mirror of https://github.com/BOINC/boinc.git
1771 lines
73 KiB
PHP
1771 lines
73 KiB
PHP
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$project_news = array(
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array("August 19, 2008",
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"LinkedIn users: join a
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<a href=\"http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=678497\">BOINC Users group</a>."
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),
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array("July 30, 2008",
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"BOINC 6.2 is now the recommended version for all platforms.
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<a href=\"http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php\">Upgrade now</a>."
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),
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array("July 29, 2008",
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"The <a href=\"http://qcn.stanford.edu\">Quake Catcher Network</a>
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detected today's <a href=\"http://qcn.stanford.edu/EVENTS/2008_211/\">
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magnitude 5.4 earthquake in Los Angeles</a> within 7 seconds."
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),
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array("July 24, 2008",
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"The <a href=\"http://gcl.cis.udel.edu/EastCoast08/\">First
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East Coast BOINC Meeting</a>
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will take place August 29 2008 at the University of Delaware.
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"
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),
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array("July 17, 2008",
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"GPU computing has arrived to BOINC!
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The <a href=\"http://www.gpugrid.net\">GPUGRID.net</a> project
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from the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB)
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uses CUDA-capable NVIDIA chips
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to create an infrastructure for biomolecular simulations.
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(Currently available for Linux64; other platforms to follow soon.
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To participate, follow the instructions on the web site)."
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),
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array("July 10, 2008",
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"<a href=\"http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/BOINC_logo_merchandise\">BOINC-logo merchandise</a> (T-shirts, mouse pads) is now available."
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),
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array("July 9, 2008",
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"New add-on software: <a href=\"http://boinc.berkeley.edu/addon_item.php?platform=web&item=phpBOINCer-1.5.zip\">phpBOINCer</a>,
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a PHP script to display BOINC stats on a webpage,
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and store or retrieve these stats to a mySQL database."
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),
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array("June 16, 2008",
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"<a href=logo/logo_3d>3-D versions of the BOINC logo</a>
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are now available; thanks to John from Ireland for creating these."
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),
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array("June 2, 2008",
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"BOINCstats and BAM! are now available in
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<a href=http://br.boincstats.com/>Brazilian Portuguese</a> and
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<a href=http://tr.boincstats.com/>Turkish</a>."
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),
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array("May 31, 2008",
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"The <a href=http://orbit.psi.edu/>Orbit@home</a> project
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from the <a href=http://www.psi.edu/>Planetary Science Institute</a>
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is open for public beta test.
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Orbit@home focuses on celestial mechanics,
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Their first scientific application, SurveySimulator,
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simulates the performance of astronomical surveys searching
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for Near Earth Objects (NEOs) such as asteroids and comets."
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),
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array("May 18, 2008",
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"The source code for BOINCoid (a port of BOINC to Java and to
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Google's Android platform, by computer scientists from Technion)
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has been <a href=http://sourceforge.net/projects/boincoid>released on Sourceforge.net</a>."
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),
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array("May 9, 2008",
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"BOINC volunteer Werner Klein is
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<a href=http://www.sternengucker.org/index.php/artikel/interview-seti-ist-heute-bereits-erfolgreich/>interviewed
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in Sternengucker.org</a> (German)."
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),
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array("May 9, 2008",
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"The <a href=http://boincfaq.mundayweb.com/>BOINC FAQ Service</a>
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is now available in Spanish and French
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(as well as English, German, and Dutch)."
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),
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array("May 7, 2008",
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"<a href=http://www.predictioncenter.org/casp8/index.cgi>CASP8</a>,
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a competition for protein structure prediction, starts soon.
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<a href=http://www.rechenkraft.net>Rechenkraft.net</a> is
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sponsoring a team credit-race to support
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<a href=http://boinc.fzk.de/poem>POEM@home</a>,
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one of the CASP participants.
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Results will be reported at
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<a href=http://starmageddon.dyndns.org/pboinc/index.php>Planet BOINC</a>."
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),
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array("May 6, 2008",
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"Alpha testing of BOINC software is done by volunteers.
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Many thanks to <a href=http://isaac.ssl.berkeley.edu/alpha/top_testers.php>this month's top testers</a>."
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),
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array("May 5, 2008",
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"Version 3.0 of <a href=http://www.conmunix.net/offene-projekte/boinc-lcs/>Boinc LCS</a> (a free PHP script for monitoring remote BOINC clients) has been released."
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),
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array("Apr 20, 2008",
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"The BOINC user documentation has been moved from
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<a href=trac/wiki/RunningBoinc>Trac</a>
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to <a href=wiki/User_manual>Mediawiki</a>,
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which provides better navigation and editing interfaces.
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Please help us fix the remaining broken links."
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),
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array("Apr 7, 2008",
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"Congratulations to <a href=http://boinc.netsoft-online.com/e107_plugins/boinc/get_user.php?cpid=0c6075252a929a1c9e1a887d1cd85ac5&html=1>NEZ</a>,
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whose contribution to BOINC-based projects recently exceeded 10 TeraFLOPS.
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This would (and should) rank 136th on the
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<a href=http://www.top500.org/>Top 500 Supercomputer</a> list."
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),
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array("Mar 31, 2008",
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"The BOINC client software is now available for Fedora 7 and higher
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from official repositories.
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To install it, just type <code>yum install boinc-client boinc-manager</code> as root.
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Thanks to Milos Jakubicek, with help from Eric Myers and Debarshi Ray."
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),
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array("Mar 28, 2008",
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"Read about a new BOINC-based project,
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<a href=http://qcn.stanford.edu/>Quake Catcher Network</a>,
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in
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<a href=http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/news/2008/03/quake_network>Wired</a> and
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<a href=http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080326/full/452397a.html>Nature News</a>."
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),
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array("Mar 20, 2008",
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"Watch an excellent talk by CERN's Francois Grey,
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<a href=http://www.liftconference.com/distributed-computing-distributed-thinking>From distributed computing to distributed thinking</a>."
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),
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array("Mar 5, 2008",
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"Read <a href=http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Volunteer-Computing-and-the-Search-for-Big-Answers-61943.html>Volunteer Computing and the Search for Big Answers</a>, an article about BOINC and volunteer computing on LinuxInsider.com."
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),
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array("Feb 27, 2008",
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"Scientific progress goes BOINC! Read about the
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<a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/ProjectPapers>Scientific
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publications of BOINC-based projects</a>."
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),
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array("Feb 12, 2008",
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"Where is BOINC headed? Marcin Cieslak's vision:
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<a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/cieslak.pdf>BOINC on JXTA</a>."
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),
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array("Feb 11, 2008",
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"Bulgarian BOINC users:
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find forums and information in your language at
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<a href=http://www.boinc-bulgaria.net>BOINC Bulgaria</a>."
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),
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array("Feb 7, 2008",
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"<a href=http://biology.polytechnique.fr/proteinsathome>Proteins@Home</a>
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has resumed operations.
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Check out their <a href=http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/117860966/ABSTRACT?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0>paper on computational protein design</a>
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in the Journal of Computational Chemistry."
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),
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array("Jan 31, 2008",
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"The <a href=http://bob.myisland.as/tsp/>TSP project</a>
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is featured in International Science Grid This Week: <a href=http://www.isgtw.org/?pid=1000844>Traveling salesman meets distributed computing</a>."
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),
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array("Jan 31, 2008",
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"BOINC has broken the PetaFLOP barrier!
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According to <a href=http://boincstats.com/>BOINCStats</a>,
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106 million units of credit were granted yesterday,
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which translates to 1.06 PetaFLOP/sec.
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Congratulations to all projects and participants."
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),
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array("Jan 24, 2008",
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"A paper describing results of the <a href=http://qah.uni-muenster.de/>Quantum Monte Carlo at Home</a> project recently appeared in the
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<a href=http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/jpcafh/asap/abs/jp077592t.html>Journal of Physical Chemistry A (JPCA)</a>."
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),
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array("Jan 15, 2008",
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"A new article from the <a href=http://www.planetary.org>Planetary Society</a>:
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<a href=http://www.planetary.org/programs/projects/setiathome/setiathome_20080115.html>From SETI@home to Hominid Fossils: Citizen Cyberscience Reshapes Research Landscape</a>."
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),
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array("Jan 14, 2008",
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"The cross-project statistics site
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<a href=http://www.allprojectstats.com/>All Project Stats.com</a>
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has many improvements and new features,
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include <a href=http://www.allprojectstats.com/signature.php>credit-based signature images</a> for users and teams."
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),
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array("Jan 10, 2008",
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"A new competition for BOINC teams,
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<a href=http://www.myboinc.com/FormulaBoinc/>Formula BOINC</a>,
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is based on their position with projects (as in Formula 1 racing)
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rather than overall credit.
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This rewards teams that are diversified across many projects."
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),
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array("Dec 26, 2007",
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"A story in the Chicago Tribune, \"<a href=http://www.chicagotribune.com/services/newspaper/printedition/tuesday/chi-computer_25dec25,0,2528641.story>Bit by bit, home computers aid science</a>\",
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highlights <a href=http://www.cosmologyathome.org/>Cosmology@home</a>."
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),
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array("Dec 18, 2007",
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"<a href=http://boinc.umiacs.umd.edu/>The Lattice Project</a>,
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based at the University of Maryland
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Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology,
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is now open to volunteers.
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Lattice runs several applications, and supplies computing power to
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a number of Life Sciences researchers.
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Current areas of study include
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evolutionary relationships based on DNA sequence data;
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bacterial, plasmid, and virus protein sequences;
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and biological diversity in nature reserves. "
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),
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array("Dec 5, 2007",
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"Watch a <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzATbET3g54>YouTube video</a> about the science behind <a href=http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/>Rosetta@home</a>."
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),
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array("Dec 5, 2007",
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"The <a href=http://bob.myisland.as/tsp/>TSP</a>
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(Traveling Salesman Problem) project is using BOINC to
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find the shortest path between the capitals of the lower 48 states."
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),
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array("Dec 3, 2007",
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"This web site, and the BOINC-Wide Teams site,
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will be down for about 18 hours starting at 3 PM PST, Dec 6."
