Posts by David Anderson

21) 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.
22) Message boards : News : BOINC client 7.20.2 released (Message 109442)
Posted 27 Jul 2022 by Profile David Anderson
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A new version of the client has been released for Windows and Mac OS. Download it here. Release notes are here.
23) Message boards : News : BOINC in Retrospect (Message 108792)
Posted 28 Jun 2022 by Profile David Anderson
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Actually I'm still active. I'm working on BOINC Central, which is described in the essay.
24) Message boards : News : BOINC in Retrospect (Message 108463)
Posted 15 Jun 2022 by Profile David Anderson
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Read BOINC in Retrospect, an essay on the history of BOINC.
25) Message boards : News : Welcome LODA (Message 108079)
Posted 13 May 2022 by Profile David Anderson
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LODA is a new BOINC project that "mines" programs - it automatically discovers new algorithms for efficiently computing interesting number sequences.
26) Message boards : News : RIP Scott Drannon (Message 107569)
Posted 24 Mar 2022 by Profile David Anderson
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Scott Drannon, a long-time contributor to many BOINC projects, has passed away.
27) Message boards : News : Welcome Ramanujan Machine (Message 106833)
Posted 21 Jan 2022 by Profile David Anderson
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Ramanujan Machine is a new BOINC project that seeks to discover new mathematical identities and formulas.
28) Message boards : News : Myles Allen, CBE (Message 106675)
Posted 4 Jan 2022 by Profile David Anderson
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Myles Allen, founder of Climateprediction.net, has been appointed CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in recognition of his work in climate research.
29) Message boards : News : BOINC in Astronomy (Message 106201)
Posted 27 Nov 2021 by Profile David Anderson
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From the National Academy of Science's decadal review, "Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s":

"Software and information technology are other areas where the footprints of astronomy have left clear marks. Grid computing is a prime example. The open source infrastructure “BOINC” developed in the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley for volunteer and grid computing was developed to search data obtained with radio telescopes for signals from extraterrestrial life (SETI@home). It has since been used in many other areas in astrophysics (LIGO (+Virgo) application of BOINC is looking for evidence of continuous, monochromatic gravitational waves from non-axisymmetric, unknown single neutron stars in the Milky Way galaxy and LIGO noise diagnostics, for example) but also in many non-astronomical contexts including medical, environmental and humanitarian research sponsored by IBM Corporate Citizenship in the non-profit “world community grid”, and even has been used for COVID-19 research"
30) Message boards : News : Windows client 7.16.20 released (Message 105789)
Posted 18 Oct 2021 by Profile David Anderson
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Download it here.

This version fixes a problem that prevented BOINC from communicating with several projects and account managers.
31) Message boards : News : Windows communication failure: temporary workaround (Message 105657)
Posted 5 Oct 2021 by Profile David Anderson
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Recently, the Windows BOINC client stopped being able to communicate with some projects and with Science United. This is because of an expired entry in a file called the "certificate authority bundle".

To fix this problem, download a new version of the file and put it in the

C:/Program Files/BOINC

directory.

This is a temporary fix. We hope to release a new version of the client that won't have this problem in the future.
32) Message boards : News : Certificate of computation (Message 105334)
Posted 7 Sep 2021 by Profile David Anderson
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Get a Certificate of computation showing how much you've computed across all BOINC projects. It's suitable for framing!
33) Message boards : News : Paper on Science United published (Message 105300)
Posted 1 Sep 2021 by Profile David Anderson
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Check out Globally Scheduling Volunteer Computing, recently published in the journal Future Internet.
34) Message boards : News : Flatpak installer available (Message 105017)
Posted 11 Aug 2021 by Profile David Anderson
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A Flatpak installer for the BOINC 7.18.1 Linux client is available on Flathub
35) Message boards : News : Android client version 7.18.1 released. (Message 104951)
Posted 5 Aug 2021 by Profile David Anderson
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Version 7.18.1 of the BOINC Android client has been released. Thanks to Vitalii Koshura, Tal Regev, and Isira Seneviratne for their work on this.

The new version is available from the BOINC web site.
36) Message boards : News : 2021 BOINC workshop (Message 103776)
Posted 31 Mar 2021 by Profile David Anderson
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The workshop, showcasing BOINC-based research and providing an open forum, will be held online, on three Wednesdays in April: 14, 21, 28. Learn more and register at boincworkshop.org.
37) Message boards : News : Android client available on F-Droid (Message 103421)
Posted 4 Mar 2021 by Profile David Anderson
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The latest BOINC client for Android is now available from F-Droid, a repository of open-source apps.
38) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC for private, local projects (Message 103180)
Posted 24 Feb 2021 by Profile David Anderson
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1) You can run a BOINC project behind a firewall and configure the firewall to hide it from the rest of the Internet.
2) ditto
3) No; when the client attaches to a project it's always to an account
4) Yes; see https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Preferences
5) Output files can be sent to any server.
This can be specified in different ways depending on how the job is submitted; see
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/JobTemplates
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/RemoteJobs

Please post to the boinc_projects email list if you have other questions,
or email me directly.
-- David
39) Message boards : Promotion : Is it ok if I put the BOINC logo on my car? (Message 103088)
Posted 19 Feb 2021 by Profile David Anderson
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I'd be delighted if you put the BOINC logo on your Mustang!
Please send me a picture.
-- David Anderson
40) Message boards : News : New BOINC Android client released (Message 103007)
Posted 15 Feb 2021 by Profile David Anderson
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Version 7.16.16 of the BOINC Android client has been released. This is the first new Android version in over 4 years, and is a major rewrite of the GUI. Thanks to Vitalii Koshura, Tal Regev, and Isira Seneviratne for their work on this.

The new version is available from the BOINC web site and (for Amazon Fire tablets) from the Amazon app store. It's not on the Google play store because of new restrictions imposed by Google; hopefully this will be resolved in a future version.


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