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Thanks to the computing power (450 CPU-years!) supplied by BOINC Central volunteers, the Boolean Chains project was successfully completed; results are discussed here. More recently, we completed the Cislunar Orbit Stability Analyzer project, which studies the stability of orbits in the Earth/Moon system. This led to a paper that is currently in review.

Both of these projects used BUDA, BOINC's new framework for Docker-based apps. We encountered and solved lots of technical problems, mostly related to scaling (batches of 10,000 jobs, multi-GB output file downloads); thanks the Oliver and Gao (the scientists) for their patience.

We're looking for new projects to support; tell your computational-scientist friends about BOINC Central!
24 Mar 2026, 1:27:51 UTC · Discuss

Boolean Chains project reaches milestone
The Boolean Chains project (the first hosted by BOINC Central) has reached a milestone: the search space for N=15, L=21 is done. See a discussion of the results. 37,444,981,252,103,000 chains were generated, using 2,139 days of computing. The next phase of the project will explore the N=16, L=22 case.
31 May 2025, 9:05:41 UTC · Discuss

Welcome to BOINC Central
BOINC Central is on the air!
26 Nov 2021, 10:14:12 UTC · Discuss

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