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Udo · #**301** (**permalink**) 26-November-2006, 08:45 PM

Hi,
some more news from LHC@Home:

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22.11.2006 13:21 UTC
More news on LHC@home server support: it is currently planned to have the migration to Queen Mary College effective in January 2007. Until then, very little admin effort is available and work units will be available from the project only intermittently.

My companies firewall and proxy server is now allowed again for BOINC stuff, so I could activate 2 more servers.
But for 3 of my office computers communication is still defered... the 4th one was busy working on LHC WUs...

Ken Vogt · #**302** (**permalink**) 08-December-2006, 12:15 PM

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Einstein@Home STATUS

[Last update: Thu Dec 7 19:42:12 UTC 2006]

Einstein@Home will be offline until further notice.

Two disks have failed in the main file server. This server uses a raid6
array so we cannot afford any to lose any more disks. The project will
remain offline until the raid array has time to rebuild.

More news will be posted here as it becomes available.

Thank you,
David Hammer

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Last update: Fri Dec 8 09:57:12 UTC 2006]

The raid array should finish rebuilding at about 15:00 UTC but the project
will be kept offline to upgrade some hardware in the fileserver that should
increase the reliability. We will try to have E@H running again by 22:00 UTC.

David Hammer

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Ken

Ken Vogt · #**303** (**permalink**) 02-January-2007, 07:29 AM

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Einstein@Home STATUS

[Last update: Mon Jan 1 18:40:12 UTC 2007]

Einstein@Home will be offline until further notice.

The main file server has failed once again. At this time we do not know
how serious the problem is. The project may be down for a couple of days
until a temporary replacement fileserver can be put in place.

More news will be posted here as it becomes available.

Thank you,
David Hammer

http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/server_status.php

Laser Jock · #**304** (**permalink**) 05-January-2007, 10:10 PM

It's down again.

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Einstein@Home STATUS

[Last update: Fri Jan 5 19:38:45 UTC 2007]

The replacement fileserver is having the same stability problems that the
old fileservers had. I am going to replace the raid controllers with some
from a different company and see if that helps.

DH

At least I'm getting some serious crunching done at LHC and Rosetta@home.

Udo · #**305** (**permalink**) 18-January-2007, 09:45 AM

yipee...
after 2 days of 'no connection at all' my computers succeeded to connect again at 09:30 UTC.
And the new WUs are no S5R1 WUs but the new S5RI (!) WUs...

For more information see also Bernds message thread in the E@H 'Cruncher's Corner' forum...

Site currently not available, otherwise I would have posted the link here...

Udo · #**306** (**permalink**) 18-January-2007, 10:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Udo

yipee...
after 2 days of 'no connection at all' my computers succeeded to connect again at 09:30 UTC.
And the new WUs are no S5R1 WUs but the new S5RI (!) WUs...

For more information see also Bernds message thread in the E@H 'Cruncher's Corner' forum...

Site currently not available, otherwise I would have posted the link here...

http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/forum_t...rap=true#62509

Klausnh · #**307** (**permalink**) 18-January-2007, 02:13 PM

Congratulation to Udo for surpassing the Boinc 1,000,000 cobblestone mark.

Laser Jock · #**308** (**permalink**) 21-February-2007, 03:19 PM

Azazul,
Could we add the Riesel Seive Project ( http://boinc.rieselsieve.com/ ) to the BAUT team? I've added that project because of the on-going server difficulties at E@H.

Thanks.

azazul · #**309** (**permalink**) 21-February-2007, 08:20 PM

Done.

cjl · #**310** (**permalink**) 26-February-2007, 06:08 AM

The SETI team is approaching 1 million credit. At our current pace, we'll hit it in about a month or two

Ken Vogt · #**311** (**permalink**) 27-February-2007, 12:25 AM

No time to post much any more, it seems, but couldn't resist this one:

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Originally Posted by orbit@home

February 26, 2007
We have finally some news. Good news. We're going to receive a very substantial donation sometime in the next four months, that will allow this project to reach the public beta phase, with support for clients for Linux/Mac OS X/Windows, new work units generated on a daily basis, and a graphical screen saver. Before then, we're going to update the orbit@home website, implementing a donation mechanism and exploring new ways to provide the funding for the project. Your ideas are welcome! One more thing: we're going to re-open for registration by new users. Welcome to the regenerated orbit@home!

It does seem a little too good to be true, after so long with nada. Especially the donations part: For example, Planet Quest has been touting a BOINC app for a couple of years, but its site seems to do nothing but ask for donations, at least as far as a real project goes.

Two other bits:

BOINC has a new recommended software version, 5.8.15 (Win/Mac/Linux). This implements the new skinnable simple GUI and allows some settings, like percent of CPU time and memory used, to be set on a per computer basis. So you are no longer limited to the traditional 3 venues. Also, and at last, after you install one version at this level, all future updates will remember your install directory (gasp!) and settings, even stop & restart the service for you if you run that way.

Some bad, nay, disgusting, news is in this post, originally made by mo.v on the CPDN board: Trojan boinc installation by rogue member. Excerpt:

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Originally Posted by mo.v

In early June 2006 he [or she: a user called "Wate"] appears to to have released onto the internet a link purporting to provide Windows updates including now for Vista. Some 1500 members of the public worldwide downloaded these 'updates' which in fact consisted of a trojan application that downloaded boinc.exe and attached the person's computer to Wate's account, giving him the subsequent fraudulent credits.

