An 8 years old bug is now finally addressed and fixed in #BOINC client. Now BOINC client can properly detect idle time and run the processes when the computer is idle (if user have configured it that way). More info:
Is the #BOINC #DistributedComputing project sadly gradually becoming obsolete or dying? #WCGrid nowadays seems to spend almost as much time down as up under its not-so-new caretakers, I very very rarely get any work from #ClimatePrediction, #RosettaAtHome also seems to have fairly frequent server errors, and most of the rest seem to be literal number-crunching that I don't want to expend electricity on. Have #GPU nodes mostly taken over for this sort of scientific research now?
New post about BOINC release process
New post about #BOINC release process: https://aenbleidd.github.io/2026.03.26.html
#DistributedComputing #VolunteerComputing #GridComputing #CitizenScience
BOINC client 8.2.9 released
This year I migrated completely from #boinc to #folding since none of the projects in BOINC seem to be actually working anymore.
Months of jobless queues and even if there where jobs the servers would never allow me to turn them in.
Both Rosetta and WorldCommunityGrid seem to be practically death.
Its been a rough winter but a good one for scientific computing. Managed to go from rank 12k tot 6.2
Need a bit more computer headroom for the new house though.
https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?u=1000635