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[YAFU] Rechenkraft.net at the Hannover Maker Faire 2025

Rechenkraft.net will be part of the 2025 Maker Faire in Hanover, Germany. This is the largest festival for maker culture in Germany celebrating creativity and technology on 23–24 August.

You can find us at booth no. 156 in the “Eilenriedehalle” of the Hannover Congress Centrum (Theodor-Heuss-Platz 1-3, 30175 Hannover).
Come and visit us to find out more about our HoloDeck and chat with our scientists and developers. We look forward to meeting you there!

View article · Sat, 23 Aug 2025 10:43:04 +0000

[Einstein@home] Einstein@Home at the Hannover Maker Faire and at the GEO600 Open Day

Einstein@Home will be part of the 2025 Maker Faire in Hanover, Germany. This is the largest festival for maker culture in Germany celebrating creativity and technology on 23–24 August.

View article · Thu, 7 Aug 2025 11:07:43 +0000

[Minecraft@Home] Repeatdecor-cl v1.03

Hi everyone,

1.03 of this app is now live, and I've confirmed it at least launches this time before putting out this news post.

Please give it a try on your machines. On my 3090 is seems to be a bit faster than the CUDA version in my limited testing. But YMMV.

View article · Fri, 1 Aug 2025 14:21:55 +0000

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BOINC client 8.2.4 released
The 8.2.4 version of the BOINC client has been released for all platforms. Download it here. Release notes are here. The new version supports Docker apps - an important step for BOINC.
10 Jul 2025, 21:46:02 UTC · Discuss

Lines of code visualization
Vitalii made a visualization of the number of lines of code in BOINC going back to 2002.
16 Mar 2025, 9:07:20 UTC · Discuss

Grafana project dashboards
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