I created a nostr community for BOINC, feel free to join and discuss

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Release Notes: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/wiki/Client-release-notes#changes-in-802

Download page: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php

Report issues: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues/new/choose

This is a major release that introduced a new type of applications called 'Sporadic applications'.

Details are described here: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/wiki/Sporadic-Applications

For Android users this release should be also available soon on F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/edu.berkeley.boinc/

For Linux users on Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and openSUSE, currently this release is in 'alpha' channel. Soon will be available in 'stable' channel as well.

Installation instructions: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/linux_install.php

Android/MacOS/Windows: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php Linux: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/linux_install.php Release Notes https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/wiki/Client-release-notes Please report any bugs https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues/new/choose

BOINC is a finalist for an notable award, and needs votes (by Sunday):

Context: The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) is a United Nations-sponsored initiative aimed at harnessing the potential of information and communication technologies to build inclusive and equitable information societies worldwide. BOINC has been nominated for a prize at the 2024 forum, and has passed initial hurdles; the next and last step ("Phase 3") requires public votes. The award would be a very nice boost and validation for BOINC and all projects; if we can get our communities to vote, we should have a decent shot at this point...

Voting is pretty simple, takes just a few minutes; instructions are here

(*The deadline for votes is Sunday: 31 March 2024, 23:00 UTC+02:00)

The Computation Moonshot is a competition for high schools which encourages students to learn about data science, computer science, distributed computing, and a wide array of fields in science by having them contribute to real, useful outcomes for researchers in an exciting competitive atmosphere. We utilize the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) to connect students to groundbreaking scientific research projects around the world. This year we are running on the World Community Grid project which studies, among other topics: climate science, genetics, cancer, and tuberculosis. We call processing data for these research projects “crunching”.

Our goal in 2024 is to reach 50,000 donated hours of computation to research.

The competition is free to all and requires no special knowledge or skills. We provide setup guides for teachers and students, along with educational resources on the research to which your computers are contributing.

Compete for over $6,000 in prizes for schools and students, all while doing science!

Get this out to any high schools, teachers, or students you know of that might be interested in participating!

More information on the competition, including how to register your high school, can be found at https://computationmoonshot.org/

The AI Horde is a FOSS, crowdsourced cluster for Stable Diffusion and LLMs. We've been running for more than a year now!

This version fixes a problem that causes GPU apps to fail after a MacOS upgrade to Sonoma: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/5502 Download it here: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php

📣 It's a new year! That means new BOINC Census results! 📊

Check out what the community said about BOINC in 2023 👉 https://thesciencecommons.org/BOINC/Census/2023/

Welcome to the New Year everyone, this also means we have new BOINC Census results for the survey conducted in late 2023.

You can find the results here: https://thesciencecommons.org/BOINC/Census/2023/

Feel free to comment on the results in this post or share your thoughts in the official BOINC discord/telegram or wherever you connect with the network.