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DrugDiscovery@Home: Project News November 8, 2009

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-11-08: recommended boinc client version. 6.10.17+ please update to this version so that we all are on the same client version.

MilkyWay@home: Project News: Servers and ATI Applications

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-11-07: There's been a lot of questions about upgrading the server and putting out server side ATI applications so here's an update about what's going on on our side:We do have versions of the ATI applications available, however here's some changes that the astronomers need to test to put in these applications so we're partially working on getting those all ready before we do a big update and put everything out for everyone.To make a long story short, the model we're crunching now (while valuable) has some problems in describing the background distribution of stars in the milky way galaxy.What the application does is tries to separate stars which were ripped apart from other galaxies that came close to the milkyway (like the saggitarius stream, which is what our current focus is on) as well as other clusters of stars from stars that were more 'originally' in the milky way. This will let us figure out the current shape of the milky way and give us interesting information about how galaxies interact and things of that nature. So right now we've found out that how astronomers have describing the 'background' stars of the milky way really isn't very correct. I'm pretty sure Heidi and her students are working on some kind of publication dealing with this issue right now.So to deal with that issue, they've been testing different models which should help with this in getting us even better models that deal with this problem. So currently you guys have helped us find a problem in astronomies current view of the milky way, and hopefully will help us really understand what the milky way looks like.So while we may not be very fast in upgrading hardware, we're at least doing some astronomy here :P Computer science too - we've just submitted a paper to this year's PPAM (parallel processing and applied mathematics) conference describing the GPU work, which I should be making a link available to everyone as soon as it's accepted.I'm sorry that the server issues go unattended for so long, but we don't have anyone really doing the networking. It's just me in my spare time (which i have none of right now while i'm finishing writing my phd thesis). Before we had Dave to work on that but he's graduated and we haven't found another undergraduate student to work on this yet. Hopefully next semester we'll have another one. We're in the process of ordering new hardware which should improve the performance of the server, but it will be a couple weeks before it gets here, and probably another week or two before we've updated all the server side code to work on multiple CPUs.--Travis

MilkyWay@home: Project News: New Searches

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-11-07: Just noticed a problem with the assimilator crashing. It should be back up and running and work should start flowing again.

PrimeGrid: Record AP24 Found

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-11-05: A new record AP24 (Arithmetic Progression of 24 primes) has been found. It is the largest known AP24. It has an ending term of 93004136079654607 surpassing the old record of 90769015637524109. The finder is Chris Wingate (skinny9699) of the United States. He is a member of the Ubuntu Linux team.The progression is written as 1948053460212667+17745794*23#*n for n=0..23. It was found in the AP26 Search. For more details on this find and the AP26 search, please see this forum post.

MilkyWay@home: Project News: Large WU Sizes

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-11-04: I've started some new searches with larger sized workunits, so hopefully these will help the server strain. Let us know how they're running.--Travis

MilkyWay@home: Project News: Website Slowness

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-11-04: We've been looking into the website performance and it looks like we're going to be ordering some more hardware in the next couple weeks which should improve the performance. Until then you're probably just going to have to bear with the website slowness. I'm currently trying to finish up my phd thesis (I defend in less than 2 weeks), so I probably won't be frequenting the forums very much until then.--Travis

MilkyWay@home: Project News: Database Crash

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-11-03: As most of you have noticed, the Milkyway@home database crashed yesterday. It appears that the database managed to corrupt itself, then failed in a spectacular fashion. We are busy cleaning up the mess, and everything will be sorted out soon. A special thanks to the support staff for the server, as they managed to restore the database at 5am this morning.--Matthew

SETI@Home: We have been in the process of

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-11-02: We have been in the process of transitioning parts of our data pipeline. You may be having trouble downloading workunits until this process is complete - hopefully later this week.

PrimeGrid: Record AP24 Found

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-11-01: A victory for the legacy systems!!! A new record AP24 (Arithmetic Progression of 24 primes) has been found. It is the largest known AP24. It has an ending term of 90769015637524109 surpassing the old record of 84418532426419063. The finder is Ian Dickinson (Vato) of the United Kingdom. He is a member of Team-Goobee.org. It was found by an Intel Pentium III @ 1266MHz running 32 bit Linux!!!The progression is written as 3634080452156039+16981607*23#*n for n=0..23. It was found in the AP26 Search. For more details on this find and the AP26 search, please see this forum post.

SETI@Home: Welcome to SETI.IR, a new

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-10-28: Welcome to SETI.IR, a new web site for SETI@home participants in Iran and other Persian-speaking countries.

EDGeS@Home: Forum

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-10-28: EDGeS@Home Forum goes online, available here.

Malaria Control: An article in Wall Street

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-10-27: An article in Wall Street Journal on the use of volunteer computing in medical research features malariacontrol.net

DynaPing: Account creation open

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-10-26: Account creation is open until we have 100 users. We encourage new users to try the non-standard functions this project offers!Update: Sorry, we're there. User 101 sneaked in while I was disabling account creation.

Einstein@Home: The latest radio pulsar

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-10-26: The latest radio pulsar re-discoveries are available here. Our count is now at 31 detections of 19 different known radio pulsars. Our latest detection J1939+2134 is the second fastest spinning known pulsar, rotating almost 700 times in a single second. This means it has completed more than 4000 rotations while you've been reading this news post!

DynaPing: Text message alerts

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-10-25: We do now send text messages to your cell phone when there is an alert.When a domain does not respond to pings for more than five minutes a text message is send. Text messages don't come free however, you have to purchase them on this page. Text messages don't work without a cell phone number so you'll have to add that to your account. Finaly you also have to enable them on your checks page.

DynaPing: Multiple contacts

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-10-25: You can now add extra contacts which will receive the same alerts as the user.

