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 | The 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.
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 David Anderson |
9905 |
1 Jan 2005 |
| With considerable help from the Einstein@home group, we have application graphics working on all platforms, including Linux. To handle hosts without graphics libraries, we have developed a new architecture in which
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David Anderson |
9129 |
10 Dec 2004 |
| Added prioritization to work distribution.
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David Anderson |
8867 |
6 Dec 2004 |
| We have created a new email list, boinc_cvs@ssl.berkeley.edu. A summary of each CVS checkin to the BOINC source tree will be posted to this list.
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David Anderson |
8829 |
3 Dec 2004 |
| A technical paper about BOINC is here. This paper appeared in the 5th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing, November 8, 2004, Pittsburgh, USA.
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David Anderson |
8805 |
2 Dec 2004 |
| BOINC servers can now use read-only database replicas for increased throughput.
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David Anderson |
8456 |
21 Nov 2004 |
| The message-board system now supports self-moderation (i.e., 'ignore lists').
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David Anderson |
8708 |
21 Nov 2004 |
| The application graphics framework now works on all platforms, including Mac OS X.
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David Anderson |
8347 |
21 Nov 2004 |
| A new utility, db_purge, allows projects to flush old entries from the result and workunit tables, so that these tables have a bounded size.
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David Anderson |
8654 |
21 Nov 2004 |
| We have developed a new Windows installer that lets you run BOINC as a service, and that is compatible with the Microsoft MSI framework.
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David Anderson |
8560 |
21 Nov 2004 |
| We have developed a GUI for the core client. It's similar to the old Windows GUI but is implemented using wxWidgets so it runs on all platforms. It offers new features such as the ability to suspen
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David Anderson |
9560 |
21 Nov 2004 |
| XML Schemas for the statistics data exported by BOINC projects is here, and graphical representations are here.
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David Anderson |
8403 |
21 Sep 2004 |
| We have created an email list, boinc_opt@ssl.berkeley.edu, for people interested in porting and optimizing BOINC applications. Sign up here.
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David Anderson |
8461 |
14 Sep 2004 |
| We are working on a new type of work distribution, called Locality scheduling, that sends work to hosts that already have the needed files.
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David Anderson |
8555 |
11 Sep 2004 |
| The Lattice project from the University of Maryland is developing a Grid system that integrates Globus, BOINC, and several other software components.
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David Anderson |
9250 |
6 Sep 2004 |
| The new project LHC@home announces its first beta test, initially restricted to 1000 users. Please sign up at lhcathome.cern.ch.
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David Anderson |
9396 |
1 Sep 2004 |
| The Climateprediction.net project is now open to the public.
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David Anderson |
9155 |
26 Aug 2004 |
| Users can choose whether applications should quit or suspend when they're not executing.
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David Anderson |
8554 |
6 Aug 2004 |
| The core client now checks whether disk usage exceeds user-specified limits, and if so it deletes projects files in a way that respects project resource shares.
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David Anderson |
9279 |
5 Aug 2004 |
| Large BOINC projects (like SETI@home) were getting on the order of a million files in upload/download directories. This caused OS performance problems. We fixed this by providing a two-level directory hierarchy for upload/download directo
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David Anderson |
9215 |
5 Aug 2004 |
| The Climateprediction.net project recently held an Open Day, describing its status and its plans to use BOINC.
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David Anderson |
9341 |
3 Aug 2004 |
| We changed the SQL queries used by the performance-critical server components, such as the transitioner and feeder, to boost maximum server throughput.
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David Anderson |
8744 |
9 Jul 2004 |
| We made the core/app interface more flexible and general, providing better support for applications that consist of separate controller, worker, and graphics programs. We also added mechanisms that prevent multiple applications from runni
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David Anderson |
8723 |
9 Jul 2004 |
| The core client now does preemptive scheduling of results. It time-slices between results, maintaining the approximate project resource shares. The work-fetch policy has also been modified; a single 'connection frequency' parameter replac
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David Anderson |
8629 |
9 Jul 2004 |
| We have added a mechanism that allows projects to upload and download 'persistent files'. This is the first step to using participant hosts for storage as well as computation, possibly creating the world's largest storage server.
