GMT

BOINC and BOINC-based projects are discussed in the article 'Grassroots Computing' in the May 6 2005 issue of Science magazine.

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.

Tue, 10 May 2005 00:00:00 GMT

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.

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

Tue, 10 May 2005 00:00:00 GMT

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 CPU scheduling and work-fetch policies to address this issue.

Many BOINC applications have interactive graphics (e.g

Tue, 10 May 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Many BOINC applications have interactive graphics (e.g. you can zoom in/out using the mouse). For apps that use the latest BOINC API, you can interact even when in screensaver mode - just hold down the control key.

We finally have an installer and GUI for Mac OS X! It is available as a development version, and will become the standard version soon.

Tue, 10 May 2005 00:00:00 GMT

We finally have an installer and GUI for Mac OS X! It is available as a development version, and will become the standard version soon.

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.

Mon, 11 Apr 2005 00:00:00 GMT

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.

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

Tue, 08 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT

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 news item. Both are available on the Download page.

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

Sat, 19 Feb 2005 00:00:00 GMT

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 from the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors.

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

Thu, 17 Feb 2005 00:00:00 GMT

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 simplify participation in multiple projects. Security enhancement: all application files are digitally signed.

BOINC source code is now distributed under the Lesser GNU Public License (LPGL).

Thu, 20 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT

BOINC source code is now distributed under the Lesser GNU Public License (LPGL).

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

Wed, 19 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT

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 than any conventional supercomputer.

BOINC's message board system supports moderation.

Tue, 18 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT

BOINC's message board system supports moderation.

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

Mon, 10 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT

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' of data files for which work is distributed.

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.

Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT

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.

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

Fri, 10 Dec 2004 00:00:00 GMT

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 graphics code resides in a dynamically loaded library.

Added prioritization to work distribution.

Mon, 06 Dec 2004 00:00:00 GMT

Added prioritization to work distribution.

We have created a new email list, boinc_cvs@ssl.berkeley.edu. A summary of each CVS checkin to the BOINC source tree will be posted to this list.

Fri, 03 Dec 2004 00:00:00 GMT

We have created a new email list, boinc_cvs@ssl.berkeley.edu. A summary of each CVS checkin to the BOINC source tree will be posted to this list.

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.

Thu, 02 Dec 2004 00:00:00 GMT

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.

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

Sun, 21 Nov 2004 00:00:00 GMT

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 suspend/resume projects and results, and project-specific web links. It uses a socket-based GUI RPC mechanism, which makes it possible to develop other GUIs, including ones that control many hosts.

We have developed a new Windows installer that lets you run BOINC as a service, and that is compatible with the Microsoft MSI framework.

Sun, 21 Nov 2004 00:00:00 GMT

We have developed a new Windows installer that lets you run BOINC as a service, and that is compatible with the Microsoft MSI framework.

The application graphics framework now works on all platforms, including Mac OS X.

Sun, 21 Nov 2004 00:00:00 GMT

The application graphics framework now works on all platforms, including Mac OS X.

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.

Sun, 21 Nov 2004 00:00:00 GMT

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.

The message-board system now supports self-moderation (i.e., 'ignore lists').

Sun, 21 Nov 2004 00:00:00 GMT

The message-board system now supports self-moderation (i.e., 'ignore lists').

BOINC servers can now use read-only database replicas for increased throughput.

Sun, 21 Nov 2004 00:00:00 GMT

BOINC servers can now use read-only database replicas for increased throughput.

XML Schemas for the statistics data exported by BOINC projects is here, and graphical representations are here.

Tue, 21 Sep 2004 00:00:00 GMT

XML Schemas for the statistics data exported by BOINC projects is here, and graphical representations are here.

We have created an email list, boinc_opt@ssl.berkeley.edu, for people interested in porting and optimizing BOINC applications. Sign up here.

Tue, 14 Sep 2004 00:00:00 GMT

We have created an email list, boinc_opt@ssl.berkeley.edu, for people interested in porting and optimizing BOINC applications. Sign up here.

We are working on a new type of work distribution, called Locality scheduling, that sends work to hosts that already have the needed files.

Sat, 11 Sep 2004 00:00:00 GMT

We are working on a new type of work distribution, called Locality scheduling, that sends work to hosts that already have the needed files.

The Lattice project from the University of Maryland is developing a Grid system that integrates Globus, BOINC, and several other software components.

Mon, 06 Sep 2004 00:00:00 GMT

The Lattice project from the University of Maryland is developing a Grid system that integrates Globus, BOINC, and several other software components.

The new project LHC@home announces its first beta test, initially restricted to 1000 users. Please sign up at lhcathome.cern.ch.

Wed, 01 Sep 2004 00:00:00 GMT

The new project LHC@home announces its first beta test, initially restricted to 1000 users. Please sign up at lhcathome.cern.ch.

The Climateprediction.net project is now open to the public.

Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:00:00 GMT

The Climateprediction.net project is now open to the public.

Users can choose whether applications should quit or suspend when they're not executing.

Fri, 06 Aug 2004 00:00:00 GMT

Users can choose whether applications should quit or suspend when they're not executing.

