New version of BOINC supports NVIDIA GPUs

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 MST

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.

Einstein@Home begins limited beta test of new pulsar search

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 MST

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 has ended

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 MST

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

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 MST

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

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 MST

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

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 MST

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?

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 MST

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

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 MST

news article: IBM rice project works on new strains; an overview of World Community Grid's Nutritious Rice for the World project

New, active Science project: AQUA@home

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:00:00 MST

new, active Science project: AQUA@home is predicting the performance of quantum computing algorithms on several types of problems in fields from materials science to machine learning

News article: World Community Grid burns energy in order to save it

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:00:00 MST

news article: World Community Grid burns energy in order to save it; an overview of The Clean Energy Project

News article: Please Help! Use Your Computer to Solve World Problems

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:00:00 MST

news article: Please Help! Use Your Computer to Solve World Problems; a short overview of World Community Grid

News article: We will find aliens 'by 2025'

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:00:00 MST

news article: We will find aliens 'by 2025'; SETI@home should help us find alien radio signals sooner

The Clean Energy Project is now active

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:00:00 MST

The Clean Energy Project is active as of December 5. It is finding more efficient organic solar cells.

News article: IBM, Harvard want your PC for solar power study

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:00:00 MST

news article: IBM, Harvard want your PC for solar power study; an overview of the new The Clean Energy Project

News article: IBM, Harvard Use Distributed Computing to Make Ultra-Powerful Solar Cells

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:00:00 MST

news article: IBM, Harvard Use Distributed Computing to Make Ultra-Powerful Solar Cells; an overview of The Clean Energy Project

News article: IBM, Harvard Solar Research Hits the Clouds

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:00:00 MST

news article: IBM, Harvard Solar Research Hits the Clouds; an overview of The Clean Energy Project

World Community Grid 'I Dedicate' Video available

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:00 MST

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

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:00 MST

FightAIDS@home published newsletter #6 on November 3

CASPER, SETI@home and Astropulse teams cowrote a new paper, New SETI Sky Surveys for Radio Pulses

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:00 MST

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 has begun new Project 6 project

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:00 MST

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 has published results and released a new batch of work units

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:00 MST

Magnetism@home released a new batch of work units on November 24 and published a summary of results from the previous batch

version 2.9101.507 of the distributed.net client is available

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:00 MST

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

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:00 MST

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

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:00 MST

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

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:00 MST

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

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:00 MST

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

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:00 MST

news article: Quake Catcher uses 1,500 laptops for cheap seismic detection; a short overview of the Quake Catcher Network

new, active Collaborative Knowledge Base: Forvo

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 MST

new, active Collaborative Knowledge Base: Forvo is building a database of the correct pronunciation of every word in every language

the 3x+1 Problem confirmed class record 2000

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 MST

as of November 2, 2008, the 3x + 1 Problem has completed all blocks up to 67,500 and confirmed class record 2000.

EcologyFund.com completed its project to save Patagonian coastal reserve

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 MST

EcologyFund.com completed its project to save Patagonian coastal reserve this year

SolvePoverty reached its goal of 2 million clicks

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 MST

SolvePoverty reached its goal of 2 million clicks this year. Help the project reach its next goal of 3 million clicks.

New QCN Alpha client supports Linux and supports MotionNode Accel USB accelerometer for Windows

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 MST

new version 3.70 of the QCN Alpha Test client is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OSX as of October 16. It supports the MotionNode Accel USB accelerometer for Windows and the JoyWarrior24F8 USB accelerometer for all platforms (Mac OSX requires the JoyWarrior driver).

MilkyWay@home needs help optimizing its client software application

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 MST

MilkyWay@home needs help optimizing its client software application. Please contact the project owners if you can help.

Version 4.44e of the Muon1 client is available

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 MST

Version 4.44e of the Muon1 client is available as of October 20. This version finds HTTP proxy info in the Windows registry instead of in the client configuration file.

News article: How curing boredom can boost research

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 MST

news article: How curing boredom can boost research; a short overview of distributed human projects

News article: The Energy Impact of Grid Computing

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 MST

news article: The Energy Impact of Grid Computing

distributed.net has completed OGR-25 and begun OGR-NG

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:00:00 MDT

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

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:00:00 MDT

news article: Play game to fight AIDS, cancer, Alzheimer's; an overview of Foldit

News article: Catching quakes with laptops

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:00:00 MDT

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?

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:00:00 MDT

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

distributedcomputing.info updates

New version of BOINC supports NVIDIA GPUs

Einstein@Home begins limited beta test of new pulsar search

3x+1@home has ended

News article: NVIDIA CUDA Technology Dramatically Advances The Pace Of Scientific Research

News article: Distributed security cracking

News article: IBM and Volunteers Using Computers to Cultivate Better Rice Crops

News article: Emissions: Where do you draw the line?

News article: IBM rice project works on new strains

New, active Science project: AQUA@home

News article: World Community Grid burns energy in order to save it

News article: Please Help! Use Your Computer to Solve World Problems

News article: We will find aliens 'by 2025'

The Clean Energy Project is now active

News article: IBM, Harvard want your PC for solar power study

News article: IBM, Harvard Use Distributed Computing to Make Ultra-Powerful Solar Cells

News article: IBM, Harvard Solar Research Hits the Clouds

World Community Grid 'I Dedicate' Video available

FightAIDS@home published newsletter #6

CASPER, SETI@home and Astropulse teams cowrote a new paper, New SETI Sky Surveys for Radio Pulses

evolution@home has begun new Project 6 project

Magnetism@home has published results and released a new batch of work units

version 2.9101.507 of the distributed.net client is available

version 1.60 of the Genetic Life Gamma client is available

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

News article: Virtual Telescopes Tweaked

News article: Quake Catcher uses 1,500 laptops for cheap seismic detection

new, active Collaborative Knowledge Base: Forvo

the 3x+1 Problem confirmed class record 2000

EcologyFund.com completed its project to save Patagonian coastal reserve

SolvePoverty reached its goal of 2 million clicks

New QCN Alpha client supports Linux and supports MotionNode Accel USB accelerometer for Windows

MilkyWay@home needs help optimizing its client software application

Version 4.44e of the Muon1 client is available

News article: How curing boredom can boost research

News article: The Energy Impact of Grid Computing

distributed.net has completed OGR-25 and begun OGR-NG

News article: Play game to fight AIDS, cancer, Alzheimer's

News article: Catching quakes with laptops

News article: ET may be out there, but would he talk to us?