Posts by David Anderson

1) Message boards : News : BOINC wins a prize (Message 113910)
Posted 20 hours ago by Profile David Anderson
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BOINC is <a href=https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/stocktaking/Prizes/2024/Champions?jts=ZJZ09V&idx=15&page=14>a prize winner</a> in the WSIS competition for E-Science projects. Congratulations to all of us!
2) Message boards : News : BOINC needs your vote (by Thu 4 April) for a UN-sponsored award (Message 113824)
Posted 24 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>.
3) 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.
4) 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.
5) 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>.
6) 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.
7) 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.
8) 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.
9) 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>.
10) 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>.
11) 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.
12) 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.
13) 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>.
14) 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.
15) 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.
16) 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.
17) 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.
18) 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.
19) 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
20) 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>


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