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array("November 27, 2009",
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"An <a href=http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1204531>article on
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volunteer computing</a> appeared today in the Argentine newspaper <i>La Nacion</i>."
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array("October 30, 2009",
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"The <a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/WorkShop09>Fifth BOINC Workshop</a> was held Oct. 22-23 in Barcelona.
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There were 35 attendees and 21 excellent talks;
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many of the presentation slides and discussion notes are online."
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array("October 30, 2009",
14
"Version 6.10 of the BOINC client software has been released for general use. Download it <a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php>here</a>."
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array("October 28, 2009",
17
"The Windows versions of 6.6.41 have been recalled
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due to a version mismatch with recent Microsoft updates.
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Please use the 6.6.38 version until 6.10 is released."
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array("October 21, 2009",
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"An <a href=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703816204574483481567116994.html>article in the Wall Street Journal</a>
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discusses the use of volunteer computing in medical research."
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array("October 12, 2009",
26
"Welcome to <a href=http://escatter11.fullerton.edu/nfs/>NFS@home</a>,
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a new project from California State University Fullerton.
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NFS@Home uses volunteer computing to do the lattice sieving step in the Number Field Sieve factorization of large integers."
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array("October 4, 2009",
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"<a href=\"http://www.efmer.eu/boinc/boinc_tasks/\">BoincTasks</a>, a new visual interface to BOINC, has been released for Windows. BoincTasks lets you manage a single computer locally, or all your computers remotely."
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array("October 1, 2009",
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"An <a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/29/science/29grid.html\">article
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in the NY Times</a> describes a project using BOINC
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to simulate the development of life at the molecular level."
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array("September 21, 2009",
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"The Brazilian TV networks Globonews and Futura recently broadcast
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<a href=http://video.globo.com/Videos/Player/Noticias/0,,GIM1053196-7823-A+FILANTROPIA+VIRTUAL+AUXILIA+PESQUISAS+PARA+CURA+DE+DOENCAS,00.html>a report on IBM World Community Grid</a> (in Portuguese)."
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array("September 4, 2009",
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"An article in PCWorld,
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<a href=http://www.pcworld.com/article/171126/12_worthy_causes_seek_your_spare_pc_cycles.html>12 Worthy Causes Seek Your Spare PC Cycles</a>,
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describes BOINC and 12 projects that use it."
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array("September 3, 2009",
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"Facebook users: check out the
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<a href=http://apps.facebook.com/boinc_milestones/>BOINC Milestones</a> app."
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array("August 24, 2009",
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"UNITAR, UNIGE and CERN have agreed to collaborate on a <a href=http://www.unitar.org/citizen_cyberscience_centre_project>Citizen Cyberscience Centre</a>
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which, among other things, will promote volunteer computing."
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array("August 19, 2009",
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"The EDGeS project is offering a
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<a href=http://edges-grid.eu/web/userforum/3rdtraining>tutorial on
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using BOINC for desktop grid computing</a>
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on 20 Sept 2009 in Barcelona."
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array("August 18, 2009",
62
"Check out <a href=http://www.smh.com.au/technology/new-heroes-with-a-hard-drive-20090815-elsd.html>an article in The Sydney Morning Herald</a>
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about volunteer computing in Australia."
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array("August 3, 2009",
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"Intel (in partnership with GridRepublic and BOINC) announces
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<a href=http://apps.facebook.com/processors/new.php>Progress Thru Processors</a>,
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a Facebook application that makes participating in BOINC simpler and more sociable."
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array("July 30, 2009",
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"<a href=http://event.twgrid.org/isgc2009/asiaathome/wiki/index.php/Main_Page#Workshop_Schedule_and_Presentations>Videos of the talks at the recent Asia@home workshop in Taiwan</a> are now online."
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array("July 20, 2009",
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"Listen to a Podcast of <a href=http://www.rce-cast.com/index.php/Podcast/rce-13-boinc.html>an interview with David Anderson</a> on <a href=http://www.rce-cast.com/>RCE</a>."
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array("July 15, 2009",
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"The Consejería de Educación, Spain, is
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<a href=http://jarifa.unex.es/?p=230>using Jarifa to harness the power of 12,000 PCs.</a>"
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array("June 23, 2009",
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"Read <a href=http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/553414/>an article
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about Docking@Home</a> in Newswise Science News."
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array("June 10, 2009",
85
"Check out <a href=http://dishmag.com/issue96/homestyle/10099/boinc-how-your-computer-can-benefit-all-of-mankind/>BOINC! How your computer can benefit all of mankind</a>, a story in the online <a href=http://dishmag.com/>Dish Magazine</a>."
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"<a href=http://www.icvolunteers.org/>ICVolunteers</a>
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<a href=http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=dOgS3cfUxFKfFbeOy8L3eQ_3d_3d>online poll</a> to study motivation in volunteer computing.
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Volunteers are encouraged to complete this poll."
