BOINC Radio #06
Tasks Completed, Funding, A New Project
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Recorded on December 20th
Tasks Completed, Funding, A New Project
In this episode of BOINC Radio we discuss news coming from WCG and Primegrid, SETI@Home's funding drive, the new project quchempedia, and some other things, including an invite code giveaway for PrimaBOINCa thanks to listener flashfire42!
For your shot at earning the invite code, follow @BOINCNetwork on twitter, join the BOINCNetwork Discord server, and mention that you're interested in an invite to the PrimaBOINCa project.
Otherwise, we hope you enjoy the show!
| Time | Subject |
|---|---|
| 2:40 | Returning to our discussion on science communicators |
| 6:45 | OpenZika is finished |
| 12:35 | Primegrid discovers their 400th megprime PrimeGrid Discord PrimeGrid Twitter |
| 17:00 | Fires in Australia |
| 22:15 | Rosetta@Home's parent institute receives funding boost |
| 26:45 | SETI@Home Fall/Winter funding drive |
| 29:30 | New BOINC Project! QuChempedia |
| 35:30 | "Quantum 'FM' Radio" |
| 41:30 | PrimaBOINCa invite code giveaway! |
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The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is an open-source grid computing infrastructure which provides open access to a global volunteer-based distributed computing network. To date, BOINC has been the driving force behind numerous computationally intensive research programs, such as pulsar identification, the creation of patient specific cancer treatments, the simulation of candidate molecules for next-generation solar panels, along with many others. While BOINC has been used primarily for science and mathematics, it can host data from any open or commercial field so long as the data can be formatted for BOINC’s processes. Examples of projects include tasks on engineering, cryptography, rendering, weather and climate prediction, as well as social, market, and resource analytics. Enigma@home, for example, worked to break remaining WWII messages encrypted by an Enigma machine.
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