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),
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array("November 28, 2007",
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"Live in Washington DC? Get together with other BOINC users via
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<a href=http://opensource.meetup.com/84/?gj=sj2>Meetup</a>
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(or <a href=http://opensource.meetup.com/>create a Meetup
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in your own city</a>)."
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),
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array("November 16, 2007",
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"<a href=http://boinc.gorlaeus.net/>Leiden Classical</a> allows students (and the public)
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to submit particle-system simulation jobs,
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and is thus a resource for both education and research.
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The job-submission system used by Leiden Classical is now
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<a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/UserJobs>included in the BOINC source code distribution</a>."
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),
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array("November 2, 2007",
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"BOINC needs more volunteer programmers!
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If you're proficient in PHP and MySQL, C++ and WxWidgets,
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or C++ system programming,
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please <a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/DevProjects>read
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about how you can help</a>."
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),
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array("October 22, 2007",
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"The BOINC-based <a href=http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/climateexperiment>BBC
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Climate Change Experiment</a> has won the prestigious
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<a href=http://www.prix-europa.de/>Prix Europa</a>
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award in the Internet category."
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),
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array("October 21, 2007",
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'Conmunix has released version 3.0 beta of
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<a href=http://www.conmunix.net/boinc-lcs>Boinc LCS</a>
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(Live Client State), a PHP script that allows you to monitor
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the current state and other information from each of
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your BOINC clients.'
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),
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array("October 18, 2007",
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"BOINC user John Koulouris has written <a href=http://www.angelfire.com/jkoulouris-boinc/>The Big BOINC! Projects and Chronology Page</a>,
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a brief history of BOINC."
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),
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array("October 17, 2007",
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"Congratulations to the <a href=http://www.ukboincteam.org.uk/>UK BOINC Team</a>,
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which today became the first UK-specific team to
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pass the 100 million combined credits mark."
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),
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array("October 17, 2007",
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"An article in Nature,
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<a href=http://www.nature.com/news/2007/071016/full/449765a.html>The shape of protein structures to come</a>, discusses the goals and progress of the
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<a href= http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/>Rosetta@home</a> project from the University of Washington."
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),
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array("October 12, 2007",
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"LHC@home has moved from CERN to the University of London.
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Read about it <a href=http://www.interactions.org/cms/?pid=1025457>here</a>."
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),
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array("October 4, 2007",
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"The National Science Foundation has awarded a three-year grant,
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NSF award #OCI-0721124, to the BOINC project.
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This will support our development efforts through August 2010."
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),
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array("September 26, 2007",
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"The Third Pan-Galactic BOINC Workshop took place 5-6 Sept. in Geneva.
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The proceedings, including talk slides and notes from
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the breakout sessions, are
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<a href=http://boinc.berkeley/edu/trac/wiki/WorkShop07/Summary>here</a>."
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),
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array("September 25, 2007",
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"Check out the <a href=http://boinc.iaik.tugraz.at/>SHA-1 Collision Search Graz</a>
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project, which is based at the Graz University of Technology
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and does research in cryptography."
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),
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array("September 24, 2007",
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"Team founders: you can now make your team
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<a href=teams/>BOINC-wide</a>,
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meaning that it will be created on all
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current and future BOINC projects."
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),
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array("September 24, 2007",
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"A one-day session on BOINC will be presented at the
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<a href=http://acgrid.in2p3.fr>Advanced Computing and GRID technologies for Research</a> school in Hanoi, November 5-16, 2007."
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),
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array("September 21, 2007",
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"A <a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/boinc_papers/client_sch_eval/client_sch_eval.pdf>paper about scheduling in BOINC</a>
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will appear in the 3rd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing. Banagalore, India, December 10-13 2007."
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),
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array("September 7, 2007",
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"The new BOINC logo is now available in
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<a href=logo.php>a variety of formats and resolutions.</a>"
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),
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array("August 17, 2007",
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"World Community Grid has announced that it is
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<a href=http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=15715 >migrating fully to BOINC</a>.
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Welcome to all WCG participants!"
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),
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array("July 25, 2007",
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"BOINC finally has a new logo!
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Many thanks Michal Krakowiak, the graphic designer who created it.
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The logo (and icons based on it)
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will soon appear on the BOINC client software
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as well as the web site."
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),
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array("July 23, 2007",
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"<a href=images/africa_workshop_7_07.jpg><img align=right src=images/workshop_200.jpg></a>
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The Africa@home workshop on volunteer computing with BOINC,
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sponsored by the Geneva International Academic Network (GIAN),
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was held recently at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Muizenberg, South Africa.
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<br clear=all>"
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),
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array("July 20, 2007",
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"A newly-launched project, <a href=http://eternity2.net/>Eternity2.net</a>,
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offers a chance to compute for a share of a US$2,000,000 prize."
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),
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array("July 20, 2007",
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"Team leaders: check out the
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<a href=http://www.boincteams.com/>BOINC Team Leaders Forum</a>,
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a place to chat and discuss team-building on BOINC projects."
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),
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array("July 16, 2007",
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"If you use the Yahoo! Widget Engine,
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check out version 1.1 of the <a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/addon_item.php?platform=browser&item=BOINC_server_status.zip>BOINC Server Status</a> widget."
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),
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array("July 16, 2007",
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"BOINC is now the preferred client software at
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<a href=http://worldcommunitygrid.org>World Community Grid</a>."
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),
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array("July 12, 2007",
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"<a href=http://boinc.gorlaeus.net/>Leiden Classical</a>
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is using BOINC for education - it provides a
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<a href=http://boinc.gorlaeus.net/ClassicalBuilder.php>
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high-performance computing resource</a> for
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students of Theoretical Chemistry at Leiden University."
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),
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array("July 10, 2007",
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"<a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/images/gw.jpg border=0><img align=right src=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/images/gw_small.jpg></a>
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A growing number of 'skins' for the BOINC simple GUI are available
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from <a href=http://crunching-family.at/dlc/>crunching-family.at</a>.
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Here's an example.
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"
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),
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array("July 6, 2007",
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"Welcome to a new web site with cross-project BOINC statistics:
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<a href=http://statsnstones.tswb.org/>Team Starfire World BOINC Stats 'N Stones</a>."
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),
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array("July 5, 2007",
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"Windows users:
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<a href=http://www.nuchill.de/nboinc/>version 2.0 of nBOiNC</a>,
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an add-on application for viewing your up-to-the-minute credit totals,
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has been released."
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),
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array("July 4, 2007",
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"Docking@home is moving from Texas to Delaware. Volunteers should detach from the project; you will be emailed when the project is alive in Delaware."
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),
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array("July 2, 2007",
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"Read <a href=http://www.isgtw.org/?pid=1000527>Volunteer computing: Grid or not Grid?</a> on International Science Grid This Week."
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),
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array("July 2, 2007",
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"Amir Alexander of The Planetary Society talks about
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<a href=http://www.boincuk.com/amir_alexander.mp3>SETI, distributed computing, and space exploration</a> in an interview by Mike of BOINC UK."
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),
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array("June 28, 2007",
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"Linux users: if you use bash,
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check out a cool <a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/BashCommandCompletion>script</a>
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that provides command completion in both boinc_cmd and boinc_client
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(thanks to Frank S. Thomas)."
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),
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array("June 27, 2007",
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"Help increase volunteer computing power -
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<a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/BoincPr>publicize BOINC</a> by writing to computer magazines."
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),
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array("June 26, 2007",
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"There's a great new statistics site,
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<a href=http://www.allprojectstats.com/>BOINC All Project Stats</a>.
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It has lists of the top users and teams,
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recent changes in rankings, graphs showing history and
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breakdown by project, and many other features.
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You can also see the stats and rankings
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of an individual volunteer or team across all BOINC projects.
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Thanks to Markus Tervooren for putting this together!"
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),
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array("June 26, 2007",
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"There are reports that version 5.10.8 of the BOINC client software
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causes a problem on Windows XP Pro in which the desktop becomes empty.
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If you see this, please uninstall 5.10.8 and install version 5.8.16."
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),
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array("June 3, 2007",
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"BOINCstats and BAM! are now viewable in Finnish
|
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(<a href=http://fi.boincstats.com>http://fi.boincstats.com</a>). "
|
|
),
|
|
array("May 31, 2007",
|
|
"Sony Playstation 3 owners: researchers at the Barcelona
|
|
Biomedical Research Park have launched
|
|
<a href=http://www.ps3grid.net/>PS3GRID</a>,
|
|
a BOINC-based project whose application
|
|
(molecular dynamics simulations) runs on the
|
|
PS3's Cell processor, on Linux."
|
|
),
|
|
array("May 29, 2007",
|
|
"Check out <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNDcMAePKYY&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcb%2Dtools%2Epytalhost%2Ede%2Fblog%2F>a video promoting BOINC</a> on YouTube.</a>"
|
|
),
|
|
array("May 28, 2007",
|
|
"A <a href=http://www.kd-web.info/boinc_tutorial_wcg-english.php>Flash guide to using BOINC with IBM World Community Grid</a> is available in Czech and English."
|
|
),
|
|
array("May 14, 2007",
|
|
"The <a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/WorkShop07>3rd Pan-Galactic
|
|
BOINC Workshop</a> will be held 5-6 September 2007 in Geneva, Switzerland."
|
|
),
|
|
array("May 9, 2007",
|
|
"The BOINC Virtual Server - a VMWare virtual machine
|
|
preconfigured with BOINC and all prerequisite software -
|
|
is <a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/ServerIntro>now available</a>.
|
|
This greatly simplifies the task of creating a BOINC projects.
|
|
Thanks to Christian Beer for creating this."
|
|
),
|
|
array("May 8, 2007",
|
|
"As of about May 1, BOINC projects have had
|
|
<a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=1777>over one million volunteers</a>."
|
|
),
|
|
array("May 6, 2007",
|
|
"An excellent article on BOINC and the projects using it
|
|
appeared today in the Catalan newspaper AVUI.