MilkyWay@home: Project News: BOINC Workshop Slides

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-10-23: I've also made a powerpoint version of the slides from our BOINC workshop presentation here.

yoyo@home: 5. Pan-Galactic BOINC Workshop

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-10-22: Greetings from Barcelona. The workshop just finished. You can find the names of the attending people and the slides of the talks on the workshop web page. The remaining slides will be uploaded in the next days. There are also rumours, that something will be uploaded on YouTube and Flickr. We also made our first public presentation of our new RNA World project, which will go public in the next days. Currently it is beeing tested by a closed alpha test group. In the meantime the server is running well, produces some ECM factors and also the long running evo wus are processing well. Thanks for all your support, yoyo.

MilkyWay@home: Project News: BOINC Workshop

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-10-22: Hello from the 5th Pan-Galactic BOINC Workshop in Barcelona! I had my presentation today so I'm making the slides available to everyone. You can download them here (sorry they're in keynote for all the Windows users out there). I'll be back next week so try not to break anything before then.--Travis

GPUGRID: 5th Pan-Galactic BOINC Workshop in Barcelona

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-10-21: The 5th Pan-Galactic BOINC Workshop will take place tomorrow and on Friday here in Barcelona and GPUGRID will be there. We will also be presenting a remote submission system that we use in the lab to safely interact with the server, to send/retrieve WUs from it. For more information check the wiki site http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/WorkShop09

SETI@Home: The UC Berkeley Astronomy

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-10-21: The UC Berkeley Astronomy Department is holding a Telescope Building Workshop and Star Party on October 23 at 7pm in celebration of the International Year of Astronomy. If you would like to attend, details can be found here

WEP-M+2 Project: 12-digit factor of P2203 has

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-10-19: 12-digit factor of P2203 has now been found by the project 6020 times

SETI@Home: SETI@home Project Scientist

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-10-19: SETI@home Project Scientist Eric Korpela discusses life in the universe in Galactic Watercooler Podcast #190. This is one episode in an arc relating to the late Carl Sagan's Cosmos series.

Hydrogen@Home: Project News October 14, 2009

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-10-14: I accidently removed mysql package from hydrogen. I am trying to restore but may have to delay efforts because of trip. Since I'll be in traveling for 3 weeks, it may be a while before we restore. Worst case we have a snapshot to restore from July and we can apply credits with a stats export.

DrugDiscovery@Home: Organizational form

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-10-14: Please, join the discussion at our meassage boards on organizational questions of the legal entity for the Drugdiscovery@home project and project status.

DrugDiscovery@Home: Migration

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-10-13: We are preparing to migrate the server to a host provided by IronScale. Workunits are disabled at the moment

yoyo@home: ECM: XYYXF record factor

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-10-11: User Beyond found a 55 digit prime factor for XYYXF number 11691+91116. This number brings us again into the projects ECM record list.

Leiden Classical: The 25M credit barrier was

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-10-10: The 25M credit barrier was broken today by BOINC.BE! Congratulations!

PrimeGrid: The Harvest Festival Challenge

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-10-10: The results are final. Over 1,490,000 tasks were completed by 200 teams and 1361 individuals resulting in over 100 new "Top 5000" primes. Congratulations to SETI.Germany as the top team and [SG]marodeur6 as the top individual.Many thanks goes out to everyone who participated!!! For more stats and information, please see this forum post.

PrimeGrid: Record AP24's Found

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-10-10: Several new AP24's (Arithmetic Progression of 24 primes) have been found...two of which are records. They were found in the AP26 Search.For more details on these finds and the AP26 search, please see this forum thread.

AQUA@home: AQUA@home's new application is ready. Full-scale runs will begin today.

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-10-09: The new AQUA application (version 4) is now ready. The algorithm has been improved to better measure the size and place of the minimum gap in the evolution of a quantum system. There is also better load-balancing for multi-core CPUs. AQUA will be performing full-scale runs starting today.

The Lattice Project: Server Upgrade

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-10-09: Just upgraded the server software, so please let me know if you notice anything out of place.

FreeHAL: Different workunit preferences for home/school/work

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-10-09: You can set different workunit preferences for home/school/work computers now.--Best Regards,Tobias Schulz

GPUGRID: New top volunteers

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-10-06: Congratulation to our top volunteers. JackofAll managed to become top host, while XtremeSystems and Stoneageman keep their top volunteers and top teams position.

MilkyWay@home: Project News: New Searches Slowing Server

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-10-05: One of our astronomers started up some searches today, but it looks like the workunit size was too small and the server couldn't keep up. We're going to start up some new searches tomorrow which should take longer to process and not make the website unusable and server unaccessible.--Travis

Enigma@Home: Test workunits

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-10-05: I have released a small number of test workunits to check the server software. Read more in this forum thread.

DrugDiscovery@Home: Progress bar update

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-10-05: We are improving the progress bar for our apps. This is especially important for mdrun where we want to run simulations for several days. With a progress bar that updates every 100 steps of a 5 million step simulation, a cruncher should be more confident that the simulation is running properly if they see th progress bar updating over the course of 5 days. In addition, checkpointing is already a feature native to this app, so if you pause, you should be able to return to the same point in the simulation. -Jack

FreeHAL: Memory usage

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-10-03: The current version of FreeHAL uses up to ~30MB of memory per work unit, this can't be changed. So to run many workunits (e.g. 25) keep in mind that you need enough RAM...--Best Regards,Tobias Schulz

yoyo@home: evolution@home

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-10-02: In the next days I will start creating evolution@home work units, which have doubled run times as the currently running evo wus. They have still no checkpoints.

MilkyWay@home: Project News: Server Troubles

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-10-02: Server went down last night but I've fixed the problem and everything should be up and running smoothly again.--Travis