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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News from BOINC Projects

[Milkyway@home] Server Maintenance 6/28/2023 12 PM EDT (4 PM UTC)

Hey Everyone,

I'll be shutting the server down for about an hour or two tomorrow at noon EDT (4 PM UTC) to take care of the loads of WUs stuck waiting for validation. They are from leftover Separation WUs trickling in after the project was shut off. Unfortunately I do not think that credit will be given out for these stuck WUs, as they were turned in after the project was shut down, and the validator is not running to give people credit.

N-body WUs will not be affected by this, and all credit will be assigned as per usual for N-body WUs.

Best,
Tom

View article · Tue, 27 Jun 2023 17:02:13 +0000


[World Community Grid] Upcoming System Outage July 25th

On July 25th, all systems will be down, including our website/forums and BOINC.

View article · Fri, 23 Jun 2023 20:59:21 +0000


[NumberFields@home] Subfield 3 Officially Complete

I am pleased to report that the search over ℚ(√2), also known affectionately as "subfield 3", is now officially 100% complete.

This search has been in the works, off and on, for several years. It goes without saying that this is a major computational achievement. We couldn't have done it without all the volunteers, so I thank you all!

The batch status tables have been updated accordingly with subfield 3 moved to the archives. The results of the search can be found here.

View article · Fri, 23 Jun 2023 06:41:29 +0000


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News

Client version 7.22 released
A new version of the BOINC client is available for Windows, Mac, and Android. Download it here. Release notes are here. Thanks to BOINC volunteer developers and testers.
21 Jun 2023, 23:20:38 UTC · Discuss


Control BOINC from Home Assistant
A control for BOINC is available for the Home Assistant home automation system, making it possible to control BOINC in response to various environmental factors.
30 May 2023, 7:58:34 UTC · Discuss


Welcome YAFU
The goal of the YAFU project is to factor numbers of up to 149 digits which are needed to bring Aliquot Sequences to a size of at least 140.
25 Apr 2023, 8:26:52 UTC · Discuss


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