This evil person risked frying any computer whose user did not expect it to be running at 100% (including laptops), all for the purpose of amassing economically valueless BOINC credit. There was not even any scientific benefit to this hijack, since most of the boxes were attached to climateprediction.net (because it gives the most credit per CPU cycle, and grants it immediately), but a climate model must run for months to produce value to the project.

Although some will blame the victims for their gullibility, and the episode is no fault for BOINC or the projects, this despicable act, and other forms of credit cheating, like using apps that report false benchmarks, give the distributed computing enterprise a bad name: people who want to join to contribute to the science, see instead a cutthroat, possibly dangerous, and ultimately meaningless competition for status.

If it is against forum rules to call a person evil and disgusting, I will repeat myself: this Wate scum is evil and disgusting, and ought to go to jail.

Laser Jock · #**312** (**permalink**) 01-March-2007, 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by azazul

Done.

Thanks. I have found that this project is a great one for dial-up and slower computers. The size of the downloaded and uploaded files are small, and the workunits take about a third of the time that the current E@H units take.

Udo · #**313** (**permalink**) 15-March-2007, 09:05 PM

A quote from Bernd Machenschalk in a message thread at E@H, 15 Mar 2007 16:03:19 UTC:

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My current plan is to build and distribute a native x86_64 App for the next run ("S5R2"), which should start next month. Currently I can neither tell how long exactly it will take to have a native App (I'll definitely not build one from the "old" code that's currently running), nor if and when the Admins find the time to set up things for automatic download of the 32bit App - my guess is that this will not happen during the last weeks of the current run.

BM

...there will be more work for all of us...

Frog march · #**314** (**permalink**) 16-March-2007, 06:35 PM

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Sony has announced that PlayStation 3's next firmware update will arrive at the end of March - and one of the key additions will be integration with Stanford University's Folding@home programme.

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=74229

Sporally · #**315** (**permalink**) 18-March-2007, 04:08 PM

On the PlanetQuest homepage it is said that PlanetQuest for Boinc will be starting alpha testing in the start of 2007. Has anyone got any more information on this? Maybe you have heard what month they plan to launch PlanetQuest for Boinc or something...

Ken Vogt · #**316** (**permalink**) 29-March-2007, 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Frog march

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=74229

Folding@Home on the PS3 is now available, and they already have amassed an insane number of Gflops, or credit equivalents, IIRC.

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How do I get a copy of Folding@home for the PS3?
If you have PS3 system version 1.6 or later, you will see a Folding@Home icon in the Network column of the XBR (PS3 menu). Just click on the icon and that's it. If you don't have 1.6 or later, please perform a system upgrade.

A bit easier to run than BOINC...

[Edit]:

Quote:

Originally Posted by David Anderson, Boinc founder

Folding@home (which has a PS3 version) says they're getting
400 TeraFLOPS out of 30,000 PS3s
(that's about as much computing as all BOINC projects combined).

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Sporally

On the PlanetQuest homepage it is said that PlanetQuest for Boinc will be starting alpha testing in the start of 2007. Has anyone got any more information on this? Maybe you have heard what month they plan to launch PlanetQuest for Boinc or something...

I haven't seen anything; a good place to look or ask would be the BOINCsynergy team forum's Alpha Projects section, which would be one of the first places to know of new projects, because they want to compete aggressively in every project. In particular, this thread talks about PlanetQuest, though it's from November, and has little more info than you found on their pages. The simulator promised in the newsletter for 2006 is not yet on the site, AFAIK.
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What first got me interested in BOINC was the Astropulse project, then part of seti@home. Wikipedia describes it:

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Astropulse is a distributed computing project that is (will be) searching for primordial black holes, pulsars, and SETI, using the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) platform.

It was only ever used to test the multi-project structure of BOINC: you alternately ran Astropulse and seti WUs. It never really worked, and was never developed as a separate project, as the forlorn wikipedia entry documents.

But Astropulse is back!

In particular, version 4.12 for Windows. (I believe a linux version has been available for longer, but unfortunately linux-only projects don't get buzz...)

It is still not a separate project, but is now a part of the seti beta. Despite the name, the Astropulse app iteself is in early alpha, and you get a mix of seti beta and Astropulse WUs to crunch, although I think there will be a way to force the project to use only the Astropulse app (similar to what was done with some of Akos' early E@H enhanced apps). And one can only hope that the final version will be a project in its own name.

There is a seti forum section devoted to Astropulse, of course with mostly errors being posted about. But my first WU crunched fine, in 7 minutes, no memory problems. The disk footprint of the seti beta folder is 17MB.

So whether you want to risk playing with alpha projects or not, Astropulse is a project well worth considering for the future, being only the second true astronomy/astrophysics project for BOINC.

Sporally · #**317** (**permalink**) 29-March-2007, 04:41 PM

Have posted now, and will look forward to a reply - of course i will provide you with the information in case anything new comes up. But i doubt it - there were no other threads later than the newsletter on this subject.

Yeah, i would like to see AstroPulse go individually aswell, but until then i will be doing Einstein WUs only. Not that i don't like SETI, but i guess we will get more scientific results out of Einstein and LHC (which it almost out of work all the time). But when AstroPulse goes individually, PlanetQuest and the comet projects get going i will be working on several projects - maybe only run the comet thing and AstroPulse. They both search for things that eventually could destroy the world and i would be happy to know where all these things are

Sporally · #**318** (**permalink**) 02-April-2007, 04:18 PM

Hey. Read the first post in this thread (danish forum, but the quote is in english). I've already signed up :wink:

http://boincdenmark.dk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3320