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Message 15637 - Posted: 28 Feb 2008, 3:35:44 UTC

Discover Magazine on-line for March has an article 14 Best Ways to Use Your Computer’s Spare Time. Alas, no mention of Pirates@Home, but the do mention SETI, Einstein, Folding, and BURP.

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Message 15831 - Posted: 12 Mar 2008, 11:52:20 UTC

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Message 16096 - Posted: 27 Mar 2008, 12:01:58 UTC

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Message 16112 - Posted: 28 Mar 2008, 13:21:18 UTC

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Message 16488 - Posted: 6 Apr 2008, 14:59:51 UTC

Mahray on Einstein@Home wrote:
An interesting article on NewScientist about mountains on neutrons stars causing gravitational waves. Also a nice mention of Einstein@Home.

Check it out at http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn13566-mountains-on-stars-could-trigger-gravitational-waves.html


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Message 17268 - Posted: 9 May 2008, 11:38:28 UTC
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Slashdot today has an article Folding@Home 2.0 - An Online Protein Folding Game about a game called "Foldit", develloped by David Baker (of Rosetta@Home, not Folding@Home) and colleagues.

Slashdot wrote:

"Tired of justifying your gaming addiction? Now you can really help accomplish something while you play... thanks to Howard Hughes Medical Institute researcher David Baker at the University of Washington."

In collaboration with others, Baker has designed a game, called "Foldit," with a practical outcome: players manipulate on-screen images of protein chains and attempt to predict their folding patterns.


Seems like this may be a mechanical turk, using the same ROSETTA software suite.
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Message 17325 - Posted: 14 May 2008, 12:16:58 UTC

Today's New York Times has a brief note about a new project for WCG: Join the Hunt for Super-Rice
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Message 17330 - Posted: 14 May 2008, 17:13:42 UTC - in response to Message 17325.  

Today's New York Times has a brief note about a new project for WCG: Join the Hunt for Super-Rice

changed [url=ttp://...] to [url=http://...] :-)
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Message 17332 - Posted: 14 May 2008, 18:03:52 UTC - in response to Message 17330.  

Today's New York Times has a brief note about a new project for WCG: Join the Hunt for Super-Rice

changed [url=ttp://...] to [url=http://...] :-)

Thanks. Sorry for the cut/paste error.
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Message 17675 - Posted: 5 Jun 2008, 18:21:07 UTC

For crunchers in Barcelona

BOINC crunchers, particularly from Seti, CPDN and ps3grid will be taking part in the Science Festival in Barcelona on 7 and 8 June. Here it is on the official Barcelona website.

Sat 7 June 11.00 - 24.00 (yes, this is Spain!)
Sun 8 June 11.00 - 15.00 (finishing just in time for lunch or a picnic in a most beautiful place)

Sat 7 June.
11.00 - 20.00. Dani Gil will be demonstrating 'Offer your computer to science'.
12.15. 'Computers and climate - a marriage of convenience' by Miquel Àngel Rodríguez of the Climate Research Laboratory.
17.00. 'SETI. Is there extraterrestrial life?' by Agustí Dosaiguas.
18.00. 'Playstation3 serving biomedicine' by ps3grid.

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Here was Dani Gil in a Spanish article about BOINC published in February in the ABC weekend magazine.
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Message 17848 - Posted: 13 Jun 2008, 11:53:40 UTC

Dani Gil has now posted photos of the Science Festival event in Barcelona. Click on FOTAGRAFIES under the photo to see more.

http://www.boinc.cat/

Much further down the introductory page there's a photo of Spanish crunchers with David Anderson who gave a talk in Barcelona last September.
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Message 18284 - Posted: 8 Jul 2008, 0:43:19 UTC

Actually, not BOINC in the news, but a new machine called "Anton", built out of 517 ASICs, which does protein folding:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/08/science/08comp.html

The article does mention Folding@home.
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Message 18341 - Posted: 10 Jul 2008, 10:29:51 UTC

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Message 18877 - Posted: 28 Jul 2008, 10:29:01 UTC

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SETI@Home Adds New Search Method (from Slashdot)
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Message 19403 - Posted: 10 Aug 2008, 2:57:11 UTC - in response to Message 18877.  

I know its not BOINC, but NPR ran a story on a Dutch School teacher who discovered a new type of object using Galaxy Zoo.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93456780
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Message 19467 - Posted: 13 Aug 2008, 12:18:39 UTC

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Message 19811 - Posted: 28 Aug 2008, 11:52:54 UTC

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Message 20490 - Posted: 25 Sep 2008, 13:24:16 UTC

BOINC Pangalactic Workshop: Grids meet aliens and androids
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Message 20511 - Posted: 26 Sep 2008, 14:21:47 UTC

QCN: Shake it all about
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