BOINC

Version 7.6.33 is now the recommended version for Windows and Mac.

TN-Grid is a new project based at the Research Area of Trento of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) and currently hosted by the University of Trento (UNITN). The first project they are hosting is gene@home, a collaboration with Fondazione ... [More] Edmund Mach (FEM) & the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI) of UNITN. [Less]

If you run BOINC on multiple Windows computers, check out PSBoinc. It's a PowerShell module for automation of local and remote clients from the shell.

Einstein@home has announced the discovery of the youngest known radio-quiet gamma-ray pulsar.

The PrimeGrid project has discovered a new prime number, 10223*231172165+1, which is the largest known Proth prime and the largest known non-Mersenne prime. Read about it in New Scientist and in PrimeGrid's announcement.

If you're interested in building a BOINC GUI in .NET, check out this new .NET binding of the GUI RPCs.

CERN has launched the CERN+KC Gigabit Challenge, which uses gigabit optical fiber Internet connections now available in Kansas city to handle data-intensive computing problems.

CERN has launched the CERN+KC Gigabit Challenge, which uses gigabit optical fiber Internet connections now available in Kansas city to handle data-intensive computing problems.

The book Community, Competition and Citizen Science by Anne Holohan documents the history of volunteer computing.

The book Community, Competition and Citizen Science by Anne Holohan documents the history of volunteer computing.