|
|
It is available in PDF (pages
|
|
<a href=http://media.avui.cat/pdf/07/0506/070506diari034.pdf>one</a>
|
|
and <a href=http://media.avui.cat/pdf/07/0506/070506diari035.pdf>two</a>)
|
|
and also as a <a href=http://paper.avui.cat/article/societat/73609/computacio/ciutadana.html>web page</a>.
|
|
Thanks to Dr. Jordi Portell i de Mora for telling us about it."
|
|
),
|
|
array("May 6, 2007",
|
|
"<a href=http://www.boincstats.com/>BOINCstats and BAM!</a>
|
|
are now available in 15 languages.
|
|
As of today, they are now viewable in Swedish
|
|
(<a href= http://se.boincstats.com> http://se.boincstats.com</a>)."
|
|
),
|
|
array("May 3, 2007",
|
|
"The source code behind <a href=http://boinc.netsoft-online.com/>BOINC Combined Stats</a> is now <a href=trac/wiki/CreditStats#Codeexamples>available via Subversion</a>. This may be helpful for other statistics site developers."
|
|
),
|
|
array("April 24, 2007",
|
|
"<a href=http://www.gridrepublic.org/>GridRepublic</a> announces
|
|
a significant upgrade to their web site, including improved
|
|
registration workflow and better integration with IBM World Community Grid
|
|
(including WCG sub-project registration)."
|
|
),
|
|
array("April 23, 2007",
|
|
"Krystof Dolezal's
|
|
<a href=http://www.kd-web.info/clanky.php>Flash-based BOINC tutorials</a>
|
|
are now available in English and Slovak,
|
|
as well as Czech."
|
|
),
|
|
array("April 23, 2007",
|
|
"BOINCstats and BAM! are now available in the Czech language
|
|
(<a href=http://cz.boincstats.com>http://cz.boincstats.com</a>).
|
|
Thanks to Zelvuska for the translation."
|
|
),
|
|
array("April 17, 2007",
|
|
"<a href=http://desktopgrid.hu/>Desktopgrid.hu</a>
|
|
has been created by the Computer and Automation Research Institute
|
|
(SZATAKI) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA).
|
|
It provides information (and software downloads) for using
|
|
BOINC for <a href=dg.php>desktop Grid computing</a>."
|
|
),
|
|
array("April 16, 2007",
|
|
"BOINC is now using <a href=http://trac.edgewall.org/>Trac</a>,
|
|
an integrated software project management system.
|
|
In particular:
|
|
1) the BOINC source code repository now uses Subversion;
|
|
2) the BOINC bug database has been moved to Trac;
|
|
3) documentation will be moved to a Wiki.
|
|
See <a href=trac/>the BOINC/Trac page</a>.
|
|
"
|
|
),
|
|
array("April 11, 2007",
|
|
"The BBC documentary 'Meltdown',
|
|
which highlights <a href=http://climateprediction.net>Climateprediction.net</a>,
|
|
has been nominated for
|
|
a <a href=http://www.bafta.org/site/page129.html>British Academy of
|
|
Film and Television Arts</a> academy award."
|
|
),
|
|
array("April 4, 2007",
|
|
"Dr. Anderson gave the keynote talk,
|
|
<a href=talks/ipdps_07_kn.ppt>Volunteer Computing: Planting the Flag</a>,
|
|
at the PCGrid 2007 workshop,
|
|
held at the IPDPS conference in Long Beach on March 30."
|
|
),
|
|
array("March 29, 2007",
|
|
"If you can read Czech, czech out some excellent
|
|
<a href=http://www.kd-web.info/clanky.php>Flash-based BOINC tutorials</a>."
|
|
),
|
|
array("March 23, 2007",
|
|
"Africa@home (with support from the
|
|
Geneva International Academic Network)
|
|
is sponsoring an
|
|
<a href=images/africa_at_home_workshop.pdf>intensive one-week workshop on volunteer computing</a>
|
|
for qualified African students,
|
|
to be held at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences
|
|
in Muizenberg, South Africa, 16-22 July 2007."
|
|
),
|
|
array("March 9, 2007",
|
|
"<img align=right src=images/stamps/stamp-rosetta.png>
|
|
Don't use them for postage, but check out the
|
|
<a href=images/stamps>BOINC stamps</a>
|
|
created by Myster65 and Rebirther."
|
|
),
|
|
array("March 6, 2007",
|
|
"The article <a href=http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/71/Distributed_Applications_With_BOINC.pdf>Idle Cycles - building distributed applications with BOINC</a> Seil appears in the Oct 2006 issue of
|
|
<a href=http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/71>Linux Magazine</a>.
|
|
In it, author Marc Seil
|
|
provides a detailed description of how to set up a BOINC project."
|
|
),
|
|
array("March 1, 2007",
|
|
"With <a href=http://boincpe.schreiter.info/>BOINCpe</a>
|
|
you can run a dedicated BOINC machine using a RAM disk,
|
|
starting from only 256 MB of total RAM.
|
|
This lets you operate a BOINC farm more energy-efficiently
|
|
or to use machines without hard disk drives for BOINC."
|
|
),
|
|
array("February 28, 2007",
|
|
"The BOINC web server recently underwent a
|
|
hardware and software upgrade. Certain projects and
|
|
pages may still be offline as we continue to configure
|
|
the new system."
|
|
),
|
|
array("February 8, 2007",
|
|
"Marc Seil gave a talk on setting up a BOINC server
|
|
at the recent <a href=http://www.linuxdays.lu>LinuxDays</a>
|
|
conference in Luxembourg.
|
|
His slides are <a href=contrib/boinc_v1.3.pdf>here</a>."
|
|
),
|
|
array("February 5, 2007",
|
|
"<a href=http://gridrepublic.org>GridRepublic</a>
|
|
has been selected as a finalist for the Web Awards
|
|
at the 2007 SXSW Interactive Festival. Please
|
|
<a href=https://secure.sxsw.com/peoples_choice/>click here</a>
|
|
to cast your vote for them at the SXSW website.
|
|
"
|
|
),
|
|
array("February 3, 2007",
|
|
"The documentation on Creating BOINC Projects is now available as
|
|
<a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/boinc.pdf>one big PDF file</a>."
|
|
),
|
|
array("January 24, 2007",
|
|
"The <a href=http://boincfaq.mundayweb.com/>BOINC FAQ Service</a>
|
|
answers many questions about using BOINC.
|
|
It is available in English, German, and Dutch."
|
|
),
|
|
array("January 19, 2007",
|
|
"Check out a
|
|
<a href=http://youtube.com/watch?v=kCYlZ8-l5jc>TV news segment</a>
|
|
and a <a href=http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/climateexperiment/>web site</a>
|
|
about the results of the recently-completed
|
|
BBC Climate Change Experiment.
|
|
On January 21 BBC aired a documentary on the results of this project;
|
|
an excerpt is <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNud-goRBgE>here</a>."
|
|
|
|
),
|
|
array("January 18, 2007",
|
|
"The paper \"<a href=http://research.microsoft.com/research/pubs/view.aspx?type=Technical%20Report&id=1259>Reporting@Home: Delivering Dynamic Graphical Feedback to Participants in Community Computing Projects</a>\"
|
|
describes how Rosetta@home delivers personalized
|
|
graphical progress reports to its volunteers."
|
|
),
|
|
array("January 17, 2007",
|
|
"Linux users: check out
|
|
<a href=http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=44237>KBoincMgr</a>,
|
|
a replacement for the BOINC Manager.
|
|
KBoincMgr can manage multiple BOINC clients,
|
|
and has other features too numerous to mention."
|
|
),
|
|
array("January 17, 2007",
|
|
"On Sunday 21 Jan. at 8pm BBC 1 will broadcast
|
|
<a href=http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/listings/programme.shtml?day=sunday&service_id=4223&filename=20070121/20070121_2000_4223_18875_60>Climate Change: Britain Under Threat</a>.
|
|
This will include results from the BBC and CPDN experiments,
|
|
and an interview with CPDN staff.
|
|
In addition, results should appear on the <a href=http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/hottopics/climatechange/>BBC Climate Change website</a>."
|
|
),
|
|
array("January 7, 2007",
|
|
"The <a href=http://abcathome.com>ABC@home</a> project,
|
|
based at <a href=http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/>Leiden University</a>
|
|
in Holland, is now open.
|
|
ABC@home is studying the <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abc_conjecture>ABC conjecture</a>,
|
|
a major open problem in mathematics."
|
|
),
|
|
array("January 6, 2007",
|
|
"MySpace users: check out the
|
|
<a href=http://groups.myspace.com/BOINConMYSPACE>BOINC on MySpace</a> group."
|
|
),
|
|
array("December 29, 2006",
|
|
"A <a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/boinc_papers/sched/paper.pdf>paper about BOINC client scheduling</a> will appear in the
|
|
Workshop on Large-Scale, Volatile Desktop Grids held in conjunction with the IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), March 30, 2007, Long Beach."
|
|
),
|
|
array("December 28, 2006",
|
|
"The <a href=http://biology.polytechnique.fr/proteinsathome>Proteins@Home</a> project is now open.
|
|
Proteins@Home is a large-scale protein structure prediction project,
|
|
and is based at the École Polytechnique in Paris."
|
|
),
|
|
array("December 21, 2006",
|
|
"Some AOL users are unable to attach to some projects.
|
|
A work-around for this problem is described
|
|
<a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/aol.php>here</a>."
|
|
),
|
|
array("December 8, 2006",
|
|
"<a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/skins.php><img align=right src=images/boinccast_small.png></a>
|
|
Olaf Bornack of
|
|
<a href=http://www.boinc-halle-saale.de/>Team BOINC@Halle/Saale</a>
|
|
has supplied
|
|
<a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/ManagerSkin#stencils>stencils</a>
|
|
for creating skins for the new BOINC GUI.
|
|
These have been used to make skins with
|
|
<a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/SkinExamples>BOINCcast,
|
|
BOINC@Halle/Saale, and BOINCmas!</a> themes.
|
|
<br clear=all>
|
|
"
|
|
),
|
|
array("December 6, 2006",
|
|
"Linux users: check out the new
|
|
<a href=http://www.vanheusden.com/boinctail/>BOINCTail</a> add-on."
