United BOINC

SIMAP - Similarity Matrix of Proteins: News

Workunits for February upcoming

The workunits for the about 410.000 new protein sequences (for the February release of SIMAP) will be available from Wed, Feb 1. We estimate that the batch for February will need about two weeks of work. Best, Thomas

Quake-Catcher Network Sensor Monitoring: News

New QCN Paper on New Zealand Earthquake

A new paper on QCN's work in New Zealand is available from the Annals of Geophysics: Comparison between low-cost and traditional MEMS accelerometers: a case study from the M7.1 Darfield, New Zealand, aftershock deployment

GPUGRID: News

New windows beta application is out

Same as Linux which was fine. If it works we will update the production apps. Again only minor changes. gdf

GPUGRID: News

New acemd linux beta test app

A new app is up for test. Only minor revisions. gdf

yoyo@home

Time to meet in London ?

I will be in London from 15. Feb - 19.. If somebody want's to go for a beer and chat about nearly everything drop me a mail. -yoyo-

PrimeGrid: News

Tour de Primes 2012

February is just a week away which means it is time for the 4th annual Tour de Primes. 2 is the first prime number...and the only even one. Therefore, we have declared February, the 2nd month, as prime month. We're offering a small informal competition in tribute to this unique prime number. There are no points to be gained or awards to be won...just a simple rare jersey (Yellow, Green, and Polk-a-dot) at the end of the month to add to your badge collection. No pressure or stress other than what you put on yourself. :) For more information, please see Tour de Primes 2012.

POEM@HOME: News

Server Upgrade

The main BOINC server needs to be rebooted - we will be down for 15 Minutes in about 2 hours. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Renderfarm.fi

Renderfarm.fi loves Creative Commons

Last spring I wrote a script that I hoped would transmit the important values that Creative Commons stands for in a funny but informative way. I wrote the original draft with the aim of explaining the six basic Creative Commons licenses Renderfarm.fi supports, but after applying for and receiving a small grant from the Cloudberry fund, I went on to write a story aimed at promoting Creative Commons both in the Nordic region and the rest of the world. This became the script for "BBB loves CC", a short film production that we release today.

I personally feel that Big Buck Bunny and the rest of his Blender Foundation colleagues represent a new chapter in an art form that is as probably as old as speech itself: storytelling. When creative materials are released under Creative Commons and other open licenses, people are free to take those stories to new directions and make up their own where they feel like. This freedom is where endless possibility lies in terms of the story. Fan art thrives, new stories emerge and characters are "kept alive" for generations - not for the love of money, but for the love of the characters and stories themselves.

Obviously not…

Docking@Home

DB problems

We are experiencing some problems with our database and thus D@H is very slow. We are temporarily stopping the generation of new jobs. We are collecting results.

GPUGRID: News

Badge system up and running!

You are seeing it :). Check your Account page too.

PrimeGrid: News

The Year of the Dragon in 24 hours

The Dragon, the mightiest of all the signs, is a creature of myth and legend. In Asia, the Dragon is an auspicious creature, a symbol of benevolent power, strength and good luck and capable of great good. 23 January 2012 marks the start of the Year of the Dragon. Let's see if we can channel that Dragon energy to find some primes for the start of PrimeGrid's 2012 Challenge Series. A 5 day Challenge is being offered on PrimeGrid's Proth Prime Search (LLR) application. For more information, please see this forum thread.

PrimeGrid: News

Generalized Fermat Mega Prime

On 18 Jan 2012 21:13:24 UTC, PrimeGrid’s Generalized Fermat Prime Search found the mega prime: 525094^262144+1 The prime is 1,499,526 digits long and enters Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database ranked 2nd for Generalized Fermat Primes and 24th overall. The discovery was made by David Tomecko of the United States using an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 in an Intel Core i7 980 @ 3.33GHz system with 24GB RAM, running Windows 7 Ultimate. This GPU took about 55 minutes 24 seconds to probable prime (PRP) test with GenefCUDA. David is a member of the The Knights Who Say Ni! team. The PRP was verified on 19 Jan 2012 7:37:53 UTC, by Rick Reynolds of the United States. For more details, please see the official announcement.

WEP-M+2 Project: News

12-digit factor of P2203 has now been found by the project...

...24432 times

Renderfarm.fi

Uploader joy - or the lack thereof. Call for help

Those who have been following the forums and our IRC channel #renderfarm.fi on Freenode.net will know that we have users who are for unexplainable reasons unable to successfully upload sessions to our server using our wonderful integrated Uploader in Blender.

We have been investigating our logs a lot, tried many things, but still this remains as elusive as ever.

Now, we're determined to get it nailed and fixed, so I created a short video tutorial explaining how to create a net capture of a failing upload attempt. Please visit and watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr4J-sTlAQ4 to learn how to get one for Renderfarm.fi. I've attached the video to this post for your convenience :)

We ask those who experience the annoying upload problem to generate a net capture and to send us the resulting file. We hope that this will shed more light on what is going on. All of our developers have been unable to reproduce the issue, so we need to go low-level. A net capture will be tremendously useful.

