BOINC 5.10.30 - Donate Computer Idle Time to Science

BOINC 5.10.30 (Windows, Open Source, 7.06MB) is a program that lets you donate your idle computer time to science projects like SETI@home, Climateprediction.net, Rosetta@home, World Community Grid, and many others. It is an open-source software for volunteer computing and desktop grid computing.

Also available for Mac OS X, and Linux.

Changes:

• Manager
  • Project selection list in Attach Project wizard.
  • Advanced preferences dialog.
  • Grid-based views: column sorting, progress bars, line shading.
  • Ability to find browser cookies on some platforms; enables web-only attach.
  • Don't allow multiple connection-request dialogs.
  • Better logic for Snooze menu item.
• Core client
  • Improved slot directory logic makes it impossible for two apps to run in same slot.
  • Reject directory-traversal and format conversion characters in filenames from projects.
  • Add security-related configuration options: suppress_net_info, disallow_attach, os_random_only.
  • Support new work_buf_additional_days preference.
  • Various changes to prevent buffer overruns.
  • Day-of-week preference enforcement.
  • Work correctly if core client starts up before DNS system is working.
  • Export scheduling info in GUI RPCs.
  • Upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8e and LibcURL 7.16.4.
• Windows
  • Work around Vista problems by running all components with administrative rights.

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