The third day had two astonishing new revelations for the BOINC world. At first there where some talks about virtualizing the scientific application through different virtualization techniques. After the coffee break Daniel Lambrana presented the first BOINC client pre-installed on a USB-Stick that can be distributed by a project and can directly contribute the unused [...]

The first day of the workshop here in Barcelona was very rainy and dull. But there was nothing of this inside the conference room. The day started with a talk by David Anderson the BOINC project leader. He gave a review of volunteer computing in the last year since the workshop in Grenoble in 2008. [...]

This years BOINC workshop is held at the Institute for Catalan Studies in Barcelona, Spain from 22-23 October 2009. And I’m attending of Course. I just booked my flight from Berlin to Barcelona with easyjet.com. The same airline I used last year for my trip to Grenoble. I took some more days off, so I [...]

I just upgraded my computer to the new Ubuntu release Jaunty Jackalope (9.04). Mainly because of the KDE4 support. I got my main applications running (Firefox, Kopete, Amarok, BOINC), although the last was a bit tricky. The init script for the former Ubuntu releases (7.x, 8.x) was criticized by the system, so I decided to [...]

Last week the developers of BOINC, this famous and cool open source distributed computing framework, set up a new service to coordinate the localization of BOINC, this famous and cool open source … you get it. As you might know the translation stuff is handled in BOINC using the gettext library. So in order to [...]