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SETI@home: News

Don Backer has passed away.

Don Backer, Berkeley professor and director of the Allen Telescope Array, passed away on Sunday, July 25th. Don was a very important contributor to radio astronomy and to the study of pulsars. He will be missed.

Superlink@Technion

First truly production run

We are happy to inform that the system is now crunching the first truly production run performed by geneticists directly from our submission web site without any assistance. See the scientific updates in the forums. The run is about 60,000 WUs, each about 1 hour

PrimeGrid: News

The Full Moon Challenge - 24 hrs to go

There is coming soon a gathering of Warewolves and Prime Hunters. Be sure not to mix the two groups up or you might find yourself surrounded by blood thirsty animals!! ;) However, some might say that the two groups are NOT mutually exclusive. :D Come join us this Full Moon for a sporting "hunt" of Top 5000 primes in the Proth Prime Search (LLR) project. Application builds are available for Mac, Linux, and Windows. For more information, please see this forum thread.

Hydrogen@Home

Project News July 24, 2010

Need a tester who has more than one CUDA device running on a computer. Please follow these instructions. Binary can be downloaded here Extract to a test directory mdrun_openmm.exe -s md.tpr --device 0 See if it runs then mdrun_openmm.exe -s md.tpr --device 1 Please report the standard output.

BOINC: News

6th BOINC Workshop

The 6th BOINC Workshop will be held 31 Aug - 1 Sept. in London.

POEM@HOME

More CASP 9 results available

Some more experimental structures were released in the CASP9 benchmark. The results look very very promising. Head over to the resultpage to check them out. A big THANKS goes out to all you volunteers for making our current participation in CASP9 possible!

SIMAP - Similarity Matrix of Proteins: News

Power outage on July 21

The main power cable has been damaged due to construction work around our building. This caused a power outage of several hours. Power has been restored and the servers are now running again. Sorry for the interruption, best regards, Thomas

MindModeling@Home (Beta)

A Few Small Sets

A small set of workunits was distributed to a handful of volunteers this afternoon, and we'd like to thank you for your computations. Another small job may shortly follow.We're currently in the phase of migration and refactoring. The migration is nearly complete, but there is still much work to be done for refactoring the system. As such, the flow of WUs and jobs will not be continuous until the new system is rolled-out. We greatly appreciate everyone sticking with the project, and the contributions to the current running model, as well as the many models in the past, has helped out our lab immensely. -Tom

PrimeGrid: News

The Full Moon Challenge

Come howl at the moon with us and "hunt" for Top 5000 primes. It's a GREAT opportunity for you to find one for yourself! Who knows, there may even be the rare Fermat number divisor. :) We hope to establish a single day record for finding Top 5000 primes! A 24 hour Challenge (25 July) is being offered on PrimeGrid's Proth Prime Search (LLR) application. Builds are available for Mac, Linux, and Windows. For more information, please see this forum thread.

Hydrogen@Home

Project News July 21, 2010

Looking for testers with ATI cards that support ATI Stream Software Development Kit (SDK) v2.1

DrugDiscovery@Home

Project News July 20, 2010

Hydrogen@Home is raising money to build GPU support for OpenMM GROMACS. These modifications will be made available to other projects including DD@H. We encourage people to contribute to this development

Hydrogen@Home

Project News July 20, 2010

We are working on GPU support for GROMACS. We are paying a contractor to implement some changes. This is going to cost us $500 total. I'm planning to contribute $200 out of my pocket and hopeing to get some donations. We will submit these customizations to for BOINC integration to the OpenMM project. If they do not include them, we will make them available somewhere else. http://hydrogenathome.org/donations.php -Jack

WEP-M+2 Project:

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

...13572 times

Renderfarm.fi

Renderfarm.fi @Assembly 2010 5.-8. of August 2010

As Assembly 2010 draws closer I thought It would be appropriate to publish our initial program for our stand. For those wondering what Assembly is about, Wikipedia (in its seemingly infinite wisdom) offers this description of this fine event's history:
 

The first Assembly was held from July 24th to July 26th 1992, in Kauniainen. It was organized by the Amiga demo groups Complex and Rebels, and the PC demo group Future Crew. The staff grew into a large non-profit group of individuals known as Assembly Organizing. Through the 1990s, Assembly grew so large that even exposition halls no longer sufficed, and only the largest of sports arenas met the partygoers' needs. In 1999 they rented the largest sports arena in the country, Hartwall Areena in Helsinki, with over 5000 visitors and 3500 computers on the ice rink.

The Renderfarm.fi / Laurea University of Applied Sciences stand will be entertaining some very interesting guests this year, as during the extended weekend we will actually host both Janus Bager Kristensen (alias jbk, Main Developer for our back-end, BURP) and Kalle Max Hofmann (of Snowblind and Vampyre Princess 3D fame).…

yoyo@home

Muon has hit 20 Quadrillion particle-timesteps

The Muon1 Distributed Particle Accelerator Design Project proudly announces that today, at 08:07GMT, it reached the 20 quadrillion (20,000,000,000,000,000) particle time-steps (pts) milestone. This is the amount of work needed to simulate a particle for 55 hours, 33 minutes and 20 seconds, which at an average of 90% of the speed of light (0.9c) would cover a distance of 360 Astronomical Units - ten times the average distance between Pluto and the Sun, and three times further than the most distance man-made object (Voyager 1) has traveled. (press release) The Boinc community provided in total 12.4% of the power of the whole Muon1 project. For the most recent running lattices the Boinc part is between 30 and 40%. At the end of this article is a good overview about the planned neutrino factory.

Leiden Classical

Project News 15 july 2010

One of the servers had a power glitch a day a go. Some intervention was needed; hence the down-time. Sorry.

