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<b>April 9, 2003</b>
<br>
Due to a legal issue,
we are suspending the BOINC beta test,
and we have requested that BOINC source code
no longer be available at Sourceforge.net.
We hope to resolve this issue soon.
<br><br>
<b>March 31, 2003</b>
<br>
We are preparing a BOINC-based version of SETI@home.
See a <a href=setiathome.jpg>preview of the graphics</a>.
<br><br>
<b>March 25, 2003</b>
<br>
<a href=http://www.boinc.dk/index.php?page=download_languages>Non-English
language.ini files</a> are available.
Preferences include time-of-day restrictions.
Core client and applications communicate via shared memory and signals
rather than files, reducing disk traffic.
<br><br>
<b>March 19, 2003</b>
<br>
New account parameters and preferences: URL, limit number of processors,
frequency of writes to disk, whether to show your computers on the web.
<br><br>
<b>March 4, 2003</b>
<br>
Participants can have separate preferences
(such as network and disk usage limits)
for computers at home, work, and school.
<br><br>
<b>February 25, 2003</b>
<br>
Participants can limit their upstream and downstream network bandwidth.
<br><br>
<b>February 22, 2003</b>
<br>
Participants can control the parameters (color, transparency,
timing) of the Astropulse graphics.
<br><br>
<b>February 19, 2003</b>
New feature: secure, verified email address update.
<br><br>
<b>January 29, 2003</b>
<br>
A <a href=http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/~eheien/ap_ss.jpg>screenshot</a> of the
BOINC client running AstroPulse, our first test application.
<br><br>
<b>December 10, 2002</b>
<br>
We have started a beta test of BOINC using
the Astropulse application.
Many bugs have been found and fixed.
<br><br>
<b>August 24, 2002</b>
<br>BOINC is under development.
The basic features are working on UNIX platforms.
We plan to release the first public application of BOINC later this year.