mirror of https://github.com/BOINC/boinc.git
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843 lines
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PHP
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$project_news = array(
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array("April 14, 2006",
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"The CERN Courier's Computer Newsletter features an article on
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<a href=http://www.cerncourier.com/articles/cnl/3/4/13/1>BOINC activities at CERN</a>.
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"),
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array("April 13, 2006",
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"According to various <a href=links.php>statistics sites</a>,
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over one million computers have now contributed
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processing power to BOINC projects.
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We're currently achieving a sustained processing rate
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of over 400 TeraFLOPS - the world's most powerful supercomputer
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by a wide margin.
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Congratulations and thanks to everyone!
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"),
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array("April 13, 2006",
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"We have developed an <a href=example.php>example application</a>,
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together with project files and Makefiles for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
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The application demonstrates how to do checkpoint/restart and graphics.
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Projects can use this as a framework for building their own applications.
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"),
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array("April 6, 2006",
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"Thanks to the efforts of
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<a href=http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-boinc/>volunteers</a>,
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BOINC is now officially part of the Debian Linux distribution.
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Packages for the BOINC
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<a href=http://packages.debian.org/boinc-client>core client</a>
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and <a href=http://packages.debian.org/boinc-manager>Manager</a>
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are available for 13 different platforms
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(alpha, amd64, arm, hppa,
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i386, ia64, kfreebsd-i386, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc).
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"),
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array("April 4, 2006",
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"Windows users: new versions of
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<a href=http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/DownloadResult.aspx?prod=m_wom20&os=xp&lang=en&driverVersion=IntelliPoint%205.5>Intellipoint</a>
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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>
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are available from Microsoft.
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Upgrading to these may fix problems with the BOINC screensaver.
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"
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),
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array("April 3, 2006",
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"<a href=http://boincstats.com>BOINCstats.com</a> is one of
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several excellent web sites showing BOINC statistics.
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It's available in a number of languages, now including
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<a href=http://cn.boincstats.com/>Chinese</a>.
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"
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),
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array("March 15, 2006",
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"The <a href=http://attribution.cpdn.org/>Seasonal Attribution Project</a>,
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a spin-off of Climateprediction.net,
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seeks to determine the extent to which extreme weather events
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are attributable to human-induced climate change.
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Its application is a high-resolution simulation of the world's climate,
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and is recommended only for computers
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with at least 1 GB of RAM, and a 2.4GHz Pentium or faster processor.
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"
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),
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array("March 5, 2006",
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"Tony/Knightrider/Chuggybus has created BOINC coinage.
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See the <a href=images/coins/>large</a>
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and <a href=images/coins_small>small</a> versions.
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The Latin text means 'Berkeley open and shared resources'.
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"
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),
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array("March 3, 2006",
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"<a href=http://qah.uni-muenster.de/>Quantum Monte Carlo at Home</a>
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announces the public release of the first chemistry BOINC project.
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This project, based at the University of MÈnster in Germany,
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studies the structure and reactivity of molecules using Quantum Chemistry,
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whose vastly complex equations require huge amounts of computing power.
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"
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),
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array("February 24, 2006",
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"A significant step has been made towards integrating
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BOINC and Grid software:
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beginning with Condor version 6.7.17,
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Condor can be configured to run BOINC when it has no other work to perform.
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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>.
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"
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),
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array("February 22, 2006",
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"BOINC announces its
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<a href=mac_intel.php>support for the Macintosh/Intel platform</a>.
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"
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),
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array("February 19, 2006",
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"<a href=http://boinccast.podhost.de/>BOINCcast</a>
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is the first German Podcast about BOINC.
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Weekly episodes of 5 minutes length will explain Distributed Computing
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and the Goals of BOINC to the German public,
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and will present and explain the projects that use BOINC.
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"
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),
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array("February 15, 2006",
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"View <a href=http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolavconsole/ukfs_news/hi/newsid_4710000/newsid_4713000/bb_rm_4713004.stm>a video clip</a>
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about the BBC Climate Change Experiment.
