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Donate computing power to BOINC-based projects.
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Use BOINC to develop distributed applications
Developing BOINC
Help debug and enhance BOINC software.
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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
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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