BOINC4Science

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.

from https://www.sidock.si/sidock/forum_thread.php?id=263 We've successfully achieved 21 milestones in our ongoing drug discovery initiative, and this strong, open, and community-supported drug discovery project is going on. Our research has been routine lately: virtual screening on the same library for a pleiade of corona-related targets. These efforts are however crucial to our research progression. Currently, we're in the process of drafting publications for two of our completed objectives (3CLpro and PLpro) and are setting the stage for upcoming drug targets (here we are also planning a pool where You the participants, will help us decide on the upcoming target work). Last but not least, we thank everyone who has donated cryptocurrency or money. The donations sum up to 639 Euro and 12,140 Gridcoin now. We plan to use them for purchase of compounds and in-vitro screening. As always, we are grateful to all of you for your computational contributions and discussions!

We look forward to the future work on SiDock@home.

Merry Christmas to all and all the best to All!

With best wishes, Natalia, Marko, Črtomir and hoarfrost

Reminder: If you have not filled out the BOINC census, time is running out! Stand up and be counted! You will not be asked for any personally-identifiable information and your response can help shape the future of BOINC. https://forms.fillout.com/t/n33grsgkeRus

The BOINC Census is back for another year! 🎉

If you use BOINC, we want to hear your thoughts! Take the survey with the link below 👇

Should only take 5 min and your response could help shape the future of the community 😁

https://forms.fillout.com/t/n33grsgkeRus

The BOINC Census is a project of the Science Commons Initiative, a 501(c)(3) non-profit rebuilding the bridge of trust and participation between the public and science.

Happy crunching! 🚀

The 7.24.1 version of the BOINC client software has been released for Windows, Mac, and Android. Download it here. Release notes are here. Thanks to everyone who contributed to developing and testing this release.