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About 30 science projects use BOINC. They investigate diseases, study climate change, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research.
The BOINC and Science United projects are located at the University of California, Berkeley and are supported by the National Science Foundation.

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[Yoyo@home] sr2sieve wu generation

I changed the workunit generation for sr2sieve workunits, workunits which are named sr2_*. The sieve range is now smaller and workunits are running faster. With this they are fitting also better die old CPUs and ARM processors.

View article · Mon, 23 Dec 2024 23:00:00 +0000

[LHC@home] Seasons greetings

Merry Christmas and a peaceful end of the year from the LHC@home team!

Many thanks to all our volunteers for your crunching and contributions!

Here are some highlights from 2024 at CERN.

Greetings and best wishes for 2025!

View article · Fri, 20 Dec 2024 12:18:57 +0000

[Yoyo@home] P75 ECM factor!

User user3928 found a 75-digit prime factor of an XYYXF number using ECM. This is the largest ECM factor found this year, and the 8th largest of all time.

View article · Tue, 17 Dec 2024 23:00:00 +0000

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Rosetta@home leader wins Nobel Prize
Dr. David Baker of the University of Washington, creator of Rosetta@home, has won the 2024 Nobel prize in Chemistry. Congratulations!
9 Oct 2024, 23:23:34 UTC · Discuss

Should BOINC boycott Russian projects?
This has been suggested. We're not going to do it, but the idea merits thought and discussion.
10 Sep 2024, 2:18:10 UTC · Discuss

Windows malware reported
We have received several reports of malware that installs and runs the 8.0.2 BOINC client on Windows computers. We are investigating this; we currently don't know how the malware works or how to defeat it. We'll report whatever we learn here.

This is not a vulnerability in BOINC; rather, it's malware that illegally installs BOINC.
26 Jun 2024, 23:01:38 UTC · Discuss

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