2010-03-04 We have submitted some work-units for a follow-up experiment. 2010-02-27 malariacontrol.net will stop sending out new workunits for a few weeks starting Mon March 1st. Please read this and this for more information. 2010-02-26 Status update and outlook 2010-02-08 The project will be offline for approx. two hours tomorrow Tue Feb 9 from 10.00am CET for maintenance. 2009-12-22 The "Dutch Power Cows" team used the "Serious request" fund-raiser currently happening in Holland to promote malariacontrol.net. Read more here. 2009-10-27 An article in Wall Street Journal on the use of volunteer computing in medical research features malariacontrol.net 2009-10-01 October status update: D Hardy 2009-08-27 August status update: A Ross 2009-08-20 The project will be offline for approx. one hour Fri Aug 21 from 10.30am CET for maintenance. 2009-05-15 The project will be offline for approx. one hour later today for maintenance. 2008-12-04 Project out of work intermittently. Please read this thread for more information. 2008-11-03 The database problem is fixed. However, we expect that workunits will be available only intermittently for the next few hours. 2008-11-03 We're currently experiencing problems with our database. We're working on a solution. Sorry for the inconvenience. 2008-09-12 The optimizer application will leave testing status during next week, from monday 15.Sept. 08 More info 2008-07-25 The project server may be intermittently unavailable later today while we're testing a new backup process. 2008-07-02 We will stop sending out work for the optimizer application from tomorrow, 2008-07-03, and resume in ca. 2 weeks time. 2008-06-04 The project will be stopped again for approx. one hour for maintenance tomorrow 2008-06-05, starting 08:00 UTC. 2008-06-02 The project will be offline for approx. one hour later today for maintenance. 2008-05-09 The optimizer application will re-enter testing status for a few days, after some major changes to the application code. More info 2008-02-19 Work for the malariacontrol app is available again. Here's a short summary of what happened. 2008-02-19 The malariacontrol app is currently out of work due to a problem with the database server. We are working on a solution. 2007-12-27 We're back online. More info. 2007-12-19 The project will be offline on Dec 27 and 28 2007. Please read more about this here. 2007-11-22 The project will be offline for an estimated one to two hours today, starting 13:00 UTC. 2007-11-19 On Wednesday 2007-11-21 workunits of a third science application will be sent out to the volunteers. Read more about it 2007-10-22 We have now opened account creation again. Welcome new users! Please read our Rules and Policies before you attach to the project. 2007-09-14 Please read the update on the planned optimizer application. More. 2007-09-14 We're about to start a new batch of workunits for the mappredictor application. More 2007-09-03 The project will be offline for an estimated one to two hours today, starting 08:30 UTC. 2007-08-02 The server was unreachable for the last hour due to a network failure that affected all services at University of Geneva. 2007-07-25 The project will be offline for an estimated one to two hours today, starting 16:00 UTC. 2007-06-14 The server will be down for a few hours later today for maintenance. 2007-06-11 Due to a hardware problem the server was not working properly during the last 36 hours. We're working on this. 2007-05-31 Users with Windows hosts please read this post about the mappredictor application. 2007-05-22 We have just updated to the latest BOINC server version. 2007-05-03 The project will be offline for an estimated one to two hours tomorrow, May 4th, starting 10:30 CET. 2007-04-17 The project will be down for maintenance for 1 to two hours today starting 14:00 CET. 2007-03-23 AIMS workshop on Volunteer Computing: 16-22 July, 2007 More info 2007-03-22 We will update some of the server components later today. As a consequence the project may be down for one or two hours. Please let us know if you find problems. 2007-03-07 The project will be down for maintenance for about 1 hour today starting 14:00 CET. 2007-02-12 We have partially recovered from a database problem that occured during the backup today. We are working to bring the project back up. 2007-02-09 malariacontrol.net announces the second science application. More info 2007-01-12 The server will be down for some time over the next few hours due to required system maintenance. 2007-01-04 We have now opened account creation again. Please read our Rules and Policies before you attach to the project. 2007-01-03 As announced we plan to open account creation again tomorrow January 4th, 2007, 09:30 CET, and are looking forward to welcoming new users! 2006-12-21 Please restart your BOINC client if you keep getting the following message: Scheduler request failed: HTTP file not found. Thank you! 2006-12-19 Welcome to the new server! 2006-12-19 We will now migrate to the new server, please expect the project to be down for a few hours starting today, 19.12.06, 14.00 CET. More info