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Foldit yields AIDS breakthrough

A project that turns protein folding into a competitive, online game has seen gamers do work in three weeks that had stumped scientists for over a decade Read more

19 September, 2011 by Jack Clark
<endeca_term>BOINC</endeca_term> 7.0.25

BOINC 7.0.25

BOINC is a program that lets you donate your idle computer time to... Read more

5 April, 2012
<endeca_term>BOINC</endeca_term> Monitor 8.76

BOINC Monitor 8.76

BOINC Monitor shows BOINC tasks progress. Resizable. Save settings to file. (File will... Read more

25 April, 2012
<endeca_term>BOINC</endeca_term> 7.0.25

BOINC 7.0.25

BOINC is a software platform for distributed computing using volunteered computer resources. Many... Read more

9 April, 2012

Cern taps home PCs for virtual atom smashing

...on home computers. Cern uses an open-source distributed computing platform called Boinc to manage the Test4Theory tasks on volunteer machines. The use of open... Read more

9 August, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Scientist predicts digital brain by 2023

...to other computers, in the style of the distributed SETI@Home or Boinc projects, he said. Factoring into the future of computing Once built, the... Read more

20 June, 2011 by Jack Clark
Kickstarter breathes life into tech start-ups

Kickstarter breathes life into tech start-ups

...the servers can be assigned to work on one of the many Boinc (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) research projects.Mindgine needs to raise... Read more

17 April, 2011 by Jon Yeomans

Europe launches 200,000 computer research grid

...home, which lets users process data from the Large Hadron Collider, and Boinc, which hosts a range of projects and also allows scientists to create... Read more

14 September, 2010 by Jack Clark
iBoincStats 1.0

iBoincStats 1.0

This is a simple stats client to view your BOINC project processing statistics.Enter your cross project id and access your latest... Read more

7 March, 2012
BoincTasks 1.30 beta

BoincTasks 1.30 beta

BoincTasks is a BOINC graphic interface. It features a complete replacement of the default BOINC manager... Read more

16 December, 2011
N-Party BAR Transfer

N-Party BAR Transfer

...process large volumes of data using volunteer computation more recently, by the Boinc infrastructure that supports several computationally intensive research projects. If such computations are... Read more

1 September, 2011
BoincTasks 1.16

BoincTasks 1.16

BoincTasks is an advanced BOINC graphic interface. A complete replacement of the default BOINC manager. Advanced filtering... Read more

31 August, 2011
TThrottle: Temperature Throttle 3.41

TThrottle: Temperature Throttle 3.41

...the processor/gpu temperature. It was initially build to limit the time BOINC programs use. This in order to keep the temperature and the fan... Read more

26 April, 2011
Toward Practical and Unconditional Verification of Remote Computations

Toward Practical and Unconditional Verification of Remote Computations

...assume the cloud's correctness); volunteer computing (some 30 projects use the BOINC software platform to leverage volunteers' spare cycles, but some "Volunteers" return wrong... Read more

13 April, 2011

Seti's Boinc project hit by DDoS attack

...to a project called the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing, or Boinc. The Boinc project opened the doors to cheap shared computing for a... Read more

29 July, 2004 by Munir Kotadia

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apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

44 minutes ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

3 hours ago by Atangana on UK's 15-year-old World Excel champion offered £100k job
BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

3 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

5 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

5 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

5 hours ago by mrbigdong on A minor Bitcoin miner injury?
Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

11 hours ago by minzhu on RIM CEO: Time to squash BlackBerry myths
Thomas Gellhaus

I've been very pleased with Mageia 2. My review went up on Sunday. My only issue is that my particular wireless printer hasn't been detected on...

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knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

20 hours ago by knapper on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

21 hours ago by JohneKerr on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
Iain Sutherland

I received the notification of Mageia 2 being released on Saturday, was already running Mageia 1. After running the installation X came back up...

22 hours ago by Iain Sutherland via Facebook on Scorecard - Linux Mint 13 and Mageia 2
SoapyTablet

If ZTE have been selling below cost with the ZTE Blade / Orange San Francisco then given the current high street price of the Nokia Lumia 710, you...

1 day ago by SoapyTablet on Huawei, ZTE face EU 'illegal state subsidies' probe
Burn-IT

Yes it is basically down to "nobody in control understands IT, is willing to admit it, or allow decisions to be delegated". Lets get someone in who...

1 day ago by Burn-IT on 6 million wasted licences and £1,200 PCs: welcome to government IT
pjc158

So let me get this straight just because a consultant has oberved that mobile companies who get in trouble never recover, well we all might as well...

1 day ago by pjc158 on RIM to lay off 2,000 on 1 June, says report
Jake Rayson

@191706> *their* own Mac Thank you for picking up the errant spelling :) @apexwm > Mac OS X for Intel machines is supposed to run in VirtualBox...

1 day ago by Jake Rayson on xTreme Triple Booting: Linux, Mac & Windows
archerthom

I'm imagining Batman-style sonar imaging that will detect the cat and Lego bricks in the dark - I'm going to be disappointed aren't I?

1 day ago by archerthom on Indoor navigation coming to a mobile near you soon
unlockworldwide

May I quote Horace Dediu, who runs the consultancy Asmyco who has repeatedly observed that mobile phone companies that fall into loss – even once...

1 day ago by unlockworldwide on RIM to lay off 2,000 on 1 June, says report
NarayanaIyyappan

It is useful for their lifes,and also this matters are important for networking students.

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