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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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[iThena] Merry Christmas 2022

On the occasion of Christmas, the project team extends best wishes to everyone.

Much health.
Much happiness.
Much success.
Happy Christmas.
Fast computers and lots of credits ;)

View article · Sat, 24 Dec 2022 23:44:14 +0000

[SIDock@home] Merry Christmas!

Dear participants,

We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

With your help, we have performed a lot of computer modeling. We are going to continue, and believe the results will lead to advances in drug development! For now, we have a fresh new release of CmDock and will employ it starting from the next target. Here is an illustration of the modeling performed in the project, visualized with PyMOL. You can see a large molecule (this is the target, TMPRSS2 protein) with a molecule many times smaller. The small molecules are ligands, each of them can interact with the target in its own way, with its own binding energy.

The more precisely the ligand binds to the target, the higher the chance that it will be able to change the functioning of the large molecule. For example, the TMPRSS2 enzyme shown in the image is necessary for a chemical reaction allowing the coronavirus to enter the body cells and, accordingly, a substance that can suppress the normal operation of this enzyme can make it difficult or block the spread of the coronavirus in it. During the modeling performed on your computers, various ligands from the library are tested, and the best ones are selected to process on next stages of drug development.

All the best,
Natalia, Marko, hoarfrost, Črtomir

View article · Sat, 24 Dec 2022 17:13:03 +0000

[SRBase] Intel ARC apps deployed

for Windows and Linux, to enable it in your prefs, choose Intel

This is still in test to tweak the plan_class to get work. Iam hoping to avoid Intel HD Graphics if you have both onboard.

View article · Sat, 24 Dec 2022 09:48:41 +0000

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Uania fights COVID with SiDock and Science United
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.
4 Oct 2022, 4:39:37 UTC · Discuss

BOINC client 7.20.2 released
A new version of the client has been released for Windows and Mac OS. Download it here. Release notes are here.
27 Jul 2022, 0:46:28 UTC · Discuss

BOINC in Retrospect
Read BOINC in Retrospect, an essay on the history of BOINC.
15 Jun 2022, 8:53:46 UTC · Discuss

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