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Daniel Wayne Armstrong<p>Remember SETI@home?</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@stfn" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>stfn</span></a></span> jogged my memory by recently highlighting the community "distributed supercomputer" dedicated to science: BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing):</p><p><a href="https://boinc.berkeley.edu/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">boinc.berkeley.edu/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Now my computer is using its idle cycles to crunch data from gravitational-wave detectors courtesy of Einstein@Home:</p><p><a href="https://einsteinathome.org/about" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">einsteinathome.org/about</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/BOINC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BOINC</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/DistributedComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DistributedComputing</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/VolunteerComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VolunteerComputing</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/GravitationalWaves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GravitationalWaves</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/NeutronStars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeutronStars</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Physics</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Space</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a></p>
Vitalii Koshura<p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/BOINC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BOINC</span></a> 8.0.2 has been released for <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Android</span></a>, <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a>, <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MacOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MacOS</span></a> and <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windows</span></a>.<br>Release Notes: <a href="https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/wiki/Client-release-notes#changes-in-802" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/BOINC/boinc/wiki/Cl</span><span class="invisible">ient-release-notes#changes-in-802</span></a><br>Download page: <a href="https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">boinc.berkeley.edu/download.ph</span><span class="invisible">p</span></a><br>Report issues: <a href="https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues/new/choose" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues/</span><span class="invisible">new/choose</span></a><br>This is a major release that introduced a new type of applications called 'Sporadic applications'.<br>Details are described here: <a href="https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/wiki/Sporadic-Applications" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/BOINC/boinc/wiki/Sp</span><span class="invisible">oradic-Applications</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/DistributedComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DistributedComputing</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/VolunteerComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VolunteerComputing</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/GridComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GridComputing</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/CitizenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CitizenScience</span></a></p>
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