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Leiden Classical

Project News 2 september 2010

A new application has been developed and is currently being tested on Leiden Classical. More info here.

Climateprediction.net - Project news

Database maintenance

The main project database is currently down for maintenance. We have encountered some problems whilst archiving old data, one of the effects of which is the showing of erroneous credit figures for many users.

Repair is currently underway, although due to the need to restore large database backup files it may take at least 24 hours. Status reports will appear in our forum news thread as and when necessary.

Apologies for the inconvenience, and thank you for your patience.

Enigma@Home:

Windows app updated to 5.26

After a few weeks of testing, I decided to update the Windows application to the latest development version. V5.26 fixes all bugs related to progress indicator and checkpoint reporting, as well as many other minor glitches. If it doesn't work for some reason on your system, please let me know. 5.26 for Linux is coming soon.

MilkyWay@home:

nbody assimilator back up

Found a nasty bug in the nbody assimilator which took me awhile to debug. It should be up and running again.
On another note, I think I've figured out how to get the new assimilator/validators showing on the project status page (and also tied into the automatic start/stop scripts), so that should hopefully be running sometime tonight.
--Travis

Rosetta@home

Project News Sept 1, 2010

As many of you have already noticed, we are experiencing some issues with our work unit generators. We are working on a fix right now and will hopefully be back up to speed soon. Thanks for your patience.

FreeHAL@home

Freehal is supported by CloudSigma

Two weeks ago we have got an interesting offer by CloudSigma, a cloud computing hoster from Switzerland. CloudSigma supports the Freehal project with a free server for (at least) six months. -- Best Regards, Tobias Schulz

Spinhenge@home

Project News August 30, 2010

Back online again! Because of problems with the old network and electricity, we must wait one more week. Sorry for the problems!

Einstein@Home: News

Arecibo binary pulsar (re)discoveries page updated

The latest radio pulsar (re)discoveries are available at the usual place. Our count is now at 2 observations of 1 NEW pulsar, 242 detections of 123 different known radio pulsars, including 20 re-observations of 8 different milli-second pulsars. Thank you very much volunteers!

Renderfarm.fi

Renderfarm.fi goes Blender 2.53 Beta

Hey all - really cool news. I just received word from our resident build guru Gekko that we've succesfully rolled out the new Blender 2.53 Beta clients for BOINC for all platforms (32bit and 64bit Mac OSX, Linux and Windows).

The new builds have some bug fixes and naturally feature the latest version of the Blender render engine with all it's tweaks.
 

Renderfarm.fi uploader now GPL licensed: in Blender 2.53 Beta!

I also decided to take this opportunity to point out to anybody who's missed this so far: you are no longer tied to our own distribution of Blender in order to use Renderfarm.fi. You can now just download your favourite main branch Blender 2.53 Beta build and enable the Renderfarm.fi add-on in order to use the service directly from within your Blender.

Naturally this represents a huge leap for us in terms of availability, hopefully meaning many more Blenderheads can now find their way on to the service. You can read more about the script from the official Blender 2.53 Wiki. Cheers!

Blog de Ibercivis

Muy scale invariant no somos

En vertical el numero de orden de cada participante y en horizontal los creditos obtenidos desde que funciona ibercivis.

A esto se le suele llamar Complementary Cummulative Distribution Plot, porque para cada punto del eje horizontal el vertical cuantos elementos hay con valores *mayores* que el que marca ese punto. Cambiada de signo, su derivada nos da la distribucion de probabilidad monda y lironda, y cambiando los ejes a esa distribucion tendriamos el plot de Zipf. 

A ojo, parte de nuestro grafo tiene un exponente -1.3, lo que en la distribucion de probabilidad nos daria -2.3 y en la de Zipf algo asi como 0.44

Las citas a articulos cientificos se sabe que tienen exponente -2, pero casi todo en internet suele tener exponente -1, o si hilamos muy fino, una zona con exponente digamos -0.8 y otra entre -1.1 y -1.3. El numero de followers en twitter tambien ajusta a -1.276, segun un articulo de Kwak, Lee, Park y Moon.

Renderfarm.fi

Renderfarm.fi is fully up: "Ship Ahoy!"

I'm excited to announce that we're back up and things are as they were before the storm that struck us on the eve of Assembly 2010. The issues with the email sending have been solved and the web front-end is moving forwards. All this in mind, I'd like to welcome all the new users that have been waiting at the shore for the past two weeks (we're working on a solution to send an invitation mail to all who registered during this time right now).

As we move out of the low waters, I'd now like to invite you all to discuss about the future features of Renderfarm.fi. An example of an ongoing development discussion is the idea of using a video hosting service such as Youtube or Vimeo to host the encoded videos. What do you think about this topic?

PrimeGrid: News

Planned maintenance tonight

Tonight we might have a downtime because of some maintenance in the datacenter. Fill your caches! [update] After the maintenance the servers did not respond so we had to do a hard reboot. Hopefully everything is fine now.

BOINC: News

Primaboinca launched; PS3 app available

A new project, Primaboinca, seeks participants. The project, from Hochschule RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, studies prime numbers. It offers applications for Windows, Linux, and the Sony Playstation 3 running Linux.

