BOINC

The BOINC Android app has a number of problems. If you're familiar with Android development and would like to help, please contact David or Rom or visit the BOINC Github repo.

A new BOINC server image for AWS is now available, making it easy to deploy a BOINC server in the Amazon cloud.

The paper "Subdividing Long-Running, Variable-Length Analyses Into Short, Fixed-Length BOINC Workunits" recently appeared in the Journal of Grid Computing.

The BOINC:FAST 2015 conference was held 14-18 Sept. at the Karelian Research Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences. Slides are available online.

SRBase is a mathematical research project trying to solve Sierpinski / Riesel Bases up to 1030.

A BOINC wallpaper image created by Francois Normandin:

Check out the BOINC subreddit, which aggregates BOINC news from various sources.

The White House is staging a webcast forum on citizen science on Sept. 30. Let's make sure that BOINC and volunteer computing are represented in this event! Please tell the White House about your experience with volunteer computing, and why it's important.

An improved version of the BOINC bash script add-on is available.

An article about volunteer computing and BOINC appeared in the tech news web site Motherboard.