The Computation Moonshot is a competition for high schools which encourages students to learn about data science, computer science, distributed computing, and a wide array of fields in science by having them contribute to real, useful outcomes for researchers in an exciting competitive atmosphere. We utilize the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) to connect students to groundbreaking scientific research projects around the world. This year we are running on the World Community Grid project which studies, among other topics: climate science, genetics, cancer, and tuberculosis. We call processing data for these research projects “crunching”.

Our goal in 2024 is to reach 50,000 donated hours of computation to research.

The competition is free to all and requires no special knowledge or skills. We provide setup guides for teachers and students, along with educational resources on the research to which your computers are contributing.

Compete for over $6,000 in prizes for schools and students, all while doing science!

Get this out to any high schools, teachers, or students you know of that might be interested in participating!

More information on the competition, including how to register your high school, can be found at https://computationmoonshot.org/

The AI Horde is a FOSS, crowdsourced cluster for Stable Diffusion and LLMs. We've been running for more than a year now!

This version fixes a problem that causes GPU apps to fail after a MacOS upgrade to Sonoma: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/5502 Download it here: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php

The 7.24.1 version of the BOINC client software has been released for Windows, Mac, and Android. Download it here. Release notes are here. Thanks to everyone who contributed to developing and testing this release.

SCI is proud to release a suite of business cards, flyers, and other promotional materials to help promote BOINC and its awesome projects.

There is a business card for each project, along with some general BOINC promotional materials available in our Github Repository. These are openly licensed so you are free to print your own, modify them to suit your needs, and distribute them however and wherever you'd like.

Repo link: https://github.com/TheSCInitiative/BOINC-Promotion-and-Flyers/tree/main/cards

The cards contain a link and QR code which redirects to each project's website. The links are redirected through SCI's site so we can measure the impact these cards are making and see how many redirects we're getting.

If you know of any other publicly-available promotional materials for BOINC, please let us know so we can add them to our repo.

PS We reached out to each project for feedback on what they'd like to see on the cards but many projects did not respond. If you are a project admin who would like some of the text on your card changed or have any questions please contact contact{at}thesciencecommons.org. Thanks!

The 7.24.1 version of the BOINC client software has been released for Windows, OSX, and Android. Download it here: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php.

Release notes:

• improve implementation of CPU throttling
• the default value for the "suspend_if_no_recent_input" pref is 0, not 60
• if sched request fails, show the scheduler URL (that might be the problem)
• Show alert if idle time to resume computing is greater than idle time to suspend computing
• ignore old prefs sent by projects or AM
• avoid overscheduling CPUs in presence of MT jobs
• Manager: computing prefs dialog bug
• Manager: Add button in event log to display only alerts (errors)
• Manager: Improve consistency of control labels and accelerators
• Manager: Show native names for language options, and only those for which translations are available
• Android: if suspend because of battery heat or charge, don't resume for at least 5 minutes.
• Mac: Support Dark Mode in Advanced View
• Mac: Add standard command-comma shortcut for Preferences menu item

I don't care if it means I have to give up gpu accelerated distributed computing for the next 6 years because no projects will support it. I am NOT feeding Jensen and his leather jackets another fucking cent.

Thank you for creating this community, thanks to you I've started contributing with my spare CPU power.