POEM@HOME

Downtime ended, Shortage of Workunits

English: The downtime went well and we are now running again as before. However due to the server being down, we got a lot of workunits back at once and the server is playing catchup again right now. The shortage will hopefully be over soon. Deutsch: Waehrend der Downtime lief alles gut - die neuen Serverdienste laufen fehlerfrei. Allerdings bekamen wir aufgrund der Downtime eine Menge Workunits zur gleichen Zeit zurueck, weswegen der Server nun mit einsortieren ausgelastet ist. Sobald er mit Einsortieren fertig ist, werden wieder ausreichend Workunits zur Verfuegung stehen.

ABC@home

Project News 24 August 2010

Binaries for all platforms have now been updated. There seem to be some issues with Windows 2000 hosts, which we'll try and fix in the next few days. Please report any other problems!

MilkyWay@home:

had some corruption in the searches

I finally figured out why no work was being generated but both assimilators were up and running. Work should be flowing again now. Next up is that I'm getting the new assimilators incorporated into the stop/start boinc scripts, which will mean they should be showing up on the server status page once that gets going, and automatically restarted after a server restart. So this should help a bit with the work outages.

Spinhenge@home

Project News August 23, 2010

Update: The shutdown is next monday morning the 30.08.2010 from 9:00 to wednesday or thursday morning.

FreeHAL@home

successful appeal for donations

Many thanks for your support! Our latest appeal for donations was very successful. During about four days we have got enough funds for this and the next 2 months. You can see more details about our expenses at: http://www.freehal.net/funds/ -- Best Regards, Tobias Schulz

Docking@Home

Maintenance work in server room (II)

D@H may be down today from 6:45AM (ET) to 9AM (ET) because of maintenance work in the server room. We will keep you posted.

ABC@home

Project News 21 August 2010

We will be releasing new binaries over the next few days, with some speed improvements, fixes for some problematic regions, and as preparation for yet more updates. Please report any problems!

Docking@Home

Problems with Shared Memory

We are experiencing problems with the shared memory and thus workunits may not be available for your client. We are working on this and will keep you posted. Thank you for your patience.

Docking@Home

Maintenance work in server room

We have currently some maintenance work in the server room at UD and this may impact our D@H server. Thank you for your patience.

Spinhenge@home

Project News August 20, 2010

We will have a scheduled server downtime from monday 23.08.2010. We get a new cooled server cabinet and a new network infrastructure. More news from our forum. Thank you for your understanding.

PrimeGrid: News

The Dog Days of Summer in 24 hours

When will the end come to this summer heat??? As soon as Sirius is separated from the sun!!! In 24 hours, come join us to help hasten Sirius' departure and thus, bring back cooler days. A 48 hour Challenge is being offered on the 321 Prime Search (Sieve). For more information, please see this forum thread.

WEP-M+2 Project:

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

...14232 times

POEM@HOME

Downtime on Monday

English: On Monday the 23rd we will have a longer downtime period starting from 9:00 am CEST. During this period we will install the new server daemons needed for our next generation POEM++. The website should only be down for a couple of minutes if everything goes alright. The BOINC infrastructure underneath and also the mysql server will be down a bit longer. Thanks for your help and sorry for the inconvenience. Deutsch: Von nun an gibts die News auch in Deutsch: Am Montag den 23. wird es eine längere Downtime geben. Waehrend dieser Downtime installieren wir hier die serverseitigen Daemons fuers neue POEM++. Die Webseite sollte nur ein paar Minuten down sein, wenn alles gut geht (und ist auch schon wieder da). Die BOINC Infrastruktur und der MySQL Server werden etwas laenger down sein. Danke fuer eure enorme Hilfe und bitte entschuldigt den kurzen Ausfall.

BOINC: News

Online discussion about citizen science

Join an online discussion about citizen science and the Einstein@Home project hosted by Public Radio International.

SIMAP - Similarity Matrix of Proteins: News

New workunits approx. until end of August

Since today afternoon we are distributing the last series of workunits containing new environmental sequences from CAMERA metagenomes. Probably these will need until the end of August to be calculated, so we will just continue after them with the regular workunits of September. Thanks to all of you for crunching this large update! Best, Thomas

PrimeGrid: News

The Dog Days of Summer in 2 days

The time draws near to the chase. Sirius must be driven away from the Sun so that we can rid ourselves of this long hot sweltering summer (Northern Hemisphere). In 2 days, the Dog Days of Summer Challenge will begin. The 48 hour Challenge is being offered on PrimeGrid's 321 Prime Search (Sieve) application. Please come join us as we quicken the return of cooler days. :) For more information, please see this forum thread.

Quake-Catcher Network Seismic Monitoring

London Citizen Cyberscience Summit - 2-3 Sept 2010

Prof. Cochran will do a presentation on the Quake-Catcher Network at the London Citizen Cyberscience Summit on September 3rd. If you are in the area you may wish to see this and the other interesting presentations on volunteer computing, 'citizen science', etc. Tickets and a full programme are available at this link