Volunteer Computing News

[SRBase] BOINC Pentathlon 2026 - Discipline Javelin Throw

Tue, 5 May 2026 06:18:47 +0000

I prefer to bunker average WUs and report them later with

200

The deadline is 3d + grace_period of 6h and 80 WUs in progress per core.

Only CPU apps are counted.

https://www.seti-germany.de/forum/content/1969-BOINC-Pentathlon-2026-3rd-project-in-the-discipline-Javelin-Throw

[LHC@home] Downtime Tue 5th of May

Mon, 4 May 2026 14:11:07 +0000

Please note that our servers will be unavailable for a while on Tuesday 5th of May due to a change of storage backend.

Hence uploads may fail and other BOINC client requests time out. Many thanks for your understanding and happy crunching!

[RakeSearch] RakeSearch recovered after technical problems

Mon, 4 May 2026 09:03:32 +0000

Dear participants,

thank you for your patience while we were recovering the project. There had been a failure of both SSD discs in a mirror. hoarfrost then did a good job on updating the server and recovering as much data as possible. We had backups of the most important data but not a total backup of everything. I recovered a large part of the forum (sadly excluding the private threads belonging to teams); some particular threads or posts could not be recovered. We hope it does not cause too much inconvenience.

Most of the results you reported before the maintenance have been received, and the credit had been assigned. There may be still some technical glimpses but overall the project is working!

Thank you for participation and the computing power you provide us.

Natalia

[YAFU] Aliquot sequence 3556280 has terminated!!!

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:49:40 +0000

[SRBase] base R48 Megaprime

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:56:24 +0000

Jeff Thornton, a member of the team Sicituradastra. found a megaprime for base R48.
The prime 2172*48^668935-1 has 1.124.645 digits digits and entered the T5k PrimePages.

[BOINC] BOINC client 8.2.11 released

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:43:26 +0000

Version 8.2.11 of the BOINC client has been released for all platforms. Download it here. Release notes are here.

[PrimeGrid] Windows/ARM suppport for GFN apps

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:26:09 +0000

PrimeGrid is happy to announce the release of ARM apps for Windows! For many GFN apps that support GPU tasks, we now offer Windows/ARM applications. Just select the CPU tasks in the project preferences page. The list of GFN apps that support Windows/ARM is subject to change. For the most up to date list, see the applications page. Look for "Microsoft Windows running on an ARM 64-bit CPU".

[YAFU] Aliquot sequence 3758388 has terminated!!!

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:52:26 +0000

[YAFU] Aliquot sequence 3714280 has terminated!!!

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:31:43 +0000

[Gerasim@Home] Gerasim@home:

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:46:50 +0000

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Всем привет и хорошего настроения.

p.s. Слухи о моей смерти несколько преувеличены. :)

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[SRBase] mfakto-test / fix for 6xxx/7xxx+

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:10:40 +0000

Download

Pls run it on windows or linux

win

mfakto.exe -st

linux

./mfakto.exe -st

GPUtype = AUTO /nothing need to be changed

[Amicable Numbers] The search up to 10^21 is finished

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:17:02 +0000

After more than 6 years, the BOINC project to find all amicable numbers up to 10²¹ is finished!

There are 4,810,863 21-digit amicable numbers, and 4,661,814 (96.9%) of them were found by BOINC volunteers. More than 60 million WUs were created and crunched through over the years.

Congratulations everyone and thank you all for your participation!

There are no plans to run the search up to 10²² at the moment - it will take more than 60 years, which is impractical. If, and that's a big IF, a new more efficient exhaustive search method is discovered in the future, then it will make sense to start the project again.

[SRBase] Trial Factoring 76-77bit range started

Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:14:29 +0000

A new batch of 50k tests is uploading.

The runtime is ~4h40min on a RX5500 XT and decreasing on higher ranges.

The batch name has TF_76-77_ ...

After all 75-76 WUs + resends are done you will see an increase in runtime. GPU in progress will be changed after the challenge.

