Posts by David Anderson

1) Message boards : News : BOINC needs your vote (by Sunday) for a UN-sponsored award (Message 113824)
Posted 3 days ago by Profile David Anderson
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The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) is a United Nations-sponsored initiative aimed at building inclusive and equitable information societies worldwide. BOINC has been nominated for <a href=https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/stocktaking/Prizes/2024> a prize at the 2024 WSIS forum</a>, and has passed initial hurdles; the last step involves public voting.

Vote for BOINC! Instructions are <a href=https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x9Xi3tq7Y9dlDD0Xb0Ul0yYCXct5pDqIqssqARxvrXg/edit>here</a>.
2) Message boards : News : BOINC in schools (Message 113601)
Posted 13 Feb 2024 by Profile David Anderson
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Registration is open for <a href=https://computationmoonshot.org/>The Computation Moonshot</a>, a competition for high schools which encourages students to learn about scientific computing.
3) Message boards : News : YouTube video on BOINC server setup (Message 113586)
Posted 11 Feb 2024 by Profile David Anderson
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A new <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbAM-T09Tkk>YouTube video</a> shows how to set up a BOINC server. Thanks to Alex Bryan for producing this.
4) Message boards : News : BOINC 7.24.3 released for Mac (Message 113520)
Posted 30 Jan 2024 by Profile David Anderson
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This version fixes a problem that causes GPU apps to fail after a Mac OS upgrade to Sonoma. Download it <a href=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php>here</a>.
5) Message boards : News : BOINC-related paper published (Message 113154)
Posted 22 Nov 2023 by Profile David Anderson
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A <a href=https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0293289#>paper about public participation in science</a> (including BOINC) was published in PLOS One.
6) Message boards : News : Einstein@home launches Zooniverse project (Message 113099)
Posted 13 Nov 2023 by Profile David Anderson
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Einstein@home has launched <a href=https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/rsengar/pulsar-seekers>a Zooniverse project called "Pulsar Seekers"</a> to help classify radio pulsar candidates.
7) Message boards : News : BOINC client 7.24.2 released for Mac (Message 113011)
Posted 30 Oct 2023 by Profile David Anderson
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This release fixes problems with the BOINC screensaver on MacOS 14.0 Sonoma. We recommend that you <a href=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php>install it</a> if you use that version of MacOS.
8) Message boards : News : Promo materials from SCI (Message 112941)
Posted 16 Oct 2023 by Profile David Anderson
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<a href=https://thesciencecommons.org>The Science Commons Initiative</a> has created some images that you can use to make posters and flyers about BOINC, and also videos about installing BOINC on Windows and Mac. See it all <a href=sci.php>here</a>.
9) Message boards : News : MacOS 14 Sonoma breaks BOINC screensaver (Message 112861)
Posted 8 Oct 2023 by Profile David Anderson
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The screensaver doesn't exit properly. To force it to exit, hold down the command and shift keys while pressing Q to log out of the system, then log back in.

We hope to fix this problem soon. Until then, if you run MacOS 14, <a href=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/BOINC_screensaver#Disabling_screen_saver>disable the BOINC screensaver</a>.
10) Message boards : News : BOINC client 7.24.1 released (Message 112650)
Posted 7 Sep 2023 by Profile David Anderson
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The 7.24.1 version of the BOINC client software has been released for Windows, Mac, and Android. Download it <a href=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php>here</a>. Release notes are <a href=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Release_Notes>here</a>. Thanks to everyone who contributed to developing and testing this release.
11) Message boards : News : Video and paper from The Ramanujan Machine (Message 112612)
Posted 31 Aug 2023 by Profile David Anderson
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Check out a new <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk04gfIt8yM>video</a> and <a href=https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.11829>paper</a> from <a href=https://www.ramanujanmachine.com/>The Ramanujan Machine</a>, which has used BOINC to discover new expressions for fundamental mathematical constants.
12) Message boards : News : Italian Masters thesis on BOINC (Message 112468)
Posted 6 Aug 2023 by Profile David Anderson
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Check out <a href="TESI pub en.pdf">The democratization of science: Analysis of the voluntary distributed
computing platform BOINC</a>, a Masters thesis by Antonio Cerrato. Also in <a href="TESI pub.pdf">the original Italian</a>.
13) Message boards : News : Client version 7.22 released (Message 112091)
Posted 21 Jun 2023 by Profile David Anderson
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A new version of the BOINC client is available for Windows, Mac, and Android. Download it <a href=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php>here</a>. Release notes are <a href=https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Release_Notes>here</a>. Thanks to BOINC volunteer developers and testers.
14) Message boards : News : Control BOINC from Home Assistant (Message 111934)
Posted 30 May 2023 by Profile David Anderson
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A <a href=https://github.com/SpuelMett/Boinc-Home-Assistant-Control>control for BOINC</a> is available for the <a href=https://www.home-assistant.io/>Home Assistant</a> home automation system, making it possible to control BOINC in response to various environmental factors.
15) Message boards : News : Welcome YAFU (Message 111659)
Posted 25 Apr 2023 by Profile David Anderson
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The goal of the YAFU project is to factor numbers of up to 149 digits which are needed to bring Aliquot Sequences to a size of at least 140.
16) Message boards : News : BOINC wiki now on Github (Message 111658)
Posted 25 Apr 2023 by Profile David Anderson
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The BOINC wiki, which contains technical documentation for scientists and developers, has been moved from Trac to the BOINC Github repository.
17) Message boards : News : BOINC workshop video (Message 111305)
Posted 16 Mar 2023 by Profile David Anderson
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A <a href=https://www.youtube.com/@BOINCWorkshop/playlists>video of the recent BOINC workshop</a> is now available on YouTube.
18) Message boards : GPUs : Can't get the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX to crunch for BOINC projects on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Message 111093)
Posted 17 Feb 2023 by Profile David Anderson
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This is an issue with the E@h and MW@h home apps.
Please report the problem on their message boards
(hopefully the developers will see it)
-- D
19) Message boards : News : BOINC Workshop 2023 to be held March 1 and 8 (Message 110850)
Posted 3 Jan 2023 by Profile David Anderson
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The annual BOINC Workshop aims to stimulate new developments and activities related to volunteer computing, and to guide the future development of BOINC.

Date: March 1 and 8, for 3 hours each day
Time: 09:00 PST / 11:00 CST / 12:00 EST / 17:00 GMT / 18:00 CET / 19:00 EET
Where: Zoom (link available upon registration)
How: Please register here: <a href=https://www.boincworkshop.org/register>https://www.boincworkshop.org/register</a>
20) Message boards : News : Uania fights COVID with SiDock and Science United (Message 109978)
Posted 4 Oct 2022 by Profile David Anderson
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The Italian networking company <a href=https://www.uania.com/heart/>Uania</a> has arranged to run <a href=https://www.sidock.si/sidock/>SiDock@home</a> on their routers, contributing to research on the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Thanks to Uania for taking this pioneering step in volunteer computing. Thanks also to Vitalii Koshura and Natalia Nikitina for their work in getting BOINC and the SiDock app running on the Uania platform.


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