The Science Commons Initiative
Hi, is there a community for SCI? I am looking for updates, because the official website doesnt have a news section :)
New BOINC 8.0.0 is ready for testing (sopuli.xyz)
Android/MacOS/Windows: boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.phpLinux: boinc.berkeley.edu/linux_install.phpRelease Notes github.com/BOINC/boinc/wiki/Client-release-notesPlease report any bugs github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues/new/choose
Important: BOINC Screensaver broken on MacOS Sonoma (boinc.berkeley.edu)
New blog post: "Vanilla BOINC packages: the reason and the purpose" (aenbleidd.blogspot.com)
New BOINC Promotional Materials (github.com)
SCI is proud to release a suite of business cards, flyers, and other promotional materials to help promote BOINC and its awesome projects....
You might also be interested in the AI Horde. Share your GPU to provide Generative AI for everyone! (aihorde.net)
The AI Horde is a FOSS, crowdsourced cluster for Stable Diffusion and LLMs. We’ve been running for more than a year now!
A powerful video update on Diana (Physics Girl on YouTube) who is battling Long COVID. Stories like this are why I crunch SiDock/Rosetta. We all can make a difference with our computation. (www.youtube.com)
What are mathematical constants? Are they related? Can we find more? (video from Ramanujan Machine) (www.youtube.com)
Ramanujan Machine is a project using the computers of volunteers to answer some of these questions (using the BOINC platform). Anybody can participate, please see their website for more information. Related paper: arxiv.org/abs/2308.11829
What projects are you contributing to?
Thank you for creating this community, thanks to you I’ve started contributing with my spare CPU power.
BOINC 8.0.2 major release is available for Android, Linux, MacOS and Windows (sopuli.xyz)
Release Notes: github.com/BOINC/boinc/wiki/Client-release-notes#…...
BOINC client 8.0.2 released (boinc.berkeley.edu)
BOINC Workshop 2024 (boinc.berkeley.edu)
BOINC is a finalist for a United Nations sponsored award. They urgently need your vote by March 31st 2024.
BOINC is a finalist for an notable award, and needs votes (by Sunday):...
New blog post about the upcoming BOINC release (aenbleidd.blogspot.com)
New blog post about GPU detection on Android BOINC (aenbleidd.blogspot.com)
Next BOINC release will be a major release (fosstodon.org)
Next BOINC Projects Call on Monday, March 18th, at 16:00 UTC (fosstodon.org)
BOINC Linux package nightly demo (youtu.be)
BOINC in schools (boinc.berkeley.edu)
Computation Moonshot - BOINC Competition for HS Students
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...
YouTube video on BOINC server setup (www.youtube.com)
BOINC 7.24.3 released for MacOS. (sopuli.xyz)
This version fixes a problem that causes GPU apps to fail after a MacOS upgrade to Sonoma: github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/5502Download it here: boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php
Poll: What should SiDock work on next? Ebola? SARS? Vote today! (www.sidock.si)
BOINC Census 2023 Results
📣 It’s a new year! That means new BOINC Census results! 📊...
Founder of Universe@home died :( (universeathome.pl)
from: universeathome.pl/universe/forum_thread.php?id=73…I met Krzysztof in the summer of 2014. It was then that Grzegorz Wiktorowicz found me and invited me to collaborate on a new scientific project. The reason they found me on the Internet was a problem with accessing the necessary computing power needed for the scientific...