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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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[Einstein@home] Update on “Einstein@Home: Pulsar Seekers”

Dear Einstein@Home volunteers,

You may remember that we launched a Zooniverse project called “Einstein@Home: Pulsar Seekers” in October 2023. Now we have the first promising results.

Zooniverse volunteers have made millions of classifications for more than 240,000 candidates found in the Arecibo telescope's PALFA pulsar survey. More than 4400 candidates have been classified as promising after review by our scientists.

View article · Fri, 14 Mar 2025 16:08:20 +0000

[YAFU] Aliquot sequence 3197960 and 3270576 have terminated!!!

Aliquot sequence 3197960 and 3270576 have terminated!!!

View article · Thu, 13 Mar 2025 17:05:22 +0000

[LHC@home] Maintenance downtime

Our BOINC services will be unavailable for a while this morning between 8 and 9AM CET for a database upgrade.

View article · Tue, 11 Mar 2025 06:16:13 +0000

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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

Contributor history video
Vitalii made a video showing the top 25 BOINC committers, based on CVS, Subversion and Git data, every month going back to 2002.
2 Jan 2025, 3:33:26 UTC · Discuss

50 new papers from Rosetta@home
David Baker's research group published over 50 journal papers since our last update. Wow! (And thanks to Alex Piskun for maintaining the list of publications by BOINC projects.)
27 Dec 2024, 20:29:57 UTC · Discuss

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