[LODA] Shutdown of LODA BOINC

Dear LODA BOINC community,

After careful consideration, I have decided to shut down the LODA BOINC project.

When LODA BOINC started, distributed computing was an effective way to search for new LODA programs and mathematical solutions. Recent advances in AI have changed this significantly, and AI-based approaches are now becoming much more effective for this kind of program and formula discovery.

Therefore, I believe it is time to bring the LODA BOINC project to an end. I would like to sincerely thank everyone who contributed computing power and supported LODA BOINC over the years. Your contributions have been greatly appreciated. The LODA programs and results will remain available on GitHub, so the work produced by the project will continue to be accessible.

Thank you for being part of the LODA BOINC community!

View article · Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:00:44 +0000

[Yoyo@home] P72 ECM factor!

User Weber462 found a 72-digit prime factor of an XYYXF number using ECM. This is the largest ECM factor found this year, and the 31th largest of all time.

View article · Thu, 3 Sep 2026 22:00:00 +0000

[SRBase] Formula BOINC 2026-09-03 16:00 UTC - 2026-09-06 16:00 UTC

Thx to get part of it!

View article · Thu, 3 Sep 2026 16:00:25 +0000

[Asteroids@home] Server issues resolved

For the past few days a protection module on our web server was rejecting a large share of incoming requests. It affected not only the website, but also scheduler requests and result uploads, so many of you ran into failed uploads and reports, and pages that loaded only every other try.

The cause has been identified and the module is now switched off. The website, the scheduler and the upload server are all responding normally again.

There is nothing you need to do — the BOINC client retries uploads and reports on its own, so pending results should go through automatically. If a transfer stays stuck, "Retry now" on the Transfers tab will push it along.

We are still working on what set this off in the first place: unusually heavy automated traffic on the project pages. Thank you for your patience.

Radim Vanco (FoxKyong)

View article · Tue, 1 Sep 2026 18:33:42 +0000

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