Posts by David Anderson

1) Message boards : News : BOINC client 7.24.1 released (Message 112650)
Posted 18 days ago 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.
2) Message boards : News : Video and paper from The Ramanujan Machine (Message 112612)
Posted 25 days ago 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.
3) 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>.
4) 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.
5) 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.
6) 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.
7) 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.
8) 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.
9) 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
10) 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>
11) 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.
12) 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.
13) 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.
14) 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.
15) 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.
16) 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.
17) 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.
18) 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.
19) 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"
20) 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.


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