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"
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),
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array("February 14, 2006",
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"BOINC and Climateprediction.net have joined forces with the BBC
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to launch a new experiment -- a full simulation of climate change
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from 1920 to 2080.
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The experiment is described on
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a BBC television documentary <b>Meltdown</b>
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(BBC-4, February 20th, for UK BOINCers).
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Simplified client software is available
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at <a href=http://bbc.co.uk/climatechange>bbc.co.uk/climatechange</a>.
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Experienced BOINCers can attach to http://bbc.cpdn.org
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(check out the new graphics!).
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Be warned that a 160-year climate simulation is a long workunit even
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by Climateprediction.net's extravagant standards.
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But if you have a fast machine and are prepared to give
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us first call on your CPU, just for the next couple of months,
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then you could see your results in a second BBC television programme
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scheduled for May.
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"
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),
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array("February 8, 2006",
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"The <a href=http://szdg.lpds.sztaki.hu/szdg/>SZTAKI Desktop Grid</a>
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is now in production.
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The project, based at the MTA-SZTAKI Laboratory of Parallel
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and Distributed Systems in Budapest, Hungary, is attempting
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to find all the generalized binary number systems
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(bases are matrices and digits are vectors) up to dimension 11."
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),
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array("February 6, 2006",
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"The <a href=http://boinc.bio.wzw.tum.de/boincsimap/>Similarity
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Matrix of Proteins (SIMAP)</a> project is now in production.
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SIMAP, based at the Technical University of Munich,
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uses volunteer computers to calculate similarities between proteins.
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It provides a public database of the resulting data,
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which plays a key role in many bioinformatics research projects.
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SIMAP is the first German BOINC-based project."
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),
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array("December 15, 2005",
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"A <a href=http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/full/051212-10.html>story
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about SETI@home's transition to BOINC</a> appears in the Nature web site."
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),
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array("December 12, 2005",
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"A new paper, <a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/boinc_papers/internet/paper.pdf>The Computational and Storage Potential of Volunteer Computing</a>,
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explores the limits of BOINC-based projects."
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),
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array("December 9, 2005",
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"BOINC has a job opening for an experienced programmer
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(C++/Python/PHP/SQL/HTML).
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For more information go to
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<a href=http://jobs.berkeley.edu/> http://jobs.berkeley.edu/</a>.
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The job is number 003496, and is listed under Information Technology."
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),
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array("November 29, 2005",
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"We have created a new email list,
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<a href=http://www.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_announce>boinc_announce@ssl.berkeley.edu</a>,
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for announcements of new versions of BOINC client software."
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),
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array("November 27, 2005",
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"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>,
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presented at CIEMAT in Madrid, November 2005.
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Also available in a
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<a href=https://uimon.cern.ch/twiki/pub/LHCAtHome/LinksAndDocs/boincciematprint06.pdf>print version</a>."
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),
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array("November 15, 2005",
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"<a href=stats.php>Aggregate credit data</a>
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(user and host credit data summed over all BOINC projects)
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is now available in XML format.
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This data can be used for applications
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(like the 'Featured participant' above)
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that reflect overall contribution to BOINC project.
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"
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),
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array("November 1, 2005",
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"IBM's <a href=http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/>World Community Grid</a>
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has launched a BOINC-based project (currenly Linux only)."
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),
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array("October 28, 2005",
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"David Anderson talks about BOINC and volunteer computing
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in a <a href=http://www.enterpriseleadership.org/listen/podcast-anderson>podcast at www.enterpriseleadership.org</a>."
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),
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array("October 20, 2005",
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"Version 5.2.2 of the BOINC client software has been released.
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It includes a simpler registration procedure,
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security enhancements, and numerous other improvements."
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),
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array("September 25, 2005",
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"<a href=http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/>Rosetta@home<a>,
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a BOINC-based project at the University of Washington,
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has launched and is seeking participants.