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David Anderson |
8959 |
9 Jul 2004 |
| The statistics export mechanism has been redesigned to give projects more control over what they export; e.g
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David Anderson |
8787 |
20 Jun 2004 |
| New features: support for multi-program applications. Daily result quota per host. Applications can supply a static graphic (for screensaver) without writing code. Improved support for FORTRAN. Support for GUI RPCs in Windows client.
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David Anderson |
8948 |
16 Jun 2004 |
| BOINC news is available as an RSS feed; see Community and Resources.
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David Anderson |
8944 |
31 May 2004 |
| CPU benchmarking (and credit) are now based on the Dhrystone and Whetstone benchmarks. Memory bandwidth is no longer measured.
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David Anderson |
9175 |
19 May 2004 |
| Source code is now available directly via CVS. Improved Unix signal handling. Support app versions, workunits and results with lots of files (changed XML fields from 4KB to 64KB). Added [url=homogeneous_redundancy.php]homogeneo
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David Anderson |
9241 |
18 May 2004 |
| General preferences are now propagated from client to server, but only to accounts with the same email address as where the preferences originated.
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David Anderson |
8662 |
2 May 2004 |
| Added cross-project identification system. Added support for caching of PHP web pages, and restored leaderboard pages.
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David Anderson |
9745 |
20 Apr 2004 |
| Recent fixes and features: trickle messages for long-running work units; benchmarking for hyperthreaded CPUs; don't propagate preferences from hosts to projects; check for file existence before running app
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David Anderson |
8763 |
12 Apr 2004 |
| An unauthorized BOINC graphic.
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David Anderson |
8859 |
16 Mar 2004 |
| BOINC is being used at the Scripps Research Institute to run a distributed version of CHARMM (a program for macromolecular simulations).
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David Anderson |
9243 |
11 Feb 2004 |
| BOINC now has an anonymous platform mechanism which 1) allows computers of any type to participate in a BOINC project, and 2) allows participants to run only software they have compiled the
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David Anderson |
9449 |
1 Feb 2004 |
| The BOINC core client now provides a set of RPCs allowing separate GUIs to be developed.
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David Anderson |
9293 |
22 Jan 2004 |
| A paper about the goals of BOINC was presented at a recent conference.
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David Anderson |
9816 |
26 Nov 2003 |
| The CVS repository of BOINC code (including web pages) is now visible through a web-based interface. This may be useful for people maintaining web-site translations.
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David Anderson |
9300 |
26 Nov 2003 |
| The beta test project is accepting new users. CPU time measurement accuracy improved. Scheduler respects disk usage limits. Web site can issue cookies.
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David Anderson |
9261 |
25 Nov 2003 |
| The graphics of running application are updated whenever preferences are changed. The scheduler now issues only as many results as will fit in the allotted amount of disk space.
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David Anderson |
9314 |
5 Nov 2003 |
| New minor versions of the core client and beta-test apps have been released. XML statistics data for the beta test is available; it's intended for graphical or tabular representation.
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David Anderson |
9897 |
30 Oct 2003 |
| A SETI@home application has been added to the beta test. The scheduling server detect results that can't be sent to any hosts, and flags them. HTTP 404 errors on downloads are treated as unrecoverable. Graphics can be limited by frame rate or percent of
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David Anderson |
9935 |
18 Oct 2003 |
| BOINC is discussed in an article by Joan Oleck in the New York TImes.
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David Anderson |
10281 |
11 Sep 2003 |
| We've released BOINC version 2.0. All BOINC components must be upgraded to major version 2. We've upgraded the Astropulse server to 2.01 and released [url=http://setiboinc.ssl.Berkeley.edu/ap/download.php]BOI
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David Anderson |
10845 |
4 Sep 2003 |
| BOINC server tools are now Python-based
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David Anderson |
9302 |
1 Sep 2003 |
| We rewrote parts of the scheduling server architecture to make operations more flexible and efficient. The timeout_check daemon has been replaced by a more general transitioner daemon.
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David Anderson |
9567 |
15 Aug 2003 |
| We've added two new web-site features for BOINC projects: user profiles and message boards. These are visible on the beta-test web site.
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David Anderson |
8897 |
25 Jul 2003 |
| The BOINC source code is available again, under a new public license. Version 1.05 incorporates bug fixes and new features, including the ability to add your own graphics to the screensaver. The beta test has been
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David Anderson |
10204 |
23 Jul 2003 |
| XML based statistics for the Astropulse beta test are available.
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David Anderson |
9383 |
10 Jun 2003 |