|
|
),
|
|
array("December 4, 2006",
|
|
"BOINC's new <a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/help.php>Online Help system</a>
|
|
lets you get help from volunteers
|
|
by talking with them using <a href=http://www.skype.com>Skype</a>.
|
|
Volunteers speak several languages."
|
|
),
|
|
array("December 4, 2006",
|
|
"It hasn't been released yet,
|
|
but already several skins are available for BOINC Manager version 5.8
|
|
(currently under test as version 5.7.x).
|
|
Check out <a href=http://www.crunching-family.at/download-center/>Crunching Family Skin Downloads</a>."
|
|
),
|
|
array("December 4, 2006",
|
|
"A recent article in the Bulletin of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
|
|
<a href=http://www.hhmi.org/bulletin/nov2006/pdf/Cast.pdf>A Cast of Thousands<a/>, discusses the
|
|
<a href=http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/>Rosetta@home</a> project
|
|
and its army of dedicated volunteers."
|
|
),
|
|
array("November 27, 2006",
|
|
"Jean-Michel Penasse of L'Alliance Francophone
|
|
has create a web site,
|
|
<a href=http://www.myboinc.com/>www.myboinc.com</a>,
|
|
showing the User of the Day of all BOINC projects
|
|
going back to October 8 2006. Check it out!"
|
|
),
|
|
array("November 23, 2006",
|
|
"<b>Docking@home participants</b>:
|
|
the project is unreachable because of a campus-wide network
|
|
connection failure at Univ. of Texas - El Paso.
|
|
Please check back periodically."
|
|
),
|
|
array("November 15, 2006",
|
|
"BOINCstats is now available in Spanish.
|
|
Thanks to Miquel Pericas for the translation.
|
|
BOINCstats in Spanish can be visited at
|
|
<a href=http://es.boincstats.com>http://es.boincstats.com</a>."
|
|
),
|
|
array("November 7, 2006",
|
|
"Check out new add-on software:
|
|
the <a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/addon_item.php?platform=browser&item=http%3A%2F%2Fsetihometoolbar.ourtoolbar.com%2F>SETI@home Toolbar</a>
|
|
for Firefox and IE on Windows (SETI@home-specific), and
|
|
<a href=http://www.helsinki.fi/~earajarv/programs/boinctray/>Boinctray</a>,
|
|
a system tray application for Linux."
|
|
),
|
|
array("November 7, 2006",
|
|
"We are preparing to release client software with
|
|
a new GUI that is simpler, smaller, and more graphical
|
|
than the current BOINC manager.
|
|
Projects can supply their own graphics
|
|
(icons, application-specific slideshows) for use in this GUI;
|
|
see <a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ProjectSkin>instructions for how to do this</a>.
|
|
In addition, the GUI itself is skinnable;
|
|
a skin consists of
|
|
<a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/ManagerSkin>an XML
|
|
file and a collection of images</a>."
|
|
),
|
|
array("October 17, 2006",
|
|
"Issue 3 of
|
|
<a href=http://www.boincuk.com/newsLetter/bunc-03.pdf>bunc (BOINC UK newsletter)</a> is now online, with articles on a wide range of topics."
|
|
),
|
|
array("October 9, 2006",
|
|
"Interested in getting a one-CPU-month job finished in five minutes?
|
|
BOINC can potentially help you do this, but
|
|
<a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/LowLatency>some work is needed</a>."
|
|
),
|
|
array("October 8, 2006",
|
|
"Versions of BOINC (and some applications) are now
|
|
available for
|
|
Solaris (x86, i686, SPARC),
|
|
Linux (Alpha, SPARC),
|
|
FreeBSD (x86, Alpha) and
|
|
HPUX (including the BOINC Manager) from
|
|
<a href=http://www.lb.shuttle.de/apastron/boincDown.shtml>www.lb.shuttle.de</a>."
|
|
),
|
|
array("October 4, 2006",
|
|
"Eric Korpela and David Anderson were interviewed today
|
|
by Mike O'Connell of BOINC UK.
|
|
Many topics were covered, including the question of
|
|
credit and optimized clients.
|
|
Download a recording of the conversation (MP3, 13.5 MB) from
|
|
<a href=http://www.boincuk.com/david_anderson.mp3>BOINC UK</a>
|
|
or <a href=mp3/boincuk_4_oct_2006.mp3>a mirror at Berkeley</a>."
|
|
),
|
|
array("September 26, 2006",
|
|
"The 2nd Annual Pangalactic BOINC Workshop was held
|
|
in Geneva on 20-21 September.
|
|
Read <a href=ws_06.php>the online workshop proceedings</a>."
|
|
),
|
|
array("September 11, 2006",
|
|
"<a href=chart_list.php>UW-Madison CAE</a>,
|
|
the first BOINC user to top the 1 TERAFLOPS barrier,
|
|
now has surpassed 2 TERAFLOPS. Congratulations!"
|
|
),
|
|
array("September 2, 2006",
|
|
"The <a href=http://spin.fh-bielefeld.de/>Spinhenge</a> project
|
|
has moved into public beta test,
|
|
and is accepting new participant accounts."
|
|
),
|
|
array("August 24, 2006",
|
|
"<a href=http://gridrepublic.org>GridRepublic</a>,
|
|
a BOINC account manager, recently moved into beta test.
|
|
It was written up by <a href=http://news.com.com/2061-12572_3-6108804.html>CNET</a>."
|
|
),
|
|
array("August 20, 2006",
|
|
"BOINC and SETI@home are featured in
|
|
<a href=http://www.be.asahi.com/20060819/W16/20060803TBEH0006A.html>an
|
|
article in Asahi-shinbun</a>,
|
|
one of the most popular newspapers in Japan."
|
|
),
|
|
array("August 16, 2006",
|
|
"New documents discuss using BOINC for
|
|
<a href=dg.php>Desktop Grid Computing</a>
|
|
and for creating
|
|
<a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/VirtualCampusSupercomputerCenter>Virtual Campus Supercomputing Centers</a>."
|
|
),
|
|
array("August 15, 2006",
|
|
"A BBC Radio program on 'Citizen Science' - including
|
|
a segment on volunteer computing and BOINC -
|
|
will air tomorrow, 16 Aug 2006, 9 PM British Time.
|
|
It will also be available
|
|
<a href=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/citizenscience.shtml>online</a>.
|
|
"
|
|
),
|
|
array("August 14, 2006",
|
|
"Participants with preferences for different venues
|
|
(home, school, work) can now view these side-by-side
|
|
in a multi-column format.
|
|
Also, preference values are now checked for validity.
|
|
Thanks to Christian Beer for the PHP programming behind
|
|
these improvements."
|
|
),
|
|
array("August 11, 2006",
|
|
"An <a href=http://qah.uni-muenster.de/article1.php>article about
|
|
Quantum Monte Carlo at Home</a> appeared 03.08.2006 in the German newspaper WAZ."
|
|
),
|
|
array("August 3, 2006",
|
|
"A recent update of McAfee security software on Windows
|
|
causes BOINC 5.4.9 to not work (<a href=mcafee.php>details</a>).
|
|
We have released a new version, 5.4.11,
|
|
that fixes the problem and works with the latest McAfee software."
|
|
),
|
|
array("August 2, 2006",
|
|
"The <a href=workshop_06.php>2nd Pan-Galactic BOINC Workshop</a>
|
|
will be held 20-21 September at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.
|
|
Anyone actively involved with BOINC is encouraged to attend."
|
|
),
|
|
array("July 26, 2006",
|
|
"<a href=http://www.chess960athome.org/>Chess960@home</a>
|
|
is open for testers.
|
|
This project studies a game that is like classical chess
|
|
except that the initial configuration of pieces
|
|
is chosen randomly from among 960 possibilities."
|
|
),
|
|
array("July 25, 2006",
|
|
"Welcome to three new BOINC-based projects.
|
|
Two are mathematical:
|
|
<a href=http://boinc.rieselsieve.com/>Riesel Sieve</a>
|
|
looks for prime numbers of the form k2<sup>n</sup>-1,
|
|
and <a href=http://dist.ist.tugraz.at/cape5/>Rectilinear Crossing Number</a>
|
|
studies a problem in computational geometry.
|
|
The third, <a href=http://spin.fh-bielefeld.de/>Spinhenge@home</a>,
|
|
studies molecular magnets and controlled nanoscale magnetism,
|
|
which may have applications in medicine and biotechnology."
|
|
),
|
|
array("July 22, 2006",
|
|
"BOINC user survey:
|
|
due to a bug in our software, answers to the question
|
|
'Which are the most important factors when you decide whether to participate in a BOINC project?' were not recorded correctly.
|
|
Please <a href=poll.php>fill out the survey form again</a>.
|
|
We apologize for the inconvenience."
|
|
),
|
|
array("July 21, 2006",
|
|
"The BOINC survey is now available in
|
|
<a href=http://boinc.oocp.org/poll.php>Japanese</a>.
|
|
If you'd like to translate it to another language,
|
|
please <a href=trac/wiki/ProjectPeople>contact us</a>."
|
|
),
|
|
array("July 13, 2006",
|
|
"We are conducting an <a href=poll.php>online survey</a>
|
|
of BOINC participants.
|
|
Please fill out the survey form -
|
|
your responses will help us improve BOINC and the projects that use it. "
|
|
),
|
|
array("July 13, 2006",
|
|
"Articles in
|
|
<a href=http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060717/full/060717-15.html>Nature</a>,
|
|
<a href=http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=7159442>The Economist</a>
|
|
and <a href=http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=16636>WebWire</a>
|
|
describe <a href=http://africa-at-home.web.cern.ch/>Africa@home</a>,
|
|
an initiative that supports African humanitarian causes.
|
|
Their first BOINC-based project,
|
|
<a href=http://www.malariacontrol.net/>malariacontrol.net</a>,
|
|
studies malaria epidemiology.
|
|
Africa@home is a collaboration of the Swiss Tropical Institute,
|
|
CERN, and a group of universities (three of them from Africa).
|
|
"
|
|
),
|
|
array("July 7, 2006",
|
|
"The <a href=http://issofty17.is.noda.tus.ac.jp/>TANPAKU</a>
|
|
project, based at the Tokyo University of Science,
|
|
is open for participation.
