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24-hour average: 14.540 PetaFLOPS.
Active: 195,329 volunteers, 1,109,729 computers.

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forest is contributing 7,930 GFLOPS.
Country: Czech Republic; Team: Czech National Team

BOINC Monitor 9.70 released
BOINC Monitor is a very cool Windows gadget for monitoring the progress of lots of tasks. Version 9.70 was released recently.
15 Jun 2017, 7:33:03 UTC · Discuss

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NSF funds new model for BOINC
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.
6 Jun 2017, 21:15:59 UTC · Discuss

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BOINC story in Nature Index
A story in Nature Index discusses volunteer computing.
24 Feb 2017, 19:41:45 UTC · Discuss

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BOINC:FAST'2017 conference announced
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.
27 Dec 2016, 2:56:54 UTC · Discuss

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Thanks to Kathryn for 10 years of moderation
Kathryn Marks has been moderating the BOINC message boards for 10 years now. Her contributions have been stellar, and are much appreciated. Thanks, Kathryn!
20 Dec 2016, 1:29:00 UTC · Discuss

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