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<h1>Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing</h1>
A software platform for distributed computing using volunteered
computer resources
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<a href="intro.php"><b>Overview of BOINC</b></a>
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<a href=participate.php><b>Participating in BOINC projects</b></a>
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Donate your spare computing power to BOINC-based projects.</font>
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<a href=create_project.php><b>Creating BOINC projects</b></a>
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Use BOINC to develop resource-intensive applications
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<a href=boinc_dev.php><b>Developing BOINC</b></a>
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Help debug and enhance the BOINC software.
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<a href=translations.php><b>Non-English pages about BOINC</b></a>
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Translations of this web page.
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<a href=contact.php><b>Contact us</b></a>
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BOINC is supported by the
<a href=http://nsf.gov>National Science Foundation</a>
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<h2>Status</h2>
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BOINC is under development.
The <a href=source/>source code</a> and
<a href=http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/taskbase/database.cgi>bug-tracking database</a>
are available.
We are currently conducting a
<a href=http://maggie.ssl.berkeley.edu/ap/>beta test of BOINC</a>
using the <a href=http://setiathome.berkeley.edu>SETI@home</a> and
Astropulse applications.
The public release will be announced on the
<a href=http://setiathome.berkeley.edu>SETI@home</a> web site.
Several other distributed computing projects are evaluating BOINC.
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<h2>News</h2>
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<b>November 26, 2003</b>
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The CVS repository of BOINC code (including web pages) is now visible through
<a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/>a web-based interface</a>.
This may be useful for people maintaining web-site translations.
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<b>November 26, 2003</b>
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A <a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/talks/madrid_03/madrid.html>paper
about the goals of BOINC</a> was presented at a recent conference.
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<b>November 25, 2003</b>
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The beta test project is accepting new users.
CPU time measurement accuracy improved.
Scheduler respects disk usage limits.
Web site can issue cookies.
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<b>November 5, 2003</b>
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The graphics of running application are updated whenever
preferences are changed.
The scheduler now issues only as many results as will fit in
the allotted amount of disk space.
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<b>October 30, 2003</b>
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New minor versions of the core client and beta-test apps have been released.
XML statistics data for the beta test
<a href=http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/ap/stats.php>is available</a>;
it's intended for graphical or tabular representation.
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<b>October 18, 2003</b>
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A SETI@home application has been added to the beta test.
The scheduling server detect results that can't be sent
to any hosts, and flags them.
HTTP 404 errors on downloads are treated as unrecoverable.
Graphics can be limited by frame rate or percent of CPU.
Don't send two results from the same workunit to a single user.
Added JPEG support to application graphics.
Added "confirm before accept executable" mechanism.
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<a href=old_news.php>Archived news</a>
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