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PrimeGrid: News

Call for arms: full doublecheck of TRP

We have recently started a limited doublecheck effort for The Riesel Problem and this has very quickly yielded a prime, which means that the results that we obtained from Riesel Sieve project cannot be trusted 100%. Therefore we have decided to run a full doublecheck effort. We would like to quickly go through the doublecheck ranges and resume our original search, so we would like to ask you to consider redirecting any resources you may have available to The Riesel Problem (TRP) subproject. You can do that by visiting project preferences page. Applications are available for Windows, Linux and Mac. 32bit applications will be sent to 64bit hosts.

Blog de Ibercivis

Estado febrero 2012

Buenos días.

Me gustaría hacer un repaso rápido del estado de Ibercivis a Febrero de 2012, últimas noticias, etc.

.- Criticalidad: Nuestros amigos mexicanos nos comentan que los datos obtenidos en Ibercivis han sido satisfactorios y útiles. Han sido utilizados  para escribir una tesis y el artículo Conductance statistics for the power-law banded random matrix model. Esperan volver a enviar wus en un futuro próximo.

.- Sanidad: Unas 500.000 wus están siendo enviadas a vuestros ordenadores, por cortesía de Julio. Decir que estas wus tienen una duración media de 3 horas,mas largas que en tandas anteriores y una caducidad de 4 días.

.- Mr.Wilson: Estamos tomando un pequeño descanso para analizar los resultados, os puedo comentar que nuestro rango de búsqueda previsto en esta primera fase es desde 5x10^8 hasta 4.3*10^9, del que hemos realizado el intervalo  5*10^8 hasta 3*10^9. Además Danilo Nitsche, estudiante de phd de física teórica aportó una mejora en nuestro código triplicando la velocidad inicial.

Por último me gustaría dar la bienvenida al usuario kzgunea, que con sus casi 1600 ordenadores conectados ha supuesto un fuerte impulso a nuestra capacidad de cálculo.

Muchas gracias a todos por vuestra inestimable colaboración.

PrimeGrid: News

Prime found for the Riesel Problem

On 2 Feb 2012, 21:30:55 UTC, PrimeGrid’s The Riesel Problem project eliminated k=162941 by finding the prime: 162941*2^993718-1 The prime is 299,145 digits long and will enter Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database ranked 1536th overall. This prime was found while exploring a suspected gap in a previously searched range. This is PrimeGrid's 8th elimination. 56 k's now remain. The discovery was made by Dmitry Domanov (unconnected) of Russia using an Intel Xeon @ 3.60GHz with 2 GB RAM running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x86. This computer took just over 1 hour 5 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. Dmitry is a member of Team Russia. For more details, please see the official announcement.

SIMAP - Similarity Matrix of Proteins: News

Maximum number of results per host changed

With the new server software release installed in the end of January we experienced that many more workunits are sent to the hosts as usual. We are currently investigating this, seems that the project contiguration settings are differently interpreted by the new software. To avoid total overload of hosts by SIMAP results, we have reduced the daily maximum number of results per host to 300. We will check and adapt this limit during the next days continuously. Best regards Thomas

Einstein@Home: News

Einstein@Home volunteers discover three new radio pulsars in Arecibo data

Einstein@Home volunteers have discovered three new radio pulsars in Arecibo PALFA data -- the eighth, ninth and tenth new radio pulsars found by Einstein@Home volunteers in this data set! Congratulations to:

• Peter van der Spoel, Utrecht, the Netherlands
• Edvin Grabar, Pula, Croatia
• Shadowfax, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
• Cauche Nathanael
• John-Luke Peck, TerraPower & Intellectual Ventures, Seattle, Washington, USA
• Mark Henderson, Morristown, Tennessee, USA

Further details about these newly-discovered pulsars can be found on this web page, and will be published in due course. Bruce Allen Director, Einstein@Home

PrimeGrid: News

The Tour de Primes Begins!

Come join us in laid-back competition in tribute to the number 2...the first prime and the only even prime. The prizes are simple colored jerseys . Yellow for the most primes, Green for the highest prime score, and Polk-a-dot for the most primes on 19 Feb. No pressure or stress other than what you put on yourself. :) For more information, please see Tour de Primes 2012.

POEM@HOME: News

New staff at POEM@HOME

As I am in the final months of my phd thesis, I didn't have (and won't have) enough time in the coming weeks to take care of POEM@HOME. Therefore there will be some new faces in the coming weeks on the POEM@HOME message boards (and behind the scenes). I really had a blast working with POEM@HOME and will still be available for consulting for the new team. Thank you everybody for all this help, as without you my phd thesis wouldn't have been possible. - Timo Strunk Deutsch: Da ich in den letzten Zügen meiner Doktorarbeit stecke, hatte ich nicht genug Zeit um mich um POEM@HOME zu kümmern (und werde auch leider nicht genug haben). Daher werde ich meine Arbeit nun an ein neues Team übergeben, welche sich demnächst auf den Message Boards vorstellen werden. Ich werde dem Team natürlich auch weiterhin bei Problemen helfen. Danke an alle hier für eure immense Arbeit. Ohne euch wäre die ganze Forschung und auch meine Doktorabeit keinesfalls möglich gewesen. - Timo Strunk

Spinhenge@home

Project News January 31, 2012

First, please excuse the long phase where we have reported nothing new. Thomas has become the successor of Mr. Hartmann and manages now the labs "Compuattional Science Lab" and "Technical Computer Science". This was and is a lot of work and therefore Spinhenge@home came a little bit too short. Second, the forum is now back online. It can be reached here. Third, we are currently reorganizing our software architecture for the client application which unfortunately takes much more time than planned. One thing is that we want to merge all input information in just one compact file, so that we can save space and time on your computers. Also, we are implementing several new functions. Most important for us now is a new method that allows us to simulate a magnetic nano system which is subject to a time dependent magnetic field. With this we are able to calculate the so-called AC susceptibility for a system which gives us information about its internal energy barriers. This property is vital for identifying so-called single molecular magnets (SMM). These SMM are candidates for future memory devices since they allow to store information in a much smaller space than conventional magnetic recording materials.…

Rosetta@home

Project News Jan 29, 2012

Journal post from David BakerLast year we described in Science magazine the design of a new enzyme which catalyzes a chemical reaction called the Diels Alder reaction involving the formation of two carbon-carbon bonds. This reaction is interesting because no natural enzymes are known to catalyze the reaction. However, it wasn't a very good enzyme, and we asked FoldIt players to try to improve it. As described in Nature Biotechnology this month, remarkably FoldIt players were able to make the designed enzyme 20 times faster by inserting a completely new loop which helps the enzyme bind the chemicals it links together. The combination of Rosetta@Home and FoldIt is turning out to be powerful indeed for solving challenging problems in biomedicine!

yoyo@home

Muon: Best Design

Check the unOfficial Muon Blog where you can see the best design of the Linac900Removable6c2 lattice. This result was returned by yoyo@home.

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-

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.