BOINC: Why you should care about the credit-system
The probably heaviest request from users during the last BOINC user-survey was definitively “Introduce a more fair credit-system”. It’s still kind of frustrating that some projects hand out lots of...
View ArticleGIMPS: 44th Known Mersenne Prime Probably Found
The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search reports that they’ve probably found the 44th Mersenne prime: “On September 4, 2006, a computer reported finding the 44th known Mersenne prime. Verification will...
View ArticleRosetta: Article “Deciphering Protein Structures”
Via the NCSA: The NCSA wrote a very easy to understand, yet quite complete article with explanations about David Baker’s Rosetta project, an theoretical approach to deduct a protein’s structure using...
View ArticleA Better Rice For The World
The Nutritious Rice for the World (Rice) project, a World Community Grid BOINC project, ended a few weeks ago. BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) is a non-commercial program and...
View ArticleSETI@Home rumors hit the news
The Register reports thath there are rumors in the wild claiming the SETI@Home has finaly found an extraterrestrial signal. Some guy called Steven Greer of CSETI, allegedly a a “professional SETI...
View ArticleRosetta@home: Return your CASP7-results asap
Today, on Monday the 7th, the CASP7-contest is over and the Rosetta@home-team needs to submit their results, as user Feet1st reminds us; so, if you’re a Rosetta@home-cruncher, return your result...
View ArticleRALPH@home: Alpha test project for Rosetta@home
Via rosetta@home‘s Number Crunching forum: RALPH@home is the official alpha test project for Rosetta@home. New application versions, work units, and updates in general will be tested here before being...
View ArticleEinstein@home S5 update
Ben Owen of the Einstein@home science-team posted an update about the ongoing efforts; this posting was done in the Science-forum, not on the frontpage, where one would expect it. He reports that the...
View ArticleBBC report: folding@home teams up with Sony
Via the BBC: Sony and folding@home start working together to develop a native folding@home application for the Playstation 3 which uses the Cell CPU. The BBC claims that 10,000 Playstation 3 consoles...
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