- BOINC lets you help cutting-edge science research using your computer. The BOINC app, running on your computer, downloads scientific computing jobs and runs them invisibly in the background. It's easy and safe.
- 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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[PrimeGrid] Another GFN 19 Found!
On 22 June 2024, 23:51:45 UTC, PrimeGrid's Generalized Fermat Prime Search found the Mega Prime: 9332124^524288+1 The prime is 3,654,278 digits long and will enter “The Largest Known Primes Database” ranked 12th for Generalized Fermat primes and 85th overall. The discovery was made by Detlef Lexut ([SG]KidDoesCrunch) of Germany using an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 in an Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-10940X CPU @ 3.30GHz with 64GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 11 Professional x64 Edition. This computer took about 27 minutes to complete the probable prime (PRP) test using Genefer23. Detlef Lexut is a member of the SETI.Germany team. The PRP was confirmed prime on 23 June 2024 by an AMD Ryzen 9 5950X @ 3.4GHz with 128GB RAM, running Linux Mint 20.3. This computer took about 15 hours, 43 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. For more details, please see the official announcement.
View article · Mon, 15 Jul 2024 22:36:13 +0000
[PrimeGrid] GFN 19 Found!
On 19 June 2024, 05:29:47 UTC, PrimeGrid's Generalized Fermat Prime Search found the Mega Prime: 10913140^524288+1 The prime is 3,689,913 digits long and will enter “The Largest Known Primes Database” ranked 11th for Generalized Fermat primes and 81st overall. The discovery was made by Heinrich Podsada (PoHeDa) of Germany using an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 in an AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor @ 3.40GHz with 64GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 11 Professional x64 Edition. This computer took about 50 minutes to complete the probable prime (PRP) test using Genefer23. Heinrich Podsada is a member of the SETI.Germany team. The PRP was confirmed prime on 20 June 2024 by an AMD Ryzen 9 5950X @ 3.4GHz with 128GB RAM, running Linux Mint 20.3. This computer took about 15 hours, 56 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. For more details, please see the official announcement.
View article · Mon, 15 Jul 2024 22:27:37 +0000
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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
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User Manual moved to Github
As part of our effort to move documentation to Github, we have moved the User Manual from Mediawiki on the UCB server to Markdown on Github.
15 Jun 2024, 21:26:02 UTC
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BOINC client 8.0.2 released
The 8.0.2 version of the BOINC client has been released for all platforms. Download it here. Release notes are here.
30 May 2024, 11:07:49 UTC
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