News archive


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


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