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| category            = Mathematics
| category            = Mathematics
| compute              = CPU
| compute              = CPU
| dependencies        = None
| dependencies        =  


| developer            = Tomáš Brada
| developer            = Tomáš Brada
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| operating system    = Windows, Linux (64-bit)
| operating system    = Windows, Linux (64-bit)
| stats as of          = {{Start date and age|2022|07|16}}
| average performance  = 1190.83 GigaFLOPS
| active users        = 76
| total users          = 521
| active hosts        = 138
| total hosts          = 659


| website              = {{URL|https://boinc.tbrada.eu/}}
| website              = {{URL|https://boinc.tbrada.eu/}}
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'''T.Brada Experimental Grid''' (abbreviated '''TBEG''') was a [[volunteer computing]] project built on the [[BOINC]] (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) platform. Founded in February 2019 by Slovak developer Tomáš Brada, the project served as both a personal BOINC development testbed and a home for several mathematical sub-projects in number theory and combinatorics. The project ran until December 2022, when its final administrator announced it would no longer distribute compute work.
'''[https://web.archive.org/web/20220816033844/https://boinc.tbrada.eu/ T.Brada Experimental Grid]''' (abbreviated '''TBEG''') was a [[volunteer computing]] project built on the [[BOINC]] (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) platform. Founded in February 2019 by Slovak developer Tomáš Brada, the project served as both a personal BOINC development testbed and a home for several mathematical sub-projects in number theory and combinatorics. The project ran until December 2022, when its final administrator announced it would no longer distribute compute work.
 
[[File:Boinc logo.png|right|200px|thumb|The BOINC platform logo. T.Brada Experimental Grid ran on BOINC server software.]]


== Background and founding ==
== Background and founding ==
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== Sub-projects ==
== Sub-projects ==
 
[[File:Most perfect magic square construction.svg|thumb|435x435px|An example of a diagonal Latin square. T.Brada Experimental Grid's PADLS Total sub-project searched for pseudo-associative variants of such structures.]]
At its most active, T.Brada Experimental Grid ran three distinct sub-projects simultaneously, each tackling a different area of mathematics or software development.<ref name="boincsynergy-forum">{{Cite web |url=https://boincsynergy.ca/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28 |title=T.Brada Experimental Grid |publisher=BOINC Synergy |access-date=2026-06-11 }}</ref>
At its most active, T.Brada Experimental Grid ran three distinct sub-projects simultaneously, each tackling a different area of mathematics or software development.<ref name="boincsynergy-forum">{{Cite web |url=https://boincsynergy.ca/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28 |title=T.Brada Experimental Grid |publisher=BOINC Synergy |access-date=2026-06-11 }}</ref>


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The third sub-project, '''Lua Alfa''', was purely an experimental software development effort. Its application was used to test an in-development [[Lua (programming language)|Lua]] runtime environment for BOINC. The goal was to expand what is possible under the BOINC platform and improve ease of deployment by enabling script-based applications rather than traditionally compiled binaries. The application was limited to Linux, and tasks took only a few minutes at most.<ref name="boincsynergy-forum" />
The third sub-project, '''Lua Alfa''', was purely an experimental software development effort. Its application was used to test an in-development [[Lua (programming language)|Lua]] runtime environment for BOINC. The goal was to expand what is possible under the BOINC platform and improve ease of deployment by enabling script-based applications rather than traditionally compiled binaries. The application was limited to Linux, and tasks took only a few minutes at most.<ref name="boincsynergy-forum" />
[[File:Latin-square-1.png|right|240px|thumb|An example of a diagonal Latin square. T.Brada Experimental Grid's PADLS Total sub-project searched for pseudo-associative variants of such structures.]]


== Infrastructure and history ==
== Infrastructure and history ==
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== Legacy and continuation ==
== Legacy and continuation ==
 
[[File:BOINC logo.png|right|frameless|150x150px|The BOINC platform logo. T.Brada Experimental Grid ran on BOINC server software.]]
Following the project's closure, the volunteer community showed continued interest in preserving the SPT work. In June 2023, a call was posted on the T.Brada Experimental Grid front page from colleagues attempting to restore the Symmetric Prime Tuples project on a new BOINC server, using Brada's publicly available source code. As of the post, the code had not yet been successfully recompiled.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://boinc.tbrada.eu/ |title=T.Brada Experimental Grid: We ask for help! |publisher=T.Brada Experimental Grid |date=2023-06-23 |access-date=2026-06-11 }}</ref>
Following the project's closure, the volunteer community showed continued interest in preserving the SPT work. In June 2023, a call was posted on the T.Brada Experimental Grid front page from colleagues attempting to restore the Symmetric Prime Tuples project on a new BOINC server, using Brada's publicly available source code. As of the post, the code had not yet been successfully recompiled.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://boinc.tbrada.eu/ |title=T.Brada Experimental Grid: We ask for help! |publisher=T.Brada Experimental Grid |date=2023-06-23 |access-date=2026-06-11 }}</ref>