May 9, 2008
- new, active Distributed Human project: Foldit lets you fold proteins into three-dimensional shapes and helps scientists to better predict how proteins fold into those shapes. The project/game began today.
- on May 3, Distributed Search for Fermat Number Divisors discovered Fermat factor 28949 * 2^48627 + 1 divides F48624
- Care2, which manages several click charities listed on this site, will be down from 11 PM EST May 16 (4 AM UTC May 17) to 11 AM EST (4 PM UTC) May 19 while its back-end servers are upgraded. The new servers will be faster, will save 341,000 kilowatt-hours and will have abated 266 metric tons of CO2 (this is equivalent to eliminating CO2 emissions from the electricity use of 35.2 homes for one year)
- news article: Your computers may help save climate; an overview of climateprediction.net
- news article: Researchers Launch Online Protein Folding Game; an overview of the new Foldit protein folding game
- news article: WISDOM unplugged: malaria drug-leads graduate to the wet lab; the 30 most-promising drug candidates from the WISDOM grid project were tested in a physical lab and all were effective. Now they are being tested in living cultures of the malaria parasite.
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May 4, 2008
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April 24, 2008
- orbit@home is active as of March 4
- on April 19, Distributed Search for Fermat Number Divisors discovered Fermat factor 364182745 * 2^1724 + 1 divides F1722
- SIGPS discovered prime 99838222^16384 + 1 on April 18 and prime 167191 * 2^336091 - 1 on April 21
- version 3.0 of the D2OL client is available for Windows as of April 16. This client is also used for Community TSC. This version includes 3 new features: client-side task expiration; automatic monitoring and throttling of D2OL processes to maintain your computer's responsiveness; and multiprocessor support. Also, D2OL is now working on Avian Flu Target I and SARS Targets I and IV. Also, Community TSC is now working on TSC Targets IV, VI, and Ib.
- news article: Yahoo Partners With Tata Sons On Cloud-Computing Research
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April 16, 2008
- CHRONOS ended on March 31
- CCGrid 2008 takes place during May 19-22, 2008 in Lyons, France
- Grid'2008 takes place during June 30 - July 4, 2008 in Dubna, Russia
- PCGrid 2008 takes place on April 18 in Miami, Florida
- news article: Folding@home GPU2 Client Examined; an overview and beta test of Folding@home's new "GPU2" client. This new client supports all Radeon HD 2400 and above cards, up to the Radeon HD 3870 X2.
- news article: First interstellar candidate extracted from Stardust interstellar tray (login required)
- news article: The age of the Grid; when CERN turns on the Large Hadron Collider later this summer it will also turn on The Grid, a data communications network 10,000 times faster than the Internet
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April 15, 2008
- 2721 Search found prime 27 * 2^1108214 - 1 on March 28
- news article: Ad hoc encyclopaedia for the information age; the Diligent project is using grid computing to create Virtual Digital Libraries
- news article: Despite Silicon Valley Optimism, a Disease Resists Cure; money and computing power cannot solve every problem
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April 2, 2008
- new, active Science project: Artificial Intelligence System is reverse engineering the brain in order to build a large scale artificial intelligence system
- new, active Life Sciences project: Cels@Home is doing research in cell adhesion, studying the way cancer cells break free and move throughout the body
- new, active Mathematics project: 3x+1@home is searching for high 3x+1 (Collatz) conjecture stopping times
- Hydrogen@Home is now active
- MindModeling@Home is not yet active, but you can help beta test it
- new, active Science project: BRaTS is doing "various calculations in Gravitational Ray Tracing." As of August 8, 2007, participation in the project is by invitation only.
- new, active Charity: Hunger Fighters allows participants to click a button once per day to donate a cup of food to fight hunger
- new (to this site), active Knowledge Base: Where's George? tracks the geographic movement of U.S. dollar bills
- new (to this site), active Knowledge Base: Where's Willy? tracks the geographic movement of Canadian bank notes
- new (to this site), active Knowledge Base: EuroBillTracker tracks the geographic movement of Euro notes
- the Dame Una Casa (Build Me a Home) Charity project ended last month
- Ett klick för skogen (A Click For The Forest) published its latest newsletter on March 26. It has signed a contract to buy and protect the Verles old growth forest 50 Km away from Gothenburg. It needs to raise 7,450,000 SEK (about $US1.2 million) by March 19, 2009, and needs your clicks every day to reach its goal.
- news article: Earthquake-predicting laptops could save lives; an overview of the Quake Catcher Network project
- news article: Money, infectious disease and Where’s George?; mathematical models derived from the Where's George? project, which shows the geographic spread of money, can also show the geographic spread of infectious disease
- news article: Scientists Want Your MacBook for Earthquake Detection; an overview of the Quake Catcher Network project
- news article: 'Mountains' on stars could trigger gravitational waves; asymmetrical neutron stars could produce gravitational waves detectable by the LIGO and Virgo observatories and Einstein@Home
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