BOINC projects news headlines

BOINCstats: Replacing database server and maintenance on the webserver.

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:59:39 GMT

2009-07-02: Friday July the 3th I will replace the database server with the new server. This will not cause any downtime. However, two of the harddrives from the webserver need to be replaced because they indicate that they will fail soon. For this I have to shut down the webserver. I don't know exactly for how long, it all depends on how quickly the RAID controller can rebuild the array. Maintenance will start around 9:00GMT.

Ramsey@Home: I will be gone for a week. Still working on new implementation

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-07-01: I'm going to be gone for a week (until the 10th) so if anything goes wrong with the server it won't be fixed until then. I've started investigating new algorithms and approaches and I think I've decided on one but it's going to take me awhile longer to implement it so please hold tight! Thanks guys!

PrimeGrid: AP26 application available for Solaris

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-07-01: We have released a version of AP26 application for 64bit Solaris (on AMD x86_64 or Intel EM64T CPUs, platform name x86_64-pc-solaris). This is our first application for this platform, which also makes AP26 an application that runs on the most platforms. Thanks to Gerrit Slomma for building the app! Psst... the PS3 version is coming ;)

PrimeGrid: Record AP24 Found

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-06-30: PrimeGrid has found a record AP24 (Arithmetic Progression of 24 primes). It is the largest known AP24. It has an ending term of 60312982868878297 surpassing the old record of 25490711550130537. The finder is (AFXTBA Pitheque) of France. He is a member of the L'Alliance Francophone team. The progression is written as 14992521666441877+8832442*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.

Einstein@Home: The Einstein@Home project

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-06-29: The Einstein@Home project suffered a fileserver crash and has been offline for the last few days as a result. The project is finally online again and should be back to normal soon.

SETI@Home: We updated the SERENDIP web

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-06-29: We updated the SERENDIP web site, now containing information about our recent trip to Arecibo (to install the new instrument and do some testing).

Spinhenge@home: We will not be offline this

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-06-26: We will not be offline this weekend. The work on electrical installation were finished over this week. Have a sunny weekend.

Einstein@Home: Webpages describing the new

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-06-23: Webpages describing the new Einstein@Home search for binary pulsars in Arecibo radio data are online now. Follow this link to learn more about radio pulsars, how our new search works, and how it can help us searching for gravitational waves.

GPUGRID: 2 billion credits reached!

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-06-23: The GPUGRID.net project just awarded its 2 billionth credit! This means that in totat you donated around a sextillion (10^21) floating point operations, which we used to compute approximately 1 millisecond of simulated trajectories in total. Congratulations to all volunteers!

MilkyWay@home: Project News: RAC minimum on the Cafe

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-06-22: Do to some rather unsavory activity in the Cafe, it now has a minimum RAC of 5 to enable posting messages.--Travis

Rosetta@Home: The minirosetta application

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-06-22: The minirosetta application has been updated to version 1.80. For details and to report bugs, go to this thread.

Ramsey@Home: New Direction Needed

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-06-21: Our result turned out a bit short of the current known lower bound, so I believe that the project will have to switch directions... I'm currently looking into a few different things and I'll let everyone know once I choose one. Thanks guys!

PrimeGrid: New Top Host!

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-06-20: Congratulations to Worldwide Center of Mathematics, owner of the new top host at PrimeGrid. While this position has changed many times in the past, what makes this occasion unique is that this is the first time the top host is a Mac!!!EDIT: The above is in terms of RAC. In terms of total credit, UL1 holds a commanding lead of over 5M cobblestones with this host.

BRaTS@Home: Power Outage

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-06-20: Due to a power outage, the server was temporarily unavailable. Everything is back to normal now and credit lost due to the outage will be dealt with after all results are back.

BOINCstats: Database server fundraiser

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:42:14 GMT

2009-06-19: Dear visitor and user of BOINCstats. It's that time again where I ask for your (financial) help :). BOINCstats has grown over the years, many things have changed, we added a separate webserver, we joined forces with Primegrid, last year we upgraded our hosting to our own rack, and we created many many stats. But one thing never changed. One proud server was always there. It was the BOINCstats webserver, then it also hosted Primegrid, and after adding the server for Primegrid and the BOINCstats webserver it became the backbone of the stats: it runs all the updates and prepares the stats for the webserver. But all good things come to an end sometime. Lately the database server has been struggling, it became unstable. It's also getting slow because users and hosts keep increasing, but the server can no longer be upgraded. So, it's time to replace it.... The parts for the server have been ordered, but you can understand that it's not a €250 budget computer. So I'll say it quickly so it won't seem that much: we need €2000. If you like BOINCstats, BAM!, the forum, the user profiles or if you just like your daily portion of stats, then please consider donating a small amount. You can do so on the donation page. Thank you very much for your support! Willy.

GPUGRID: Server update

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-06-19: We have updated to the latest server software. Also now the minimum required driver version is enforced to be at least 180.

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

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-06-19: 12-digit factor of P2203 has now been found by the project 3835 times

Rosetta@Home: The minirosetta application

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-06-16: The minirosetta application has been updated to version 1.76. For details and to report bugs, go to this thread.

PrimeGrid: The sieves have been Mac'd out!

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-06-15: 321, PPS, and PSP sieves now have application support for Mac OS X 10.4 running on Intel and 10.5 running on 64bit Intel. PPS sieve also offers application support for Mac OS X 10.3 running on PPC.

