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24-hour average: 15.038 PetaFLOPS.
Active: 176,850 volunteers, 649,353 computers.

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jeidler is contributing 6,480 GFLOPS.
Country: Austria; Team: Gridcoin

BOINC Workshop 2017
The BOINC Workshop 2017 will be held 6-8 Sept in Paris. Everyone with a significant involvement in BOINC is welcome to attend. Thanks to Marius Millea and the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris for hosting, and to Laurence Field and David Wallom for organizing.
14 Jul 2017, 17:31:11 UTC · Discuss

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Welcome Xansons4COD
XANSONS for COD is a research project aimed at creating an open access database of simulated x-ray and neutron powder diffraction patterns for the nanocrystalline phase of the materials presented in the Crystallography Open Database (COD). Xansons4COD is supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research.
2 Jul 2017, 0:11:56 UTC · Discuss

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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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