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We managed to hit the million in 2007…

(* about half of it has been crunched by disk- and headless machines running BOINCpe…)

(complete up-to-date stats)

I have to admit that it’s been a while since I published the last update to BOINCpe. However, the new version v0.5.0 now comes with an all new style adapted to the new design coming from Berkeley and some other new improvements. Hope you like it…

Additionally, the old scheduler used for the persistency service has been replaced with Gerhard Kalab’s cron. You can now easily modify the time when files are backed up to your network share. Please see the BOINCpe FAQ for further information on this.

Of course, BOINCpe includes the latest BOINC client v5.10.28. Download BOINCpe now…

BOINC undoubtedly had style since its early days. But rather in a scientific, maybe even inspiring way than in a visual way. Now check out this official new and - best of all - cool logo by Michal Krakowiak:

It happened only recently that projects like QMC@Home or entire BOINC-based frameworks such as Gridrepublic came up with stylish versions of the standard BOINC UI. Now, even the official site became kind of neat with a conservative but yet unobtrusively stylish look.
Also the useless but skinnable simple GUI variation available since BOINC v5.8 improves BOINC’s sweetness. And as a big fan of Trac I almost gave a party when BOINC development switched to use it as new platform for configuration and version management. Those guys even skinned it in a custom way! (which is remarkable… )

What I meant to say: functionality is crucial for a distributed computing application such as BOINC. But guys: if you want to make BOINC mainstream you simply have to make it look cool and make it work as it does.
BOINC lives and dies with its users. In times of fancy-looking Mac OS X and Vista you cannot afford losing users because of websites in late-90ies Frontpage-style and GUIs making you think you’re back in Win 3.1.

So folks in Berkely, even though this whole post sounds a little superficial (it’s meant to be ): get it on and get us some cute stuff.
(Ever thought of Ajaxification of the BOINC server software…)

Many of you already mentioned that setting up BOINCpe is really easy with v0.4.0. With the latest version 0.4.1 it now becomes even easier. One of the previously 4 steps is now obsolete - remaining only 3 steps to set up a BOINCpe machine (thanks to the global_prefs_override.xml file).

Furthermore, BOINCpe now comes with the latest BOINC client v5.8.15 fixing several bugs of the previous version. Download it now…

Hi there,

just wanted to give you short notice of how impressed I am about BOINCpe spreading in the BOINC community even though this is the prototype of a niche product.
BOINCpe made it to the blog of Rom Walton (a lead developer of the BOINC client at Berkeley). There are about a dozen threads in the largest BOINC forums on BOINCpe (simply stress Google). Then, BOINCpe made it to the official BOINC news. And finally, someone (not me - I swear ;)) even put a link to the German Wikipedia article on BartPE.

That’s awesome! I really wasn’t expecting any of this. Just keep giving feedback, please. Thanks guys…

Anyway, I will provide a version with the new BOINC client v5.8.15 in the next days.

I’m happy to announce that I finally got the legal rights to make my project BOINCpe available to the entire BOINC community!

The latest version (v0.4.0) is available for download. Feel free to test it out. However, I will need some more days to finish the documentation…

Please read the details about the project at BOINCpe: Live-CD for BOINC.

Currently, we are using BOINCpe for about 7 crunching machines and everything runs smoothly.