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Status
BOINC is under development. We are conducting a beta test of BOINC using the SETI@home and Astropulse applications. The public release will be announced on the SETI@home web site. Several other distributed computing projects are evaluating BOINC.
News
General preferences are now propagated from client to server, but only to accounts with the same email address as where the preferences originated.
April 20, 2004
Added cross-project identification system. Added support for caching of PHP web pages, and restored leaderboard pages.
April 12, 2004
Recent fixes and features: trickle messages for long-running work units; benchmarking for hyperthreaded CPUs; don't propagate preferences from hosts to projects; check for file existence before running apps; SOCKS proxy support; separate suspend/resume for network activity; fix race conditions in server; add file compression code. See checkin_notes for details.
March 16, 2004
An unauthorized BOINC graphic.
February 11, 2004
BOINC is being used at the Scripps Research Institute to run a distributed version of CHARMM (a program for macromolecular simulations).
February 1, 2004
BOINC now has an anonymous platform mechanism which 1) allows computers of any type to participate in a BOINC project, and 2) allows participants to run only software they have compiled themselves, should they so desire.
January 22, 2004
The BOINC core client now provides a set of RPCs allowing separate GUIs to be developed.
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