Send your capture files to nathan@letworyinteractive.com, don't forget to mention your userid or username.

/Nathan

Rosetta@home

Project News Jan 16, 2012

Journal post from David BakerIn response to requests from many of you, we will be posting descriptions of the many scientific problems currently being tackled with Rosetta@Home on the Science message boards in the next couple of weeks--stay tuned! I also want to describe a new research direction we are now embarking on aimed at future cancer therapies. There are a small set of proteins which are frequently found at much higher levels than normal on the surface of cancer cells. We are starting to design small proteins which bind tightly to these tumor cell markers. If we are successful, we have collaborators who will be testing these proteins for their ability to target cancer cell killing agents to the tumors.

POEM@HOME: News

Bugfix Release

There has been a short bugfix release for linux. OpenSUSE users will hopefully not segfault anymore. The problem was the upx compression of the executable. Es gab einen kleinen Bugfix Release für Linux. OpenSUSE user sollten nun keine Probleme mehr mit Segfaults haben. Das Problem war die UPX Kompression der Files.

Rosetta@home

Project News Jan 13, 2012

Rosetta@Home software updated to version 3.20. This should fix the graphical issues some users were seeing with version 3.19.

RALPH@home

Project News Jan 13, 2012

The minirosetta_beta application has been updated to version 3.20. This should fix the graphical issues some users were seeing. Please post bugs in this thread.

POEM@HOME: News

Short downtime on Friday

As we are running out of space there will be a short downtime on friday upgrading our storage to 8TB. Deutsch: Da uns langsam der Speicher ausgeht, gibt es Freitag eine kurze Downtime in der wir unseren Speicher auf 8TB aufstocken.

Spinhenge@home

Project News January 11, 2012

The forum server is down. We are working on it.

Blog de Ibercivis

Ibercivis y EDGeS User

En primer lugar...feliz año a todos.

Nos han llegado correos y leo en algún foro (saludos a canal boinc) que hay un usuario que obtiene créditos por workunits con cpu_time=0. Como pone en dicho foro, hay algo muy raro....pero es explicable.

El usuario EDGeS en Ibercivis no posee únicamente una máquina. Básicamente el usuario EDGeS posee un cliente Boinc que recibe las tareas. Al recibirlas, mediante comandos estandard de gLite envía dichas tareas al algún CE (Computing Element) del grid europeo, esto es..."transforma" tareas Boinc en tareas del grid. Estas tareas ya no se ejecutan dentro de un cliente boinc...si no que lo hacen en modo "stand-alone", de ahí que el tiempo de cpu reportado sea 0 segundos.

Espero haber aclarado vuestras dudas.

Saludos.

MilkyWay@Home: News

Raised GPU work limits

I've raised the work limit to 20 tasks per GPU to see what happens.

SETI@home: News

First Look at Kepler SETI Candidate Signals

Check out our First Look at Kepler SETI Candidate Signals - No ET yet.

MilkyWay@Home: News

New server test post

Everything should be running on the new server now.

Einstein@Home: News

New radio pulsar found by Einstein@Home volunteers!

Einstein@Home volunteers have discovered another new radio pulsar in Arecibo PALFA data -- the seventh new radio pulsar found by Einstein@Home volunteers in this data set. Congratulations to Alexandr Jungwirth of Prague (Czech Republic) and Administrator of Beijing (China)! Further details about this and our other newly-discovered pulsars can be found on this web page, and will be published in due course. Bruce Allen Director, Einstein@Home

SIMAP - Similarity Matrix of Proteins: News

Workunits for January upcoming

The workunits for the about 560.000 new protein sequences (for the January release of SIMAP) will be available from Thu, Jan 5. We estimate that the batch for January will need about two weeks of work. Best, Thomas

BOINC: News

Citizen Cyberscience Summit, 16-18 February 2012

The Second London Citizen Cyberscience Summit, involving volunteer computing and other forms of citizen science, will be held 16-18 February 2012 in London.

Rosetta@home

Project News Jan 02, 2012

The hardware hosting the Rosetta@Home project is being moved from one datacenter to another on the UW campus. We are using this disruption to update the sagging, aging gear that runs the project. All of this will result in a few days of down time. We will work to keep the outage to a minimum, but you migh want to grab enough work for a 4-5 day period. We appreciate your patience, interest and continued contributions to our research. -KEL

yoyo@home

30 quadrillion (30,000,000,000,000,000) particle timesteps calculated in Muon project

The Muon1 Distributed Particle Accelerator Design Project proudly announces that today, at approximately 04:00UTC, it reached the 30 quadrillion (30,000,000,000,000,000) particle timesteps (pts)milestone. Since some years the yoyo@home Boinc project provided an important amount of this work. 32% and 56% of the current running lattices are done by yoyo@home. Read more about this milestone in the press release.