I am joining the largest super computer in the world to help fight COVID-19!

https://somethingdotsomething.com/2020/03/21/i-am-joining-the-largest-super-computer-in-the-world-to-help-fight-covid-19/

21 years and counting of 'eight fallacies of distributed computing' (2025)

https://blog.apnic.net/2025/12/08/21-years-and-counting-of-eight-fallacies-of-distributed-computing/

#HackerNews #eightfallacies #distributedcomputing #computinghistory #techinsights #softwareengineering

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:

https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues/2256

#DistributedComputing

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?

#WCG #CPDN

New post about #BOINC release process: https://aenbleidd.github.io/2026.03.26.html

#DistributedComputing #VolunteerComputing #GridComputing #CitizenScience

Every night for years I plugged my phone in and let it search for alien life.

Last month I found out that my efforts might have helped us locate life on other planets. From 14 billion possibilities, we now have 100 genuine leads to follow up on.

This piece is not about aliens, but about how we collectively did things greater than ourselves. And how we are dismantling the very infrastructure that made it possible.

#writing #writingcommunity #seti #distributedComputing

https://open.substack.com/pub/hellofrommarv/p/52-million-of-us-built-a-supercomputer?r=7momp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true