BOINC
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  • 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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To contribute to science areas (biomedicine, physics, astronomy, and so on) use Science United. Your computer will help current and future projects in those areas.

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News from BOINC Projects

[TN-Grid] The end of the FANTOM-1 experiment

At our current pace the remaining workunits related to the very long and computational intensive OneGenE FANTOM-1 experiment (started in March 2018) will be distributed in more or less two days. This will be the end of this job.

For the future of the gene@home project please look at this thread
https://gene.disi.unitn.it/test/forum_thread.php?id=366

View article · Fri, 7 Apr 2023 14:11:13 +0000


[World Community Grid] New team member and research projects at SCC

The SCC team shared news about the next phase of their research and introduced a new team member who will help with computational modeling for developing new cancer-treating drugs.

View article · Thu, 6 Apr 2023 15:31:03 +0000


[SRBase] planned downtime tomorrow (done)

Iam expecting around 30-40min for upgrading RAM and some updates.

View article · Tue, 4 Apr 2023 17:21:59 +0000


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BOINC workshop video
A video of the recent BOINC workshop is now available on YouTube.
16 Mar 2023, 8:06:31 UTC · Discuss


BOINC Workshop 2023 to be held March 1 and 8
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
3 Jan 2023, 0:50:15 UTC · Discuss


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


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