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GIMPSGIMPS discovered the 47th known Mersenne prime: 2^42,643,801 - 1

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 MDT

GIMPS discovered the 47th known Mersenne prime number, 2^42,643,801 - 1, on April 12. This is the second-largest known Mersenne prime, with 12.8 million digits, and the 13th Mersenne prime discovered by the project. The prime was verified on June 12.

Galaxy ZooGalaxy Zoo submitted its 11th paper, "Galaxy Zoo: Exploring the Motivations of Citizen Science Volunteers", today

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 MDT

Galaxy Zoo submitted its 11th paper, "Galaxy Zoo: Exploring the Motivations of Citizen Science Volunteers," to Astronomy Education Review today. Also, on June 15 the project began analyzing results from its current Zoo 2 project to determine how many more data need to be collected.

News article: 47th Mersenne Prime Confirmed

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 MDT

news article: 47th Mersenne Prime Confirmed; GIMPS confirmed on June 12, 2009, that it discovered the 47th known Mersenne prime, 2^42,643,801 - 1 (12.8 million digits)

News article: d

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 MDT

news article: How Your Computer Can Benefit All of Mankind; an overview of the BOINC computing platform

PrimeGridNew, active Life Sciences project: Influenza Antiviral Drug Research

Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 MDT

New, active Life Sciences project: Influenza Antiviral Drug Search is finding "new drugs that can stop the spread of an influenza infection in the body"

Project SquirrelNew, active Distributed Human project: Project Squirrel

Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 MDT

New, active Distributed Human project: Project Squirrel is studying the ecology of squirrels in the United States

CCL Game Optimal Solution Finder found new solutions, plus software updated on April 13

Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 MDT

CCL Game Optimal Solution Finder found new optimal solutions on April 12. Also, version 1.3 of the project client is available as of April 13. This version has an auto-updater, so it won't close when an update is required. It also has enhancements which provide a 6% speed improvement for Adding 4 and a 30% speed improvement for Adding 5.

A Click for the ForestEtt klick f�r skogen (A Click For The Forest) has new sponsors is active again

Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 MDT

Ett klick f�r skogen (A Click For The Forest) has new sponsors and is active again

News article: IBM and Medical Researchers Launch Effort To Find Flu Drug Treatments

Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 MDT

news article: IBM and Medical Researchers Launch Effort To Find Flu Drug Treatments; an overview of World Community Grid's new Influenza Antiviral Drug Research project

News article: Extraterrestrials, Computers, and Open Source

Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 MDT

news article: Extraterrestrials, Computers, and Open Source; notes from a talk by Jill Tarter of The SETI Institute about how SETI uses, and plans to use, technology in its search for alien intelligence

News article: SETI@home completes a decade of ET search

Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 MDT

news article: SETI@home completes a decade of ET search; a summary of SETI@home's progress in the ten years since it began

News article: A decade of helping in the hunt for alien life

Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 MDT

news article: A decade of helping in the hunt for alien life; a summary of SETI@home's first ten years

News article: Save the World with your PC

Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 MDT

news article: Save the World with your PC: Distributed Computing at Home; an overview of distributed computing projects, BOINC, and how to participate

News article: Crunching the Data for the Tree of Life

Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 MDT

news article: Crunching the Data for the Tree of Life; maintaining, searching and visualizing the "tree" model of evolution for all species requires more computing power and advanced computing techniques

PrimeGridPrimeGrid's Cullen Prime Search found a World Record Cullen Mega Prime, 6328548 * 2^6328548 + 1

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:00:00 MDT

PrimeGrid's Cullen Prime Search found a World Record Cullen Mega Prime, 6328548*2^6328548+1, on April 20, 2009

SIGPSSIGPS has begun a new "Fermat Euler Theorem for Fermat number F25" project

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:00:00 MDT

SIGPS began a new "Fermat Euler Theorem for Fermat number F25" project on April 14, and released a PS3 client for that project yesterday. Also, the project discovered prime 98475208^16384 + 1 on April 9, 98473506^16384 + 1 on April 7, and 102623730 * 2^350008 - 1 on March 16.

