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IBM World Community Grid has launched an application that searches for drugs to combat the Zika virus.

IBM World Community Grid has launched an application that searches for drugs to combat the Zika virus.

As of today, Jorden van der Elst (AKA Ageless) has been moderating the BOINC message boards for 10 years! He's maintained order on the boards and has conveyed important posts to BOINC developers. We at BOINC are profoundly grateful for his dedicated and excellent work.

As of today, Jorden van der Elst (AKA Ageless) has been moderating the BOINC message boards for 10 years! He's maintained order on the boards and has conveyed important posts to BOINC developers. We at BOINC are profoundly grateful for his dedicated and excellent work.

Check out two new papers about the discovery of unusual pulsars by Einstein@home.

CPDN recently published a paper about human influence on extreme weather events. The paper is summarized in an article in New Scientist.

IBM WCG will give a presentation "Clean Water Through Crowdsourcing and Nanotech" on March 13 at the SXSW event in Austin, TX.

Re-released to include VirtualBox 5.0.12

A new version of BOINC is ready for public use. You can download it here. See the release notes and version history for details.

Check out How to Start Volunteer Computing in 2016, an article on BOINC and WCG in Inverse, a new science- and tech-centric publication.