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The Einstein@home project was officially launched this morning. We encourage SETI@home users to also participate in this project, which searches for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors.

Participant Total for Grassroots Astrophysics Project Einstein@Home to Exceed 55,000 On Einstein's Birthday

Upcoming Project: Orbit@home will be a BOINC-based project which uses the Orbit Reconstruction, Simulation and Analysis (ORSA) framework "to monitor the impact hazard posed by Near Earth Objects." The project does not have its own website, but more information can be found at the ORSA@work website and in a presentation poster titled Distributed Computing and Near Earth Objects Hazard Monitoring, published by Pasquale Tricarico of Washington State University on November 14, 2004.

A place of utmost gravity: The LIGO site in Washington is hoping to be first to prove Einstein theory; an overview of the LIGO observatory, for which Einstein@home is processing data

Computer power of people needed; a short overview of Einstein@home

From PlanetQuest, software for stargazers

Distributed computing for the masses; PlanetQuest hopes its "collaboratory" software will get students to become interested in the sciences

New leader for seti classic - Icky has overtaken the Borg for top spot. Icky

Scientists Discover Tenth Planet. A planet larger than Pluto has been discovered in the outlying regions of the solar system.

Project status indicator added above right.

Team broke the 1/4 million mark over the weekend, and TEAM-GENESIS is now sitting at 834 position out of a total of 24,040 teams. Also Welcome to our new team members, Nemo, Savva&Patricia..

Team Genesis ranks 10th in Canada, Canada Top 20. Select country Canada.

Cracked: the puzzle of protein origami; a short overview of current progress in protein folding studies, and a mention of Rosetta@home

The greatest discovery of all time: the current state of searches for extraterrestrial radio signals, and speculation of what the discovery of those signals would mean to humanity

Team Genesis ranks 9th in Canada, Canada Top 20. Select country Canada.

Team Genesis ranks 8th in Canada, Canada Top 20. Select country Canada.

Version 5.x of the BOINC core client is the first to use a user determined password for authentication rather than an assigned account key. This created a problem for existing users who have not yet chosen a password. They could not connect. We have pre-populated password related fields in the database for these users and that should fix the problem. The pre-population was based on users' account key so security remains intact. All users who have not chosen a password are encouraged to go to the change password page to do so.

Team Genesis broke the 1/2 million cobblestones mark today, giving us a world rank of  523 of 27,273.

Classic "scheduled" to close Dec 15th

Matt Lebofsky
Project developer

Big outage: master migration (merging old SETI@home classic science database with BOINC). Everything needs to stop for this to happen, and may take 24-76 hours. Don't want new users coming over to BOINC and finding it down for several days. Of course we'll post news items about this when we have a better idea when this will happen.
Remember this is only the current planned cutoff date, and may slip a week or two, but we're really trying to stick to this one.

Protecting Earth: Gravitational tractor could lure asteroids off course:

Ron Cowen

When a wayward asteroid is about to smash into Earth, scriptwriters for the movie Armageddon called in Bruce Willis to drill into the rock and nuke it. He succeeds but sacrifices his own life.

Space-time Vortex:                                                                                                                                 Is Earth in a vortex of space-time?

One month after taking 8th spot Team Genesis now ranks 7th in Canada, Canada Top 20. Select country Canada. We are still gaining on two more teams, but without active participation from all members we are looking at 6 or more months to more up to the next position.

We are getting reports of problems attaching to SETI@home, and are working to resolve them.If you get stuck in the Proxy Info dialog, make sure you're connected to the Internet and that BOINC is not blocked by a personal firewall. More help is here.If you're not getting email with your account key, make sure your ISP isn't blocking email from SETI@home, and try again.If the BOINC Manager fails to connect, try restarting BOINC [ this problem will be fixed in the next BOINC release] Please go to the Questions and Answers area for help.

You can now attach to SETI@home using your account key, without setting a password first. { This is a server change - no client download needed}

Windows users: if you were having problems attaching to SETI@home, please download new client software (5.2.12) and try again. We have fixed some problems involving personal Internet Firewalls.

Distributed Computing Project Discovers New Knowledge About Earthquakes; private distributed computing project Discovery Net's earthquake research project allowed geophysicists to combine two different methods of studying earthquakes and discover new knowledge which could not have been discovered using only one of the methods

Have an 'Ear' to the Sky With SETI@Home; an overview of SETI@home

ET could hack internet: Aliens could hack the internet and spread viruses if proper precautions are not put in place, warned a top scientist

The project uses the BOINC computing platform to run various applications. See the BOINC platform information for the latest version of the BOINC client. Version 5.06 of the project's malariacontrol.net software application is available for Windows as of December 13, 2005 and for Linux as of December 16, 2005. As of December 20, 2005, the project is in Alpha test stage and is not accepting new participants.