Noticies Boinc (anglès)

The Windows builds of 6.6.41 has been pulled from the Download page due to a application version mismatch with some Microsoft components. Please use the 6.6.38 version until 6.10 is released.

An article in the Wall Street Journal discusses the use of volunteer computing in medical research.

Welcome to NFS@home, a new project from California State University Fullerton. NFS@Home uses volunteer computing to do the lattice sieving step in the Number Field Sieve factorization of large integers.

BoincTasks, a new visual interface to BOINC, has been released for Windows. BoincTasks lets you manage a single computer locally, or all your computers remotely.

An article in the NY Times describes a project using BOINC to simulate the development of life at the molecular level.

The Brazilian TV networks Globonews and Futura recently broadcast a report on IBM World Community Grid (in Portuguese).

An article in PCWorld, 12 Worthy Causes Seek Your Spare PC Cycles, describes BOINC and 12 projects that use it.

Facebook users: check out the BOINC Milestones app.

UNITAR, UNIGE and CERN have agreed to collaborate on a Citizen Cyberscience Centre which, among other things, will promote volunteer computing.

The EDGeS project is offering a tutorial on using BOINC for desktop grid computing on 20 Sept 2009 in Barcelona.

Check out an article in The Sydney Morning Herald about volunteer computing in Australia.

Intel (in partnership with GridRepublic and BOINC) announces Progress Thru Processors, a Facebook application that makes participating in BOINC simpler and more sociable.

Videos of the talks at the recent Asia@home workshop in Taiwan are now online.

Listen to a Podcast of an interview with David Anderson on RCE.

The Consejería de Educación, Spain, is using Jarifa to harness the power of 12,000 PCs.