|
|
TANPAKU (from the Japanese word <i>tanpaku-shitsu</i>,
|
|
meaning 'protein') studies protein structure and function
|
|
using a novel method called Brownian Dynamics."
|
|
),
|
|
array("June 30, 2006",
|
|
"Want to deploy BOINC quickly and easily on a Windows network?
|
|
Read <a href=http://www.thelazyslug.com/boinc.htm>The Lazy Slug's Guide
|
|
to easy deployment and maintenance of BOINC on your network</a>."
|
|
),
|
|
array("June 29, 2006",
|
|
"<a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/boinc_papers/api/text.pdf>A
|
|
paper about BOINC's API and runtime system</a>
|
|
will appear in the <a href=http://sc06.supercomp.org>SC06 conference</a>."
|
|
),
|
|
array("June 28, 2006",
|
|
"A new <a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/SandboxUser>Secure BOINC Client</a>
|
|
for the Macintosh is available for testing.
|
|
This version limits BOINC applications' access to your system and data,
|
|
thus protecting your computer from accidental or malicious damage
|
|
or data theft."
|
|
),
|
|
array("June 22, 2006",
|
|
"Pav Lucistnik has developed
|
|
<a href=http://www.oook.cz/bsd/boinc_curses/>boinc_curses</a>,
|
|
a Unix console-based program (like 'top')
|
|
to monitor and control BOINC."
|
|
),
|
|
array("June 21, 2006",
|
|
"BOINCstats and the BAM! account manager
|
|
are now available <a href=http://jp.boincstats.com>in Japanese</a>."
|
|
),
|
|
array("June 15, 2006",
|
|
"BOINC's CPU scheduler has become smarter:
|
|
it now waits until an application has checkpointed
|
|
to preempt it and remove it from memory.
|
|
This can save significant CPU time, especially on multiprocessors.
|
|
Technical details are <a href=sched.php>here</a>.
|
|
The new scheduler is in the development version of BOINC,
|
|
and will appear in the 5.6 release.
|
|
Volunteer developer John McLeod VII was the driving
|
|
force behind the new scheduler."
|
|
),
|
|
array("June 14, 2006",
|
|
"We have added preliminary support for
|
|
<a href=wrapper.php>legacy applications</a>
|
|
that do not use the BOINC API
|
|
(e.g. because their source code is not available).
|
|
This feature will work with the next version
|
|
(5.6) of the BOINC client software.
|
|
"
|
|
),
|
|
array("June 10, 2006",
|
|
"The <a href=http://www.boincuk.com/newsletter_reg.php>BOINC UK Newsletter Circular</a> (bunc) has released its June 2006 edition,
|
|
featuring an interview with David Anderson."
|
|
),
|
|
array("June 7, 2006",
|
|
"Windows users: if BOINC applications are repeatedly
|
|
crashing on your computer,
|
|
it's possibly that you need to
|
|
<a href=directx.php>upgrade to the latest version of DirectX</a>."
|
|
),
|
|
array("May 31, 2006",
|
|
"Recent newspaper articles on BOINC and Rosetta@home:
|
|
<a href=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003027071_computersider30m.html>Worldwide, 690,000 help computer effort</a> and
|
|
<a href=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420AP_WA_Research_at_Home.html>Medical researcher taps the power of home computing</a>."
|
|
),
|
|
array("May 30, 2006",
|
|
"The <a href=http://bam.boincstats.com>BOINCStats Account Manager</a>
|
|
(BAM!) is now available for use.
|
|
BAM! provides 'one-stop shopping' for finding
|
|
and attaching to BOINC project;
|
|
see the news item of May 11.
|
|
Thanks to Willy de Zutter for developing BAM!."
|
|
),
|
|
array("May 25, 2006",
|
|
"BOINC has added preliminary support for 'low-latency' computing;
|
|
e.g. delay bounds of minutes rather than days.
|
|
This requires having clients contact the server frequently;
|
|
we've added a mechanism that lets the server specify
|
|
the connection interval.
|
|
This will be available in the next release (5.6) of the client software.
|
|
Projects that are interested in using this mechanism should
|
|
<a href=contact.php>contact us</a>."
|
|
),
|
|
array("May 17, 2006",
|
|
"The costs of electricity, both monetary and environmental, are high.
|
|
Be aware of the <a href=energy.php>energy considerations</a>
|
|
associated with BOINC and volunteer computing."
|
|
),
|
|
array("May 11, 2006",
|
|
"Version 5.4 of the BOINC client software has been released.
|
|
This version lets you use <a href=trac/wiki/AccountManagers>account managers</a> -
|
|
special web sites that let you browse BOINC projects,
|
|
attach/detach, change resource share and settings,
|
|
all with point-and-click simplicity.
|
|
Account managers are also great if you have several computers -
|
|
you make changes on the web site,
|
|
and they take effect on all of your computers.
|
|
A couple of excellent account managers are nearly ready for use;
|
|
stay tuned for details."
|
|
),
|
|
array("May 9, 2006",
|
|
"The first-ever
|
|
<a href=http://www.seti.cat/web/?q=node/18>BOINC birthday cake</a>
|
|
appeared at the 7th SETI@home-Catalonia Meeting
|
|
(and 1st BOINC-Catalonia Meeting), held in Girona last April 22nd.
|
|
Also: <a href=http://www.boinc.cat>BOINC.cat</a>,
|
|
a BOINC site in Catalan, has recently opened.
|
|
"),
|
|
array("April 30, 2006",
|
|
"<img align=right width=75 height=66 src=images/Logo_blau.jpg> The latest German <a href=http://boinccast.podhost.de/>BOINCcast</a>
|
|
discusses ClimatePrediction.net;
|
|
earlier BOINCcasts cover SIMAP, LHC@home, and uFluids.
|
|
<br>
|
|
"
|
|
),
|
|
array("April 14, 2006",
|
|
"The CERN Courier's Computer Newsletter features an article on
|
|
<a href=http://www.cerncourier.com/articles/cnl/3/4/14/1>BOINC activities at CERN</a>.
|
|
"),
|
|
array("April 13, 2006",
|
|
"According to various <a href=links.php>statistics sites</a>,
|
|
over one million computers have now contributed
|
|
processing power to BOINC projects.
|
|
We're currently achieving a sustained processing rate
|
|
of over 400 TeraFLOPS - the world's most powerful supercomputer
|
|
by a wide margin.
|
|
Congratulations and thanks to everyone!
|
|
"),
|
|
array("April 13, 2006",
|
|
"We have developed an <a href=example.php>example application</a>,
|
|
together with project files and Makefiles for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
|
|
The application demonstrates how to do checkpoint/restart and graphics.
|
|
Projects can use this as a framework for building their own applications.
|
|
"),
|
|
array("April 6, 2006",
|
|
"Thanks to the efforts of
|
|
<a href=http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-boinc/>volunteers</a>,
|
|
BOINC is now officially part of the Debian Linux distribution.
|
|
Packages for the BOINC
|
|
<a href=http://packages.debian.org/boinc-client>core client</a>
|
|
and <a href=http://packages.debian.org/boinc-manager>Manager</a>
|
|
are available for 13 different platforms
|
|
(alpha, amd64, arm, hppa,
|
|
i386, ia64, kfreebsd-i386, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc).
|
|
"),
|
|
array("April 4, 2006",
|
|
"Windows users: new versions of
|
|
<a href=http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/DownloadResult.aspx?prod=m_wom20&os=xp&lang=en&driverVersion=IntelliPoint%205.5>Intellipoint</a>
|
|
and <a href=http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/DownloadResult.aspx?prod=m_wNMK&os=xp&lang=en&driverVersion=IntelliType%20Pro%205.5>Intellitype</a>
|
|
are available from Microsoft.
|
|
Upgrading to these may fix problems with the BOINC screensaver.
|
|
"
|
|
),
|
|
array("April 3, 2006",
|
|
"<a href=http://boincstats.com>BOINCstats.com</a> is one of
|
|
several excellent web sites showing BOINC statistics.
|
|
It's available in a number of languages, now including
|
|
<a href=http://cn.boincstats.com/>Chinese</a>.
|
|
"
|
|
),
|
|
array("March 15, 2006",
|
|
"The <a href=http://attribution.cpdn.org/>Seasonal Attribution Project</a>,
|
|
a spin-off of Climateprediction.net,
|
|
seeks to determine the extent to which extreme weather events
|
|
are attributable to human-induced climate change.
|
|
Its application is a high-resolution simulation of the world's climate,
|
|
and is recommended only for computers
|
|
with at least 1 GB of RAM, and a 2.4GHz Pentium or faster processor.
|
|
"
|
|
),
|
|
array("March 5, 2006",
|
|
"Tony/Knightrider/Chuggybus has created BOINC coinage.
|
|
See the <a href=images/coins/>large</a>
|
|
and <a href=images/coins_small>small</a> versions.
|
|
The Latin text means 'Berkeley open and shared resources'.
|
|
"
|
|
),
|
|
array("March 3, 2006",
|
|
"<a href=http://qah.uni-muenster.de/>Quantum Monte Carlo at Home</a>
|
|
announces the public release of the first chemistry BOINC project.
|
|
This project, based at the University of Münster in Germany,
|
|
studies the structure and reactivity of molecules using Quantum Chemistry,
|
|
whose vastly complex equations require huge amounts of computing power.
|
|
"
|
|
),
|
|
array("February 24, 2006",
|
|
"A significant step has been made towards integrating
|
|
BOINC and Grid software:
|
|
beginning with Condor version 6.7.17,
|
|
Condor can be configured to run BOINC when it has no other work to perform.
|
|
This capability is described in <a href=http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/manual/v6.7/3_13Setting_Up.html#SECTION004138000000000000000>the Condor manual</a>.
|
|
"
|
|
),
|
|
array("February 22, 2006",
|
|
"BOINC announces its
|
|
<a href=mac_intel.php>support for the Macintosh/Intel platform</a>.
