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New Project: Social Socking

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 MST

New, active Life Sciences project: Social Docking is searching for drugs to fight Alzheimer's and AIDS. It is the first project to use HTML5 web workers (the project runs JavaScript code in your browser: you don't need to install software to participate)

Planet Hunters completed its 8 millionth classification

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 MST

Planet Hunters completed its 8 millionth classification on January 20. It also completed 1,084,760 classifications in 48 hours during a special BBC Stargazing Live event.

Einstein@Home discovers 2 new pulsars

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 MST

Einstein@Home discovered new pulsars number 19 and 20 on January 18

Distributed Proofreaders posted its 22,000th title

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 MST

Distributed Proofreaders posted its 22,000th unique title to Project Gutenberg this month

News article: Stargazing viewer in planet coup

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 MST

news article: Stargazing viewer in planet coup: The public push initiated on BBC Two's Stargazing Live series to find planets beyond our Solar System has had an immediate result.

News article: Volunteers wanted for planet hunt

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 MST

news article: Volunteers wanted for planet hunt; an overview of the Planet Hunters project

New Charity project: Charity Engine

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:00 MST

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 has completed over 30 quadrillion particle timesteps

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:00 MST

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 2012 campaign begins on January 14

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:00 MST

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 new Fermat factor 329 * 2^1246017 divides F1246013

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:00 MST

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

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:00 MST

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

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:00 MST

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?

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:00 MST

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

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:00 MST

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 seaso

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:00 MST

news article: Spare some idle CPU cycles for charity this season; a short overview of the new Charity Engine project

Einstein@Home discovers new pulsars

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 MST

Einstein@Home has discovered 5 new pulsars since October, 2011, with data from the new "Mock" instrument at the Arecibo radio telescope

NETI@home has ended

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 MST

NETI@home ended some time this year

Ramsey@Home has ended

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 MST

Ramsey@Home ended some time this year

News article: This geek uses his crazy Lego computer to help cure cancer, treat malaria and more

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 MST

news article: This geek uses his crazy Lego computer to help cure cancer, treat malaria and more

News article: Cancer Research 'to double size of datacentre'

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 MST

news article: Cancer Research 'to double size of datacentre'; UK charity Cancer Research, which receives computing help from World Community Grid has doubled its data center size to 200 square meters and grown its total number of processing cores from 500 to 13,000

News article: Scripps Research and IBM Launch Crowdsourcing Project to Find Cure for Malaria

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 MST

news article: Scripps Research and IBM Launch Crowdsourcing Project to Find Cure for Malaria; an overview of the new GO Fight Against Malaria project

News article: malaria

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 MST

news article: Protein-Folding Modeling For New Therapeutic Approaches; Folding@home has developed the new Copernicus framework to utilize supercomputers efficiently for protein folding simulations

News article: Spare a little computing power to fight malaria

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 MST

news article: Spare a little computing power to fight malaria; an overview of the new GO Fight Against Malaria project

News article: New Stanford software takes Folding@home's biological research to supercomputers

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 MST

news article: New Stanford software takes Folding@home's biological research to supercomputers

News article: theSkyNet comes alive

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 MST

news article: theSkyNet comes alive: SKA-related 'citizen science' project seeks participants

News article: Scientists use global computer network to find leishmaniasis drugs

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 MST

news article: Scientists use global computer network to find leishmaniasis drugs; an overview of the new Drug Search for Leishmaniasis project

News article: Join In The Search For New Organic Solar Cell Material

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 MST

news article: Join In The Search For New Organic Solar Cell Material; an overview of The Clean Energy Project

News article: Millions of molecules screened in search for the ideal organic solar cell material

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 MST

news article: Millions of molecules screened in search for the ideal organic solar cell material; a detailed overview of The Clean Energy Project

News article: Virtual hunt for solar technology yields initial results

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 MST

news article: Virtual hunt for solar technology yields initial results: Theoretical screening method produces first sample molecule as researchers analyse 3.5 million candidates for solar cells

News article: A supercomputer made of unused PCs

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 MST

news article: A supercomputer made of unused PCs; an overview of distributed computing projects

New Life Sciences project: GO Fight Against Malaria

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:00:00 MST

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 discovers two new protein fragments which may make more effective HIV-fighting drugs

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:00:00 MST

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.

GIMPS double-checking verified M(24036583) is the 41st Mersenne prime

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:00:00 MST

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 has for-pay work on Amazon Mechanical Turk

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:00:00 MST

Open Mind Indoor Common Sense now has for-pay work on Amazon's Mechanical Turk

Minimal Equal Sums of Like Powers found a lot of results this year

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:00:00 MST

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.

MoneyBee has ended

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:00:00 MST

The MoneyBee project ended some time this year

News article: Video game players advancing genetic research

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:00:00 MST

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

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:00:00 MST

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

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:00:00 MST

news article: Online gamers crack AIDS enzyme puzzle

New Life Sciences project: Drug Search for Leishmaniasis

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:00:00 MDT

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 Science project: theSkyNet

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:00:00 MDT

New, active Science project: theSkyNet is analyzing radio astronomy data for radio astronomers all over the world

New Financial project: MQL5 Cloud Network

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:00:00 MDT

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.

Foldit players modeled an enzyme structure which could help cure AIDS

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:00:00 MDT

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 has discovered its 10th pulsar

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:00:00 MDT

Einstein@Home discovered its 10th pulsar on September 7

News article: Near-Earth Asteroid Discovered via Crowdsourcing

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:00:00 MDT

news article: Near-Earth Asteroid Discovered via Crowdsourcing

News article: Accelerate physics with your own computer

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:00:00 MDT

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

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:00:00 MDT

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

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:00:00 MDT

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

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:00:00 MDT

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

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:00:00 MDT

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

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:00:00 MDT

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

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:00:00 MDT

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: Treatment

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:00:00 MDT

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

Yoyo@home ECM found an unusually large factor

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 00:00:00 MDT

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."

Old Weather has completed the logs for 150 ships

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 00:00:00 MDT

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

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 00:00:00 MDT

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!

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 00:00:00 MDT

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

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 00:00:00 MDT

news article: Searching for cheap solar cells in computer models; an overview of The Clean Energy Project