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New, active Game project: Online Life-Like CA Soup Search

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 MDT

New, active Game project: Online Life-Like CA Soup Search is cataloguing stable patterns in Conway's Game of Life simulations

Distributed Particle Accelerator Design reached the 20 quadrillion particle time-step milestone

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 MDT

Distributed Particle Accelerator Design reached the 20 quadrillion particle time-step milestone on July 16. That is the amount of work necessary to simulate a particle for 55 hours, 33 minutes and 20 seconds.

GIMPS verified M(20996011) is the 40th known Mersenne prime

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 MDT

On July 11, GIMPS completed double-checking on M(20996011) and verified it's the 40th known Mersenne prime

XYYXF set an SNFS factorization record: 242 digits

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 MDT

XYYXF set an SNFS record, completing the factorization of the 242-digit cofactor 125^86 + 86^125. Also, the project completed the factorization of all numbers through x = 105 as of June 30.

SIGPS has ended

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 MDT

SIGPS ended recently and the project website is no longer available. No information is available about the ending of the project.

12121 Search has ended

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 MDT

12121 Search ended recently and the project website is no longer available. No information is available about the ending of the project.

2721 Search has ended

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 MDT

2721 Search ended recently and the project website is no longer available. No information is available about the ending of the project.

6th BOINC Workshop to be held in London

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 MDT

The sixth annual BOINC Workshop will be held in London, England, from August 31 through September 1, 2010

News article: 20 Quadrillion Muons--Muon1 hits milestone

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 MDT

news article: 20 Quadrillion Muons--Muon1 hits milestone; the Distributed Particle Accelerator Design project recently hit an important milestone

News article: Higley schools pull space-search software from 5,000 computers

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 MDT

news article: Higley schools pull space-search software from 5,000 computers; BOINC software allegedly installed by an IT person on thousands of school district computers was removed by the school district at an estimated cost of US$1 million

New Distributed Human project: Field Expedition: Mongolia is searching for clues in satellite images near Genghis Khan's tomb

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:00:00 MDT

New Distributed Human project: Field Expedition: Mongolia is searching for clues and artifacts in satellite images near Genghis Khan's tomb. The project is only open for 16 more days.

Folding@home is running an open beta test of its GPU3 client

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:00:00 MDT

Folding@home is running an open beta test of its GPU3 client

News article: Crowdsourcing the search for aliens

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:00:00 MDT

news article: Crowdsourcing the search for aliens: The SETI Institute's Jill Tarter is looking for a few good filters; the SETI Institute is creating open-source software that anyone can contribute algorithms to to look for radio signals in data from the Allen Telescope Array in new and creative ways

News article: Volunteer computing helps rescue oiled Gulf Coast wildlife

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:00:00 MDT

news article: Volunteer computing helps rescue oiled Gulf Coast wildlife; a temporary citizen science project allows people with iPhones to submit pictures and GPS coordinates of animals on the Gulf Coast who need to be rescued from the BP oil leak

Enigma@Home decrypted previously unbroken World War II German Army message

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00:00 MDT

Enigma@Home decrypted message KEJNQ on May 6, 2010. The message is one of 22 previously unbroken German Army messages.

Folding@home published a paper about its study of the process by which a virus infects a cell

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00:00 MDT

On June 27, Folding@home published a paper, "Atomic-Resolution Simulations Predict a Transition State for Vesicle Fusion Defined by Contact of a Few Lipid Tails," describing the project's "work on the mechanism for vesicle fusion," an important part of the process in which a virus infects a cell. Learning about this mechanism will help scientists better understand how the influenza virus enters cells.

The Clean Energy Project Phase 2 has begun

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00:00 MDT

The Clean Energy Project Phase 2 began on June 28. A Linux client is now available for the project.

fightAIDS@home began a new experiment to find drugs to fight the HIV integrase system

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00:00 MDT

fightAIDS@home began Experiment 33 on June 3. This is the first experiment to find drugs which target the HIV integrase system, specifically the drug-resistant E92Q/N155H mutant strain of HIV-1 integrase.

Help Fight Childhood Cancer completed first three drug targets on June 10, faster than expected

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00:00 MDT

World Community Grid's Help Fight Childhood Cancer project completed its first three drug targets on June 10, faster than expected. It will begin research on two additional targets in the next few months.

Rosetta@home is publishing one article in Science magazine and another in Nature magazine

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00:00 MDT

Rosetta@home had an article accepted to be published by Science magazine and another article accepted to be published by Nature magazine. The Science article describes "de novo design of a new enzyme which catalyzes the formation of two carbon-carbon bonds between two small molecules." This process "could provide new routes to drug molecules which can be hard to synthesize using traditional methods." The Nature article is for the FoldIt project, which was designed by Rosetta@home participants. Also, the project is participating in the CASP9 experiment between May 10 and August 20.