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Its goal is \"... to develop methods that accurately
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predict and design protein structures
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and complexes, an endeavor that may ultimately help researchers
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develop cures for human diseases.\""
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),
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array("September 23, 2005",
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"<a href=server_perf.pdf>High-Performance Task Distribution for Volunteer Computing</a>, a paper about BOINC server performance,
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will appear in the e-Science 2005 conference in December."
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),
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array("September 6, 2005",
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"<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,
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appears in the September 2005 issue of IEEE's <i>The Institute</i>."
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),
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array("August 29, 2005",
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"<a href=http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=313>A conversation with David Anderson</a> in ACM Queue Magazine."
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),
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array("August 14, 2005",
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"We are <a href=new_setup.php>redesigning BOINC</a> to use
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a user-supplied identifier and password
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instead of a system-supplied random key
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for identifying an account.
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Comments on the design are welcome."
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),
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array("August 9, 2005",
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"BOINC is transitioning to use <a href=http://curl.haxx.se/>libcurl</a>
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for HTTP operations.
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This will allow BOINC to use HTTPS (secure HTTP)
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for scheduler requests and file transfers."
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),
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array("August 3, 2005",
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"Non-open-source code (RSAEuro and GLUT) has been removed from BOINC.
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OpenSSL's crypto library is used for encryption."
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),
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array("July 25, 2005",
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"A group of students from Cornell have written
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<a href=distributing_science_final.pdf>Distributing Science</a>,
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a very nice article about BOINC
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and some of the projects using it."
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),
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array("July 24, 2005",
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"<a href=http://www.fatbat.dk/thesis/>A paper by Jakob Pedersen and Christian Søttrup</a>
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discusses the interoperation of the Grid and BOINC."
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),
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array("July 11-12, 2005",
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"The <a href=cern_workshop.php>First Pangalactic BOINC Workshop</a>
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was held at CERN,
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bringing together people from ClimatePrediction.net,
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Einstein@home, CERN, and BOINC.
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"
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),
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array("June 25, 2005",
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"BOINC <a href=stats_sites.php>statistics</a> sites continue to evolve.
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Check out <a href=http://home.btconnect.com/Gabys_Bazar/hwupgrade.html>Every Earthly Hour</a>, developed by Hydnum Repandum"
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),
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array("June 24, 2005",
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"We have added
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<a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/api.php#credit>new API calls</a>
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that allow applications to do their own CPU benchmarking,
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or directly report their floating-point operation count.
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This will give more accurate credit numbers for
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applications that are optimized for specific architectures
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or that use non-CPU computing resources such as GPUs."
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),
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array("June 24, 2005",
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"We've added two mechanisms that give better estimates
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of result completion time
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(and thus better scheduling and fewer missed deadlines):
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1) we track the 'CPU efficiency': the average fraction
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of CPU time that BOINC apps receive while they're running
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(this can be less than one on systems that run
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compute-intensive tasks other than BOINC);
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2) we dynamically maintain a per-project upper bound on the
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ratio of actual CPU time to predicted CPU time."
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),
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array("June 24, 2005",
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"We've improved and simplified the CPU scheduling and work-fetch policies,
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using a detailed simulation of BOINC's weighted round-robin scheduling.
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When the simulator predicts that a deadline will be missed,
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the client switches to earliest-deadline-first scheduling.
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When the simulator predicts that fetching additional work
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will cause a deadline to be missed, it suspends work fetch."
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),
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array("June 24, 2005",
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"<a href=acct_mgt.php>Account management system</a>
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are web sites that let participants sign up for
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multiple projects with just a few clicks (and no account keys).
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The BOINC manager (development version) now lets you
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select, change, or get updated account info from an account manager."
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),
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array("June 24, 2005",
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"BOINC now works in Windows 'service' mode on computers
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with dialup connections and the 'confirm before connect' preference set.
