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News from BOINC Projects

[Asteroids@home] The work distribution issue has been resolved.

The work distribution issue has been resolved.

Due to the unusually high load during the BOINC Formula event, the server-side work feeder cache was being exhausted too quickly. This caused some clients to receive “no tasks available” messages even though work was available in the database.

The feeder and scheduler configuration has been adjusted, and the server is now sending work normally again.

Thank you for your patience and happy crunching!

Radim Vanco (FoxKyong)

View article · Fri, 5 Jun 2026 21:44:34 +0000

[SRBase] base R87 Megaprime

Dukebox, a member of the team Dutch Power Cows found a megaprime for base R87.
The prime 562*87^641685-1 has 1.244.564 digits digits and entered the T5k PrimePages.

View article · Fri, 5 Jun 2026 17:21:54 +0000

[LHC@home] Database Intervention

The projects servers will have sporadic available on Thursday 4th June due to a database clean up operation.

View article · Thu, 4 Jun 2026 08:03:32 +0000

[YAFU] Aliquot sequence 3701208 has terminated!!!

View article · Wed, 3 Jun 2026 20:34:49 +0000

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New add-on available: BOINC-RPC
BOINC-RPC displays your current BOINC status in your Discord profile, including: number of active tasks, task progress, and task runtime.
5 Jun 2026, 8:13:47 UTC · Discuss

BOINC client 8.2.11 released
Version 8.2.11 of the BOINC client has been released for all platforms. Download it here. Release notes are here.
30 Apr 2026, 7:43:26 UTC · Discuss

Fresco: a modern BOINC Manager alternative
A new add-on is available: Fresco, a full-featured cross-platform BOINC GUI. Check it out here.
11 Apr 2026, 20:25:30 UTC · Discuss

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