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New BOINC project: BitBOINC. Not Bitcoin mining: no new coins or blocks. Four apps: Potamos, Keraunos: unclaimed Bitcoin puzzle keys Sphinx: Certicom ECCp-131, open since 1997 Kampylos: gravitational microlensing See our write up here boincsynergy.ca/wiki/BitBOIN…
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🧩 New BOINC project: Eternity II A 256-piece puzzle with a US$2M prize nobody ever claimed. A perfect board matches 480 edges; the best ever found matches 468. This project hunts the last 12. CPU, Win + Linux. Just 66 users so far. boincsynergy.ca/wiki/Eternit… #BOINC
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Signup detail that trips people up: the account page asks for an invitation code. It's eternityathome, published openly on the project front page. It stops signup bots, it doesn't restrict volunteers. It's same approach SRBase has used for years.
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🚨Big news from SETI@home! Two landmark papers accepted by The Astronomical Journal: 📄Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing 📄Data Analysis and Findings See this post by David Anderson setiathome.berkeley.edu/foru… #BOINC #VolunteerComputing #DistributedComputing @BerkeleySETI
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🚀 The 2024 #BOINC Census results are live! See what the community had to say about volunteer computing: 📊 Data & Visuals: github.com/TheSCInitiative/B… 🎥 Summary video: youtu.be/CMF4yAbqlnI Thanks to everyone who contributed! #VolunteerComputing #BOINC #BOINCSynergy
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Great news for Ontario! @ONgov will invest $300M to expand primary care teaching clinics, connecting 300,000 more people to family doctors and care teams as part of a broader $2.1 billion Primary Care Action Plan. bit.ly/43spyf9
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astrodon.social/@mpi_grav/11… Since the launch of Einstein@Home on 19 February 2005, nearly half a million participants from around the world have donated idle computing time on their PCs and smartphones #BOINC #VolunteerComputing #DistributedComputing
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The BOINC Synergy SETI@home screensaver is featured in this inaccurate conspiracy theory video involving SETI@home. Part 1 : youtu.be/-FSkiLqLx60?si=BUKs… #BOINC #SETI #VolunteerComputing #DistributedComputing #GridComputing
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It's time for another The Science Commons Initiative sponsored BOINC Census! This form will close on the 26th of Jan 2025 forms.fillout.com/t/m4ZSkCQM… Please only complete this form once. #VolunteerComputing #DistributedComputing #GridComputing
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Congratulations to Dr. David Baker, creator of Rosetta@home, for winning the 2024 Nobel prize in Chemistry. He is interviewed here youtube.com/watch?v=cx7l9ZGF…, and the BOINC app graphics is displayed after the 11 minute mark. #VolunteerComputing #DistributedComputing #GridComputing
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🤯 Congratulations David Baker @UWproteindesign , @demishassabis and John Jumper!!
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.”
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#BOINC development status report for the 3rd week of August. This week we were working on #WSL detection, so only 2 issues were fixed. The topic of this week is #WSL and #Docker support in the wrapper. #DistributedComputing #VolunteerComputing #GridComputing #CitizenScience
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BOINC Synergy retweeted
#BOINC development status report of the first week of August: 9 tickets implemented 5 tickets closed as non-relevant anymore #DistributedComputing #VolunteerComputing #GridComputing #CitizenScience
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BOINC Synergy retweeted
BOINC Pentathlon 2024: Final Report - That Was It. dlvr.it/T75pgg
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BOINC Synergy retweeted
BOINC Pentathlon 2024: Day 12 - Days of Decision dlvr.it/T6zy1g
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