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Ramanujan Machine is a new BOINC project that seeks to discover new mathematical identities and formulas.

Myles Allen, founder of Climateprediction.net, has been appointed CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in recognition of his work in climate research.

From the National Academy of Science's decadal review, "Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s": "Software and information technology are other areas where the footprints of astronomy have left clear marks. Grid computing ... [More] is a prime example. The open source infrastructure “BOINC” developed in the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley for volunteer and grid computing was developed to search data obtained with radio telescopes for signals from extraterrestrial life (SETI@home). It has since been used in many other areas in astrophysics (LIGO (+Virgo) application of BOINC is looking for evidence of continuous, monochromatic gravitational waves from non-axisymmetric, unknown single neutron stars in the Milky Way galaxy and LIGO noise diagnostics, for example) but also in many non-astronomical contexts including medical, environmental and humanitarian research sponsored by IBM Corporate Citizenship in the non-profit “world community grid”, and even has been used for COVID-19 research" [Less]

Download it here. This version fixes a problem that prevented BOINC from communicating with several projects and account managers.

Download it here. This version fixes a problem that prevented BOINC from communicating with several projects and account managers.

Recently, the Windows BOINC client stopped being able to communicate with some projects and with Science United. This is because of an expired entry in a file called the "certificate authority bundle". To fix this problem, download a new version ... [More] of the file and put it in the C:/Program Files/BOINC directory. This is a temporary fix. We hope to release a new version of the client that won't have this problem in the future. [Less]

Get a Certificate of computation showing how much you've computed across all BOINC projects. It's suitable for framing!

Check out Globally Scheduling Volunteer Computing, recently published in the journal Future Internet.

A Flatpak installer for the BOINC 7.18.1 Linux client is available on Flathub

Version 7.18.1 of the BOINC Android client has been released. Thanks to Vitalii Koshura, Tal Regev, and Isira Seneviratne for their work on this. The new version is available from the BOINC web site.