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.

Thu, 05 Aug 2004 00:00:00 GMT

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.

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

Thu, 05 Aug 2004 00:00:00 GMT

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 directories.

The Climateprediction.net project recently held an Open Day, describing its status and its plans to use BOINC.

Tue, 03 Aug 2004 00:00:00 GMT

The Climateprediction.net project recently held an Open Day, describing its status and its plans to use BOINC.

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

Fri, 09 Jul 2004 00:00:00 GMT

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 running in the same slot, and that cause applications to exit if the core client dies.

We changed the SQL queries used by the performance-critical server components, such as the transitioner and feeder, to boost maximum server throughput.

Fri, 09 Jul 2004 00:00:00 GMT

We changed the SQL queries used by the performance-critical server components, such as the transitioner and feeder, to boost maximum server throughput.

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

Fri, 09 Jul 2004 00:00:00 GMT

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 replaces the min/max buffer parameter, and the policy matches the requirements of the CPU-scheduling policy.

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.

Fri, 09 Jul 2004 00:00:00 GMT

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.

The statistics export mechanism has been redesigned to give projects more control over what they export; e.g

Sun, 20 Jun 2004 00:00:00 GMT

The statistics export mechanism has been redesigned to give projects more control over what they export; e.g. they can shift the burden of sorting to statistics web sites.

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.

Wed, 16 Jun 2004 00:00:00 GMT

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. Option for allowing GUI RPCs from non-local hosts. Check for keyboard/mouse input in Unix. Support for name/password authentication for HTTP proxies.

BOINC news is available as an RSS feed; see Community and Resources.

Mon, 31 May 2004 00:00:00 GMT

BOINC news is available as an RSS feed; see Community and Resources.

CPU benchmarking (and credit) are now based on the Dhrystone and Whetstone benchmarks. Memory bandwidth is no longer measured.

Wed, 19 May 2004 00:00:00 GMT

CPU benchmarking (and credit) are now based on the Dhrystone and Whetstone benchmarks. Memory bandwidth is no longer measured.

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

Tue, 18 May 2004 00:00:00 GMT

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 homogeneous redundancy mechanism.

General preferences are now propagated from client to server, but only to accounts with the same email address as where the preferences originated.

Sun, 02 May 2004 00:00:00 GMT

General preferences are now propagated from client to server, but only to accounts with the same email address as where the preferences originated.

Added cross-project identification system. Added support for caching of PHP web pages, and restored leaderboard pages.

Tue, 20 Apr 2004 00:00:00 GMT

Added cross-project identification system. Added support for caching of PHP web pages, and restored leaderboard pages.

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

Mon, 12 Apr 2004 00:00:00 GMT

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 apps; SOCKS proxy support; separate suspend/resume for network activity; fix race conditions in server; add file compression code. See checkin_notes for details.

An unauthorized BOINC graphic.

Tue, 16 Mar 2004 00:00:00 GMT

An unauthorized BOINC graphic.

BOINC is being used at the Scripps Research Institute to run a distributed version of CHARMM (a program for macromolecular simulations).

Wed, 11 Feb 2004 00:00:00 GMT

BOINC is being used at the Scripps Research Institute to run a distributed version of CHARMM (a program for macromolecular simulations).

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

Sun, 01 Feb 2004 00:00:00 GMT

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 themselves, should they so desire.

The BOINC core client now provides a set of RPCs allowing separate GUIs to be developed.

Thu, 22 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT

The BOINC core client now provides a set of RPCs allowing separate GUIs to be developed.

A paper about the goals of BOINC was presented at a recent conference.

Wed, 26 Nov 2003 00:00:00 GMT

A paper about the goals of BOINC was presented at a recent conference.

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.

Wed, 26 Nov 2003 00:00:00 GMT

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.

The beta test project is accepting new users. CPU time measurement accuracy improved. Scheduler respects disk usage limits. Web site can issue cookies.

Tue, 25 Nov 2003 00:00:00 GMT

The beta test project is accepting new users. CPU time measurement accuracy improved. Scheduler respects disk usage limits. Web site can issue cookies.

The graphics of running application are updated whenever preferences are changed. The scheduler now issues only as many results as will fit in the allotted amount of disk space.

Wed, 05 Nov 2003 00:00:00 GMT

The graphics of running application are updated whenever preferences are changed. The scheduler now issues only as many results as will fit in the allotted amount of disk space.

New minor versions of the core client and beta-test apps have been released. XML statistics data for the beta test is available; it's intended for graphical or tabular representation.

Thu, 30 Oct 2003 00:00:00 GMT

New minor versions of the core client and beta-test apps have been released. XML statistics data for the beta test is available; it's intended for graphical or tabular representation.

A SETI@home application has been added to the beta test. The scheduling server detect results that can't be sent to any hosts, and flags them. HTTP 404 errors on downloads are treated as unrecoverable. Graphics can be limited by frame rate or percent of

Sat, 18 Oct 2003 00:00:00 GMT

A SETI@home application has been added to the beta test. The scheduling server detect results that can't be sent to any hosts, and flags them. HTTP 404 errors on downloads are treated as unrecoverable. Graphics can be limited by frame rate or percent of CPU. Don't send two results from the same workunit to a single user. Added JPEG support to application graphics. Added "confirm before accept executable" mechanism.

