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January 27, 2012
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January 13, 2012
- New, active Charity project: Charity Engine sells participants' donated computing power to "anyone who can use it for something ethical" and donates proceeds to major international charities like Oxfam International, Doctors Without Borders, Amnesty International, and awards a US$10,000 prize to one of its participants every month.
- Muon1 reached the 30 quadrillion particle timestep milestone on December 29, 2011. See an excellent summary of the project's progress in 2011.
- The first GLOBE at Night campaign begins on January 14 and ends on January 23. There are three more campaigns for 2012: February 12-21, March 13-22, April 11-20.
- Distributed Search for Fermat Number Divisors discovered its first Fermat factor for 2012 on January 4: 329 * 2^1246017 divides F1246013.
- news article: Charity Engine: The Ethical Supercomputer That Can Win You $10,000: The company sells your donated processing power to organizations for cheap. In exchange for your generosity, you can win yourself a nice bundle of cash.
- news article: Berkeley's BOINC Reaches 2B Results Milestone for SETI@Home; the BOINC computing client for SETI@home has contributed its 2 billionth result to the project
- news article: Charity Engine: The Even Cheaper Cloud Supercomputer?; a short overview of the new Charity Engine project
- news article: World Community Grid, your good deed for the day; an overview of World Community Grid and how to participate in it
- news article: Spare some idle CPU cycles for charity this season; a short overview of the new Charity Engine project
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December 19, 2011
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December 9, 2011
- New, active Life Sciences project: GO Fight Against Malaria is searching for drugs to fight drug-resistant strains of Malaria, a mosquito-born disease for which 3 billion people are at risk of being infected
- fightAIDS@home published newsletter number 10 in October 21. The project has discovered two new protein fragments which can bind to two important sites on the HIV virus and may be able to prevent the virus from functioning normally. These protein fragments may be able to be developed into more effective HIV-fighting drugs.
- On December 1 Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) completed double-checking M(24036583) to verify it is the 41st known Mersenne prime
- Open Mind Indoor Common Sense now has for-pay work on Amazon's Mechanical Turk
- Minimal Equal Sums of Like Powers found several new results in August and September this year: (16,9,22), (20,17,17), (16,7,26), (18,13,15), (17,13,17), (17,5,27), (17,13,16),(17,11,20), (18,12,26), (22,20,22), (22,21,22), (21,13,26), (19,15,17), (27,27,34). Also, the project finished computing all solutions below 250,000 in August.
- The MoneyBee project ended some time this year
- news article: Video game players advancing genetic research; an update on the Phylo project
- news article: Crowdsourcing Scientific Progress: How Crowdflower's Hordes Help Harvard Researchers Study TB; Harvard researchers were able to use hundreds of nontechnical workers through the Crowdflower crowd-sourcing site to examine thousands of images of Tuberculosis (TB) cells to study the effectiveness of various treatments for only pennies per image and to reduce the research time to a few weeks
- news article: Online gamers crack AIDS enzyme puzzle
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October 28, 2011
- New, active Life Sciences project: Drug Search for Leishmaniasis is searching for drugs to fight Leishmaniasis, a tropical disease which affects over 2 million people, in 97 countries, each year
- New, active Science project: theSkyNet is analyzing radio astronomy data for radio astronomers all over the world
- New, active Financial project: MQL5 Cloud Network is a for-pay project. Participants provide their computer CPUs to MQL5 members to use for projects like testing trading strategies and developing new drugs. Participants are paid for the work their CPUs perform.
- In September, players of the Foldit game helped discover the structure of an enzyme which scientists have not been able to understand for over a decade. Understanding the enzyme's structure could help the scientists create a cure for AIDS.
- Einstein@Home discovered its 10th pulsar on September 7
- news article: Near-Earth Asteroid Discovered via Crowdsourcing
- news article: Accelerate physics with your own computer; an overview of the new LHC@home 2.0 project
- news article: Millions of Molecules Screened by Volunteers for the Clean Energy Project: You Can Help Too!; an overview of The Clean Energy Project
- news article: Columbian scientists tap global computer network in search of leishmaniasis drugs; an overview of World Community Grid's new Drug Search for Leishmaniasis project
- news article: Put computer downtime to good use; an overview of distributed computing projects
- news article: Puzzle Gamers Solve Scientific Mystery that Could Help Cure AIDS: Players of an online game have helped model the structure of an enzyme which has stumped scientists for over a decade
- news article: Gamers succeed where scientists fail: a detailed overview of Foldit players' recent discovery of the correct structure of an enzyme, related to AIDS, which scientists have not been able to understand for over a decade
- news article: IBM and University of Antioquia Cooperate to Seek Drug for Leishmaniasis Treatment: To use IBM's World Community Grid for collapsing 100 years of research into just two; over two-million Leishmaniasis sufferers worldwide
- news article: Spare CPU cycles to be used to further radio astronomy: TheSkyNet project will use the idle time of thousands of PCs to create grid computing power to process massive radio astronomy data sets
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August 29, 2011
- yoyo@home ECM found an unusually large P62 factor to finish its 853^73 - 1 project. The factor is one of the 50 largest ECM factors ever found. "It is both a Brent composite and a Mishima Cyclotomic Number."
- As of August 23, Old Weather has completed transcribing all of the log pages for 150 ships, creating over 89,000 pages of weather data. The project owners have created an overlay for Google Earth showing the routes (and the transcribed logs) of each of the 150 ships.
- news article: Passive Collaboration: Add Your Processing Power to the Crowd; an overview of distributed computing projects
- news article: You can be a Citizen Scientist!; an overview of distributed human and distributed computing projects
- news article: Searching for cheap solar cells in computer models; an overview of The Clean Energy Project
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