December 17, 2008
- new version 6.4.5 of the BOINC client supports computing using NVIDIA GPUs. Two projects currently support GPU computation: GPUGRID and SETI@home. The new version is available for Windows and Linux as of December 16. All Windows and Linux users should upgrade to this version. See more information about how to use the GPU client for SETI@home.
- on December 13 Einstein@Home began a limited beta test of a new pulsar search which uses PALFA radio data from the Arecibo radio telescope. More information about the project will be released soon.
- 3x+1@home ended on November 14 due to a lack of time and resources
- news article: NVIDIA CUDA Technology Dramatically Advances The Pace Of Scientific Research; new version 6.4.5 of BOINC can use NVIDIA GPUs with CUDA technology to perform some kinds of distributed computing research 2 to 20 times faster
- news article: Distributed security cracking: Will the future of security cracking lie in 'cloud computing'?
- news article: IBM and Volunteers Using Computers to Cultivate Better Rice Crops: an overview of World Community Grid's Nutritious Rice for the World project
- news article: Emissions: Where do you draw the line?: are the potential energy-saving results from The Clean Energy Project worth the amount of energy used by computers participating in the project?
- news article: IBM rice project works on new strains; an overview of World Community Grid's Nutritious Rice for the World project
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December 11, 2008
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December 9, 2008
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November 26, 2008
- World Community Grid has released its 'I Dedicate' video, a montage created for World Community Grid from video dedications submitted by its participants in October, 2008
- FightAIDS@home published newsletter #6 on November 3
- the CASPER, SETI@home and Astropulse teams cowrote a paper, New SETI Sky Surveys for Radio Pulses (PDF), on November 14. The paper will be published in Acta Astronautica.
- evolution@home began new Project 6 research project on November 15, "to further investigate how two different types of slightly harmful DNA changes interact with each other's evolutionary behaviour in a population." Work units which take less than two days to process on a 500-MHz Pentium 3 CPU will be handled by yoyo@home EvoHo. Longer work units will be handled by the semi-automated Simulator005 client.
- Magnetism@home released a new batch of work units on November 24 and published a summary of results from the previous batch
- official version 2.9101.507 of the distributed.net client (which includes support for OGR-NG) is available for most major platforms as of November 22. Pre-release version 2.9101.508 is available for Linux platforms with the nVidia CUDA GPU and for the Sony PS3 CellBE Linux platform as of November 25.
- version 1.60 of the Genetic Life Gamma client is available as of October 15.
- news article: University of Washington biochemist David Baker to receive 2008 Sackler International Prize in Biophysics for discoveries in protein folding
- news article: Fight AIDS at home, via unused computer time; on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2008, the World Community Grid is sponsoring a month-long challenge to provide more computing resources to AIDS researchers via FightAIDS@home
- news article: Virtual Telescopes Tweaked; an overview of Internet-based virtual telescopes and distributed computing projects related to Astronomy
- news article: Quake Catcher uses 1,500 laptops for cheap seismic detection; a short overview of the Quake Catcher Network
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November 7, 2008
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October 26, 2008
- distributed.net completed its OGR-25 project yesterday. It verified that the previously-predicted shortest ruler of length 480 is optimal. The ruler has marks at these positions: 0 12 29 39 72 91 146 157 160 161 166 191 207 214 258 290 316 354 372 394 396 431 459 467 480. 124,387 participants tested 52,898,840,308,130,480,000 rulers twice to verify the optimal ruler. distributed.net also began its next project, OGR-NG, which is finding optimal rulers for 26, 27, 28, and higher marks. To participate in this project you will need to download pre-release version 2.9101.507 of the client application.
- news article: Play game to fight AIDS, cancer, Alzheimer's; an overview of Foldit
- news article: Catching quakes with laptops; an overview of the Quake Catcher Network
- news article: ET may be out there, but would he talk to us?; an overview of the search for evidence of extra-terrestrial intelligence and SETI@home
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