Developer Forum

The following updates are from the Internet-based Distributed Computing
Projects website ( http://www.yqcomputer.com/ ). These updates
cover public distributed computing projects (projects in which anyone can
participate).

October 14, 2004

- version 4.13 of the
( http://www.yqcomputer.com/ #boinc ) BOINC
platform client is available for Windows, Linux, Mac OSX and Solaris as of
yesterday. This version fixes an additional bug fix which affected some
( http://www.yqcomputer.com/ #setiathome )
SETI@home users.

- ( http://www.yqcomputer.com/ #foldingathome )
Folding@home released a new AMBER (Assisted Model Building with Energy
Refinement) core for its client software on October 12. This core will
allow the project to do things that it can't with its existing Tinker and
Gromacs cores.

- circuits and overhead figures from the
( http://www.yqcomputer.com/ #hardwareevo )
Distributed Hardware Evolution Project were presented to experts at the
International On-Line Testing Symposium IOLTS 2004. "One expert said DHEP
may be the best method to design self-checking circuits." Also, the project
server has been unstable recently, so some clients may have trouble
connecting. The problem is being investigated.

- version 4.41e of the
( http://www.yqcomputer.com/ #muon ) Distributed
Particle Accelerator Design client has had some strange crashes, and is now
in beta status while the problems are being studied and fixed

- new ( http://www.yqcomputer.com/ #041018 ) news
article: an overview of how corporations are adopting grid technology

--
Kirk Pearson, editor of Internet-based Distributed Computing Projects
http://www.yqcomputer.com/
Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug. -- John Lithgow