April 28, 2011
- New, active Life Sciences project: DNA@Home is learning how certain genes in DNA are turned on or off during the process which creates proteins from the genes. It is also searching for cures for tuberculosis and bubonic plague.
- New, active Life Sciences project: RNA World is automating the identification, analysis, structural prediction and design of RNA molecules to better understand how RNA works and to improve health care in the future
- New Science project: LHC++@Home will conduct several physics research projects for Large Hadron Collider (LHC) scientists. It is currently in the early development stage and participation in its test project is by invitation only.
- news article: A CERN for climate change; a global computing grid is needed to better understand climate change
- news article: Bumps in the night; a short overview of the Quake Catcher Network project
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April 22, 2011
- Einstein@Home reported its second discovery on March 1, a radio pulsar, called J1952+2630, orbiting a white dwarf star once every 9.4 hours. The project's first discovery was a disrupted binary pulsar in August, 2010.
- owners of distributed.net's OGR project found and fixed a bug in the OGR client which could cause the client to skip part of a ruler in rare cases. Participants should download client version 2.9109.518 or later as soon as possible.
- the Help Fight Childhood Cancer project has less than 30 days of new work left. The project should complete about two weeks after the last new work is sent out.
- MilkyWay@home published a new paper, "Evolving N-Body Simulations to Determine the Origin and Structure of the Milky Way Galaxy's Halo using Volunteer Computing," to the 25th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) on October 19, 2010
- Version 4.45 of the Muon1 Distributed Particle Accelerator Design project client is available as of March 31 and it has greatly improved graphics. This is the first update of the client in 3 years. Read about the client's improvements.
- On March 10, scientists from the University of Birmingham, whose LIGO and GEO detectors provide data for Einstein@Home, released a downloadable, free, fun, interactive computer game called "Space-Time Quest" which allows you to design, build and operate your own interferometric gravitational wave detector.
- The Internet Movie Project (IMP) appears to have ended in 2006 and never restarted. The project was going to move to the BOINC computing platform at one time.
- AndrOINC ended on January 31, due to a lack of funding
- news article: Play indie games, help Portal 2 release early: spoof distributed computing project site GLaDOS@Home encouraged "participants" to play select independently-developed games to get Portal 2 released sooner. Almost 64,000 people participated.
- news article: Meteorologists should explain, not just predict; public distributed computing weather research projects like climateprediction.net can help explain weather, not just predict it
- news article: Volunteer Computing for Earthquake Detection; an overview of the Quake Catcher Network project
- news article: Modern Magellans: New NSF Grant at Rensselaer Uses the Power of the Masses to Map Dark Matter in the Galaxy; MilkyWay@home will predict where dark matter (which is unobservable with current telescopes) exists in our galaxy
- news article: Einstein@Home Taps Donated PC Graphics Processors to Uncover a Second Pulsar
- news article: CMU's CrowdForge taps the collective power of millions; an overview of the Crowdforge project crowdsourcing framework
- news article: In Watson's Wake, IBM World Community Grid Registration Skyrockets 700%; seeing IBM's Watson computer win on the Jeopardy game show prompted a lot of people to become participants in World Community Grid
- news article: Distributed Computing Project: Climate Change Is Responsible For All The Flooding
- news article: Distributed computing project blames floods on climate change; results from climateprediction.net tie extreme flooding in 2000 to global warming
- news article: Galaxy Zoo shows how well crowdsourced citizen science works; an overview of the Galaxy Zoo project and other distributed human projects
- news article: Einstein at home bags a pulsar; Einstein@Home discovered a rare pulsar in data in which it is searching for evidence of gravity waves
- news article: 8 Cool Science Projects That Can Run Right on Your Home Computer; an overview of several distributed computing projects
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April 12, 2011
- Einstein@Home began a new round of searching for radio pulsars in short-orbital-period binary star systems on January 20, 2011. The search uses data from Australia's Parkes Radio Telescope.
- SZTAKI Desktop Grid closed on December 15, 2010. The project will reopen some time in the future.
- XYYXF found probable prime 3^147389 + 9^314738 (more than 300,000 digits) on Februrary 18
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January 28, 2011
- New, active Cryptography project: AndrOINC is trying to break Motorola's 1024-bit Milestone bootloader key for Motorola's mobile devices so that users can load their own applications onto the devices
- Planet Hunters will receive more data from the NASA Kepler team soon. It needs your help to complete 100,000 more classifications this weekend for the existing data, to get ready for the next phase of the project.
- news article: Developing Community Comes Together to Break Motorola’s Locked Bootloaders: software developers are creating a BOINC-based project to crack Motorola's mobile device bootloader lock; unlocking the bootloader allows device users to flash the device's read-only memory and change the software features on the device
- news article: Doing Real-World Science, But Skipping The Ph.D.; an overview of distributed human, or "citizen science," projects
- news article: Maximum Interview: the Science Behind Folding@Home; an overview of the Folding@home project
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January 21, 2011
- New, active Distributed Human project: ClimateWatch asks residents of the Southern Hemisphere to observe plant and animal species and collects their observations to track seasonal changes in those species
- On World Community Grid's 6th anniversary, November 16, 2010, the Help Fight Childhood Cancer project is 60% complete (including the T1, S1, S2, N1, L3 and L4 subprojects)
- fightAIDS@home began Experiment 35 on November 26. This experiment "involves screening the full NCI library of ~316,000 compounds against the active site of 8 different versions of HIV protease." Experiment 34, which began on October 11, 2010, is over 85% complete. Experiment 33 completed on December 1.
- The Space Game has a new wiki and new forums as of December 16
- news article: Managing Scientific Inquiry in a Laboratory the Size of the Web: an overview of Internet-based "Citizen Science" projects
- news article: Happy 6th Birthday, World Community Grid!
- news article: Sony Assists Researchers Worldwide With Humanitarian Research Projects; Sony is including the World Community Grid computing client on all of its VAIO laptops
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January 10, 2011
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