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The connection confirmation and setup process has been
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moved to the BOINC manager, which (unlike a service)
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is able to do GUI activities."
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),
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array("June 16, 2005",
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"Climateprediction.net is featured in
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<a href=http://www.iee.org/oncomms/sector/PN_Article.cfm?objectID=3D100A5C-BC75-D279-D8D15A49EC4131B4>an article</a>
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in the journal of the Institute of Electrical Engineers."
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),
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array("June 3, 2005",
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"Two Wiki-based BOINC informational sites have been launched recently:
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<a href=http://boinc-doc.net/boinc-wiki/>The Unofficial BOINC Wiki</a>
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(in English) and
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<a href=http://faq.boinc.de/>Deutsche BOINC FAQ</a> (in German).
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Because these sites are Wikis,
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participants can add and modify content."
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),
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array("May 31, 2005",
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"BOINC is featured in <a href=http://sciencereview.berkeley.edu:7066/pdf/5.1/briefs_pt3.pdf>The Berkeley Science Review</a>."
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),
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array("May 14, 2005",
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"Eric Myers and Charlie Fenton have written
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excellent documents on
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<a href=compile.php>how to compile BOINC and BOINC applications
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on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X</a>."
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),
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array("May 11, 2005",
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"BOINC and BOINC-based projects are discussed in
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the article 'Grassroots Computing'
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in the May 6 2005 issue of
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<a href=http://www.sciencemag.org/sciext/computers/>Science magazine</a>."
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),
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array("May 10, 2005",
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"LHC@home is a BOINC-based project being used to
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simulate the orbits of particles in CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
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Read about it in the
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<a href=http://bulletin.cern.ch/eng/articles.php?bullno=13/2005&base=art#Article1>CERN Bulletin</a>.
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"
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),
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array("May 10, 2005",
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"As the number of BOINC-based projects has increased,
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a problem has emerged - if a computer is attached to lots of projects,
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it may have trouble finishing work in time.
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We are revising the BOINC client's <a href=sched.php>CPU scheduling
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and work-fetch policies</a> to address this issue."
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),
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array("May 10, 2005",
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"Many BOINC applications have interactive graphics
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(e.g. you can zoom in/out using the mouse).
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For apps that use the latest BOINC API, you can interact
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even when in screensaver mode - just hold down the control key."
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),
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array("May 10, 2005",
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"We finally have an installer and GUI for Mac OS X!
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It is available as a development version,
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and will become the standard version soon."
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),
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array("April 11, 2005",
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"Volunteers have ported SETI@home and BOINC to
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<a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_other.php>a variety of platforms</a>,
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including Solaris/x86-64, Linux/x86-64, Linux/PPC, HP-UX, and FreeBSD."
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),
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array(
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"March 8, 2005",
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"We released the BOINC Menubar, a user-friendly client software
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version for Macintosh OS X.
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It can be installed and run through a GUI interface -
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no Unix commands.
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We also released the Windows installer announced in
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the January 1 2005 news item.
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Both are available on the <a href=download.php>Download</a> page."
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),
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array(
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"February 19, 2005",
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"The <a href=http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/>Einstein@home</a>
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project was officially launched this morning.
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BOINC users are encouraged to participate in this project,
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which searches for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars)
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using data from the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors.
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"
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),
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array(
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"February 17, 2005",
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"We've added a <a href=web_translation.php>framework for web-site translations</a>
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(both BOINC-supplied and project-specific parts).
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We are adding support for
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<a href=acct_mgt.php>account management systems</a>
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that simplify participation in multiple projects.
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Security enhancement: all application files are digitally signed.
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"
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),
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array(
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"January 20, 2005",
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"BOINC source code is now distributed under the
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Lesser GNU Public License (LPGL)."
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),
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array(
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"January 19, 2005",
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"BOINC-based projects projects now have
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80,721 participants in 188 countries.
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Based on <a href=flops.php>current credit statistics</a>,
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together they supply 106 TeraFLOPS of computing power -
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far more than any conventional supercomputer."