Distributed Search for Fermat Number DivisorsDistributed Search for Fermat Number Divisors found Fermat factor 71007 * 2^49490 + 1 divides F49488

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:00:00 MDT

Distributed Search for Fermat Number Divisors found Fermat factor 71007 * 2^49490 + 1 divides F49488 on April 18

News article: National Science Foundation Awards Millions to Fourteen Universities for Cloud Computing Research

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:00:00 MDT

news article: National Science Foundation Awards Millions to Fourteen Universities for Cloud Computing Research

D2OLD2OL and Community TSC ending on April 15, 2009

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:00:00 MDT

D2OL and Community TSC are ending on April 15. See official announcements here and here. Each project has generated over 150 million potential disease-fighting drugs. The best candidates from these results will be tested in the laboratory and the project owners will update participants on the results of these tests.

Galaxy ZooGalaxy Zoo classified 1.5 million galaxies in 100 hours

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:00:00 MDT

Galaxy Zoo participants helped the project successfully reach--and surpass--its goal of classifying one million galaxies in 100 hours to celebrate 100 Hours of Astronomy. Congratulations! Also, the project classified its 20 millionth galaxy on April 3.

new, faster Seventeen or Bust client

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:00:00 MDT

a new Seventeen or Bust Prime95-based client is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OSX as of March 18. It is faster and more efficient than the older client. Also, the project celebrated its 7th anniversary on April 1.

CCL Game Optimal Solution Finder software updated on March 30

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:00:00 MDT

the CCL Game Optimal Solution Finder client software was updated on March 30. The software now supports user and team names and shows a work unit's completion progress. Note that if your client for this project exits immediately, the software needs to be updated or the project server is out of work.

Galaxy ZooHelp Galaxy Zoo classify 1 million galaxies in the next 100 hours

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 MDT

At about 6 PM EST (11 PM UTC) on April 1, Galaxy Zoo began its challenge to classify 1 million galaxies in 100 hours to celebrate 100 Hours of Astronomy. As of 10:30 PM EST (3:30 AM April 2 UTC) they are 1/5 of the way to their goal. Please help them reach their goal.

News article: SETI@home Discovers 'Huh...' Signal

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 MDT

news article: SETI@home Discovers 'Huh...' Signal

Help Fight Childhood Cancer

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 MDT

new, active Life Sciences project: World Community Grid's Help Fight Childhood Cancer is searching for drugs to help fight neuroblastoma, one of the most common cancers in children

CCL Game Optimal Solution Finder

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 MDT

new, active Puzzles/Games project: the CCL Game Optimal Solution Finder is finding optimal solutions for The CCL Game and The CCL Winter Game, two games based on The Incredible Machine.

ElevenSmooth/yoyo@home found a P51 factor of 2^3360 + 1

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 MDT

ElevenSmooth and yoyo@home found a P51 factor of 2^3360 + 1. This is the largest factor ElevenSmooth has found by ECM and is the fourteenth primitive for which ElevenSmooth has completed the factorization.

Eternity2.fr reported a runner-up prize has been awarded for the puzzle

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 MDT

Eternity2.fr reported on January 15 that, although the puzzle remains unsolved, Tomy has awarded a US$10,000 runner-up prize to Anna Karlsson from Lund in Sweden for the highest-scoring nearly-solved puzzle submitted so far. Anna placed all 256 pieces so that the colours and patterns matched in 467 out of 480 possible places on the Eternity II board. The US$2,000,000 prize is still available.

News article: IBM grid computing aids cancer research

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 MDT

news article: IBM grid computing aids cancer research; an overview of World Community Grid's new Help Fight Childhood Cancer project

News article: New Einstein@Home Effort Launched Home Computers to Search Arecibo Data for New Pulsars

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 MDT

news article: New Einstein@Home Effort Launched Home Computers to Search Arecibo Data for New Pulsars; Einstein@Home will search data from the Arecibo radio telescope to find binary systems consisting of a spinning neutron star orbiting another neutron star or a black hole. The project can detect pulsars in binary systems with orbital periods as short as 11 minutes, 5 times shorter than it was previously possible to detect.