|
|
"
|
|
),
|
|
array("February 19, 2006",
|
|
"<a href=http://boinccast.podhost.de/>BOINCcast</a>
|
|
is the first German Podcast about BOINC.
|
|
Weekly episodes of 5 minutes length will explain Distributed Computing
|
|
and the Goals of BOINC to the German public,
|
|
and will present and explain the projects that use BOINC.
|
|
"
|
|
),
|
|
array("February 15, 2006",
|
|
"View <a href=http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolavconsole/ukfs_news/hi/newsid_4710000/newsid_4713000/bb_rm_4713004.stm>a video clip</a>
|
|
about the BBC Climate Change Experiment.
|
|
"
|
|
),
|
|
array("February 14, 2006",
|
|
"BOINC and Climateprediction.net have joined forces with the BBC
|
|
to launch a new experiment -- a full simulation of climate change
|
|
from 1920 to 2080.
|
|
The experiment is described on
|
|
a BBC television documentary <b>Meltdown</b>
|
|
(BBC-4, February 20th, for UK BOINCers).
|
|
Simplified client software is available
|
|
at <a href=http://bbc.co.uk/climatechange>bbc.co.uk/climatechange</a>.
|
|
Experienced BOINCers can attach to http://bbc.cpdn.org
|
|
(check out the new graphics!).
|
|
Be warned that a 160-year climate simulation is a long workunit even
|
|
by Climateprediction.net's extravagant standards.
|
|
But if you have a fast machine and are prepared to give
|
|
us first call on your CPU, just for the next couple of months,
|
|
then you could see your results in a second BBC television programme
|
|
scheduled for May.
|
|
"
|
|
),
|
|
array("February 8, 2006",
|
|
"The <a href=http://szdg.lpds.sztaki.hu/szdg/>SZTAKI Desktop Grid</a>
|
|
is now in production.
|
|
The project, based at the MTA-SZTAKI Laboratory of Parallel
|
|
and Distributed Systems in Budapest, Hungary, is attempting
|
|
to find all the generalized binary number systems
|
|
(bases are matrices and digits are vectors) up to dimension 11."
|
|
),
|
|
array("February 6, 2006",
|
|
"The <a href=http://boinc.bio.wzw.tum.de/boincsimap/>Similarity
|
|
Matrix of Proteins (SIMAP)</a> project is now in production.
|
|
SIMAP, based at the Technical University of Munich,
|
|
uses volunteer computers to calculate similarities between proteins.
|
|
It provides a public database of the resulting data,
|
|
which plays a key role in many bioinformatics research projects.
|
|
SIMAP is the first German BOINC-based project."
|
|
),
|
|
array("December 15, 2005",
|
|
"A <a href=http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/full/051212-10.html>story
|
|
about SETI@home's transition to BOINC</a> appears in the Nature web site."
|
|
),
|
|
array("December 12, 2005",
|
|
"A new paper, <a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/boinc_papers/internet/paper.pdf>The Computational and Storage Potential of Volunteer Computing</a>,
|
|
explores the limits of BOINC-based projects."
|
|
),
|
|
array("December 9, 2005",
|
|
"BOINC has a job opening for an experienced programmer
|
|
(C++/Python/PHP/SQL/HTML).
|
|
For more information go to
|
|
<a href=http://jobs.berkeley.edu/> http://jobs.berkeley.edu/</a>.
|
|
The job is number 003496, and is listed under Information Technology."
|
|
),
|
|
array("November 29, 2005",
|
|
"We have created a new email list,
|
|
<a href=http://www.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_announce>boinc_announce@ssl.berkeley.edu</a>,
|
|
for announcements of new versions of BOINC client software."
|
|
),
|
|
array("November 27, 2005",
|
|
"Check out <a href=https://uimon.cern.ch/twiki/pub/LHCAtHome/LinksAndDocs/boincciemat06.pdf>A BOINC seminar by Juan Antonio Lopez Perez of CERN</a>,
|
|
presented at CIEMAT in Madrid, November 2005.
|
|
Also available in a
|
|
<a href=https://uimon.cern.ch/twiki/pub/LHCAtHome/LinksAndDocs/boincciematprint06.pdf>print version</a>."
|
|
),
|
|
array("November 15, 2005",
|
|
"<a href=stats.php>Aggregate credit data</a>
|
|
(user and host credit data summed over all BOINC projects)
|
|
is now available in XML format.
|
|
This data can be used for applications
|
|
(like the 'Featured participant' above)
|
|
that reflect overall contribution to BOINC project.
|
|
"
|
|
),
|
|
array("November 1, 2005",
|
|
"IBM's <a href=http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/>World Community Grid</a>
|
|
has launched a BOINC-based project (currenly Linux only)."
|
|
),
|
|
array("October 28, 2005",
|
|
"David Anderson talks about BOINC and volunteer computing
|
|
in a <a href=http://www.enterpriseleadership.org/listen/podcast-anderson>podcast at www.enterpriseleadership.org</a>."
|
|
),
|
|
array("October 20, 2005",
|
|
"Version 5.2.2 of the BOINC client software has been released.
|
|
It includes a simpler registration procedure,
|
|
security enhancements, and numerous other improvements."
|
|
),
|
|
array("September 25, 2005",
|
|
"<a href=http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/>Rosetta@home<a>,
|
|
a BOINC-based project at the University of Washington,
|
|
has launched and is seeking participants.
|
|
Its goal is \"... to develop methods that accurately
|
|
predict and design protein structures
|
|
and complexes, an endeavor that may ultimately help researchers
|
|
develop cures for human diseases.\""
|
|
),
|
|
array("September 23, 2005",
|
|
"<a href=server_perf.pdf>High-Performance Task Distribution for Volunteer Computing</a>, a paper about BOINC server performance,
|
|
will appear in the e-Science 2005 conference in December."
|
|
),
|
|
array("September 6, 2005",
|
|
"<a href=http://www.theinstitute.ieee.org/portal/site/tionline/menuitem.130a3558587d56e8fb2275875bac26c8/index.jsp?&pName=institute_level1_article&TheCat=2201&article=tionline/legacy/inst2005/sep05/9w.fgravity.xml&>Searching for Gravity @ Home</a>, an article about Einstein@home and BOINC,
|
|
appears in the September 2005 issue of IEEE's <i>The Institute</i>."
|
|
),
|
|
array("August 29, 2005",
|
|
"<a href=http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=313>A conversation with David Anderson</a> in ACM Queue Magazine."
|
|
),
|
|
array("August 14, 2005",
|
|
"We are <a href=new_setup.php>redesigning BOINC</a> to use
|
|
a user-supplied identifier and password
|
|
instead of a system-supplied random key
|
|
for identifying an account.
|
|
Comments on the design are welcome."
|
|
),
|
|
array("August 9, 2005",
|
|
"BOINC is transitioning to use <a href=http://curl.haxx.se/>libcurl</a>
|
|
for HTTP operations.
|
|
This will allow BOINC to use HTTPS (secure HTTP)
|
|
for scheduler requests and file transfers."
|
|
),
|
|
array("August 3, 2005",
|
|
"Non-open-source code (RSAEuro and GLUT) has been removed from BOINC.
|
|
OpenSSL's crypto library is used for encryption."
|
|
),
|
|
|
|
array("July 25, 2005",
|
|
"A group of students from Cornell have written
|
|
<a href=distributing_science_final.pdf>Distributing Science</a>,
|
|
a very nice article about BOINC
|
|
and some of the projects using it."
|
|
),
|
|
array("July 24, 2005",
|
|
"<a href=http://www.fatbat.dk/thesis/>A paper by Jakob Pedersen and Christian Søttrup</a>
|
|
discusses the interoperation of the Grid and BOINC."
|
|
),
|
|
|
|
array("July 11-12, 2005",
|
|
"The <a href=cern_workshop.php>First Pangalactic BOINC Workshop</a>
|
|
was held at CERN,
|
|
bringing together people from ClimatePrediction.net,
|
|
Einstein@home, CERN, and BOINC.
|
|
"
|
|
),
|
|
array("June 25, 2005",
|
|
"BOINC <a href=stats_sites.php>statistics</a> sites continue to evolve.
|
|
Check out <a href=http://home.btconnect.com/Gabys_Bazar/hwupgrade.html>Every Earthly Hour</a>, developed by Hydnum Repandum"
|
|
),
|
|
array("June 24, 2005",
|
|
"We have added
|
|
<a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/api.php#credit>new API calls</a>
|
|
that allow applications to do their own CPU benchmarking,
|
|
or directly report their floating-point operation count.
|
|
This will give more accurate credit numbers for
|
|
applications that are optimized for specific architectures
|
|
or that use non-CPU computing resources such as GPUs."
|
|
),
|
|
array("June 24, 2005",
|
|
"We've added two mechanisms that give better estimates
|
|
of result completion time
|
|
(and thus better scheduling and fewer missed deadlines):
|
|
1) we track the 'CPU efficiency': the average fraction
|
|
of CPU time that BOINC apps receive while they're running
|
|
(this can be less than one on systems that run
|
|
compute-intensive tasks other than BOINC);
|
|
2) we dynamically maintain a per-project upper bound on the
|
|
ratio of actual CPU time to predicted CPU time."
|
|
),
|
|
array("June 24, 2005",
|
|
"We've improved and simplified the CPU scheduling and work-fetch policies,
|
|
using a detailed simulation of BOINC's weighted round-robin scheduling.
|
|
When the simulator predicts that a deadline will be missed,
|
|
the client switches to earliest-deadline-first scheduling.
|
|
When the simulator predicts that fetching additional work
|
|
will cause a deadline to be missed, it suspends work fetch."
|
|
),
|
|
array("June 24, 2005",
|
|
"<a href=trac/wiki/AccountManagers>Account management system</a>
|
|
are web sites that let participants sign up for
|
|
multiple projects with just a few clicks (and no account keys).
|
|
The BOINC manager (development version) now lets you
|
|
select, change, or get updated account info from an account manager."
|
|
),
|
|
array("June 24, 2005",
|
|
"BOINC now works in Windows 'service' mode on computers
|
|
with dialup connections and the 'confirm before connect' preference set.
