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24-hour average: 21.540 PetaFLOPS.
Active: 167,107 volunteers, 840,399 computers.

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John is contributing 15,163 GFLOPS.
Team: OS/2 Warp

BOINC Workshop 2018
The 2018 BOINC Workshop will be held July 24-27 at the University of Oxford, England.
5 Apr 2018, 0:07:25 UTC · Discuss

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USB-bootable BOINC/Linux image available
PADOLF@home is a bootable image containing the BOINC client and GUI, current GPU drivers, and Debian. Copy it to a 4GB+ flash drive, and run BOINC on any Intel computer (32 or 64 bit).
2 Apr 2018, 20:19:48 UTC · Discuss

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DENIS@home returns
The DENIS@Home project, based at San Jorge University, Zaragoza, Spain, is back online.
21 Mar 2018, 0:42:26 UTC · Discuss

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Einstein@Home pulsar paper published
A paper about Einstein@Home's discovery of a radio-quiet gamma-ray pulsar was published recently in Science Advances.
2 Mar 2018, 9:46:41 UTC · Discuss

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Client version 7.8.6 released for Mac
This version fixes screensaver functionality on Mac OS 10.13 High Sierra.
15 Jan 2018, 5:54:38 UTC · Discuss

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