News article: Launch of The Clean Energy Project - Phase 2

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00:00 MDT

news article: Launch of The Clean Energy Project - Phase 2; an overview of the second phase of World Community Grid's The Clean Energy Project

News article: NASA Needs You: 6 Ways to Help an Astronomer

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00:00 MDT

news article: NASA Needs You: 6 Ways to Help an Astronomer; an overview of six Distributed Human projects

News article: Your computer at the service of science, exclusive interview to the director of seti@home and BOINC: David P. Anderson

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00:00 MDT

news article: Your computer at the service of science, exclusive interview to the director of seti@home and BOINC: David P. Anderson

yoyo@home Euler (6,2,5) ended on June 8

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:00:00 MDT

yoyo@home Euler (6,2,5) is complete as of June 8. Another Euler project will begin soon. An Euler625 client application is available for Mac OSX as of June 22

Care2's Click to Help Haiti ended recently

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:00:00 MDT

Care2's Click to Help Haiti ended recently, collecting almost 600,000 clicks from over 195,000 participants

News article: Astronomers Solve The Mystery of Hanny's Voorwerp

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:00:00 MDT

news article: Astronomers Solve The Mystery of Hanny's Voorwerp; astronomers have classified a mysterious object discovered by a Galaxy Zoo participant in 2007

News article: 7th-Graders Discover Mysterious Cave on Mars

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:00:00 MDT

news article: 7th-Graders Discover Mysterious Cave on Mars; students participating in the Mars Student Imaging Project discovered a cave or "skylight" in an image from the Mars Odyssey spacecraft. The project is open to U.S. students from grade 5 through college sophomore level.

News article: How your OC can help science

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:00:00 MDT

news article: How your PC can help science: Help save the world, one processor cycle at a time

News article: Can�t build? You can observe

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:00:00 MDT

news article: Can't build? You can observe; an overview of "citizen science" projects and the new Science for Citizens website which tracks these projects

New charity: Plant an Oak

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:00:00 MDT

New (to this site) charity: Plant an Oak is planting new oak trees in an oak forest in France

New charity: Tree 4 Life

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:00:00 MDT

New (to this site) charity: Tree 4 Life is planting new trees in a Brazilian rainforest

Help Conquer Cancer has processed 100 million images of 12,500 unique proteins which may be linked to cancer

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:00:00 MDT

World Community Grid's Help Conquer Cancer project has processed over 100 million images of 12,500 unique proteins, which may be related to cancer, since 2007. These images were taken during 19.2 million experiments. The project allows scientists to get results six times faster than with traditional methods.

Distributed Proofreaders completed its 18,000th title

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:00:00 MDT

Distributed Proofreaders posted its 18,000th unique title to Project Gutenberg this month

Care2's Healthy Smiles ended recently

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:00:00 MDT

Care2's Healthy Smiles click-to-donate charity ended recently, with almost 1 million clicks. The charity hopes to restart later this year.

News article: IBM, Volunteers Help Locate Anti-Cancer Drugs

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:00:00 MDT

news article: IBM, Volunteers Help Locate Anti-Cancer Drugs

News article: Surplus PC Power Yields Faster Cancer Research

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:00:00 MDT

news article: Surplus PC Power Yields Faster Cancer Research: World Community Grid project automates tedious process to determine if protein samples are ready for x-ray examination

News article: ViFiB wants you to host cloud computing at home

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:00:00 MDT

news article: ViFiB wants you to host cloud computing at home: French startup ViFiB thinks it can find a niche somewhere between Amazon Web Services and SETI@home

new, active Distributed Human project: Moon Zoo

Fri, 28 May 2010 00:00:00 MDT

new, active Distributed Human project: Moon Zoo is using human volunteers to identify and count craters in detailed images of the Moon to determine the age of various locations on the moon's surface

New Grid 2010 information

Fri, 28 May 2010 00:00:00 MDT

the Grid 2010 conference will be held in Dubna, Russia from June 28 through July 3

News article: A Better Rice for the World

Fri, 28 May 2010 00:00:00 MDT

news article: A Better Rice for the World; an interview with Dr. Ram Samudrala, the head of World Community Grid's Nutritious Rice for the World project

News article: Take a Virtual Moonwalk for Science

Fri, 28 May 2010 00:00:00 MDT

news article: Take a Virtual Moonwalk for Science; a podcast about the new Moon Zoo project