|
|
The connection confirmation and setup process has been
|
|
moved to the BOINC manager, which (unlike a service)
|
|
is able to do GUI activities."
|
|
),
|
|
|
|
array("June 16, 2005",
|
|
"Climateprediction.net is featured in
|
|
<a href=http://www.iee.org/oncomms/sector/PN_Article.cfm?objectID=3D100A5C-BC75-D279-D8D15A49EC4131B4>an article</a>
|
|
in the journal of the Institute of Electrical Engineers."
|
|
),
|
|
array("June 3, 2005",
|
|
"Two Wiki-based BOINC informational sites have been launched recently:
|
|
<a href=http://www.boinc-wiki.info/>The Unofficial BOINC Wiki</a>
|
|
(in English) and
|
|
<a href=http://faq.boinc.de/>Deutsche BOINC FAQ</a> (in German).
|
|
Because these sites are Wikis,
|
|
participants can add and modify content."
|
|
),
|
|
array("May 31, 2005",
|
|
"BOINC is featured in <a href=http://sciencereview.berkeley.edu:7066/pdf/5.1/briefs_pt3.pdf>The Berkeley Science Review</a>."
|
|
),
|
|
array("May 14, 2005",
|
|
"Eric Myers and Charlie Fenton have written
|
|
excellent documents on
|
|
<a href=compile.php>how to compile BOINC and BOINC applications
|
|
on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X</a>."
|
|
),
|
|
array("May 11, 2005",
|
|
"BOINC and BOINC-based projects are discussed in
|
|
the article 'Grassroots Computing'
|
|
in the May 6 2005 issue of
|
|
<a href=http://www.sciencemag.org/sciext/computers/>Science magazine</a>."
|
|
),
|
|
array("May 10, 2005",
|
|
"LHC@home is a BOINC-based project being used to
|
|
simulate the orbits of particles in CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
|
|
Read about it in the
|
|
<a href=http://bulletin.cern.ch/eng/articles.php?bullno=13/2005&base=art#Article1>CERN Bulletin</a>.
|
|
"
|
|
),
|
|
array("May 10, 2005",
|
|
"As the number of BOINC-based projects has increased,
|
|
a problem has emerged - if a computer is attached to lots of projects,
|
|
it may have trouble finishing work in time.
|
|
We are revising the BOINC client's <a href=sched.php>CPU scheduling
|
|
and work-fetch policies</a> to address this issue."
|
|
),
|
|
array("May 10, 2005",
|
|
"Many BOINC applications have interactive graphics
|
|
(e.g. you can zoom in/out using the mouse).
|
|
For apps that use the latest BOINC API, you can interact
|
|
even when in screensaver mode - just hold down the control key."
|
|
),
|
|
array("May 10, 2005",
|
|
"We finally have an installer and GUI for Mac OS X!
|
|
It is available as a development version,
|
|
and will become the standard version soon."
|
|
),
|
|
array("April 11, 2005",
|
|
"Volunteers have ported SETI@home and BOINC to
|
|
<a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/DownloadOther>a variety of platforms</a>,
|
|
including Solaris/x86-64, Linux/x86-64, Linux/PPC, HP-UX, and FreeBSD."
|
|
),
|
|
|
|
array(
|
|
"March 8, 2005",
|
|
"We released the BOINC Menubar, a user-friendly client software
|
|
version for Macintosh OS X.
|
|
It can be installed and run through a GUI interface -
|
|
no Unix commands.
|
|
We also released the Windows installer announced in
|
|
the January 1 2005 news item.
|
|
Both are available on the <a href=download.php>Download</a> page."
|
|
),
|
|
array(
|
|
"February 19, 2005",
|
|
"The <a href=http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/>Einstein@home</a>
|
|
project was officially launched this morning.
|
|
BOINC users are encouraged to participate in this project,
|
|
which searches for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars)
|
|
using data from the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors.
|
|
"
|
|
),
|
|
array(
|
|
"February 17, 2005",
|
|
"We've added a <a href=trac/wiki/TranslateIntro>framework for web-site translations</a>
|
|
(both BOINC-supplied and project-specific parts).
|
|
We are adding support for
|
|
<a href=trac/wiki/AccountManagers>account management systems</a>
|
|
that simplify participation in multiple projects.
|
|
Security enhancement: all application files are digitally signed.
|
|
"
|
|
),
|
|
array(
|
|
"January 20, 2005",
|
|
"BOINC source code is now distributed under the
|
|
Lesser GNU Public License (LPGL)."
|
|
),
|
|
array(
|
|
"January 19, 2005",
|
|
"BOINC-based projects projects now have
|
|
80,721 participants in 188 countries.
|
|
Based on <a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/CreditSystem>current credit statistics</a>,
|
|
together they supply 106 TeraFLOPS of computing power -
|
|
far more than any conventional supercomputer."
|
|
),
|
|
array(
|
|
"January 18, 2005",
|
|
"BOINC's message board system supports moderation."
|
|
),
|
|
array(
|
|
"January 10, 2005",
|
|
"With help from the Einstein@home group, we have refined BOINC's
|
|
<a href=sched_locality.php>locality scheduling</a> mechanism,
|
|
It can now interact with project-specific programs
|
|
that generate work on demand,
|
|
and that maintain a 'working set' of data files
|
|
for which work is distributed."
|
|
),
|
|
array(
|
|
"January 1, 2005",
|
|
"The Windows version of BOINC can now be configured
|
|
to run when a particular user is logged in,
|
|
to run when any user is logged in,
|
|
or run all the time (as a service)
|
|
even when no users are logged in."
|
|
),
|
|
|
|
array("December 10, 2004",
|
|
"With considerable help from the Einstein@home group,
|
|
we have application graphics working on all platforms, including Linux.
|
|
To handle hosts without graphics libraries,
|
|
we have developed a <a href=graphics.php>new architecture</a> in which
|
|
graphics code resides in a dynamically loaded library."
|
|
),
|
|
array("December 6, 2004",
|
|
"Added prioritization to work distribution."
|
|
),
|
|
array("December 3, 2004",
|
|
"We have created a new email list,
|
|
<a href=http://www.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_cvs>boinc_cvs@ssl.berkeley.edu</a>.
|
|
A summary of each CVS checkin to the BOINC source tree
|
|
will be posted to this list."
|
|
),
|
|
|
|
array(
|
|
"December 2, 2004",
|
|
"A technical paper about BOINC is
|
|
<a href=grid_paper_04.pdf>here</a>.
|
|
This paper appeared in the
|
|
5th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing,
|
|
November 8, 2004, Pittsburgh, USA."
|
|
),
|
|
array(
|
|
"November 21, 2004",
|
|
"We have developed a GUI for the core client.
|
|
It's similar to the old Windows GUI but is implemented
|
|
using <a href=http://www.wxwidgets.org/>wxWidgets</a>
|
|
so it runs on all platforms.
|
|
It offers new features such as the ability to
|
|
suspend/resume projects and results,
|
|
and project-specific web links.
|
|
It uses a socket-based GUI RPC mechanism,
|
|
which makes it possible to develop other GUIs,
|
|
including ones that control many hosts.
|
|
"
|
|
),
|
|
array(
|
|
"November 21, 2004",
|
|
"A new utility, db_purge, allows projects to
|
|
flush old entries from the result and workunit tables,
|
|
so that these tables have a bounded size."
|
|
),
|
|
array(
|
|
"November 21, 2004",
|
|
"We have developed a new Windows installer
|
|
that lets you run BOINC as a service,
|
|
and that is compatible with the Microsoft MSI framework."
|
|
),
|
|
array(
|
|
"November 21, 2004",
|
|
"The application graphics framework now works on
|
|
all platforms, including Mac OS X."
|
|
),
|
|
array(
|
|
"November 21, 2004",
|
|
"The message-board system now supports self-moderation
|
|
(i.e., 'ignore lists')."
|
|
),
|
|
array(
|
|
"November 21, 2004",
|
|
"BOINC servers can now use read-only database replicas
|
|
for increased throughput."
|
|
),
|
|
array(
|
|
"September 21, 2004",
|
|
"XML Schemas for the statistics data exported by BOINC projects
|
|
is <a href=BOINCSchemas/>here</a>,
|
|
and graphical representations are
|
|
<a href=BOINCSchemas/documentation/>here</a>."
|
|
),
|
|
array(
|
|
"September 14, 2004",
|
|
"We have created an email list, boinc_opt@ssl.berkeley.edu,
|
|
for people interested in porting and optimizing BOINC applications.
|
|
Sign up <a href=http://www.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_opt>here</a>."
|
|
),
|
|
array(
|
|
"September 11, 2004",
|
|
"We are working on a new type of work distribution, called
|
|
<a href=sched_locality.php>Locality scheduling</a>,
|
|
that sends work to hosts that already have the needed files."
|
|
),
|
|
array(
|
|
"September 6, 2004",
|
|
"The <a href=http://lattice.umiacs.umd.edu/>Lattice</a> project
|
|
from the University of Maryland
|
|
is developing a Grid system that integrates Globus,
|
|
BOINC, and several other software components."
|
|
),
|
|
array(
|
|
"September 1, 2004",
|
|
"The new project LHC@home announces its first beta test,
|
|
initially restricted to 1000 users.
|
|
Please sign up at <a href=http://lhcathome.cern.ch>lhcathome.cern.ch</a>."
|
|
),
|
|
array(
|
|
"August 26, 2004",
|
|
"The <a href=http://climateprediction.net/>Climateprediction.net</a>
|
|
project is now open to the public."
|
|
),
|
|
array(
|
|
"August 6, 2004",
|
|
"Users can choose whether applications should
|
|
quit or suspend when they're not executing."
|
|
),
|
|
array(
|
|
"August 5, 2004",
|
|
"The core client now checks whether disk usage exceeds
|
|
user-specified limits, and if so it deletes projects files
|
|
in a way that respects project resource shares."
|
|
),
|
|
array(
|
|
"August 5, 2004",
|
|
"Large BOINC projects (like SETI@home) were getting
|
|
on the order of a million files in upload/download directories.
|
|
This caused OS performance problems.
|
|
We fixed this by providing a two-level directory
|
|
hierarchy for upload/download directories."
