BOINCNews and announcements related to BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing), an open-source platform for volunteer and grid commputing.BOINC news May 31, 2008- May 31, 2008 The Orbithome project from the Planetary Science Institute is open for public beta test. Orbithome focuses on celestial mechanics, Their first scientific application, SurveySimulator, simulates the performance of astronomical surveys searching for Near Earth Objects (NEOs) such as asteroids and comets.http://boinc.berkeley.edu/all_news.php#268 BOINC news May 18, 2008- May 18, 2008 The source code for BOINCoid (a port of BOINC to Java and to Google's Android platform, by computer scientists from Technion) has been released on Sourceforge.net.http://boinc.berkeley.edu/all_news.php#267 BOINC news May 9, 2008- May 9, 2008 BOINC volunteer Werner Klein is interviewed in Sternengucker.org (German).http://boinc.berkeley.edu/all_news.php#266 BOINC news May 9, 2008- May 9, 2008 The BOINC FAQ Service is now available in Spanish and French (as well as English, German, and Dutch).http://boinc.berkeley.edu/all_news.php#265 BOINC news May 7, 2008- May 7, 2008 CASP8, a competition for protein structure prediction, starts soon. Rechenkraft.net is sponsoring a team credit-race to support POEMhome, one of the CASP participants. Results will be reported at Planet BOINC.http://boinc.berkeley.edu/all_news.php#264 BOINC news May 6, 2008- May 6, 2008 Alpha testing of BOINC software is done by volunteers. Many thanks to this month's top testers.http://boinc.berkeley.edu/all_news.php#263 |