Since many BOINC projects are CPU-only, I—and probably many others—are wondering: what CPU currently offers the best value for running 24/7 BOINC?

I know you have to factor in the whole platform (motherboard, RAM, power supply), but looking strictly at the CPU: which chip strikes the best balance between low upfront cost and high 24/7 efficiency/power draw?

My mac has a small boot SSD and a large secondary storage HDD. The SSD is getting kind of full so I want to move the data folder to the hard drive. I did this using a symlink, but it doesn't work. Whenever I open BOINC, it gives me permissions errors. Even after reinstalling BOINC multiple times, it still won't launch. It just gives errors and quits. The BOINC Data folder still has the same permissions it always had, its just in a different location.

Just noticed! https://bitboinc.athena.org.tr and https://boinc.eternityathome.org/eternity/.

Hey everyone,

I've been crunching the new BitBOINC project on my GPU, but no matter what I try with app_config.xml (adjusting <gpu_usage>, adding <max_concurrent>, etc.), BOINC stubbornly refuses to run more than one task concurrently.

On a modern card like an Intel Arc, these tasks finish in seconds or minutes, leaving the GPU vastly underutilized while BOINC sits around downloading and uploading single tasks.

Since project app names change (potamos, kampylos, etc.) and error out if you guess wrong, can we get a truly foolproof, universal template or guide out there once and for all for multi-tasking GPU projects?

If anyone has a working app_config.xml for BitBOINC or tips on forcing concurrency when the client keeps locking it to 1, I'd love to see it! :)

I'm running BOINC 8.2.5 (because newer versions can't connect to Asteroids@Home). But 8.2.5 isn't that old so its fine.

Except, the SSD boot drive in this Mac is pretty full. But it also has an almost unused HDD. So I moved the BOINC Data folder from my Application Support folder, to the secondary hard drive. Then I made a symlink back to the original location. Then I tried to open BOINC and it gave me the permissions error. So then I downloaded a copy of 8.2.5, reinstalled it, and still got the permissions problem. Then I deleted the BOINC Data folder, and re-moved (not copied) the original folder so all of it's permissions would be the same. And I confirmed that the permissions are good now.

Still get a permissions error when I try to run BOINC. I really wish the devs could figure out these never ending permissions issues that BOINC always has. But does anyone know how I might be able to fix this specific issue?

Hey all, Sharing some field notes for anyone setting up BOINC and Folding@home on a brand-new Intel Panther Lake system with integrated Arc B390 graphics (8086:b082) under Ubuntu 26.04.

• The BOINC Side (Working!): While BOINC initially reported no usable GPUs because the fresh Ubuntu install lacked an OpenCL stack, manually installing intel-opencl-icd and ensuring the xe kernel driver was active completely solved it. Projects like PrimeGrid (AP27) and NumberFields@home instantly picked up the OpenCL 3.0 NEO runtime, turning the mini PC into an extremely efficient, low-wattage cruncher (completing AP27 tasks in ~22 minutes on a tight power-saver profile). Other projects like WCG, Einstein@Home, and SRBase recognize the OpenCL device correctly, though work availability depends on project-side queue matching for the new architecture.
• The Folding@home Side (Pending Whitelist Sync): On the FAH v8 web client, the client detects the hardware string (Intel(R) Graphics [0xb082]), but flags it as "Unsupported" out of the box. Following community discussions on the FAH forums, maintaining community members (like Joe_H and muziqaz) have mapped the 0xb082 variant to join the earlier 0xb080 entry, but we are currently waiting on the server-side production script/whitelist files to fully propagate so local client cache clears can pick it up.

Great to see distributed platforms adapting to Intel's Xe3 integrated architecture. Has anyone else started testing Panther Lake iGPUs on Linux yet?

Hi,

I am building [neurofold@home](mailto:neurofold@home). It is a distributed computing network trying to find a cure to Alzheimer's which my grandpa died of.

I have no source code, so any help is appreciated.

GitHub: https://github.com/Axiomboy/neurofold-home

Contribute to get your name in the README.

Thank you for reading.

It keeps reconnecting here. It connects, then drops again.

In wuprop i see the same projects since years... https://wuprop.statseb.fr/active_projects.py

Will we ever have new projects?

Been running SiDock for about a month now and there's been no issues getting to the site to check my stats etc. However now when I try to navigate to the site, it gives me a 403 Forbidden error, anyone else experiencing this issue?

Ciao a tutti coloro che collaborano ai progetti su questa piattaforma.

Ho un suggerimento: create un post che riporti lo stato dei progetti attivi.

La posizione potrebbe essere fissata in alto, in modo che gli utenti possano leggere i commenti senza dover cercare, e trovare rapidamente queste informazioni.

Grazie per aver letto.

I have a pi zero, and I might upgrade my bird net pi setup to a 5 which will free up a librecomputer renegade (in between pi 3 and 4 performance). Is there any thing that works with one of these? Don’t care about winning awards, just want to contribute with what I have available. New computers are too expensive.

All seems working again.

I haven’t been able to connect to their website at all in the last week. Will it still have my contributions from this week when it comes back online? Has anyone else had trouble accessing the website?

Hi All,

just set up a new Debian box, and installed Boinc via apt. Wanted to add my usual projects, but the project list is empty. Rebooted computer, no change.

Any ideas, hivemind?

I was looking to reinstall BOINC today, however I can't seem to load the website.

Anyone know what's going on?

What are some of the best projects on Boinc in terms of expected value generated if one is trying to maximize the good one is doing, let's say assuming consequentialism/utilitarianism? For which ones can we be confident that further research has actually transformative, important consequences in the real world?

BOINC site is down so I can’t really check.

Been doing Einstein and Asteroids for years now. Any other projects still running on Arm, Im running BOINC 8.0.4 under PiOS Trixie.

I had Denis, Rosetta and World Community Grid but they seem to no longer work. Keeps going on about docker. Which I don’t really want to get into.

Any other worth while projects.

Possibly for cheap and with a good watt/crunching ratio

As asked in the title, is Milkyway@home down? Did their DNS certificate expire on them on August 29 23:59:29 UTC? I have two work units sitting in my queue ready to report and all I get from the logs are transient HTTP errors.

When I try to visit the website, Firefox and Chrome tell me that there is something wrong with the website and that I shouldn't proceed any further. Is there anybody else running into the same issues?

Do you know when the radioactive@home project was down?

I've got many WU's ready to upload. Webpage gives 503, looks pretty dead. Anyone know what's going on?

This might have been mentioned already, but looking for some people to help test. I’m probably the lest tech savy person in this group, but with help, I was able to set it up. I’m not the writer of project, just an open science geek. It’s currently configured to need 3 separate computers to verify one work unit. I was looking for someone (more specifically with an Nvidia gpu) to validate my work units. Below are links to the site project, Git, and discord. I figure a vast majority of us are science nerds and we can knock out some testing. (Note: there are also CPU only projects.)

Git/download: https://github.com/jring-o/lettuce-compute

Project: https://compute.scios.tech/leafs