The following updates are from the distributedcomputing.info website
( http://distributedcomputing.info/ ).  These updates cover public distribut
ed
computing projects (projects in which anyone can participate).

June 29, 2005

- ( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap...tml#clickforest ) A Click
for the Forest ends tomorrow. The project needs to raise another 123,000 SEK
(about US$18,000) by tomorrow in order to protect an old-growth forest in
Sweden.

- ( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap...ml#proofreaders ) Distribute
d
Proofreaders posted its 7,000th unique title to Project Gutenberg on June 27

- ( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap...#einsteinathome )
Einstein@home began distributing work units from its S4 data set yesterday.
Note that work units beginning with 'h1_' (lower-case H only) have been
cancelled, and participants may manually cancel these work units if they hav
e
any.

- ( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap-science.html#cpdn )
climateprediction.net's project servers will be down for a few hours today
for database maintenance

- ( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap....html#lhcathome ) LHC@home
released a lot of new work units today

- ( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap...tml#seticlassic ) SETI@home
Classic turned off the ability to create new user accounts on June 21.  All
new participants are encouraged to use the
( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap....html#setiboinc ) SETI@home
BOINC client instead.
( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap....html#setiboinc ) SETI@home
BOINC's project coordinators have been troubleshooting some issues with the
project servers, and have added a few new work unit splitters to keep up wit
h
increasing demand from project participants.

- ( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap....html#predictor )
Predictor@home's project server is having problems as of June 21.  The proje
ct
coordinators are working on the problems.

- ( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap...l#foldingathome )
Folding@home has published several new results as of June 8.  More results
will be published after the papers are peer-reviewed.  The project has
published 24 papers related to its distributed computing work.

- version 4.45 of the
( http://distributedcomputing.info/platforms.html#boinc ) BOINC platform is
available for Windows as of June 6

- beta version 1.30c of the
( http://distributedcomputing.info/ap....html#findadrug ) Find-a-Drug
client is available for testing as of June 13.  It has some new
( http://www.find-a-drug.org.uk/v130c.html ) features and bug fixes.

--
Kirk Pearson, editor of http://distributedcomputing.info (news and
information about public distributed computing projects)
"Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug." -- John Lithgow

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