[Yoyo@home] New App "ECM P2 (20 GB RAM)" in test

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 22:00:00 +0000

I'm currently testing a new app for ECM which requires up to 20 GB of RAM. If you have such a system and want to help testing, please enable the app in your project settings. Validation and credit granting is not yet implemented for this app.

[SRBase] base R42 Megaprime

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:22:02 +0000

cjC28bhZdErecrLJfh5u8APsMVa, a member of the team Gridcoin found a megaprime for base R42.
The prime 6964*42^650337-1 has 1.055.663 digits digits and entered the T5k PrimePages.

[SRBase] Formula BOINC 2026-04-16 20:00 UTC - 2026-04-19 20:00 UTC

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:56:42 +0000

Good luck everyone and welcome to our new users!

We are nearly done with 75-76bit TF work. The next bitlvl double the runtime starting with 4h40min on an AMD RX5500XT@167M. Keep in mind that AMD 6xxx/7xxx are still not working yet.

[BOINC] Fresco: a modern BOINC Manager alternative

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 20:25:30 +0000

A new add-on is available: Fresco, a full-featured cross-platform BOINC GUI. Check it out here.

[NFS@home] New Cunningham project record

Wed, 8 Apr 2026 23:05:00 +0000

The recently completed factorization of 12,311- into 155-digit and 181-digit prime factors set a new Cunningham project record for the largest penultimate prime factor. Congratulations to all of the project volunteers!

[Minecraft@Home] Diamond Badges and Progress Update

Wed, 8 Apr 2026 20:59:55 +0000

Hello,

As promised, badges have been added for the diamond ore vein project, there are currently 3 badges, the first is given to all diavein project contributors, second is reserved for the top 10% of credit holders and third is reserved for the top 5% this gets updated every 24 hours so it is possible to loose a badge if your credit amount no longer meets those requirements.

As for a project progress update, things are going well, we have generated the next 65k workunits, and the largest vein we've found so far is 58 vein. We're gunning for the first 60+

Happy Crunching!
- scriptline

[YAFU] Aliquot sequence 3678234 has terminated!!!

Tue, 7 Apr 2026 18:35:25 +0000

Aliquot sequence 3678234 has terminated!!!

[RakeSearch] Work generation disabled for several days

Mon, 6 Apr 2026 22:17:51 +0000

Hello!

Due to a failure of one of the mirrored drives, we disabled workunits generation for several days (for reduce server load) until drives replacing.

Thank you for attention and project support!

[RakeSearch] Project server maintenance 06th April 2026

Sun, 5 Apr 2026 21:08:14 +0000

Dear participants, tomorrow, 2026.04.06 due to server maintenance, the project will stopped for several hours.

Thank you for attention and project participation!

[SIDock@home] Project server maintenance 06th April 2026

Sun, 5 Apr 2026 21:07:28 +0000

Dear participants, tomorrow, 2026.04.06 due to server maintenance, the project will stopped for several hours.

Thank you for attention and project participation!

[Minecraft@Home] Diamond Ore Veins v1

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:57:54 +0000

Hello everyone,

We've got a new project up and running: diamond ore veins, the goal of this project is to search for chunk seeds which form large veins of diamond ore composed of multiple placement attempts colliding with each other. These collisions can cause veins of over 50 blocks to form, we're aiming for chunk seeds where this vein forms in one of the chunks corners, that way we can apply further techniques in order to find world seeds with additional diamond ore being contributed by neighboring chunks.

This is version 1 because we'll almost certainly need another project for the second phase of turning these chunk seeds back into world seeds. There are 65536 workunits up right now, which cover a seedspace of 2^60 depending on how long this takes to complete and how many candidate chunk seeds we end up with, we may generate more work in the near future.

Happy crunching!

[SETI@home] Dr. Korpela on CBC's "Quirks and Quarks"

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:54:27 +0000

An interview with Eric Korpela about SETI@home's investigation of the most promising signal candidates aired on CBC's "Quirks and Quarks" on Saturday.

You can find it here. You'll have to scroll down a bit to find it.