Leiden Classical: Due to the unexpected

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-06-15: Due to the unexpected application version limit problem on the 3rd, some linux hosts received trajtou workunits. Most of them run fine, some of them crash. The trajtou application for linux was retracted from the database last week, but some hosts keep on crunching, eventhough here in the databse no linux applications for trajtou exists anymore?! An application version update was forced to clear up the issue. Any linux hosts running trajtou, if you want you can cancel the workunits. Sorry about that...

GPUGRID: Big queue of fresh WU!

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-06-15: We have +2,000 WU in queue to be crunched waiting for you guys! Actually, and that's for real, the publication on the SH2 system may be able to drop off finally after these results. Not only these, but Ignasi is defending his Masters thesis this Friday and would be delighted to show these results (properly credited of course). Many thanks in advance!

MilkyWay@home: Project News: Explanation of Milkyway@Home Astronomy Progress

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-06-15: John has made the following post in the science section. It's an in depth explanantion of the current astronomy work being done here and quite readable and easy to understand (even I can get it). I recommend it if you'd like to know a bit more about what's going on here on the astronomy end of things.--Travis

SETI@Home: Here's a video of Dan

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-06-15: Here's a video of Dan Werthimer giving a short talk about SETI@home at the Maker Faire Bay Area (on May 30th, 2009). Warning: must sit through ad before viewing.

Ramsey@Home: Email working finally, First lower bound almost found!

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-06-13: I think I finally got the email server working correctly, so if you received a bunch of emails from ramsey lately, sorry about that. Also, thank you so much to everyone who crunched in the past month, it really means a lot to me. We're only ~170 WUs away from a new lower bound!! Wooo! It's taken 1.5 years but we fianlly made it. Pretty exciting. Thanks again everyone! As soon as the last wu is returned I'll have 10,000 more wus for you guys. Have a good one.

BRaTS@Home: Internet access limited overnight.

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-06-13: For some yet unknown reason, internet access was cut off to the university overnight. The server web access has been restored.

PrimeGrid: GIMPS does it again!!!

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-06-13: Congratulations to The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS)! On April 12th, Odd Magnar Strindmo of Norway discovered the 47th known Mersenne prime, 2^42,643,801-1. It is the second largest known prime at 12,837,064 digits, only 141,125 digits smaller than the Mersenne prime found last August. The prime was independently verified June 12th.For more information, please visit the GIMPS site. Again, congratulations!!!

FreeHAL: New Server needed

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-06-12: Although I've got some mirror offers the project still needs more resources, so I had to lower the work unit limit from 25 to 5 (!) until I can be sure that the server can handle a higher limit...

Rosetta@Home: The minirosetta application

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-06-12: The minirosetta application has been updated to version 1.75. For details and to report bugs, go to this thread.

BRaTS@Home: Larger Work Unit.

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-06-12: I just sent out a work unit that has a file that is about 3Meg and will then upload a 3meg file, approximately. The main purpose of this workunit (and why there is just one) is to make sure these larger workunits can be processed under whatever constraints the hosts might pose. However, for the resolution I'd like to have, I need larger data files. So, once these come back, work will resume again at the pace it has been.

RALPH@Home: The minirosetta application

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-06-11: The minirosetta application has been updated to 1.80. Please post bugs in this thread.

RALPH@Home: The minirosetta application

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-06-11: The minirosetta application has been updated to 1.75. Please post bugs in this thread.

MilkyWay@home: Project News: Camping!

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-06-11: Travis here. I'm going to be camping until Sunday so don't break anything while I'm gone. Hopefully Matt and John will keep the server running and filled with work for you guys :) I'm still having a few problems with the CUDA application for regular milkyway, so it'll probably be out Monday or Tuesday after I get back.

The Lattice Project: Web Site

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-06-11: The update to the web site is basically done, so if you notice anything wrong, please post about it. Thanks!

MilkyWay@home: Project News: Cuda

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-06-11: I noticed a problem in the binaries and code I put on the code download page. I removed them to do some fixes, but they should be available tonight or at the latest tomorrow morning.

MilkyWay@home: Project News: CUDA Code for Milkway@Home

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-06-11: Since it looks like the server is handling things fine (no work shortages), I've put out the CUDA code for milkyway@home. If this works and the server holds up we won't need milkywayGPU@home. The code can be downloaded in the usual code release directory. I've also added two CUDA binaries for intel versions of OS X, single and double precision if anyone would like to test them out. They're also in the code release directory. If anyone would like to test the code for linux and windows that would be appreciated. I've started a new forum thread about this here.

MilkyWay@home: Project News: Short Workunits

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-06-11: Matts searches had the wrong sized integral so they were crunching much faster than expected. We've stopped these so there shouldn't be any new short workunits.

MilkyWay@home: Project News: New Search Accuracy and Runs

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-06-11: A few more optimizations to the search process have been made, so we're running some of the old stripes again to get better fits. The new runs are ps_new_11_1, for example.

MilkyWay@home: Project News: Science Sticky Thread Started

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-06-11: We have started a thread in the science forums relating to the astrophysics portion of the project for those who are interested.

PrimeGrid: PrimeGrid's Birthday/Summer Solstice Challenge

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-06-11: Just over 24 hours until the start of PrimeGrid's "Birthday/Summer Solstice Challenge". A 9 day Challenge is being offered on the Prime Sierpinski Problem (LLR) application. Long Challenge, long WU's, but the rewards are greater...250 Challenge points goes to the winner and should a prime be found, it will be a Mega Prime.For more information, please see this forum post.

The Lattice Project: Web Site

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

2009-06-10: I'm in the progress of updating the project web pages, so please excuse the mess.