- BOINC lets you help cutting-edge science research using your computer. The BOINC app, running on your computer, downloads scientific computing jobs and runs them invisibly in the background. It's easy and safe.
- About 30 science projects use BOINC. They investigate diseases, study climate change, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research.
- The BOINC and Science United projects are located at the University of California, Berkeley and are supported by the National Science Foundation.
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[PrimeGrid] GFN 19 Found!
On 13 April 2024, 03:42:53 UTC, PrimeGrid's Generalized Fermat Prime Search found the Mega Prime: 8630170^524288+1 The prime is 3,636,472 digits long and will enter “The Largest Known Primes Database” ranked 11th for Generalized Fermat primes and 83rd overall. The discovery was made by Antonio Lucendo (Trotador) of Spain using a dual CPU AMD EPYC 7B13 64-Core Processor @ 2.20GHz with 173GB RAM, running Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS. This computer took about 4 hours, 45 minutes to complete the probable prime (PRP) test using Genefer22. Antonio Lucendo is a member of the XtremeSystems team. The PRP was confirmed prime on 14 April 2024 by an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D @ 4.2GHz, running Debian 12.5. This computer took about 26 hours, 11 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. For more details, please see the official announcement.
View article · Tue, 23 Apr 2024 15:26:08 +0000
[LHC@home] 20th BOINC Workshop May 29-31
The registration is now open for the 2024 BOINC Workshop -- this year in person, at CERN.
https://indico.cern.ch/event/1379525/overview
Please register if you plan to attend.
View article · Mon, 22 Apr 2024 09:21:39 +0000
[YAFU] Aliquot sequence 28^95 has terminated!!!
Aliquot sequence 28^95 has terminated!!!
View article · Sun, 21 Apr 2024 06:57:42 +0000
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BOINC wins a prize
BOINC is a prize winner in the WSIS competition for E-Science projects. Congratulations to all of us!
18 Apr 2024, 3:11:38 UTC
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BOINC needs your vote (by Thu 4 April) for a UN-sponsored award
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.
25 Mar 2024, 22:06:52 UTC
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BOINC in schools
Registration is open for The Computation Moonshot, a competition for high schools which encourages students to learn about scientific computing.
13 Feb 2024, 9:36:35 UTC
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