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lockedQuantum Monte Carlo at Home announces the public release of the first chemistry BOINC project.
1 Profile David Anderson 9340 3 Mar 2006
lockedA significant step has been made towards integrating BOINC and Grid software: beginning with Condor version 6.7.17, Condor can be configured to run BOINC when it has no other work to perform. This capability is described in [url=http://ww
1 Profile David Anderson 9585 24 Feb 2006
lockedBOINC announces its support for the Macintosh/Intel platform.
1 Profile David Anderson 9213 22 Feb 2006
lockedBOINCcast is the first German Podcast about BOINC. Weekly episodes of 5 minutes length will explain Distributed Computing and the Goals of BOINC to the German public, and will present and explain th
1 Profile David Anderson 9632 19 Feb 2006
lockedView a video clip about the BBC Climate Change Experiment.
1 Profile David Anderson 9180 15 Feb 2006
lockedBOINC and Climateprediction.net have joined forces with the BBC to launch a new experiment -- a full simulation of climate change from 1920 to 2080. The experiment is described on a BBC television documentary Meltdown (BBC-4, F
1 Profile David Anderson 10040 14 Feb 2006
lockedThe SZTAKI Desktop Grid is now in production. The project, based at the MTA-SZTAKI Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems in Budapest, Hungary, is attempting to find all the generalized
1 Profile David Anderson 9596 8 Feb 2006
lockedThe Similarity Matrix of Proteins (SIMAP) project is now in production. SIMAP, based at the Technical University of Munich, uses volunteer computers to calculate similarities between proteins
1 Profile David Anderson 9994 6 Feb 2006
lockedA story about SETI@home's transition to BOINC appears in the Nature web site.
1 Profile David Anderson 9162 15 Dec 2005
lockedA new paper, The Computational and Storage Potential of Volunteer Computing, explores the limits of BOINC-based projects.
1 Profile David Anderson 8737 12 Dec 2005
lockedBOINC has a job opening for an experienced programmer (C++/Python/PHP/SQL/HTML). For more information go to http://jobs.berkeley.edu/. The job is number 003496, and is listed under Information Technol
1 Profile David Anderson 9277 9 Dec 2005
lockedWe have created a new email list, boinc_announce@ssl.berkeley.edu, for announcements of new versions of BOINC client software.
1 Profile David Anderson 8885 29 Nov 2005
lockedCheck out A BOINC seminar by Juan Antonio Lopez Perez of CERN, presented at CIEMAT in Madrid, November 2005. Also available in a [url=https://uimon.cern.ch
1 Profile David Anderson 11175 27 Nov 2005
lockedAggregate credit data (user and host credit data summed over all BOINC projects) is now available in XML format. This data can be used for applications (like the 'Featured participant' above) that reflect overall
1 Profile David Anderson 9312 15 Nov 2005
lockedIBM's World Community Grid has launched a BOINC-based project (currenly Linux only).
1 Profile David Anderson 9527 1 Nov 2005
lockedDavid Anderson talks about BOINC and volunteer computing in a podcast at www.enterpriseleadership.org.
1 Profile David Anderson 9228 28 Oct 2005
lockedVersion 5.2.2 of the BOINC client software has been released. It includes a simpler registration procedure, security enhancements, and numerous other improvements.
1 Profile David Anderson 8658 20 Oct 2005
lockedRosetta@home, a BOINC-based project at the University of Washington, has launched and is seeking participants. Its goal is "..
1 Profile David Anderson 11269 25 Sep 2005
lockedHigh-Performance Task Distribution for Volunteer Computing, a paper about BOINC server performance, will appear in the e-Science 2005 conference in December.
1 Profile David Anderson 9435 23 Sep 2005
lockedSearching for Gravity @ Home[/url], an article about Einstein@home and BOINC, appears in the September 2005 issue of IEEE's The Institute.
1 Profile David Anderson 8918 6 Sep 2005
lockedA conversation with David Anderson in ACM Queue Magazine.
1 Profile David Anderson 9660 29 Aug 2005
lockedWe are redesigning BOINC to use a user-supplied identifier and password instead of a system-supplied random key for identifying an account. Comments on the design are welcome.
1 Profile David Anderson 9097 14 Aug 2005
lockedBOINC is transitioning to use libcurl for HTTP operations. This will allow BOINC to use HTTPS (secure HTTP) for scheduler requests and file transfers.
1 Profile David Anderson 9239 9 Aug 2005
lockedNon-open-source code (RSAEuro and GLUT) has been removed from BOINC. OpenSSL's crypto library is used for encryption.
1 Profile David Anderson 9788 3 Aug 2005
lockedA group of students from Cornell have written Distributing Science, a very nice article about BOINC and some of the projects using it.
