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 | Thanks to the efforts of volunteers, BOINC is now officially part of the Debian Linux distribution. Packages for the BOINC [url=http://packages.debian.org/boinc-client]core client[/u
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 David Anderson |
10214 |
6 Apr 2006 |
| Windows users: new versions of Intellipoint and [url=http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/
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David Anderson |
10885 |
4 Apr 2006 |
| BOINCstats.com is one of several excellent web sites showing BOINC statistics. It's available in a number of languages, now including Chinese.
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David Anderson |
9224 |
3 Apr 2006 |
| The Seasonal Attribution Project, a spin-off of Climateprediction.net, seeks to determine the extent to which extreme weather events are attributable to human-induced climate change. Its application
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David Anderson |
10570 |
15 Mar 2006 |
| Tony/Knightrider/Chuggybus has created BOINC coinage. See the large and small versions. The Latin text means 'Berkeley open and shared resources'.
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David Anderson |
9228 |
5 Mar 2006 |
| Quantum Monte Carlo at Home announces the public release of the first chemistry BOINC project.
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David Anderson |
9597 |
3 Mar 2006 |
| A 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
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David Anderson |
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24 Feb 2006 |
| BOINC announces its support for the Macintosh/Intel platform.
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David Anderson |
9458 |
22 Feb 2006 |
| BOINCcast 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
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David Anderson |
9924 |
19 Feb 2006 |
| View a video clip about the BBC Climate Change Experiment.
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David Anderson |
9452 |
15 Feb 2006 |
| BOINC 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
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David Anderson |
10330 |
14 Feb 2006 |
| The 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
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David Anderson |
9872 |
8 Feb 2006 |
| The 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
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David Anderson |
10278 |
6 Feb 2006 |
| A story about SETI@home's transition to BOINC appears in the Nature web site.
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David Anderson |
9427 |
15 Dec 2005 |
| A new paper, The Computational and Storage Potential of Volunteer Computing, explores the limits of BOINC-based projects.
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David Anderson |
8967 |
12 Dec 2005 |
| BOINC 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
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David Anderson |
9511 |
9 Dec 2005 |
| We have created a new email list, boinc_announce@ssl.berkeley.edu, for announcements of new versions of BOINC client software.
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David Anderson |
9139 |
29 Nov 2005 |
| Check 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
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David Anderson |
11464 |
27 Nov 2005 |
| Aggregate 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
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David Anderson |
9539 |
15 Nov 2005 |
| IBM's World Community Grid has launched a BOINC-based project (currenly Linux only).
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David Anderson |
9826 |
1 Nov 2005 |
| David Anderson talks about BOINC and volunteer computing in a podcast at www.enterpriseleadership.org.
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David Anderson |
9494 |
28 Oct 2005 |
| Version 5.2.2 of the BOINC client software has been released. It includes a simpler registration procedure, security enhancements, and numerous other improvements.
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David Anderson |
8899 |
20 Oct 2005 |
| Rosetta@home, a BOINC-based project at the University of Washington, has launched and is seeking participants. Its goal is "..
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David Anderson |
11551 |
25 Sep 2005 |
| High-Performance Task Distribution for Volunteer Computing, a paper about BOINC server performance, will appear in the e-Science 2005 conference in December.
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David Anderson |
9673 |
23 Sep 2005 |
| Searching for Gravity @ Home[/url], an article about Einstein@home and BOINC, appears in the September 2005 issue of IEEE's The Institute.
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David Anderson |
9141 |
6 Sep 2005 |
| A conversation with David Anderson in ACM Queue Magazine.
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David Anderson |
9936 |
29 Aug 2005 |
| We 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.
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David Anderson |
9342 |
14 Aug 2005 |
| BOINC is transitioning to use libcurl for HTTP operations. This will allow BOINC to use HTTPS (secure HTTP) for scheduler requests and file transfers.
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David Anderson |
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9 Aug 2005 |
| Non-open-source code (RSAEuro and GLUT) has been removed from BOINC. OpenSSL's crypto library is used for encryption.
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David Anderson |
10032 |
3 Aug 2005 |
| A group of students from Cornell have written Distributing Science, a very nice article about BOINC and some of the projects using it.
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David Anderson |
9547 |
25 Jul 2005 |
| A paper by Jakob Pedersen and Christian Søttrup discusses the interoperation of the Grid and BOINC.
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David Anderson |
12444 |
24 Jul 2005 |
| BOINC statistics sites continue to evolve. Check out Every Earthly Hour, developed by Hydnum Repandum
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David Anderson |
9490 |
25 Jun 2005 |
| BOINC 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
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David Anderson |
9430 |
24 Jun 2005 |
| We 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
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David Anderson |
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24 Jun 2005 |
| Account 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
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David Anderson |
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24 Jun 2005 |
| We'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
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David Anderson |
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24 Jun 2005 |
| We'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
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David Anderson |
9006 |
24 Jun 2005 |
| Climateprediction.net is featured in an article in the journal of the Institute of Electrical Engineers.
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David Anderson |
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16 Jun 2005 |
| Two 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
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David Anderson |
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3 Jun 2005 |
| BOINC is featured in The Berkeley Science Review.
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David Anderson |
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31 May 2005 |
| Eric Myers and Charlie Fenton have written excellent documents on how to compile BOINC and BOINC applications on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
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David Anderson |
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14 May 2005 |
| BOINC and BOINC-based projects are discussed in the article 'Grassroots Computing' in the May 6 2005 issue of Science magazine.
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David Anderson |
9405 |
11 May 2005 |
| We finally have an installer and GUI for Mac OS X! It is available as a development version, and will become the standard version soon.
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David Anderson |
8876 |
10 May 2005 |
| As 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
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David Anderson |
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10 May 2005 |
| LHC@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.
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David Anderson |
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10 May 2005 |
| Many BOINC applications have interactive graphics (e.g
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David Anderson |
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10 May 2005 |
| Volunteers have ported SETI@home and BOINC to a variety of platforms, including Solaris/x86-64, Linux/x86-64, Linux/PPC, HP-UX, and FreeBSD.
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David Anderson |
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11 Apr 2005 |
| We 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
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David Anderson |
9088 |
8 Mar 2005 |
| The 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
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David Anderson |
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19 Feb 2005 |
| We'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
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David Anderson |
8961 |
17 Feb 2005 |