ABC@home

Project News 15 July 2010

We will hopefully be attempting some more upgrades over the next few days, probably resulting in a few hours of downtime.

Renderfarm.fi

Uploading work to Renderfarm.fi

I decided to write a post about our policies for accepting work. Especially after the outpour of interest hailing from the article on Blendernation (thanks to them, we received about four times the amount of visitors of an average day), it's important that everybody takes note of our policies. The policies are here basically to protect the users from unnecessary overhead of computing resources from unnecessary renders such as animated (or even better, non-animated) default cube #29393. This is to say anything that could actually be rendered faster on a local computer shouldn't be put to the users here.

We completely agree that each user should be able to test how the service works for them, but we would rather that people test the service by uploading meaningful material that follow at least the following set of policies (more on these here):

• Only users can upload
• For rendering, we currently support Blender version 2.5A2
• Sessions with short render time will be rejected. 'Short' is typically less than 50 seconds per frame, depending on the number of frames and the size of the file. Generally, the larger the file size the longer your sessions need time to render
• If you…

• Einstein@Home: News 11 Jul 2010 | 4:18 pm Arecibo pulsar rediscovery count passes 200!

  In its analysis of radio data from the Arecibo Observatory, Einstein@Home has now passed its 200th re-detection! The 116 different radio pulsars that have been re-detected include 8 milli-second pulsars. More details may be found on the radio pulsar rediscovery page.

• MilkyWay@home: 9 Jul 2010 | 7:26 pm N-Body Simulation of the Sagittarius Stream

  N-Body simulation based on data compiled by David R. Law et al. Here the simulation is shown intersecting wedge 82. For the stream animation click here. For those interested in learning more about the origin of the Sagittarius Stream, the above animation is based on data from an N-Body simulation created by David R. Law et al. which shows how the stream may have formed. The simulation was rendered using the same engine that will be used in the MilkyWay@Home screensaver. A MilkWay@Home team member, Ben Willet has written a brief summary about the simulation and what our next MilkyWay@Home project will be! This visualization shows the two different components of the Milkyway@home project. The circular wedge that you see is a 2.5 degree wide stripe of SDSS data. The bright overdensity in the stripe is composed of stars that have been torn off of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy (Sgr) as it orbits around the Milky Way. The main goal of the project is to analyze this data stripe to determine the most likely parameters of those stars (e.g. how wide the overdensity is, where it is going, and how many stars are…

• Climateprediction.net - Project news 9 Jul 2010 | 3:52 pm Climateprediction.net logo mug available

  

  We've used the Cafepress service to make available some mugs with the Climateprediction.net logo, for the benefit of those crunchers (and CPDN staff members!) who would like to show off their support for the project.

  They are currently available at the Cafepress CPDN shop, and each purchase will provide US$2 profit towards the project's operating costs.

  

• Renderfarm.fi 7 Jul 2010 | 11:34 pm New build of Renderfarm.fi Blender released!

  

  We're super excited to announce that we've finished work on the new version of the Renderfarm.fi uploader script. This means we can now provide you guys with new builds of Blender 2.5 with the new improved script in them. The new version also fixes a nasty bug that has caused some of the recent renders fail (as witnessed by many black preview boxes in the gallery). New features include:

  • Settings verification: the uploader will now help you in preparing your .blend file for a successful render on Renderfarm.fi
  • Session management: you will now be able to list your own sessions, see their progress and even cancel sessions that haven't been accepted yet
  • More intuitive use: You are no longer required to remember your user id, just your e-mail and password on Renderfarm.fi will suffice
  • Version updates: You can easily check for new builds from within Blender 

  Remember to give feedback. Now go download:

  

• BOINC: News 7 Jul 2010 | 4:53 am London Citizen Cyberscience Summit

  The London Citizen Cyberscience Summit on September 2-3 will be a chance for scientists and citizens to learn about the latest breakthroughs in citizen cyberscience. The event will feature speakers from a number of BOINC projects.

• AlmereGrid Boinc Grid 7 Jul 2010 | 1:00 am Project News 7 July 2010

  Morgen 8 juli 2010, zullen in de ochtend de servers van AlmereGrid enkele uren niet bereikbaar zijn vanwege onderhoud.

• yoyo@home 6 Jul 2010 | 11:00 pm cruncher app updated (517)

  All cruncher/ogr apps are now updated to the latest stable distributed.net clients. There are bug fixes and new assembler cores available for 32- and 64 bit systems which should improve speed on selected prozessors. For a complete list of all changes check the forum.

• BOINC: News 6 Jul 2010 | 8:45 pm GPU example apps available

  Sample BOINC applications for NVIDIA/CUDA, NVIDIO/OpenCL, and ATI Stream OpenCL, together with instructions for building on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, are now available. Thanks to Tuan Le for developing these.

• malariacontrol.net 6 Jul 2010 | 1:00 am Project News 2010-07-06

  We are submitting new workunits on malariacontrol.net. Please read this for more information.

• MilkyWay@home: 5 Jul 2010 | 10:06 pm Work should be flowing

  As usual, I go out of town and the server crashes. Work should be flowing, just give the server some time to catch up.
  --Travis

• BURP: 4 Jul 2010 | 2:06 pm More transparent development

  Recently the project migrated to a new and more open development environment. It is now possible to follow the development and code changes up close by going to the development portal. The most recent development activity will also be made available on the front page of the project. This is one step in the direction of allowing the community to more easily contribute ideas, documentation and changes back into the BURP project. Later when the development platform has been properly phased in the current read-only status will be lifted and user creation will be made available for people interested in making contributions.

• ABC@home 1 Jul 2010 | 11:00 pm Project News 2 July 2010

  There might be downtime in the next few hours as the server is upgraded. Server was (hopefully) successfully upgraded, please report any problems in the forum.