Posts by John Cooney

1) Message boards : Projects : Progress Thru Processors (Message 26429)
Posted 2 Aug 2009 by John Cooney
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My name is John Cooney and I am a project lead at Intel. I wanted to share with the BOINC community a project that we are about to launch called Progress Thru Processors.

Intel is sponsoring Progress Thru Processors which is a Facebook application developed in association with GridRepublic and BOINC. Progress Thru Processors will feature Rosetta@home, Climateprediction.net and Africa@home (malariacontrol.net), but participants are not required to join these, and can add any BOINC project once the application is added to their profile.

Intel has been a supporter of volunteer computing for many years, dating back to SETI@home. We felt that by combining the networking power of Facebook with the promise of volunteer computing we could attract large numbers of new participants many of whom may never have even heard about volunteer computing.

In support of the project, the BOINC team is adding some interesting new features to the client, including an automatic proxy detection system which, when finished, will allow Intel employees and others within corporate IT environments to more easily participate in volunteer computing on their work PCs.

Our plan is to launch a public beta version on Monday, but I would like to share early access to the application with people in this forum. We hope you'll enjoy it; please do let us know what you think.
http://apps.facebook.com/processors/new.php

Thanks,

John Cooney
Intel Corporation



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