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"Mac users: check out <a href=\"http://boinc.berkeley.edu/addon_item.php?platform=mac&item=http%3A%2F%2Fbrotherbard.com%2Fboinc%2F\">BOINCMenubar 2</a>,
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an alternative to the BOINC Manager for Mac OS X."
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"Check out <a href=\"http://365daysofastronomy.org/2009/05/17/may-17th-citizen-scientists-making-a-difference-and-having-fun/\">Citizen Scientists</a>,
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a podcast by the 365 Days of Astronomy project."
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array("May 14, 2009",
102
"<a href=\"http://boinc.unex.es/planet\">Planet BOINC</a>
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is a new RSS feed that combines many different sources of news
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about BOINC and volunteer computing."
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array("May 14, 2009",
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"<a href=\"http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/audio/more/tedx/?podcastItem=francois_grey.mp4\">Francois Grey talks about citizen cyber-science</a> at TEDx Warwick."
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array("May 13, 2009",
110
"See a <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igB-vqS3gAc\">video</a> (in Spanish with English subtitles) about Extremadura@home and volunteer computing."
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array("May 12, 2009",
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<a href=\"http://www.nature.com/embor/journal/v10/n5/full/embor200979.html\">article in EMBO reports</a> discusses citizen cyber-science."
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"Simon Lin of Academia Sinica discusses volunteer computing (and thinking) in Asia
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on a <a href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/science/2009/03/000000_digital_planet.shtml\">Podcast on BBC World Service</a>."
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array("April 29, 2009",
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"An <a href=\"http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/March09/cordes.palfa.einstein.html\">article in Cornell's Chronicle Online</a> discusses
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a new application in <a href=http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/>Einstein@home</a>
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that searches for pulsars in binary star systems."
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array("April 29, 2009",
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"Francois Grey discusses Citizen Cyberscience (and BOINC) in <a href=\"http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/38718\">The CERN Courier</a>."
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array("April 21, 2009",
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"A <a href=\"http://event.twgrid.org/isgc2009/asiaathome/wiki/index.php/Main_Page\">workshop on volunteer computing with BOINC</a>
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was held in Taipei on 16-17 April.
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Lecture outlines and slides are available online.
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array("April 9, 2009",
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"BOINC 6.6 has been released to public for Windows and
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MacOS X. Please visit the <a href=\"http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php\">download</a> page and upgrade today."
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array("April 6, 2009",
139
"Check out <a href=http://boinc.starwars-holonet.com/>a new
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French-language web site</a> about volunteer computing."
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array("March 30, 2009",
143
"<a href=http://boinc.vgtu.lt/vtuathome/>VTU@home</a>,
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a project from the Vilnius Gediminas Technical University,
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is now listed on the <a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/choose_projects.php>Choose
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VTU@home serves Lithuanian scientists.
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It is currently studying the automated testing
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of complex software systems.
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array("March 18, 2009",
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"<a href=http://www.isgtw.org/?pid=1001689>Volunteer computing goes East</a> -
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a story on upcoming events in Taiwan and Beijing - appears
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in International Science Grid This Week.
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array("March 9, 2009",
159
"A new add-on for Windows,
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<a href=\"http://boinc.berkeley.edu/addon_item.php?platform=win&item=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bc-team.org%2Fdownloads.php%3Fview%3Ddetail%26df_id%3D3\">BOINCcalculator</a>, shows details (trickles, credit, timesteps, checkpoints) of running CPDN jobs."
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array("March 9, 2009",
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"<a href=http://www.cosmologyathome.org/>Cosmology@Home</a>,
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a project from the University of Illinois whose goal is to search
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for the model that best describes our Universe,
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is now listed on the <a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/choose_projects.php>Choose
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array("March 5, 2009",
170
"BOINC was the subject of a 40-minute radio program (in Polish)
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on <a href=http://www.tok.fm/TOKFM/0,89523.html>Tok FM</a>
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(click on 'O sile polaczonych komputerow')."
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array("March 3, 2009",
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"We have released BOINC 6.4.7 for Windows. This release contains a
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screensaver fix as well as updates to LibCurl(7.19.4) and
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OpenSSL(0.9.8j) for some recently published security advisories.
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array("March 1, 2009",
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"<a href=http://www.unitedboinc.com/>United BOINC</a>
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now offers <a href=http://www.unitedboinc.com/news-sig/>signature images</a>
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containing the latest news from your choice of projects.
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array("February 27, 2009",
187
"We have rolled back to 6.4.5 for our latest stable version until 6.4.7 can be built. Something happened to 6.4.6 on our mirrors."
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array("February 17, 2009",
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"A new add-on program for Windows,
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<a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/addon_item.php?platform=win&item=http%3A%2F%2Fefmer.eu%2Fboinc%2F>TThrottle</a>,
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throttles CPU usage to keep its temperature below a limit you select."