BOINC is discussed in an article by Joan Oleck in the New York TImes.

Thu, 11 Sep 2003 00:00:00 GMT

BOINC is discussed in an article by Joan Oleck in the New York TImes.

We've released BOINC version 2.0. All BOINC components must be upgraded to major version 2. We've upgraded the Astropulse server to 2.01 and released [url=http://setiboinc.ssl.Berkeley.edu/ap/download.php]BOI

Thu, 04 Sep 2003 00:00:00 GMT

We've released BOINC version 2.0. All BOINC components must be upgraded to major version 2. We've upgraded the Astropulse server to 2.01 and released BOINC core client 2.01. This was due to an architecture and protocol change in specifying resource estimates and limits.

BOINC server tools are now Python-based

Mon, 01 Sep 2003 00:00:00 GMT

BOINC server tools are now Python-based. A database back-end API allows quick development of data-manipulation utilities.

We rewrote parts of the scheduling server architecture to make operations more flexible and efficient. The timeout_check daemon has been replaced by a more general transitioner daemon.

Fri, 15 Aug 2003 00:00:00 GMT

We rewrote parts of the scheduling server architecture to make operations more flexible and efficient. The timeout_check daemon has been replaced by a more general transitioner daemon.

We've added two new web-site features for BOINC projects: user profiles and message boards. These are visible on the beta-test web site.

Fri, 25 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT

We've added two new web-site features for BOINC projects: user profiles and message boards. These are visible on the beta-test web site.

The BOINC source code is available again, under a new public license. Version 1.05 incorporates bug fixes and new features, including the ability to add your own graphics to the screensaver. The beta test has been

Wed, 23 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT

The BOINC source code is available again, under a new public license. Version 1.05 incorporates bug fixes and new features, including the ability to add your own graphics to the screensaver. The beta test has been resumed, and the scheduling server and database have been moved to a new machine.

XML based statistics for the Astropulse beta test are available.

Tue, 10 Jun 2003 00:00:00 GMT

XML based statistics for the Astropulse beta test are available.

No big news to report, but thanks to the beta test we've fixed a number of bugs, involving runaway applications, too-large output files, screensaver behavior, and mechanisms for quitting and resetting projects.

Fri, 30 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT

No big news to report, but thanks to the beta test we've fixed a number of bugs, involving runaway applications, too-large output files, screensaver behavior, and mechanisms for quitting and resetting projects.

We have created a second project, allowing beta testers to experiment with dividing their resources between multiple projects.

Tue, 29 Apr 2003 00:00:00 GMT

We have created a second project, allowing beta testers to experiment with dividing their resources between multiple projects.

We have resumed the BOINC beta test.

Wed, 23 Apr 2003 00:00:00 GMT

We have resumed the BOINC beta test.

we are suspending the BOINC beta test

Wed, 09 Apr 2003 00:00:00 GMT

Due to a legal issue, we are suspending the BOINC beta test, and we have requested that BOINC source code no longer be available at Sourceforge.net. We hope to resolve this issue soon.

We are preparing a BOINC-based version of SETI@home

Mon, 31 Mar 2003 00:00:00 GMT

We are preparing a BOINC-based version of SETI@home. See a preview of the graphics.

Non-English language.ini files are available

Tue, 25 Mar 2003 00:00:00 GMT

Non-English language.ini files are available. Preferences include time-of-day restrictions. Core client and applications communicate via shared memory and signals rather than files, reducing disk traffic.

New account parameters and preferences

Wed, 19 Mar 2003 00:00:00 GMT

New account parameters and preferences: URL, limit number of processors, frequency of writes to disk, whether to show your computers on the web.

Participants can have separate preferences (such as network and disk usage limits) for computers at home, work, and school.

Tue, 04 Mar 2003 00:00:00 GMT

Participants can have separate preferences (such as network and disk usage limits) for computers at home, work, and school.

Participants can limit their upstream and downstream network bandwidth.

Tue, 25 Feb 2003 00:00:00 GMT

Participants can limit their upstream and downstream network bandwidth.

Participants can control the parameters (color, transparency, timing) of the Astropulse graphics.

Sat, 22 Feb 2003 00:00:00 GMT

Participants can control the parameters (color, transparency, timing) of the Astropulse graphics.

New feature: secure, verified email address update.

Wed, 19 Feb 2003 00:00:00 GMT

New feature: secure, verified email address update.

A screenshot of the BOINC client

Wed, 29 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT

A screenshot of the BOINC client running AstroPulse, our first test application.

We have started a beta test of BOINC

Tue, 10 Dec 2002 00:00:00 GMT

We have started a beta test of BOINC using the Astropulse application. Many bugs have been found and fixed.

BOINC is under development

Sat, 24 Aug 2002 00:00:00 GMT

BOINC is under development. The basic features are working on UNIX platforms. We plan to release the first public application of BOINC later this year.