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[Asteroids@home] Server issues resolved

For the past few days a protection module on our web server was rejecting a large share of incoming requests. It affected not only the website, but also scheduler requests and result uploads, so many of you ran into failed uploads and reports, and pages that loaded only every other try.

The cause has been identified and the module is now switched off. The website, the scheduler and the upload server are all responding normally again.

There is nothing you need to do — the BOINC client retries uploads and reports on its own, so pending results should go through automatically. If a transfer stays stuck, "Retry now" on the Transfers tab will push it along.

We are still working on what set this off in the first place: unusually heavy automated traffic on the project pages. Thank you for your patience.

Radim Vanco (FoxKyong)

View article · Tue, 1 Sep 2026 18:33:42 +0000

[SETI@home] Article on SETI@home in Space Daily

An excellent article about SETI@home appeared yesterday in Space Daily.

View article · Mon, 31 Aug 2026 07:06:19 +0000

[PrimeGrid] Baengno Challenge

From September 7 14:41 to September 12 14:41 PrimeGrid will be running a 5 day challenge on the Sierpinski/Riesel Base 5 project. Note the unusual start and end times! For more information, please see this forum thread.

View article · Sun, 30 Aug 2026 15:45:21 +0000

[SRBase] base S136 Megaprime

SkyHighWeFly, a member of the team Antarctic Crunchers found a megaprime for base S136.
The prime 16165*136^487629+1 has 1.040.380 digits and entered the T5k PrimePages.

View article · Sat, 29 Aug 2026 13:09:01 +0000

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BOINC Dashboard available for Linux
BOINC Dashboard is lightweight, self-hosted web dashboard for monitoring a BOINC client running on a local machine, without needing to open BOINC Manager and reconnect every time.
23 Aug 2026, 1:32:10 UTC · Discuss

Willy de Zutter has passed away
We are deeply saddened to learn of Willy's passing; some details are here. Willy was a staunch and tireless supporter of BOINC from its earliest days; he created BAM! and BOINCstats, widely-used account manager and statistics sites. He will be remembered, and missed.
28 Jul 2026, 21:00:01 UTC · Discuss

New add-on available: BOINC-RPC
BOINC-RPC displays your current BOINC status in your Discord profile, including: number of active tasks, task progress, and task runtime.
5 Jun 2026, 8:13:47 UTC · Discuss

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