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 Contact  Send message Joined: 16 Jan 00 Posts: 199 Credit: 2,249,004 RAC: 0 
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 Please join us for the 2021 BOINC Workshop (this year, online), the annual showcase for research enabled by BOINC, and an open forum to discuss the technology and community. Three Wednesdays in April: 14, 21, 28. Learn more and register at boincworkshop.org Learn, Discover, Participate, Build: BOINC Workshop 2021 3 Wednesdays in April: 14, 21, 28 09:00 PST / 11:00 CST / 12:00 EST / 17:00 GMT / 18:00 CET / 19:00 EET - 3 hrs FREE + ONLINE BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) is an open-source software — and community — that enables volunteers to donate spare processing power from their PCs, laptops, and phones, to power vital scientific and medical research. Aggregated, these resources enable cutting edge research across mathematics, biology, physics, quantum chemistry, climate prediction and more. The BOINC Workshop is comprised of three sessions. The first will showcase projects that using BOINC, highlighting the role of citizen participation in advancing scientific research. The second is a forum for BOINC projects to discuss the technology, their accomplishments in the past year, and technical needs moving forward. The third is an open-ended community discussion. Who should attend? The BOINC Workshop is for anyone interested in harnessing science, technology, and online community to advance knowledge and effect change. (*Part of the workshop, “Tech Talks” and “Tutorials” will be focused on people running, or interested in running, BOINC projects.) Where is the Event? How do I participate? Where do I sign up? This year’s workshop will be online, via Zoom. Please register to get the event URL. I’d like to present, who do I contact? If you’d like to speak on any BOINC-related topic (science, technology, community), please register or contact us. Can I watch a recording later? We’ll be posting highlights to YouTube - but to participate in Q&A, and other interactive elements of the workshop, it’s best to join us live :) BOINC Workshop 2019 presentations https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLblxpyGay1Q6RFaSh99-83TVc0zb8J76c There have been recent updates to the BOINC Workshop website. Go ahead and register if you haven't already. boincworkshop.org/register https://www.boincworkshop.org/schedule wrote: Schedule https://www.boincworkshop.org/speakers wrote: Speakers |
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Contact Send message Joined: 16 Jan 00 Posts: 199 Credit: 2,249,004 RAC: 0
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There are awesome additions to the Schedule for The 2021 BOINC Workshop. Steven Clark from nanoHUB has been added to The World of BOINC presentations on April 14 (only 2 sleeps from now) and Max Ryabinin from Learning@home has been added to Tech Talks on April 21. Vitalii Koshura - BOINC for Android, Steven Clark - nanoHUB (San Diego Supercomputer Center) and Max Ryabinin - Learning@home have been added to the Speakers List. The agenda for Community Discussion + Tutorials on April 28 has not been posted yet but World Community Grid Tech Keith Uplinger has an exciting announcement for that day: "I am planning on doing a tutorial similar to what I did in Chicago about setting up a BOINC server and running from scratch. My plan is to have it run on ubuntu 20.04 for ease of use for those to set it up." I received my login details to Day 1, "The World of BOINC", on Wednesday, April 14 several hours ago, so they are being sent out now. There's still time to Register for the free event. |
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Only hours away from Day 2 Tech Talks - April 21. 09:00 PDT / 11:00 CDT / 12:00 EDT / 17:00 BST+IST / 18:00 CEST / 19:00 EEST Est program duration: 3.25 hours Register to attend if you haven't already. boincworkshop.org/register START Matt Blumberg Welcome + the day’s agenda +00:10 Mohanty Sharada AICrowd +00:25 Medha Atre Eydle AI +00:40 Max Ryabinin Learning@home +00:55 Panel: "Issues for AI on Volunteer Computing" +01:10 Ritu Arora BOINC@TACC +01:25 Andy Bowery CPDN +01:40 Vitalii Koshura BOINC for Android +01:55 Laurence Field LHC@Home +02:10 Bernd Machenschalk Einstein@Home +02:25 Rytis Slatkevi?ius + Tristan Olive Charity Engine +02:40 David Anderson BOINC Development: Past year + draft roadmap +03:10 Matt Blumberg Wrap up + look forward to next week |
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tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 
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I am not sure of having understood all of Dave Anderson's ideas on the future of BOINC but I think he wants to make BOINC more usable to scientists. But most of the BOINC users are not scientists and are more interested in getting credits for their work than in advancing science. The main fault of Science United which Anderson launched is that it does not give any credit to individual user. I have done 59509 tasks good plus 4126 failed while I was crunching in Science United without getting a single credit. Maybe Anderson should ask himself why there are only five thousand users enlisted in SU (his word). Tullio |
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Tullio wrote: most of the BOINC users are not scientists and are more interested in getting credits for their work than in advancing science. The main fault of Science United...That's not strictly true for all of us, but even if it were, maybe current BOINC volunteers are not the target audience of Science United. We run BOINC and that's still okay by everyone. But why not try to lure other volunteers (that may repelled by competition or perceived complexity) with a one-click easy setup that lets an account manager do everything to make you feel like a contributing scientist without the need to bother with anything else? Science United can only increase BOINC's user base and our contribution to the projects that run through it. |
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tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1
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Anderson said that 5000 users have joined ScienceUnited. I was one of them but it continued sending me Milkyway@home and Asteroids@home tasks while I wanted to contribute to the Covid-19 effort. So I opted out and joined WCG and Rosetta@home. WCG is sending me badges of all kind for my contributions, a good marketing trick. Tullio |
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Day 3 - April 28 - Presentations, Community Discussion + Tutorials. The agenda for Day 3 outlines another promising day in the BOINC workshop. 09:00 PDT / 11:00 CDT / 12:00 EDT / 17:00 BST+IST / 18:00 CEST / 19:00 EEST -- Est program duration: 3.25 hours START Matt Blumberg Welcome + the day’s agenda +00:10 Steven Clark NanoHub +00:25 Steffen Möller BOINC on OpenWrt +00:40 Marko Jukic SiDock@home +00:55 Breakout Session Topic brainstorm + polling +01:05 TRACK 01: Breakout Sessions +01:05 TRACK 02: Project Setup Tutorial +02:15 Full group: Breakout reports + discussion +03:00 Matt Blumberg Wrap up and closing notes |
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2021 BOINC Workshop - Day 01 videos are now live! https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL53-FdJ6NUueHqfipxZ2W4QnTbHlTi5HN |
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Contact Send message Joined: 16 Jan 00 Posts: 199 Credit: 2,249,004 RAC: 0
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All 2021 BOINC Workshop videos are now online. There is a lot of great information documented here. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1YM32SpdGnb1S5b5gUJPyQ/videos |
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