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array("February 13, 2009",
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"A <a href=http://event.twgrid.org/isgc2009/asiaathome/>workshop on volunteer computing</a> will take place 16-17 April 2009 at the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan, in conjunction with the International Symposium on Grid Computing."
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array("February 3, 2009",
198
"Congratulations to <a href=http://www.setibr.org/>SETIBR</a>,
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the Brazilian team which,
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across several BOINC-based projects,
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has achieved the levels of 100K average credit
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and 50M total credit."
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array("January 29, 2009",
205
"Scientists: it's easier than ever to create a BOINC project -
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you don't even need a server!
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Instead, you can use the Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud,
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with a <a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/CloudServer>virtual machine image</a> created by Derrick Kondo of INRIA."
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array("January 28, 2009",
211
"<a href=http://www.extremadurathome.org/extremadurathome/>Extremadura@home</a> is a new kind of account manager in which the choice of projects
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is a group decision. It's targeted at Spanish computer owners
213
but is open to everyone."
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array("January 27, 2009",
216
"<a href=http://www.dotsch.de/boinc/Dotsch_UX.html>Dotsch/UX</a>
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is an ISO-format Linux distribution, based on Ubuntu Linux,
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with the 6.2.15 BOINC client pre-installed.
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It lets you easily install and boot from a USB stick, hard disk and
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from diskless clients,
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and it also has some interfaces to set up the diskless server
222
and the clients automatically.
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Download info is <a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php>here</a>.
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array("January 22, 2009",
227
"A <a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/images/Cochran_SRL_2009.pdf>paper
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about Quake-Catcher Network</a> appeared in
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Seismological Research Letters, Jan/Feb 2009."
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array("January 20, 2009",
232
"A paper about BOINC,
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\"<a href=http://boinc.berkeley.edu/boinc_papers/hicss_08/hicss_08.pdf>Celebrating Diversity in Volunteer Computing</a>\",
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has won a Best Paper award at the
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42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences."
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array("January 14, 2009",
238
"The <a href=http://docking.gcl.cis.udel.edu/>Docking@home</a>
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project has a spiffy new web site, and welcomes new volunteers."
241
array("December 22, 2008",
242
"An <a href=http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/22/d-wave-arms-smoking-gun-proof-of-quantum-computer/>article about AQUA@home</a> appeared
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in today's New York Times online."
245
array("December 17, 2008",
246
"BOINC now supports <a href=cuda.php>computing using NVIDIA GPUs</a>.
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Two projects currently have GPU-enabled applications:
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<a href=http://gpugrid.net/>GPUgrid.net</a> and
249
<a href=http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/>SETI@home</a>.
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If your computer has a recent NVIDIA GPU,
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you can compute 2X to 10X faster than with your CPU alone.
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array("December 17, 2008",
255
"A press release from NVIDIA announcing BOINC's GPU support
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<a href=http://www.imim.es/news/view.php?ID=37>English</a>,
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<a href=http://www.imim.es/noticias/view.php?ID=91>Spanish</a>,
259
and <a href=http://www.imim.es/noticies/view.php?ID=183>Catalan</a>."
261
array("December 16, 2008",
262
"Version 6.4 of the BOINC client software has been released.
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This is the recommended version for Windows and Linux.
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<a href=\"http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php\">Upgrade now</a>.
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array("December 10, 2008",
268
"<a href=http://aqua.dwavesys.com/>AQUA@home</a> is now open to volunteers. AQUA (Adiabatic QUantum Algorithms) is a research project, based at D-Wave Systems, Inc., whose goal is to predict the performance of superconducting adiabatic quantum computers on a variety of hard problems arising in fields ranging from materials science to machine learning."
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array("December 8, 2008",
271
"IBM World Community Grid and Harvard launch
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<a href=http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE4B70QS20081208>an application to study a new type of photovoltaic solar cells</a>.
275
array("December 1, 2008",
276
"Wikipedia'a <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/December_1,_2008>featured article for today</a> is about Rosetta@home."
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array("November 29, 2008",
279
"Check out <a href=http://www.boincitaly.org/>BOINC.Italy</a>,
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a new Italian BOINC portal."
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array("November 29, 2008",
283
"Rechenkraft.net is <a href=http://www.rechenkraft.net/wiki/index.php?title=Verein:E-Petition/en>petitioning the German government</a>
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to use non-security sensitive institutional computers to
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assist scientific research."
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array("November 20, 2008",
288
"See a video celebrating the
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<a href=http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/newsletter/video/viewIDedicate.do>fourth anniversary of IBM World Community Grid</a>."
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array("November 20, 2008",
292
"<a href=http://jarifa.unex.es/>Jarifa</a>,
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a system for organizational grid computing using BOINC,
294
has a new name, logo, and domain."
4
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array("November 7, 2008",
5
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"On 27-28 November 2008, AlmereGrid and EDGeS will organise a two-day <a href=http://edges-grid.eu/web/userforum/1sttraining>Desktop Grid workshop</a> in Almere, The Netherlands."