June 18, 2009
- GIMPS discovered the 47th known Mersenne prime number, 2^42,643,801 - 1, on April 12. This is the second-largest known Mersenne prime, with 12.8 million digits, and the 13th Mersenne prime discovered by the project. The prime was verified on June 12.
- Galaxy Zoo submitted its 11th paper, "Galaxy Zoo: Exploring the Motivations of Citizen Science Volunteers," to Astronomy Education Review today. Also, on June 15 the project began analyzing results from its current Zoo 2 project to determine how many more data need to be collected.
- news article: 47th Mersenne Prime Confirmed; GIMPS confirmed on June 12, 2009, that it discovered the 47th known Mersenne prime, 2^42,643,801 - 1 (12.8 million digits)
- news article: How Your Computer Can Benefit All of Mankind; an overview of the BOINC computing platform
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May 7, 2009
- New, active Life Sciences project: Influenza Antiviral Drug Search is finding "new drugs that can stop the spread of an influenza infection in the body"
- New, active Distributed Human project: Project Squirrel is studying the ecology of squirrels in the United States
- CCL Game Optimal Solution Finder found new optimal solutions on April 12. Also, version 1.3 of the project client is available as of April 13. This version has an auto-updater, so it won't close when an update is required. It also has enhancements which provide a 6% speed improvement for Adding 4 and a 30% speed improvement for Adding 5.
- Ett klick för skogen (A Click For The Forest) has new sponsors and is active again
- news article: IBM and Medical Researchers Launch Effort To Find Flu Drug Treatments; an overview of World Community Grid's new Influenza Antiviral Drug Research project
- news article: Extraterrestrials, Computers, and Open Source; notes from a talk by Jill Tarter of The SETI Institute about how SETI uses, and plans to use, technology in its search for alien intelligence
- news article: SETI@home completes a decade of ET search; a summary of SETI@home's progress in the ten years since it began
- news article: A decade of helping in the hunt for alien life; a summary of SETI@home's first ten years
- news article: Save the World with your PC: Distributed Computing at Home; an overview of distributed computing projects, BOINC, and how to participate
- news article: Crunching the Data for the Tree of Life; maintaining, searching and visualizing the "tree" model of evolution for all species requires more computing power and advanced computing techniques
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April 26, 2009
- PrimeGrid's Cullen Prime Search found a World Record Cullen Mega Prime, 6328548*2^6328548+1, on April 20, 2009
- SIGPS began a new "Fermat Euler Theorem for Fermat number F25" project on April 14, and released a PS3 client for that project yesterday. Also, the project discovered prime 98475208^16384 + 1 on April 9, 98473506^16384 + 1 on April 7, and 102623730 * 2^350008 - 1 on March 16.
- Distributed Search for Fermat Number Divisors found Fermat factor 71007 * 2^49490 + 1 divides F49488 on April 18
- news article: National Science Foundation Awards Millions to Fourteen Universities for Cloud Computing Research
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April 5, 2009
- D2OL and Community TSC are ending on April 15. See official announcements here and here. Each project has generated over 150 million potential disease-fighting drugs. The best candidates from these results will be tested in the laboratory and the project owners will update participants on the results of these tests.
- Galaxy Zoo participants helped the project successfully reach--and surpass--its goal of classifying one million galaxies in 100 hours to celebrate 100 Hours of Astronomy. Congratulations! Also, the project classified its 20 millionth galaxy on April 3.
- a new Seventeen or Bust Prime95-based client is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OSX as of March 18. It is faster and more efficient than the older client. Also, the project celebrated its 7th anniversary on April 1.
- the CCL Game Optimal Solution Finder client software was updated on March 30. The software now supports user and team names and shows a work unit's completion progress. Note that if your client for this project exits immediately, the software needs to be updated or the project server is out of work.
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April 1, 2009
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March 30, 2009
- new, active Life Sciences project: World Community Grid's Help Fight Childhood Cancer is searching for drugs to help fight neuroblastoma, one of the most common cancers in children
- new, active Puzzles/Games project: the CCL Game Optimal Solution Finder is finding optimal solutions for The CCL Game and The CCL Winter Game, two games based on The Incredible Machine.
- ElevenSmooth and yoyo@home found a P51 factor of 2^3360 + 1. This is the largest factor ElevenSmooth has found by ECM and is the fourteenth primitive for which ElevenSmooth has completed the factorization.
- Eternity2.fr reported on January 15 that, although the puzzle remains unsolved, Tomy has awarded a US$10,000 runner-up prize to Anna Karlsson from Lund in Sweden for the highest-scoring nearly-solved puzzle submitted so far. Anna placed all 256 pieces so that the colours and patterns matched in 467 out of 480 possible places on the Eternity II board. The US$2,000,000 prize is still available.
- news article: IBM grid computing aids cancer research; an overview of World Community Grid's new Help Fight Childhood Cancer project
- news article: New Einstein@Home Effort Launched Home Computers to Search Arecibo Data for New Pulsars; Einstein@Home will search data from the Arecibo radio telescope to find binary systems consisting of a spinning neutron star orbiting another neutron star or a black hole. The project can detect pulsars in binary systems with orbital periods as short as 11 minutes, 5 times shorter than it was previously possible to detect.
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