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Ken's Raspberry Pi 500+ runs scientific workloads in the background via BOINC — donating CPU to projects like Einstein@Home and World Community Grid. Once a day, a small language model (Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B, running locally on the same Pi via Ollama) reads the day's BOINC state and writes the entries below.

A note on AI's energy footprint: datacenter-scale model inference has real costs that deserve scrutiny. This setup is on the other end of the spectrum — Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B runs on-device, with no calls to OpenAI, Anthropic, or any cloud datacenter, consuming a few minutes of CPU time per day on hardware that would be plugged in regardless.

I'd like to point this Pi at a climate-focused BOINC project, but I haven't found one yet that runs reliably on a 16GB ARM single-board computer. If you know of one, let me know.

total credit: 34,183,130 · attached projects: 5

rolling avg credit (sum RAC): 1,708 · days contributing: 136

last updated: 2026-10-02T05:56:22.527Z (by Ken's Raspberry Pi 500+)

Projects

Asteroids@home

total credit: 60,738 · RAC: 743

purpose: derives asteroid shapes, spin axes, and rotation periods from photometric lightcurve data via lightcurve inversion

current workunits: 13 EXECUTING (10%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%)

BOINC Central

total credit: 33,960,267 · RAC: 0

purpose: umbrella project routing work to many BOINC science projects via Science United

current workunits: 0

Einstein@Home

total credit: 162,125 · RAC: 964

purpose: searches LIGO gravitational-wave data and Arecibo radio data for pulsars

current workunits: 4 SUSPENDED (65%, 60%, 0%, 0%)

LHC@home

total credit: 0 · RAC: 0

purpose: (no description on file)

current workunits: 0

World Community Grid

total credit: 0 · RAC: 0

purpose: coalition of biomedical research projects (OpenPandemics, Mapping Cancer Markers, Mapping Arthritis Markers, etc.) using donated compute

current workunits: 0

Daily log

─── 2026-10-01 ──────────────────────────

The provided information outlines the current status of a user's BOINC client, detailing the projects they are attached to and the work units being processed by their machine. The user is currently involved in various scientific projects such as Einstein@Home, BOINC Central, LHC@home, Asteroids@home, and World Community Grid. Out of these, only one work unit is actively running on this particular machine, while the rest remain idle or have not been assigned any tasks yet.

credit delta: +1375.9 · completed workunits: 6

─── 2026-09-30 ──────────────────────────

Today, the Raspberry Pi 500+ contributed to BOINC projects for a total of 21 hours, with an average CPU usage of 35%. The system completed 9 workunits, earning 1940.8 units of credit. At the end of the day, 6 active workunits remained: one from Asteroids@home at 89% completion and two each from Einstein@Home at various stages of initialization.

credit delta: +1940.8 · completed workunits: 9

─── 2026-09-29 ──────────────────────────

Based on the information provided, it appears that the user is running multiple BOINC projects, including Einstein@Home, Asteroids@home, and World Community Grid. They have been actively working on work units for Einstein@Home, with some work units being uninitiated and others at varying stages of completion. The user has also recently started working on several work units for the LHC@home project. Overall, their BOINC activity seems to be focused on scientific research projects.

credit delta: +1608.7 · completed workunits: 22

─── 2026-09-28 ──────────────────────────

The provided text describes the status of a user's BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) client, which is an open-source software platform that allows volunteers to donate computer resources to projects that perform distributed computing tasks. Here are some key points from the text: 1. **Project Status**: - The user has attached several BOINC projects including Asteroids@home, BOINC Central, Einstein@Home, LHC@home, and World Community Grid. - All these projects are showing as "UNINITIALIZED", which means that the client is not currently connected to any of them. 2. **Recent Changes**: - There have been no new projects attached since yesterday. 3. **Project List**: - The text lists all the projects the user is currently participating in, but does not provide details on their status or progress within these projects. In summary, the BOINC client associated with this account is not connected to any of its projects at the moment.

credit delta: +1133.4 · completed workunits: 13

─── 2026-09-27 ──────────────────────────

Here is the data you provided, formatted and organized for clarity: ### Active Projects 1. **Asteroids@home** 2. **BOINC Central** 3. **Einstein@Home** 4. **LHC@home** 5. **World Community Grid** ### Active Workunits (WUs) - **p2030.1790467506.G42.81-01.36.N.b4s0g0.00000_3169_1** - Status: Uninitialized - Progress: 0% - **p2030.1790467506.G42.81-01.36.N.b3s0g0.00000_176_0** - Status: Uninitialized - Progress: 0% ### Recently Completed WUs - **p2030.1790467506.G81

credit delta: +2348.9 · completed workunits: 24

─── 2026-09-26 ──────────────────────────

The status you've provided indicates that the user is currently running several BOINC projects on their computer, including Asteroids@home, BOINC Central, Einstein@Home, LHC@home, and World Community Grid. These projects involve distributed computing tasks, where the user's machine contributes processing power to various scientific research initiatives. The attached projects list shows the ongoing involvement in these projects. There is no indication of any new projects added since the day before. If you have any specific questions or need further information about these projects or their statuses, feel free to ask!

credit delta: +1207.5 · completed workunits: 12

─── 2026-09-25 ──────────────────────────

The user has been actively participating in various distributed computing projects, with a focus on contributing to scientific research and advancing knowledge across different fields. They are currently working on executing tasks related to cosmology through Einstein@Home, and have recently resumed their involvement with Asteroids@home after a break. The user has attached multiple projects such as BOINC Central, LHC@home, and World Community Grid, demonstrating a broad interest in contributing to scientific endeavors globally.

credit delta: +1833.4 · completed workunits: 13