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[LODA] 140,000 Programs Milestone Reached

We are excited to announce that the LODA BOINC project has reached an significant milestone: over 140,000 programs discovered! This marks a major advancement in our mission to automatically generate programs for integer sequences from the OEIS. Thanks to your support, we now have program coverage for entire classes of sequences that previously had no program coverage at all.

We have launched a public API that enables programmatic access to the LODA database, allowing developers and researchers to query, analyze, and work with LODA programs at scale. Our new Model Context Protocol (MCP) server integration now allows AI chatbots to interact directly with LODA. Users can analyze integer sequences, execute LODA programs, and even submit new programs using conversational AI interfaces.

The Top Users page has been improved to better highlight your contributions, now featuring an additional column showing the number of programs mined by each user.

Thank you for your continued support, and for contributing your computing power and expertise to the project!

View article · Fri, 3 Oct 2025 14:22:15 +0000

[YAFU] Aliquot sequence 3435572 and 3627228 have terminated!!!

Aliquot sequence 3435572 and 3627228 have terminated!!!

View article · Thu, 2 Oct 2025 20:23:13 +0000

[YAFU] Aliquot sequence 3475668 has terminated!!!

Aliquot sequence 3475668 has terminated!!!

View article · Mon, 22 Sep 2025 17:11:43 +0000

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BOINC client 8.2.4 released
The 8.2.4 version of the BOINC client has been released for all platforms. Download it here. Release notes are here. The new version supports Docker apps - an important step for BOINC.
10 Jul 2025, 21:46:02 UTC · Discuss

Lines of code visualization
Vitalii made a visualization of the number of lines of code in BOINC going back to 2002.
16 Mar 2025, 9:07:20 UTC · Discuss

Grafana project dashboards
Check out Grafana project dashboards showing time-varying graphs of project info such as number of unsent and in-progress jobs.
15 Feb 2025, 21:03:13 UTC · Discuss

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