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),
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array(
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"January 18, 2005",
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"BOINC's message board system supports moderation."
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),
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array(
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"January 10, 2005",
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"With help from the Einstein@home group, we have refined BOINC's
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<a href=sched_locality.php>locality scheduling</a> mechanism,
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It can now interact with project-specific programs
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that generate work on demand,
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and that maintain a 'working set' of data files
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for which work is distributed."
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),
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array(
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"January 1, 2005",
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"The Windows version of BOINC can now be configured
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to run when a particular user is logged in,
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to run when any user is logged in,
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or run all the time (as a service)
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even when no users are logged in."
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),
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array("December 10, 2004",
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"With considerable help from the Einstein@home group,
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we have application graphics working on all platforms, including Linux.
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To handle hosts without graphics libraries,
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we have developed a <a href=graphics.php>new architecture</a> in which
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graphics code resides in a dynamically loaded library."
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),
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array("December 6, 2004",
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"Added prioritization to work distribution."
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),
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array("December 3, 2004",
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"We have created a new email list,
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<a href=http://www.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_cvs>boinc_cvs@ssl.berkeley.edu</a>.
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A summary of each CVS checkin to the BOINC source tree
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will be posted to this list."
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),
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array(
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"December 2, 2004",
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"A technical paper about BOINC is
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<a href=grid_paper_04.pdf>here</a>.
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This paper appeared in the
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5th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing,
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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=anonymous_platform.php>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.
|
|
"),
|
|
|
|
array("April 23, 2003",
|
|
"We have resumed the BOINC beta test.
|
|
"),
|
|
|
|
array("April 9, 2003",
|
|
"Due to a legal issue,
|
|
we are suspending the BOINC beta test,
|
|
and we have requested that BOINC source code
|
|
no longer be available at Sourceforge.net.
|
|
We hope to resolve this issue soon.
|
|
"),
|
|
|
|
array("March 31, 2003",
|
|
"We are preparing a BOINC-based version of SETI@home.
|
|
See a <a href=setiathome.jpg>preview of the graphics</a>.
|
|
"),
|
|
|
|
array("March 25, 2003",
|
|
"<a href=http://www.boinc.dk/index.php?page=download_languages>Non-English
|
|
language.ini files</a> are available.
|
|
Preferences include time-of-day restrictions.
|
|
Core client and applications communicate via shared memory and signals
|
|
rather than files, reducing disk traffic.
|
|
"),
|
|
|
|
array("March 19, 2003",
|
|
"New account parameters and preferences: URL, limit number of processors,
|
|
frequency of writes to disk, whether to show your computers on the web.
|
|
"),
|
|
|
|
array("March 4, 2003",
|
|
"Participants can have separate preferences
|
|
(such as network and disk usage limits)
|
|
for computers at home, work, and school.
|
|
"),
|
|
|
|
array("February 25, 2003",
|
|
"Participants can limit their upstream and downstream network bandwidth.
|
|
"),
|
|
|
|
array("February 22, 2003",
|
|
"Participants can control the parameters (color, transparency,
|
|
timing) of the Astropulse graphics.
|
|
"),
|
|
|
|
array("February 19, 2003",
|
|
"New feature: secure, verified email address update.
|
|
"),
|
|
|
|
array("January 29, 2003",
|
|
"A <a href=http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/~eheien/ap_ss.jpg>screenshot</a> of the
|
|
BOINC client running AstroPulse, our first test application.
|
|
"),
|
|
|
|
array("December 10, 2002",
|
|
"We have started a beta test of BOINC using
|
|
the Astropulse application.
|
|
Many bugs have been found and fixed.
|
|
"),
|
|
|
|
array("August 24, 2002",
|
|
"BOINC is under development.
|
|
The basic features are working on UNIX platforms.
|
|
We plan to release the first public application of BOINC later this year.
|
|
")
|
|
);
|
|
|
|
?>
|