Discover Magazine on-line for March has an article 14 Best Ways to Use Your Computer’s Spare Time. Alas, no mention of Pirates@Home, but the do mention SETI, Einstein, Folding, and BURP.

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-- Eric Myers

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats

How low can a Sudoku go?

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iSGTW Link of the week: BURP

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QCN: Laptops track Earth's shakes, rattles and rolls

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Mahray on Einstein@Home wrote:

An interesting article on NewScientist about mountains on neutrons stars causing gravitational waves. Also a nice mention of Einstein@Home.

Check it out at http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn13566-mountains-on-stars-could-trigger-gravitational-waves.html

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"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats

Slashdot today has an article Folding@Home 2.0 - An Online Protein Folding Game about a game called "Foldit", develloped by David Baker (of Rosetta@Home, not Folding@Home) and colleagues.

Slashdot wrote:

"Tired of justifying your gaming addiction? Now you can really help accomplish something while you play... thanks to Howard Hughes Medical Institute researcher David Baker at the University of Washington."

In collaboration with others, Baker has designed a game, called "Foldit," with a practical outcome: players manipulate on-screen images of protein chains and attempt to predict their folding patterns.

Seems like this may be a mechanical turk, using the same ROSETTA software suite.

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-- Eric Myers

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats

Today's New York Times has a brief note about a new project for WCG: Join the Hunt for Super-Rice

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-- Eric Myers

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats

Today's New York Times has a brief note about a new project for WCG: Join the Hunt for Super-Rice

changed [url=ttp://...] to [url=http://...] :-)

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Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)

Today's New York Times has a brief note about a new project for WCG: Join the Hunt for Super-Rice

changed [url=ttp://...] to [url=http://...] :-)

Thanks. Sorry for the cut/paste error.

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-- Eric Myers

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats

Einstein@Home:

Hello, Einstein residence … Why yes, he’s home!

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For crunchers in Barcelona

BOINC crunchers, particularly from Seti, CPDN and ps3grid will be taking part in the Science Festival in Barcelona on 7 and 8 June. Here it is on the official Barcelona website.

Sat 7 June 11.00 - 24.00 (yes, this is Spain!)
Sun 8 June 11.00 - 15.00 (finishing just in time for lunch or a picnic in a most beautiful place)

Sat 7 June.
11.00 - 20.00. Dani Gil will be demonstrating 'Offer your computer to science'.
12.15. 'Computers and climate - a marriage of convenience' by Miquel Àngel Rodríguez of the Climate Research Laboratory.
17.00. 'SETI. Is there extraterrestrial life?' by Agustí Dosaiguas.
18.00. 'Playstation3 serving biomedicine' by ps3grid.

Parc de la Ciutatella
Passeig Picasso, 1
No charge



Here was Dani Gil in a Spanish article about BOINC published in February in the ABC weekend magazine.

Dani Gil has now posted photos of the Science Festival event in Barcelona. Click on FOTAGRAFIES under the photo to see more.

http://www.boinc.cat/

Much further down the introductory page there's a photo of Spanish crunchers with David Anderson who gave a talk in Barcelona last September.

Actually, not BOINC in the news, but a new machine called "Anton", built out of 517 ASICs, which does protein folding:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/08/science/08comp.html

The article does mention Folding@home.

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"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats

iSGTW Feature - World Community Grid to Tackle Rice Crisis

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Seti@Home

SETI@Home Adds New Search Method (from Slashdot)

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I know its not BOINC, but NPR ran a story on a Dutch School teacher who discovered a new type of object using Galaxy Zoo.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93456780

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LHC@Home

iSGTW Link of the Week - LHC at home

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ViP

Link of the week - Virtual reconstitution of a prairie

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BOINC Pangalactic Workshop: Grids meet aliens and androids

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QCN: Shake it all about

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