1 Profile David Anderson 9324 25 Jul 2005
lockedA paper by Jakob Pedersen and Christian Søttrup discusses the interoperation of the Grid and BOINC.
1 Profile David Anderson 12183 24 Jul 2005
lockedBOINC statistics sites continue to evolve. Check out Every Earthly Hour, developed by Hydnum Repandum
1 Profile David Anderson 9218 25 Jun 2005
lockedWe've added two mechanisms that give better estimates of result completion time (and thus better scheduling and fewer missed deadlines): 1) we track the 'CPU efficiency': the average fraction of CPU time that BOINC apps receive while they
1 Profile David Anderson 8767 24 Jun 2005
lockedWe have added new API calls that allow applications to do their own CPU benchmarking, or directly report their floating-point operation count. This will give more accurate credit numbers
1 Profile David Anderson 8741 24 Jun 2005
lockedWe've improved and simplified the CPU scheduling and work-fetch policies, using a detailed simulation of BOINC's weighted round-robin scheduling. When the simulator predicts that a deadline will be missed, the client switches to earliest-dead
1 Profile David Anderson 9095 24 Jun 2005
lockedAccount management system are web sites that let participants sign up for multiple projects with just a few clicks (and no account keys). The BOINC manager (development version) now lets you select, ch
1 Profile David Anderson 8988 24 Jun 2005
lockedBOINC now works in Windows 'service' mode on computers with dialup connections and the 'confirm before connect' preference set. The connection confirmation and setup process has been moved to the BOINC manager, which (unlike a service) is
1 Profile David Anderson 9194 24 Jun 2005
lockedClimateprediction.net is featured in an article in the journal of the Institute of Electrical Engineers.
1 Profile David Anderson 9118 16 Jun 2005
lockedTwo Wiki-based BOINC informational sites have been launched recently: The Unofficial BOINC Wiki (in English) and Deutsche BOINC FAQ (in German). Because these sites ar
1 Profile David Anderson 9577 3 Jun 2005
lockedBOINC is featured in The Berkeley Science Review.
1 Profile David Anderson 9138 31 May 2005
lockedEric Myers and Charlie Fenton have written excellent documents on how to compile BOINC and BOINC applications on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
1 Profile David Anderson 8861 14 May 2005
lockedBOINC and BOINC-based projects are discussed in the article 'Grassroots Computing' in the May 6 2005 issue of Science magazine.
1 Profile David Anderson 9140 11 May 2005
lockedWe finally have an installer and GUI for Mac OS X! It is available as a development version, and will become the standard version soon.
1 Profile David Anderson 8624 10 May 2005
lockedMany BOINC applications have interactive graphics (e.g
1 Profile David Anderson 8556 10 May 2005
lockedAs the number of BOINC-based projects has increased, a problem has emerged - if a computer is attached to lots of projects, it may have trouble finishing work in time. We are revising the BOINC client's [url=sched.php]CPU scheduling and w
1 Profile David Anderson 8915 10 May 2005
lockedLHC@home is a BOINC-based project being used to simulate the orbits of particles in CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Read about it in the CERN Bulletin.
1 Profile David Anderson 9305 10 May 2005
lockedVolunteers have ported SETI@home and BOINC to a variety of platforms, including Solaris/x86-64, Linux/x86-64, Linux/PPC, HP-UX, and FreeBSD.
1 Profile David Anderson 8681 11 Apr 2005
lockedWe released the BOINC Menubar, a user-friendly client software version for Macintosh OS X. It can be installed and run through a GUI interface - no Unix commands. We also released the Windows installer announced in the January 1 2005
1 Profile David Anderson 8865 8 Mar 2005
lockedThe Einstein@home project was officially launched this morning. BOINC users are encouraged to participate in this project, which searches for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data
1 Profile David Anderson 10062 19 Feb 2005
lockedWe've added a framework for web-site translations (both BOINC-supplied and project-specific parts). We are adding support for account management systems that simplif
1 Profile David Anderson 8738 17 Feb 2005
lockedBOINC source code is now distributed under the Lesser GNU Public License (LPGL).
1 Profile David Anderson 9267 20 Jan 2005
lockedBOINC-based projects projects now have 80,721 participants in 188 countries. Based on current credit statistics, together they supply 106 TeraFLOPS of computing power - far more
1 Profile David Anderson 8570 19 Jan 2005
lockedBOINC's message board system supports moderation.
1 Profile David Anderson 8449 18 Jan 2005
lockedWith help from the Einstein@home group, we have refined BOINC's locality scheduling mechanism, It can now interact with project-specific programs that generate work on demand, and that maintain a 'working set
1 Profile David Anderson 8972 10 Jan 2005
lockedThe Windows version of BOINC can now be configured to run when a particular user is logged in, to run when any user is logged in, or run all the time (as a service) even when no users are logged in.
1 Profile David Anderson 9860 1 Jan 2005

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