|
|
),
|
|
array(
|
|
"August 3, 2004",
|
|
"The Climateprediction.net project recently held an
|
|
<a href=http://www.climateprediction.net/project/openday.php>Open Day</a>,
|
|
describing its status and its plans to use BOINC.
|
|
"
|
|
),
|
|
array(
|
|
"July 9, 2004",
|
|
"We made the core/app interface more flexible and general,
|
|
providing better support for applications that consist
|
|
of separate controller, worker, and graphics programs.
|
|
We also added mechanisms that prevent
|
|
multiple applications from running in the same slot,
|
|
and that cause applications to exit if the core client dies.
|
|
"
|
|
),
|
|
array(
|
|
"July 9, 2004",
|
|
"We changed the SQL queries used by the performance-critical
|
|
server components, such as the transitioner and feeder,
|
|
to boost maximum server throughput."
|
|
),
|
|
array(
|
|
"July 9, 2004",
|
|
"The core client now does preemptive scheduling of results.
|
|
It time-slices between results,
|
|
maintaining the approximate project resource shares.
|
|
The work-fetch policy has also been modified;
|
|
a single 'connection frequency' parameter replaces the
|
|
min/max buffer parameter,
|
|
and the policy matches the requirements of the CPU-scheduling policy."
|
|
),
|
|
array(
|
|
"July 9, 2004",
|
|
"We have added a mechanism that allows projects to
|
|
upload and download 'persistent files'.
|
|
This is the first step to using participant hosts for storage
|
|
as well as computation, possibly creating
|
|
the world's largest storage server."
|
|
),
|
|
array(
|
|
"June 20, 2004",
|
|
"The <a href=db_dump.php>statistics export mechanism</a> has been redesigned
|
|
to give projects more control over what they export;
|
|
e.g. they can shift the burden of sorting to statistics web sites."
|
|
),
|
|
array(
|
|
"June 16, 2004",
|
|
"New features: support for multi-program applications.
|
|
Daily result quota per host.
|
|
Applications can supply a static graphic
|
|
(for screensaver) without writing code.
|
|
Improved support for FORTRAN.
|
|
Support for GUI RPCs in Windows client.
|
|
Option for allowing GUI RPCs from non-local hosts.
|
|
Check for keyboard/mouse input in Unix.
|
|
Support for name/password authentication for HTTP proxies."
|
|
),
|
|
|
|
array("May 31, 2004",
|
|
"BOINC news is available as an RSS feed;
|
|
see Community and Resources."
|
|
),
|
|
|
|
array(
|
|
"May 19, 2004",
|
|
"CPU benchmarking (and credit) are now based on
|
|
the Dhrystone and Whetstone benchmarks.
|
|
Memory bandwidth is no longer measured."
|
|
),
|
|
|
|
array("May 18, 2004",
|
|
"Source code is now available
|
|
<a href=source_code.php>directly via CVS</a>.
|
|
Improved Unix signal handling.
|
|
Support app versions, workunits and results with lots of files
|
|
(changed XML fields from 4KB to 64KB).
|
|
Added
|
|
<a href=homogeneous_redundancy.php>homogeneous redundancy</a> mechanism.
|
|
"),
|
|
|
|
array("May 2, 2004",
|
|
"General preferences are now propagated from client to server,
|
|
but only to accounts with the same email address
|
|
as where the preferences originated.
|
|
"),
|
|
|
|
array("April 20, 2004",
|
|
"Added <a href=cpid.php>cross-project identification</a> system.
|
|
Added support for caching of PHP web pages,
|
|
and restored leaderboard pages.
|
|
"),
|
|
|
|
array("April 12, 2004",
|
|
"Recent fixes and features:
|
|
<a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trickle.php>trickle messages</a>
|
|
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.
|
|
"),
|
|
|
|
array("March 16, 2004",
|
|
"An unauthorized
|
|
<a href=calvin-hobbes-boinc.jpg>BOINC graphic</a>.
|
|
"),
|
|
|
|
array("February 11, 2004",
|
|
"BOINC is being used at the Scripps Research Institute
|
|
to run a distributed version of CHARMM
|
|
(a program for macromolecular simulations).
|
|
"),
|
|
|
|
array("February 1, 2004",
|
|
"BOINC now has an
|
|
<a href=http://boinc.berkeley/edu/trac/wiki/AnonymousPlatform>anonymous platform mechanism</a>
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
"),
|
|
|
|
array("January 22, 2004",
|
|
"The BOINC core client now provides
|
|
<a href=gui_rpc.php>a set of RPCs allowing separate GUIs to be developed</a>.
|
|
"),
|
|
|
|
array("November 26, 2003",
|
|
"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.
|
|
"),
|
|
|
|
array("November 26, 2003",
|
|
"A <a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/madrid.html>paper
|
|
about the goals of BOINC</a> was presented at a recent conference.
|
|
"),
|
|
|
|
array("November 25, 2003",
|
|
"The beta test project is accepting new users.
|
|
CPU time measurement accuracy improved.
|
|
Scheduler respects disk usage limits.
|
|
Web site can issue cookies.
|
|
"),
|
|
|
|
array("November 5, 2003",
|
|
"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.
|
|
|
|
"),
|
|
|
|
array("October 30, 2003",
|
|
"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.
|
|
"),
|
|
|
|
array("October 18, 2003",
|
|
"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.
|
|
|
|
"),
|
|
|
|
array("September 11, 2003",
|
|
"BOINC is discussed in
|
|
<a href=http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/11/technology/circuits/11dist.html>
|
|
an article by Joan Oleck in the New York TImes</a>.
|
|
"),
|
|
|
|
|
|
array("September 4, 2003",
|
|
"We've released BOINC version 2.0.
|
|
All BOINC components must be upgraded to major version 2.
|
|
We've upgraded the <a
|
|
href=http://maggie.ssl.Berkeley.edu/ap/>Astropulse</a> server to 2.01 and
|
|
released <a href=http://setiboinc.ssl.Berkeley.edu/ap/download.php>BOINC core
|
|
client 2.01</a>.
|
|
This was due to an architecture and protocol change in
|
|
specifying resource estimates and limits.
|
|
"),
|
|
|
|
array("September 1, 2003",
|
|
"BOINC server tools are now Python-based. A <a href=python.php>database
|
|
back-end API</a> allows quick development of data-manipulation utilities.
|
|
"),
|
|
|
|
array("August 15, 2003",
|
|
"We rewrote parts of the scheduling server architecture to make operations
|
|
more flexible and efficient.
|
|
The <code>timeout_check</code>
|
|
daemon has been replaced by a more general <code>transitioner</code> daemon.
|
|
"),
|
|
|
|
array("July 25, 2003",
|
|
"We've added two new web-site features for BOINC projects:
|
|
user profiles and message boards.
|
|
These are visible on the <a href=http://maggie.ssl.berkeley.edu/ap/>beta-test web site</a>.
|
|
"),
|
|
|
|
array("July 23, 2003",
|
|
"The <a href=source/>BOINC source code</a> is available again,
|
|
under <a href=legal.html>a new public license</a>.
|
|
Version 1.05 incorporates bug fixes and new features,
|
|
including the ability to add your own graphics to the screensaver.
|
|
The beta test has been resumed, and the scheduling server and
|
|
database have been moved to a new machine.
|
|
"),
|
|
|
|
array("June 10, 2003",
|
|
"<a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/db_dump.php>XML based statistics</a> for
|
|
the Astropulse beta test are
|
|
<a href=http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/ap/stats/>available</a>.
|
|
"),
|
|
|
|
array("May 30, 2003",
|
|
"No big news to report,
|
|
but thanks to the beta test we've fixed a number of bugs,
|
|
involving runaway applications, too-large output files,
|
|
screensaver behavior, and mechanisms for
|
|
quitting and resetting projects.
|
|
"),
|
|
|
|
array("April 29, 2003",
|
|
"We have created a second project, allowing beta testers to
|
|
experiment with dividing their resources between multiple projects.
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"),
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|
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array("April 23, 2003",
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"We have resumed the BOINC beta test.
|
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"),
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|
|
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array("April 9, 2003",
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"Due to a legal issue,
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we are suspending the BOINC beta test,
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and we have requested that BOINC source code
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no longer be available at Sourceforge.net.
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We hope to resolve this issue soon.
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"),
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|
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array("March 31, 2003",
|
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"We are preparing a BOINC-based version of SETI@home.
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See a <a href=setiathome.jpg>preview of the graphics</a>.
|
|
"),
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|
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array("March 25, 2003",
|
|
"<a href=http://www.boinc.dk/index.php?page=download_languages>Non-English
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language.ini files</a> are available.
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Preferences include time-of-day restrictions.
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Core client and applications communicate via shared memory and signals
|
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rather than files, reducing disk traffic.
|
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"),
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|
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array("March 19, 2003",
|
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"New account parameters and preferences: URL, limit number of processors,
|
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frequency of writes to disk, whether to show your computers on the web.
|
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"),
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|
|
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array("March 4, 2003",
|
|
"Participants can have separate preferences
|
|
(such as network and disk usage limits)
|
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for computers at home, work, and school.
|
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"),
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|
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array("February 25, 2003",
|
|
"Participants can limit their upstream and downstream network bandwidth.
|
|
"),
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|
|
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array("February 22, 2003",
|
|
"Participants can control the parameters (color, transparency,
|
|
timing) of the Astropulse graphics.
|
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"),
|
|
|
|
array("February 19, 2003",
|
|
"New feature: secure, verified email address update.
|
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"),
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|
|
|
array("January 29, 2003",
|
|
"A <a href=http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/~eheien/ap_ss.jpg>screenshot</a> of the
|
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BOINC client running AstroPulse, our first test application.
|
|
"),
|
|
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array("December 10, 2002",
|
|
"We have started a beta test of BOINC using
|
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the Astropulse application.
|
|
Many bugs have been found and fixed.
|
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"),
|
|
|
|
array("August 24, 2002",
|
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"BOINC is under development.
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The basic features are working on UNIX platforms.
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We plan to release the first public application of BOINC later this year.
|
|
")
|
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);
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?>
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